Ziklag

How Nave’s arranged it

• A city within the territory allotted to the tribe of JudahJoshua 15:31
• Re-allotted to the tribe of SimeonJoshua 19:5
• David lives at1 Samuel 27:51 Samuel 27:62 Samuel 1:11 Chronicles 12:1
• Amalekites destroy1 Samuel 30
• Inhabited by the returned exiles of JudahNehemiah 11:28

The passages, in Bible order (8)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 8 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Joshua 15:31

   Ziklag, Madmannah, Sansannah,

   ›Commentary on Joshua 15:312 voices

   “And Ziklag,.... Ziklag was also given to the tribe of Simeon, Jos 19:5, it was in the bands of the king of Gath, in the times of David, who gave it to him; it bordered on the Amalekites, and is placed by Jerom (c) in Daroma, on the south of the lot of Judah or Simeon. and Madmannah, according to the same writer (d), was in his time called Menois, a town near the city Gaza: and Sansannah, of which no mention is made elsewhere. (c) De loc. Heb. fol. 94. I. (d) Ibid. fol. 93. E.

   “Ziklag - The Philistines seem to have kept possession of this city till the time of David, who received it from Achish, king of Gath, 1Sa 27:6; after which time it remained in the possession of the kings of Judah.

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2. Joshua 19:5

   Ziklag, Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susah,

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   “And Ziklag,....

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3. 1 Samuel 27:5

   Then David said to Achish, “If I have found favor in your eyes, let me be assigned a place in one of the outlying towns, so I can live there. For why should your servant live in the royal city with you?”

   ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 27:52 voices

   “But David said to Achis, "If I have found favor in your eyes," etc. The Lord said through his disciples to the Gentile people: "If the doctrine of truth, which I preach, and the life which I promise, are pleasing to you, let a humble …

   “And David said unto Achish,.... After he had been some time with him: if I have now found grace in thine eyes; or was in favour, as he thought himself to be, by various instances of respect shown him: let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: he does not ask for a city or town, but a place in one of them, though one was given him; but of whom he asks it, it is not easy to say; though it is certain that Achish gave it him, 1Sa 27:

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4. 1 Samuel 27:6

   That day Achish gave him Ziklag, and to this day it still belongs to the kings of Judah.

   ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 27:62 voices

   “Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day,....

   “Achish gave him Ziklag - Ziklag was at first given to the tribe of Judah, but afterwards it was ceded to that of Simeon, Jos 15:31; Jos 19:5. The Philistines had, however, made themselves masters of it, and held it to the time here mentioned; it then fell into the tribe of Judah again, and continued to be the property of the kings of Judah.

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5. 1 Samuel 30:1

   On the third day David and his men arrived in Ziklag, and the Amalekites had raided the Negev, attacked Ziklag, and burned it down.

   ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 30:12 voices

   “They struck Ziklag, etc. Ziklag is interpreted as 'distillation of the drawn voice,' which those who strike and set on fire, who confuse the discernment of heard preaching with the battering ram of their arguments, and cast down the tranquility of ecclesiastical faith with the …

   “And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag, on the third day,....

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6. 2 Samuel 1:1

   After the death of Saul, David returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites and stayed in Ziklag two days.

   ›Commentary on 2 Samuel 1:12 voices

   “Now it came to pass after the death of Saul,....

   “Now it came to pass ... - There is no break whatever between the two books of Samuel, the division being purely artificial.

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7. 1 Chronicles 12:1

   Now these were the men who came to David at Ziklag, while he was still banished from the presence of Saul son of Kish (they were among the mighty men who helped him in battle;

   ›Commentary on 1 Chronicles 12:12 voices

   “Now these are they that came to David to Ziklag,.... Given him by Achish to live in, when he fled from Saul, 1Sa 27:6. while he yet kept himself close, because of Saul the son of Kish; when he was an exile from his own country, and obliged to live retired in a foreign one, because of Saul's persecution of him, and seeking to take away his life: and they were among the mighty men, helpers of the war; not against Saul, with whom David had none, but with the Amalekites, and others, 1Sa 27:8.

   “This chapter is composed wholly of matter that is new to us, no corresponding accounts occurring in Samuel. It comprises four lists: (1) One of men, chiefly Benjamites, who joined David at Ziklag 1Ch 12:1-7; (2) A second of Gadites who united themselves to him when he was in a stronghold near the desert 1Ch 12:8-15; (3) A third of Manassites who came to him when he was dismissed by the Philistines upon suspicion 1Ch 12:19-22; and (4) A fourth of the numbers from the different tribes who attended and made him king at Hebron 1 Chr. 12:23-40.

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8. Nehemiah 11:28

   in Ziklag; in Meconah and its villages;

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