## Rashi on I Samuel Chapter 30

###### Rashi on I Samuel 30:9:1
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**וַיָּבֹאוּ עַד נַחַל הַבְּשׂוֹר.** שֵׁשׁ מֵאוֹת אִישׁ:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And they came to the Nachal Besor.** [The] six hundred men.


###### Rashi on I Samuel 30:9:2
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**וְהַנּוֹתָרִים עָמָדוּ.** כְּשֶׁהִגִּיעוּ לְנַחַל הַבְּשׂוֹר, הָיוּ בָּהֶם עֲיֵפִים, וְנוֹתְרוּ שָׁם מִקְצָתָן:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Some of them remained behind.** When they reached the Nachal Besor, there were among them some who were faint, and some of those remained there.


###### Rashi on I Samuel 30:10:1
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**אֲשֶׁר פִּגְּרוּ.** אֲשֶׁר נִמְנְעוּ, וְאוֹמֵר אֲנִי לְשׁוֹן אֲרָמִי הוּא, תַּרְגּוּם שֶׁל ״וְנֶהֶרְסוּ״ (יחזקאל ל:ד):

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Who were too exhausted.** Who refrained; and I say that this is Aramaic, the translation of וְנֶהֶרְסוּ¹ [=and they will be destroyed].

footnotes:
¹ Yechezkeil 30:4.


###### Rashi on I Samuel 30:14:1
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**נֶגֶב הַכְּרֵתִי.** לִדְרוֹם שֶׁל פְּלִשְׁתִּים, מָצִינוּ בְּמָקוֹם אַחֵר פְּלִשְׁתִּים נִקְרָאִים גּוֹי כְּרֵתִים, ״יוֹשְׁבֵי חֶבֶל הַיָּם גּוֹי כְּרֵתִים״ (צפניה ב:ה):

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**South of the Kerethite.** To the south of the Philistines. We find elsewhere the Philistines being called the כְּרֵתִים nation [in] "the inhabitants of the seacoast the nation of כְּרֵתִים."²

footnotes:
² Tzephanyoh 2:5.


###### Rashi on I Samuel 30:17:1
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**לְמָחֳרָתָם.** לְמוּדִים הֵם עֲמָלֵקִים לִלְקוֹת בְּיוֹם מָחָר, כְּמוֹ שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר ״מָחָר אָנֹכִי נִצָּב״ (שמות יז:ט), לְכָךְ נֶאֱמַר לְמָחֳרָתָם:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Of the next day.** The Amaleikites are accustomed to being defeated on the second day [of battle], as it is stated, "tomorrow I will stand…"³ Therefore, it states, "on the(ir) next day."

footnotes:
³ Shemos 17:9.


###### Rashi on I Samuel 30:20:1
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**אֶת כָּל הַצֹּאן וְהַבָּקָר.** שֶׁשָּׁבָה הַגְּדוּד מִנֶּגֶב יְהוּדָה וּמִנֶּגֶב כָּלֵב:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**All the sheep and cattle.** Which the troop had captured from the south of Yehudah and from the south of Caleiv.


###### Rashi on I Samuel 30:20:2
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**נָהֲגוּ.** אֲנָשִׁים מַנְהִיגִים וְהוֹלְכִים לִפְנֵי הַמִּקְנֶה הַהוּא, לְהִתְכַּבֵּד וּלְהִתְהַלֵּל, זֶה שְׁלַל דָּוִד:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**They led.** Men who were leading and marching before those cattle, to honor and praise themselves,⁴ [by declaring,] 'This is Dovid's spoil.'

footnotes:
⁴ Some suggest that the men did this to publicize Dovid’s sovereignty.


###### Rashi on I Samuel 30:25:1
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**מֵהַיּוֹם הַהוּא וָמָעְלָה.** לֹא נֶאֱמַר וָהָלְאָה, אֶלָּא וָמָעְלָה, כְּבָר הִנְהִיג אַבְרָהָם בְּחֹק זֶה (בראשית יד:כד): ״בִּלְעָדַי רַק אֲשֶׁר אָכְלוּ הַנְּעָרִים וְגוֹ׳״, הֵם הַיּוֹשְׁבִים עַל הַכֵּלִים, ״וְחֵלֶק הָאֲנָשִׁים״, הַהוֹלְכִים בַּמִּלְחָמָה בִּבְרֵאשִׁית רַבָּה (מג ט):

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**From that day on.** [Literally 'from that day and above']. It is not stated: "[from that day] on" but "[from that day] and above [=before]." Avrohom had already instituted this statute [when he said,] "Only what the lads have eaten,"⁵ those are the ones who stayed with the equipment, "and the portion of the men"⁶ who went to war. In Breishis Raboh.

footnotes:
⁵ Bereishis 14:24, where it is stated that Avrohom distributed shares of the spoils of war to those who stayed behind and guarded the equipment.
⁶ Ibid.


###### Rashi on I Samuel 30:26:1
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**לְרֵעֵהוּ.** לְאוֹהֲבָיו:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**To his allies.** To his friends.


###### Rashi on I Samuel 30:31:1
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**אֲשֶׁר הִתְהַלֶּךְ שָׁם דָּוִד.** שֶׁהָיוּ מַחְבְּאִים אוֹתוֹ מִפְּנֵי שָׁאוּל:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Where Dovid [and his men] had gone.** For they would hide him from Shaul.