Verse Lens · Concise explanation
1 Samuel 30:31 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 31. 31And to them which were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt.
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Quick Meaning
Closes with every place David and his men had frequented.
Read It With
- 1 Samuel 30:26–30:31
1 Samuel 30:26–30:31 supplies the necessary frame for verse 30:31. Here the narrator closes with every place David and his men had frequented, within this larger movement: David sends portions of recovered spoil to Judahite elders and a wide network of places where he and his men had moved.
Why This Verse Appears Here
This detail follows the unit's opening pressure and prepares its outcome: 1 Samuel 30:31 closes with every place David and his men had frequented. Its value is contextual, not slogan-like.
What Remains True
Closes with every place David and his men had frequented. Within 1 Samuel 30:26–30:31, this contribution supports the unit's enduring claim: A responsible reader preserves both the unit's stated movement and its ethical limit. Gift-giving does not make political patronage pure, establish entitlement to war goods, or authorize modern territorial claims from the place list.
How It Can Shape Life
- Closes with every place David and his men had frequented. The proportionate response is therefore the one traced from the complete unit: Make dignity and material care visible by sharing resources fairly, recognizing overlooked labor and need, and refusing to measure a person's worth by status or apparent strength. Gift-giving does not make political patronage pure, establish entitlement to war goods, or authorize modern territorial claims from the place list.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read 1 Samuel 30:26–30:31 — David distributes gifts through Judah's townsSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV words, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete unit coverage.
Exact location: 1 Samuel 30:26–30:31, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 1 Samuel
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology, with the two KJV-Hebrew versification shifts stated rather than silently offset.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/1Sam.xml, OSIS 30:26–30:31; KJV 20:42 spans Hebrew 20:42–21:1, KJV 21:1–15 maps to Hebrew 21:2–16, KJV 23:29 maps to Hebrew 24:1, and KJV 24:1–22 maps to Hebrew 24:2–23
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible First Edition Notes: 1 Samuel
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Only the translator notes actually printed for these verses, used for lexical, grammatical, textual, historical, and older-English controls.
Exact location: NET Bible First Edition Notes, 1 Samuel PDF, printed pp. 504–543, exact tc/tn/sn entries attached to 30:26–30:31
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