2 Samuel 1:13

WEB

David said to the young man who told him, "Where are you from?" He answered, "I am the son of a foreigner, an Amalekite."

KJV

And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite.

Commentary

And David said unto the young man that told him, whence art thou?.... From what place, or of what people and nation art thou? though Abarbinel thinks it nei ther respects place nor people, but that David thought he was another man's servant; so that the sense of the question is, to what man did he belong? and he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite; he was not any man's servant, but the son of a proselyte, of one that was by birth and nation an Amalekite, but proselyted to the Jewish religion; he might know of what nation he originally was, by the account he had given of what passed between him and Saul, Sa2 1:8 ; though the mind of David might so disturbed as not to advert to it; or if he did, he might be willing to have it repeated for confirmation's sake.