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Our chapter continues the narrative of David\u2019s flight from Saul, which now centers around the town of Ziklag. David received this place when he fled to the Philistines and came to King Achish who \u201cgranted him Ziklag; that is how Ziklag came to belong to the kings of Judah, as is still the case\u201d (I Samuel 27:2-6, I Chronicles 12:1). But: <\/span><\/p>\n

by the time David and his men arrived in Ziklag, on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid into the Negeb and against Ziklag; they had stormed Ziklag and burned it down. They had taken the women in it captive \u2026 When David and his men came to the town and found it burned down, and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive, David and the troops with him broke into tears\u2026 (30:1-4). <\/span><\/p>\n

But later in our chapter, we read: <\/span><\/p>\n

David rescued everything the Amalekites had taken; David also rescued his two wives. Nothing of theirs was missing\u2014young or old, sons or daughters, spoil or anything else that had been carried off\u2014David recovered everything (verses 18-19).<\/span><\/p>\n

Ziklag has been mentioned previously as having been first in the tribal area of Judah (Joshua 15:31, I Chronicles 4:30) but then in the tribal area assigned to Simeon (Joshua 19:5). Ziklag returned to be in the tribal area of Judah after the Return from the First Exile (Nehemiah 11:28).<\/span><\/p>\n

For many readers of modern Hebrew literature, Ziklag would be associated with the stream of consciousness novel Yemei Tziklag<\/em> (Days of Ziklag) first published in 1958 in two volumes totaling 1156 pages, for which its author, S. Yizhar won the Israel Prize in 1959. The novel describes 48 days during the 1947\u20131949 War of Independence in which it follows a squad of Palmah soldiers trying to hold a godforsaken post in the Negev desert. The story’s stream of consciousness focuses on the inner worlds of the soldiers, both during and between battles. The story is based on the real-life battle for Hurvat Ma’achaz<\/em> fought by the Yiftah Brigade in October 1948, although the battle is never mentioned by name. Well into the novel, one of the soldiers, Barzilai, identifies the hill they are defending with the biblical town of Ziklag, and though he and the others quickly realize this identification is incorrect, the name Ziklag sticks.<\/span><\/p>\n

The correct geographical location of Ziklag had been debated by biblical scholars for generations. But recently, in excavations carried out by the Israel Antiquities Authority and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ziklag has been identified with the archaeological site of Khirbet a-Ra\u2018i in the Judaean foothills, near Kiryat Gat, 35 miles south of Tel Aviv. This claim has already been challenged by other Israeli biblical archaeologists and will, no doubt, continue to be a subject of on-going scholarly debate (<\/span>see this previous post on this topic<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n

And so, we might say that the \u201cDays of Ziklag\u201d have now begun yet again.<\/span><\/p>\n

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