시글락(Ziklag) 은 유다 지방 남쪽, 에돔 족속의 지역과 경계에 있는 지역이다.
The farthest cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the border of Edom in the South were Kabzeel , Eder, Jagur ,
이곳은
Tribe of Simeon 에게 할당되었다.
Ziklag , Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susah,
28 29 at Bilhah, at Ezem, at Tolad,
30 사울(왕) 시기에는 블레셋의 가드 왕
아기스 가 이곳을 다스렸는데, 망명을 온
David 에게 주어 그들의 무리가 거주하도록 하였다.
4 Saul was told that David had fled to Gath : and he sought no more again for him.
5 David said to Achish , “If now I have found favor in your eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there. For why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?”
6 Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: therefore Ziklag belongs to the kings of Judah to this day.
다윗이 이곳에 있는 동안 다윗을 따르는 많은 무리가 모여들어 다윗의 핵심 세력이 되었는데, 성경은 그들의 군대가 '하나님의 군대'와 같았다고 한다.
For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there was a great army, like God’s army.
이후 다윗은 이곳에서 1년 4개월간 있었고 그 기간 동안 이스라엘을 괴롭히던 다른 이방민족들을 공격하는 근간이 되었다.
7 The number of the days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.
8 David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites , and the Amalekites; for those were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, on the way to Shur, even to the land of Egypt .
9 David struck the land, and saved no man or woman alive, and took away the sheep, the cattle, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothing. Then he returned, and came to Achish .
이후
Amalek 족속이 이곳을 침략하여 불사르고 아내와 아이들을 잡아갔을 때에 다윗이 다시 공격하여 구출한 곳도 이곳이었다.
또한 사울의 사망소식을 들은 곳도 이곳이었다.
1 After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag ;
2 on the third day, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul, with his clothes torn, and earth on his head. When he came to David , he fell to the earth, and showed respect.
3 David said to him, “Where do you come from?” He said to him, “I have escaped out of the camp of Israel .”
4 David said to him, “How did it go? Please tell me.” He answered, “The people have fled from the battle, and many of the people also have fallen and are dead. Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.”
이후
바벨론 포로 귀환기 에 유다 지파의 자손들이 거한 곳 중 하나이기도 하였다.
in Ziklag , in Meconah and in its towns,