Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
The age of David is conclusive as to the fact that the earlier years of Saul' s reign (during which Jonathan grew up to be a man) are passed over in silence, and that the events narrated from 1 Sam. 13 to the end of the book did not occupy more than 10 years. If David was 20 years old at the time he killed Goliath, four years in Saul' s service, four years of wandering from place to place, one year and four months in the country of the Philistines, and a few months after Saul' s death, would make up the 10 years necessary to bring him to the age of 30.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 2 Samuel 5:4:
1 Kings 1:1
1 Kings 11:42
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