1 Samuel 30

1When David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid on the South and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag and burned it with fire,Cross-references: Gen 24:62 · Josh 11:6 · 1Sam 15:7 · 1Sam 27:8 · 1Sam 29:4 · 1Sam 29:11 · +1 more

2and had taken captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great. They didn’t kill any, but carried them off and went their way.Cross-references: 1Sam 27:11 · 1Sam 30:19 · Job 38:11 · Ps 76:10 · Isa 27:8

3When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, their sons, and their daughters were taken captive.Cross-references: Ps 34:19 · Heb 12:6 · 1Pet 1:6 · Rev 3:9

4Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept until they had no more power to weep.Cross-references: Gen 37:33 · Num 14:1 · Num 14:39 · Judg 2:4 · Judg 21:2 · 1Sam 4:13 · +2 more

5David’s two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.Cross-references: 1Sam 1:2 · 1Sam 25:42 · 1Sam 27:3 · 2Sam 2:2 · 2Sam 3:2

6David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.Cross-references: Gen 32:7 · Ex 17:4 · Num 14:10 · Judg 18:25 · 1Sam 1:10 · 2Sam 17:8 · +36 more

7David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, “Please bring the ephod here to me.” Abiathar brought the ephod to David.Cross-references: 1Sam 22:20 · 1Sam 23:2 · 1Ki 2:26 · Mark 2:26

8David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “If I pursue after this troop, will I overtake them?” He answered him, “Pursue, for you will surely overtake them, and will without fail recover all.”Cross-references: Num 27:21 · Judg 20:18 · Judg 20:23 · Judg 20:28 · 1Sam 14:37 · 1Sam 23:2 · +10 more

9So David went, he and the six hundred men who were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those who were left behind stayed.Cross-references: 1Sam 27:2

10But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they couldn’t go over the brook Besor.Cross-references: Judg 8:4 · 1Sam 14:20 · 1Sam 14:31 · 1Sam 30:9 · 1Sam 30:21

11They found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he ate; and they gave him water to drink.Cross-references: Deut 15:7 · Deut 23:7 · Prov 25:21 · Matt 25:35 · Luke 10:36 · Rom 12:20

12They gave him a piece of a cake of figs and two clusters of raisins. When he had eaten, his spirit came again to him; for he had eaten no bread, and drank no water for three days and three nights.Cross-references: Judg 15:19 · 1Sam 14:27 · 1Sam 30:13 · Esth 4:16 · Isa 40:29 · Jonah 1:17 · +1 more

13David asked him, “To whom do you belong? Where are you from?” He said, “I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I got sick.Cross-references: Job 31:13 · Prov 12:10 · James 2:13

14We made a raid on the South of the Cherethites, and on that which belongs to Judah, and on the South of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.”Cross-references: Josh 14:13 · Josh 15:13 · 1Sam 30:1 · 1Sam 30:16 · 2Sam 8:18 · 1Ki 1:38 · +4 more

15David said to him, “Will you bring me down to this troop?” He said, “Swear to me by God that you will not kill me and not deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this troop.”Cross-references: Deut 23:15 · Josh 2:12 · Josh 9:15 · Josh 9:19 · 1Sam 29:6 · Ezek 17:13 · +2 more

16When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great plunder that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.Cross-references: Ex 32:6 · Ex 32:17 · Ex 32:27 · Judg 1:24 · Judg 16:23 · 1Sam 25:36 · +10 more

17David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped from there, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled.Cross-references: Judg 4:16 · 1Sam 11:11 · 1Sam 15:3 · 1Ki 20:29 · Ps 18:42

18David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and David rescued his two wives.Cross-references: Gen 14:16

19There was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither plunder, nor anything that they had taken. David brought them all back.Cross-references: Gen 14:14 · Num 31:49 · 1Sam 30:8 · Job 1:10 · Ps 34:9 · Ps 91:9 · +1 more

20David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other livestock, and said, “This is David’s plunder.”Cross-references: Num 31:9 · 1Sam 30:26 · 2Chr 20:25 · Isa 53:12 · Rom 8:37

21David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom also they had made to stay at the brook Besor; and they went out to meet David, and to meet the people who were with him. When David came near to the people, he greeted them.Cross-references: Judg 8:15 · 1Sam 30:10 · Heb 13:1 · 1Pet 3:8

22Then all the wicked men and worthless fellows of those who went with David answered and said, “Because they didn’t go with us, we will not give them anything of the plunder that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that he may lead them away and depart.”Cross-references: Deut 13:13 · Judg 19:22 · 1Sam 22:2 · 1Sam 25:17 · 1Sam 25:25 · 1Ki 21:10 · +2 more

23Then David said, “Do not do so, my brothers, with that which Yahweh has given to us, who has preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.Cross-references: Gen 19:7 · Num 31:49 · Deut 8:10 · Deut 8:18 · Judg 19:23 · 1Sam 2:7 · +7 more

24Who will listen to you in this matter? For as his share is who goes down to the battle, so shall his share be who stays with the baggage. They shall share alike.”Cross-references: Num 31:27 · Josh 22:8 · 1Sam 25:13 · Ps 68:12

25It was so from that day forward that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day.Cross-references: 1Sam 16:13

26When David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the plunder to the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, “Behold, a present for you from the plunder of Yahweh’s enemies.”Cross-references: Gen 33:11 · 1Sam 25:27 · 2Ki 5:15 · 1Chr 12:1 · Ps 35:27 · Ps 68:18 · +3 more

27He sent it to those who were in Bethel, to those who were in Ramoth of the South, to those who were in Jattir,Cross-references: Gen 28:19 · Josh 7:2 · Josh 15:48 · Josh 16:2 · Josh 19:8 · Josh 21:14 · +2 more

28to those who were in Aroer, to those who were in Siphmoth, to those who were in Eshtemoa,Cross-references: Josh 13:16 · Josh 15:50 · Josh 21:14

29to those who were in Racal, to those who were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, to those who were in the cities of the Kenites,Cross-references: Judg 1:16 · 1Sam 15:6 · 1Sam 23:19 · 1Sam 27:10

30to those who were in Hormah, to those who were in Borashan, to those who were in Athach,Cross-references: Num 14:45 · Josh 15:42 · Josh 19:4 · Judg 1:17

31to those who were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men used to stay.Cross-references: Josh 14:13 · 2Sam 2:1 · 2Sam 2:4 · 2Sam 4:1 · 2Sam 15:10