1 Samuel 30

About 1 Samuel 1 Samuel tells of Samuel the prophet, Israel's first king Saul, and the rise of young David.

And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;Selected1 Samuel 30:1Ask

And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way.Selected1 Samuel 30:2Ask

So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.Selected1 Samuel 30:3Ask

Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.Selected1 Samuel 30:4Ask

And David’s two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.Selected1 Samuel 30:5Ask

And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.Selected1 Samuel 30:6Ask

And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech’s son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David.Selected1 Samuel 30:7Ask

And David enquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.Selected1 Samuel 30:8Ask

So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.Selected1 Samuel 30:9Ask

But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred abode behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor.Selected1 Samuel 30:10Ask

And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water;Selected1 Samuel 30:11Ask

And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.Selected1 Samuel 30:12Ask

And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.Selected1 Samuel 30:13Ask

We made an invasion upon the south of the Cherethites, and upon the coast which belongeth to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.Selected1 Samuel 30:14Ask

And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this company? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this company.Selected1 Samuel 30:15Ask

And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.Selected1 Samuel 30:16Ask

And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.Selected1 Samuel 30:17Ask

And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives.Selected1 Samuel 30:18Ask

And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any thing that they had taken to them: David recovered all.Selected1 Samuel 30:19Ask

And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is David’s spoil.Selected1 Samuel 30:20Ask

And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted them.Selected1 Samuel 30:21Ask

Then answered all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them ought of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away, and depart.Selected1 Samuel 30:22Ask

Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the LORD hath given us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the company that came against us into our hand.Selected1 Samuel 30:23Ask

For who will hearken unto you in this matter? but as his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike.Selected1 Samuel 30:24Ask

And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.Selected1 Samuel 30:25Ask

And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of the LORD;Selected1 Samuel 30:26Ask

To them which were in Bethel, and to them which were in south Ramoth, and to them which were in Jattir,Selected1 Samuel 30:27Ask

And to them which were in Aroer, and to them which were in Siphmoth, and to them which were in Eshtemoa,Selected1 Samuel 30:28Ask

And to them which were in Rachal, and to them which were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to them which were in the cities of the Kenites,Selected1 Samuel 30:29Ask

And to them which were in Hormah, and to them which were in Chorashan, and to them which were in Athach,Selected1 Samuel 30:30Ask

And to them which were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt.Selected1 Samuel 30:31Ask

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