1 Samuel 30

¹And 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; Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 15:71 Sam 29:11Josh 11:61 Sam 27:8-101 Sam 29:42 Sam 1:2Gen 24:62

²And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 27:111 Sam 30:19Isa 27:8-9Job 38:11Ps 76:10

³So 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 34:191 Pet 1:6-7Heb 12:6Rev 3:9

⁴Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 11:41 Sam 4:13Gen 37:33-35Judg 2:4Judg 21:2Num 14:1Num 14:39Ezra 10:1

⁵And David’s two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 25:42-432 Sam 2:21 Sam 1:21 Sam 27:32 Sam 3:2-3

⁶And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 56:3-4Ps 56:11Ps 62:5Ps 27:1-3Ps 18:6Ps 25:17Ps 40:1-22 Cor 1:8-10Exod 17:4Heb 13:6

⁷And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 2:261 Sam 22:20-211 Sam 23:2-9Mark 2:26

⁸And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 30:181 Sam 23:2Prov 3:5-62 Sam 5:192 Sam 5:23Ps 91:151 Sam 23:4Judg 20:23Ps 50:151 Sam 23:10-12

⁹So 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 27:2

¹⁰But 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 30:211 Sam 30:91 Sam 14:201 Sam 14:31Judg 8:4-5

¹¹And 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; Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 23:7Rom 12:20-21Deut 15:7-11Luke 10:36-37Matt 25:35Prov 25:21

¹²And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 15:191 Sam 14:271 Sam 30:13Esth 4:16Isa 40:29-31Jonah 1:17Matt 27:63

¹³And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jas 2:13Prov 12:10Job 31:13-15

¹⁴We 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 1:381 Kgs 1:442 Sam 8:18Ezek 25:16Zeph 2:51 Sam 30:11 Sam 30:16Josh 14:13Josh 15:131 Chr 18:17

¹⁵And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 29:6Deut 23:15-16Ezek 17:13Ezek 17:16Ezek 17:19Josh 2:12Josh 9:15Josh 9:19-20

¹⁶And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Rev 11:10-131 Sam 30:141 Thess 5:32 Sam 13:28Dan 5:1-4Job 20:5Judg 16:23-30Luke 12:19-20Luke 17:27-29Luke 21:34-35

¹⁷And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 11:11Ps 18:421 Kgs 20:29-301 Sam 15:3Judg 4:16

¹⁸And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 14:16

¹⁹And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 30:8Ps 91:9-10Job 1:10Matt 6:33Ps 34:9-10Gen 14:14-16Num 31:49

²⁰And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is David’s spoil. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 30:262 Chr 20:25Isa 53:12Num 31:9-12Rom 8:37

²¹And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 30:10Heb 13:1Judg 8:151 Pet 3:8

²²Then 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 13:13Matt 7:121 Kgs 21:101 Kgs 21:131 Sam 22:21 Sam 25:171 Sam 25:25Judg 19:22

²³Then 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 8:18Ps 121:7-8Ps 44:2-71 Sam 2:7Acts 22:1Acts 7:2Deut 8:10Gen 19:7Judg 19:23Num 31:49-54

²⁴For 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 22:8Num 31:27Ps 68:12

²⁵And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

²⁶And 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; Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 25:271 Chr 12:1-152 Cor 9:52 Kgs 5:15Gen 33:11Isa 32:8Prov 18:16-24Ps 35:27Ps 68:18

²⁷To them which were in Beth–el, and to them which were in south Ramoth, and to them which were in Jattir, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 15:48Josh 19:8Gen 28:19Josh 21:14Judg 1:22-231 Kgs 12:29Josh 16:2Josh 7:2

²⁸And to them which were in Aroer, and to them which were in Siphmoth, and to them which were in Eshtemoa, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 13:16Josh 15:50Josh 21:14

²⁹And 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, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 27:10Judg 1:161 Sam 15:61 Sam 23:19

³⁰And to them which were in Hormah, and to them which were in Chor–ashan, and to them which were in Athach, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 1:17Josh 19:4Josh 15:42Num 14:45

³¹And to them which were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 2:12 Sam 15:102 Sam 2:42 Sam 4:1Josh 14:13-15