1 Samuel 27:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And David and his men went up and made attacks on the Geshurites and the Girzites and the Amalekites; for these were the people who were living in the land from Telam on the way to Shur, as far as Egypt.

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  • 1 Sam 15:7-8 : 7 And Saul made an attack on the Amalekites from Havilah on the road to Shur, which is before Egypt. 8 He took Agag, king of the Amalekites, prisoner, and put all the people to the sword without mercy.
  • Josh 13:2 : 2 This is the land which is still to be taken: all the country of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;
  • Josh 13:13 : 13 However, the people of Israel did not send out the Geshurites, or the Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath are living among Israel to this day.
  • Josh 16:10 : 10 And the Canaanites who were living in Gezer were not forced out; but the Canaanites have been living among Ephraim, to this day, as servants, doing forced work.
  • Judg 1:29 : 29 And Ephraim did not make the Canaanites who were living in Gezer go out; but the Canaanites went on living in Gezer among them.
  • Exod 15:22 : 22 Then Moses took Israel forward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the waste land of Shur; and for three days they were in the waste land where there was no water.
  • Exod 17:8 : 8 Then Amalek came and made war on Israel in Rephidim.
  • Exod 17:14-16 : 14 And the Lord said to Moses, Make a record of this in a book, so that it may be kept in memory, and say it again in the ears of Joshua: that all memory of Amalek is to be completely uprooted from the earth. 15 Then Moses put up an altar and gave it the name of Yahweh-nissi: 16 For he said, The Lord has taken his oath that there will be war with Amalek from generation to generation.
  • 1 Sam 30:1 : 1 Now when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made an attack on the South and on Ziklag, and had overcome Ziklag and put it on fire;
  • 2 Sam 13:37-38 : 37 So Absalom went in flight and came to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur, where he was for three years. 38 And the king was sorrowing for his son all the time.
  • 2 Sam 14:23 : 23 So Joab got up and went to Geshur and came back again to Jerusalem with Absalom.
  • 2 Sam 14:32 : 32 And Absalom's answer was, See, I sent to you saying, Come here, so that I may send you to the king to say, Why have I come back from Geshur? it would be better for me to be there still: let me now see the king's face, and if there is any sin in me, let him put me to death.
  • 2 Sam 15:8 : 8 For while I was living in Geshur in Aram, your servant made an oath, saying, If ever the Lord lets me come back to Jerusalem, I will give him worship in Hebron.
  • 1 Kgs 9:15-17 : 15 Now, this was the way of Solomon's system of forced work for the building of the Lord's house and of the king's house, and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Megiddo and Gezer. ... 16 Pharaoh, king of Egypt, came and took Gezer, burning it down and putting to death the Canaanites living in the town, and he gave it for a bride-offering to his daughter, Solomon's wife. ... 17 ... and Solomon was the builder of Gezer and Beth-horon the lower,
  • 1 Chr 2:23 : 23 And Geshur and Aram took the tent-towns of Jair from them, with Kenath and the small places round it, even sixty towns. All these were the sons of Machir, the father of Gilead.

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  • 1 Sam 27:9-11
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    9 And David again and again made attacks on the land till not a man or a woman was still living; and he took away the sheep and the oxen and the asses and the camels and the clothing; and he came back to Achish.

    10 And every time Achish said, Where have you been fighting today? David said, Against the South of Judah and the South of the Jerahmeelites and the South of the Kenites.

    11 Not one living man or woman did David ever take back with him to Gath, fearing that they might give an account of what had taken place, and say, This is what David did, and so has he been doing all the time while he has been living in the land of the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 15:7
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    7 And Saul made an attack on the Amalekites from Havilah on the road to Shur, which is before Egypt.

  • 1 Sam 30:1-2
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    1 Now when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made an attack on the South and on Ziklag, and had overcome Ziklag and put it on fire;

    2 And had made the women and all who were there, small and great, prisoners: they had not put any of them to death, but had taken them all away.

  • 2 Sam 8:12
    74%

    12 The nations of Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon and the Philistines and the Amalekites and the goods he had taken from Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

  • 1 Sam 27:1-2
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    1 And David said to himself, Some day death will come to me by the hand of Saul: the only thing for me to do is to get away into the land of the Philistines; then Saul will give up hope of taking me in any part of the land of Israel: and so I may be able to get away from him.

    2 So David and the six hundred men who were with him went over to Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

  • 1 Sam 27:7
    73%

    7 And David was living in the land of the Philistines for the space of a year and four months.

  • 1 Sam 28:1
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    1 Now in those days the Philistines got their forces together to make war on Israel. And Achish said to David, Certainly you and your men are to go out with me to the fight.

  • 1 Sam 30:13-14
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    72%

    13 And David said to him, Whose man are you and where do you come from? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master went on without me because three days back I became ill.

    14 We made an attack on the south part of the country of the Cherethites, and on the land which is Judah's, and on the south of Caleb; and we put Ziklag on fire.

  • Gen 14:7
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    7 Then they came back to En-mishpat (which is Kadesh), making waste all the country of the Amalekites and of the Amorites living in Hazazon-tamar.

  • 1 Sam 30:17-18
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    17 And David went on fighting them from evening till the evening of the day after; and not one of them got away but only four hundred young men who went in flight on camels.

    18 And David got back everything the Amalekites had taken; and he got back his two wives.

  • 1 Sam 14:48
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    48 And he did great things, and overcame the Amalekites, and made Israel safe from the hands of their attackers.

  • 1 Sam 23:24
    71%

    24 And they went back and came to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the waste land of Maon, in the dry land south of the waste land.

  • 1 Chr 14:8
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    8 And when the Philistines had news that David had been made king over all Israel, they went up in search of David, and David, hearing of it, went out against them.

  • 1 Sam 29:11
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    11 So David and his men got up early in the morning to go back to the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

  • 1 Chr 4:43
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    43 And they put to death the rest of the Amalekites who had got away safely, and made it their living-place to this day.

  • Judg 6:3
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    3 And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them;

  • 1 Sam 30:31
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    31 And in Hebron, and to all the places where David and his men had been living.

  • 1 Chr 14:16
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    16 And David did as the Lord had said; and they overcame the army of the Philistines, attacking them from Gibeon as far as Gezer.

  • 2 Sam 1:1
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    1 Now after the death of Saul, when David, having come back from the destruction of the Amalekites, had been in Ziklag for two days;

  • 2 Sam 8:1
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    1 And it came about after this that David made an attack on the Philistines and overcame them; and David took the authority of the mother-town from the hands of the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 15:18
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    18 And the Lord sent you on a journey and said, Go and put to the curse those sinners, the Amalekites, fighting against them till every one is dead.

  • 1 Sam 17:52
    70%

    52 And the men of Israel and of Judah got up, and gave a cry, and went after the Philistines as far as Gath and the town doors of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines were falling down by the road from Shaaraim all the way to Gath and Ekron.

  • 1 Sam 15:2
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    2 The Lord of armies says, I will give punishment to Amalek for what he did to Israel, fighting against him on the way when Israel came out of Egypt.

  • 2 Sam 5:25
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    25 And David did as the Lord had said; and he overcame the Philistines, attacking them from Gibeon to near Gezer.

  • 1 Sam 29:2
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    2 And the lords of the Philistines went on with their hundreds and their thousands, and David and his men came after with Achish.

  • Ps 83:7
    70%

    7 Gebal and Ammon and Amalek; the Philistines and the people of Tyre;

  • Josh 13:3
    70%

    3 From the Shihor, which is before Egypt, to the edge of Ekron to the north, which is taken to be Canaanite property: the five chiefs of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites, as well as the Avvim;

  • 1 Sam 23:5
    69%

    5 So David and his men went to Keilah, and had a fight with the Philistines, and took away their cattle, and put them to the sword with great destruction. So David was the saviour of the people of Keilah.

  • 2 Sam 8:3
    69%

    3 And David overcame Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, when he went to make his power seen by the River.

  • 1 Sam 30:20
    69%

    20 And they took all the flocks and herds, and driving them in front of him, said, These are David's.

  • 1 Chr 18:1
    69%

    1 And it came about after this that David made an attack on the Philistines and overcame them, and took Gath with its daughter-towns out of the hands of the Philistines.

  • Deut 25:17
    69%

    17 Keep in mind what Amalek did to you on your way from Egypt;

  • 1 Sam 19:8
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    8 And there was war again: and David went out fighting the Philistines, causing great destruction among them; and they went in flight before him.

  • 1 Sam 23:1-2
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    1 And they sent word to David, saying, The Philistines are fighting against Keilah and taking the grain from the grain-floors.

    2 So David, questioning the Lord, said, Am I to go and make an attack on these Philistines? And the Lord said to David, Go and make an attack on the Philistines so that Keilah may be kept from falling into their hands.

  • Num 13:29
    69%

    29 And the Amalekites are in the South; and the Hittites and the Jebusites and the Amorites are living in the hill-country; and the Canaanites by the sea and by the side of Jordan.

  • 2 Chr 28:18
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    18 And the Philistines, forcing their way into the towns of the lowlands and the south of Judah, had taken Beth-shemesh and Aijalon and Gederoth and Soco, with their daughter-towns, as well as Timnah and Gimzo and their daughter-towns, and were living there.

  • Num 13:22
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    22 They went up into the South and came to Hebron; and Ahiman and Sheshai and Talmai, the children of Anak, were living there. (Now the building of Hebron took place seven years before that of Zoan in Egypt.)

  • 1 Chr 18:11
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    11 These King David made holy to the Lord, together with the silver and gold he had taken from all nations; from Edom and Moab and from the children of Ammon and from the Philistines and from Amalek.

  • Exod 17:8
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    8 Then Amalek came and made war on Israel in Rephidim.

  • 2 Sam 1:13
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    13 And David said to the young man who had given him the news, Where do you come from? And he said, I am the son of a man from a strange land; I am an Amalekite.

  • 1 Sam 30:27
    69%

    27 He sent to those who were in Beth-el, and in Ramah of the South, and in Jattir;

  • 1 Chr 13:5
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    5 So David sent for all Israel to come together, from Shihor, the river of Egypt, as far as the way into Hamath, to get the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.