1 Samuel 27:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • 1 Sam 15:3 : 3 Go now and put Amalek to the sword, putting to the curse all they have, without mercy: put to death every man and woman, every child and baby at the breast, every ox and sheep, camel and ass.
  • 1 Sam 15:7 : 7 And Saul made an attack on the Amalekites from Havilah on the road to Shur, which is before Egypt.
  • Gen 16:7 : 7 And an angel of the Lord came to her by a fountain of water in the waste land, by the fountain on the way to Shur.
  • Gen 25:18 : 18 And their country was from Havilah to Shur which is east of Egypt: they took their place to the east of all their brothers.
  • 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.
  • Deut 25:17-19 : 17 Keep in mind what Amalek did to you on your way from Egypt; 18 How, meeting you on the way, he made an attack on you when you were tired and without strength, cutting off all the feeble ones at the end of your line; and the fear of God was not in him. 19 So when the Lord your God has given you rest from all who are against you on every side, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, see to it that the memory of Amalek is cut off from the earth; keep this in mind.
  • Josh 6:21 : 21 And they put everything in the town to the curse; men and women, young and old, ox and sheep and ass, they put to death without mercy.

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  • 1 Sam 27:10-12
    3 verses
    84%

    10And 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.

    11Not 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.

    12And Achish had belief in what David said, saying, He has made himself hated by all his people Israel, and so he will be my servant for ever.

  • 1 Sam 30:1-3
    3 verses
    80%

    1Now 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;

    2And 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.

    3And when David and his men came to the town, they saw that it had been burned down, and their wives and their sons and daughters had been made prisoners.

  • 1 Sam 27:8
    80%

    8And 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.

  • 1 Sam 30:14-20
    7 verses
    78%

    14We 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.

    15And David said to him, Will you take me down to this band? And he said, If you give me your oath that you will not put me to death or give me up to my master, I will take you to them.

    16And when he had taken him down, they saw them all, seated about on all sides, feasting and drinking among all the mass of goods which they had taken from the land of the Philistines and the land of Judah.

    17And 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.

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

    19There was no loss of anything, small or great, sons or daughters or goods or anything which they had taken away: David got it all back.

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

  • 1 Sam 27:2-4
    3 verses
    76%

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

    3And David and his men were living with Achish at Gath; every man had his family with him, and David had his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel, and Abigail of Carmel, who had been the wife of Nabal.

    4And Saul, hearing that David had gone to Gath, went after him no longer.

  • 1 Sam 22:19
    76%

    19And Nob, the town of the priests, he put to the sword, all the men and women, children and babies at the breast, and oxen and asses and sheep.

  • 1 Sam 23:5
    76%

    5So 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.

  • 1 Sam 15:3
    75%

    3Go now and put Amalek to the sword, putting to the curse all they have, without mercy: put to death every man and woman, every child and baby at the breast, every ox and sheep, camel and ass.

  • 1 Sam 17:54
    75%

    54And David took the head of the Philistine to Jerusalem, but the metal war-dress and the arms he put in his tent.

  • 1 Sam 17:57
    74%

    57And when David was coming back after the destruction of the Philistine, Abner took him to Saul, with the head of the Philistine in his hand.

  • 1 Sam 15:8
    74%

    8He took Agag, king of the Amalekites, prisoner, and put all the people to the sword without mercy.

  • 2 Chr 14:15
    74%

    15And they made an attack on the tents of the owners of the cattle, and took away great numbers of sheep and camels and went back to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Sam 8:4
    74%

    4And David took from him one thousand, seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand footmen: and David had the leg-muscles of the horses cut, only keeping enough of them for a hundred war-carriages.

  • 2 Sam 12:29
    74%

    29Then David got all the people together and went to Rabbah and made war on it and took it.

  • 1 Chr 18:4
    73%

    4And David took from him a thousand war-carriages and seven thousand horsemen and twenty thousand footmen: and he had the leg-muscles of all the horses cut, keeping only enough of them for a hundred war-carriages.

  • 1 Sam 25:12-13
    2 verses
    73%

    12So David's young men, turning away, went back and gave him an account of everything he had said.

    13And David said to his men, Put on your swords, every one of you. And every man put on his sword; and David did the same; and about four hundred men went up with David, and two hundred kept watch over their goods.

  • 1 Sam 28:1
    73%

    1Now 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 14:48
    73%

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

  • 1 Sam 21:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8And David said to Ahimelech, Have you no sword or spear with you here? for I have come without my sword and other arms, because the king's business had to be done quickly.

    9And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you put to death in the valley of Elah, is here folded in a cloth at the back of the ephod: take that, if you will, for there is no other sword here. And David said, there is no other sword like that; give it to me.

  • 1 Sam 29:2
    73%

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

  • 1 Sam 19:8
    73%

    8And 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 25:21
    73%

    21Now David had said, What was the use of my taking care of this man's goods in the waste land, so that there was no loss of anything which was his? he has only given me back evil for good.

  • 2 Sam 12:31
    73%

    31And he took the people out of the town and put them to work with wood-cutting instruments, and iron grain-crushers, and iron axes, and at brick-making: this he did to all the towns of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people went back to Jerusalem.

  • 1 Sam 30:23
    73%

    23Then David said, You are not to do this, my brothers, after what the Lord has given us, who has kept us safe and given up the band which came against us into our hands.

  • 1 Chr 20:3
    73%

    3And he took the people out of the town and put them to work with wood-cutting instruments, and iron grain-crushers, and axes. And this he did to all the towns of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people went back to Jerusalem.

  • 1 Chr 14:16
    72%

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

  • 1 Chr 18:1
    72%

    1And 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.

  • 1 Sam 17:52
    72%

    52And 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.

  • 2 Sam 18:7
    72%

    7And the people of Israel were overcome there by the servants of David, and there was a great destruction that day, and twenty thousand men were put to the sword.

  • 2 Sam 23:10
    72%

    10He was with David and went on fighting the Philistines till his hand became tired and stiff from gripping his sword: and that day the Lord gave a great salvation, and the people came back after him only to take the goods of the Philistines.

  • 2 Sam 1:10
    72%

    10So I put my foot on him and gave him his death-blow, because I was certain that he would not go on living after his fall: and I took the crown from his head and the band from his arm, and I have them here for my lord.

  • 1 Sam 23:2
    72%

    2So 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.

  • Judg 6:4
    72%

    4And put their army in position against them; and they took all the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, till there was no food in Israel, or any sheep or oxen or asses.

  • 1 Sam 17:50
    72%

    50So David overcame the Philistine with his leather band and a stone, wounding the Philistine and causing his death: but David had no sword in his hand.

  • 2 Sam 1:1
    72%

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