1 Samuel 30:1

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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;

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  • 1 Sam 15:7 : 7 And Saul made an attack on the Amalekites from Havilah on the road to Shur, which is before Egypt.
  • 1 Sam 29:11 : 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 Sam 27:8-9 : 8 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. 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.
  • 1 Sam 29:4 : 4 But the rulers of the Philistines were angry with him, and said to him, Make the man go back to the place you have given him; do not let him go down with us to the fight, or he may be turned against us and be false to us: for how will this man make peace with his lord? will it not be with the heads of these men?
  • Gen 24:62 : 62 Now Isaac had come through the waste land to Beer-lahai-roi; for he was living in the South.
  • Josh 11:6 : 6 And the Lord said to Joshua, Have no fear of them: for tomorrow at this time I will give them all up dead before Israel; you are to have the leg-muscles of their horses cut and their war-carriages burned with fire.
  • 2 Sam 1:2 : 2 On the third day a man came from Saul's tents, with his clothing out of order and earth on his head: and when he came to David, he went down on the earth and gave him honour.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Sam 30:13-14
    2 verses
    84%

    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.

  • 2 Sam 1:1-2
    2 verses
    82%

    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 On the third day a man came from Saul's tents, with his clothing out of order and earth on his head: and when he came to David, he went down on the earth and gave him honour.

  • 1 Sam 30:2-4
    3 verses
    82%

    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.

    3 And 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.

    4 Then David and the people who were with him gave themselves up to weeping till they were able to go on weeping no longer.

  • 1 Sam 30:16-21
    6 verses
    77%

    16 And 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.

    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.

    19 There 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.

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

    21 And David came to the two hundred men, who because of weariness had not gone with him, but were waiting at the stream Besor: and they went out, meeting David and the people who were with him; and when they came near them, they said, How are you?

  • 1 Sam 27:8-10
    3 verses
    75%

    8 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.

    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.

  • 1 Sam 30:26
    74%

    26 And when David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the goods to the responsible men of Judah, and to his friends, saying, Here is an offering for you from the goods of those who were fighting against the Lord;

  • 1 Chr 4:43
    74%

    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.

  • 1 Chr 12:1
    73%

    1 Now these are the men who came to David at Ziklag, while he was still shut up, because of Saul, the son of Kish; they were among the strong men, his helpers in war.

  • 1 Sam 14:48
    73%

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

  • 1 Sam 23:5
    71%

    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.

  • Neh 11:28
    71%

    28 And in Ziklag, and in Meconah and its daughter-towns,

  • Judg 6:3
    71%

    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 27:6
    71%

    6 So Achish straight away gave him Ziklag: and for that reason Ziklag has been the property of the kings of Judah to this day.

  • Gen 14:7
    71%

    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 Chr 4:30
    71%

    30 And at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag,

  • 2 Sam 8:12
    70%

    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 15:5
    70%

    5 And Saul came to the town of Amalek, and took up his position in the valley secretly.

  • 1 Sam 15:2-3
    2 verses
    70%

    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.

    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 26:2
    70%

    2 Then Saul went down to the waste land of Ziph, taking with him three thousand of the best men of Israel, to make search for David in the waste land of Ziph.

  • 1 Sam 15:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    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.

  • 1 Sam 31:8
    70%

    8 Now on the day after, when the Philistines came to take their goods from the dead, they saw Saul and his three sons dead on the earth in Mount Gilboa.

  • 2 Sam 1:13
    70%

    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 28:1
    70%

    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 23:3
    69%

    3 And David's men said to him, Even here in Judah we are full of fear: how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?

  • 1 Sam 30:23
    69%

    23 Then 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 Sam 23:1
    69%

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

  • 1 Sam 30:31
    69%

    31 And in Hebron, and to all the places where David and his men had been living.

  • 1 Chr 14:12
    69%

    12 And the Philistines did not take their images with them in their flight; and at David's orders they were burned with fire.

  • 2 Sam 5:21
    69%

    21 And the Philistines, when they went in flight, did not take their images with them, and David and his men took them away.

  • 1 Sam 23:24
    69%

    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 Sam 15:18
    69%

    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 15:15
    69%

    15 And Saul said, They have taken them from the Amalekites: for the people have kept the best of the sheep and of the oxen as an offering to the Lord your God; all the rest we have given up to destruction.

  • 1 Sam 24:1
    69%

    1 And from there, David went up and took cover in the safe place of En-gedi.

  • 1 Sam 23:15
    68%

    15 And David was full of fear, in the knowledge that Saul had come out to take his life; and David was in the waste land of Ziph, in Horesh.

  • 1 Chr 10:8
    68%

    8 Now the day after, when the Philistines came to take their goods from the dead, they saw Saul and his sons dead in Mount Gilboa.

  • 1 Sam 27:2
    68%

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

  • Exod 17:8
    68%

    8 Then Amalek came and made war on Israel in Rephidim.