1 Samuel 30:18

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David recovered everything the Amalekites had taken, including his two wives.

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  • Gen 14:16 : 16 He recovered all the goods and also brought back his kinsman Lot, along with his possessions, the women, and the other people.

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  • 1 Sam 30:19-23
    5 verses
    87%

    19 Nothing was missing, whether young or old, son or daughter, or anything else they had taken. David brought everything back.

    20 David took all the flocks and herds, and his men drove them ahead of the other livestock, saying, "This is David’s spoil."

    21 Then David returned to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow him and had stayed behind at the Besor Valley. They came out to meet David and the troops with him, and David greeted them warmly.

    22 Then all the wicked and worthless men among those who had gone with David said, "Since they did not go with us, we will not give them any of the spoil we recovered. However, each man may take his wife and children and leave."

    23 But David said, "You must not act this way, my brothers, with what the Lord has given us. He has protected us and delivered the raiding party that came against us into our hands.

  • 1 Sam 30:1-6
    6 verses
    79%

    1 On the third day, when David and his men arrived at Ziklag, they found that the Amalekites had invaded the Negev and Ziklag. They had attacked Ziklag and burned it to the ground.

    2 The Amalekites had taken the women and everyone in the city captive, from the youngest to the oldest. They had not killed anyone but had taken them away as prisoners and gone on their way.

    3 When David and his men came to the city, they saw that it had been burned, and their wives, sons, and daughters had been taken captive.

    4 Then David and the people who were with him lifted their voices and wept until they could weep no more because they had no strength left.

    5 Both of David’s wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelite and Abigail, the widow of Nabal of Carmel, had been taken captive.

    6 David was greatly distressed because the people talked about stoning him. They were all bitter in spirit because of their sons and daughters, but David found strength in the Lord his God.

  • 1 Sam 30:17
    77%

    17 David attacked them from twilight until the evening of the next day. None of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode off on camels and fled.

  • 1 Sam 27:8-9
    2 verses
    76%

    8 Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites, for they had been living in the land from ancient times, from the route to Shur as far as the land of Egypt.

    9 David attacked the land and did not leave alive a man or woman. He took sheep, cattle, donkeys, camels, and clothing, and then he returned and went to Achish.

  • 1 Sam 14:48
    74%

    48 He fought valiantly and defeated the Amalekites, delivering Israel from the hands of those who had plundered them.

  • 1 Sam 30:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8 David inquired of the Lord, saying, "Should I pursue this raiding party? Will I overtake them?" The Lord answered, "Pursue them, for you will certainly overtake them and rescue the captives."

    9 David and the six hundred men with him set out, and they came to the Besor Valley, where some stayed behind.

  • 1 Sam 27:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2 So David arose and went over with his six hundred men to Achish son of Maoch, king of Gath.

    3 David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, each with their households, and David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelite and Abigail, the widow of Nabal from Carmel.

  • 2 Sam 1:1
    71%

    1 After the death of Saul, David returned from defeating the Amalekites and stayed in Ziklag for two days.

  • 1 Sam 25:21
    70%

    21 David had just been saying, "It’s been for nothing that I guarded everything belonging to this man in the wilderness. Nothing was missing, yet he has repaid me evil for good.

  • 1 Sam 25:42-43
    2 verses
    70%

    42 Abigail quickly got on a donkey, accompanied by five of her young women as attendants. She followed David’s messengers and became his wife.

    43 David had also married Ahinoam of Jezreel, and both women became his wives.

  • 2 Sam 2:2-3
    2 verses
    70%

    2 So David went up there, along with his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail, the widow of Nabal of Carmel.

    3 David also brought up the men who were with him, each man with his household, and they settled in the towns of Hebron.

  • 2 Sam 12:29
    70%

    29 So David gathered all the troops, went to Rabbah, fought against it, and captured it.

  • 2 Sam 3:14
    70%

    14 Then David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, son of Saul, to say, 'Give me my wife Michal, whom I betrothed to myself for a payment of one hundred Philistine foreskins.'

  • 1 Sam 23:5
    69%

    5 David and his men went to Keilah and fought against the Philistines. He drove their livestock away and struck them with a great blow. Thus, David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.

  • Gen 14:16
    69%

    16 He recovered all the goods and also brought back his kinsman Lot, along with his possessions, the women, and the other people.

  • 2 Sam 8:12
    69%

    12 from Aram, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines, Amalek, and the spoil of Hadadezer son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

  • Gen 34:29
    69%

    29 They carried off all their wealth, their children, and their wives, taking everything in the houses as plunder.

  • 1 Sam 27:11
    69%

    11 David did not leave alive a man or woman to bring to Gath, for he thought, "They might inform against us, saying, 'This is what David did.'" This was his practice the whole time he lived in Philistine territory.

  • 1 Chr 18:11
    69%

    11 King David dedicated these items to the Lord, along with the silver and gold he had taken from all the nations, including Edom, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines, and Amalek.

  • 1 Sam 18:27
    69%

    27 So David arose and went out with his men, and they struck down two hundred Philistines. David brought their foreskins and presented the full number to the king so that he might become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.

  • 1 Chr 18:1
    69%

    1 After this, David defeated the Philistines, subdued them, and took Gath and its surrounding villages from the control of the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 17:57
    69%

    57 As soon as David returned from killing the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul, with the Philistine's head still in his hand.

  • 2 Sam 20:3
    68%

    3 When David returned to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to take care of the house and placed them in confinement, providing for them but no longer going to them. They remained confined like widows until the day of their death.

  • 2 Sam 21:12
    68%

    12 he went and retrieved the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the citizens of Jabesh Gilead. (They had stolen their bodies from the public square of Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hung them after they struck Saul down on Gilboa.)

  • 1 Chr 18:7
    68%

    7 David took the gold shields carried by the servants of Hadadezer and brought them to Jerusalem.

  • 1 Chr 4:43
    68%

    43 They struck down the remnant of the Amalekites who had escaped, and they have lived there to this day.

  • 1 Sam 25:13
    68%

    13 David said to his men, "Each of you, strap on your sword!" So they did, and David also strapped on his sword. About four hundred men went with David, while two hundred stayed with the supplies.

  • 1 Chr 14:3
    68%

    3 David took more wives in Jerusalem, and he had more sons and daughters.

  • 1 Chr 18:4
    68%

    4 David captured 1,000 chariots, 7,000 horsemen, and 20,000 foot soldiers from Hadadezer. He hamstrung all the chariot horses but kept enough for 100 chariots.

  • 1 Sam 17:53
    68%

    53 Then the Israelites returned from pursuing the Philistines and plundered their camps.

  • 1 Sam 19:8
    68%

    8 War broke out again. David went out to fight the Philistines and struck them with a great slaughter, causing them to flee before him.

  • 1 Sam 25:40
    68%

    40 David’s servants went to Abigail at Carmel and said to her, 'David has sent us to you to take you to become his wife.'

  • 1 Sam 30:13
    68%

    13 David asked him, "Who do you belong to, and where are you from?" He answered, "I am an Egyptian, the servant of an Amalekite. My master abandoned me three days ago because I fell ill."

  • 1 Sam 22:1
    67%

    1 David left from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and all his father's household heard about it, they went down to him there.

  • 2 Sam 8:4
    67%

    4 From Hadadezer, David captured a thousand chariots, seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand foot soldiers. He hamstrung all the chariot horses but spared enough horses for a hundred chariots.

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