1 Samuel 30:2

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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.

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  • 1 Sam 27:11 : 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 Sam 30:19 : 19 Nothing was missing, whether young or old, son or daughter, or anything else they had taken. David brought everything back.
  • Job 38:11 : 11 and said, 'This far you may come, but no farther; here is where your proud waves must halt.'
  • Ps 76:10 : 10 When God rose up to judge, to save all the humble of the earth. Selah.
  • Isa 27:8-9 : 8 With exact measure, by sending her away, you contend with her. He drives her out with his fierce wind on the day of the east wind. 9 By this, the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: when he makes all the altar stones like crushed chalk stones, and no Asherah poles or incense altars will stand.

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  • 1 Sam 30:3-5
    3 verses
    82%

    3When 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.

    4Then 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.

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

  • 1 Sam 27:8-9
    2 verses
    80%

    8Now 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.

    9David 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 30:16-23
    8 verses
    79%

    16He led David down to them, and there they were, scattered over the countryside, eating, drinking, and celebrating because of the great spoil they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from Judah.

    17David 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.

    18David recovered everything the Amalekites had taken, including his two wives.

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

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

    21Then 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.

    22Then 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."

    23But 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
    77%

    1On 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.

  • Gen 34:28-29
    2 verses
    77%

    28They took their flocks, herds, donkeys, and everything in the city and in the fields.

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

  • Num 31:9-11
    3 verses
    76%

    9The Israelites captured the women of Midian and their children, and they took all their livestock, all their goods, and all their wealth as plunder.

    10They burned all the towns where the Midianites had lived and all their encampments with fire.

    11They took all the plunder and all the spoils, both people and animals.

  • 1 Sam 27:11
    75%

    11David 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.

  • Deut 2:34-35
    2 verses
    75%

    34At that time we captured all his cities and completely destroyed every city, including the men, women, and children; we left no survivors.

    35Only the livestock and the plunder from the cities we took as spoil for ourselves.

  • 2 Chr 28:8
    74%

    8The Israelites took captive 200,000 people from their relatives—women, sons, and daughters. They also took a great amount of plunder and brought it to Samaria.

  • Num 31:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17Now, kill every male among the children, and kill every woman who has had sexual relations with a man.

    18But you may keep alive for yourselves all the young women who have not known a man by lying with him.

  • Deut 20:14
    72%

    14However, you may take the women, children, livestock, and everything else in the city as your spoils. You may enjoy the plunder from your enemies that the LORD your God has given you.

  • 1 Sam 15:3
    72%

    3Now go and attack Amalek. Devote to destruction everything they have. Do not spare them; kill men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.'

  • 1 Sam 30:14
    72%

    14"We raided the Negev of the Kerethites, the territory of Judah, and the Negev of Caleb, and we burned Ziklag."

  • 1 Sam 23:5
    71%

    5David 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.

  • 2 Kgs 10:14
    71%

    14Then Jehu commanded, "Take them alive." So they captured them alive and slaughtered them at the pit of Beth-Eked—forty-two men. He left none of them alive.

  • Deut 21:10
    71%

    10When you go out to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God gives them into your hand and you take captives,

  • 1 Sam 14:48
    71%

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

  • 1 Sam 15:8
    71%

    8He captured Agag, king of Amalek, alive, but he utterly destroyed all the people with the sword.

  • 2 Sam 20:3
    71%

    3When 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.

  • 1 Chr 5:21
    70%

    21They took away their livestock: fifty thousand camels, two hundred and fifty thousand sheep, two thousand donkeys, and one hundred thousand people as captives.

  • 1 Sam 15:15
    70%

    15Saul answered, 'They brought them from the Amalekites; the people spared the best of the sheep and cattle to sacrifice to the LORD your God, but the rest we have utterly destroyed.'

  • Num 31:35
    70%

    35and 32,000 women who had never slept with a man.

  • Judg 21:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

    10So the assembly sent twelve thousand armed men with the command, 'Go and strike down the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead with the sword, including the women and children.'

    11This is what you are to do: Completely destroy every male and every woman who has had relations with a man.

  • 1 Sam 22:19
    70%

    19He also put to the sword Nob, the city of the priests, killing its men and women, children and infants, and also its oxen, donkeys, and sheep.

  • 1 Kgs 11:15
    70%

    15When David was in Edom and Joab, the commander of the army, went up to bury the dead, they killed every male in Edom.

  • 2 Sam 12:31
    70%

    31He brought out the people who were there, consigning them to labor with saws, iron picks, and axes, and made them work at brickmaking. David did this to all the Ammonite towns. Then he and his entire army returned to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 28:14
    70%

    14So the armed men released the captives and the plunder in the presence of the officials and the entire assembly.

  • 1 Chr 4:43
    70%

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

  • Deut 3:6
    69%

    6We completely destroyed them, just as we had done to Sihon, king of Heshbon. In every city, we destroyed the men, women, and children.

  • 2 Sam 18:7
    69%

    7There, the army of Israel was defeated by David's servants, and the casualties were heavy that day—twenty thousand men.