1 Samuel 30:18

Authorized King James Version (1611)

And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives.

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  • Gen 14:16 : 16 And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

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

    19And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any [thing] that they had taken to them: David recovered all.

    20And David took all the flocks and the herds, [which] they drave before those [other] cattle, and said, This [is] David's spoil.

    21¶ And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that [were] with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted them.

    22Then answered all the wicked men and [men] of Belial, of those that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them [ought] of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead [them] away, and depart.

    23Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the LORD hath given us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the company that came against us into our hand.

  • 1 Sam 30:1-6
    6 verses
    79%

    1¶ And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;

    2And had taken the women captives, that [were] therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried [them] away, and went on their way.

    3So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, [it was] burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.

    4Then David and the people that [were] with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

    5And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

    6And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.

  • 1 Sam 30:17
    77%

    17And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.

  • 1 Sam 27:8-9
    2 verses
    76%

    8¶ And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those [nations were] of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.

    9And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.

  • 1 Sam 14:48
    74%

    48And he gathered an host, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them.

  • 1 Sam 30:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8And David enquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake [them], and without fail recover [all].

    9So David went, he and the six hundred men that [were] with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.

  • 1 Sam 27:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2And David arose, and he passed over with the six hundred men that [were] with him unto Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

    3And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, [even] David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.

  • 2 Sam 1:1
    71%

    1¶ Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag;

  • 1 Sam 25:21
    70%

    21Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this [fellow] hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that [pertained] unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good.

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

    42And Abigail hasted, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.

    43David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.

  • 2 Sam 2:2-3
    2 verses
    70%

    2So David went up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail Nabal's wife the Carmelite.

    3And his men that [were] with him did David bring up, every man with his household: and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron.

  • 2 Sam 12:29
    70%

    29And David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it.

  • 2 Sam 3:14
    70%

    14And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth Saul's son, saying, Deliver [me] my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred foreskins of the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 23:5
    69%

    5So David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and smote them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.

  • Gen 14:16
    69%

    16And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

  • 2 Sam 8:12
    69%

    12Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

  • Gen 34:29
    69%

    29And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that [was] in the house.

  • 1 Sam 27:11
    69%

    11And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring [tidings] to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on us, saying, So did David, and so [will be] his manner all the while he dwelleth in the country of the Philistines.

  • 1 Chr 18:11
    69%

    11Them also king David dedicated unto the LORD, with the silver and the gold that he brought from all [these] nations; from Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek.

  • 1 Sam 18:27
    69%

    27Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.

  • 1 Chr 18:1
    69%

    1¶ Now after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them, and took Gath and her towns out of the hand of the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 17:57
    69%

    57And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.

  • 2 Sam 20:3
    68%

    3And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women [his] concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.

  • 2 Sam 21:12
    68%

    12And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:

  • 1 Chr 18:7
    68%

    7And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadarezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.

  • 1 Chr 4:43
    68%

    43And they smote the rest of the Amalekites that were escaped, and dwelt there unto this day.

  • 1 Sam 25:13
    68%

    13And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.

  • 1 Chr 14:3
    68%

    3And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and David begat more sons and daughters.

  • 1 Chr 18:4
    68%

    4And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: David also houghed all the chariot [horses], but reserved of them an hundred chariots.

  • 1 Sam 17:53
    68%

    53And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they spoiled their tents.

  • 1 Sam 19:8
    68%

    8¶ And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled from him.

  • 1 Sam 25:40
    68%

    40And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to take thee to him to wife.

  • 1 Sam 30:13
    68%

    13And David said unto him, To whom [belongest] thou? and whence [art] thou? And he said, I [am] a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.

  • 1 Sam 22:1
    67%

    1¶ David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard [it], they went down thither to him.

  • 2 Sam 8:4
    67%

    4And David took from him a thousand [chariots], and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all the chariot [horses], but reserved of them [for] an hundred chariots.