1 Samuel 30:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

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 relative 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 anything that they had taken from them: David recovered all.

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

    21And David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had also made to stay at the brook Besor: and they went out to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him: and when David came near to the people, he greeted them.

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

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

  • 1 Sam 30:1-6
    6 verses
    79%

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

    2And had taken the women captives that were there: they killed none, 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 Jezreelite, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

    6And David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke 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 struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day: and none of them escaped, except four hundred young men, who rode upon camels, and fled.

  • 1 Sam 27:8-9
    2 verses
    76%

    8And David and his men went up and invaded the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites, for those nations were the inhabitants of the land from long ago, as you go to Shur, even to the land of Egypt.

    9And David struck the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, the oxen, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothes, and returned and came to Achish.

  • 1 Sam 14:48
    74%

    48He gathered an army, struck the Amalekites, and delivered Israel from those who plundered them.

  • 1 Sam 30:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8And David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And He answered him, Pursue: for you shall 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 who were with him to Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

    3And David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, each man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelite, and Abigail the Carmelite, Nabal's wife.

  • 2 Sam 1:1
    71%

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

  • 1 Sam 25:21
    70%

    21Now David had said, Surely in vain have I protected all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missing of all that belonged to him, and he has repaid me evil for good.

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

    42And Abigail hurried and arose, and rode on a donkey, with five maids accompanying her; so she followed the messengers of David, and became his wife.

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

  • 2 Sam 2:2-3
    2 verses
    70%

    2So David went up there, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

    3And David brought up the men who were with him, every man with his household: and they lived in the cities of Hebron.

  • 2 Sam 12:29
    70%

    29David gathered all the people together, went to Rabbah, 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, whom I espoused to me for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 23:5
    69%

    5So David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and took away their cattle, and struck 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 relative Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

  • 2 Sam 8:12
    69%

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

  • Gen 34:29
    69%

    29And all their wealth, all their little ones, and their wives they took captive, and they plundered even all that was in the houses.

  • 1 Sam 27:11
    69%

    11And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring news to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on us, saying, Thus did David, and so will be his way all the time he dwells in the country of the Philistines.

  • 1 Chr 18:11
    69%

    11These also king David dedicated to the LORD, along 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%

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

  • 1 Chr 18:1
    69%

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

  • 1 Sam 17:57
    69%

    57When David returned from killing 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 returned to his house in Jerusalem, and the king took the ten concubines whom he had left to keep the house and put them in confinement. He provided for them but did not go in to them. So they were shut up until the day of their death, living as widows.

  • 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, who had stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa:

  • 1 Chr 18:7
    68%

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

  • 1 Chr 4:43
    68%

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

  • 1 Sam 25:13
    68%

    13And David said to his men, Each of you gird on his sword. And each one girded on his sword, and David also girded on his sword; and about four hundred men went up after David, while two hundred stayed with the supplies.

  • 1 Chr 14:3
    68%

    3And David took more wives in Jerusalem, and David fathered more sons and daughters.

  • 1 Chr 18:4
    68%

    4And David took from him a thousand chariots, seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand foot soldiers; David also hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved a hundred chariots of them.

  • 1 Sam 17:53
    68%

    53The Israelites returned from chasing after the Philistines and plundered their camp.

  • 1 Sam 19:8
    68%

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

  • 1 Sam 25:40
    68%

    40And when the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, David sent us to you, to take you to him as a wife.

  • 1 Sam 30:13
    68%

    13And David said to him, To whom do you belong? and where are you from? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I fell sick.

  • 1 Sam 22:1
    67%

    1David therefore departed from there, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him.

  • 2 Sam 8:4
    67%

    4And David took from him a thousand chariots, seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand foot soldiers; and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved enough for a hundred chariots.