1 Samuel 30:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

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

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And David{H1732} took{H3947} all the flocks{H6629} and the herds,{H1241} [which] they drove{H5090} before{H6440} those{H1931} [other] cattle,{H4735} and said,{H559} This is David's{H1732} spoil.{H7998}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And David{H1732} took{H3947}{(H8799)} all the flocks{H6629} and the herds{H1241}, which they drave{H5090}{(H8804)} before{H6440} those{H1931} other cattle{H4735}, and said{H559}{(H8799)}, This is David's{H1732} spoil{H7998}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    And Dauid toke the shepe and oxe, and droue ye catell before him. And they sayde: This is Dauids spoyle.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Dauid also tooke all the sheepe, and the oxen, and they draue them before his cattell, and said, This is Dauids pray.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And Dauid tooke all the sheepe, and the oxen, and they draue them before his cattaile, and saide: This is Dauids pray.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

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

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    and David taketh the whole of the flock, and of the herd, they have led on before these cattle, and they say, `This `is' David's spoil.'

  • American Standard Version (1901)

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

  • American Standard Version (1901)

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

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

  • World English Bible (2000)

    David took all the flocks and the herds, [which] they drove before those [other] livestock, and said, "This is David's spoil."

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    David took all the flocks and herds and drove them in front of the rest of the animals. People were saying,“This is David’s plunder!”

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 30:26 : 26 And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil to the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of the LORD;
  • 2 Chr 20:25 : 25 When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away their spoil, they found among them an abundance of valuables on the dead bodies, and precious jewelry, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away; and they were three days gathering the spoil because there was so much.
  • Isa 53:12 : 12 Therefore I will divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
  • Rom 8:37 : 37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
  • Num 31:9-9 : 9 And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, all their flocks, and all their goods. 10 And they burned all their cities where they dwelt, and all their fortified castles, with fire. 11 And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts. 12 And they brought the captives, the prey, and the spoil, to Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan near Jericho.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Sam 30:15-19
    5 verses
    81%

    15 And David said to him, Can you bring me down to this company? And he said, Swear to me by God, that you will neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this company.

    16 And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

    17 And 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.

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

    19 And 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.

  • 1 Sam 27:9
    78%

    9 And 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 Chr 20:2
    77%

    2 David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, with precious stones in it; and it was set upon David's head. He also brought out exceedingly much spoil from the city.

  • 2 Sam 12:29-30
    2 verses
    76%

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

    30 He took their king's crown from his head, the weight of which was a talent of gold, with precious stones: and it was set on David's head. He brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance.

  • 1 Sam 30:2-3
    2 verses
    75%

    2 And had taken the women captives that were there: they killed none, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way.

    3 So 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.

  • Num 31:11
    75%

    11 And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts.

  • 1 Sam 30:26
    75%

    26 And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil to the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of the LORD;

  • Deut 20:14
    75%

    14 But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil of it, you shall take for yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you.

  • 1 Sam 30:21-23
    3 verses
    75%

    21 And 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.

    22 Then 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.

    23 Then 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.

  • Gen 34:28-29
    2 verses
    75%

    28 They took their sheep, their oxen, and their donkeys, and what was in the city and what was in the field.

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

  • Deut 3:7
    74%

    7 But all the livestock and the spoil of the cities, we took as plunder for ourselves.

  • Deut 2:35
    74%

    35 Only the cattle we took for ourselves as spoil, and the plunder of the cities which we took.

  • 1 Sam 23:5
    73%

    5 So 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.

  • 2 Chr 14:15
    73%

    15 They also attacked the tents of cattle and carried away sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.

  • Num 31:32
    73%

    32 And the remaining booty, which was the rest of the prey taken by the men of war, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,

  • 1 Sam 30:8
    73%

    8 And 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.

  • 2 Sam 8:4
    73%

    4 And 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.

  • 2 Sam 8:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11 These king David also dedicated to the LORD, along with the silver and gold that he had dedicated from all the nations he had subdued:

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

  • 1 Chr 18:4
    73%

    4 And 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 25:21
    73%

    21 Now 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 17:34
    72%

    34 David said to Saul, Your servant kept his father's sheep, and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb from the flock,

  • 1 Sam 17:53-54
    2 verses
    72%

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

    54 David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put the Philistine's armor in his tent.

  • 1 Chr 18:7
    72%

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

  • 1 Chr 5:21
    72%

    21 And they took away their animals: of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred and fifty thousand, and of donkeys two thousand, and of men one hundred thousand.

  • 2 Sam 8:7
    72%

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

  • Ezek 38:12
    72%

    12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn your hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, who have acquired cattle and goods, who dwell in the midst of the land.

  • Num 31:9
    72%

    9 And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, all their flocks, and all their goods.

  • 1 Sam 17:57
    71%

    57 When 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 17:29
    71%

    29 And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of cows, for David and for the people who were with him to eat: for they said, The people are hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.

  • 1 Sam 14:32
    71%

    32 The people rushed on the spoil, took sheep, oxen, and calves, slaughtered them on the ground, and the people ate them with the blood.

  • 1 Chr 26:27
    71%

    27 Out of the spoils won in battles did they dedicate to maintain the house of the LORD.

  • 1 Sam 21:9
    71%

    9 And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck down in the Valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if you will take that, take it, for there is no other but that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it to me.

  • 1 Sam 15:15
    71%

    15 And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice to the LORD your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.

  • 1 Sam 17:20
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    20 David rose early in the morning, left the sheep with a keeper, took the provisions, and went as Jesse had commanded him; he came to the camp as the army was going out to the fight and shouting for battle.

  • 2 Chr 20:25
    71%

    25 When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away their spoil, they found among them an abundance of valuables on the dead bodies, and precious jewelry, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away; and they were three days gathering the spoil because there was so much.

  • 1 Sam 25:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12 So David's young men turned away, and went back, and came and told him all these words.

    13 And 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 Sam 23:1
    71%

    1 Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they are robbing the threshing floors.

  • 1 Sam 24:4
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    4 And the men of David said to him, Behold, the day of which the LORD said to you, Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, that you may do to him as it seems good to you. Then David arose and cut off the edge of Saul's robe secretly.