1 Samuel 30:1

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David Defeats the Amalekites On the third day David and his men came to Ziklag. Now the Amalekites had raided the Negev and Ziklag. They attacked Ziklag and burned it.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 15:7 : 7 Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, which is next to Egypt.
  • 1 Sam 29:11 : 11 So David and his men got up early in the morning to return to the land of the Philistines, but the Philistines went up to Jezreel.
  • 1 Sam 27:8-9 : 8 Then David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites.(They had been living in that land for a long time, from the approach to Shur as far as the land of Egypt.) 9 When David would attack a district, he would leave neither man nor woman alive. He would take sheep, cattle, donkeys, camels, and clothing and would then go back to Achish. 10 When Achish would ask,“Where did you raid today?” David would say,“The Negev of Judah” or“The Negev of Jeharmeel” or“The Negev of the Kenites.”
  • 1 Sam 29:4 : 4 But the leaders of the Philistines became angry with him and said to him,“Send the man back! Let him return to the place that you assigned him! Don’t let him go down with us into the battle, for he might become our adversary in the battle. What better way to please his lord than with the heads of these men?
  • Gen 24:62 : 62 Now Isaac came from Beer Lahai Roi, for he was living in the Negev.
  • Josh 11:6 : 6 The LORD told Joshua,“Don’t be afraid of them, for about this time tomorrow I will cause all of them to lie dead before Israel. You must hamstring their horses and burn their chariots.”
  • 2 Sam 1:2 : 2 On the third day a man arrived from the camp of Saul with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. When he approached David, the man threw himself to the ground.

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  • 1 Sam 30:13-14
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    13David said to him,“To whom do you belong, and where are you from?” The young man said,“I am an Egyptian, the servant of an Amalekite man. My master abandoned me when I was ill for three days.

    14We conducted a raid on the Negev of the Kerethites, on the area of Judah, and on the Negev of Caleb. We burned Ziklag.”

  • 2 Sam 1:1-2
    2 verses
    82%

    1¶ David Learns of the Deaths of Saul and Jonathan After the death of Saul, when David had returned from defeating the Amalekites, he stayed at Ziklag for two days.

    2On the third day a man arrived from the camp of Saul with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. When he approached David, the man threw himself to the ground.

  • 1 Sam 30:2-4
    3 verses
    82%

    2They took captive the women and all who were in it, from the youngest to the oldest, but they did not kill anyone. They simply carried them off and went on their way.

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

    4Then David and the men who were with him wept loudly until they could weep no more.

  • 1 Sam 30:16-21
    6 verses
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    16So he took David down, and they found them spread out over the land. They were eating and drinking and enjoying themselves because of all the loot they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.

    17But David struck them down from twilight until the following evening. None of them escaped, with the exception of four hundred young men who got away on camels.

    18David retrieved everything the Amalekites had taken; he also rescued his two wives.

    19There was nothing missing, whether small or great. He retrieved sons and daughters, the plunder, and everything else they had taken. David brought everything back.

    20David 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!”

    21Then David approached the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to go with him, those whom they had left at the Wadi Besor. They went out to meet David and the people who were with him. When David approached the people, he asked how they were doing.

  • 1 Sam 27:8-10
    3 verses
    75%

    8Then David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites.(They had been living in that land for a long time, from the approach to Shur as far as the land of Egypt.)

    9When David would attack a district, he would leave neither man nor woman alive. He would take sheep, cattle, donkeys, camels, and clothing and would then go back to Achish.

    10When Achish would ask,“Where did you raid today?” David would say,“The Negev of Judah” or“The Negev of Jeharmeel” or“The Negev of the Kenites.”

  • 1 Sam 30:26
    74%

    26When David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the plunder to the elders of Judah who were his friends, saying,“Here’s a gift for you from the looting of the LORD’s enemies!”

  • 1 Chr 4:43
    74%

    43and defeated the rest of the Amalekite refugees; they live there to this very day.

  • 1 Chr 12:1
    73%

    1Warriors Who Joined David at Ziklag These were the men who joined David in Ziklag, when he was banished from the presence of Saul son of Kish.(They were among the warriors who assisted him in battle.

  • 1 Sam 14:48
    73%

    48He fought bravely, striking down the Amalekites and delivering Israel from the hand of its enemies.

  • 1 Sam 23:5
    71%

    5So David and his men went to Keilah and fought the Philistines. He took away their cattle and thoroughly defeated them. David delivered the inhabitants of Keilah.

  • Neh 11:28
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    28in Ziklag, in Meconah and its villages,

  • Judg 6:3
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    3Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east would attack them.

  • 1 Sam 27:6
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    6So Achish gave him Ziklag on that day.(For that reason Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah until this very day.)

  • Gen 14:7
    71%

    7Then they attacked En Mishpat(that is, Kadesh) again, and they conquered all the territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who were living in Hazazon Tamar.

  • 1 Chr 4:30
    71%

    30Bethuel, Hormah, Ziklag,

  • 2 Sam 8:12
    70%

    12including Edom, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines, and Amalek. This also included some of the plunder taken from King Hadadezer son of Rehob of Zobah.

  • 1 Sam 15:5
    70%

    5Saul proceeded to the city of Amalek, where he set an ambush in the wadi.

  • 1 Sam 15:2-3
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    70%

    2Here is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has said:‘I carefully observed how the Amalekites opposed Israel along the way when Israel came up from Egypt.

    3So go now and strike down the Amalekites. Destroy everything that they have. Don’t spare them. Put them to death– man, woman, child, infant, ox, sheep, camel, and donkey alike.’”

  • 1 Sam 26:2
    70%

    2So Saul arose and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, accompanied by three thousand select men of Israel, to look for David in the wilderness of Ziph.

  • 1 Sam 15:7-8
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    7Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, which is next to Egypt.

    8He captured King Agag of the Amalekites alive, but he executed all Agag’s people with the sword.

  • 1 Sam 31:8
    70%

    8The next day, when the Philistines came to strip loot from the corpses, they discovered Saul and his three sons lying dead on Mount Gilboa.

  • 2 Sam 1:13
    70%

    13David said to the young man who told this to him,“Where are you from?” He replied,“I am an Amalekite, the son of a resident foreigner.”

  • 1 Sam 28:1
    70%

    1The Witch of Endor In those days the Philistines gathered their troops for war in order to fight Israel. Achish said to David,“You should fully understand that you and your men must go with me into the battle.”

  • 1 Sam 23:3
    69%

    3But David’s men said to him,“We are afraid while we are still here in Judah! What will it be like if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?”

  • 1 Sam 30:23
    69%

    23But David said,“No! You shouldn’t do this, my brothers. Look at what the LORD has given us! He has protected us and has delivered into our hands the raiding party that came against us.

  • 1 Sam 23:1
    69%

    1David Delivers the City of Keilah They told David,“The Philistines are fighting in Keilah and are looting the threshing floors.”

  • 1 Sam 30:31
    69%

    31and Hebron; and for those in whatever other places David and his men had traveled.

  • 1 Chr 14:12
    69%

    12The Philistines left their idols there, so David ordered that they be burned.

  • 2 Sam 5:21
    69%

    21The Philistines abandoned their idols there, and David and his men picked them up.

  • 1 Sam 23:24
    69%

    24So they left and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the rift valley to the south of Jeshimon.

  • 1 Sam 15:18
    69%

    18The LORD sent you on a campaign saying,‘Go and exterminate those sinful Amalekites! Fight against them until you have destroyed them.’

  • 1 Sam 15:15
    69%

    15Saul said,“They were brought from the Amalekites; the army spared the best of the flocks and cattle to sacrifice to the LORD our God. But everything else we slaughtered.”

  • 1 Sam 24:1
    69%

    1David Spares Saul’s Life(24:2) When Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, they told him,“Look, David is in the desert of En Gedi.”

  • 1 Sam 23:15
    68%

    15David realized that Saul had come out to seek his life; at that time David was in Horesh in the wilderness of Ziph.

  • 1 Chr 10:8
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    8The next day, when the Philistines came to strip loot from the corpses, they discovered Saul and his sons lying dead on Mount Gilboa.

  • 1 Sam 27:2
    68%

    2So David left and crossed over to King Achish son of Maoch of Gath accompanied by his six hundred men.

  • Exod 17:8
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    8Victory over the Amalekites Amalek came and attacked Israel in Rephidim.