1 Samuel 30:3

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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  • Ps 34:19 : 19 The godly face many dangers, but the LORD saves them from each one of them.
  • Heb 12:6 : 6 “For the Lord disciplines the one he loves and chastises every son he accepts.”
  • 1 Pet 1:6-7 : 6 This brings you great joy, although you may have to suffer for a short time in various trials. 7 Such trials show the proven character of your faith, which is much more valuable than gold– gold that is tested by fire, even though it is passing away– and will bring praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
  • Rev 3:9 : 9 Listen! I am going to make those people from the synagogue of Satan– who say they are Jews yet are not, but are lying– Look, I will make them come and bow down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you.

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  • 1 Sam 30:4-6
    3 verses
    83%

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

    5David’s two wives had been taken captive– Ahinoam the Jezreelite and Abigail the Carmelite, Nabal’s widow.

    6David was very upset, for the men were thinking of stoning him; each man grieved bitterly over his sons and daughters. But David drew strength from the LORD his God.

  • 1 Sam 30:1-2
    2 verses
    82%

    1David 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.

    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.

  • 1 Sam 30:16-23
    8 verses
    79%

    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.

    22But all the evil and worthless men among those who had gone with David said,“Since they didn’t go with us, we won’t give them any of the loot we retrieved! They may take only their wives and children. Let them lead them away and be gone!”

    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.

  • Gen 34:28-29
    2 verses
    75%

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

    29They captured as plunder all their wealth, all their little ones, and their wives, including everything in the houses.

  • 1 Sam 27:9
    74%

    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.

  • Num 31:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9The Israelites took the women of Midian captive along with their little ones, and took all their herds, all their flocks, and all their goods as plunder.

    10They burned all their towns where they lived and all their encampments.

  • 2 Chr 29:9
    74%

    9Look, our fathers died violently and our sons, daughters, and wives were carried off because of this.

  • 2 Sam 2:3
    74%

    3David also brought along the men who were with him, each with his family. They settled in the cities of Hebron.

  • 1 Chr 14:3
    73%

    3In Jerusalem David married more wives and fathered more sons and daughters.

  • 2 Sam 12:31
    72%

    31He removed the people who were in it and made them labor with saws, iron picks, and iron axes, putting them to work at the brick kiln. This was his policy with all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all the army returned to Jerusalem.

  • 1 Sam 30:14
    72%

    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 20:3
    72%

    3Then David went to his palace in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace and placed them under confinement. Though he provided for their needs, he did not sleep with them. They remained under restriction until the day they died, living out the rest of their lives as widows.

  • 1 Chr 14:12
    72%

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

  • 2 Chr 28:8
    72%

    8The Israelites seized from their brothers 200,000 wives, sons, and daughters. They also carried off a huge amount of plunder and took it back to Samaria.

  • 2 Sam 5:21
    72%

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

  • 2 Sam 12:29
    71%

    29So David assembled all the army and went to Rabbah and fought against it and captured it.

  • Ps 78:63
    71%

    63Fire consumed their young men, and their virgins remained unmarried.

  • 1 Sam 31:12
    71%

    12all their warriors set out and traveled throughout the night. They took Saul’s corpse and the corpses of his sons from the city wall of Beth Shan and went to Jabesh, where they burned them.

  • Judg 1:8
    71%

    8The men of Judah attacked Jerusalem and captured it. They put the sword to it and set the city on fire.

  • Jer 38:23
    71%

    23“All your wives and your children will be turned over to the Babylonians. You yourself will not escape from them but will be captured by the king of Babylon. This city will be burned down.”

  • 2 Chr 21:17
    70%

    17They attacked Judah and swept through it. They carried off everything they found in the royal palace, including his sons and wives. None of his sons was left, except for his youngest, Ahaziah.

  • Jer 18:21
    70%

    21So let their children die of starvation. Let them be cut down by the sword. Let their wives lose their husbands and children. Let the older men die of disease and the younger men die by the sword in battle.

  • Lam 5:11
    70%

    11They raped women in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah.

  • 1 Chr 20:3
    70%

    3He removed the city’s residents and made them labor with saws, iron picks, and axes. This was his policy with all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all the army returned to Jerusalem.

  • Deut 2:34
    70%

    34At that time we seized all his cities and put every one of them under divine judgment, including even the women and children; we left no survivors.

  • Isa 13:16
    70%

    16Their children will be smashed to pieces before their very eyes; their houses will be looted and their wives raped.

  • 2 Sam 1:11
    70%

    11David then grabbed his own clothes and tore them, as did all the men who were with him.

  • 2 Sam 5:13
    70%

    13David married more concubines and wives from Jerusalem after he arrived from Hebron. Even more sons and daughters were born to David.

  • 1 Sam 23:5
    70%

    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.

  • 1 Sam 30:31
    70%

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

  • 2 Sam 13:30
    69%

    30While they were still on their way, the following report reached David:“Absalom has killed all the king’s sons; not one of them is left!”

  • Jer 51:30
    69%

    30The soldiers of Babylonia will stop fighting. They will remain in their fortified cities. They will lose their strength to do battle. They will be as frightened as women. The houses in her cities will be set on fire. The gates of her cities will be broken down.

  • 2 Sam 15:14
    69%

    14So David said to all his servants who were with him in Jerusalem,“Come on! Let’s escape! Otherwise no one will be delivered from Absalom! Go immediately, or else he will quickly overtake us and bring disaster on us and kill the city’s residents with the sword.”

  • Deut 3:6
    69%

    6We put all of these under divine judgment just as we had done to King Sihon of Heshbon– every occupied city, including women and children.

  • Deut 21:10
    69%

    10Laws Concerning Wives When you go out to do battle with your enemies and the LORD your God allows you to prevail and you take prisoners,

  • 1 Sam 22:19
    69%

    19As for Nob, the city of the priests, he struck down with the sword men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep– all with the sword.

  • 1 Kgs 11:15
    69%

    15During David’s campaign against Edom, Joab, the commander of the army, while on a mission to bury the dead, killed every male in Edom.

  • Ezek 23:47
    69%

    47That army will pelt them with stones and slash them with their swords; they will kill their sons and daughters and burn their houses.