1 Samuel 30:1

World English Bible (2000)

It happened, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had made a raid on the South, and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag, and burned it with fire,

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  • 1 Sam 15:7 : 7 Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, that is before Egypt.
  • 1 Sam 29:11 : 11 So David rose up early, he and his men, to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. The Philistines went up to Jezreel.
  • 1 Sam 27:8-9 : 8 David and his men went up, and made a raid on the Geshurites, and the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those [nations] were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, as you go to Shur, even to the land of Egypt. 9 David struck the land, and saved neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the cattle, and the donkeys, and the camels, and the clothing; and he returned, and came to Achish. 10 Achish said, "Against whom have you made a raid today?" David said, "Against the South of Judah, against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites."
  • 1 Sam 29:4 : 4 But the princes of the Philistines were angry with him; and the princes of the Philistines said to him, "Make the man return, that he may go back to his place where you have appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us. For with what should this fellow reconcile himself to his lord? Should it not be with the heads of these men?
  • Gen 24:62 : 62 Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he lived in the land of the South.
  • Josh 11:6 : 6 Yahweh said to Joshua, "Don't be afraid because of them; for tomorrow at this time, I will deliver them up all slain before Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire."
  • 2 Sam 1:2 : 2 it happened on the third day, that behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul, with his clothes torn, and earth on his head: and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Sam 30:13-14
    2 verses
    84%

    13 David asked him, "To whom do you belong? Where are you from?" 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.

    14 We made a raid on the South of the Cherethites, and on that which belongs to Judah, and on the South of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire."

  • 2 Sam 1:1-2
    2 verses
    82%

    1 It happened after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag;

    2 it happened on the third day, that behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul, with his clothes torn, and earth on his head: and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance.

  • 1 Sam 30:2-4
    3 verses
    82%

    2 and had taken captive the women and all who were therein, both small and great. They didn't kill any, but carried them off, and went their way.

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

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

  • 1 Sam 30:16-21
    6 verses
    77%

    16 When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, 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 David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped from there, except four hundred young men, who rode on camels and fled.

    18 David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives.

    19 There was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor anything that they had taken to them. David brought back all.

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

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

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

    8 David and his men went up, and made a raid on the Geshurites, and the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those [nations] were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, as you go to Shur, even to the land of Egypt.

    9 David struck the land, and saved neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the cattle, and the donkeys, and the camels, and the clothing; and he returned, and came to Achish.

    10 Achish said, "Against whom have you made a raid today?" David said, "Against the South of Judah, against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites."

  • 1 Sam 30:26
    74%

    26 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 Yahweh."

  • 1 Chr 4:43
    74%

    43 They struck the remnant of the Amalekites who escaped, and have lived there to this day.

  • 1 Chr 12:1
    73%

    1 Now these are those who came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish; and they were among the mighty men, his helpers in war.

  • 1 Sam 14:48
    73%

    48 He did valiantly, and struck the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of those who despoiled them.

  • 1 Sam 23:5
    71%

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

  • Neh 11:28
    71%

    28 and in Ziklag, and in Meconah and in its towns,

  • Judg 6:3
    71%

    3 So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east; they came up against them;

  • 1 Sam 27:6
    71%

    6 Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: why Ziklag pertains to the kings of Judah to this day.

  • Gen 14:7
    71%

    7 They returned, and came to En Mishpat (the same is Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar.

  • 1 Chr 4:30
    71%

    30 and at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag,

  • 2 Sam 8:12
    70%

    12 of 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.

  • 1 Sam 15:5
    70%

    5 Saul came to the city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.

  • 1 Sam 15:2-3
    2 verses
    70%

    2 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, 'I have marked that which Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him in the way, when he came up out of Egypt.

    3 Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don't spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.'"

  • 1 Sam 26:2
    70%

    2 Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.

  • 1 Sam 15:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7 Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, that is before Egypt.

    8 He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

  • 1 Sam 31:8
    70%

    8 It happened on the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

  • 2 Sam 1:13
    70%

    13 David said to the young man who told him, "Where are you from?" He answered, "I am the son of a foreigner, an Amalekite."

  • 1 Sam 28:1
    70%

    1 It happened in those days, that the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. Achish said to David, "Know assuredly that you shall go out with me in the army, you and your men."

  • 1 Sam 23:3
    69%

    3 David's men said to him, "Behold, we are afraid here in Judah: how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?"

  • 1 Sam 30:23
    69%

    23 Then David said, "You shall not do so, my brothers, with that which Yahweh has given to us, who has preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.

  • 1 Sam 23:1
    69%

    1 David was told, "Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors."

  • 1 Sam 30:31
    69%

    31 and to those who were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men used to stay.

  • 1 Chr 14:12
    69%

    12 They left their gods there; and David gave commandment, and they were burned with fire.

  • 2 Sam 5:21
    69%

    21 They left their images there; and David and his men took them away.

  • 1 Sam 23:24
    69%

    24 They arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of the desert.

  • 1 Sam 15:18
    69%

    18 and Yahweh sent you on a journey, and said, 'Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.'

  • 1 Sam 15:15
    69%

    15 Saul said, "They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the cattle, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God. We have utterly destroyed the rest."

  • 1 Sam 24:1
    69%

    1 It happened, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, "Behold, David is in the wilderness of En Gedi."

  • 1 Sam 23:15
    68%

    15 David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the wood.

  • 1 Chr 10:8
    68%

    8 It happened on the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

  • 1 Sam 27:2
    68%

    2 David arose, and passed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

  • Exod 17:8
    68%

    8 Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.