And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire; 1Sa 15:71Sa 29:11Jos 11:61Sa 27:8-101Sa 29:42Sa 1:2Gen 24:62 And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way. 1Sa 27:111Sa 30:19Isa 27:8-9Job 38:11Psa 76:10
¶ 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. Psa 34:191Pe 1:6-7Heb 12:6Rev 3:9 Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep. 1Sa 11:41Sa 4:13Gen 37:33-35Jdg 2:4Jdg 21:2Num 14:1Num 14:39Ezr 10:1 And David’s two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. 1Sa 25:42-432Sa 2:21Sa 1:21Sa 27:32Sa 3:2-3 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake 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 Psa 56:3-4Psa 56:11Psa 62:5Psa 27:1-3Psa 18:6Psa 25:17Psa 40:1-22Co 1:8-10
And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech’s son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David. 1Ki 2:261Sa 22:20-211Sa 23:2-9Mrk 2:26 And David enquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all. 1Sa 30:181Sa 23:2Pro 3:5-62Sa 5:192Sa 5:23Psa 91:151Sa 23:4Jdg 20:23 So 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. 1Sa 27:2 But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred abode behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor. 1Sa 30:211Sa 30:91Sa 14:201Sa 14:31Jdg 8:4-5
¶ And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water; Deu 23:7Rom 12:20-21Deu 15:7-11Luk 10:36-37Mat 25:35Pro 25:21 And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights. Jdg 15:191Sa 14:271Sa 30:13Est 4:16Isa 40:29-31Jon 1:17Mat 27:63 And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick. Jas 2:13Pro 12:10Job 31:13-15 We made an invasion upon the south of the Cherethites, and upon the coast which belongeth to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire. 1Ki 1:381Ki 1:442Sa 8:18Ezk 25:16Zep 2:51Sa 30:11Sa 30:16Jos 14:13 And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this company? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this company. 1Sa 29:6Deu 23:15-16Ezk 17:13Ezk 17:16Ezk 17:19Jos 2:12Jos 9:15Jos 9:19-20
¶ 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. Rev 11:10-131Sa 30:141Th 5:32Sa 13:28Dan 5:1-4Jdg 16:23-30Job 20:5Luk 12:19-20 And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled. 2 1Sa 11:11Psa 18:421Ki 20:29-301Sa 15:3Jdg 4:16 And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives. Gen 14:16 And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any thing that they had taken to them: David recovered all. 1Sa 30:8Psa 91:9-10Job 1:10Mat 6:33Psa 34:9-10Gen 14:14-16Num 31:49 And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is David’s spoil. 1Sa 30:262Ch 20:25Isa 53:12Num 31:9-12Rom 8:37
¶ And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted them. 3 1Sa 30:10Heb 13:1Jdg 8:151Pe 3:8 Then answered all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them ought of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away, and depart. 4 Deu 13:13Mat 7:121Ki 21:101Ki 21:131Sa 22:21Sa 25:171Sa 25:25Jdg 19:22 Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the LORD hath given us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the company that came against us into our hand. Deu 8:18Psa 121:7-8Psa 44:2-71Sa 2:7Act 22:1Act 7:2Deu 8:10Gen 19:7 For who will hearken unto you in this matter? but as his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike. Jos 22:8Num 31:27Psa 68:121Sa 25:13 And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day. 5 1Sa 16:13
¶ And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of the LORD; 6 1Sa 25:271Ch 12:1-152Co 9:52Ki 5:15Gen 33:11Isa 32:8Pro 18:16-24Psa 35:27 To them which were in Beth-el, and to them which were in south Ramoth, and to them which were in Jattir, Jos 15:48Jos 19:8Gen 28:19Jdg 1:22-23Jos 21:141Ki 12:29Jos 16:2Jos 7:2 And to them which were in Aroer, and to them which were in Siphmoth, and to them which were in Eshtemoa, Jos 13:16Jos 15:50Jos 21:14 And to them which were in Rachal, and to them which were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to them which were in the cities of the Kenites, 1Sa 27:10Jdg 1:161Sa 15:61Sa 23:19 And to them which were in Hormah, and to them which were in Chor-ashan, and to them which were in Athach, Jdg 1:17Jos 19:4Jos 15:42Num 14:45 And to them which were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt. 2Sa 2:12Sa 15:102Sa 2:42Sa 4:1Jos 14:13-15