1 Samuel 30:1-6
New English Translation
David Defeats the Amalekites
30 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.[a] 2 They took captive the women and all[b] 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.
3 When David and his men came to the city, they found it burned.[c] Their wives, sons, and daughters had been taken captive. 4 Then David and the men[d] who were with him wept loudly[e] until they could weep no more.[f] 5 David’s two wives had been taken captive—Ahinoam the Jezreelite and Abigail the Carmelite, Nabal’s widow. 6 David was very upset, for the men[g] were thinking of stoning him;[h] each man grieved bitterly[i] over his sons and daughters. But David drew strength from the Lord his God.
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- 1 Samuel 30:1 tn The Hebrew text adds “with fire.”
- 1 Samuel 30:2 tc The MT omits “and all,” while the LXX includes it. That the next verse refers to the children as well as the women argues in favor of it.
- 1 Samuel 30:3 tn Heb “and David and his men came to the city, and look, it was burned with fire.”
- 1 Samuel 30:4 tn Heb “people.”
- 1 Samuel 30:4 tn Heb “lifted up their voice and wept.”
- 1 Samuel 30:4 tn Heb “until there was no longer in them strength to weep.”
- 1 Samuel 30:6 tn Heb “people.”
- 1 Samuel 30:6 tn Heb “said to stone him.”
- 1 Samuel 30:6 tn Heb “for bitter was the soul of all the people, each one.”
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