1 Samuel 30:18

And David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and David rescued his two wives.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives.

In Context

17And David smote them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. And there escaped not a man of them, except four hundred young men who rode upon camels and fled.

19And 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.

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Cross References

Numbers 31:49And they said to Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war that are under our charge, and there lacks not one man of us.

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 30:8-21

David Recovers the Spoil. ( b. c. 1055.) 7 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. 8 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. 9 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.… Read the whole commentary →

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