1 Samuel 30:4

Then David and the people who were with him gave themselves up to weeping till they were able to go on weeping no longer.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

3And when David and his men came to the town, they saw that it had been burned down, and their wives and their sons and daughters had been made prisoners.

5And David's two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail, the wife of Nabal of Carmel, had been made prisoners.

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Cross References

Numbers 14:1Then all the people gave load cries of grief, and all that night they gave themselves up to weeping.

Judges 2:4Now on hearing these words which the angel of the Lord said to all the children of Israel, the people gave themselves up to loud crying and weeping.

1 Samuel 4:13And when he came, Eli was seated by the wayside watching: and in his heart was fear for the ark of God. And when the man came into the town and gave the news, there was a great outcry.

Ezra 10:1Now while Ezra was making his prayer and his statement of wrongdoing, weeping and falling down before the house of God, a very great number of men and women and children out of Israel came together round him: for the people were weeping bitterly.

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 30:2-7

Ziklag Burnt. ( b. c. 1055.) 1 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; 2 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. 3 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. 4 Then… Read the whole commentary →

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