1 Samuel 30:2

They had captured the women and everyone else there, young and old. They hadn't killed anyone, but they took everyone with them as they left.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

1Three days later David and his men arrived back in Ziklag. Some Amalekites had raided the Negev and Ziklag. They had attacked Ziklag and burned it down.

3When David and his men arrived back in town, they found it burned to the ground, and their wives and children captured.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 27:11David didn't leave anybody alive that could come to Gath because he thought, “They might tell on us and say, ‘David did this.’” This is what he did all the time he lived in the country of the Philistines.

Job 38:11I said, ‘You may come here, but no farther. Here is where your proud waves stop.’

Isaiah 27:8You dealt with them by sending them into exile, by banishing them. He drove them away with his powerful force, like when the east wind blows.

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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