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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>1 Samuel 30 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_samuel/30.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/1_samuel/30-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > 1 Samuel 30</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_samuel/29.htm" title="1 Samuel 29">◄</a> 1 Samuel 30 <a href="../1_samuel/31.htm" title="1 Samuel 31">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/1_samuel/30.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">David’s Wives Are Captured</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid against the Negeb and against Ziklag. They had overcome Ziklag and burned it with fire <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>and taken captive the women and all<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Septuagint; Hebrew lacks and all">a</a></sup></span> who were in it, both small and great. They killed no one, but carried them off and went their way. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And when David and his men came to the city, they found it burned with fire, and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Then David and the people who were with him raised their voices and wept until they had no more strength to weep. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>David’s two wives also had been taken captive, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because all the people were bitter in soul,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Compare 22:2">b</a></sup></span> each for his sons and daughters. But David strengthened himself in the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> his God.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, “Bring me the ephod.” So Abiathar brought the ephod to David. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And David inquired of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, “Shall I pursue after this band? Shall I overtake them?” He answered him, “Pursue, for you shall surely overtake and shall surely rescue.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>So David set out, and the six hundred men who were with him, and they came to the brook Besor, where those who were left behind stayed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But David pursued, he and four hundred men. Two hundred stayed behind, who were too exhausted to cross the brook Besor.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>They found an Egyptian in the open country and brought him to David. And they gave him bread and he ate. They gave him water to drink, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>and they gave him a piece of a cake of figs and two clusters of raisins. And when he had eaten, his spirit revived, for he had not eaten bread or drunk water for three days and three nights. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And David said to him, “To whom do you belong? And where are you from?” He said, “I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite, and my master left me behind because I fell sick three days ago. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>We had made a raid against the Negeb of the Cherethites and against that which belongs to Judah and against the Negeb of Caleb, and we burned Ziklag with fire.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And David said to him, “Will you take me down to this band?” And he said, “Swear to me by God that you will not kill me or deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will take you down to this band.”</p> <p class="heading">David Defeats the Amalekites</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And when he had taken him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the land, eating and drinking and dancing, because of all the great spoil they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day, and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men, who mounted camels and fled. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and David rescued his two wives. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Nothing was missing, whether small or great, sons or daughters, spoil or anything that had been taken. David brought back all. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>David also captured all the flocks and herds, and the people drove the livestock before him,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The meaning of the Hebrew clause is uncertain">c</a></sup></span> and said, “This is David’s spoil.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Then David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow David, and who had been left at the brook Besor. And they went out to meet David and to meet the people who were with him. And when David came near to the people he greeted them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Then all the wicked and worthless fellows among the men who had gone with David said, “Because they did not go with us, we will not give them any of the spoil that we have recovered, except that each man may lead away his wife and children, and depart.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But David said, “You shall not do so, my brothers, with what the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has given us. He has preserved us and given into our hand the band that came against us. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Who would listen to you in this matter? For as his share is who goes down into the battle, so shall his share be who stays by the baggage. They shall share alike.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And he made it a statute and a rule for Israel from that day forward to this day.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>When David came to Ziklag, he sent part of the spoil to his friends, the elders of Judah, saying, “Here is a present for you from the spoil of the enemies of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>It was for those in Bethel, in Ramoth of the Negeb, in Jattir, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>in Aroer, in Siphmoth, in Eshtemoa, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>in Racal, in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, in the cities of the Kenites, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>in Hormah, in Bor-ashan, in Athach, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>in Hebron, for all the places where David and his men had roamed.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> Septuagint; Hebrew lacks <i class="catch-word">and all</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> Compare 22:2<br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">20</span> The meaning of the Hebrew clause is uncertain<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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