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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 NIV</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="../">NIV</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">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/1_samuel/30.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">David Destroys the Amalekites</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>David and his men reached Ziklag on the third day. Now the Amalekites had raided the Negev and Ziklag. They had attacked Ziklag and burned it, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>and had taken captive the women and everyone else in it, both young and old. They killed none of them, but carried them off as they went on their way.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>When David and his men reached Ziklag, they found it destroyed by 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>So David and his men wept aloud until they had no strength left to weep. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>David’s two wives had been captured—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>David was greatly distressed because the men were talking of stoning him; each one was bitter in spirit because of his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the <span class="name">Lord</span> his God.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelek, “Bring me the ephod.” Abiathar brought it to him, <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="name">Lord</span>, “Shall I pursue this raiding party? Will I overtake them?”</p><p class="reg">“Pursue them,” he answered. “You will certainly overtake them and succeed in the rescue.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>David and the six hundred men with him came to the Besor Valley, where some stayed behind. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Two hundred of them were too exhausted to cross the valley, but David and the other four hundred continued the pursuit.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>They found an Egyptian in a field and brought him to David. They gave him water to drink and food to eat— <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>part of a cake of pressed figs and two cakes of raisins. He ate and was revived, for he had not eaten any food or drunk any water for three days and three nights.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>David asked him, “Who do you belong to? Where do you come from?”</p><p class="reg">He said, “I am an Egyptian, the slave of an Amalekite. My master abandoned me when I became ill three days ago. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>We raided the Negev of the Kerethites, some territory belonging to Judah and the Negev of Caleb. And we burned Ziklag.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>David asked him, “Can you lead me down to this raiding party?”</p><p class="reg">He answered, “Swear to me before God that you will not kill me or hand me over to my master, and I will take you down to them.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>He led David down, and there they were, scattered over the countryside, eating, drinking and reveling because of the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>David fought them from dusk until the evening of the next day, and none of them got away, except four hundred young men who rode off on camels and fled. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>David recovered everything the Amalekites had taken, including his two wives. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Nothing was missing: young or old, boy or girl, plunder or anything else they had taken. David brought everything back. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>He took all the flocks and herds, and his men drove them ahead of the other livestock, saying, “This is David’s plunder.”</p> <p class="reg"><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 him and who were left behind at the Besor Valley. They came out to meet David and the men with him. As David and his men approached, he asked them how they were. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>But all the evil men and troublemakers among David’s followers said, “Because they did not go out with us, we will not share with them the plunder we recovered. However, each man may take his wife and children and go.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>David replied, “No, my brothers, you must not do that with what the <span class="name">Lord</span> has given us. He has protected us and delivered into our hands the raiding party that came against us. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Who will listen to what you say? The share of the man who stayed with the supplies is to be the same as that of him who went down to the battle. All will share alike.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>David made this a statute and ordinance for Israel from that day to this.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>When David reached Ziklag, he sent some of the plunder to the elders of Judah, who were his friends, saying, “Here is a gift for you from the plunder of the <span class="name">Lord</span>’s enemies.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>David sent it to those who were in Bethel, Ramoth Negev and Jattir; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>to those in Aroer, Siphmoth, Eshtemoa <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>and Rakal; to those in the towns of the Jerahmeelites and the Kenites; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>to those in Hormah, Bor Ashan, Athak <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>and Hebron; and to those in all the other places where he and his men had roamed.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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