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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 NLT</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="../">NLT</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 Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/1_samuel/30.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">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>Three days later, when David and his men arrived home at their town of Ziklag, they found that the Amalekites had made a raid into the Negev and Ziklag; they had crushed Ziklag and burned it to the ground. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>They had carried off the women and children and everyone else but without killing anyone.</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 saw the ruins and realized what had happened to their families, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>they wept until they could weep no more. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>David’s two wives, Ahinoam from Jezreel and Abigail, the widow of Nabal from Carmel, were among those captured. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>David was now in great danger because all his men were very bitter about losing their sons and daughters, and they began to talk of stoning him. But David found strength in the LORD 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 he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring me the ephod!” So Abiathar brought it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then David asked the LORD, “Should I chase after this band of raiders? Will I catch them?”</p><p class="reg">And the LORD told him, “Yes, go after them. You will surely recover everything that was taken from you!”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>So David and his 600 men set out, and they came to the brook Besor. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But 200 of the men were too exhausted to cross the brook, so David continued the pursuit with 400 men.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Along the way they found an Egyptian man in a field and brought him to David. They gave him some bread to eat and water to drink. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>They also gave him part of a fig cake and two clusters of raisins, for he hadn’t had anything to eat or drink for three days and nights. Before long his strength returned.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“To whom do you belong, and where do you come from?” David asked him.</p><p class="reg">“I am an Egyptian—the slave of an Amalekite,” he replied. “My master abandoned me three days ago because I was sick. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>We were on our way back from raiding the Kerethites in the Negev, the territory of Judah, and the land of Caleb, and we had just burned Ziklag.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“Will you lead me to this band of raiders?” David asked.</p><p class="reg">The young man replied, “If you take an oath in God’s name that you will not kill me or give me back to my master, then I will guide you to them.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>So he led David to them, and they found the Amalekites spread out across the fields, eating and drinking and dancing with joy because of the vast amount of plunder they had taken from the Philistines and the land of Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>David and his men rushed in among them and slaughtered them throughout that night and the entire next day until evening. None of the Amalekites escaped except 400 young men who fled on camels. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>David got back everything the Amalekites had taken, and he 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: small or great, son or daughter, nor anything else that had been taken. David brought everything back. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>He also recovered all the flocks and herds, and his men drove them ahead of the other livestock. “This plunder belongs to David!” they said.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Then David returned to the brook Besor and met up with the 200 men who had been left behind because they were too exhausted to go with him. They went out to meet David and his men, and David greeted them joyfully. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>But some evil troublemakers among David’s men said, “They didn’t go with us, so they can’t have any of the plunder we recovered. Give them their wives and children, and tell them to be gone.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But David said, “No, my brothers! Don’t be selfish with what the LORD has given us. He has kept us safe and helped us defeat the band of raiders that attacked us. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Who will listen when you talk like this? We share and share alike—those who go to battle and those who guard the equipment.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>From then on David made this a decree and regulation for Israel, and it is still followed today.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>When he arrived at Ziklag, David sent part of the plunder to the elders of Judah, who were his friends. “Here is a present for you, taken from the LORD’s enemies,” he said.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>The gifts were sent to the people of the following towns David had visited: Bethel, Ramoth-negev, Jattir, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Aroer, Siphmoth, Eshtemoa, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Racal,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> the towns of the Jerahmeelites, the towns of the Kenites, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Hormah, Bor-ashan, Athach, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/30-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Hebron, and all the other places David and his men had visited.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">30:29 </span><span class="ft">Greek version reads </span><span class="it">Carmel.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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