OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 18

1 Samuel 30:18

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David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and David rescued his two wives.

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1 Samuel 30:18 in context

1 Samuel 30:15–21

15

David said to him, “Will you bring me down to this troop?”

He said, “Swear to me by God that you will not kill me and not deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this troop.”

16

When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great plunder that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

17

David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped from there, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled.

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David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and David rescued his two wives.

19

There was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither plunder, nor anything that they had taken. David brought them all back.

20

David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other livestock, and said, “This is David’s plunder.”

21

David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom also they had made to stay at the brook Besor; and they went out to meet David, and to meet the people who were with him. When David came near to the people, he greeted them.

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