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1 Samuel 30:11 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" They found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he ate; and they gave him water to drink. "
1 Samuel 30:11
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9 So David went, he and the six hundred men who were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those who were left behind stayed.
10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they couldn’t go over the brook Besor.
11 They found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he ate; and they gave him water to drink.
12 They gave him a piece of a cake of figs and two clusters of raisins. When he had eaten, his spirit came again to him; for he had eaten no bread, and drank no water for three days and three nights.
13 David asked him, “To whom do you belong? Where are you from?” He said, “I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I got sick.
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1 Samuel 30:1
"When David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid on the South and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag and burned it with fire,"
1 Samuel 30:2
"and had taken captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great. They didn’t kill any, but carried them off and went their way."
1 Samuel 30:3
"When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, their sons, and their daughters were taken captive."
1 Samuel 30:4
"Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept until they had no more power to weep."
1 Samuel 30:5
"David’s two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite."
1 Samuel 30:6
"David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in the LORD his God."
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