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1 Samuel 30:20 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other livestock, and said, “This is David’s plunder.” "
1 Samuel 30:20
Verse in Context
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18 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.
22 Then all the wicked men and worthless fellows of those who went with David answered and said, “Because they didn’t go with us, we will not give them anything of the plunder that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that he may lead them away and depart.”
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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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