Scripture · Old Testament

1 Samuel 27:9

1 Samuel 27:9 is verse 9 of 1 Samuel chapter 27, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Whenever David attacked a territory, he did not leave a man or woman alive, but he took the flocks and herds, the donkeys, camels, and clothing. Then he would return to Achish,

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King James Version

And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.

World English Bible

David struck the land, and saved no man or woman alive, and took away the sheep, the cattle, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothing. Then he returned, and came to Achish.

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1 Samuel 27:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible

7 And the time that David lived in Philistine territory amounted to a year and four months.

8 Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these people had inhabited the land extending to Shur and Egypt.)

9 Whenever David attacked a territory, he did not leave a man or woman alive, but he took the flocks and herds, the donkeys, camels, and clothing. Then he would return to Achish,

10 who would ask him, “What have you raided today?” And David would reply, “The Negev of Judah,” or “The Negev of Jerahmeel,” or “The Negev of the Kenites.”

11 David did not leave a man or woman alive to be brought to Gath, for he said, “Otherwise they will report us, saying, ‘This is what David did.’” And this was David’s custom the whole time he lived in Philistine territory.

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Hebrew words

וְהִכָּ֤הand he struck דָוִד֙David אֶת<obj.>הָאָ֔רֶץthe land וְלֹ֥אand not יְחַיֶּ֖הhe let live אִ֣ישׁa man וְאִשָּׁ֑הand a woman וְלָקַח֩and he took צֹ֨אןsheep וּבָקָ֜רand cattle וַחֲמֹרִ֤יםand donkeys וּגְמַלִּים֙and camels וּבְגָדִ֔יםand clothes וַיָּ֖שָׁבand he returned וַיָּבֹ֥אand he went אֶלto אָכִֽישׁAchish

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

1 Samuel 15:7
Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt.

Genesis 16:7
Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.

Genesis 25:18
Ishmael’s descendants settled from Havilah to Shur, which is near the border of Egypt as you go toward Asshur. And they lived in hostility toward all their brothers.

Exodus 15:22
Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the Desert of Shur. For three days they walked in the desert without finding water.

1 Samuel 15:3
Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”

Deuteronomy 25:17
Remember what the Amalekites did to you along your way from Egypt,

Deuteronomy 25:18
how they met you on your journey when you were tired and weary, and they attacked all your stragglers; they had no fear of God.

Deuteronomy 25:19
When the LORD your God gives you rest from the enemies around you in the land that He is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you are to blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!

Joshua 6:21
At the edge of the sword they devoted to destruction everything in the city—man and woman, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys.

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