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1 Samuel 30:2
1 Samuel 30:2 is verse 2 of 1 Samuel chapter 30, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
They had taken captive the women and all who were there, both young and old. They had not killed anyone, but had carried them off as they went on their way.
LXX; Hebrew does not include and all.
King James Version
And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way.
World English Bible
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.
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1 Samuel 30:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible
1 On the third day David and his men arrived in Ziklag, and the Amalekites had raided the Negev, attacked Ziklag, and burned it down.
2 They had taken captive the women and all who were there, both young and old. They had not killed anyone, but had carried them off as they went on their way.
3 When David and his men came to the city, they found it burned down and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.
4 So David and the troops with him lifted up their voices and wept until they had no strength left to weep.
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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 30:19Nothing was missing, young or old, son or daughter, or any of the plunder the Amalekites had taken. David brought everything back.
1 Samuel 27:11David 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.
Job 38:11and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?
Psalms 76:10Even the wrath of man shall praise You; with the survivors of wrath You will clothe Yourself.
Isaiah 27:8By warfare and exile You contended with her and removed her with a fierce wind, as on the day the east wind blows.
Isaiah 27:9Therefore Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for, and the full fruit of the removal of his sin will be this: When he makes all the altar stones like crushed bits of chalk, no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.