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1 Samuel 30:20

1 Samuel 30:20 is verse 20 of 1 Samuel chapter 30, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

And he recovered all the flocks and herds, which his men drove ahead of the other livestock, calling out, “This is David’s plunder!”

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King James Version

And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is David’s spoil.

World English Bible

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

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1 Samuel 30:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible

18 So David recovered everything the Amalekites had taken, including his two wives.

19 Nothing was missing, young or old, son or daughter, or any of the plunder the Amalekites had taken. David brought everything back.

20 And he recovered all the flocks and herds, which his men drove ahead of the other livestock, calling out, “This is David’s plunder!”

21 When David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow him from the Brook of Besor, they came out to meet him and the troops with him. As David approached the men, he greeted them,

22 but all the wicked and worthless men among those who had gone with David said, “Because they did not go with us, we will not share with them the plunder we recovered, except for each man’s wife and children. They may take them and go.”

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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 30:26

When David arrived in Ziklag, he sent some of the plunder to his friends, the elders of Judah, saying, “Here is a gift for you from the plunder of the LORD’s enemies.”

Numbers 31:9

The Israelites captured the Midianite women and their children, and they plundered all their herds, flocks, and goods.

Numbers 31:10

Then they burned all the cities where the Midianites had lived, as well as all their encampments,

Numbers 31:11

and carried away all the plunder and spoils, both people and animals.

Numbers 31:12

They brought the captives, spoils, and plunder to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of Israel at the camp on the plains of Moab, by the Jordan across from Jericho.

2 Chronicles 20:25

Then Jehoshaphat and his people went to carry off the plunder, and they found on the bodies an abundance of goods and valuables —more than they could carry away. They were gathering the plunder for three days because there was so much.

Isaiah 53:12

Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

Romans 8:37

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

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