1It happened, when David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had made a raid on the Negev, and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag, and burned it with fire,

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1 Samuel 15:7, 1 Samuel 29:11, 1 Samuel 15:7, 1 Samuel 29:11, Joshua 11:6

2and had taken captive the women and all who were therein, both small and great. They did not kill any, but carried them off, and went their way.

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1 Samuel 27:11, 1 Samuel 27:11, Psalms 76:10, 1 Samuel 30:19, Isaiah 27:8

3When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captive.

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Psalms 34:19, Psalms 34:19, 1 Peter 1:6, 1 Peter 1:7, Hebrews 12:6

4Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

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1 Samuel 11:4, 1 Samuel 11:4, Genesis 37:33, Genesis 37:35, Judges 2:4

5David's two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

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1 Samuel 25:42, 1 Samuel 25:43, 2 Samuel 2:2, 1 Samuel 25:42, 1 Samuel 25:43

6David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.

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Psalms 56:3, Psalms 56:4, Psalms 56:3, Psalms 56:4, Psalms 56:11

7David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, "Please bring me here the ephod." Abiathar brought the ephod to David.

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1 Kings 2:26, 1 Samuel 22:20, 1 Samuel 22:21, 1 Kings 2:26, 1 Samuel 22:20

8David inquired of the Lord, saying, "If I pursue after this troop, shall I overtake them?" He answered him, "Pursue; for you shall surely overtake them, and shall without fail recover all."

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1 Samuel 30:18, 1 Samuel 30:18, Proverbs 3:5, Proverbs 3:6, 1 Samuel 23:2

9So 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.

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1 Samuel 27:2, 1 Samuel 27:2

10But 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.

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1 Samuel 30:9, 1 Samuel 30:21, 1 Samuel 30:9, 1 Samuel 30:21, Judges 8:4

11They 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.

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Deuteronomy 23:7, Deuteronomy 23:7, Deuteronomy 15:7, Deuteronomy 15:11, Matthew 25:35

12They 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, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.

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Judges 15:19, Judges 15:19, 1 Samuel 14:27, 1 Samuel 14:27, Isaiah 40:29

13David 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 fell sick.

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James 2:13, Proverbs 12:10, James 2:13, Proverbs 12:10, Job 31:13

14We made a raid on the South of the Kerethites, and on that which belongs to Judah, and on the Negev of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire."

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1 Kings 1:44, Ezekiel 25:16, 2 Samuel 8:18, 1 Kings 1:38, Zephaniah 2:5

15David said to him, "Will you bring me down to this troop?" He said, "Swear to me by God that you will neither kill me, nor deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this troop."

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Ezekiel 17:19, Ezekiel 17:16, Deuteronomy 23:15, Deuteronomy 23:16, Joshua 9:19

16When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

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Revelation 11:10, Revelation 11:13, Revelation 11:10, Revelation 11:13, Luke 12:19

17David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped from there, except four hundred young men, who rode on camels and fled.

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1 Samuel 11:11, 1 Samuel 11:11, Psalms 18:42, Psalms 18:42, 1 Kings 20:29

18David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives.

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Genesis 14:16, Genesis 14:16

19There was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor anything that they had taken to them. David brought back all.

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Psalms 91:9, Psalms 91:10, 1 Samuel 30:8, Psalms 91:9, Psalms 91:10

20David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other livestock, and said, "This is David's spoil."

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1 Samuel 30:26, 1 Samuel 30:26, Romans 8:37, Numbers 31:9, Numbers 31:12

21David 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 forth to meet David, and to meet the people who were with him. When David came near to the people, he greeted them.

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Hebrews 13:1, 1 Samuel 30:10, Judges 8:15, Hebrews 13:1, 1 Samuel 30:10

22Then all the wicked men and base fellows, of those who went with David, answered and said, "Because they did not go with us, we will not give them anything of the spoil 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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Deuteronomy 13:13, Matthew 7:12, Deuteronomy 13:13, Matthew 7:12, 1 Kings 21:10

23Then David said, "You shall not do so, my brothers, with that which the Lord has given to us, who has preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.

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Deuteronomy 8:18, Psalms 44:2, Psalms 44:7, Deuteronomy 8:18, Psalms 44:2

24Who will listen to you in this matter? For as his share is who goes down to the battle, so shall his share be who tarries by the baggage: they shall share alike."

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Joshua 22:8, Joshua 22:8, Numbers 31:27, Numbers 31:27, Psalms 68:12

25It was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day.

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1 Samuel 16:13, 1 Samuel 16:13

26When David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil to the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, "Behold, a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of the Lord."

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1 Samuel 25:27, 1 Samuel 25:27, Psalms 68:18, 2 Kings 5:15, Proverbs 18:16

27He sent it to those who were in Bethel, and to those who were in Ramoth of the Negev, and to those who were in Jattir,

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Joshua 15:48, Joshua 15:48, Joshua 19:8, Joshua 19:8, Joshua 21:14

28and to those who were in Aroer, and to those who were in Siphmoth, and to those who were in Eshtemoa,

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Joshua 15:50, Joshua 13:16, Joshua 15:50, Joshua 13:16, Joshua 21:14

29and to those who were in Racal, and to those who were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to those who were in the cities of the Kenites,

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Judges 1:16, 1 Samuel 27:10, Judges 1:16, 1 Samuel 27:10, 1 Samuel 15:6

30and to those who were in Hormah, and to those who were in Borashan, and to those who were in Athach,

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Judges 1:17, Judges 1:17, Joshua 19:4, Joshua 19:4, Numbers 14:45

31and to those who were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men used to stay.

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2 Samuel 2:1, 2 Samuel 2:1, 2 Samuel 2:4, 2 Samuel 15:10, 2 Samuel 4:1