Bible verse

1 Samuel 30:2

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.

1 Samuel 30:2 · BSB

1 Samuel 30:2 in context

The verses around it, from 1 Samuel 30.

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.

5 David’s two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel, had been taken captive.

6 And David was greatly distressed because the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of every man grieved for his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the LORD his God.

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1 Samuel 30:2 in other translations

KJV

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.

ASV

and had taken captive the women and all that were therein, both small and great: they slew not any, but carried them off, and went their way.

ERV

and had taken captive the women and all that were therein, both small and great: they slew not any, but carried them off, and went their way.

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