📖WEB · 1 Samuel 30:3
What does 1 Samuel 30:3 mean?
"When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, their sons, and their daughters were taken captive."
— 1 Samuel 30:3 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
When David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid on the South, and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag, and burned it with fire,
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.
When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, their sons, and their daughters were taken captive.
Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept until they had no more power to weep.
David’s two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.
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