Archive THE BIBLE - Verse by Verse (1 Samuel Chapter 1 to 31)

[PaducahLuke]

1 Samuel 29:8 (NLT)

8 “What have I done to deserve this treatment?” David demanded. “What have you ever found in your servant, that I can’t go and fight the enemies of my lord the king?”

 

[PaducahLuke]

1 Samuel 29:9 (NLT)

9 But Achish insisted, “As far as I’m concerned, you’re as perfect as an angel of God. But the Philistine commanders are afraid to have you with them in the battle.

 

[Pastor Gary]

1 Samuel 29:10 (NLT) - 10 Now get up early in the morning, and leave with your men as soon as it gets light.”

 

[Pastor Gary]

1 Samuel 29:11 (NLT) - 11 So David and his men headed back into the land of the Philistines, while the Philistine army went on to Jezreel.

 

[Pastor Gary]

1 Samuel 30:1 (NLT) - 1 Three days later, when David and his men arrived home at their town of Ziklag, they found that the Amalekites had made a raid into the Negev and Ziklag; they had crushed Ziklag and burned it to the ground.

 

[PaducahLuke]

1 Samuel 30:2 (NLT)

2 They had carried off the women and children and everyone else but without killing anyone.

 

[PaducahLuke]

1 Samuel 30:3 (NLT)

3 When David and his men saw the ruins and realized what had happened to their families,

 

[PaducahLuke]

1 Samuel 30:4 (NLT)

4 they wept until they could weep no more.

 

[PaducahLuke]

1 Samuel 30:5 (NLT)

5 David’s two wives, Ahinoam from Jezreel and Abigail, the widow of Nabal from Carmel, were among those captured.

 

[Pastor Gary]

1 Samuel 30:6 (NLT)

6 David was now in great danger because all his men were very bitter about losing their sons and daughters, and they began to talk of stoning him. But David found strength in the LORD his God.

 

[Cosia]

1 Samuel 30:7 (NLT)
Then he said to Abiathar the priest "Bring me the ephod." So Aiathar brought it.

 

[Cosia]

1 Samuel 30:8 (NLT)
Then David asked the LORD "Should I chase after this band of raiders? Will I catch them?"
And the LORD told him, "Yes, go after them. You will surely recover everything that was taken from you."

 

[Cosia]

1 Samuel 30:9 (NLT)
So David and his 600 men set out and they came to the Brock Besor.

 

[Cosia]

1 Samuel 30:10 (NLT)
But 200 of the men were too exhausted to cross the brook, so David continued the pursuit with 400 men.

 

[PaducahLuke]

1 Samuel 30:11 (NLT)

11 Along the way they found an Egyptian man in a field and brought him to David. They gave him some bread to eat and water to drink.

 

[PaducahLuke]

1 Samuel 30:12 (NLT)

12 They also gave him part of a fig cake and two clusters of raisins, for he hadn’t had anything to eat or drink for three days and nights. Before long his strength returned.

 

[PaducahLuke]

1 Samuel 30:13 (NLT)

13 “To whom do you belong, and where do you come from?” David asked him.“I am an Egyptian—the slave of an Amalekite,” he replied. “My master abandoned me three days ago because I was sick.

 

[PaducahLuke]

1 Samuel 30:14 (NLT)

14 We were on our way back from raiding the Kerethites in the Negev, the territory of Judah, and the land of Caleb, and we had just burned Ziklag.”

 

[PaducahLuke]

1 Samuel 30:15 (NLT)

15 “Will you lead me to this band of raiders?” David asked.The young man replied, “If you take an oath in God’s name that you will not kill me or give me back to my master, then I will guide you to them.”

 

[PaducahLuke]

1 Samuel 30:16 (NLT)

16 So he led David to them, and they found the Amalekites spread out across the fields, eating and drinking and dancing with joy because of the vast amount of plunder they had taken from the Philistines and the land of Judah.