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16 So he took him down, and there they were,[a] spread out over the surface of all the land, eating and drinking and dancing because of all of the abundant plunder which they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah. 17 Then David attacked them from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped except[b] four hundred young men who rode off on camels and fled. 18 So David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; David also rescued his two wives. 19 None of theirs was missing from the smallest to the greatest,[c] even sons and daughters, from the plunder up to everything they had taken for themselves; David brought back everything. 20 And David took all of the sheep,[d] and the cattle they drove along in front of that livestock, and they said, “This is David’s plunder.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 30:16 Literally “look”
  2. 1 Samuel 30:17 Literally “but if”
  3. 1 Samuel 30:19 Literally “from the small and up to the great”
  4. 1 Samuel 30:20 Hebrew “flock,” referring to either sheep or goats or both