and had taken away the women and children.
That's why David killed everyone in the towns he attacked. He thought, “If I let any of them live, they might come to Gath and tell what I've really been doing.” David made these raids all the time he was in Philistia.
Even the most angry people will praise you when you are furious.
and said, “Your powerful waves stop here! They can go no farther.”
No one was missing—young or old, sons or daughters. David brought back everything that had been stolen,
When David and his men came to Ziklag, they saw the burned-out ruins and learned that their families had been taken captive.
