1 Samuel 30:1

Easy To Read Version

On the third day, David and his men arrived at Ziklag. They saw that the Amalekites had attacked Ziklag. The Amalekites invaded the Negev area. They attacked Ziklag and burned the city.

Cross References

Genesis 24:62

Isaac had left Beer Lahai Roi and was now living in the Negev. [138]

2 Samuel 1:1

David went back to Ziklag after defeating the Amalekites. This was just after Saul had been killed. David had been there two days.

2 Samuel 1:2

Then, on the third day, a young soldier came to Ziklag. This man was from Saul’s camp. The man’s clothes were torn, and he had dirt on his head. [1] The man came to David and bowed with his face to the ground.

2 Samuel 1:8

Then Saul asked me who I was. I told him that I was an Amalekite.

2 Samuel 15:18

All of his officers passed by the king. And all of the Kerethites, all of the Pelethites, and the Gittites (600 men from Gath) passed by the king.

1 Chronicles 12:21

They helped David fight against bad men. Those bad men were going around the country and stealing things from people. All these men of Manasseh were brave soldiers. They became leaders in David’s army.

1 Chronicles 12:22

More and more men came every day to help David. So David had a large and powerful army.

Jeremiah 41:12

So Johanan and the army officers with him took their men and went to fight Ishmael son of Nethaniah. They caught Ishmael near the big pool of water that is at the town of Gibeon.

Joshua 11:6

Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid of that army. I will allow you to defeat them. By this time tomorrow, you will have killed them all. You will cut the legs of the horses and burn all their chariots.”

Joshua 15:31

Ziklag, Madmannah, Sansannah,

1 Samuel 15:7

Saul defeated the Amalekites. He fought them and chased them all the way from Havilah to Shur, at the border of Egypt.

1 Samuel 15:8

Agag was the king of the Amalekites. Saul captured Agag alive. Saul let Agag live, but he killed all the men in Agag’s army.

1 Samuel 27:6

That day Achish gave David the town of Ziklag. And Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah ever since.

1 Samuel 29:10

Early in the morning, you and your men should go back to the city I gave you. Don’t pay attention to the bad things the captains say about you. You are a good man. So leave as soon as the sun comes up.”

1 Samuel 29:11

So David and his men got up early in the morning and went back to the country of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

1 Samuel 29:4

But the Philistine captains were angry with Achish. They said, “Send David back! David must go back to the city you gave him. He can’t go with us into battle. {If he is here} we will have an enemy in our own camp. He would make his king happy by killing our men.

1 Samuel 30:14

We had attacked the Negev area where the Kerethites [216] live. We attacked the land of Judah, and in the Negev area where Caleb’s people live. We also burned Ziklag.”