Par`oh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Kena`anim who lived in the city, and given it for a portion to his daughter, Shlomo's wife.
Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
The children of Yisra'el took captive the women of Midyan and their little ones; and all their livestock, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey.
They burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein; only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.
Therefore in one day her plagues will come: death, mourning, and famine; and she will be utterly burned with fire; for the Lord God who has judged her is strong.
It happened, when David and his men were come to Tziklag on the third day, that the `Amaleki had made a raid on the South, and on Tziklag, and had struck Tziklag, and burned it with fire,