20He took all the flocks and herds, and his men drove them ahead of the other livestock, saying, "This is David's plunder."


In Context

17 David fought them from dusk until the evening of the next day, and none of them got away, except four hundred young men who rode off on camels and fled.

18 David recovered everything the Amalekites had taken, including his two wives.

19 Nothing was missing: young or old, boy or girl, plunder or anything else they had taken. David brought everything back.

20 He took all the flocks and herds, and his men drove them ahead of the other livestock, saying, "This is David's plunder."

21 Then David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow him and who were left behind at the Besor Ravine. They came out to meet David and the people with him. As David and his men approached, he greeted them.

22 But all the evil men and troublemakers among David's followers said, "Because they did not go out with us, we will not share with them the plunder we recovered. However, each man may take his wife and children and go."

1st Samuel 30:20 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

30:20And David took all the flocks and the herds, [which] they drave before those [other] cattle, and said, This [is] David’s spoil.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

30:20And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

30:20And he took all the flocks and the herds, and made them go before him: and they said: This is the prey of David.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

30:20And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before the other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

30:20And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

30:20And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

30:20David took all the flocks and the herds, [which] they drove before those [other] livestock, and said, |This is David's spoil.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

30:20and David taketh the whole of the flock, and of the herd, they have led on before these cattle, and they say, 'This is David's spoil.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

30:20And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.