3When David and his men came to Ziklag, they found it destroyed by fire and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.


In Context

1 David and his men reached Ziklag on the third day. Now the Amalekites had raided the Negev and Ziklag. They had attacked Ziklag and burned it,

2 and had taken captive the women and all who were in it, both young and old. They killed none of them, but carried them off as they went on their way.

3 When David and his men came to Ziklag, they found it destroyed by fire and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.

4 So David and his men wept aloud until they had no strength left to weep.

5 David's two wives had been captured- Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail, the widow of Nabal of Carmel.

1st Samuel 30:3 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

30:3So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

30:3So when David and his men came to the city, and found it burnt with fire, and that their wives and their sons, and their daughters were taken captives,

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

30:3And when David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captive.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

30:3And David and his men came to the city, and behold, it was burnt with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters were taken captives.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

30:3And when David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

30:3So David and his men came to the city, and behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

30:3When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captive.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

30:3And David cometh in — and his men — unto the city, and lo, burnt with fire, and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters have been taken captive!

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

30:3So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.