A moment in scripture
1 Samuel 30:2
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And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way.
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The surrounding passage
- 1 Samuel 30:1
And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;
- 1 Samuel 30:3
So 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.
- 1 Samuel 30:4
Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.