KJV King James Version
And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives.
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1 Samuel 30:18
And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
So David recovered everything the Amalekites had taken, including his two wives.
WEB World English Bible
David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives.
ASV American Standard Version
And David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And David delivereth all that the Amalekites have taken; also his two wives hath David delivered.
Surrounding context — 1 Samuel 30
15 And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this company? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this company.
16 And when he had brought him down, behold, [they were] spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
17 And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.
18 And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives.
19 And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any [thing] that they had taken to them: David recovered all.
20 And David took all the flocks and the herds, [which] they drave before those [other] cattle, and said, This [is] David’s spoil.
21 And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that [were] with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted them.
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וַיַּצֵּ֣לH5337 · na.tsalto rescueדָּוִ֔דH1732 · da.vidDavidאֵ֛תH853 · et[Obj.]כָּל־H3605 · kolallאֲשֶׁ֥רH834 · a.sherwhichלָקְח֖וּH3947 · la.qachto take: takeעֲמָלֵ֑קH6002 · a.ma.leqAmalekוְאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]שְׁתֵּ֥יH8147 · she.na.yimtwoנָשָׁ֖יוH802 · ish.shahwomanהִצִּ֥ילH5337 · na.tsalto rescueדָּוִֽד׃H1732 · da.vidDavid
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