KJV King James Version
And David took all the flocks and the herds, [which] they drave before those [other] cattle, and said, This [is] David’s spoil.
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1 Samuel 30:20
And David took all the flocks and the herds, [which] they drave before those [other] cattle, and said, This [is] David’s spoil.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
And he took all the flocks and herds, which his men drove ahead of the other livestock, calling out, “This is David’s plunder!”
WEB World English Bible
David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other livestock, and said, “This is David’s spoil.”
ASV American Standard Version
And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other cattle, and said, This is David’s spoil.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and 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.’
Surrounding context — 1 Samuel 30
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.
22 Then answered all the wicked men and [men] of Belial, of those that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them [ought] of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead [them] away, and depart.
23 Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the LORD hath given us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the company that came against us into our hand.
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וַיִּקַּ֣חH3947 · la.qachto take: takeדָּוִ֔דH1732 · da.vidDavidאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]כָּל־H3605 · kolallהַצֹּ֖אןH6629 · tsonflockוְהַבָּקָ֑רH1241 · ba.qarcattleנָהֲג֗וּH5090 · na.hagto leadלִפְנֵי֙H6440 · pa.nehface: beforeהַמִּקְנֶ֣הH4735 · miq.nehlivestockהַה֔וּאH1931 · huhe/she/itוַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּH559 · a.marto sayזֶ֖הH2088 · zehthisשְׁלַ֥לH7998 · sha.lalspoilדָּוִֽד׃H1732 · da.vidDavid
Cross-references
1 Samuel 30:26And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the elders of Judah, [even] to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of the LORD;Romans 8:37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.Numbers 31:9-12And the children of Israel took [all] the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.2 Chronicles 20:25And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much.Isaiah 53:12Therefore will I divide him [a portion] with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
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