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When David and his men came to the city, they saw,[a] and it was burned with fire, and their wives, their sons, and their daughters had been taken captive. Then David and the people who were with him raised their voices and wept until there was not enough strength in them to weep. Two of David’s wives had been taken captive. Ahinoam from Jezreel[b] and Abigail, the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 30:3 Literally “and look”
  2. 1 Samuel 30:5 Literally “the Jezreelitess”

When David and his men reached Ziklag, they found it destroyed by fire and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.(A) So David and his men wept(B) aloud until they had no strength left to weep. David’s two wives(C) had been captured—Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail, the widow of Nabal of Carmel.

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