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When David and his men came to the city, they found it burned.[a] Their wives, sons, and daughters had been taken captive. Then David and the men[b] who were with him wept loudly[c] until they could weep no more.[d] David’s two wives had been taken captive—Ahinoam the Jezreelite and Abigail the Carmelite, Nabal’s widow.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 30:3 tn Heb “and David and his men came to the city, and look, it was burned with fire.”
  2. 1 Samuel 30:4 tn Heb “people.”
  3. 1 Samuel 30:4 tn Heb “lifted up their voice and wept.”
  4. 1 Samuel 30:4 tn Heb “until there was no longer in them strength to weep.”

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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