1 Samuel 30:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²And 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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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 27:11
And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring tidings to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on us, saying, So did David, and so will be his manner all the while he dwelleth in the country of the Philistines.
Job 38:11
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
1 Samuel 30:19
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.
Psalms 76:10
Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
Isaiah 27:8-9
In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind. …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

Here we have, I. The descent which the Amalekites made upon Ziklag in David’s absence, and the desolations they made there. They surprised the city when it was left unguarded, plundered it, burnt it, and carried all the women and children captives, 1 Sam. 30:1, 2. They intended, by this to revenge the like havoc that David had lately made of them and their country, 1 Sam. 27:8. He that had made so…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2. they slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away--Their conduct seems to stand in favorable contrast to that of David (1Sa 27:11). But their apparent clemency did not arise from humane considerations. It is traceable to the ancient war usages of the East, where the men of war, on the capture of a city, were unsparingly put to death, but there were no warriors in Ziklag at the tim…