1 Samuel 30:20
What does 1 Samuel 30:20 mean?
A plain-English look at 1 Samuel 30:20 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other cattle, and said, This is David’s spoil.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is David’s spoil.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other cattle, and said, This is David’s spoil.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And they took all the flocks and herds, and driving them in front of him, said, These are David's.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862and David taketh the whole of the flock, and of the herd, they have led on before these cattle, and they say, `This <FI>is<Fi> David's spoil.'
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And he took all the flocks and the herds, and made them go before him: and they said: This is the prey of David.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And David took all the flocks and the herds, [which] they drove before the other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.
Context
v.19And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor anything that they had taken to them: David brought back all.
v.20This passage
v.21And David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom also they had made 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.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 53:12
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors: yet he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
- Romans 8:37
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
- 2 Chronicles 20:25
And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches and dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in taking the spoil, it was so much.
- Numbers 31:9
And the children of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey.
- 1 Samuel 30:26
And 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 Jehovah:
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