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1 Samuel 30:4
“Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.”
Verse in context — 1 Samuel 30
and had taken captive the women and all who were therein, both small and great. They didn't kill any, but carried them off, and went their way.
When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captive.
Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
David's two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.
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The rise of Israel’s monarchy with Samuel, Saul, and David.
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