World English Bible
1 Samuel 30:18
“David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives.”
Verse in context — 1 Samuel 30
When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped from there, except four hundred young men, who rode on camels and fled.
David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives.
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.
David took all the flocks and the herds, [which] they drove before those [other] livestock, and said, "This is David's spoil.
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