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Good News Translation

1 Samuel 30:2

and captured all the women; they had not killed anyone, but had taken everyone with them when they left.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Abigail;   Amalekites;   Captive;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Amalekites, the;   Philistines, the;   Sieges;   Woman;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Amalekites;   David;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Amalekites;   Joash;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Abigail;   Ahinoam;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Esdraelon;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Amalek, Amalekites ;   Ziklag ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Am'alekites,;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - David;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ziklag;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They also had kidnapped the women and everyone in it from youngest to oldest. They had killed no one but had carried them off as they went on their way.
Hebrew Names Version
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.
King James Version
And 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.
Lexham English Bible
They took captive the women who were in it, from the youngest to the oldest. They did not kill anyone, but carried them off and went on their way.
English Standard Version
and taken captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great. They killed no one, but carried them off and went their way.
New Century Version
They captured the women and everyone, young and old, but they had not killed anyone. They had only taken them away.
New English Translation
They took captive the women who were in it, from the youngest to the oldest, but they did not kill anyone. They simply carried them off and went on their way.
Amplified Bible
and they had taken captive the women [and all] who were there, both small and great. They killed no one, but carried them off [to be used as slaves] and went on their way.
New American Standard Bible
and they took captive the women and all who were in it, from the small to the great, without killing anyone, and drove them off and went their way.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And had taken the women that were therein, prisoners, both small and great, and slewe not a man, but caryed them away, & went their wayes.
Legacy Standard Bible
and they took captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great—they did not put anyone to death—and carried them off and went their way.
Contemporary English Version
and had taken away the women and children.
Complete Jewish Bible
and they had taken captive the women and everyone there, great and small. They hadn't killed anyone but had carried them off as they went on their way.
Darby Translation
and had taken the women captives that were in it; both great and small: they had put none to death, but had carried them off, and went on their way.
Easy-to-Read Version
They took all the women in Ziklag, both young and old, as prisoners. They didn't kill anyone; they only took them as prisoners.
George Lamsa Translation
And had taken captive all the people who were in them, both the small and the great; and they put to death the men of war; and they took the spoil and went on their way.
Literal Translation
And they captured the women in it, from the small even to the great; they did not kill anyone, but they led them away, and went on their way.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and had caried a waye the weme out of it, both small & greate. Neuertheles they had slayne no man, but dryuen the thence, and were goynge on their waye.
American Standard Version
and had taken captive the women and all that were therein, both small and great: they slew not any, but carried them off, and went their way.
Bible in Basic English
And had made the women and all who were there, small and great, prisoners: they had not put any of them to death, but had taken them all away.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And had taken the women that were therein prisoners, both small and great: but slue not a man, saue carryed them away, and went their wayes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and had taken captive the women and all that were therein, both small and great; they slew not any, but carried them off, and went their way.
King James Version (1611)
And had taken the women captiues, that were therein; they slewe not any either great or smal, but caried them away, and went on their way.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And as to the women and all things that were in it, great and small, they slew neither man nor woman, but carried them captives, and went on their way.
English Revised Version
and had taken captive the women [and all] that were therein, both small and great: they slew not any, but carried them off, and went their way.
Berean Standard Bible
They had taken captive the women and all who were there, both young and old. They had not killed anyone, but had carried them off as they went on their way.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei ledden the wymmen prisoneris fro thennus, fro the leeste `til to the grete; and thei hadden not slayn ony, but thei ledden with hem, and yeden in her weie.
Young's Literal Translation
and they take captive the women who [are] in it; from small unto great they have not put any one to death, and they lead away, and go on their way.
Update Bible Version
and had taken captive the women that were therein, both small and great: they did not slay any, but carried them off, and went their way.
Webster's Bible Translation
And had taken the women captives that [were] in it, they slew not any, either great or small, but carried [them] away, and went on their way.
World English Bible
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.
New King James Version
and had taken captive the women and those who were there, from small to great; they did not kill anyone, but carried them away and went their way.
New Living Translation
They had carried off the women and children and everyone else but without killing anyone.
New Life Bible
They took the women and all who were in it, without killing anyone. They carried them out and went on their way.
New Revised Standard
and taken captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great; they killed none of them, but carried them off, and went their way.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and had taken captive the women and all who were therein, from small even unto great, they had not put one to death, - but had driven them forth, and gone their way.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And had taken the women captives that were in it, both little and great: and they had not killed any person, but had carried them with them, and went on their way.
Revised Standard Version
and taken captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great; they killed no one, but carried them off, and went their way.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and they took captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great, without killing anyone, and carried them off and went their way.

Contextual Overview

1 Two days later David and his men arrived back at Ziklag. The Amalekites had raided southern Judah and attacked Ziklag. They had burned down the town 2 and captured all the women; they had not killed anyone, but had taken everyone with them when they left. 3 When David and his men arrived, they found that the town had been burned down and that their wives, sons, and daughters had been carried away. 4 David and his men started crying and did not stop until they were completely exhausted. 5 Even David's two wives, Ahinoam and Abigail, had been taken away. 6 David was now in great trouble, because his men were all very bitter about losing their children, and they were threatening to stone him; but the Lord his God gave him courage.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

slew not: 1 Samuel 30:19, 1 Samuel 27:11, Job 38:11, Psalms 76:10, Isaiah 27:8, Isaiah 27:9

Reciprocal: Genesis 31:26 - carried 1 Samuel 29:10 - General 1 Kings 22:31 - small nor great 2 Kings 23:2 - both small and great

Cross-References

Genesis 16:2
and so she said to Abram, "The Lord has kept me from having children. Why don't you sleep with my slave? Perhaps she can have a child for me." Abram agreed with what Sarai said.
Genesis 25:21
Because Rebecca had no children, Isaac prayed to the Lord for her. The Lord answered his prayer, and Rebecca became pregnant.
Genesis 29:31
When the Lord saw that Leah was loved less than Rachel, he made it possible for her to have children, but Rachel remained childless.
Genesis 30:5
Bilhah became pregnant and bore Jacob a son.
Genesis 30:6
Rachel said, "God has judged in my favor. He has heard my prayer and has given me a son"; so she named him Dan.
Genesis 30:13
and Leah said, "How happy I am! Now women will call me happy"; so she named him Asher.
Genesis 30:14
During the wheat harvest Reuben went into the fields and found mandrakes, which he brought to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."
Genesis 31:36
Then Jacob lost his temper. "What crime have I committed?" he asked angrily. "What law have I broken that gives you the right to hunt me down?
Genesis 50:19
But Joseph said to them, "Don't be afraid; I can't put myself in the place of God.
Exodus 32:19
When Moses came close enough to the camp to see the bull-calf and to see the people dancing, he became furious. There at the foot of the mountain, he threw down the tablets he was carrying and broke them.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And had taken the women captives, that [were] therein,.... There being no other to take, the men were gone with David:

they slew not any, either great or small; that is, of the women, whether married or unmarried, old, or maidens, or children; which was very much, since David destroyed all that came within his reach, men and women, when he invaded them, 1 Samuel 27:9; but perhaps this was not owing to their humanity, but to their covetousness, designing to make an advantage of them by selling them for slaves; no doubt they were restrained by the providence of God:

but carried [them] away, and went on their way; homewards with their captives.


 
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