Bible Cross References
against the band
1 Samuel 30:1-17
1
And it came to pass when David and his men had entered Ziklag on the third day, that Amalek had made an incursion upon the south, and upon Ziklag, and attacked Ziklag, and burned it with fire.
2
And as to the women and all things that were in it, great and small, they killed neither man nor woman, but carried them away captive, and went on their way.
3
And David and his men came into the city, and behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters were carried away captive.
4
And David and his men lifted up their voice, and wept till there was no longer any power within them to weep.
5
And both the wives of David were carried captive, Ahinoam, the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
6
And David was greatly distressed, because the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, each for his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.
7
And David said to Abiathar the priest the son of Ahimelech, Bring the ephod here to me.
8
And David inquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? Shall I overtake them? And He said to him, Pursue, for you shall surely overtake them, and you shall surely rescue the [captives].
9
So David went, he and the six hundred men with him, and they came as far as the brook Besor, and the superfluous ones stopped.
10
And he pursued them with four hundred men; and two hundred men remained behind, who tarried on the other side of the brook Besor.
11
And they found an Egyptian in the field, and they took him, and brought him to David. And they gave him bread and he ate, and they caused him to drink water.
12
And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and he ate, and his spirit was restored in him; for he had not eaten bread, and had not drunk water three days and three nights.
13
And David said to him, to whom do you [belong]? And where are you from? And the young man the Egyptian said, I am the servant of an Amalekite; and my master left me, because I was taken ill three days ago.
14
And we made an incursion on the south of the Cherethites, and on the parts of Judea, and on the south of Caleb, and we burned Ziklag with fire.
15
And David said to him, Will you bring me down to this troop? And he said, Swear now to me by God, that you will not kill me, and that you will not deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down upon this troop.
16
So he brought him down there, and behold, they were scattered abroad upon the surface of the whole land, eating and drinking, and feasting by reason of all the great spoils which they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
17
And David came upon them, and attacked them from the morning till the evening, and on the next day; and not one of them escaped, except four hundred young men, who were mounted on camels, and fled.
mighty men
1 Chronicles 12:20
When David was going to Ziklag, those from Manasseh who defected to him were Adnah, Jozabath, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai.
1 Chronicles 5:24
And these were the heads of the houses of their families: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valor, men of renown, heads of the houses of their families.
1 Chronicles 11:10
And these [are] the chiefs of the mighty men, whom David had, who strengthened [themselves] with him in his kingdom, with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the Lord concerning Israel.
1 Chronicles 11:21
He was more famous than the two [others] among the three, and he was chief [ove]r them; yet he reached not to the [first] three.
1 Chronicles 11:22
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was the son of a valiant man; many [were] his acts for Kabzeel; he struck two lion-like men of Moab, and he went down and killed a lion in a pit on a snowy day.