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Wednesday, December 31st, 2025
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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

撒母耳记上 30:3

大衛和跟隨他的人到了那城,看見城已經被火燒毀,他們的妻子、兒女都被擄走了,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Abigail;   Amalekites;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ziklag;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Amalekites;   David;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ittai;   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;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ziklag;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
大 卫 和 跟 随 他 的 人 到 了 那 城 , 不 料 , 城 已 烧 毁 , 他 们 的 妻 子 儿 女 都 被 掳 去 了 。

Contextual Overview

1 On the third day, when David and his men arrived at Ziklag, he found that the Amalekites had raided southern Judah and Ziklag, attacking Ziklag and burning it. 2 They captured the women and everyone, young and old, but they had not killed anyone. They had only taken them away. 3 When David and his men came to Ziklag, they found the town had been burned and their wives, sons, and daughters had been taken as prisoners. 4 Then David and his army cried loudly until they were too weak to cry anymore. 5 David's two wives had also been taken—Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal from Carmel. 6 The men in the army were threatening to kill David with stones, which greatly upset David. Each man was sad and angry because his sons and daughters had been captured, but David found strength in the Lord his God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

burned: Psalms 34:19, Hebrews 12:6, 1 Peter 1:6, 1 Peter 1:7, Revelation 3:9

Reciprocal: Job 5:24 - thou shalt know Psalms 119:61 - The bands Lamentations 3:51 - eye

Cross-References

Genesis 30:2
Jacob became angry with her and said, "Can I do what only God can do? He is the one who has kept you from having children."
Genesis 30:3
Then Rachel said, "Here is my slave girl Bilhah. Have sexual relations with her so she can give birth to a child for me. Then I can have my own family through her."
Genesis 30:9
Leah saw that she had stopped having children, so she gave her slave girl Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.
Genesis 50:23
During Joseph's life Ephraim had children and grandchildren, and Joseph's son Manasseh had a son named Makir. Joseph accepted Makir's children as his own.
Ruth 4:11
So all the people and elders who were at the city gate said, "We are witnesses. May the Lord make this woman, who is coming into your home, like Rachel and Leah, who had many children and built up the people of Israel. May you become powerful in the district of Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem.
Job 3:12
Why did my mother's knees receive me, and my mother's breasts feed me?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So David and his men came to the city,.... Or however to the place where it had stood, and where it now lay in ruins:

and, behold, [it was] burnt with fire; the whole city was laid in ashes:

and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives; as it appeared afterwards; for upon their first coming they knew not but they were all destroyed; and which they might reasonably suppose from their former treatment of them, unless there were any left upon the spot which could inform them how things were, which does not appear, and which must make their distress the greater.


 
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