1 Samuel 30:18

18 And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away, and David rescued his two wives.

1 Samuel 30:18 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 30:18

And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away,
&c.] The wives and children of the Israelites, and their goods, excepting the provisions they had eaten:

and David rescued his two wives;
which is particularly observed, because a special concern of his.

1 Samuel 30:18 In-Context

16 And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and 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.

17 And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day; and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men who rode upon camels and fled.

18 And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away, and David rescued his two wives.

19 And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil nor any thing that they had taken from them; David recovered all.

20 And David took all the flocks and the herds which they drove before those other cattle, and said, "This is David's spoil."