1 Samuel 30:18

18 David rescued everything the Amalekites had taken. And he 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 He led David to them. They were scattered all over the place, eating and drinking, gorging themselves on all the loot they had plundered from Philistia and Judah.

17 David pounced. He fought them from before sunrise until evening of the next day. None got away except for four hundred of the younger men who escaped by riding off on camels.

18 David rescued everything the Amalekites had taken. And he rescued his two wives!

19 Nothing and no one was missing - young or old, son or daughter, plunder or whatever. David recovered the whole lot.

20 He herded the sheep and cattle before them, and they all shouted, "David's plunder!"