When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captive.
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When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captive.
So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.
And David and his men came to the city, and behold, it was burned with fire! And their wives and their sons and their daughters had been taken captive.
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When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captive.
When David and his men came to the city, they found it burned down and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.
When David and his men came to the city, they found it burned down and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.
So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.
And when David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captive.
And when David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.
So Dauid and his men came to the city, and beholde, it was burnt with fire, and their wiues, and their sonnes, and their daughters were taken prisoners.
So when David and his men came to the city, and found it burnt with fire, and that their wives and their sons, and their daughters were taken captives,
And David cometh in -- and his men -- unto the city, and lo, burnt with fire, and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters have been taken captive!
And David comes in—and his men—to the city, and behold, [it is] burned with fire, and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters have been taken captive.
When David and his men came to the city, it was burned, and their wives, their sons, and their daughters were taken captive.
And David and his men came to the city, and behold, it was burned with fire! And their wives and their sons and their daughters had been taken captive.
And David and his men came to the city, and behold, it was burnt with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters were taken captives.
When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, their sons, and their daughters were taken captive.
So David and his men came to the city, and behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.
When David and his men arrived back in town, they found it burned to the ground, and their wives and children captured.
And when David and his men came to the town, they saw that it had been burned down, and their wives and their sons and daughters had been made prisoners.
And when David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.
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נִשְׁבּֽוּ to capture H7617 occurs in 42 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 27 words from the Hebrew and 28 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
Topical passages linked to 1 Samuel 30:3 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וַיָּבֹ֨א דָוִ֤ד וַֽאֲנָשָׁיו֙ אֶל הָעִ֔יר וְהִנֵּ֥ה שְׂרוּפָ֖ה בָּאֵ֑שׁ וּנְשֵׁיהֶ֛ם וּבְנֵיהֶ֥ם וּבְנֹתֵיהֶ֖ם נִשְׁבּֽוּ
When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captive.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ἔρχομαι δαυίδ καί ὁ ἀνήρ αὐτός εἰς ὁ πόλις καί ἰδού ἐνπυρίζω ἐν πῦρ ὁ δέ γυνή αὐτός καί ὁ υἱός αὐτός καί ὁ θυγάτηρ αὐτός αἰχμαλωτεύω
And David and his men came into the city, and, behold, it was burnt with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters were carried captive.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
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וַאֲתָא דָוִד וְגַבְרוֹהִי לְקַרְתָּא וְהָא קַלְיָא בְּנוּרָא וּנְשֵׁיהוֹן וּבְנֵיהוֹן וּבְנָתֵיהוֹן אִשְׁתָּבִיאוּ:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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1 Samuel, in the Historical, opens this verse with 12 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shâbâh (“to capture”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Samuel 30:3 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.