1 Samuel 30:15-17
1599 Geneva Bible
15 And David said unto him, Canst thou bring me to this company? And he said, [a]Swear unto me by God, that thou will neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee to this company.
16 ¶ And when he had brought him thither, behold, they lay scattered abroad upon all the earth, [b]eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great prey 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 [c]of the next morrow, so that there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.
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- 1 Samuel 30:15 For oaths were in all ages had in most reverence, even among the heathen.
- 1 Samuel 30:16 The wicked in their pomp and pleasures consider not the judgment of God, which is then at hand to smite them.
- 1 Samuel 30:17 Some read, and unto the morrow of the two evenings: that is, three days.
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