◄ 2 Samuel 1:1 ►
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Good News Translation
After Saul's death David came back from his victory over the Amalekites and stayed in Ziklag for two days.

New Revised Standard Version
After the death of Saul, when David had returned from defeating the Amalekites, David remained two days in Ziklag.

Contemporary English Version
Saul was dead. Meanwhile, David had defeated the Amalekites and returned to Ziklag.

New American Bible
After the death of Saul, David returned from his victory over the Amalekites and stayed in Ziklag two days.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now it came to pass, after Saul was dead, that David returned from the slaughter of the Amalecites, and abode two days in Siceleg.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Now it came to pass, after Saul was dead, that David returned from the slaughter of the Amalecites, and abode two days in Siceleg.

when David

1 Samuel 30:17-26 And David slew them from the evening unto the evening of the next day, and there escaped not a man of them, but four hundred young men, who had gotten upon camels, and fled. . . .

Ziklag

1 Samuel 27:6 Then Achis gave him Siceleg that day: for which reason Siceleg belongeth to the kings of Juda unto this day.

Context
David Learns of Saul's Death
1Now it came to pass, after Saul was dead, that David returned from the slaughter of the Amalecites, and abode two days in Siceleg.2And on the third day, there appeared a man who came out of Saul's camp, with his garments rent, and dust strewed on his head: and when he came to David, he fell upon his face, and adored.…
Cross References
Genesis 14:7
And they returned, and came to the fountain of Misphat, the same is Cades: and they smote all the country of the Amalecites, and the Amorrhean that dwelt in Asasonthamar.

1 Samuel 30:1
Now when David and his men were come to Siceleg on the third day, the Amalecites had made an invasion on the south side upon Siceleg, and had smitten Siceleg, and burnt it with fire,

1 Samuel 30:17
And David slew them from the evening unto the evening of the next day, and there escaped not a man of them, but four hundred young men, who had gotten upon camels, and fled.

1 Samuel 31:6
So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men that same day together.

1 Samuel 31:13
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