1 Samuel 27:8

27:8 Then David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (They had been living in that land for a long time, from the approach to Shur as far as the land of Egypt.)

1 Samuel 30:1

David Defeats the Amalekites

30:1 On the third day David and his men came to Ziklag. Now the Amalekites had raided the Negev and Ziklag. They attacked Ziklag and burned it.

Joshua 10:39

10:39 They captured it, its king, and all its surrounding cities and put the sword to them. They annihilated everyone who lived there; they left no survivors. They did to Debir and its king what they had done to Libnah and its king and to Hebron.

Joshua 11:12

11:12 Joshua captured all these royal cities and all their kings and annihilated them with the sword, as Moses the Lord’s servant had commanded.


tn Heb “from where you come.”

tn The Hebrew text adds “with fire.”

tn Heb “He”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

tn Heb “He”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

tn Heb “as he did to Hebron, so he did to Debir and its king, and as he did to Libnah and its king.” The clauses have been rearranged in the translation for stylistic reasons.

tn Heb “and he struck them down with the edge of the sword, he annihilated them.”