1 Samuel 30:3
Context30:3 When David and his men came to the city, they found it burned. 1 Their wives, sons, and daughters had been taken captive.
1 Samuel 30:14
Context30:14 We conducted a raid on the Negev of the Kerethites, on the area of Judah, and on the Negev of Caleb. We burned Ziklag.” 2
1 Samuel 30:1
Context30:1 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. 3
1 Samuel 31:12
Context31:12 all their warriors set out and traveled throughout the night. They took Saul’s corpse and the corpses of his sons from the city wall of Beth Shan and went 4 to Jabesh, where they burned them.


[30:3] 1 tn Heb “and David and his men came to the city, and look, it was burned with fire.”
[30:14] 2 tn The Hebrew text adds “with fire.”
[30:1] 3 tn The Hebrew text adds “with fire.”
[31:12] 4 tc The translation follows the MT, which vocalizes the verb as a Qal. The LXX, however, treats the verb as a Hiphil, “they brought.”