1 Samuel 30:18
 1 Samuel 30:18 
New International Version (©2011)
David recovered everything the Amalekites had taken, including his two wives.

New Living Translation (©2007)
David got back everything the Amalekites had taken, and he rescued his two wives.

English Standard Version (©2001)
David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and David rescued his two wives.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and rescued his two wives.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
David recovered everything the Amalekites had taken; he also rescued his two wives.

International Standard Version (©2012)
David rescued everyone whom the Amalekites had captured, including his two wives.

NET Bible (©2006)
David retrieved everything the Amalekites had taken; he also rescued his two wives.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
David rescued everything the Amalekites had taken, including his two wives.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives.

American King James Version
And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives.

American Standard Version
And David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So David recovered all that the Amalecites had taken, and he rescued his two wives.

Darby Bible Translation
And David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken: and David recovered his two wives.

English Revised Version
And David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken: and David rescued his two wives.

Webster's Bible Translation
And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives.

World English Bible
David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives.

Young's Literal Translation
And David delivereth all that the Amalekites have taken; also his two wives hath David delivered.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

30:16-20 Sinners are nearest to ruin, when they cry, Peace and safety, and put the evil day far from them. Nor does any thing give our spiritual enemies more advantage than sensuality and indulgence. Eating and drinking, and dancing, have been the soft and pleasant way in which many have gone down to the congregation of the dead. The spoil was recovered, and brought off; nothing was lost, but a great deal gained.


Pulpit Commentary

Verses 18, 19. - Recovered. Hebrew, "rescued," or "delivered." The word occurs again in the second clause of the verse, and is there translated "rescued." Had carried away. Hebrew, "had taken." In ver. 19 recovered is literally "caused to return," i.e. restored.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away,.... The wives and children of the Israelites, and their goods, excepting the provisions they had eaten:

and David rescued his two wives; which is particularly observed, because a special concern of his.


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David Destroys the Amalekites
17And David smote them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode on camels, and fled. 18And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives. 19And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any thing that they had taken to them: David recovered all.

Genesis 14:16 He recovered all the goods and brought back his relative Lot and his possessions, together with the women and the other people.
1 Samuel 30:8 and David inquired of the LORD, "Shall I pursue this raiding party? Will I overtake them?" "Pursue them," he answered. "You will certainly overtake them and succeed in the rescue."
Jeremiah 41:12 they took all their men and went to fight Ishmael son of Nethaniah. They caught up with him near the great pool in Gibeon.