1 Samuel 30:20
◄  1 Samuel 30:20  ►
New International Version (©2011)
He took all the flocks and herds, and his men drove them ahead of the other livestock, saying, "This is David's plunder."

New Living Translation (©2007)
He also recovered all the flocks and herds, and his men drove them ahead of the other livestock. "This plunder belongs to David!" they said.

English Standard Version (©2001)
David also captured all the flocks and herds, and the people drove the livestock before him, and said, “This is David’s spoil.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So David had captured all the sheep and the cattle which the people drove ahead of the other livestock, and they said, "This is David's spoil."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He took all the sheep and cattle, which were driven ahead of the other livestock, and the people shouted, "This is David's plunder!"

International Standard Version (©2012)
David took all the rest of the sheep and cattle, driving them ahead of their rescued livestock. People said about all this, "This is David's spoil."

NET Bible (©2006)
David took all the flocks and herds and drove them in front of the rest of the animals. People were saying, "This is David's plunder!"

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He took all the sheep and the cattle. His men drove the animals ahead of him and said, "This is David's loot."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.

American King James Version
And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.

American Standard Version
And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he took all the flocks and the herds, and made them go before him: and they said: This is the prey of David.

Darby Bible Translation
And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before the other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.

English Revised Version
And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.

Webster's Bible Translation
And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.

World English Bible
David took all the flocks and the herds, [which] they drove before those [other] livestock, and said, "This is David's spoil."

Young's Literal Translation
and David taketh the whole of the flock, and of the herd, they have led on before these cattle, and they say, 'This is David's spoil.'

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

Verse 20. - This verse, which is made unintelligible in the A.V. by the insertion of the unauthorised word which, is really free from difficulty. After David, as related in vers. 18, 19, had recovered the cattle carried oft by the Amalekites, he also took all the flocks and herds belonging to them; and his own men "made these go in front of that body of cattle, and said, This is David's spoil," i.e. they presented it to him by acclamation. It was this large booty which he distributed among his friends (vers. 26-31). DAVID ENACTS A LAW FOR THE DIVISION OF THE SPOIL (vers. 21-25).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And David took all the flocks, and the herds,.... Which they had taken from the land of the Philistines, or which belonged to the Amalekites properly:

which they drave before those other cattle; which had been carried from Ziklag; first went the spoil taken from other places, and then those taken from David and his men, or what was found at Ziklag. Abarbinel supposes the meaning to be this, that the herds were driven before the flocks, that the oxen were led out first, and then the sheep followed, as being the weaker sort, and more easily to be driven, and carried off; but the former sense seems best:

and said, this is David's spoil; either the whole of it, it being owing to him that it was got or brought back; or this may respect some peculiar part of it made a present of to him; or it may design what the Amalekites had taken from others, which was at the disposal of David, as distinguished from what was taken from Ziklag, and was restored, or to be restored to the proper owners: it may be taken in the first and more general sense, as being the song, or the burden of the song, sung by David's men as they returned with the spoil, giving him all the honour of it, of whom, but a little before, they talked of stoning.

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David Destroys the Amalekites
…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. 20And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.

1 Samuel 30:26 When David reached Ziklag, he sent some of the plunder to the elders of Judah, who were his friends, saying, "Here is a gift for you from the plunder of the LORD's enemies."
1 Samuel 30:21 Then David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow him and who were left behind at the Besor Valley. They came out to meet David and the men with him. As David and his men approached, he asked them how they were.