New Living Translation

1 Samuel 30:1-5 New Living Translation (NLT)

1. Three days later, when David and his men arrived home at their town of Ziklag, they found that the Amalekites had made a raid into the Negev and Ziklag; they had crushed Ziklag and burned it to the ground.

2. They had carried off the women and children and everyone else but without killing anyone.

3. When David and his men saw the ruins and realized what had happened to their families,

4. they wept until they could weep no more.

5. David’s two wives, Ahinoam from Jezreel and Abigail, the widow of Nabal from Carmel, were among those captured.