1. Three days later, David and his soldiers reached Ziklag. The Amalekites had raided the arid southern plain and Ziklag. They had attacked Ziklag and burned it down,
2. taking the women and everyone in the city prisoner, whether young or old. They hadn’t killed anyone but carried them off and went on their way.
3. When David and his soldiers got to the town and found it burned down, and their wives, their sons, and their daughters taken prisoner,
4. David and the troops with him broke into tears and cried until they could cry no more.