1. It took David and his men three days to reach Ziklag. But while they had been away, the Amalekites had been raiding in the desert around there. They had attacked Ziklag, burnt it to the ground,
2. and had taken away the women and children.
3. When David and his men came to Ziklag, they saw the burnt out ruins and learnt that their families had been taken captive.
4. They started crying and kept it up until they were too weak to cry any more.
5. David's two wives, Ahinoam and Abigail, had been taken captive with everyone else.
6. David was desperate. His soldiers were so upset over what had happened to their sons and daughters that they were thinking about stoning David to death. But he felt the Lord God giving him strength,