1. On the third day David and his men arrived at Ziklag. The Amalekites had raided southern Judah and Ziklag. They had attacked Ziklag and burned it.
2. They took the women and everyone in Ziklag as prisoners, both young and old. But they did not kill any of the people. They only took them away.
3. When David and his men came to Ziklag, they found the town had been burned. Their wives, sons and daughters had been taken as prisoners.
4. Then David and his army cried loudly until they were too weak to cry anymore.
5. David’s two wives had also been taken. They were Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal from Carmel.
6. The men in the army were threatening to kill David with stones. This upset David very much. Each man was sad and angry because his sons and daughters had been taken as prisoners. But David found strength in the Lord his God.