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1 Samuel 30:17-18 - Compare All Versions

1 Samuel 30:17-18 NIV (New International Version)

David fought them from dusk until the evening of the next day, and none of them got away, except four hundred young men who rode off on camels and fled. David recovered everything the Amalekites had taken, including his two wives.

1 Samuel 30:17-18 ESV (English Standard Version 2025)

And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day, and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men, who mounted camels and fled. David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and David rescued his two wives.

1 Samuel 30:17-18 NLT (New Living Translation)

David and his men rushed in among them and slaughtered them throughout that night and the entire next day until evening. None of the Amalekites escaped except 400 young men who fled on camels. David got back everything the Amalekites had taken, and he rescued his two wives.

1 Samuel 30:17-18 CSB (Christian Standard Bible)

David slaughtered them from twilight until the evening of the next day.  None of them escaped, except four hundred young men who got on camels and fled.  David recovered everything the Amalekites had taken; he also rescued his two wives.

1 Samuel 30:17-18 KJV (King James Version)

And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled. And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives.

1 Samuel 30:17-18 NKJV (New King James Version)

Then David attacked them from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled. So David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away, and David rescued his two wives.

1 Samuel 30:17-20 MSG (The Message)

David pounced. He fought them from before sunrise until evening of the next day. None got away except for four hundred of the younger men who escaped by riding off on camels. David rescued everything the Amalekites had taken. And he rescued his two wives! Nothing and no one was missing—young or old, son or daughter, plunder or whatever. David recovered the whole lot. He herded the sheep and cattle before them, and they all shouted, “David’s plunder!”

1 Samuel 30:17-18 NASB2020 (New American Standard Bible - NASB)

And David slaughtered them from the twilight until the evening of the next day; and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled. So David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and rescued his two wives.

1 Samuel 30:17-18 AMP (Amplified Bible)

Then David [and his men] struck them down [in battle] from twilight until the evening of the next day; and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode camels and fled. So David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and rescued his two wives.

1 Samuel 30:17-18 NET (New English Translation)

But David struck them down from twilight until the following evening. None of them escaped, with the exception of four hundred young men who got away on camels. David retrieved everything the Amalekites had taken; he also rescued his two wives.