1 Samuel 30:4

² They had taken captive the women and all who were there, both young and old. They had not killed anyone, but had carried them off as they went on their way.

³ When David and his men came to the city, they found it burned down and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.

So David and the troops with him lifted up their voices and wept until they had no strength left to weep.

⁵ David’s two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel, had been taken captive.

⁶ And David was greatly distressed because the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of every man grieved for his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the LORD his God.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: So David and the troops with him lifted up their voices and wept until they had no strength left to weep.
KJV: Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
WEB: Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept until they had no more power to weep.
ASV: Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
DARBY: Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
BLB: And David and the people who [were] with him lifted up their voices and wept, until that [there was] not in them power to weep.

ÅB: Da brast de i gråt, både David og de folk som var med ham, og de gråt til de ikke lenger var i stand til å gråte.
OTB: Da hevet David og folket som var med ham sine stemmer og gråt til de ikke hadde mer styrke igjen til å gråte.
B1930: Da brast de i gråt, både David og de folk som var med ham, og de gråt til de ikke lenger var i stand til å gråte.

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Original text and word study

Cross references

1 Samuel 11:4
When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and relayed these words in the hearing of the people, they all wept aloud.
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Judges 2:4
When the angel of the LORD had spoken these words to all the Israelites, the people lifted up their voices and wept.
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1 Samuel 4:13
When he arrived, there was Eli, sitting on his chair beside the road and watching, because his heart trembled for the ark of God. When the man entered the city to give a report, the whole city cried out.
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Judges 21:2
So the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening, lifting up their voices and weeping bitterly.
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Numbers 14:39
And when Moses relayed these words to all the Israelites, the people mourned bitterly.
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Numbers 14:1
Then the whole congregation lifted up their voices and cried out, and that night the people wept.
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Genesis 37:33–35
His father recognized it and said, “It is my son’s robe! A vicious animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!”
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Ezra 10:1
While Ezra prayed and made this confession, weeping and falling facedown before the house of God, a very large assembly of Israelites—men, women, and children—gathered around him, and the people wept bitterly as well.
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