^{1 Ref} Now when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made an attack on the South and on Ziklag, and had overcome Ziklag and put it on fire;

^{2 Ref} And had made the women and all who were there, small and great, prisoners: they had not put any of them to death, but had taken them all away.

^{3 Ref} And when David and his men came to the town, they saw that it had been burned down, and their wives and their sons and daughters had been made prisoners.

^{4 Ref} Then David and the people who were with him gave themselves up to weeping till they were able to go on weeping no longer.

^{5 Ref} And David's two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail, the wife of Nabal of Carmel, had been made prisoners.

^{6 Ref} And David was greatly troubled; for the people were talking of stoning him, because their hearts were bitter, every man sorrowing for his sons and his daughters: but David made himself strong in the Lord his God.

^{7 Ref} And David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, Come here to me with the ephod. And Abiathar took the ephod to David.