Nehemiah 11:28
Hebrew Text— Nehemiah 11:28in Ziklag, in Meconah and in its towns,
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When David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid on the South, and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag, and burned it with fire,
Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: therefore Ziklag belongs to the kings of Judah to this day.
She bore also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbena, and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.
Ziklag, Madmannah, Sansannah,
Ziklag, Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susah,
for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?”
But the princes of the Philistines were angry with him; and the princes of the Philistines said to him, “Make the man return, that he may go back to his place where you have appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us. For with what should this fellow reconcile himself to his lord? Should it not be with the heads of these men?
We made a raid on the South of the Cherethites, and on that which belongs to Judah, and on the South of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.”
After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag;
at Bethuel, at Hormah, at Ziklag,
Now these are those who came to David to Ziklag, while he was a fugitive from Saul the son of Kish. They were among the mighty men, his helpers in war.
As he went to Ziklag, some from Manasseh joined him: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai, captains of thousands who were of Manasseh.
Madmenah is a fugitive. The inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.