1 Samuel 30:17 meaning and explanation

And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man escaped, except four hundred young men who fled, riding off on camels.

1 Samuel 30:17, Berean Standard Bible

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David, back at the burned ruins of Ziklag, has just learned from an abandoned Egyptian slave where the Amalekite raiders are camped. Verse 17 reports the battle itself: the attack runs from twilight through the next evening, and only four hundred young men escape on camels.

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