Then David and his men went up, and invaded the [a]Geshurites, and the Girzites, and the Amalekites: for they inhabited the land from the beginning, from the way, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.

And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took sheep, and oxen, and asses, and camels, and apparel, and returned and came to Achish.

10 And Achish said, [b]Where have ye been a roving this day? And David answered, Against the South of Judah, and against the South of the [c]Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 27:8 These were the wicked Canaanites, whom God had appointed to be destroyed.
  2. 1 Samuel 27:10 Or, against whom.
  3. 1 Samuel 27:10 Which were a family of the tribe of Judah, 1 Chron. 2:9.

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