Ziklag
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Named at 1 Samuel 27:6 as the place Achish gives David that day. At 27:5 David says to Achish, “let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there”; 27:6 says, “therefore Ziklag belongs to the kings of Judah to this day.” The Korean Revised Version writes 유다 왕 there. 1 Samuel 30:1–3 says that 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, and had taken captive the women and all who were in it, and that when David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; at 30:14 the young man of Egypt says to David, “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”; and at 30:26 David comes to Ziklag and sends some of the plunder to the elders of Judah, even to his friends.
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- 1CH 4:28–33, engwebp
28They lived at Beersheba, Moladah, Hazarshual,
29at Bilhah, at Ezem, at Tolad,
30at Bethuel, at Hormah, at Ziklag,
31at Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susim, at Beth Biri, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities until David’s reign.
32Their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan, five cities;
33and all their villages that were around the same cities, as far as Baal. These were their settlements, and they kept their genealogy.
- 1CH 12:1–7, engwebp
1Now 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.
2They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow. They were of Saul’s relatives of the tribe of Benjamin.
3The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; Jeziel and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; Beracah; Jehu the Anathothite;
4Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty and a leader of the thirty; Jeremiah; Jahaziel; Johanan; Jozabad the Gederathite;
5Eluzai; Jerimoth; Bealiah; Shemariah; Shephatiah the Haruphite;
6Elkanah, Isshiah, Azarel, Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korahites;
7and Joelah and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.
- 1CH 12:19–22, engwebp
19Some of Manasseh also joined David when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle, but they didn’t help them, for the lords of the Philistines sent him away after consultation, saying, “He will desert to his master Saul to the jeopardy of our heads.”
20As he went to Ziklag, some from Manasseh joined him: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai, captains of thousands who were of Manasseh.
21They helped David against the band of raiders, for they were all mighty men of valor and were captains in the army.
22For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there was a great army, like God’s army.
- 1SA 27:5–7, engwebp
5David said to Achish, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there. For why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?”
6Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: therefore Ziklag belongs to the kings of Judah to this day.
7The number of the days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.
- 1SA 30:1–6, engwebp
1When 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,
2and had taken captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great. They didn’t kill any, but carried them off and went their way.
3When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, their sons, and their daughters were taken captive.
4Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept until they had no more power to weep.
5David’s two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
6David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in the LORD his God.
- 1SA 30:11–16, engwebp
11They found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he ate; and they gave him water to drink.
12They gave him a piece of a cake of figs and two clusters of raisins. When he had eaten, his spirit came again to him; for he had eaten no bread, and drank no water for three days and three nights.
13David asked him, “To whom do you belong? Where are you from?” He said, “I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I got sick.
14We 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.”
15David said to him, “Will you bring me down to this troop?” He said, “Swear to me by God that you will not kill me and not deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this troop.”
16When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great plunder that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
- 1SA 30:26, engwebp
26When David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the plunder to the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, “Behold, a present for you from the plunder of the LORD’s enemies.”
- 1SA 30:27–31, engwebp
27He sent it to those who were in Bethel, to those who were in Ramoth of the South, to those who were in Jattir,
28to those who were in Aroer, to those who were in Siphmoth, to those who were in Eshtemoa,
29to those who were in Racal, to those who were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, to those who were in the cities of the Kenites,
30to those who were in Hormah, to those who were in Borashan, to those who were in Athach,
31to those who were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men used to stay.
- 2SA 1:1–4, engwebp
1After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag,
2on the third day, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul, with his clothes torn and earth on his head. When he came to David, he fell to the earth and showed respect.
3David said to him, “Where do you come from?” He said to him, “I have escaped out of the camp of Israel.”
4David said to him, “How did it go? Please tell me.” He answered, “The people have fled from the battle, and many of the people also have fallen and are dead. Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.”
- 2SA 4:9–12, engwebp
9David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, “As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
10when someone told me, ‘Behold, Saul is dead,’ thinking that he brought good news, I seized him and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.
11How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, should I not now require his blood from your hand, and rid the earth of you?”
12David commanded his young men, and they killed them, cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth and buried it in Abner’s grave in Hebron.
- NEH 11:25–30, engwebp
25As for the villages with their fields, some of the children of Judah lived in Kiriath Arba and its towns, in Dibon and its towns, in Jekabzeel and its villages,
26in Jeshua, in Moladah, Beth Pelet,
27in Hazar Shual, in Beersheba and its towns,
28in Ziklag, in Meconah and in its towns,
29in En Rimmon, in Zorah, in Jarmuth,
30Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish and its fields, and Azekah and its towns. So they encamped from Beersheba to the valley of Hinnom.
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Geographic sources & candidates
Matched to OpenBible.info’s “Ziklag” by name and 11 shared verses. The coordinate of its leading identification, Tell esh Sharia (confidence 531 of 1000), is adopted as a sourced approximation: not verified here, and not the place of any particular event. 1 other identification is listed too.
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- Tell esh Sharia
OpenBible.info confidence 531 of 1000 (current scholarship)
31.3912, 34.6816
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Ziklag” (CC BY 4.0) - Tel Halif
OpenBible.info confidence 107 of 1000 (current scholarship)
31.38333, 34.86564
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Ziklag” (CC BY 4.0)
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Narrated location (6) — Achish gives David Ziklag, The Amalekites burn Ziklag and take the women captive, David sends some of the plunder to the elders of Judah, his friends, A man comes out of Saul’s camp and tells David that Saul and Jonathan are dead, Those who came to David to Ziklag while he was a fugitive, his helpers in war, The captains of thousands of Manasseh who joined David as he went to Ziklag
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Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: therefore Ziklag belongs to the kings of Judah to this day.
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,
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.”
When David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the plunder to the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, “Behold, a present for you from the plunder of the LORD’s enemies.”
After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag,
when someone told me, ‘Behold, Saul is dead,’ thinking that he brought good news, I seized him and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.
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.
in Ziklag, in Meconah and in its towns,
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Entry: Ziklag (place-ziklag)
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Current wording: Named at 1 Samuel 27:6 as the place Achish gives David that day. At 27:5 David says to Achish, “let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there”; 27:6 says, “therefore Ziklag belongs to the kings of Judah to this day.” The Korean Revised Version writes 유다 왕 there. 1 Samuel 30:1–3 says that 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, and had taken captive the women and all who were in it, and that when David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; at 30:14 the young man of Egypt says to David, “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”; and at 30:26 David comes to Ziklag and sends some of the plunder to the elders of Judah, even to his friends.
Cited evidence: 1CH 4:28–33, engwebp / 1CH 12:1–7, engwebp / 1CH 12:19–22, engwebp / 1SA 27:5–7, engwebp / 1SA 30:1–6, engwebp / 1SA 30:11–16, engwebp / 1SA 30:26, engwebp / 1SA 30:27–31, engwebp (and 3 more of 11)
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