Holy Scripture
1 Samuel 30:1
A church father on this verse
“They struck Ziklag, etc. Ziklag is interpreted as 'distillation of the drawn voice,' which those who strike and set on fire, who confuse the discernment of heard preaching with the battering ram of their arguments, and cast down the tranquility of ecclesiastical faith with the malignant fire of their error. Indeed, th…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
1And it came to pass when David and his men had entered Ziklag on the third day, that Amalek had made an incursion upon the south, and upon Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire.
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— 1 Samuel 30:1 —
2And as to the women and all things that were in it, great and small, they slew neither man nor woman, but carried them captives, and went on their way.
3And David and his men came into the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were carried captive.