1Samuel:30:17-26

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* And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day : and there escaped not a man of them , save four hundred young men , which rode upon camels , and fled . * And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away : and David rescued his two wives . * And there was nothing lacking to them , neither small nor great , neither sons nor daughters , neither spoil , nor any thing that they had taken to them : David recovered all . * And David took all the flocks and the herds , which they drave before those other cattle , and said , This is Davids spoil . * And David came to the two hundred men , which were so faint that they could not follow David , whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor : and they went forth to meet David , and to meet the people that were with him : and when David came near to the people , he saluted sha # them . * Then answered all the wicked men and men of Belial b @liya #al #, of those that went with David , and said , Because they went not with us , we will not give them ought of the spoil that we have recovered , save to every man his wife and his children , that they may lead them away , and depart . * Then said David , Ye shall not do so , my brethren , with that which the LORD hath given us , who hath preserved us , and delivered the company that came against us into our hand . * For who will hearken unto you in this matter ? but as his part is that goeth down (8675 ) to the battle , so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff : they shall part alike . * And it was so from that day forward ma #al #, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day . * And when David came to Ziklag , he sent of the spoil unto the elders of Judah , even to his friends , saying , Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of the LORD ;

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