1Samuel:30

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* And it happened when David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day , the Amalekites had invaded the south and Ziklag , and had struck Ziklag , and burned it with fire . * And they had seized the women in it . They did not kill any , either small or great , but carried them away and went on their way . * And David and his men came to the city , and behold , [it was ] burned with fire , and their wives and their sons and their daughters had been taken captives . * And David and the people with him lifted up their voice and wept , until they had no more power to weep . * And David 's two wives had been seized , Ahinoam of Jezreel , and Abigail , the [former ] wife of Nabal of Carmel . * And it greatly distressed David , for the people spoke of stoning him , because the soul of all the people was grieved , each one for his sons and for his daughters . But David encouraged himself in the LORD his God . * And David said to Abiathar the priest , Ahimelech 's son , Please bring the ephod here to me . And Abiathar brought the ephod there to David . * And David inquired of the LORD , saying , Shall I go after this troop ? Shall I overtake them ? And He answered him , Go ! For you shall surely overtake and will without fail recover all . * So David went , he and the six hundred men that [were ] with him , and came to the brook Besor , where those who were left behind stayed . * But David pursued , he and four hundred men . For two hundred stayed behind , who were too exhausted to go over the brook Besor . * And they found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David and gave him bread , and he ate . And they made him drink water . * And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs , and two clusters of raisins . And when he had eaten , his spirit came again to him . For he had eaten no bread nor drunk water for three days and three nights . * And David said to him , Whose [are ] you ? And where do you come from ? And he said , I am an Egyptian youth , servant to an Amalekite . And my master left me because three days ago I fell sick . * We raided the south of the Cherethites , and on that [belonging ] to Judah , and on the south of Caleb . And we burned Ziklag with fire . * And David said to him , Can you bring me down to this company ? And he said , Swear to me by God that you will neither kill me nor deliver me into the hands of my master , and I will bring you down to this company . * And when he had brought him down , behold , [they were ] spread abroad on all the earth , eating and drinking and dancing , because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines and out of the land of Judah . * And David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day . And not a man of them escaped , except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled . * And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away . And David rescued his two wives . * And nothing was lacking to them , from the small to the great , even to sons and daughters , and from the spoil , even to all that they had taken to themselves . David recovered all . * And David took all the flock , and the herd . They drove on before those cattle . And they said , This [is ] David 's spoil . * And David came to the two hundred who were too exhausted to follow David , whom they had made also to stay at the brook Besor . And they went out to meet David , and to meet the people with him . And David came up to the people , and greeted them . * And every evil and worthless man of the men who went with David answered and said , Because they did not go with us , we will not give them from a thing the spoil that we have seized , except to every man his wife and his sons . Let them take them , and go . * And David said , My brothers , you shall not do so with that which the LORD has given us . For He has protected us , and has delivered into our hand the company that came against us . * For who will listen to you in this matter ? But as his part [is ] that goes down to the battle , so [shall be ] his part that stays by the stuff . They shall divide alike . * And it was [so ], from that day forward he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day . * And David came to Ziklag , and sent some of the spoil to the elders of Judah , to his friends , saying , Behold , a present for you from the spoil of the enemies of the LORD ; * to the ones in Bethel , and to the ones in Ramoth of the south , and to the ones in Jattir , * and to the ones in Aroer , and to the ones in Siphmoth , and to the ones in Eshtemoa , * and to the ones in Rachal , and to the ones in the cities of the Jerahmeelites , and to the ones in the cities of the Kenites , * and to the ones in Hormah , and to the ones in Chorashan , and to the ones in Athach , * and to the ones in Hebron , and to all the places where David had gone up and down , he and his men .

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