1Samuel:30

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ylt @1Samuel:30:1 @And it cometh to pass , in the coming in of David and his men to Ziklag , on the third day , that the Amalekites have pushed unto the south , and unto Ziklag , and smite Ziklag , and burn it with fire , ylt @1Samuel:30:2 @and they take captive the women who [are ] in it ; from small unto great they have not put any one to death , and they lead away , and go on their way . ylt @1Samuel:30:3 @And David cometh in -- and his men -- unto the city , and lo , burnt with fire , and their wives , and their sons , and their daughters have been taken captive ! ylt @1Samuel:30:4 @And David lifteth up -- and the people who [are ] with him -- their voice and weep , till that they have no power to weep . ylt @1Samuel:30:5 @And the two wives of David have been taken captive , Ahinoam the Jezreelitess , and Abigail wife of Nabal the Carmelite ; ylt @1Samuel:30:6 @and David hath great distress , for the people have said to stone him , for the soul of all the people hath been bitter , each for his sons and for his daughters ; and David doth strengthen himself in Jehovah his God . ylt @1Samuel:30:7 @And David saith unto Abiathar the priest , son of Ahimelech , 'Bring nigh , I pray thee , to me the ephod ;' and Abiathar bringeth nigh the ephod unto David , ylt @1Samuel:30:8 @and David asketh at Jehovah , saying , 'I pursue after this troop -- do I overtake it ?' And He saith to him , 'Pursue , for thou dost certainly overtake , and dost certainly deliver .' ylt @1Samuel:30:9 @And David goeth on , he and six hundred men who [are ] with him , and they come in unto the brook of Besor , and those left have stood still , ylt @1Samuel:30:10 @and David pursueth , he and four hundred men , (and two hundred men stand still who have been too faint to pass over the brook of Besor ), ylt @1Samuel:30:11 @and they find a man , an Egyptian , in the field , and take him unto David , and give to him bread , and he eateth , and they cause him to drink water , ylt @1Samuel:30:12 @and give to him a piece of a bunch of dried figs , and two bunches of raisins , and he eateth , and his spirit returneth unto him , for he hath not eaten bread nor drunk water three days and three nights . ylt @1Samuel:30:13 @And David saith to him , 'Whose [art ] thou ? and whence [art ] thou ?' And he saith , 'An Egyptian youth I [am ], servant to a man , an Amalekite , and my lord forsaketh me , for I have been sick three days , ylt @1Samuel:30:14 @we pushed [to ] the south of the Cherethite , and against that which [is ] to Judah , and against the south of Caleb , and Ziklag we burned with fire .' ylt @1Samuel:30:15 @And David saith unto him , 'Dost thou bring me down unto this troop ?' and he saith , 'Swear to me by God -- thou dost not put me to death , nor dost thou shut me up into the hand of my lord -- and I bring thee down unto this troop .' ylt @1Samuel:30:16 @And he bringeth him down , and lo , they are spread out over the face of all the earth , eating , and drinking , and feasting , with all the great spoil which they have taken out of the land of the Philistines , and out of the land of Judah . ylt @1Samuel:30:17 @And David smiteth them from the twilight even unto the evening of the morrow , and there hath not escaped of them a man , except four hundred young men who have ridden on the camels , and are fled . ylt @1Samuel:30:18 @And David delivereth all that the Amalekites have taken ; also his two wives hath David delivered . ylt @1Samuel:30:19 @And there hath not lacked to them [anything ], from small unto great , and unto sons and daughters , and from the spoil , even unto all that they had taken to themselves , the whole hath David brought back , ylt @1Samuel:30:20 @and David taketh the whole of the flock , and of the herd , they have led on before these cattle , and they say , 'This [is ] David 's spoil .' ylt @1Samuel:30:21 @And David cometh in unto the two hundred men who were too faint to go after David , and whom they cause to abide at the brook of Besor , and they go out to meet David , and to meet the people who [are ] with him , and David approacheth the people , and asketh of them of welfare . ylt @1Samuel:30:22 @And every bad and worthless man , of the men who have gone with David , answereth , yea , they say , 'Because that they have not gone with us we do not give to them of the spoil which we have delivered , except each his wife and his children , and they lead away and go . ylt @1Samuel:30:23 @And David saith , 'Ye do not do so , my brethren , with that which Jehovah hath given to us , and He doth preserve us , and doth give the troop which cometh against us into our hand ; ylt @1Samuel:30:24 @and who doth hearken to you in this thing ? for as the portion of him who was brought down into battle , so also [is ] the portion of him who is abiding by the vessels -- alike they share .' ylt @1Samuel:30:25 @And it cometh to pass from that day and forward , that he appointeth it for a statute and for an ordinance for Israel unto this day . ylt @1Samuel:30:26 @And David cometh in unto Ziklag , and sendeth of the spoil to the elders of Judah , to his friends , (saying , 'Lo , for you a blessing , of the spoil of the enemies of Jehovah ),' ylt @1Samuel:30:27 @to those in Beth-El , and to those in South Ramoth , and to those in Jattir , ylt @1Samuel:30:28 @and to those in Aroer , and to those in Siphmoth , and to those in Eshtemoa , ylt @1Samuel:30:29 @and to those in Rachal , and to those in the cities of the Jerahmeelites , and to those in the cities of the Kenites , ylt @1Samuel:30:30 @and to those in Hormah , and to those in Chor-Ashan , and to those in Athach , ylt @1Samuel:30:31 @and to those in Hebron , and to all the places where David had gone up and down , he and his men .

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