1Samuel:30:1-20
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And it came to pass ,
when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day ,
that the Amalekites had invaded the south ,
and Ziklag ,
and smitten Ziklag ,
and burned it with fire ;
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And had taken the women captives ,
that were therein :
they slew not any ,
either great or small ,
but carried them away ,
and went on their way .
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So David and his men came to the city ,
and ,
behold ,
it was burned with fire ;
and their wives ,
and their sons ,
and their daughters ,
were taken captives .
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Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept ,
until they had no more power to weep .
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And David '
s two wives were taken captives ,
Ahinoam the Jezreelitess ,
and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite .
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And David was greatly distressed ;
for the people spake of stoning him ,
because the soul of all the people was grieved ,
every man for his sons and for his daughters :
but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God .
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And David said to Abiathar the priest ,
Ahimelech '
s son ,
I pray thee ,
bring me hither the ephod .
And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David .
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And David enquired at the LORD ,
saying ,
Shall I pursue after this troop ?
shall I overtake them ?
And he answered him ,
Pursue :
for thou shalt surely overtake them ,
and without fail recover all .
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So David went ,
he and the six hundred men that were with him ,
and came to the brook Besor ,
where those that were left behind stayed .
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But David pursued ,
he and four hundred men :
for two hundred abode behind ,
which were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor .
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And they found an Egyptian in the field ,
and brought him to David ,
and gave him bread ,
and he did eat ;
and they made him drink water ;
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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 any water ,
three days and three nights .
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And David said unto him ,
To whom belongest thou ?
and whence art thou ?
And he said ,
I am a young man of Egypt ,
servant to an Amalekite ;
and my master left me ,
because three days agone I fell sick .
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We made an invasion upon the south of the Cherethites ,
and upon the coast which belongeth to Judah ,
and upon the south of Caleb ;
and we burned Ziklag with fire .
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And David said to him ,
Canst thou bring me down to this company ?
And he said ,
Swear unto me by God ,
that thou wilt neither kill me ,
nor deliver me into the hands of my master ,
and I will bring thee down to this company .
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And when he had brought him down ,
behold ,
they were spread abroad upon 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 .
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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 .
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And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away :
and David rescued his two wives .
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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 .
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And David took all the flocks and the herds ,
which they drave before those other cattle ,
and said ,
This is David '
s spoil .