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1SA-30:1 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;
1SA-30:2 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.
1SA-30:3 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.
1SA-30:4 Then David and the people that [were] with him lifted
up
their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
1SA-30:5 And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the
Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
1SA-30:6 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.
1SA-30:7 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.
1SA-30:8 And David inquired 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].
1SA-30:9 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.
1SA-30:10 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.
1SA-30:11 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;
1SA-30:12 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.
1SA-30:13 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 ago I
fell sick.
1SA-30:14 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.
1SA-30:15 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.
1SA-30:16 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.
1SA-30:17 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.
1SA-30:18 And David recovered all that the Amalekites had
carried
away: and David rescued his two wives.
1SA-30:19 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.
1SA-30:20 And David took all the flocks and the herds, [which]
they
drave before those [other] cattle, and said, This [is] David's
spoil.
1SA-30:21 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 them.
1SA-30:22 Then answered all the wicked men and [men] of Belial,
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.
1SA-30:23 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.
1SA-30:24 For who will hearken unto you in this matter? but as
his
part [is] that goeth down to the battle, so [shall] his part [be]
that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike.
1SA-30:25 And it was [so] from that day forward, that he made
it a
statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.
1SA-30:26 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;
1SA-30:27 To [them] which [were] in Bethel, and to [them] which
[were] in south Ramoth, and to [them] which [were] in Jattir,
1SA-30:28 And to [them] which [were] in Aroer, and to [them]
which
[were] in Siphmoth, and to [them] which [were] in Eshtemoa,
1SA-30:29 And to [them] which [were] in Rachal, and to [them]
which
[were] in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to [them] which
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