Bible, King James Version
1_Samuel
1Sam.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;
[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.
[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.
[4] Then David and the people that were with him lifted up
their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
[5] And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the
Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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;
[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.
[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 agone
I fell sick.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[18] And David recovered all that the Amalekites had
carried away: and David rescued his two wives.
[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.
[20] And David took all the flocks and the herds, which
they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is David's
spoil.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[25] And it was so from that day forward, that he made it
a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.
[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;
[27] To them which were in Bethel, and to them which were
in south Ramoth, and to them which were in Jattir,
[28] And to them which were in Aroer, and to them which
were in Siphmoth, and to them which were in Eshtemoa,
[29] And to them which were in Rachal, and to them which
were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to them which were
in the cities of the Kenites,
[30] And to them which were in Hormah, and to them which
were in Chor-ashan, and to them which were in Athach,
[31] And to them which were in Hebron, and to all the
places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt.
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