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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 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. 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 Chorashan, 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.