1 Samuel 30 And it comes 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,

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And it comes 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, 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. ³ And David comes 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!" ⁴ And David lifts up--and the people who [are] with him--their voice and weep, till that they have no power to weep. ⁵ And the two wives of David have been taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail wife of Nabal the Carmelite;" ⁶ and David has great distress, for the people have said to stone him, for the soul of all the people has been bitter, each for his sons and for his daughters; and David does strengthen himself in Yahweh his Elohim. ⁷ And David said unto Abiathar the priest, son of Ahimelech, `Bring nigh, I pray you, to me the ephod;' and Abiathar brings nigh the ephod unto David, ⁸ and David asks at Yahweh, saying, `I pursue after this troop--do I overtake it?' And He said to him, `Pursue, for you do certainly overtake, and do certainly deliver.. ⁹ And David goes 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, ¹⁰ and David pursues, he and four hundred men, (and two hundred men stand still who have been too faint to pass over the brook of Besor), ¹¹ and they find a man, an Egyptian, in the field, and take him unto David, and give to him bread, and he eats, and they cause him to drink water, ¹² and give to him a piece of a bunch of dried figs, and two bunches of raisins, and he eats, and his spirit returns unto him, for he has not eaten bread nor drunk water three days and three nights. ¹³ And David said to him, `Whose [are] you? and whence [are] you?' And he said, `An Egyptian youth I [am], servant to a man, an Amalekite, and my lord forsakes me, for I have been sick three days, 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.. ¹⁵ And David said unto him, `Do you bring me down unto this troop?' and he said, `Swear to me by Elohim--you do not put me to death, nor do you shut me up into the hand of my lord--and I bring you down unto this troop.. ¹⁶ And he brings 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. ¹⁷ And David smites them from the twilight even unto the evening of the morrow, and there has not escaped of them a man, except four hundred young men who have ridden on the camels, and are fled. ¹⁸ And David delivers all that the Amalekites have taken; also his two wives has David delivered. ¹⁹ And there has 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 has David brought back, ²⁰ and David takes the whole of the flock, and of the herd, they have led on before these cattle, and they say, `This [is] David's spoil.. ²¹ And David comes 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 approaches the people, and asks of them of welfare. ²² And every bad and worthless man, of the men who have gone with David, answers, 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. ²³ And David said, `You do not do so, my brethren, with that which Yahweh has given to us, and He does preserve us, and does give the troop which comes against us into our hand;" ²⁴ and who does 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.. ²⁵ And it comes to pass from that day and forward, that he appoints it for a statute and for an ordinance for Israel unto this day. ²⁶ And David comes in unto Ziklag, and sends of the spoil to the elders of Judah, to his friends, (saying, `Lo, for you a blessing, of the spoil of the enemies of Yahweh),. ²⁷ to those in Beth-El, and to those in South Ramoth, and to those in Jattir, ²⁸ and to those in Aroer, and to those in Siphmoth, and to those in Eshtemoa, ²⁹ and to those in Rachal, and to those in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to those in the cities of the Kenites, ³⁰ and to those in Hormah, and to those in Chor-Ashan, and to those in Athach, ³¹ and to those in Hebron, and to all the places where David had gone up and down, he and his men.