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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1When David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had raided the Negev and Ziklag. They had attacked Ziklag and set it on fire. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2They took the women in it captive, from young to old. They did not kill anyone. Instead, they carried them off and went on their way. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3David and his men came to the town, and it had been burned down. Their wives, their sons, and their daughters had been taken captive. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Then David and the people who were with him lifted their voices and cried until they had no more strength left to cry. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5David's two wives, Ahinoam from Jezreel and Abigail, Nabal's former wife, had been captured. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6David was in great danger because all the people were bitter because of their sons and daughters, and they were talking about stoning him. But David found strength in the LORD his God. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7David told Ahimelech's son Abiathar the priest, "Bring me the ephod." So Abiathar brought the ephod to David. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8David inquired of the LORD: "Shall I pursue this raiding party? Will I overtake them?" The LORD told David, "Pursue them! You will definitely overtake them and rescue the captives." |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9So David and 600 men who were with him set out. They came to the Wadi Besor where those who were left behind stayed. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10David and 400 men continued the pursuit, while the 200 men who were too exhausted to cross over the Wadi Besor remained there. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11They found an Egyptian man in the field, and they took him to David. They gave him food to eat and provided water for him. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12They gave him part of a fig cake and two bunches of raisins. After he had eaten, he revived, since he had neither eaten food nor had he drunk water for three days and three nights. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13David told him, "To whom do you belong and where are you from?" The Egyptian replied, "I'm a young Egyptian man, the slave of an Amalekite man. My master abandoned me, because I got sick three days ago. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14We raided the Negev of the Cherethites, the territory that belongs to Judah, and the Negev of Caleb, and we set Ziklag on fire." |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15David asked him, "Will you take me to this raiding party?" He said, "Swear to me by God that you won't kill me or turn me over to my master, and I'll take you to the raiding party." |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16The Egyptian led him to the camp, and there the Amalekites were spread out over the whole area, eating, drinking, and celebrating with the great amount of spoil they had taken from the territory belonging to the Philistines and to Judah. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day, and not one of them escaped except for 400 young men who mounted camels and fled. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18David rescued everyone whom the Amalekites had captured, including his two wives. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Nothing of theirs was missing, whether small or large, sons or daughters, spoil, or anything that they had taken for themselves—David brought back everything. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20David took all the rest of the sheep and cattle, driving them ahead of their rescued livestock. People said about all this, "This is David's spoil." |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21David came to the 200 men who were too exhausted to follow him and who had been left at the Wadi Besor. They came out to meet David and the people who were with him. As David approached the people, he asked them how they were doing. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22 At this point, all the wicked and worthless men of the group who had gone with David answered, "Because they didn't go with us, we won't give them any of the spoil that we recovered, except that each person may take his wife and his children and go." |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23David said, "No, you won't do this, my brothers, with what the LORD has given us. He guarded us and gave the raiding party that came against us into our hand. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Who will listen to you in this matter? Indeed, the share of those who went down into battle and the share of those who stayed with the supplies will be the same. They'll share alike." |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25From that day forward he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel, and it remains to this present day. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26David came to Ziklag, and he sent some of the spoil to the elders of Judah, and to his friends, telling them, "Look, this is a gift for you from the spoil of the enemies of the LORD |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27in Bethel, Ramoth-negev, Jattir, |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Aroer, Siphmoth, Eshtemoa, |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Rachal, in the Jerahmeelite towns, in the Kenite towns, |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30in Hormah, Bor-ashan, Athach, |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Hebron, and for all those places where David and his men had frequented." |
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