30 SHEMU'EL -1- SAMUEL 30

Ziklag Spoiled By The Amalekites

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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;

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  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.

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  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.

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  4    Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

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  5    And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

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  6    And David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke 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 YAHWEH his ABBA.

David Overtakes The Amalekites

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  7     ^¶  And David said to Abiathar the kohen, Ahimelech's son, I pray you, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David.

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  8    And David enquired at YAHWEH, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for you shall surely overtake them, and without fail recover [all].

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  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.

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  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.

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  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;

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  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.

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  13    And David said to him, To whom [belong] you? and whence are you? 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.

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  14    We made an invasion upon the south of the Cherethites, and upon [the coast] which [belongs] to Yahudah, and upon the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.

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  15    And David said to him, Can you bring me down to this company? And he said, Swear to me by YAHWEH, that you will neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this company.

He Recovers What Had Been Lost

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  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 Yahudah.

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  17    And David smote them from the twilight even to 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.

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  18    And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives.

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  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.

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  20    And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.

David's Distribution Of The Spoil

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  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.

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  22    Then answered all the evil 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.

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  23    Then said David, You shall not do so, my brethren, with that which YAHWEH has given us, who has preserved us, and delivered the company that came against us into our hand.

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  24    For who will hearken to you in this matter? but as his part is that goes down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarries by the stuff: they shall part alike.

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  25    And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Yisrael to this day.

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  26    And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil to the elders of Yahudah, even to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of YAHWEH;

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  27    To them which were in Bethel, and to them which were in south Ramoth, and to them which were in Jattir,

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  28    And to them which were in Aroer, and to them which were in Siphmoth, and to them which were in Eshtemoa,

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  29    And to them which were in Rachal, and to them which were in the cities of the Yerahmeelites, and to them which were in the cities of the Kenites,

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  30    And to them which were in Hormah, and to them which were in Chorashan, and to them which were in Athach,

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  31    And to them which were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt.