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in the L
ORD
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.
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And David enquired at
the L
ORD
, 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.
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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.
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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.
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And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried
away: and David rescued his two wives.
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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 L
ORD
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.
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And it was
so
from that day forward, that he made it a statute
and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.
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