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Chapter 30 And it came to pass,
when David and his men were come to Ziklag

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on the third day, that the Amalekites had
invaded the south and Ziklag, and smitten

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Ziklag, and burned it with fire,
and had taken the women captives that were

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therein.

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They slew not any, either great or small,
but carried them away, and went on their

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way.

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So David and his men came to the city,
and, behold, it was burned with fire,

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and their wives, and their sons,
and their daughters were taken captives.

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Then David and the people that were with
him lifted up their voice and wept,

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until they had no more power to weep.

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And David's two wives were taken captives,
Ahinoam the Jezreelitus, and Abigail the

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wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

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And David was greatly distressed,
for the people spake of stoning him,

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because the soul of all the people was
grieved, every man for his sons and for

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his daughters.

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But David encouraged himself in the Lord
his God.

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And David said to Abiathar the priest,
Ahimelech's son, I pray thee, bring me

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hither the ephod.

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And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to
David.

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And David inquired at the Lord,
saying, Shall I pursue after this troop?

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Shall I overtake them?

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And he answered him, Pursue, for thou
shalt surely overtake them, and without

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fail recover all.

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So David went, he and the six hundred men
that were with him, and came to the brook

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Besor, where those that were left behind
stayed.

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But David pursued he and four hundred men,
for two hundred abode behind, which were

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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

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bread, and he did eat.

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And they made him drink water.

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And they gave him a piece of a cake of
figs, and two clusters of raisins.

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And when he had eaten, his spirit came
again to him, for he had eaten no bread,

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nor drunk any water three days and three
nights.

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And David said unto him, To whom belongest
thou, and whence art thou?

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And he said, I am a young man of Egypt,
servant to an Amalekite, and my master

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left me, because three days agone I fell
sick.

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We made an invasion upon the south of the
Charithites, and upon the coast which

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belongeth to Judah, and upon the south of
Caleb, and we burned Ziklag with fire.

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And David said to him, Canst thou bring me
down to this company?

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And he said, Swear unto me by God that
thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me

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into the hands of my master, and I will
bring thee down to this company.

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And when he had brought him down,
behold, they were spread abroad upon all

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the earth, eating, and drinking,
and dancing, because of all the great

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spoil that they had taken out of the land
of the Philistines, and out of the land of

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Judah.

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And David smote them from the twilight
even unto the evening of the next day,

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and there escaped not a man of them,
save four hundred young men, which rode

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upon camels and fled.

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And David recovered all that the
Amalekites had carried away, and David

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rescued his two wives.

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And there was nothing lacking to them,
neither small nor great, neither sons nor

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daughters, neither spoil nor anything that
they had taken to them.

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David recovered all.

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And David took all the flocks and the
herds, which they draved before those

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other cattle, and said, This is David's
spoil.

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And David came to the two hundred men,
which were so faint that they could not

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follow David, whom they had made also to
abide at the brook Besor.

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And they went forth to meet David,
and to meet the people that were with him.

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And when David came near to the people,
he saluted them, then answered all the

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wicked men and men of Belial, of those
that went with David, and said,

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Because they went not with us,
we will not give them aught of the spoil

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that we have recovered, save to every man
his wife and his children, that they may

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lead them away and depart.

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Then said David, Ye shall not do so,
my brethren, with that which the Lord hath

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given us, who hath preserved us,
and delivered the company that came

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against us into our hand.

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For who will hearken unto you in this
matter?

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But as his part is that goeth down to the
battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth

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by the stuff.

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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

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for Israel unto this day.

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And when David came to Ziklag,
he sent unto the spoil unto the elders of

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Judah, even to his friends, saying,
Behold, a present for you of the spoil of

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the enemies of the Lord

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Places where David himself and his men
were wont to haunt.