11
And they found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David and gave him bread to eat and water to drink,
12
and they gave him a piece of a cake of figs and two bunches 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
dost thou
belong and where
art thou from? And the young Egyptian said, I am the slave to an Amalekite, and my master left me three days ago because I was sick.
14
We made an invasion
upon towards the Negev from the Chereth and upon Judah and towards the Negev from Caleb, and we burned Ziklag with fire.
15
And David said to him, Wilt 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 so he brought him down, and behold,
they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and holding a feast because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines and out of the land of Judah.
17
And David smote them from the
morning twilight even unto the evening of the next day, and none of them escaped except four hundred young men who rode upon camels and fled.
18
And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away, and David delivered his two wives.
19
And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great neither sons nor daughters, of the robbery and of all the things that had been taken from them; David recovered it all.
20
And David took all the sheep and the cows, and bringing them with all the
other livestock, they said, This
is David’s spoil.
21
And David came to the two hundred men who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to remain 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 with peace.