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from small unto great they have not put any one to death, and they lead away, and go on their way. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/30-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And David cometh in — and his men — unto the city, and lo, burnt with fire, and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters have been taken captive! <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/30-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And David lifteth up — and the people who [are] with him — their voice and weep, till that they have no power to weep. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/30-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And the two wives of David have been taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail wife of Nabal the Carmelite; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/30-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>and David hath great distress, for the people have said to stone him, for the soul of all the people hath been bitter, each for his sons and for his daughters; and David doth strengthen himself in Jehovah his God.</p> <p class="hdg">David Destroys the Amalekites</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/30-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And David saith unto Abiathar the priest, son of Ahimelech, ‘Bring nigh, I pray thee, to me the ephod;’ and Abiathar bringeth nigh the ephod unto David, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/30-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>and David asketh at Jehovah, saying, ‘I pursue after this troop — do I overtake it?’ And He saith to him, ‘Pursue, for thou dost certainly overtake, and dost certainly deliver.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/30-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And David goeth on, he and six hundred men who [are] with him, and they come in unto the brook of Besor, and those left have stood still, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/30-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and David pursueth, he and four hundred men, (and two hundred men stand still who have been too faint to pass over the brook of Besor),</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/30-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and they find a man, an Egyptian, in the field, and take him unto David, and give to him bread, and he eateth, and they cause him to drink water, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/30-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>and give to him a piece of a bunch of dried figs, and two bunches of raisins, and he eateth, and his spirit returneth unto him, for he hath not eaten bread nor drunk water three days and three nights. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/30-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And David saith to him, ‘Whose [art] thou? and whence [art] thou?’ And he saith, ‘An Egyptian youth I [am], servant to a man, an Amalekite, and my lord forsaketh me, for I have been sick three days, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/30-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>we pushed [to] the south of the Cherethite, and against that which [is] to Judah, and against the south of Caleb, and Ziklag we burned with fire.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/30-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And David saith unto him, ‘Dost thou bring me down unto this troop?’ and he saith, ‘Swear to me by God — thou dost not put me to death, nor dost thou shut me up into the hand of my lord — and I bring thee down unto this troop.’</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/30-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And he bringeth him down, and lo, they are spread out over the face of all the earth, eating, and drinking, and feasting, with all the great spoil which they have taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/30-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And David smiteth them from the twilight even unto the evening of the morrow, and there hath not escaped of them a man, except four hundred young men who have ridden on the camels, and are fled. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/30-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And David delivereth all that the Amalekites have taken; also his two wives hath David delivered. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/30-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And there hath not lacked to them [anything], from small unto great, and unto sons and daughters, and from the spoil, even unto all that they had taken to themselves, the whole hath David brought back, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/30-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>and David taketh the whole of the flock, and of the herd, they have led on before these cattle, and they say, ‘This [is] David’s spoil.’</p> <p class="hdg">The Spoils are Divided</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/30-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And David cometh in unto the two hundred men who were too faint to go after David, and whom they cause to abide at the brook of Besor, and they go out to meet David, and to meet the people who [are] with him, and David approacheth the people, and asketh of them of welfare. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/30-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And every bad and worthless man, of the men who have gone with David, answereth, yea, they say, ‘Because that they have not gone with us we do not give to them of the spoil which we have delivered, except each his wife and his children, and they lead away and go. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/30-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And David saith, ‘Ye do not do so, my brethren, with that which Jehovah hath given to us, and He doth preserve us, and doth give the troop which cometh against us into our hand; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/30-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>and who doth hearken to you in this thing? for as the portion of him who was brought down into battle, so also [is] the portion of him who is abiding by the vessels — alike they share.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/30-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And it cometh to pass from that day and forward, that he appointeth it for a statute and for an ordinance for Israel unto this day.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/30-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And David cometh in unto Ziklag, and sendeth of the spoil to the elders of Judah, to his friends, (saying, ‘Lo, for you a blessing, of the spoil of the enemies of Jehovah),’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/30-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>to those in Beth-El, and to those in South Ramoth, and to those in Jattir, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/30-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>and to those in Aroer, and to those in Siphmoth, and to those in Eshtemoa, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/30-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>and to those in Rachal, and to those in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to those in the cities of the Kenites, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/30-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>and to those in Hormah, and to those in Chor-Ashan, and to those in Athach, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/30-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>and to those in Hebron, and to all the places where David had gone up and down, he and his men.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Young's Literal Translation<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../1_samuel/29.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Samuel 29"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Samuel 29" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../1_samuel/31.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Samuel 31"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Samuel 31" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/1_samuel/30-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="../sidemenu.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <br /><br /></div><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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