I. Samurt XXX. 11.

BC. yabaut behind, which were_so_faint that they
could _ not _ go_over rthe_ brook xBe- sor.
1 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 tes, 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 Dayid said unto him, “To whom belongest thou ? and whence art thon?” And he said,“ am a young. man_of Egypt,servant toan Amalekite ; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell_sick.
e¢ 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 bburned -Ziklag with «fire.”
15 And David said to him, “Canst_ thou_bring_me_down to xthis ‘¢xcom- pany?” 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 apie ne thee-Sown to xthis pecbinpany.
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 xspoil that they had_taken out_of the_ land_of the Philistines, and out_of the_ land_of Judah.
7 And David smote them from the twilight even unto*the evening_of the next_day: and there escaped not a i man_of them, save four hundred young é ithe which rode upon xcamels, and
ed.
18 And David recoyered all that the Amalekites had_carried_away : and Da- vid rescued his «two wives.
19 And there was nothing lacking to them, neither xsmall nor xgreat, 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 draye before xthose other xcattle, and said, “This is Dayid’s spoil.”
21 And David came_to the two_hun- dred @xmen, which were_so_faint that they could_not follow David, whom they had_made also to_abide at the_brook xBesor: and they went_forth to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him : and when Dayid came_ near to -the people, he «saluted
-|them.
22'Then answered all the wicked ‘men
im. |and men of Belial, of «those that went
with David, and said, “Because they went not with us, We W rill not give them ought of the spoil that we -have_reco- vered, 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 Lorp -hath_given us, Who hath_pre- served us, and delivered -the ‘com-