1 Samuel 30 : 1 (LXXEN)
And it came to pass when David and his men had entered Sekelac on the third day, that Amalec had made an incursion upon the south, and upon Sekelac, and smitten Sekelac, and burnt it with fire.
1 Samuel 30 : 2 (LXXEN)
And as to the women and all things that were in it, great and small, they slew neither man nor woman, but carried them captives, and went on their way.
1 Samuel 30 : 3 (LXXEN)
And David and his men came into the city, and, behold, it was burnt with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters were carried captive.
1 Samuel 30 : 4 (LXXEN)
And David and his men lifted up their voice, and wept till there was no longer any power within them to weep.
1 Samuel 30 : 5 (LXXEN)
And both the wives of David were carried captive, Achinaam, the Jezraelitess, and Abigaia the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
1 Samuel 30 : 6 (LXXEN)
And David was greatly distressed, because the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, each for his sons and his daughters: but David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.
1 Samuel 30 : 7 (LXXEN)
And David said to Abiathar the priest the son of Achimelech, Bring near the Alex. and Heb. +’And Abiathar brought the ephod to David’
ephod.
1 Samuel 30 : 8 (LXXEN)
And David enquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I pursue after this The Greek is borrowed from the Hebrew
troop? shall I overtake them? and he said to him, Pursue, for thou shalt surely overtake them, and thou shalt surely rescue the captives.
1 Samuel 30 : 9 (LXXEN)
So David went, he and the six hundred men with him, an they come as far as the brook Bosor, and the superfluous ones stopped.
1 Samuel 30 : 10 (LXXEN)
And he pursued them with four hundred men; and there remained behind two hundred men, who tarried on the other side of the brook Bosor.
1 Samuel 30 : 11 (LXXEN)
And they find an Egyptian in the field, and they take him, and bring him to David; and they Gr. give
gave him bread and he ate, and they caused him to drink water.
1 Samuel 30 : 12 (LXXEN)
And they Gr. give
gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and he ate, and his spirit was Gr. staid or established in him
restored in him; for he had not eaten bread, and had not drunk water three days and three nights.
1 Samuel 30 : 13 (LXXEN)
And David said to him, Whose art thou? and whence art thou? and the young man the Egyptian said, I am the servant of an Amalekite; and my master left me, because I was taken ill three days ago.
1 Samuel 30 : 14 (LXXEN)
And we made an incursion on the south of the Chelethite, and on the parts of Judea, and on the south of Chelub, and we burnt Sekelac with fire.
1 Samuel 30 : 15 (LXXEN)
And David said to him, Wilt thou bring me down to this troop? And he said, Swear now to me by God, that thou wilt not kill me, and that thou wilt not deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down upon this troop.
1 Samuel 30 : 16 (LXXEN)
So be brought him down thither, and behold, they were scattered abroad upon the surface of the whole land, eating and drinking, and feasting by reason of all the great spoils which they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Juda.
1 Samuel 30 : 17 (LXXEN)
And David came upon them, and smote them from the morning till the evening, and on the next day; and not one of them escaped, except four hundred young men, who were mounted on camels, and fled.
1 Samuel 30 : 18 (LXXEN)
And David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and he rescued both his wives.
1 Samuel 30 : 19 (LXXEN)
And See Nu 31:49; Jos 23:14; 1 Ki 8:56
nothing was wanting to them of great or small, either of the spoils, or the sons and daughters, or anything that they had taken of theirs; and David recovered all.
1 Samuel 30 : 20 (LXXEN)
And he took all the flocks, and the herds, and led them away before the spoils: and it was said of these spoils, These are the spoils of David.
1 Samuel 30 : 21 (LXXEN)
And David comes to the two hundred men who were left behind that they should not follow after David, and he had caused them to remain Gr. in
by the brook of Bosor; and they came forth to meet David, and to meet his people with him: and David drew near to the people, and they asked him how he did.
1 Samuel 30 : 22 (LXXEN)
Then every ill-disposed and bad man of the soldiers who had gone with David, answered and said, Because they did not pursue together with us, we will not give them of the spoils which we have recovered, only let each one lead away with him his wife and his children, and let them return.
1 Samuel 30 : 23 (LXXEN)
And David said, Ye shall not do so, after the Lord has delivered the enemy to us, and guarded us, and the Lord has delivered into our hands the troop that came against us.
1 Samuel 30 : 24 (LXXEN)
And who will hearken to these your words? for they are not Gr. an inferior thing
inferior to us; for according to the portion of him that went down to the battle, so shall be the portion of him that abides with the baggage; they shall share alike.
1 Samuel 30 : 25 (LXXEN)
And it came to pass from that day forward, that it became an ordinance and a custom in Israel until this day.
1 Samuel 30 : 26 (LXXEN)
And David came to Sekelac, and sent of the spoils to the elders of Juda, and to his friends, saying, Heb. and Alex. «Lo! a blessing from you,’ etc.
Behold some of the spoils of the enemies of the Lord;
1 Samuel 30 : 27 (LXXEN)
to those in Heb. and Alex. «Bether’
Baethsur, and to those in Rama of the south, and to those in Gethor.
1 Samuel 30 : 28 (LXXEN)
And to those in Aroer, and to those in Ammadi, and to those in Saphi, and to those in Esthie,
1 Samuel 30 : 29 (LXXEN)
and to those in Geth, and to those in Cimath, and to those in Saphec, and to those in Themath, and to those in Carmel, and to those in the cities of Jeremeel, and to those in the cities of the Kenezite;
1 Samuel 30 : 30 (LXXEN)
and to those in Jerimuth, and to those in Bersabee, and to those in Nombe,
1 Samuel 30 : 31 (LXXEN)
and to those in Chebron, and to all the places which David and his men had passed through.
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