1 Samuel 30 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

David Strikes Down the Amalekites

Then it happened^H1961 when David^H1732 and his men^H376 came^H935 to Ziklag^H6860 on the third^H7992 day^H3117, that the Amalekites^H6003 had made^H6584 a^H6584 raid^H6584 on the [fn]Negev^H5045 and on Ziklag^H6860 and had struck^H5221 Ziklag^H6860 and burned^H8313 it with fire^H784;

1Sa 30:2

1Sa 30:2and they took captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great—they did not put anyone to death—and carried them off and went their way.

1Sa 30:3

1Sa 30:3Then David and his men came to the city, and behold, it was burned with fire, and their wives and their sons and their daughters had been taken captive.

1Sa 30:4

1Sa 30:4So David and the people who were with him lifted their voices and wept until there was no strength in them to weep.

1Sa 30:5

1Sa 30:5Now David’s two wives had been taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess and Abigail the [fn]widow of Nabal the Carmelite.

1Sa 30:6

1Sa 30:6Moreover David was greatly distressed because the people said to stone him, for all the people were [fn]embittered, each one because of his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

1Sa 30:7

Then David^H1732 said^H559 to Abiathar^H54 the priest^H3548, the son^H1121 of Ahimelech^H288, “Please^H4994 bring^H5066 the ephod^H646 near^H5066 to me.” So Abiathar^H54 brought^H5066 the ephod^H646 near^H5066 to David^H1732.

1Sa 30:8

1Sa 30:8And David asked of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I pursue this band? Shall I overtake them?” And He said to him, “Pursue, for you will surely overtake them, and you will surely deliver all.”

1Sa 30:9

1Sa 30:9So David went, he and the six hundred men who were with him, and they came to the brook Besor, where those left behind remained.

1Sa 30:10

1Sa 30:10But David pursued, he and four hundred men, for two hundred who were too exhausted to cross the brook Besor remained behind.

1Sa 30:11

Then they found^H4672 an Egyptian^H4713 in the field^H7704 and brought^H3947 him to David^H1732 and gave^H5414 him bread^H3899, and he ate^H398, and they provided^H8248 him water^H4325 to^H8248 drink^H8248.

1Sa 30:12

1Sa 30:12And they gave him a piece of fig cake and two clusters of raisins, and he ate; then his spirit [fn]revived. For he had not eaten bread or drunk water for three days and three nights.

1Sa 30:13

1Sa 30:13And David said to him, “To whom do you belong? And where are you from?” And he said, “I am a young man of Egypt, a slave of an Amalekite; and my master forsook me when I fell sick three days ago.

1Sa 30:14

1Sa 30:14“We made a raid on the [fn]Negev of the Cherethites and on that which belongs to Judah and on the [fn]Negev of Caleb, and we burned Ziklag with fire.”

1Sa 30:15

1Sa 30:15Then David said to him, “Will you bring me down to this band?” And he said, “Swear to me by God that you will not put me to death or surrender me into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this band.”

1Sa 30:16

So he brought^H3381 him down^H3381, and behold^H2009, they were [fn]spread^H5203 over^H5921 all^H3605 the land^H776, eating^H398 and drinking^H8354 and [fn]celebrating^H2287 because of all^H3605 the great^H1419 spoil^H7998 that they had taken^H3947 from the land^H776 of the Philistines^H6430 and from the land^H776 of Judah^H3063.

1Sa 30:17

1Sa 30:17Then David struck them down from the twilight [fn]until the evening of [fn]the next day; and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled.

1Sa 30:18

1Sa 30:18So David delivered all that the Amalekites had taken and [fn]delivered his two wives.

1Sa 30:19

1Sa 30:19Indeed nothing of theirs was missing, whether small or great, sons or daughters, spoil or anything that they had taken for themselves; David brought it all back.

1Sa 30:20

1Sa 30:20And David took all the sheep and the cattle which the people drove ahead of [fn]the other livestock, and they said, “This is David’s spoil.”

David Apportions the Spoils

1Sa 30:21

Then David^H1732 came^H935 to the two hundred^H3967 men^H376 who^H834 were too^H4480 exhausted^H6296 to follow^H1980^H310 David^H1732, who had also remained^H3427 at the brook^H5158 Besor^H1308, and they went^H3318 out^H3318 to meet^H7122 David^H1732 and to meet^H7122 the people^H5971 who^H834 were with him, and David^H1732 approached^H5066 the people^H5971 and greeted^H7592^H7965 them.

1Sa 30:22

1Sa 30:22Then all the evil and vile men among those who went with David said, “Because they did not go with [fn]us, we will not give them any of the spoil that we have delivered, except to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away and depart.”

1Sa 30:23

1Sa 30:23Then David said, “You must not do so, my brothers, with what Yahweh has given us, who has kept us and given into our hand the band that came against us.

1Sa 30:24

1Sa 30:24“And who will listen to you in this matter? For as is the portion of the one who goes down to the battle, so shall the portion be of the one who remains by the baggage; they shall be apportioned together.”

1Sa 30:25

1Sa 30:25So it has been from that day forward, that he made it a statute and a judgment for Israel to this day.

1Sa 30:26

Then David^H1732 came^H935 to Ziklag^H6860 and sent^H7971 some of the spoil^H7998 to the elders^H2205 of Judah^H3063, to his friends^H7453, saying^H559, “Behold^H2009, a [fn]gift^H1293 for you from the spoil^H7998 of the enemies^H340 of Yahweh^H3068:

1Sa 30:27

1Sa 30:27to those who were in Bethel, and to those who were in Ramoth of the [fn]Negev, and to those who were in Jattir,

1Sa 30:28

1Sa 30:28and to those who were in Aroer, and to those who were in Siphmoth, and to those who were in Eshtemoa,

1Sa 30:29

1Sa 30:29and to those who were in Racal, and to those who were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to those who were in the cities of the Kenites,

1Sa 30:30