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1. Samuelin kirjaLuku 30

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When David and his men reached Ziklag on the third day, they found that the Amalekites had raided the Negev and Ziklag. They had struck Ziklag and burned it down.
They had taken captive the women who were there, young and old alike, but had killed no one; they drove them off and went on their way.
When David and his men came to the town, there it was, burned to the ground, and their wives, sons, and daughters taken captive.
Then David and the men with him wept aloud until they had no strength left to weep.
David's two wives had also been taken captive—Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail, the widow of Nabal of Carmel.
David was in great distress, for the men were talking of stoning him; every one of them was bitter in spirit over his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the LORD his God.
David said to Abiathar the priest, son of Ahimelech, "Bring me the ephod." So Abiathar brought it to him,
and David inquired of the LORD, "Shall I pursue this raiding party? Will I overtake them?" "Pursue them," he answered. "You will surely overtake them and surely rescue the captives."
So David set out with the six hundred men who were with him, and they came to the Besor Valley, where the rest stayed behind.
David pressed on with four hundred men, while two hundred were too exhausted to cross the Besor Valley and stayed there.
They came across an Egyptian in the open country and brought him to David. They gave him bread to eat and water to drink,
along with a piece of pressed figs and two cakes of raisins. He ate, and his strength returned to him, for he had not eaten bread or drunk water for three days and three nights.
David asked him, "Who do you belong to, and where are you from?" He answered, "I am a young Egyptian, the slave of an Amalekite. My master abandoned me three days ago because I fell ill.
We raided the Negev of the Kerethites, the territory of Judah, and the Negev of Caleb, and we burned Ziklag."
David asked him, "Can you lead me down to this raiding party?" He said, "Swear to me by God that you will not kill me or hand me over to my master, and I will lead you down to them."
So he led him down, and there they were, sprawled all over the countryside, eating, drinking, and celebrating because of the great spoil they had taken from the land of the Philistines and the land of Judah.
David struck them down from dusk until the evening of the next day, and not one of them escaped except four hundred young men who mounted camels and fled.
David recovered everything the Amalekites had taken, and he rescued his two wives.
Nothing was missing—young or old, sons or daughters, plunder or anything else they had carried off. David brought it all back.
He also took all the flocks and herds, and his men drove them ahead of the other livestock, saying, "This is David's spoil."
Then David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow him and had been left behind at the Besor Valley. They came out to meet David and the men with him, and as David approached, he greeted them.
But all the worthless scoundrels among the men who had gone with David said, "Since they did not go with us, we will not share with them any of the spoil we recovered—except that each man may take his wife and children and go."
David replied, "No, my brothers, you must not do that with what the LORD has given us. He protected us and handed over to us the raiders who came against us.
Who would listen to such a thing? The share of the man who goes into battle and the share of the man who stays with the supplies shall be the same; they shall share alike."
From that day on David made this a statute and an ordinance for Israel, and it remains so to this day.
When David reached Ziklag, he sent some of the spoil to his friends, the elders of Judah, with the message: "Here is a gift for you from the spoil of the LORD's enemies."
He sent it to those in Bethel, Ramoth of the Negev, and Jattir;
to those in Aroer, Siphmoth, and Eshtemoa;
to those in Racal, in the towns of the Jerahmeelites and the towns of the Kenites;
to those in Hormah, Bor Ashan, and Athach;
to those in Hebron; and to all the other places where David and his men had roamed.
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