CLV(i)
17 And David smites them from the twilight even unto the evening of the morrow, and there has not escaped of them a man, except four hundred young men who have ridden on the camels, and are fled.
18 And David delivers all that the Amalekites have taken; also his two wives has David delivered.
19 And there has 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 has David brought back,
20 and David takes the whole of the flock, and of the herd, they have led on before these cattle, and they say, `This [is] David's spoil..
21 And David comes 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 approaches the people, and asks of them of welfare.
22 And every bad and worthless man, of the men who have gone with David, answers, 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.
23 And David said, `You do not do so, my brethren, with that which Yahweh has given to us, and He does preserve us, and does give the troop which comes against us into our hand;"
24 and who does 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..
25 And it comes to pass from that day and forward, that he appoints it for a statute and for an ordinance for Israel unto this day.
26 And David comes in unto Ziklag, and sends of the spoil to the elders of Judah, to his friends, (saying, `Lo, for you a blessing, of the spoil of the enemies of Yahweh),.