1 Samuel 30

ECB(i) 1
DAVID DESTROYS THE AMALEQIY
And so be it, on the third day, David and his men come to Siqlag: and the Amaleqiy strip the south and Siqlag and smite Siqlag and burn it with fire 2 and capture the women therein: they deathify no man, either great or small, but drive them away and go on their way. 3 And David and his men come to the city, and behold, it is burned with fire; and their women and their sons and their daughters are captured. 4 And David and the people with him lift their voice and weep, until they have no more force to weep: 5 for they had captured the two women of David - Achiy Noam the Yizre Eliyth and Abi Gail the woman of Nabal the Karmeliy: 6 and David is mighty depressed; for the people say of stoning him, because the soul of all the people embitters - every man for his sons and for his daughters. And David strengthens in Yah Veh his Elohim; 7 and David says to Abi Athar the priest the son of Achiy Melech, I beseech you, bring near the ephod. - and Abi Athar brings near the ephod to David. 8 And David asks at Yah Veh, saying, Pursue I after this troop? Overtake them? And he says to him, Pursue! In overtaking, overtake! And in rescuing, rescue! 9 And David goes - he with his six hundred men and comes to the wadi Besor, and those remaining, stay: 10 and David pursues - he and four hundred men: for two hundred stay behind - too exhausted to pass over the wadi Besor. 11 And they find a man - a Misrayim in the field and take him to David; and give him bread and he eats; and they have him drink water; 12 and they give him a slice of a lump of figs and two raisincakes: and he eats, and his spirit returns to him: for he had neither eaten bread nor drank water three days and three nights. 13 And David says to him, Whose are you? Whence are you? And he says, I am a lad - a Misrayim; servant to a man, an Amaleqiy; and my adoni leaves me, because three days ago, I fell sick. 14 We stripped the south of the Kerethiy and against that which is to Yah Hudah; and on the south of Kaleb; and we burned Siqlag with fire. 15 And David says to him, Bring you me down to this troop? And he says, Oath to me by Elohim, that you neither deathify me nor shut me into the hands of my adoni - and I descend you to this troop. 16 And he descends him, and behold, they disperse upon the face of all the earth, eating and drinking and celebrating, because of all the great spoil they took from the land of the Peleshethiy and from the land of Yah Hudah. 17 And David smites them from the evening breeze to the evening of the morrow: and not a man of them escapes except four hundred lads flee riding on camels. 18 And David rescues all that the Amaleqiy took: and David rescues his two women: 19 and they lack naught - from small to great; neither sons nor daughters; neither spoil nor aught they took to them: David returns all: 20 and David takes all the flocks and the oxen, which they drove at the face of those chattel and says, This is the spoil for David. 21 And David comes to the two hundred men who were too exhausted to go with David, whom they settled at the wadi Besor: and they go to meet David and to meet the people with him: and David comes near to the people, and he asks shalom of them. 22 And all the evil men of Beli Yaal, of those men who went with David, answer and say, Because they went not with us, we give them naught of the spoil we rescued, except to every man his woman and his sons to drive them away and go. 23 And David says, Work not thus, my brothers, with what Yah Veh gives us, who guards us from the troop that come against us and gives them into our hand. 24 And who hearkens to you in this word? but as his allotment, who descends to the war, thus his allotment, who settles by his instruments - they allot unitedly. 25 - and so be it, from that day and onward, that he set it a statute and a judgment for Yisra El to this day. 26 And David comes to Siqlag, and he sends of the spoil to the elders of Yah Hudah - to his friends, saying, Behold, a blessing for you of the spoil of the enemies of Yah Veh: 27 to them in Beth El and to them in south Ramoth and to them in Yattir 28 and to them in Aroer and to them in Siphmoth and to them in Eshtemoa 29 and to them in Rachal and to them in the cities of the Yerachme Eliy and to them in the cities of the Qayiniy 30 and to them in Hormah and to them in Kor Ashan and to them in Athach 31 and to them in Hebron and to all the places where David himself and his men walked.