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chapter 30
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Now
when David and his men were come to Siceleg on the third day, the Amalecites
had made an invasion on the south side upon Siceleg, and had smitten Siceleg,
and burnt it with fire.
2 And had taken the women captives that were in it,
both little and great: and they had not killed any person, but had carried them
with them, and went on their way.
3 So when David and his men came to the city, and found
it burnt with fire, and that their wives and their sons, and their daughters
were taken captives,
4 David and the people that were with him, lifted up
their voices, and wept till they had no more tears.
5 For the two wives also of David were taken captives,
Achinoam the Jezrahelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal of Carmel.
6 And David was greatly afflicted: for the people had a
mind to stone him, for the soul of every man was bitterly grieved for his sons,
and daughters: but David took courage in the Lord his God.
7 And he said to Abiathar the priest the son of
Achimelech: Bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought the ephod to David.
8 And David consulted the Lord, saying: Shall I pursue
after these robbers, and shall I overtake them, or not? And the Lord said to
him: Pursue after them: for thou shalt surely overtake them and recover the
prey.
9 So David went, he and the six hundred men that were
with him, and they came to the torrent Besor: and some being weary stayed
there.
10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two
hundred stayed, who being weary could not go over the torrent Besor.
11 And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought
him to David: and they gave him bread to eat, and water to drink,
12 As also a piece of a cake of figs, and two bunches
of raisins. And when he had eaten them his spirit returned, and he was
refreshed: for he had not eaten bread, nor drunk water three days, and three
nights.
13 And David said to him: To whom dost thou belong? or
whence dost thou come? and whither art thou going? He said: I am a young man of
Egypt, the servant of an Amalecite, and my master left me, because I began to
be sick three days ago.
14 For we made an invasion on the south side of
Cerethi, and upon Juda, and upon the south of Caleb, and we burnt Siceleg with
fire.
15 And David said to him: Canst thou bring me to this
company? And he said: Swear to me by God, that thou wilt not kill me, nor
deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee to this company.
And David swore to him.
16 And when he had brought him, behold they were lying
spread upon all the ground, eating and drinking, and as it were keeping a
festival day, for all the prey, and the spoils which they had taken out of the
land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Juda.
17 And David slew them from the evening unto the
evening of the next day, and there escaped not a man of them, but four hundred
young men, who had gotten upon camels, and fled.
18 So David recovered all that the Amalecites had
taken, and he rescued his two wives.
19 And there was nothing missing small or great,
neither of their sons or their daughters, nor of the spoils, and whatsoever
they had taken: David recovered all.
20 And he took all the flocks and the herds, and made
them go before him: and they said: This is the prey of David.
21 And David came to the two hundred men, who being
weary had stayed, and were not able to follow David, and he had ordered them to
abide at the torrent Besor: and they came out to meet David, and the people
that were with him. And David coming to the people saluted them peaceably.
22 Then all the wicked and unjust men that had gone
with David answering, said: Because they came not with us, we will not give
them any thing of the prey which we have recovered: but let every man take his
wife and his children, and be contented with them, and go his way.
23 But David said: You shall not do so, my brethren,
with these things, which the Lord hath given us, who hath kept us, and hath
delivered the robbers that invaded us into our hands.
24 And no man shall hearken to you in this matter. But
equal shall be the portion of him that went down to battle and of him that abode
at the baggage, and they shall divide alike.
25 And this hath been done from that day forward, and
since was made a statute, and an ordinance, and as a law in Israel.
26 Then David came to Siceleg, and sent presents of the
prey to the ancients of Juda his neighbours, saying: Receive a blessing of the
prey of the enemies of the Lord.
27 To them that were in Bethel, and that were in Ramoth
to the south, and to them that were in Jether,
28 And to them that were in Aroer and that were in
Sephamoth, and that were in Esthamo,
29 And that were in Rachal, and that were in the cities
of Jerameel, and that were in the cities of Ceni,
30 And that were in Arama, and that were in the lake
Asan, and that were in Athach,
31 And that were in Hebron, and to the rest that were
in those places, in which David had abode with his men.
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