hundred men: for two hundred abode behind,
which were so faint that they could not go over
the brook Besor. And they found an Egyptian in
the field, and brought him to David, and gave
him bread, and he did eat; and they made him
drink water; And they gave him a piece of a cake
of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he
had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he
had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three
days and three nights. And David said unto
him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art
thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt,
servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me,
because three days agone I fell sick. We made an
invasion upon the south of the Cherethites, and
upon the coast which belongeth to Judah, and
upon the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag
with fire. And David said to him, Canst thou
bring me down to this company? And he said,
Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill
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me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master,
and I will bring thee down to this company. And
when he had brought him down, behold, they
were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating
and drinking, and dancing, because of all the
great spoil that they had taken out of the land
of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
And David smote them from the twilight even
unto the evening of the next day: and there
escaped not a man of them, save four hundred
young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.
And David recovered all that the Amalekites had
carried away: and David rescued his two wives.
And there was nothing lacking to them, neither
small nor great, neither sons nor daughters,
neither spoil, nor any thing that they had taken
to them: David recovered all.”
Constant consultation with God and
guidance from God made it impossible for
Saul to kill David. Just as an experienced