AND it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Tsiqlag on the third day, that the Amaleqiym had invaded the Negev, and Tsiqlag, and smitten Tsiqlag, and burned it with fire;
And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way.
So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their women, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.
Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
And David's two women were taken captives, Achiyno'am the Yizre'e'liyth, and Aviygayil the woman of Naval the Karmeliy.
And David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in Yahuah Elohayu.
And David said to Avyathar the priest, Achiymelek's son, I pray you, bring me hither the ephod. And Avyathar brought thither the ephod to El-David.
And David inquired at Yahuah, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for you shall surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.
So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.
But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred abode behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor.
And they found a Mitsriy in the field, and brought him to El-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 ruach 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 belong you? and whence are you? And he said, I am a young man of Mitsrayim, servant to an Amaleqiy; and my adoniy left me, because three days agone I fell sick.
We made an invasion upon the south of the Kerethiym, and upon the coast which belongs to Yahudah, and upon the south of Kalev; and we burned Tsiqlag with fire.
And David said to him, Can you bring me down to this company? And he said, Swear unto me by Elohiym, that you will neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my adoniy, and I will bring you 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 Pelishtiym, and out of the land of Yahudah.
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 את all that the Amaleqiym had carried away: and David rescued his two women.
And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor anything that they had taken to them: David recovered all.
And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.
And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted them.
Then answered all the wicked men and men of Beliya`al, of those that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them ought of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his woman and his children, that they may lead them away, and depart.
Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with את that which Yahuah has given us, who has preserved us, and delivered the company that came against us into our hand.
For who will hearken unto you in this matter? but as his part is that goes down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarries by the stuff: they shall part alike.
And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Yashar'el unto this day.
And when David came to Tsiqlag, he sent of the spoil unto the elders of Yahudah, even to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of Yahuah;
To them which were in Beyt-El, and to them which were in Ramoth-Negev, and to them which were in Yattiyr,
And to them which were in Aro'er, and to them which were in Siphmoth, and to them which were in Eshtemoa,
And to them which were in Rakal, and to them which were in the cities of the Yerachme'eliym, and to them which were in the cities of the Qeyniyiym,
And to them which were in Chormah, and to them which were in Kor Ashan, and to them which were in Athak,
And to them which were in Chevron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt.