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         <div class="label">54</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 54</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 54:1-7 is numbered 54:3-9.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">maskil</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a literary or musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> of David. When the Ziphites had gone to Saul and said, &#8220;Is not David hiding among us?&#8221;</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.54.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Save me, O God, by your name;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.54.1"><span class="content">vindicate me by your might.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.54.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.54.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Hear my prayer, O God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.54.2"><span class="content">listen to the words of my mouth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.54.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.54.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Arrogant foes are attacking me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.54.3"><span class="content">ruthless people are trying to kill me&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.54.3"><span class="content">people without regard for God.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">54:3 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.54.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.54.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Surely God is my help;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.54.4"><span class="content">the Lord is the one who sustains me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.54.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.54.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Let evil recoil on those who slander me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.54.5"><span class="content">in your faithfulness destroy them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.54.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.54.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I will sacrifice a freewill offering to you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.54.6"><span class="content">I will praise your name, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, for it is good.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.54.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.54.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You have delivered me from all my troubles,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.54.7"><span class="content">and my eyes have looked in triumph on my foes.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">63</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 63</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 63:1-11 is numbered 63:2-12.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A psalm of David. When he was in the Desert of Judah.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.63.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">You, God, are my God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.63.1"><span class="content">earnestly I seek you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.63.1"><span class="content">I thirst for you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.63.1"><span class="content">my whole being longs for you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.63.1"><span class="content">in a dry and parched land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.63.1"><span class="content">where there is no water.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.63.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.63.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I have seen you in the sanctuary</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.63.2"><span class="content">and beheld your power and your glory.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.63.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.63.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Because your love is better than life,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.63.3"><span class="content">my lips will glorify you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.63.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.63.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I will praise you as long as I live,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.63.4"><span class="content">and in your name I will lift up my hands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.63.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.63.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.63.5"><span class="content">with singing lips my mouth will praise you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.63.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.63.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">On my bed I remember you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.63.6"><span class="content">I think of you through the watches of the night.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.63.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.63.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Because you are my help,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.63.7"><span class="content">I sing in the shadow of your wings.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.63.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.63.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I cling to you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.63.8"><span class="content">your right hand upholds me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.63.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.63.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Those who want to kill me will be destroyed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.63.9"><span class="content">they will go down to the depths of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.63.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.63.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They will be given over to the sword</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.63.10"><span class="content">and become food for jackals.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.63.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.63.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But the king will rejoice in God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.63.11"><span class="content">all who swear by God will glory in him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.63.11"><span class="content">while the mouths of liars will be silenced.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">28</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.28.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In those days the Philistines gathered their forces to fight against Israel. Achish said to David, &#8220;You must understand that you and your men will accompany me in the army.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.28.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.28.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">David said, &#8220;Then you will see for yourself what your servant can do.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.28.2"><span class="content">Achish replied, &#8220;Very well, I will make you my bodyguard for life.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Saul and the Medium at Endor</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.28.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.28.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in his own town of Ramah. Saul had expelled the mediums and spiritists from the land.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.28.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.28.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The Philistines assembled and came and set up camp at Shunem, while Saul gathered all Israel and set up camp at Gilboa. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.28.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When Saul saw the Philistine army, he was afraid; terror filled his heart. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.28.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He inquired of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, but the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> did not answer him by dreams or Urim or prophets. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.28.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Saul then said to his attendants, &#8220;Find me a woman who is a medium, so I may go and inquire of her.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.28.7"><span class="content">&#8220;There is one in Endor,&#8221; they said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.28.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.28.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">So Saul disguised himself, putting on other clothes, and at night he and two men went to the woman. &#8220;Consult a spirit for me,&#8221; he said, &#8220;and bring up for me the one I name.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.28.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.28.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But the woman said to him, &#8220;Surely you know what Saul has done. He has cut off the mediums and spiritists from the land. Why have you set a trap for my life to bring about my death?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.28.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.28.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Saul swore to her by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;As surely as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> lives, you will not be punished for this.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.28.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.28.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then the woman asked, &#8220;Whom shall I bring up for you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.28.11"><span class="content">&#8220;Bring up Samuel,&#8221; he said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.28.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.28.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When the woman saw Samuel, she cried out at the top of her voice and said to Saul, &#8220;Why have you deceived me? You are Saul!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.28.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.28.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The king said to her, &#8220;Don&#8217;t be afraid. What do you see?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.28.13"><span class="content">The woman said, &#8220;I see a ghostly figure</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">28:13 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">see spirits</span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">see gods</span></span></span><span class="content"> coming up out of the earth.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.28.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.28.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;What does he look like?&#8221; he asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.28.14"><span class="content">&#8220;An old man wearing a robe is coming up,&#8221; she said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.28.14"><span class="content">Then Saul knew it was Samuel, and he bowed down and prostrated himself with his face to the ground.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.28.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.28.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Samuel said to Saul, &#8220;Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.28.15"><span class="content">&#8220;I am in great distress,&#8221; Saul said. &#8220;The Philistines are fighting against me, and God has departed from me. He no longer answers me, either by prophets or by dreams. So I have called on you to tell me what to do.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.28.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.28.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Samuel said, &#8220;Why do you consult me, now that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has departed from you and become your enemy? </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.28.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has done what he predicted through me. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has torn the kingdom out of your hands and given it to one of your neighbors&#8212;to David. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1SA.28.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Because you did not obey the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> or carry out his fierce wrath against the Amalekites, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has done this to you today. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1SA.28.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will deliver both Israel and you into the hands of the Philistines, and tomorrow you and your sons will be with me. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will also give the army of Israel into the hands of the Philistines.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1SA.28.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1SA.28.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Immediately Saul fell full length on the ground, filled with fear because of Samuel&#8217;s words. His strength was gone, for he had eaten nothing all that day and all that night.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1SA.28.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1SA.28.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">When the woman came to Saul and saw that he was greatly shaken, she said, &#8220;Look, your servant has obeyed you. I took my life in my hands and did what you told me to do. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1SA.28.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Now please listen to your servant and let me give you some food so you may eat and have the strength to go on your way.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1SA.28.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1SA.28.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">He refused and said, &#8220;I will not eat.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1SA.28.23"><span class="content">But his men joined the woman in urging him, and he listened to them. He got up from the ground and sat on the couch.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1SA.28.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1SA.28.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The woman had a fattened calf at the house, which she butchered at once. She took some flour, kneaded it and baked bread without yeast. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1SA.28.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Then she set it before Saul and his men, and they ate. That same night they got up and left.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">29</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Achish Sends David Back to Ziklag</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.29.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The Philistines gathered all their forces at Aphek, and Israel camped by the spring in Jezreel. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.29.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">As the Philistine rulers marched with their units of hundreds and thousands, David and his men were marching at the rear with Achish. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.29.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The commanders of the Philistines asked, &#8220;What about these Hebrews?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.29.3"><span class="content">Achish replied, &#8220;Is this not David, who was an officer of Saul king of Israel? He has already been with me for over a year, and from the day he left Saul until now, I have found no fault in him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.29.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.29.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But the Philistine commanders were angry with Achish and said, &#8220;Send the man back, that he may return to the place you assigned him. He must not go with us into battle, or he will turn against us during the fighting. How better could he regain his master&#8217;s favor than by taking the heads of our own men? </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.29.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Isn&#8217;t this the David they sang about in their dances:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.29.5"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Saul has slain his thousands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.29.5"><span class="content">and David his tens of thousands&#8217;?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.29.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.29.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So Achish called David and said to him, &#8220;As surely as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> lives, you have been reliable, and I would be pleased to have you serve with me in the army. From the day you came to me until today, I have found no fault in you, but the rulers don&#8217;t approve of you. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.29.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Now turn back and go in peace; do nothing to displease the Philistine rulers.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.29.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.29.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;But what have I done?&#8221; asked David. &#8220;What have you found against your servant from the day I came to you until now? Why can&#8217;t I go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.29.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.29.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Achish answered, &#8220;I know that you have been as pleasing in my eyes as an angel of God; nevertheless, the Philistine commanders have said, &#8216;He must not go up with us into battle.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.29.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Now get up early, along with your master&#8217;s servants who have come with you, and leave in the morning as soon as it is light.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.29.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.29.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">So David and his men got up early in the morning to go back to the land of the Philistines, and the Philistines went up to Jezreel.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">30</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">David Destroys the Amalekites</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.30.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">David and his men reached Ziklag on the third day. Now the Amalekites had raided the Negev and Ziklag. They had attacked Ziklag and burned it, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.30.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">and had taken captive the women and everyone else in it, both young and old. They killed none of them, but carried them off as they went on their way.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.30.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.30.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When David and his men reached Ziklag, they found it destroyed by fire and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.30.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So David and his men wept aloud until they had no strength left to weep. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.30.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">David&#8217;s two wives had been captured&#8212;Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail, the widow of Nabal of Carmel. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.30.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">David was greatly distressed because the men were talking of stoning him; each one was bitter in spirit because of his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> his God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.30.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.30.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelek, &#8220;Bring me the ephod.&#8221; Abiathar brought it to him, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.30.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">and David inquired of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;Shall I pursue this raiding party? Will I overtake them?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.30.8"><span class="content">&#8220;Pursue them,&#8221; he answered. &#8220;You will certainly overtake them and succeed in the rescue.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.30.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.30.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">David and the six hundred men with him came to the Besor Valley, where some stayed behind. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.30.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Two hundred of them were too exhausted to cross the valley, but David and the other four hundred continued the pursuit.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.30.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.30.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They found an Egyptian in a field and brought him to David. They gave him water to drink and food to eat&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.30.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">part of a cake of pressed figs and two cakes of raisins. He ate and was revived, for he had not eaten any food or drunk any water for three days and three nights.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.30.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.30.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">David asked him, &#8220;Who do you belong to? Where do you come from?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.30.13"><span class="content">He said, &#8220;I am an Egyptian, the slave of an Amalekite. My master abandoned me when I became ill three days ago. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.30.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">We raided the Negev of the Kerethites, some territory belonging to Judah and the Negev of Caleb. And we burned Ziklag.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.30.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.30.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">David asked him, &#8220;Can you lead me down to this raiding party?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.30.15"><span class="content">He answered, &#8220;Swear to me before God that you will not kill me or hand me over to my master, and I will take you down to them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.30.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.30.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He led David down, and there they were, scattered over the countryside, eating, drinking and reveling because of the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from Judah. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.30.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">David fought them from dusk until the evening of the next day, and none of them got away, except four hundred young men who rode off on camels and fled. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1SA.30.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">David recovered everything the Amalekites had taken, including his two wives. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1SA.30.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Nothing was missing: young or old, boy or girl, plunder or anything else they had taken. David brought everything back. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1SA.30.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">He took all the flocks and herds, and his men drove them ahead of the other livestock, saying, &#8220;This is David&#8217;s plunder.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1SA.30.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1SA.30.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow him and who were left behind at the Besor Valley. They came out to meet David and the men with him. As David and his men approached, he asked them how they were. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1SA.30.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But all the evil men and troublemakers among David&#8217;s followers said, &#8220;Because they did not go out with us, we will not share with them the plunder we recovered. However, each man may take his wife and children and go.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1SA.30.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1SA.30.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">David replied, &#8220;No, my brothers, you must not do that with what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has given us. He has protected us and delivered into our hands the raiding party that came against us. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1SA.30.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Who will listen to what you say? The share of the man who stayed with the supplies is to be the same as that of him who went down to the battle. All will share alike.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1SA.30.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">David made this a statute and ordinance for Israel from that day to this.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1SA.30.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1SA.30.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">When David reached Ziklag, he sent some of the plunder to the elders of Judah, who were his friends, saying, &#8220;Here is a gift for you from the plunder of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s enemies.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1SA.30.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1SA.30.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">David sent it to those who were in Bethel, Ramoth Negev and Jattir; </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1SA.30.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">to those in Aroer, Siphmoth, Eshtemoa </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="1SA.30.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">and Rakal; to those in the towns of the Jerahmeelites and the Kenites; </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="1SA.30.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">to those in Hormah, Bor Ashan, Athak </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="1SA.30.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">and Hebron; and to those in all the other places where he and his men had roamed.</span></span></div>
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