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9 And Achis answering, said to David: I know of Achimelech: Bring me hither the ephod. And
that thou art good in my sight, as an angel of Abiathar brought the ephod to David.
God: But the princes of the Philistines have said: 8 And David consulted the Lord, saying: Shall
He shall not go up with us to the battle. I pursue after these robbers, and shall I overtake
10 Therefore arise in the morning, thou, and them, or not? And the Lord said to him: Pursue
the servants of thy lord, who came with thee: after them: for thou shalt surely overtake them
and when you are up before day, and it shall and recover the prey.
begin to be light, go on your way. 9 So David went, he and the six hundred men
11 So David and his men arose in the night, that were with him, and they came to the torrent
that they might set forward in the morning, and Besor: and some, being weary, stayed there.
returned to the land of the Philistines: and the 10 But David pursued, he and four hundred
Philistines went up to Jezrahel. men: for two hundred stayed, who, being weary,
could not go over the torrent Besor.
11 And they found an Egyptian in the field,
Chapter 30 and brought him to David: and they gave him
bread to eat, and water to drink,
Now when David and his men were come to Sice- 12 As also a piece of a cake of figs, and two
leg on the third day, the Amalecites had made bunches of raisins. And when he had eaten them,
an invasion on the south side upon Siceleg, and his spirit returned, and he was refreshed: for he
had smitten Siceleg, and burnt it with fire, had not eaten bread, nor drunk water, three days
2 And had taken the women captives that were and three nights.
in it, both little and great: and they had not 13 And David said to him: To whom dost
killed any person, but had carried them with thou belong; or whence dost thou come? and
them, and went on their way. whither art thou going? He said: I am a young
3 So when David and his men came to the man of Egypt, the servant of an Amalecite: and
city, and found it burnt with fire, and that their my master left me, because I began to be sick
wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were three days ago.
taken captives, 14 For we made an invasion on the south side
4 David and the people that were with him, of Cerethi, and upon Juda, and upon the south
lifted up their voices, and wept till they had no of Caleb, and we burnt Siceleg with fire.
more tears. 15 And David said to him: Canst thou bring
5 For the two wives also of David were taken me to this company? and he said: Swear to me
captives, Achinoam, the Jezrahelitess, and Abi- by God, that thou wilt not kill me, nor deliver
gail, the wife of Nabal of Carmel. me into the hands of my master, and I will bring
6 And David was greatly afflicted: for the peo- thee to this company. And David swore to him.
ple had a mind to stone him, for the soul of every 16 And when he had brought him, behold they
man was bitterly grieved for his sons and daugh- were lying spread abroad upon all the ground,
ters: but David took courage in the Lord his eating and drinking, and as it were keeping a
God. festival day, for all the prey and the spoils which
7 And he said to Abiathar, the priest, the son they had taken out of the land of the Philistines,