12. And they gave him a part of a cake of figs and two cakes of raisins. When he had eaten, his spirit came back to him, for he had not eaten bread or drunk any water for three days and nights.
13. Then David said to him, “To whom do you belong? And where are you from?”And he said, “I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite. And my master left me, because three days ago I fell sick.
14. We raided the south of the Kerethites, the south of Judah, and the south of Caleb. And we burned Ziklag with fire.”
15. David said to him, “Will you bring me down to this raiding party?”And he said, “Swear to me by God that you will neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hand of my master, and I will bring you down to this raiding party.”
16. When he brought him down, they were spread out over all the land, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil which they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.
17. David struck them from twilight until the evening of the next day, and no man escaped except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled.