8. David inquired at the Lord, saying, “Should I pursue after this raiding party? Will I overtake them?”And He answered him, “Pursue them, for you will surely overtake them and will surely recover all.”
9. So David went, he and the six hundred men who were with him. And they came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind remained.
10. But David pursued, he and four hundred men, for two hundred who were too exhausted to cross over the brook Besor remained behind.
11. They found an Egyptian in the field and took him to David. He gave him bread and he ate, and they made him drink water.
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.
18. So David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and David rescued his two wives.
19. Now there was nothing missing, from the smallest thing to the greatest, neither sons, nor daughters, or plunder, or anything which they had taken. David brought back all of it.
20. And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before the other livestock. And they said, “This is David’s spoil.”