2 Samuel 1:1

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2 Samuel 1:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 After the death of Saul, David returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites and stayed in Ziklag two days.

2 On the third day a man with torn clothes and dust on his head arrived from Saul’s camp. When he came to David, he fell to the ground to pay him homage.

3 “Where have you come from?” David asked. “I have escaped from the Israelite camp,” he replied.

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1 Samuel 30:17

And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man escaped, except four hundred young men who fled, riding off on camels.

1 Samuel 30:18

So David recovered everything the Amalekites had taken, including his two wives.

1 Samuel 30:19

Nothing was missing, young or old, son or daughter, or any of the plunder the Amalekites had taken. David brought everything back.

1 Samuel 30:20

And he recovered all the flocks and herds, which his men drove ahead of the other livestock, calling out, “This is David’s plunder!”

1 Samuel 30:21

When David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow him from the Brook of Besor, they came out to meet him and the troops with him. As David approached the men, he greeted them,

1 Samuel 30:22

but all the wicked and worthless men among those who had gone with David said, “Because they did not go with us, we will not share with them the plunder we recovered, except for each man’s wife and children. They may take them and go.”

1 Samuel 30:23

But David said, “My brothers, you must not do this with what the LORD has given us. He has protected us and delivered into our hands the raiders who came against us.

1 Samuel 30:24

Who will listen to your proposal? The share of the one who went to battle will match the share of the one who stayed with the supplies. They will share alike.”

1 Samuel 30:25

And so it has been from that day forward. David established this statute as an ordinance for Israel to this very day.

1 Samuel 30:26

When David arrived in Ziklag, he sent some of the plunder to his friends, the elders of Judah, saying, “Here is a gift for you from the plunder of the LORD’s enemies.”

1 Samuel 27:6

That day Achish gave him Ziklag, and to this day it still belongs to the kings of Judah.