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15 David asked him, “Will you take me to this raiding party?”[a]

He said, “Swear to me by God that you won’t kill me or turn me over to my master, and I’ll take you to the raiding party.”[b]

David Defeats the Amalekites

16 The Egyptian[c] led him to the camp,[d] and there the Amalekites[e] were spread out over the whole area, eating, drinking, and celebrating with the great amount of spoil they had taken from the territory belonging to the Philistines and to Judah. 17 David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day, and not one of them escaped except for 400 young men who mounted camels and fled.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 30:15 Or band
  2. 1 Samuel 30:15 Or band
  3. 1 Samuel 30:16 Lit. He
  4. 1 Samuel 30:16 Lit. him down
  5. 1 Samuel 30:16 Lit. they