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And David ^(F1)slaughtered them ^(C1)from the twilight ^(F2)until the evening of ^(F3)the next day; and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode on ^(C2)camels and fled.

So David ^(C1)recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and ^(F1)rescued his two wives.

And nothing of theirs was missing, whether small or great, sons or daughters, plunder, or anything that they had taken for themselves; ^(C1)David brought it all back.

So David had ^(F1)captured all the sheep and the cattle which the people drove ahead of ^(F2)the other livestock, and they said, "^(C1)This is David's plunder."

When ^(C1)David came to the two hundred men who were too exhausted to follow David and ^(F1)had been left behind at the brook Besor, and they went out to meet David and to meet the people who were with him, then David approached the people and greeted them.

Then all the wicked and ^(F1)worthless men among those who went with David said, "Since they did not go with ^(F2)us, we will not give them any of the spoils that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, so that they may lead them away and leave."

But David said, "You must not do so, my brothers, with what the LORD has given us, for He has protected us and handed over to us the band of raiders that came against us.

"And who will listen to you in this matter? For ^(C1)as is the share of the one who goes down into the battle, so shall be the share of the one who stays by the baggage; they shall share alike."

So it has been from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day.

Now when David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the spoils to the elders of Judah, to his friends, saying, "Behold, ^(C1)a ^(F1)gift for you from the spoils of ^(C2)the enemies of the LORD: