⁷Then David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, “Bring me the ephod.” ⁸So Abiathar brought it to him, and David inquired of the LORD: “Should I pursue these raiders? Will I overtake them?” ⁹So David and his six hundred men went to the Brook of Besor, where some stayed behind ¹⁰because two hundred men were too exhausted to cross the brook. But David and four hundred men continued in pursuit. ¹¹Now his men found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David. They gave the man water to drink and food to eat — ¹²a piece of a fig cake and two clusters of raisins. So he ate and was revived, for he had not had any food or water for three days and three nights. ¹³Then David asked him, “To whom do you belong, and where are you from?” ¹⁴“I am an Egyptian,” he replied, “the slave of an Amalekite. My master abandoned me three days ago when I fell ill. We raided the Negev of the Cherethites, the territory of Judah, and the Negev of Caleb, and we burned down Ziklag.” ¹⁵“Will you lead me to these raiders?” David asked. ¹⁶So he led David down, and there were the Amalekites spread out over all the land, eating, drinking, and celebrating the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and the land of Judah. ¹⁷And 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. ¹⁸So David recovered everything the Amalekites had taken, including his two wives. ¹⁹Nothing was missing, young or old, son or daughter, or any of the plunder the Amalekites had taken. David brought everything back. ²⁰And he took all the flocks and herds, which his men drove ahead of the other livestock, calling out, “This is David’s plunder!”