11. They found an Egyptian in the open country and brought him to David. They gave him some bread to eat and water to drink.
12. Then they gave him some pressed figs and two clusters of raisins. After he ate he revived, for he hadn’t eaten food or drunk water for three days and three nights.
13. Then David said to him, “Who do you belong to? Where are you from? ”“I’m an Egyptian, the slave of an Amalekite man,” he said. “My master abandoned me when I got sick three days ago.
14. We raided the south country of the Cherethites, the territory of Judah, and the south country of Caleb, and we burned down Ziklag.”
15. David then asked him, “Will you lead me to these raiders? ”He said, “Swear to me by God that you won’t kill me or turn me over to my master, and I will lead you to them.”
16. So he led him, and there were the Amalekites, spread out over the entire area, eating, drinking, and celebrating because of the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and the land of Judah.
17. David slaughtered them from twilight until the evening of the next day. None of them escaped, except 400 young men who got on camels and fled.
18. David recovered everything the Amalekites had taken; he also rescued his two wives.
19. Nothing of theirs was missing from the youngest to the oldest, including the sons and daughters, of all the plunder the Amalekites had taken. David got everything back.