2. and they took captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great, without killing anyone, and carried them off and went their way.
3. When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire, and their wives and their sons and their daughters had been taken captive.
4. Then David and the people who were with him lifted their voices and wept until there was no strength in them to weep.
5. Now David's two wives had been taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess and Abigail the widow of Nabal the Carmelite.
6. Moreover David was greatly distressed because the people spoke of stoning him, for all the people were embittered, each one because of his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.
7. Then David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, "Please bring me the ephod." So Abiathar brought the ephod to David.
8. David inquired of the Lord, saying, "Shall I pursue this band? Shall I overtake them?" And He said to him, "Pursue, for you will surely overtake them, and you will surely rescue all."
9. So David went, he and the six hundred men who were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those left behind remained.
10. But David pursued, he and four hundred men, for two hundred who were too exhausted to cross the brook Besor remained behind.
11. Now they found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David, and gave him bread and he ate, and they provided him water to drink.