tired to cross the brook stayed behind.

They found there an Egyptian in the open field and brought him to David
and gave him food to eat and water to drink. Then David said to him, "To
whom do you belong, and where do you come from?" He replied, "I am an
Egyptian lad, an Amalekite's servant, and my master left me behind
because three days ago I fell sick. We marched into the South Country of
the Cherethites and into that which belongs to Judah and into the South
Country of Caleb, and Ziklag we destroyed by fire." David said to him,
"Will you guide me to this robber band?" He replied, "Swear to me by
your God, that you will neither kill me nor turn me over to my master,
and I will guide you to this band."

When he had brought him down, the Amalekites were scattered over all the
land, eating and drinking and dancing, because of all the great spoil
that they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land
of Judah. David fought against them from twilight to the evening of the
next day, and only four hundred young men who were mounted on camels
escaped.

So David took from the Amalekites all that they had carried away and
rescued his two wives; nothing at all was missing. Then he took all the
flocks and the herds and drove those animals before the people, and they
said, "This is David's spoil."

When David came to the two hundred men who had been so faint that they
could not follow him, all the wicked, mean fellows who went with him
said, "Because these men did not go with us, let us not give them any of
the spoil that we have taken, except that each man may take his wife and
children and depart." David answered, "My brothers, you shall not do so
with that which Jehovah has given us, after he has saved our lives and
given this robber band that attacked us into our power. Those who stay
with the baggage shall have an equal share with those who fight." So
from that day to the present he made this a law and a rule in Israel.

When David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the spoil to the leaders of
Judah and to his relatives, saying, "See! a present for you from the
spoil of the enemies of Jehovah."

THE DEATH OF TWO BRAVE WARRIORS

Samuel had died and all Israel had mourned for him and had buried him in
his own town Ramah. Saul, too, had put the mediums and those who had
messages from the spirits of the dead out of the land.

Then the Philistines came and camped in Shunem, and Saul gathered all
the Isr