RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

mayim, three days and three nights.
13 And Dawid said to him, To whom do you belong?
Where are you from? And he said, I am a young man of
Mitzrayim, an eved to an Amalekite; and my master left
me, because three days ago I fell sick.
14 We made an invasion upon the south of the
Cherethites, and upon the border that belongs to Yahudah,
and upon the south of Kalev; and we burned Ziklag with
fire.
15 And Dawid said to him, Can you bring me down to
this troop? And he said, Swear to me by Elohim, that you
will neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my
master, and I will bring you down to this troop.
16 And when he had brought him down, see, they were
spread abroad upon all the land, eating and drinking, and
dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken
out of the land of the Plishtim, and out of the land of
Yahudah.
17 And Dawid smote them from the twilight, even to the
evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of
them, except four hundred young men, who rode upon
camels, and fled.
18 And Dawid recovered all that the Amalekites had
carried away: and Dawid rescued his two wives.
19 And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small
nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor
anything that they had taken from them: Dawid recovered
all.
20 And Dawid took all the flocks and the herds, which
they drove before those other cattle, and said, This is
Dawid's spoil.
21 And Dawid came to the two hundred men, who were
so weak that they could not follow Dawid, whom they
had made to stay at the brook Besor: and they went forth
to meet Dawid, and to meet the people that were with
him: and when Dawid came near to the people, he greeted
them.
22 Then answered all the wicked men and the men of
Beliyaal, of those that went with Dawid, and said,
Because they went not with us, we will not give them
anything of the spoil that we have recovered, except to
every man his wife and his children, that they may go
away, and depart.
23 Then said Dawid, You shall not do so, my brothers,
with that which vuvh has given us, who has preserved us,
and delivered the troop that came against us into our
hand.
24 For who will listen to you in this matter? But as the
part is for those that went down to the battle, so shall the
part be for those that stayed by the baggage: they shall
also share the spoil.
25 And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a
statute and an ordinance for Yisrael to this day.
26 And when Dawid came to Ziklag, he sent some things
from the spoil to the zechanim of Yahudah, even to his
chaverim, saying, See a present for you from the spoil of
the enemies of vuvh;
27 To them which were in Beth-El, and to them which
were in south Ramot, and to them which were in Yattir,
28 And to them which were in Aroer, and to them that
were in Siphmoth, and to them that were in Eshtemoa,
29 And to them which were in Rachal, and to them that
were in the cities of the Yerachmeelites, and to them that
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were in the cities of the Kenites,
30 And to them that were in Hormah, and to them that
were in Chor-Ashan, and to them that were in Athach,
31 And to them that were in Hevron, and to all the places
where Dawid himself and his men had been traveling.
Now the Plishtim fought against Yisrael: and the men
of Yisrael fled from before the Plishtim, and fell down
killed in Mount Gilboa.
2 And the Plishtim overtook Shaul and his sons; and the
Plishtim killed Yonathan, and Aviniadav, and Malchi-
Shua, Shaul's sons.
3 And the battle was strong against Shaul, and the archers
hit him; so he was heavily wounded by the archers.
4 Then said Shaul to his armor-bearer, Draw your sword,
and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised
come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his
armor-bearer would not, for he was very afraid. Therefore
Shaul took a sword, and fell upon it himself.
5 And when his armor-bearer saw that Shaul was dead, he
fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him.
6 So Shaul died, and his three sons, and his armor-bearer,
and all his men, that same day together.
7 And when the men of Yisrael that were on the other
side of the valley, and they that were on the other side of
the Yarden River, saw that the men of Yisrael fled, and
that Shaul and his sons were dead, they forsook their
cities, and fled; and the Plishtim came and dwelt in them.
8 And it came to pass on the next day, when the Plishtim
came to strip the killed, that they found Shaul and his
three sons fallen in Mount Gilboa.
9 And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armor,
and sent word into the land of the Plishtim around, to
publish it in the bayit of their idols, and among the
people.
10 And they put his armor in the bayit of Ashtaroth: and
they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-Shan.
11 And when the inhabitants of Yavesh-Gilad heard of
that which the Plishtim had done to Shaul;
12 All the brave men arose, and went all night, and took
the body of Shaul and the bodies of his sons from the wall
of Beth-Shan, and came to Yavesh, and burned them
there.
13 And they took their bones, and buried them under an
eytz at Yavesh, and fasted shiva seven days. 789
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