1 Samuel 30:1-8
Read 1 Samuel 30 in full →David Strikes Down the Amalekites
30Then it happened when David and his men came to aZiklag on the third day, that bthe Amalekites had made a raid on the 1Negev and on cZiklag and had struck Ziklag and burned it with fire; 2and they took captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great—athey did not put anyone to death—and carried them off and went their way. 3Then David and his men came to the city, and behold, it was burned with fire, and their wives and their sons and their daughters had been taken captive. 4So David and the people who were with him alifted their voices and wept until there was no strength in them to weep. 5Now aDavid’s two wives had been taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. 6Moreover David was greatly distressed because athe people said to stone him, for all the people were 1embittered, each one because of his sons and his daughters. But bDavid strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.
7Then aDavid said to bAbiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, “Please bring the ephod near to me.” So Abiathar brought the ephod near to David. 8aAnd David asked of Yahweh, saying, “bShall I pursue this band? Shall I overtake them?” And He said to him, “Pursue, for you will surely overtake them, cand you will surely deliver all.”