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1 Samuel 30:8-12

1 Samuel 30:8

And David inquired of the Lord, saying, “Shall I pursue this band of raiders? Will I overtake them?” And He said to him, “Pursue, for you will certainly overtake them, and you will certainly rescue everyone.”

1 Samuel 30:9

So David left, he and the six hundred men who were with him, and they came to the brook Besor, where some who were left behind stayed.

1 Samuel 30:10

But David pursued, he and four hundred men, for two hundred who were too exhausted to cross the brook Besor stayed behind.

1 Samuel 30:11

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.

1 Samuel 30:12

They also gave him a slice of fig cake and two cakes of raisins, and he ate; then his spirit revived. For he had not eaten bread or drunk water for three days and three nights.