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12 They gave him part of a fig cake and two bunches of raisins. After he had eaten, he revived,[a] since he had neither eaten food nor had he drunk water for three days and three nights. 13 David told him, “To whom do you belong and where are you from?”

The Egyptian[b] replied, “I’m a young Egyptian man, the slave of an Amalekite man. My master abandoned me, because I got sick three days ago. 14 We raided the Negev[c] of the Cherethites, the territory that belongs to Judah,[d] and the Negev[e] of Caleb, and we set Ziklag on fire.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 30:12 Lit. his spirit revived
  2. 1 Samuel 30:13 Lit. He
  3. 1 Samuel 30:14 Or the southern region
  4. 1 Samuel 30:14 Lit. what belongs to Judah
  5. 1 Samuel 30:14 Or the southern region