20 So David had [a]captured all the sheep and the cattle which the people drove ahead of [b]the other livestock, and they said, “(A)This is David’s spoil.”

The Spoils Are Divided

21 When (B)David came to the two hundred men who were too exhausted to follow David, who had also been left at the brook Besor, and they went out to meet David and to meet the people who were with him, then David approached the people and greeted them. 22 Then all the wicked and worthless men among those who went with David said, “Because they did not go with [c]us, we will not give them any of the spoil that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away and depart.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 30:20 Lit taken
  2. 1 Samuel 30:20 Lit those livestock
  3. 1 Samuel 30:22 Lit me