^11-12 Along the way they found an Egyptian youth in a field and brought him to David. He had not had anything to eat or drink for three days and nights, so they gave him part of a fig cake, two clusters of raisins, and some water, and his strength soon returned.

¹³ “Who are you and where do you come from?” David asked him.

“I am an Egyptian—the servant of an Amalekite,” he replied. “My master left me behind three days ago because I was sick. ¹⁴ We were on our way back from raiding the Cherethites in the Negeb, and had raided the south of Judah and the land of Caleb, and had burned Ziklag.”