David’s Victory over the Amalekites

30 Then it happened, when David and his men came to ^(A)Ziklag on the third day, that ^(B)the Amalekites had carried out an attack on the ^[a]Negev and on ^(C)Ziklag, and had ^[b]overthrown Ziklag and burned it with fire;

¹⁷ And David ^[a]slaughtered them ^(A)from the twilight ^[b]until the evening of ^[c]the next day; and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode on ^(B)camels and fled.

²⁶ Now when David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the spoils to the elders of Judah, to his friends, saying, “Behold, ^(A)a ^[a]gift for you from the spoils of ^(B)the enemies of the Lord: