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14 We had attacked the south part of Judah, where the Kerethites live.[a] We also attacked the land where the people of Caleb's clan live. We destroyed Ziklag with fire too.’

15 David said to him, ‘Can you take me to find these men?’

The man said, ‘Please promise me in God's name that you will not kill me. Promise me that you will not take me back to my master. If you do that, I will lead you to find them.’

16 So the Egyptian man took David to find the Amalekites. The men were sitting everywhere, all over the ground. They were having a party, eating and drinking. They were happy because they had taken so many things from the towns of the Philistines and from the people in Judah.

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Footnotes

  1. 30:14 The Kerethites were a Philistine tribe that helped David. See 2 Samuel 8:18. Caleb's land was to the south of Hebron town.