³ Now go and strike Amalek and ^(A)devote to destruction all that he has, and do not spare him; but ^(B)put to death both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”

David Strikes Down the Amalekites

30 Then it happened when David and his men came to ^(A)Ziklag on the third day, that ^(B)the Amalekites had made a raid on the ^[a]Negev and on ^(C)Ziklag and had struck Ziklag and burned it with fire;

¹³ And David said to him, “To whom do you belong? And where are you from?” And he said, “I am a young man of Egypt, a slave of an Amalekite; and my master forsook me when I fell sick three days ago.

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