10 But David and four hundred men followed (for two hundred abode behind, being too weary to go over the river Besor.)

11 And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him [a]bread, and he did eat, and they gave him water to drink.

12 Also they gave him a few figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water in three days, and three nights.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 30:11 God by his providence both provided for the necessity of this poor stranger, and made him a guide to David to accomplish his enterprise.

10 Two hundred of them were too exhausted(A) to cross the valley, but David and the other four hundred continued the pursuit.

11 They found an Egyptian in a field and brought him to David. They gave him water to drink and food to eat— 12 part of a cake of pressed figs and two cakes of raisins. He ate and was revived,(B) for he had not eaten any food or drunk any water for three days and three nights.

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