1 Samuel 30:6-9

New King James Version

⁶ Now David was greatly distressed, for ^(A)the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was ^[a]grieved, every man for his sons and his daughters. ^(B)But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.

^7 (C)Then David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech’s son, “Please bring the ephod here to me.” And ^(D)Abiathar brought the ephod to David. ^8 (E)So David inquired of the Lord, saying, “Shall I pursue this troop? Shall I overtake them?”

And He answered him, “Pursue, for you shall surely overtake them and without fail recover all.”

⁹ So David went, he and the six hundred men who were with him, and came to the Brook Besor, where those stayed who were left behind.