David 이
사울(왕) 을 피해 다니던 때 마지막 무렵에는
Philistines 땅인
Ziklag 에 거주지를 두고 있었다.
이 때에는 다윗을 따르는 세력도 상당히 커서 무시하지 못할 군벌집단이 되어있었는데, 당시 블레셋 왕
아기스 는 다윗의 군대를
사울(왕) 과의 전쟁에 동원하려 하였다.
다윗과 그 군대를 불러왔으나
아기스 의 신하들이 반대하였고 다윗은 다시
Ziklag 으로 돌아왔다.
그러나 그 시간동안
Amalek 인들이 와서 다윗과 그 군대의 가족과 재산을 모두 약탈해갔고,
다윗은 부하들의 반란 위기를 맞게 된다. 그러나 하나님께 힘을 얻은 다윗은 다시 부하들을 설득하고 아말렉 군대를 추격한다.
마침내 그들을 습격하여 빼앗긴 재물과 가족들을 모두 되찾게 된다.
이 과정 가운데 다윗은 힘들고 지친 병사들을
Besor 시냇가에서 쉬게하였는데, 승리하고 돌아올 때에 전투에 참여한 병사들이 이 브솔에서 쉬었던 사람들에게는 가족만 돌려주고 전리품은 돌려주지 말자고 의견을 내었지만 다윗은 그것을 거절하고 이 사람들에게도 동일하게 전리품을 나눠주었다.
1 When David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid on the South, and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag, and burned it with fire,
2 and had taken captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great. They didn’t kill any, but carried them off, and went their way.
3 When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, their sons, and their daughters were taken captive.
4 Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept until they had no more power to weep.
5 David ’s two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
6 David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.
7 David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, “Please bring the ephod here to me.” Abiathar brought the ephod to David.
8 David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “If I pursue after this troop, will I overtake them?” He answered him, “Pursue; for you will surely overtake them, and will 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 who were left behind stayed.
10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they couldn’t go over the brook Besor .
11 They found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David , and gave him bread, and he ate; and they gave him water to drink.
12 They gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins. When he had eaten, his spirit came again to him; for he had eaten no bread, and drank no water for three days and three nights.
13 David asked him, “To whom do you belong? Where are you from?” He said, “I am a young man of Egypt , servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I got sick.
14 We made a raid on the South of the Cherethites , and on that which belongs to Judah , and on the South of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.”
15 David said to him, “Will you bring me down to this troop?” He said, “Swear to me by God that you will not kill me and not deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this troop.”
16 When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great plunder that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines , and out of the land of Judah .
17 David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped from there, except four hundred young men, who rode on camels and fled.
18 David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and David rescued his two wives.
19 There was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither plunder, nor anything that they had taken to them. David brought back all.
20 David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other livestock, and said, “This is David’s plunder.”
21 David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom also they had made to stay at the brook Besor ; and they went out to meet David, and to meet the people who were with him. When David came near to the people, he greeted them.
22 Then all the wicked men and worthless fellows, of those who went with David , answered and said, “Because they didn’t go with us, we will not give them anything of the plunder that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that he may lead them away, and depart.”
23 Then David said, “Do not do so, my brothers, with that which Yahweh has given to us, who has preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.
24 Who will listen to you in this matter? For as his share is who goes down to the battle, so shall his share be who stays with the baggage. They shall share alike.”