1 Samuel 30:16-31 - David Defeats The Amalekites
16 So he brought him down, and lo! they were left to themselves over the face of all the land, - eating, and drinking, and dancing around, for all the great spoil which they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah. 17 And David smote them, from the closing twilight even unto the evening of the next day, - and there escaped not of them a man, save four hundred young men who rode upon camels, and fled.
18 And David rescued all whom the Amalekites had taken, - his two wives also, did David rescue; 19 and there was nothing missing to them - whether small or great, whether spoil, or sons or daughters, or, any thing which they had taken unto themselves, - the whole, did David recover. 20 And David took all the flocks and the herds, - they drave them before those other cattle, and they said, This, is David's spoil.
21 And David came unto the two hundred men, who had been too wearied to follow David, and whom they had suffered to remain at the ravine of Besor, - and they came forth to meet David, and to meet the people who were with him, and when David came near unto the people, they enquired of his success. 22 Then responded every man who was bad and abandoned, from among the men who had been with David, and said - Because they went not with me there shall not be given them of the spoil that we have rescued, - save, to every man, his wife and his children, let them put them forth, then, and go.
23 Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, - with that which Yahweh hath given to us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand. 24 Who indeed, could hearken unto you, in this mutter? Surely, like the share of him that went down into the battle, even, so, shall be the share of him that remained by the stores - alike, shall they share. 25 And so it came to pass, from that day forward, that he appointed it, for a statute and for a custom unto Israel, until this day.
26 And, when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil, unto the elders of Judah, unto his friends, saying, - Lo! for you, a blessing, out of the spoil of the enemies of Yahweh: 27 to them who were in Bethel, and to them who were in Ramoth of the South, and to them who were in Jattir, 28 and to them who were in Aroer, and to them who were in Siphmoth, and to them who were in Eshtemoa, 29 and to them who were in Racal, and to them who were in the cities of the Jerameelites, and to them who were in the cities of the Kenites, 30 and to them who were in Hormah, and to them who were in Cor-ashan, and to them who were in Athach, 31 and to them who were in Hebron, - and to all the places where David had been to and fro, he and his men.