1 Samuel 30:16-31 - David Defeats The Amalekites
16 And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad on all the earth, eating and drinking and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines and out of the land of Judah. 17 And David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. And not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled.
18 And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away. And David rescued his two wives. 19 And nothing was lacking to them, from the small to the great, even to sons and daughters, and from the spoil, even to all that they had taken to themselves. David recovered all. 20 And David took all the flock, and the herd. They drove on before those cattle. And they said, This is David's spoil.
21 And David came to the two hundred who were too exhausted to follow David, whom they had made also to stay at the brook Besor. And they went out to meet David, and to meet the people with him. And David came up to the people, and greeted them. 22 And every evil and worthless man of the men who went with David answered and said, Because they did not go with us, we will not give them from a thing the spoil that we have seized, except to every man his wife and his sons. Let them take them, and go.
23 And David said, My brothers, you shall not do so with that which Jehovah has given us. For He has protected us, and has delivered into our hand the company that came against us. 24 For who will listen to you in this matter? But as his part is that goes down to the battle, so shall be his part that stays by the stuff. They shall divide alike. 25 And it was so, from that day forward he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day.
26 And David came to Ziklag, and sent some of the spoil to the elders of Judah, to his friends, saying, Behold, a present for you from the spoil of the enemies of Jehovah; 27 to the ones in Bethel, and to the ones in Ramoth of the south, and to the ones in Jattir, 28 and to the ones in Aroer, and to the ones in Siphmoth, and to the ones in Eshtemoa, 29 and to the ones in Rachal, and to the ones in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to the ones in the cities of the Kenites, 30 and to the ones in Hormah, and to the ones in Chorashan, and to the ones in Athach, 31 and to the ones in Hebron, and to all the places where David had gone up and down, he and his men.