It happened after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag;

He said to me, 'Who are you?' I answered him, 'I am an Amalekite.'

David said to the young man who told him, "Where are you from?" He answered, "I am the son of a foreigner, an Amalekite."