16 So he led them down, and there were the Amalekites lounging all over the ground, eating, drinking, and celebrating because of all the rich plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.
17 From dawn to sundown the next day David attacked them, allowing no one to escape except four hundred young men, who mounted their camels and fled.
18 David recovered everything the Amalekites had taken, and he rescued his two wives.
19 Nothing was missing, small or great, plunder or sons or daughters, of all that the Amalekites had taken. David brought back everything.
20 Moreover, David took all the sheep and oxen, and as they drove these before him, they shouted, “This is David’s plunder!”
21 When David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow him, whom he had left behind at the Wadi Besor, they came out to meet David and the men with him. As David approached, he greeted them.
22 But all the greedy and worthless among those who had accompanied David said, “Since they did not accompany us, we will not give them anything from the plunder, except for each man’s wife and children.”