8 David inquired of the Lord, “Shall I pursue these raiders? Can I overtake them?” The Lord answered him: Go in pursuit, for you will certainly overtake them and bring about a rescue.
9 So David went off with his six hundred as far as the Wadi Besor, where those who were to remain behind halted.
10 David continued the pursuit with four hundred, but two hundred were too exhausted to cross the Wadi Besor and remained behind.
11 An Egyptian was found in the open country and brought to David. They gave him food to eat and water to drink;
12 they also offered a cake of pressed figs and two cakes of pressed raisins. When he had eaten, he revived, for he had not taken food nor drunk water for three days and three nights.
13 Then David asked him, “To whom do you belong? Where did you come from?” “I am an Egyptian, the slave of an Amalekite,” he replied. “My master abandoned me three days ago because I fell sick.
14 We raided the Negeb of the Cherethites, the territory of Judah, and the Negeb of Caleb; and we set Ziklag on fire.”