3 When David and his men reached Ziklag, they found it destroyed by fire and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.
4 So David and his men wept aloud until they had no strength left to weep.
5 David’s two wives had been captured – Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail, the widow of Nabal of Carmel.
6 David was greatly distressed because the men were talking of stoning him; each one was bitter in spirit because of his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the Lord his God.
7 Then David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelek, ‘Bring me the ephod.’ Abiathar brought it to him,
8 and David enquired of the Lord, ‘Shall I pursue this raiding party? Will I overtake them?’‘Pursue them,’ he answered. ‘You will certainly overtake them and succeed in the rescue.’
9 David and the six hundred men with him came to the Besor Valley, where some stayed behind.