13 David said to the young man who brought him the report, “Where are you from?”

“I am the son of a foreigner, an Amalekite,(A)” he answered.

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13 And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite.

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13 Then David said to the young man who told him, “Where are you from?”

And he answered, “I am the son of an alien, an Amalekite.”

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This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘I will punish the Amalekites(A) for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt.

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Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.

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Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘I will punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, (A)how he ambushed him on the way when he came up from Egypt.

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Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites,(A) the Girzites and the Amalekites.(B) (From ancient times these peoples had lived in the land extending to Shur(C) and Egypt.)

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And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.

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And David and his men went up and raided (A)the Geshurites, (B)the [a]Girzites, and the (C)Amalekites. For those nations were the inhabitants of the land from [b]of old, (D)as you go to Shur, even as far as the land of Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 27:8 Or Gezrites
  2. 1 Samuel 27:8 ancient times

13 David asked him, “Who do you belong to? Where do you come from?”

He said, “I am an Egyptian, the slave of an Amalekite.(A) My master abandoned me when I became ill three days ago.

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13 And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.

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13 Then David said to him, “To whom do you belong, and where are you from?”

And he said, “I am a young man from Egypt, servant of an Amalekite; and my master left me behind, because three days ago I fell sick.

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17 David fought(A) them from dusk until the evening of the next day, and none of them got away, except four hundred young men who rode off on camels and fled.(B)

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17 And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.

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17 Then David attacked them from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled.

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