1╙┴ 30:1 ┴ND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN ─AVID AND HIS MEN WERE COME TO ┌IKLAG ON THE THIRD DAY, THAT THE ┴MALEKITES HAD INVADED THE SOUTH, AND ┌IKLAG, AND SMITTEN ┌IKLAG, AND BURNED IT WITH FIRE;
1╙┴ 30:2 ┴ND HAD TAKEN THE WOMEN CAPTIVES, THAT WERE THEREIN: THEY SLEW NOT ANY, EITHER GREAT OR SMALL, BUT CARRIED THEM AWAY, AND WENT ON THEIR WAY.
1╙┴ 30:3 ╙O ─AVID AND HIS MEN CAME TO THE CITY, AND, BEHOLD, IT WAS BURNED WITH FIRE; AND THEIR WIVES, AND THEIR SONS, AND THEIR DAUGHTERS, WERE TAKEN CAPTIVES.
1╙┴ 30:4 ╘HEN ─AVID AND THE PEOPLE THAT WERE WITH HIM LIFTED UP THEIR VOICE AND WEPT, UNTIL THEY HAD NO MORE POWER TO WEEP.
1╙┴ 30:5 ┴ND ─AVID'S TWO WIVES WERE TAKEN CAPTIVES, ┴HINOAM THE ╩EZREELITESS, AND ┴BIGAIL THE WIFE OF ╬ABAL THE ├ARMELITE.
1╙┴ 30:6 ┴ND ─AVID WAS GREATLY DISTRESSED; FOR THE PEOPLE SPAKE OF STONING HIM, BECAUSE THE SOUL OF ALL THE PEOPLE WAS GRIEVED, EVERY MAN FOR HIS SONS AND FOR HIS DAUGHTERS: BUT ─AVID ENCOURAGED HIMSELF IN THE ╠╧╥─ HIS ╟OD.
1╙┴ 30:7 ┴ND ─AVID SAID TO ┴BIATHAR THE PRIEST, ┴HIMELECH'S SON, ╔ PRAY THEE, BRING ME HITHER THE EPHOD. ┴ND ┴BIATHAR BROUGHT THITHER THE EPHOD TO ─AVID.
1╙┴ 30:8 ┴ND ─AVID ENQUIRED AT THE ╠╧╥─, SAYING, ╙HALL ╔ PURSUE AFTER THIS TROOP? SHALL ╔ OVERTAKE THEM? ┴ND HE ANSWERED HIM, ╨URSUE: FOR THOU SHALT SURELY OVERTAKE THEM, AND WITHOUT FAIL RECOVER ALL.
1╙┴ 30:9 ╙O ─AVID WENT, HE AND THE SIX HUNDRED MEN THAT WERE WITH HIM, AND CAME TO THE BROOK ┬ESOR, WHERE THOSE THAT WERE LEFT BEHIND STAYED.
1╙┴ 30:10 ┬UT ─AVID PURSUED, HE AND FOUR HUNDRED MEN: FOR TWO HUNDRED ABODE BEHIND, WHICH WERE SO FAINT THAT THEY COULD NOT GO OVER THE BROOK ┬ESOR.
1╙┴ 30:11 ┴ND THEY FOUND AN ┼GYPTIAN IN THE FIELD, AND BROUGHT HIM TO ─AVID, AND GAVE HIM BREAD, AND HE DID EAT; AND THEY MADE HIM DRINK WATER;
1╙┴ 30:12 ┴ND THEY GAVE HIM A PIECE OF A CAKE OF FIGS, AND TWO CLUSTERS OF RAISINS: AND WHEN HE HAD EATEN, HIS SPIRIT CAME AGAIN TO HIM: FOR HE HAD EATEN NO BREAD, NOR DRUNK ANY WATER, THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS.
1╙┴ 30:13 ┴ND ─AVID SAID UNTO HIM, ╘O WHOM BELONGEST THOU? AND WHENCE ART THOU? ┴ND HE SAID, ╔ AM A YOUNG MAN OF ┼GYPT, SERVANT TO AN ┴MALEKITE; AND MY MASTER LEFT ME, BECAUSE THREE DAYS AGONE ╔ FELL SICK.
1╙┴ 30:14 ╫E MADE AN INVASION UPON THE SOUTH OF THE ├HERETHITES, AND UPON THE COAST WHICH BELONGETH TO ╩UDAH, AND UPON THE SOUTH OF ├ALEB; AND WE BURNED ┌IKLAG WITH FIRE.
1╙┴ 30:15 ┴ND ─AVID SAID TO HIM, ├ANST THOU BRING ME DOWN TO THIS COMPANY? ┴ND HE SAID, ╙WEAR UNTO ME BY ╟OD, THAT THOU WILT NEITHER KILL ME, NOR DELIVER ME INTO THE HANDS OF MY MASTER, AND ╔ WILL BRING THEE DOWN TO THIS COMPANY.
1╙┴ 30:16 ┴ND WHEN HE HAD BROUGHT HIM DOWN, BEHOLD, THEY WERE SPREAD ABROAD UPON ALL THE EARTH, EATING AND DRINKING, AND DANCING, BECAUSE OF ALL THE GREAT SPOIL THAT THEY HAD TAKEN OUT OF THE LAND OF THE ╨HILISTINES, AND OUT OF THE LAND OF ╩UDAH.
1╙┴ 30:17 ┴ND ─AVID 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.
1╙┴ 30:18 ┴ND ─AVID RECOVERED ALL THAT THE ┴MALEKITES HAD CARRIED AWAY: AND ─AVID RESCUED HIS TWO WIVES.
1╙┴ 30:19 ┴ND THERE WAS NOTHING LACKING TO THEM, NEITHER SMALL NOR GREAT, NEITHER SONS NOR DAUGHTERS, NEITHER SPOIL, NOR ANY THING THAT THEY HAD TAKEN TO THEM: ─AVID RECOVERED ALL.
1╙┴ 30:20 ┴ND ─AVID TOOK ALL THE FLOCKS AND THE HERDS, WHICH THEY DRAVE BEFORE THOSE OTHER CATTLE, AND SAID, ╘HIS IS ─AVID'S SPOIL.
1╙┴ 30:21 ┴ND ─AVID CAME TO THE TWO HUNDRED MEN, WHICH WERE SO FAINT THAT THEY COULD NOT FOLLOW ─AVID, WHOM THEY HAD MADE ALSO TO ABIDE AT THE BROOK ┬ESOR: AND THEY WENT FORTH TO MEET ─AVID, AND TO MEET THE PEOPLE THAT WERE WITH HIM: AND WHEN ─AVID CAME NEAR TO THE PEOPLE, HE SALUTED THEM.
1╙┴ 30:22 ╘HEN ANSWERED ALL THE WICKED MEN AND MEN OF ┬ELIAL, OF THOSE THAT WENT WITH ─AVID, AND SAID, ┬ECAUSE THEY WENT NOT WITH US, WE WILL NOT GIVE THEM OUGHT OF THE SPOIL THAT WE HAVE RECOVERED, SAVE TO EVERY MAN HIS WIFE AND HIS CHILDREN, THAT THEY MAY LEAD THEM AWAY, AND DEPART.
1╙┴ 30:23 ╘HEN SAID ─AVID, ┘E SHALL NOT DO SO, MY BRETHREN, WITH THAT WHICH THE ╠╧╥─ HATH GIVEN US, WHO HATH PRESERVED US, AND DELIVERED THE COMPANY THAT CAME AGAINST US INTO OUR HAND.
1╙┴ 30:24 ╞OR WHO WILL HEARKEN UNTO YOU IN THIS MATTER? BUT AS HIS PART IS THAT GOETH DOWN TO THE BATTLE, SO SHALL HIS PART BE THAT TARRIETH BY THE STUFF: THEY SHALL PART ALIKE.
1╙┴ 30:25 ┴ND IT WAS SO FROM THAT DAY FORWARD, THAT HE MADE IT A STATUTE AND AN ORDINANCE FOR ╔SRAEL UNTO THIS DAY.
1╙┴ 30:26 ┴ND WHEN ─AVID CAME TO ┌IKLAG, HE SENT OF THE SPOIL UNTO THE ELDERS OF ╩UDAH, EVEN TO HIS FRIENDS, SAYING, ┬EHOLD A PRESENT FOR YOU OF THE SPOIL OF THE ENEMIES OF THE ╠╧╥─;
1╙┴ 30:27 ╘O THEM WHICH WERE IN ┬ETHEL, AND TO THEM WHICH WERE IN SOUTH ╥AMOTH, AND TO THEM WHICH WERE IN ╩ATTIR,
1╙┴ 30:28 ┴ND TO THEM WHICH WERE IN ┴ROER, AND TO THEM WHICH WERE IN ╙IPHMOTH, AND TO THEM WHICH WERE IN ┼SHTEMOA,
1╙┴ 30:29 ┴ND TO THEM WHICH WERE IN ╥ACHAL, AND TO THEM WHICH WERE IN THE CITIES OF THE ╩ERAHMEELITES, AND TO THEM WHICH WERE IN THE CITIES OF THE ╦ENITES,
1╙┴ 30:30 ┴ND TO THEM WHICH WERE IN ╚ORMAH, AND TO THEM WHICH WERE IN ├HORASHAN, AND TO THEM WHICH WERE IN ┴THACH,
1╙┴ 30:31 ┴ND TO THEM WHICH WERE IN ╚EBRON, AND TO ALL THE PLACES WHERE ─AVID HIMSELF AND HIS MEN WERE WONT TO HAUNT.
