30 And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;
2 And 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.3 So David 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.
4 Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
This is when you weep or cry out and you are exhausted and cannot even talk...it just stops, and you either collapse or come a complete silent place.
5 And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
6 And David 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 DAVID ENCOURAGED HIMSELF IN THE LORD HIS GOD.
Then David turns to the LORD, nothing more, not strong drink JESUS CHRIST who is a God of War per the book of Exodus 15:3 The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name.
7 And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David.
8 And David ENQUIRED at the Lord, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, PURSUE: for thou SHALT SURELY OVERTKE THEM, and WITHOUT FAIL RECOVER ALL.
Not one of them Died, BUT WOULD HAVE HAD THEY NOT ENQUIRED OF THE LORD. Now their houses were burned but no loss of LIFE for David OBEY AND HIS MEN.
9 So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook BESOR, where those that were left behind stayed.
10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred abode behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor.
For the Grief of these men were of a greatness it was NOT the LORD's will they fight; The Love of the LORD is far understanding to their loss and the cognition of the matters among and how their heart could barely beat.
11 And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water;
12 And 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.
For he was faint in the desert as it were...
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.
14 We made an invasion upon the south of the Cherethites, and upon the coast which belongeth to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.
15 And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this company? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this company.
Now this is as an Oath, for the Egyptian was wise and knew the Hebrew law of an Oath such as this which is called a swear.
16 And 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 Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
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.
18 And David RECOVERED ALL that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives.
19 And 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: DAVID RECOVERED ALL.
AGAIN HE RECOVERED ALL...BECAUSE HE OBEY...
20 And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.
21 And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook BESOR: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted them.
AND THEY WEPT MORE AND REJOICED IN THEIR TEARS WHEN ALL THEIRS WERE RECOVERED; HERETOFORE, KING DAVID HAD TO NOT ONLY DO HIS, BUT THEIRS FOR HE WAS SUCH A GODLY LEADER. THAT IS GODLY FOR THEY WERE HIS MEN AND THEIR FAMILIES WERE AS HIS MEN AS WELL...THAT IS A KING AS A SHEPHERD...SEE? HE DIDN'T LEAVE THEM TO DIE NEITHER OR..
22 Then answered all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those that went with David, and said, Because 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.
THESE ARE PART OF THE 400 HUNDRED WITHIN THE 600 THAT FOUGHT...AND DAVID WAS WROTH AT HIS MEN, AND SAID NOT SO...
23 Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the Lord hath given us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the company that came against us into our hand.
24 For 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.
25 And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.
SO THE MEN'S STUFF OF THE 200 WAS ALSO RETURNED TO THEM, AND THE OTHER 400 OBEYED AS WELL...FOR KING DAVID WOULD STONED THEM HAD THEY DISOBEYED...FOR HE WAS KING, AND THE REASON THEREOF IS BECAUSE THEY WOULD NOT 'RECOVER ALL' ...FOR IT IS CONTRARY TO THE LORD'S SPOKEN WORD WHICH IS ALL WILL RECOVER ALL...
26 And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold a PRESENT for you of the spoil of the enemies of the Lord;
27 To them which were in Bethel, and to them which were in south Ramoth, and to them which were in Jattir,
28 And to them which were in Aroer, and to them which were in Siphmoth, and to them which were in Eshtemoa,
29 And to them which were in Rachal, and to them which were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to them which were in the cities of the Kenites,
30 And to them which were in Hormah, and to them which were in Chorashan, and to them which were in Athach,
31 And to them which were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt.
Wont to Haunt, King David owned the Land of where His foot faileth not, and His Spirit is referred to as a haunt. He will know if you step onto his Land and you are his enemy, or contrary to the Word of HIS KINGDOM which is built upon the Word of the LORD, within and without. Such as so.
Now for the Riddle purposed it was and is clear to indirect by direct and is the same principal. Lincoln is praying as King David with all his MIGHT...for He was to be out of office and lost all as the men wanted to slay him for their loss, and Lincoln was out of Money and Joshua was out ammunition...Lincoln is praying, Joshua is praying "God what do I do?" knowing He is out of ammunition, Now King David He is short 200 men to RECOVER ALL...God Said Pursue! HE OBEY, God Said, Charge! ....and what happened THEY RECOVERED ALL, that South Riches, and Money were NOW America's...This war happened within Israel between Judah and Israel...So Abner pondered the Word of the LORD, and couldn't get over how 400 men RECOVERED ALL, TO THIS DAY THE AMERICA CAN'T GET OVER HOW JOSHUA AND LINCOLN RECOVERED ALL...
