16 So he led him, and there were the Amalekites, spread out over the entire area, eating, drinking, and celebrating because of the great amount of plunder(A) they had taken from the land of the Philistines and the land of Judah. 17 David slaughtered them from twilight until the evening of the next day.(B) None of them escaped, except four hundred young men who got on camels and fled.(C)

18 David recovered everything the Amalekites had taken; he also rescued his two wives.

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