Then David said to him, ‘Who do you belong to? Where are you from? ’ ‘I’m an Egyptian, the slave of an Amalekite man,’ he said. ‘My master abandoned me when I got ill three days ago.
Then they gave him some pressed figs and two clusters of raisins. After he ate he revived, for he hadn’t eaten food or drunk water for three days and three nights.
Then they said to him, ‘Tell us who is to blame for this trouble we’re in. What is your business, and where are you from? What is your country, and what people are you from? ’
David enquired of the young man who had brought him the report, ‘Where are you from? ’ ‘I’m the son of a resident foreigner,’ he said. ‘I’m an Amalekite.’