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.’
Then they came back to invade En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh ), and they defeated the whole territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who lived in Hazazon-tamar.
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.