Two hundred of them were too exhausted to cross the valley, but David and the other four hundred continued the pursuit.
Then David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow him and who were left behind at the Besor Valley. They came out to meet David and the men with him. As David and his men approached, he asked them how they were.
David and the six hundred men with him came to the Besor Valley, where some stayed behind.
That day, after the Israelites had struck down the Philistines from Mikmash to Aijalon, they were exhausted.
Then Saul and all his men assembled and went to the battle. They found the Philistines in total confusion, striking each other with their swords.
They found an Egyptian in a field and brought him to David. They gave him water to drink and food to eat—
Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall;