Then David attacked them from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled.

"In their sight you shall bear [them] on [your] shoulders [and] carry [them] out at twilight; you shall cover your face, so that you cannot see the ground, for I have made you a sign to the house of Israel."

So I did as I was commanded. I brought out my belongings by day, as though going into captivity, and at evening I dug through the wall with my hand. I brought [them] out at twilight, [and] I bore [them] on [my] shoulder in their sight.

"And the prince who [is] among them shall bear [his belongings] on [his] shoulder at twilight and go out. They shall dig through the wall to carry [them] out through it. He shall cover his face, so that he cannot see the ground with [his] eyes.

'But if he is too poor to pay your valuation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall set a value for him; according to the ability of him who vowed, the priest shall value him.

' But the firstborn of the animals, which should be the LORD's firstborn, no man shall dedicate; whether [it is] an ox or sheep, it [is] the LORD's.

" The LORD will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.

The sword shall destroy outside; [There shall be] terror within For the young man and virgin, The nursing child with the man of gray hairs.

How could one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Unless their Rock had sold them, And the LORD had surrendered them?