1 Samuel 27:8-9

27:8 Then David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (They had been living in that land for a long time, from the approach ¹  to Shur as far as the land of Egypt.) 27:9 When David would attack a district, ²  he would leave neither man nor woman alive. He would take sheep, cattle, donkeys, camels, and clothing and would then go back to Achish.

1 Samuel 30:13

30:13 David said to him, “To whom do you belong, and where are you from?” The young man said, “I am an Egyptian, the servant of an Amalekite man. My master abandoned me when I was ill for three days.

1 Samuel 30:20

30:20 David took all the flocks and herds and drove them in front of the rest of the animals. People were saying, “This is David’s plunder!”

Mazmur 83:6-7

83:6 It includes ³  the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,

Moab and the Hagrites, ⁴ 

83:7 Gebal, ⁵  Ammon, and Amalek,

Philistia and the inhabitants of Tyre. ⁶ 

[27:8]  ¹ tn Heb “from where you come.”

[27:9]  ² tn Heb “the land.”

[83:6]  ³ tn The words “it includes” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[83:6]  ⁴ sn The Hagrites are also mentioned in 1 Chr 5:10, 19-20.

[83:7]  ⁵ sn Some identify Gebal with the Phoenician coastal city of Byblos (see Ezek 27:9, where the name is spelled differently), though others locate this site south of the Dead Sea (see BDB 148 s.v. גְּבַל; HALOT 174 s.v. גְּבַל).

[83:7]  ⁶ map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.