And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.
David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive. 'Occupying the high plateau (er-Kakhmah) which overhangs the Philistine plain to the west, and Wady Murreh to the south; while the mention of oxen among the spoil shows that the predatory hordes that David chastised on this occasion must have penetrated far into the interior; because south and east of the Judean mountains the country is not adapted to the sustenance of cattle' ('Negeb,' p. 206: cf. Drew's 'Scripture Lands', p. 6; Stewart's 'Tent and Khan,' p. 222; Wilson's 'Lands of the Bible,' 1:, pp. 346, 347).