1 Samuel 30:22
King James Version
“Then answered all the wicked men and of Belial, of those that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead away, and depart.”
Context
19And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any that they had taken to them: David recovered all.
20And David took all the flocks and the herds, they drave before those cattle, and said, This David’s spoil.
21And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted them.
22Then answered all the wicked men and of Belial, of those that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead away, and depart.
23Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the LORD hath given us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the company that came against us into our hand.
24For who will hearken unto you in this matter? but as his part that goeth down to the battle, so his part that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike.
25And it was from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.