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ISA-11:9 ...for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD,

as the waters cover the sea.

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1SA 01:01 Now there was a certain man of Ramathaimzophim, of

mount

Ephraim, and his name [was] Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son

Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite:

1SA 01:02 And he had two wives; the name of the one [was]

Hannah, and

the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but

Hannah

had no children.

1SA 01:03 And this man went up out of his city yearly to

worship and

to sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons

Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, [were] there.

1SA 01:04 And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to

Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters,

portions:

1SA 01:05 But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved

Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.

1SA 01:06 And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make

her

fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.

1SA 01:07 And [as] he did so year by year, when she went up to

the

house of the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and

did

not eat.

1SA 01:08 Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why

weepest

thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved?

[am] not

I better to thee than ten sons?

1SA 01:09 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and

after

they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of

the

temple of the LORD.

1SA 01:10 And she [was] in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto

the

LORD, and wept sore.

1SA 01:11 And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if

thou

wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and

remember me,

and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid

a man

child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his

life,

and there shall no razor come upon his head.

1SA 01:12 And it came to pass, as she continued praying before

the

LORD, that Eli marked her mouth.

1SA 01:13 Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips

moved,

but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been

drunken.

1SA 01:14 And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken?

put

away thy wine from thee.

1SA 01:15 And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I [am] a

woman

of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong

drink, but

have poured out my soul before the LORD.

1SA 01:16 Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial:

for out

of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken

hitherto.

1SA 01:17 Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God

Israel grant [thee] thy petition that thou hast asked of him.

1SA 01:18 And she said, Let thine handmaid find grace in thy

sight.

So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was

more [sad].

1SA 01:19 And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped

before the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah:

and

Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.

1SA 01:20 Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come

about

after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his

name

Samuel, [saying], Because I have asked him of the LORD.

1SA 01:21 And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to

offer

unto the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.

1SA 01:22 But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband,

will not go up] until the child be weaned, and [then] I will

bring

him, that he may appear before the LORD, and there abide for

ever.

1SA 01:23 And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what

seemeth thee

good; tarry until thou have weaned him; only the LORD establish

his

word. So the woman abode, and gave her son suck until she weaned

him.

1SA 01:24 And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her,

with

three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and

brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child

[was]

young.

1SA 01:25 And they slew a bullock, and brought the child to Eli.

1SA 01:26 And she said, Oh my lord, [as] thy soul liveth, my

lord, I

[am] the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the LORD.

1SA 01:27 For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my

petition which I asked of him:

1SA 01:28 Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long

as he

liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he worshipped the LORD

there.

1SA 02:01 And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the

LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged

over mine

enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.

1SA 02:02 [There is] none holy as the LORD: for [there is] none

beside thee: neither [is there] any rock like our God.

1SA 02:03 Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let [not]

arrogancy come

out of your mouth: for the LORD [is] a God of knowledge, and by

him

actions are weighed.

1SA 02:04 The bows of the mighty men [are] broken, and they that

stumbled are girded with strength.

1SA 02:05 [They that were] full have hired out themselves for

bread;

and [they that were] hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born

seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.

1SA 02:06 The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down

to the

grave, and bringeth up.

1SA 02:07 The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth

low, and

lifteth up.

1SA 02:08 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, [and] lifteth

the beggar from the dunghill, to set [them] among princes, and

to make

them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth

[are]

the LORD's, and he hath set the world upon them.

1SA 02:09 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked

shall

be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.

1SA 02:10 The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces;

out

of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the

ends of

the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt

the

horn of his anointed.

1SA 02:11 And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child

did

minister unto the LORD before Eli the priest.

1SA 02:12 Now the sons of Eli [were] sons of Belial; they knew

not

the LORD.

1SA 02:13 And the priests' custom with the people [was, that],

when

any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the

flesh

was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand;

1SA 02:14 And he struck [it] into the pan, or kettle, or

caldron, or

pot; all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for

himself. So

they did in Shiloh, unto all the Israelites that came thither.

1SA 02:15 Also before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant

came,

and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the

priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.

1SA 02:16 And [if] any man said unto him, Let them not fail to

burn

the fat presently, and [then] take [as much] as thy soul

desireth;

then he would answer him, [Nay]; but thou shalt give [it me] now:

and

if not, I will take [it] by force.

1SA 02:17 Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great

before

the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD.

1SA 02:18 But Samuel ministered before the LORD, [being] a

child,

girded with a linen ephod.

1SA 02:19 Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and

brought

[it] to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband

offer the yearly sacrifice.

1SA 02:20 And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The

LORD

give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the

LORD.

And they went unto their own home.

1SA 02:21 And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived,

and

bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew

before

the LORD.

1SA 02:22 Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did

unto

all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled [at]

the

door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

1SA 02:23 And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I

hear of

your evil dealings by all this people.

1SA 02:24 Nay, my sons; for [it is] no good report that I hear:

make the LORD's people to transgress.

1SA 02:25 If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge

him:

but if a man sin against the LORD, who shall entreat for him?

Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their

father,

because the LORD would slay them.

1SA 02:26 And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both

with

the LORD, and also with men.

1SA 02:27 And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto

him,

Thus saith the LORD, Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy

father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh's house?

1SA 02:28 And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel

[to

be] my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to

wear an

ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all

the

offerings made by fire of the children of Israel?

1SA 02:29 Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine

offering,

which I have commanded [in my] habitation; and honourest thy sons

above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the

offerings of Israel my people?

1SA 02:30 Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed

[that] thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk

before me

for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them

that

honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be

lightly

esteemed.

1SA 02:31 Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm,

and

the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old

man in

thine house.

1SA 02:32 And thou shalt see an enemy [in my] habitation, in

all [the

wealth] which [God] shall give Israel: and there shall not be an

old

man in thine house for ever.

1SA 02:33 And the man of thine, [whom] I shall not cut off from

mine

altar, [shall be] to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine

heart:

and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of

their

age.

1SA 02:34 And this [shall be] a sign unto thee, that shall come

upon

thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die

both

of them.

1SA 02:35 And I will raise me up a faithful priest, [that]

shall do

according to [that] which [is] in mine heart and in my mind: and

will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine

anointed

for ever.

1SA 02:36 And it shall come to pass, [that] every one that is

left in

thine house shall come [and] crouch to him for a piece of silver

and a

morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of

the

priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.

1SA 03:01 And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before

Eli.

And the word of the LORD was precious in those days; [there was]

open vision.

1SA 03:02 And it came to pass at that time, when Eli [was] laid

down

in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, [that] he could not

see;

1SA 03:03 And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the

LORD,

where the ark of God [was], and Samuel was laid down [to sleep];

1SA 03:04 That the LORD called Samuel: and he answered, Here

[am] I.

1SA 03:05 And he ran unto Eli, and said, Here [am] I; for thou

calledst me. And he said, I called not; lie down again. And he

went

and lay down.

1SA 03:06 And the LORD called yet again, Samuel. And Samuel

arose and

went to Eli, and said, Here [am] I; for thou didst call me. And

answered, I called not, my son; lie down again.

1SA 03:07 Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, neither was the

word

of the LORD yet revealed unto him.

1SA 03:08 And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. And

arose and went to Eli, and said, Here [am] I; for thou didst

call me.

And Eli perceived that the LORD had called the child.

1SA 03:09 Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie down: and it

shall

be, if he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, LORD; for thy

servant

heareth. So Samuel went and lay down in his place.

1SA 03:10 And the LORD came, and stood, and called as at other

times,

Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak; for thy servant

heareth.

1SA 03:11 And the LORD said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a

thing in

Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall

tingle.

1SA 03:12 In that day I will perform against Eli all [things]

which I

have spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make

end.

1SA 03:13 For I have told him that I will judge his house for

ever

for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made

themselves

vile, and he restrained them not.

1SA 03:14 And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli,

that the

iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor

offering for ever.

1SA 03:15 And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the

doors of

the house of the LORD. And Samuel feared to show Eli the vision.

1SA 03:16 Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. And

answered, Here [am] I.

1SA 03:17 And he said, What [is] the thing that [the LORD] hath

said

unto thee? I pray thee hide [it] not from me: God do so to thee,

and

more also, if thou hide [any] thing from me of all the things

that he

said unto thee.

1SA 03:18 And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from

him.

And he said, It [is] the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good.

1SA 03:19 And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and did

let

none of his words fall to the ground.

1SA 03:20 And all Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that

Samuel

[was] established [to be] a prophet of the LORD.

1SA 03:21 And the LORD appeared again in Shiloh: for the LORD

revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD.

1SA 04:01 And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel

went

out against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside

Ebenezer:

and the Philistines pitched in Aphek.

1SA 04:02 And the Philistines put themselves in array against

Israel:

and when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the

Philistines: and they slew of the army in the field about four

thousand men.

1SA 04:03 And when the people were come into the camp, the

elders of

Israel said, Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us to day before the

Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the LORD

out of

Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us

out of

the hand of our enemies.

1SA 04:04 So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring

from

thence the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, which

dwelleth

[between] the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and

Phinehas,

[were] there with the ark of the covenant of God.

1SA 04:05 And when the ark of the covenant of the LORD came

into the

camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth

rang

again.

1SA 04:06 And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout,

they

said, What [meaneth] the noise of this great shout in the camp

of the

Hebrews? And they understood that the ark of the LORD was come

into

the camp.

1SA 04:07 And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God

is come

into the camp. And they said, Woe unto us! for there hath not

been

such a thing heretofore.

1SA 04:08 Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of

these

mighty Gods? these [are] the Gods that smote the Egyptians with

all

the plagues in the wilderness.

1SA 04:09 Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye

Philistines,

that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to

you:

quit yourselves like men, and fight.

1SA 04:10 And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten,

and

they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great

slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.

1SA 04:11 And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli,

Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.

1SA 04:12 And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and

came

to Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth

upon his

head.

1SA 04:13 And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon a seat by the

wayside

watching: for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when

the man

came into the city, and told [it], all the city cried out.

1SA 04:14 And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said,

What

[meaneth] the noise of this tumult? And the man came in hastily,

and

told Eli.

1SA 04:15 Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes

were

dim, that he could not see.

1SA 04:16 And the man said unto Eli, I [am] he that came out of

the

army, and I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is

there

done, my son?

1SA 04:17 And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled

before

the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter

among the

people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead,

and the

ark of God is taken.

1SA 04:18 And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark

God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the

gate,

and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and

heavy. And

he had judged Israel forty years.

1SA 04:19 And his daughter in law, Phinehas' wife, was with

child,

[near] to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the

ark of

God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband were

dead,

she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her.

1SA 04:20 And about the time of her death the women that stood

by her

said unto her, Fear not; for thou hast borne a son. But she

answered

not, neither did she regard [it].

1SA 04:21 And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is

departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and

because of

her father in law and her husband.

1SA 04:22 And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for

the

ark of God is taken.

1SA 05:01 And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought

from Ebenezer unto Ashdod.

1SA 05:02 When the Philistines took the ark of God, they

brought it

into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.

1SA 05:03 And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow,

behold,

Dagon [was] fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of

the

LORD. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.

1SA 05:04 And when they arose early on the morrow morning,

behold,

Dagon [was] fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of

the

LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands

[were] cut

off upon the threshold; only [the stump of] Dagon was left to

him.

1SA 05:05 Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that

come

into Dagon's house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod

unto

this day.

1SA 05:06 But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of

Ashdod, and

he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, [even] Ashdod

and the

coasts thereof.

1SA 05:07 And when the men of Ashdod saw that [it was] so, they

said,

The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his

hand is

sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god.

1SA 05:08 They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the

Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark

of the

God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of

Israel be

carried about unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of

Israel

about [thither].

1SA 05:09 And it was [so], that, after they had carried it

about, the

hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great

destruction:

and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they

had

emerods in their secret parts.

1SA 05:10 Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it

came to

pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried

out,

saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to

us, to

slay us and our people.

1SA 05:11 So they sent and gathered together all the lords of

the

Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel,

and let

it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our

people: for

there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand

God was very heavy there.

1SA 05:12 And the men that died not were smitten with the

emerods:

and the cry of the city went up to heaven.

1SA 06:01 And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the

Philistines seven months.

1SA 06:02 And the Philistines called for the priests and the

diviners, saying, What shall we do to the ark of the LORD? tell

wherewith we shall send it to his place.

1SA 06:03 And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of

Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass

offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you

why

his hand is not removed from you.

1SA 06:04 Then said they, What [shall be] the trespass offering

which

we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and

five

golden mice, [according to] the number of the lords of the

Philistines: for one plague [was] on you all, and on your lords.

1SA 06:05 Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and

images

of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the

God

of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you,

and

from off your gods, and from off your land.

1SA 06:06 Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the

Egyptians

and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought

wonderfully

among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?

1SA 06:07 Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch

kine, on

which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and

bring

their calves home from them:

1SA 06:08 And take the ark of the LORD, and lay it upon the

cart; and

put the jewels of gold, which ye return him [for] a trespass

offering,

in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may

go.

1SA 06:09 And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to

Bethshemesh, [then] he hath done us this great evil: but if not,

then

we shall know that [it is] not his hand [that] smote us: it

[was] a

chance [that] happened to us.

1SA 06:10 And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied

them

to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:

1SA 06:11 And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and

the

coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.

1SA 06:12 And the kine took the straight way to the way of

Bethshemesh, [and] went along the highway, lowing as they went,

and

turned not aside [to] the right hand or [to] the left; and the

lords

of the Philistines went after them unto the border of

Bethshemesh.

1SA 06:13 And [they of] Bethshemesh [were] reaping their wheat

harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw

the ark,

and rejoiced to see [it].

1SA 06:14 And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a

Bethshemite,

and stood there, where [there was] a great stone: and they clave

the

wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the

LORD.

1SA 06:15 And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD, and the

coffer that [was] with it, wherein the jewels of gold [were],

and put

[them] on the great stone: and the men of Bethshemesh offered

burnt

offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the LORD.

1SA 06:16 And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen

[it],

they returned to Ekron the same day.

1SA 06:17 And these [are] the golden emerods which the

Philistines

returned [for] a trespass offering unto the LORD; for Ashdod one,

for

Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;

1SA 06:18 And the golden mice, [according to] the number of all

the

cities of the Philistines [belonging] to the five lords, [both]

fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the great

[stone of]

Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the LORD: [which stone

remaineth] unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.

1SA 06:19 And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had

looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people

fifty

thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented,

because

the LORD had smitten [many] of the people with a great slaughter.

1SA 06:20 And the men of Bethshemesh said, Who is able to stand

before this holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us?

1SA 06:21 And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of

Kirjathjearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the

ark of

the LORD; come ye down, [and] fetch it up to you.

1SA 07:01 And the men of Kirjathjearim came, and fetched up the

ark

of the LORD, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the

hill,

and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the LORD.

1SA 07:02 And it came to pass, while the ark abode in

Kirjathjearim,

that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the

house of

Israel lamented after the LORD.

1SA 07:03 And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying,

ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, [then] put away

the

strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your

hearts

unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out

of the

hand of the Philistines.

1SA 07:04 Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and

Ashtaroth, and served the LORD only.

1SA 07:05 And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I

will

pray for you unto the LORD.

1SA 07:06 And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water,

and

poured [it] out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said

there, We have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the

children

of Israel in Mizpeh.

1SA 07:07 And when the Philistines heard that the children of

Israel

were gathered together to Mizpeh, the lords of the Philistines

went up

against Israel. And when the children of Israel heard [it], they

were

afraid of the Philistines.

1SA 07:08 And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not

to cry

unto the LORD our God for us, that he will save us out of the

hand of

the Philistines.

1SA 07:09 And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered [it for] a

burnt offering wholly unto the LORD: and Samuel cried unto the

LORD

for Israel; and the LORD heard him.

1SA 07:10 And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the

Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the LORD

thundered

with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and

discomfited

them; and they were smitten before Israel.

1SA 07:11 And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued

the

Philistines, and smote them, until [they came] under Bethcar.

1SA 07:12 Then Samuel took a stone, and set [it] between Mizpeh

and

Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath

the

LORD helped us.

1SA 07:13 So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no

more into

the coast of Israel: and the hand of the LORD was against the

Philistines all the days of Samuel.

1SA 07:14 And the cities which the Philistines had taken from

Israel

were restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the

coasts

thereof did Israel deliver out of the hands of the Philistines.

And

there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.

1SA 07:15 And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.

1SA 07:16 And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel,

and

Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.

1SA 07:17 And his return [was] to Ramah; for there [was] his

house;

and there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the

LORD.

1SA 08:01 And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he

made his

sons judges over Israel.

1SA 08:02 Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name

of his

second, Abiah: [they were] judges in Beersheba.

1SA 08:03 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside

after

lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

1SA 08:04 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves

together,

and came to Samuel unto Ramah,

1SA 08:05 And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons

walk

not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the

nations.

1SA 08:06 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give

us a

king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.

1SA 08:07 And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice

the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not

rejected

thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over

them.

1SA 08:08 According to all the works which they have done since

the

day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day,

wherewith

they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also

unto

thee.

1SA 08:09 Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet

protest

solemnly unto them, and show them the manner of the king that

shall

reign over them.

1SA 08:10 And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the

people

that asked of him a king.

1SA 08:11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that

shall

reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint [them] for

himself, for his chariots, and [to be] his horsemen; and [some]

shall

run before his chariots.

1SA 08:12 And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and

captains over fifties; and [will set them] to ear his ground,

and to

reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and

instruments

of his chariots.

1SA 08:13 And he will take your daughters [to be]

confectionaries,

and [to be] cooks, and [to be] bakers.

1SA 08:14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and

your

oliveyards, [even] the best [of them], and give [them] to his

servants.

1SA 08:15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your

vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.

1SA 08:16 And he will take your menservants, and your

maidservants,

and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put [them] to

his

work.

1SA 08:17 He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be

his

servants.

1SA 08:18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king

which

ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that

day.

1SA 08:19 Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of

Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;

1SA 08:20 That we also may be like all the nations; and that

our king

may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.

1SA 08:21 And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he

rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD.

1SA 08:22 And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice,

and

make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye

every

man unto his city.

1SA 09:01 Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name [was]

Kish, the

son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of

Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power.

1SA 09:02 And he had a son, whose name [was] Saul, a choice

young

man, and a goodly: and [there was] not among the children of

Israel a

goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward [he was]

higher

than any of the people.

1SA 09:03 And the asses of Kish Saul's father were lost. And

Kish

said to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with thee, and

arise, go seek the asses.

1SA 09:04 And he passed through mount Ephraim, and passed

through the

land of Shalisha, but they found [them] not: then they passed

through

the land of Shalim, and [there they were] not: and he passed

through

the land of the Benjamites, but they found [them] not.

1SA 09:05 [And] when they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul

said to

his servant that [was] with him, Come, and let us return; lest my

father leave [caring] for the asses, and take thought for us.

1SA 09:06 And he said unto him, Behold now, [there is] in this

city a

man of God, and [he is] an honourable man; all that he saith

cometh

surely to pass: now let us go thither; peradventure he can show

us our

way that we should go.

1SA 09:07 Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, [if] we

go,

what shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our

vessels,

and [there is] not a present to bring to the man of God: what

have we?

1SA 09:08 And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold,

have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: [that]

will I

give to the man of God, to tell us our way.

1SA 09:09 (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to inquire of

God,

thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for [he that is]

now

[called] a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)

1SA 09:10 Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let

us go.

So they went unto the city where the man of God [was].

1SA 09:11 [And] as they went up the hill to the city, they found

young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is

the seer

here?

1SA 09:12 And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, [he

is]

before you: make haste now, for he came to day to the city; for

[there

is] a sacrifice of the people to day in the high place:

1SA 09:13 As soon as ye be come into the city, ye shall

straightway

find him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the

people

will not eat until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice;

[and]

afterwards they eat that be bidden. Now therefore get you up; for

about this time ye shall find him.

1SA 09:14 And they went up into the city: [and] when they were

come

into the city, behold, Samuel came out against them, for to go

up to

the high place.

1SA 09:15 Now the LORD had told Samuel in his ear a day before

Saul

came, saying,

1SA 09:16 To morrow about this time I will send thee a man out

of the

land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him [to be] captain over

people Israel, that he may save my people out of the hand of the

Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry

come unto me.

1SA 09:17 And when Samuel saw Saul, the LORD said unto him,

Behold

the man whom I spake to thee of! this same shall reign over my

people.

1SA 09:18 Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said,

Tell

me, I pray thee, where the seer's house [is].

1SA 09:19 And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I [am] the seer:

go up

before me unto the high place; for ye shall eat with me to day,

and to

morrow I will let thee go, and will tell thee all that [is] in

thine

heart.

1SA 09:20 And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago,

set

not thy mind on them; for they are found. And on whom [is] all

the

desire of Israel? [Is it] not on thee, and on all thy father's

house?

1SA 09:21 And Saul answered and said, [Am] not I a Benjamite,

of the

smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all

the

families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou

so to

me?

1SA 09:22 And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought

them into

the parlour, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them

that

were bidden, which [were] about thirty persons.

1SA 09:23 And Samuel said unto the cook, Bring the portion

which I

gave thee, of which I said unto thee, Set it by thee.

1SA 09:24 And the cook took up the shoulder, and [that] which

[was]

upon it, and set [it] before Saul. And [Samuel] said, Behold that

which is left! set [it] before thee, [and] eat: for unto this

time

hath it been kept for thee since I said, I have invited the

people. So

Saul did eat with Samuel that day.

1SA 09:25 And when they were come down from the high place into

the

city, [Samuel] communed with Saul upon the top of the house.

1SA 09:26 And they arose early: and it came to pass about the

spring

of the day, that Samuel called Saul to the top of the house,

saying,

Up, that I may send thee away. And Saul arose, and they went out

both

of them, he and Samuel, abroad.

1SA 09:27 [And] as they were going down to the end of the city,

Samuel said to Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us, (and he

passed

on,) but stand thou still a while, that I may show thee the word

God.

1SA 10:01 Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured [it] upon

his

head, and kissed him, and said, [Is it] not because the LORD hath

anointed thee [to be] captain over his inheritance?

1SA 10:02 When thou art departed from me to day, then thou

shalt find

two men by Rachel's sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at

Zelzah; and

they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are

found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and

sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?

1SA 10:03 Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou

shalt

come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men

going

up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another

carrying

three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:

1SA 10:04 And they will salute thee, and give thee two [loaves]

bread; which thou shalt receive of their hands.

1SA 10:05 After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where

[is]

the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when

thou

art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of

prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a

tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall

prophesy:

1SA 10:06 And the spirit of the LORD will come upon thee, and

thou

shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man.

1SA 10:07 And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee,

[that]

thou do as occasion serve thee; for God [is] with thee.

1SA 10:08 And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and,

behold, I

will come down unto thee, to offer burnt offerings, [and] to

sacrifice

sacrifices of peace offerings: seven days shalt thou tarry, till

come to thee, and show thee what thou shalt do.

1SA 10:09 And it was [so], that when he had turned his back to

from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs

came to

pass that day.

1SA 10:10 And when they came thither to the hill, behold, a

company

of prophets met him; and the spirit of God came upon him, and he

prophesied among them.

1SA 10:11 And it came to pass, when all that knew him

beforetime saw

that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people

said

one to another, What [is] this [that] is come unto the son of

Kish?

[Is] Saul also among the prophets?

1SA 10:12 And one of the same place answered and said, But who

[is]

their father? Therefore it became a proverb, [Is] Saul also

among the

prophets?

1SA 10:13 And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came

to the

high place.

1SA 10:14 And Saul's uncle said unto him and to his servant,

Whither

went ye? And he said, To seek the asses: and when we saw that

[they

were] no where, we came to Samuel.

1SA 10:15 And Saul's uncle said, Tell me, I pray thee, what

Samuel

said unto you.

1SA 10:16 And Saul said unto his uncle, He told us plainly that

the

asses were found. But of the matter of the kingdom, whereof

Samuel

spake, he told him not.

1SA 10:17 And Samuel called the people together unto the LORD to

Mizpeh;

1SA 10:18 And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the

LORD

God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered

you out

of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all

kingdoms,

[and] of them that oppressed you:

1SA 10:19 And ye have this day rejected your God, who himself

saved

you out of all your adversities and your tribulations; and ye

have

said unto him, [Nay], but set a king over us. Now therefore

present

yourselves before the LORD by your tribes, and by your thousands.

1SA 10:20 And when Samuel had caused all the tribes of Israel

to come

near, the tribe of Benjamin was taken.

1SA 10:21 When he had caused the tribe of Benjamin to come near

their families, the family of Matri was taken, and Saul the son

Kish was taken: and when they sought him, he could not be found.

1SA 10:22 Therefore they inquired of the LORD further, if the

man

should yet come thither. And the LORD answered, Behold, he hath

hid

himself among the stuff.

1SA 10:23 And they ran and fetched him thence: and when he stood

among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his

shoulders and upward.

1SA 10:24 And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom

the LORD

hath chosen, that [there is] none like him among all the people?

And

all the people shouted, and said, God save the king.

1SA 10:25 Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom,

and

wrote [it] in a book, and laid [it] up before the LORD. And

Samuel

sent all the people away, every man to his house.

1SA 10:26 And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went

with him

a band of men, whose hearts God had touched.

1SA 10:27 But the children of Belial said, How shall this man

save

us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he

held

his peace.

1SA 11:01 Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against

Jabeshgilead: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a

covenant with us, and we will serve thee.

1SA 11:02 And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this

[condition]

will I make [a covenant] with you, that I may thrust out all your

right eyes, and lay it [for] a reproach upon all Israel.

1SA 11:03 And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven

days'

respite, that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of

Israel:

and then, if [there be] no man to save us, we will come out to

thee.

1SA 11:04 Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and told

the

tidings in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up

their

voices, and wept.

1SA 11:05 And, behold, Saul came after the herd out of the

field; and

Saul said, What [aileth] the people that they weep? And they

told him

the tidings of the men of Jabesh.

1SA 11:06 And the spirit of God came upon Saul when he heard

those

tidings, and his anger was kindled greatly.

1SA 11:07 And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces,

and

sent [them] throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of

messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and

after

Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the

LORD

fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.

1SA 11:08 And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of

Israel

were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty

thousand.

1SA 11:09 And they said unto the messengers that came, Thus

shall ye

say unto the men of Jabeshgilead, To morrow, by [that time] the

sun be

hot, ye shall have help. And the messengers came and showed [it]

the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.

1SA 11:10 Therefore the men of Jabesh said, To morrow we will

come

out unto you, and ye shall do with us all that seemeth good unto

you.

1SA 11:11 And it was [so] on the morrow, that Saul put the

people in

three companies; and they came into the midst of the host in the

morning watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day:

and

it came to pass, that they which remained were scattered, so

that two

of them were not left together.

1SA 11:12 And the people said unto Samuel, Who [is] he that

said,

Shall Saul reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to

death.

1SA 11:13 And Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death

this

day: for to day the LORD hath wrought salvation in Israel.

1SA 11:14 Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to

Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.

1SA 11:15 And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they

made Saul

king before the LORD in Gilgal; and there they sacrificed

sacrifices

of peace offerings before the LORD; and there Saul and all the

men of

Israel rejoiced greatly.

1SA 12:01 And Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I have

hearkened

unto your voice in all that ye said unto me, and have made a

king over

you.

1SA 12:02 And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I

am old

and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons [are] with you: and I have

walked

before you from my childhood unto this day.

1SA 12:03 Behold, here I [am]: witness against me before the

LORD,

and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass

have I

taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of

whose

hand have I received [any] bribe to blind mine eyes therewith?

and I

will restore it you.

1SA 12:04 And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor

oppressed

us, neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand.

1SA 12:05 And he said unto them, The LORD [is] witness against

you,

and his anointed [is] witness this day, that ye have not found

ought

in my hand. And they answered, [He is] witness.

1SA 12:06 And Samuel said unto the people, [It is] the LORD that

advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out

of the

land of Egypt.

1SA 12:07 Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you

before the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he

did to

you and to your fathers.

1SA 12:08 When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers

cried unto

the LORD, then the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, which brought

forth your

fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place.

1SA 12:09 And when they forgat the LORD their God, he sold them

into

the hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the

hand of

the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they

fought against them.

1SA 12:10 And they cried unto the LORD, and said, We have

sinned,

because we have forsaken the LORD, and have served Baalim and

Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies,

and we

will serve thee.

1SA 12:11 And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah,

and

Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on

every

side, and ye dwelled safe.

1SA 12:12 And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children

Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, Nay; but a king shall

reign

over us: when the LORD your God [was] your king.

1SA 12:13 Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen,

[and]

whom ye have desired! and, behold, the LORD hath set a king over

you.

1SA 12:14 If ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his

voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then

shall

both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue

following

the LORD your God:

1SA 12:15 But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but

rebel

against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the

LORD

be against you, as [it was] against your fathers.

1SA 12:16 Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which

the

LORD will do before your eyes.

1SA 12:17 [Is it] not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the

LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive

and see

that your wickedness [is] great, which ye have done in the sight

the LORD, in asking you a king.

1SA 12:18 So Samuel called unto the LORD; and the LORD sent

thunder

and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the LORD and

Samuel.

1SA 12:19 And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy

servants

unto the LORD thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto

all our

sins [this] evil, to ask us a king.

1SA 12:20 And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have

done all

this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but

serve

the LORD with all your heart;

1SA 12:21 And turn ye not aside: for [then should ye go] after

vain

[things], which cannot profit nor deliver; for they [are] vain.

1SA 12:22 For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great

name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his

people.

1SA 12:23 Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin

against

the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the

good and

the right way:

1SA 12:24 Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all

your

heart; for consider how great [things] he hath done for you.

1SA 12:25 But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be

consumed,

both ye and your king.

1SA 13:01 Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two

years

over Israel,

1SA 13:02 Saul chose him three thousand [men] of Israel;

[whereof]

two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and

thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest

of the

people he sent every man to his tent.

1SA 13:03 And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines

that

[was] in Geba, and the Philistines heard [of it]. And Saul blew

the

trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.

1SA 13:04 And all Israel heard say [that] Saul had smitten a

garrison

of the Philistines, and [that] Israel also was had in

abomination with

the Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul

Gilgal.

1SA 13:05 And the Philistines gathered themselves together to

fight

with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen,

and

people as the sand which [is] on the sea shore in multitude: and

they

came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Bethaven.

1SA 13:06 When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait,

(for

the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves

caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in

pits.

1SA 13:07 And [some of] the Hebrews went over Jordan to the

land of

Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he [was] yet in Gilgal, and all the

people followed him trembling.

1SA 13:08 And he tarried seven days, according to the set time

that

Samuel [had appointed]: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the

people

were scattered from him.

1SA 13:09 And Saul said, Bring hither a burnt offering to me,

and

peace offerings. And he offered the burnt offering.

1SA 13:10 And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an

end of

offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went

out to

meet him, that he might salute him.

1SA 13:11 And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said,

Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and [that]

thou

camest not within the days appointed, and [that] the Philistines

gathered themselves together at Michmash;

1SA 13:12 Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now

upon

me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the LORD: I

forced

myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering.

1SA 13:13 And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly:

thou

hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he

commanded

thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon

Israel

for ever.

1SA 13:14 But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath

sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath

commanded him

[to be] captain over his people, because thou hast not kept

[that]

which the LORD commanded thee.

1SA 13:15 And Samuel arose, and gat him up from Gilgal unto

Gibeah of

Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people [that were] present with

him,

about six hundred men.

1SA 13:16 And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people [that

were]

present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the

Philistines

encamped in Michmash.

1SA 13:17 And the spoilers came out of the camp of the

Philistines in

three companies: one company turned unto the way [that leadeth

to]

Ophrah, unto the land of Shual:

1SA 13:18 And another company turned the way [to] Bethhoron: and

another company turned [to] the way of the border that looketh

to the

valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.

1SA 13:19 Now there was no smith found throughout all the land

Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make [them]

swords

or spears:

1SA 13:20 But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines,

sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his ax, and his

mattock.

1SA 13:21 Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the

coulters,

and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.

1SA 13:22 So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there

was

neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people

that

[were] with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan

his son

was there found.

1SA 13:23 And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the

passage

of Michmash.

1SA 14:01 Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son

Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let

us go

over to the Philistines' garrison, that [is] on the other side.

But he

told not his father.

1SA 14:02 And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah

under a

pomegranate tree which [is] in Migron: and the people that

[were] with

him [were] about six hundred men;

1SA 14:03 And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the

son of

Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD'S priest in Shiloh, wearing an

ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone.

1SA 14:04 And between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to

over unto the Philistines' garrison, [there was] a sharp rock on

the

one side, and a sharp rock on the other side: and the name of

the one

[was] Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.

1SA 14:05 The forefront of the one [was] situate northward over

against Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah.

1SA 14:06 And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his

armour,

Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these

uncircumcised: it

may be that the LORD will work for us: for [there is] no

restraint to

the LORD to save by many or by few.

1SA 14:07 And his armourbearer said unto him, Do all that [is]

thine heart: turn thee; behold, I [am] with thee according to thy

heart.

1SA 14:08 Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over unto

[these]

men, and we will discover ourselves unto them.

1SA 14:09 If they say thus unto us, Tarry until we come to you;

then

we will stand still in our place, and will not go up unto them.

1SA 14:10 But if they say thus, Come up unto us; then we will

go up:

for the LORD hath delivered them into our hand: and this [shall

be] a

sign unto us.

1SA 14:11 And both of them discovered themselves unto the

garrison of

the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews

come

forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves.

1SA 14:12 And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his

armourbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will show you a

thing.

And Jonathan said unto his armourbearer, Come up after me: for

the

LORD hath delivered them into the hand of Israel.

1SA 14:13 And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his

feet,

and his armourbearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan;

and his

armourbearer slew after him.

1SA 14:14 And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his

armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an

half

acre of land, [which] a yoke [of oxen might plow].

1SA 14:15 And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and

among all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers, they also

trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling.

1SA 14:16 And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked;

and,

behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down

[one

another].

1SA 14:17 Then said Saul unto the people that [were] with him,

Number

now, and see who is gone from us. And when they had numbered,

behold,

Jonathan and his armourbearer [were] not [there].

1SA 14:18 And Saul said unto Ahiah, Bring hither the ark of God.

For

the ark of God was at that time with the children of Israel.

1SA 14:19 And it came to pass, while Saul talked unto the

priest,

that the noise that [was] in the host of the Philistines went on

and

increased: and Saul said unto the priest, Withdraw thine hand.

1SA 14:20 And Saul and all the people that [were] with him

assembled

themselves, and they came to the battle: and, behold, every man's

sword was against his fellow, [and there was] a very great

discomfiture.

1SA 14:21 Moreover the Hebrews [that] were with the Philistines

before that time, which went up with them into the camp [from the

country] round about, even they also [turned] to be with the

Israelites that [were] with Saul and Jonathan.

1SA 14:22 Likewise all the men of Israel which had hid

themselves in

mount Ephraim, [when] they heard that the Philistines fled, even

they

also followed hard after them in the battle.

1SA 14:23 So the LORD saved Israel that day: and the battle

passed

over unto Bethaven.

1SA 14:24 And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for

Saul

had adjured the people, saying, Cursed [be] the man that eateth

[any]

food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So

none of

the people tasted [any] food.

1SA 14:25 And all [they of] the land came to a wood; and there

was

honey upon the ground.

1SA 14:26 And when the people were come into the wood, behold,

the

honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the

people

feared the oath.

1SA 14:27 But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the

people

with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that

[was] in

his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his

mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.

1SA 14:28 Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father

straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed [be]

the man

that eateth [any] food this day. And the people were faint.

1SA 14:29 Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land:

see,

I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I

tasted a

little of this honey.

1SA 14:30 How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely

to day

of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there

not been

now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?

1SA 14:31 And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash

Aijalon: and the people were very faint.

1SA 14:32 And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep,

and

oxen, and calves, and slew [them] on the ground: and the people

did

eat [them] with the blood.

1SA 14:33 Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin

against

the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have

transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day.

1SA 14:34 And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people,

and

say unto them, Bring me hither every man his ox, and every man

his

sheep, and slay [them] here, and eat; and sin not against the

LORD in

eating with the blood. And all the people brought every man his

with him that night, and slew [them] there.

1SA 14:35 And Saul built an altar unto the LORD: the same was

the

first altar that he built unto the LORD.

1SA 14:36 And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by

night, and spoil them until the morning light, and let us not

leave a

man of them. And they said, Do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee.

Then

said the priest, Let us draw near hither unto God.

1SA 14:37 And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after

the

Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hand of Israel? But

answered him not that day.

1SA 14:38 And Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the chief of

the

people: and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day.

1SA 14:39 For, [as] the LORD liveth, which saveth Israel,

though it

be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But [there was] not

a man

among all the people [that] answered him.

1SA 14:40 Then said he unto all Israel, Be ye on one side, and

I and

Jonathan my son will be on the other side. And the people said

unto

Saul, Do what seemeth good unto thee.

1SA 14:41 Therefore Saul said unto the LORD God of Israel, Give

perfect [lot]. And Saul and Jonathan were taken: but the people

escaped.

1SA 14:42 And Saul said, Cast [lots] between me and Jonathan my

son.

And Jonathan was taken.

1SA 14:43 Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast

done.

And Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey

with

the end of the rod that [was] in mine hand, [and], lo, I must

die.

1SA 14:44 And Saul answered, God do so and more also: for thou

shalt

surely die, Jonathan.

1SA 14:45 And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die,

who hath

wrought this great salvation in Israel? God forbid: [as] the LORD

liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground;

for

he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued

Jonathan,

that he died not.

1SA 14:46 Then Saul went up from following the Philistines: and

the

Philistines went to their own place.

1SA 14:47 So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought

against

all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the

children

of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and

against the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he

vexed

[them].

1SA 14:48 And he gathered an host, and smote the Amalekites, and

delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them.

1SA 14:49 Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishui, and

Melchishua: and the names of his two daughters [were these]; the

name

of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal:

1SA 14:50 And the name of Saul's wife [was] Ahinoam, the

daughter of

Ahimaaz: and the name of the captain of his host [was] Abner,

the son

of Ner, Saul's uncle.

1SA 14:51 And Kish [was] the father of Saul; and Ner the father

Abner [was] the son of Abiel.

1SA 14:52 And there was sore war against the Philistines all

the days

of Saul: and when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man,

he took

him unto him.

1SA 15:01 Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to

anoint thee

[to be] king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken

thou

unto the voice of the words of the LORD.

1SA 15:02 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember [that] which

Amalek did to Israel, how he laid [wait] for him in the way,

when he

came up from Egypt.

1SA 15:03 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that

they

have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and

suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

1SA 15:04 And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered

them in

Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of

Judah.

1SA 15:05 And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in

the

valley.

1SA 15:06 And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you

down

from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye

showed

kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of

Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

1SA 15:07 And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah [until]

thou

comest to Shur, that [is] over against Egypt.

1SA 15:08 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and

utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

1SA 15:09 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of

the

sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and

all

[that was] good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every

thing

[that was] vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

1SA 15:10 Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying,

1SA 15:11 It repenteth me that I have set up Saul [to be] king:

for

he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my

commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD

all

night.

1SA 15:12 And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the

morning, it

was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he

set him

up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to

Gilgal.

1SA 15:13 And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him,

Blessed

[be] thou of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the

LORD.

1SA 15:14 And Samuel said, What [meaneth] then this bleating of

the

sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

1SA 15:15 And Saul said, They have brought them from the

Amalekites:

for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to

sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly

destroyed.

1SA 15:16 Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell

thee what

the LORD hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say

on.

1SA 15:17 And Samuel said, When thou [wast] little in thine own

sight, [wast] thou not [made] the head of the tribes of Israel,

and

the LORD anointed thee king over Israel?

1SA 15:18 And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and

utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against

them

until they be consumed.

1SA 15:19 Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the

LORD,

but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the

LORD?

1SA 15:20 And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the

voice of

the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have

brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the

Amalekites.

1SA 15:21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the

chief

of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to

sacrifice

unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal.

1SA 15:22 And Samuel said, Hath the LORD [as great] delight in

burnt

offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD?

Behold,

to obey [is] better than sacrifice, [and] to hearken than the

fat of

rams.

1SA 15:23 For rebellion [is as] the sin of witchcraft, and

stubbornness [is as] iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast

rejected

the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from [being]

king.

1SA 15:24 And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have

transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words: because

feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

1SA 15:25 Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn

again

with me, that I may worship the LORD.

1SA 15:26 And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with

thee: for

thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath

rejected

thee from being king over Israel.

1SA 15:27 And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold

upon

the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.

1SA 15:28 And Samuel said unto him, The LORD hath rent the

kingdom of

Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of

thine,

[that is] better than thou.

1SA 15:29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor

repent:

for he [is] not a man, that he should repent.

1SA 15:30 Then he said, I have sinned: [yet] honour me now, I

pray

thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn

again with me, that I may worship the LORD thy God.

1SA 15:31 So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul

worshipped the

LORD.

1SA 15:32 Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king

the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said,

Surely the bitterness of death is past.

1SA 15:33 And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women

childless, so

shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag

pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.

1SA 15:34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his

house to

Gibeah of Saul.

1SA 15:35 And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of

his

death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD

repented

that he had made Saul king over Israel.

1SA 16:01 And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou

mourn for

Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill

thine

horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the

Bethlehemite: for

I have provided me a king among his sons.

1SA 16:02 And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear [it], he

will

kill me. And the LORD said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I

come to sacrifice to the LORD.

1SA 16:03 And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show thee

what

thou shalt do: and thou shalt anoint unto me [him] whom I name

unto

thee.

1SA 16:04 And Samuel did that which the LORD spake, and came to

Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and

said, Comest thou peaceably?

1SA 16:05 And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice unto

the

LORD: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.

And he

sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.

1SA 16:06 And it came to pass, when they were come, that he

looked on

Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD's anointed [is] before him.

1SA 16:07 But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his

countenance,

or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for

[the

LORD seeth] not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward

appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.

1SA 16:08 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before

Samuel. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this.

1SA 16:09 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said,

Neither

hath the LORD chosen this.

1SA 16:10 Again, Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before

Samuel.

And Samuel said unto Jesse, The LORD hath not chosen these.

1SA 16:11 And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all [thy]

children?

And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he

keepeth

the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for

we will

not sit down till he come hither.

1SA 16:12 And he sent, and brought him in. Now he [was] ruddy,

[and]

withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And

the LORD

said, Arise, anoint him: for this [is] he.

1SA 16:13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in

the

midst of his brethren: and the spirit of the LORD came upon

David from

that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.

1SA 16:14 But the spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an

evil

spirit from the LORD troubled him.

1SA 16:15 And Saul's servants said unto him, Behold now, an evil

spirit from God troubleth thee.

1SA 16:16 Let our lord now command thy servants, [which are]

before

thee, to seek out a man, [who is] a cunning player on an harp:

and it

shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee,

that

he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well.

1SA 16:17 And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man

that

can play well, and bring [him] to me.

1SA 16:18 Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold,

I have

seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, [that is] cunning in

playing,

and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in

matters,

and a comely person, and the LORD [is] with him.

1SA 16:19 Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said,

Send

me David thy son, which [is] with the sheep.

1SA 16:20 And Jesse took an ass [laden] with bread, and a

bottle of

wine, and a kid, and sent [them] by David his son unto Saul.

1SA 16:21 And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he

loved

him greatly; and he became his armourbearer.

1SA 16:22 And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray

thee,

stand before me; for he hath found favour in my sight.

1SA 16:23 And it came to pass, when the [evil] spirit from God

was

upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so

Saul

was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from

him.

1SA 17:01 Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to

battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which [belongeth]

Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammin.

1SA 17:02 And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together,

and

pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array

against the

Philistines.

1SA 17:03 And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one

side,

and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and [there

was] a

valley between them.

1SA 17:04 And there went out a champion out of the camp of the

Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height [was] six

cubits and

a span.

1SA 17:05 And [he had] an helmet of brass upon his head, and he

[was]

armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat [was] five

thousand shekels of brass.

1SA 17:06 And [he had] greaves of brass upon his legs, and a

target

of brass between his shoulders.

1SA 17:07 And the staff of his spear [was] like a weaver's beam;

and

his spear's head [weighed] six hundred shekels of iron: and one

bearing a shield went before him.

1SA 17:08 And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and

said

unto them, Why are ye come out to set [your] battle in array?

[am] not

I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for

you, and

let him come down to me.

1SA 17:09 If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then

will

we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him,

then

shall ye be our servants, and serve us.

1SA 17:10 And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel

this

day; give me a man, that we may fight together.

1SA 17:11 When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the

Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.

1SA 17:12 Now David [was] the son of that Ephrathite of

Bethlehemjudah, whose name [was] Jesse; and he had eight sons:

and the

man went among men [for] an old man in the days of Saul.

1SA 17:13 And the three eldest sons of Jesse went [and]

followed Saul

to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the

battle

[were] Eliab the firstborn, and next unto him Abinadab, and the

third

Shammah.

1SA 17:14 And David [was] the youngest: and the three eldest

followed

Saul.

1SA 17:15 But David went and returned from Saul to feed his

father's

sheep at Bethlehem.

1SA 17:16 And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and

presented himself forty days.

1SA 17:17 And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy

brethren an ephah of this parched [corn], and these ten loaves,

and

run to the camp to thy brethren;

1SA 17:18 And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of

[their]

thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.

1SA 17:19 Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, [were]

the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.

1SA 17:20 And David rose up early in the morning, and left the

sheep

with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him;

and he

came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and

shouted for the battle.

1SA 17:21 For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in

array,

army against army.

1SA 17:22 And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper

the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his

brethren.

1SA 17:23 And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the

champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the

armies

of the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and

David

heard [them].

1SA 17:24 And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man,

fled from

him, and were sore afraid.

1SA 17:25 And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man

that is

come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be,

[that]

the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great

riches,

and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free

Israel.

1SA 17:26 And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying,

What

shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and

taketh away

the reproach from Israel? for who [is] this uncircumcised

Philistine,

that he should defy the armies of the living God?

1SA 17:27 And the people answered him after this manner, saying,

shall it be done to the man that killeth him.

1SA 17:28 And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto

the

men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said,

Why

camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few

sheep

in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine

heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.

1SA 17:29 And David said, What have I now done? [Is there] not a

cause?

1SA 17:30 And he turned from him toward another, and spake

after the

same manner: and the people answered him again after the former

manner.

1SA 17:31 And when the words were heard which David spake, they

rehearsed [them] before Saul: and he sent for him.

1SA 17:32 And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail

because of

him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.

1SA 17:33 And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go

against

this Philistine to fight with him: for thou [art but] a youth,

and he

a man of war from his youth.

1SA 17:34 And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his

father's

sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of

the

flock:

1SA 17:35 And I went out after him, and smote him, and

delivered [it]

out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught [him]

by his

beard, and smote him, and slew him.

1SA 17:36 Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this

uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath

defied the armies of the living God.

1SA 17:37 David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out

of the

paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver

out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go,

and

the LORD be with thee.

1SA 17:38 And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an

helmet

of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail.

1SA 17:39 And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he

assayed

to go; for he had not proved [it]. And David said unto Saul, I

cannot

go with these; for I have not proved [them]. And David put them

off

him.

1SA 17:40 And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five

smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag

which

he had, even in a scrip; and his sling [was] in his hand: and he

drew

near to the Philistine.

1SA 17:41 And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David;

and

the man that bare the shield [went] before him.

1SA 17:42 And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David,

disdained him: for he was [but] a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair

countenance.

1SA 17:43 And the Philistine said unto David, [Am] I a dog,

that thou

comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his

gods.

1SA 17:44 And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I

will

give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of

the

field.

1SA 17:45 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me

with a

sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee

in the

name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom

thou

hast defied.

1SA 17:46 This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand;

and I

will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give

the

carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls

of the

air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may

know

that there is a God in Israel.

1SA 17:47 And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth

not

with sword and spear: for the battle [is] the LORD's, and he

will give

you into our hands.

1SA 17:48 And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and

came

and drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted, and ran toward

the

army to meet the Philistine.

1SA 17:49 And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a

stone,

and slang [it], and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that

the

stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the

earth.

1SA 17:50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling

and

with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but [there

was]

no sword in the hand of David.

1SA 17:51 Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine,

and

took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew

him,

and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw

their

champion was dead, they fled.

1SA 17:52 And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted,

and

pursued the Philistines, until thou come to the valley, and to

the

gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by

the

way to Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto Ekron.

1SA 17:53 And the children of Israel returned from chasing

after the

Philistines, and they spoiled their tents.

1SA 17:54 And David took the head of the Philistine, and

brought it

to Jerusalem; but he put his armour in his tent.

1SA 17:55 And when Saul saw David go forth against the

Philistine, he

said unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son [is]

this

youth? And Abner said, [As] thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot

tell.

1SA 17:56 And the king said, Inquire thou whose son the

stripling

[is].

1SA 17:57 And as David returned from the slaughter of the

Philistine,

Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the

Philistine in his hand.

1SA 17:58 And Saul said to him, Whose son [art] thou, [thou]

young

man? And David answered, I [am] the son of thy servant Jesse the

Bethlehemite.

1SA 18:01 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of

speaking

unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of

David,

and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

1SA 18:02 And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no

more

home to his father's house.

1SA 18:03 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he

loved

him as his own soul.

1SA 18:04 And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that [was]

upon

him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword,

and to

his bow, and to his girdle.

1SA 18:05 And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him, [and]

behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war,

and he

was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the

sight of

Saul's servants.

1SA 18:06 And it came to pass as they came, when David was

returned

from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of

all

cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with

tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of music.

1SA 18:07 And the women answered [one another] as they played,

and

said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.

1SA 18:08 And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased

him; and

he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me

they

have ascribed [but] thousands: and [what] can he have more but

the

kingdom?

1SA 18:09 And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.

1SA 18:10 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil

spirit

from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the

house:

and David played with his hand, as at other times: and [there

was] a

javelin in Saul's hand.

1SA 18:11 And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite

David

even to the wall [with it]. And David avoided out of his presence

twice.

1SA 18:12 And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was

with

him, and was departed from Saul.

1SA 18:13 Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his

captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the

people.

1SA 18:14 And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and

the

LORD [was] with him.

1SA 18:15 Wherefore when Saul saw that he behaved himself very

wisely, he was afraid of him.

1SA 18:16 But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went

out

and came in before them.

1SA 18:17 And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter

Merab, her

will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight

the

LORD'S battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him,

but let

the hand of the Philistines be upon him.

1SA 18:18 And David said unto Saul, Who [am] I? and what [is] my

life, [or] my father's family in Israel, that I should be son in

law

to the king?

1SA 18:19 But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul's

daughter

should have been given to David, that she was given unto Adriel

the

Meholathite to wife.

1SA 18:20 And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told

Saul,

and the thing pleased him.

1SA 18:21 And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a

snare

to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.

Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in

law in

[the one of] the twain.

1SA 18:22 And Saul commanded his servants, [saying], Commune

with

David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee,

and

all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king's son in

law.

1SA 18:23 And Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of

David.

And David said, Seemeth it to you [a] light [thing] to be a

king's son

in law, seeing that I [am] a poor man, and lightly esteemed?

1SA 18:24 And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this

manner

spake David.

1SA 18:25 And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king

desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the

Philistines,

to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make

David

fall by the hand of the Philistines.

1SA 18:26 And when his servants told David these words, it

pleased

David well to be the king's son in law: and the days were not

expired.

1SA 18:27 Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and

slew of

the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their

foreskins,

and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the

king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.

1SA 18:28 And Saul saw and knew that the LORD [was] with David,

and

[that] Michal Saul's daughter loved him.

1SA 18:29 And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul

became

David's enemy continually.

1SA 18:30 Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and

it came

to pass, after they went forth, [that] David behaved himself more

wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much

set

by.

1SA 19:01 And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his

servants, that they should kill David.

1SA 19:02 But Jonathan Saul's son delighted much in David: and

Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee:

now

therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning,

and

abide in a secret [place], and hide thyself:

1SA 19:03 And I will go out and stand beside my father in the

field

where thou [art], and I will commune with my father of thee; and

what

I see, that I will tell thee.

1SA 19:04 And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father,

and

said unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against

David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his

works

[have been] to thee ward very good:

1SA 19:05 For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the

Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great salvation for all

Israel:

thou sawest [it], and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin

against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?

1SA 19:06 And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and

Saul

sware, [As] the LORD liveth, he shall not be slain.

1SA 19:07 And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all

those things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in

his

presence, as in times past.

1SA 19:08 And there was war again: and David went out, and

fought

with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and

they

fled from him.

1SA 19:09 And the evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as

he sat

in his house with his javelin in his hand: and David played with

[his]

hand.

1SA 19:10 And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with

the

javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he

smote the

javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.

1SA 19:11 Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to

watch him,

and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him,

saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt

slain.

1SA 19:12 So Michal let David down through a window: and he

went, and

fled, and escaped.

1SA 19:13 And Michal took an image, and laid [it] in the bed,

and put

a pillow of goats' [hair] for his bolster, and covered [it] with

cloth.

1SA 19:14 And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said,

[is] sick.

1SA 19:15 And Saul sent the messengers [again] to see David,

saying,

Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.

1SA 19:16 And when the messengers were come in, behold, [there

was]

an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' [hair] for his

bolster.

1SA 19:17 And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me

so,

and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal answered

Saul, He said unto me, Let me go; why should I kill thee?

1SA 19:18 So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to

Ramah,

and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel

went and

dwelt in Naioth.

1SA 19:19 And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David [is] at

Naioth

in Ramah.

1SA 19:20 And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they

saw

the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing [as]

appointed over them, the spirit of God was upon the messengers of

Saul, and they also prophesied.

1SA 19:21 And when it was told Saul, he sent other messengers,

and

they prophesied likewise. And Saul sent messengers again the

third

time, and they prophesied also.

1SA 19:22 Then went he also to Ramah, and came to a great well

that

[is] in Sechu: and he asked and said, Where [are] Samuel and

David?

And [one] said, Behold, [they be] at Naioth in Ramah.

1SA 19:23 And he went thither to Naioth in Ramah: and the

spirit of

God was upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he

came

to Naioth in Ramah.

1SA 19:24 And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied

before

Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all

that

night. Wherefore they say, [Is] Saul also among the prophets?

1SA 20:01 And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said

before Jonathan, What have I done? what [is] mine iniquity? and

what

[is] my sin before thy father, that he seeketh my life?

1SA 20:02 And he said unto him, God forbid; thou shalt not die:

behold, my father will do nothing either great or small, but

that he

will show it me: and why should my father hide this thing from

me? it

[is] not [so].

1SA 20:03 And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father

certainly

knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let

not

Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly [as] the LORD

liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, [there is] but a step between

me and

death.

1SA 20:04 Then said Jonathan unto David, Whatsoever thy soul

desireth, I will even do [it] for thee.

1SA 20:05 And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to morrow [is]

the

new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat:

but let

me go, that I may hide myself in the field unto the third [day]

even.

1SA 20:06 If thy father at all miss me, then say, David

earnestly

asked [leave] of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city: for

[there is] a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.

1SA 20:07 If he say thus, [It is] well; thy servant shall have

peace:

but if he be very wroth, [then] be sure that evil is determined

him.

1SA 20:08 Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant;

for thou

hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the LORD with thee:

notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself;

for why

shouldest thou bring me to thy father?

1SA 20:09 And Jonathan said, Far be it from thee: for if I knew

certainly that evil were determined by my father to come upon

thee,

then would not I tell it thee?

1SA 20:10 Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or

what

[if] thy father answer thee roughly?

1SA 20:11 And Jonathan said unto David, Come, and let us go out

into

the field. And they went out both of them into the field.

1SA 20:12 And Jonathan said unto David, O LORD God of Israel,

when I

have sounded my father about to morrow any time, [or] the third

[day],

and, behold, [if there be] good toward David, and I then send

not unto

thee, and show it thee;

1SA 20:13 The LORD do so and much more to Jonathan: but if it

please

my father [to do] thee evil, then I will show it thee, and send

thee

away, that thou mayest go in peace: and the LORD be with thee,

as he

hath been with my father.

1SA 20:14 And thou shalt not only while yet I live show me the

kindness of the LORD, that I die not:

1SA 20:15 But [also] thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my

house for ever: no, not when the LORD hath cut off the enemies of

David every one from the face of the earth.

1SA 20:16 So Jonathan made [a covenant] with the house of David,

[saying], Let the LORD even require [it] at the hand of David's

enemies.

1SA 20:17 And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he

loved

him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

1SA 20:18 Then Jonathan said to David, To morrow [is] the new

moon:

and thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty.

1SA 20:19 And [when] thou hast stayed three days, [then] thou

shalt

go down quickly, and come to the place where thou didst hide

thyself

when the business was [in hand], and shalt remain by the stone

Ezel.

1SA 20:20 And I will shoot three arrows on the side [thereof],

though I shot at a mark.

1SA 20:21 And, behold, I will send a lad, [saying], Go, find

out the

arrows. If I expressly say unto the lad, Behold, the arrows

[are] on

this side of thee, take them; then come thou: for [there is]

peace to

thee, and no hurt; [as] the LORD liveth.

1SA 20:22 But if I say thus unto the young man, Behold, the

arrows

[are] beyond thee; go thy way: for the LORD hath sent thee away.

1SA 20:23 And [as touching] the matter which thou and I have

spoken

of, behold, the LORD [be] between thee and me for ever.

1SA 20:24 So David hid himself in the field: and when the new

moon

was come, the king sat him down to eat meat.

1SA 20:25 And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times,

[even]

upon a seat by the wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by

Saul's

side, and David's place was empty.

1SA 20:26 Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he

thought, Something hath befallen him, he [is] not clean; surely

[is] not clean.

1SA 20:27 And it came to pass on the morrow, [which was] the

second

[day] of the month, that David's place was empty: and Saul said

unto

Jonathan his son, Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse to meat,

neither yesterday, nor to day?

1SA 20:28 And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked

[leave]

of me [to go] to Bethlehem:

1SA 20:29 And he said, Let me go, I pray thee; for our family

hath a

sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he hath commanded me [to

there]: and now, if I have found favour in thine eyes, let me get

away, I pray thee, and see my brethren. Therefore he cometh not

unto

the king's table.

1SA 20:30 Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and

he said

unto him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious [woman], do not I

know

that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion,

and

unto the confusion of thy mother's nakedness?

1SA 20:31 For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the

ground,

thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now

send and

fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die.

1SA 20:32 And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto

him,

Wherefore shall he be slain? what hath he done?

1SA 20:33 And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby

Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay David.

1SA 20:34 So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and

did

eat no meat the second day of the month: for he was grieved for

David,

because his father had done him shame.

1SA 20:35 And it came to pass in the morning, that Jonathan

went out

into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little

lad with

him.

1SA 20:36 And he said unto his lad, Run, find out now the arrows

which I shoot. [And] as the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.

1SA 20:37 And when the lad was come to the place of the arrow

which

Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, and said, [Is]

not

the arrow beyond thee?

1SA 20:38 And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed, haste,

stay

not. And Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his

master.

1SA 20:39 But the lad knew not any thing: only Jonathan and

David

knew the matter.

1SA 20:40 And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad, and

said unto

him, Go, carry [them] to the city.

1SA 20:41 [And] as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of

place] toward the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and

bowed

himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one

with

another, until David exceeded.

1SA 20:42 And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as

have sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying, The LORD

between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever.

And he

arose and departed: and Jonathan went into the city.

1SA 21:01 Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and

Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him,

Why

[art] thou alone, and no man with thee?

1SA 21:02 And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king

hath

commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know

any

thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have

commanded thee: and I have appointed [my] servants to such and

such a

place.

1SA 21:03 Now therefore what is under thine hand? give [me] five

[loaves of] bread in mine hand, or what there is present.

1SA 21:04 And the priest answered David, and said, [There is] no

common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the

young men have kept themselves at least from women.

1SA 21:05 And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a

truth women [have been] kept from us about these three days,

since I

came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and [the

bread

is] in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day

in the

vessel.

1SA 21:06 So the priest gave him hallowed [bread]: for there

was no

bread there but the showbread, that was taken from before the

LORD, to

put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.

1SA 21:07 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul [was] there

that

day, detained before the LORD; and his name [was] Doeg, an

Edomite,

the chiefest of the herdmen that [belonged] to Saul.

1SA 21:08 And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here

under

thine hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword

nor my

weapons with me, because the king's business required haste.

1SA 21:09 And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the

Philistine,

whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it [is here]

wrapped

in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take [it]:

for

[there is] no other save that here. And David said, [There is]

none

like that; give it me.

1SA 21:10 And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul,

and

went to Achish the king of Gath.

1SA 21:11 And the servants of Achish said unto him, [Is] not

this

David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of

him in

dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten

thousands?

1SA 21:12 And David laid up these words in his heart, and was

sore

afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

1SA 21:13 And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned

himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the

gate,

and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.

1SA 21:14 Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the

man is

mad: wherefore [then] have ye brought him to me?

1SA 21:15 Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this

[fellow]

to play the mad man in my presence? shall this [fellow] come

into my

house?

1SA 22:01 David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the

cave

Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard

[it],

they went down thither to him.

1SA 22:02 And every one [that was] in distress, and every one

that

[was] in debt, and every one [that was] discontented, gathered

themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and

there were

with him about four hundred men.

1SA 22:03 And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said

unto

the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come

forth, [and be] with you, till I know what God will do for me.

1SA 22:04 And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they

dwelt

with him all the while that David was in the hold.

1SA 22:05 And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the

hold;

depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed,

and

came into the forest of Hareth.

1SA 22:06 When Saul heard that David was discovered, and the

men that

[were] with him, (now Saul abode in Gibeah under a tree in Ramah,

having his spear in his hand, and all his servants [were]

standing

about him;)

1SA 22:07 Then Saul said unto his servants that stood about him,

Hear

now, ye Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you

fields

and vineyards, [and] make you all captains of thousands, and

captains

of hundreds;

1SA 22:08 That all of you have conspired against me, and [there

is]

none that showeth me that my son hath made a league with the son

Jesse, and [there is] none of you that is sorry for me, or

showeth

unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to

lie in

wait, as at this day?

1SA 22:09 Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the

servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob,

Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.

1SA 22:10 And he inquired of the LORD for him, and gave him

victuals,

and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.

1SA 22:11 Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the

son of

Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests that [were] in

Nob:

and they came all of them to the king.

1SA 22:12 And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And he

answered, Here I [am], my lord.

1SA 22:13 And Saul said unto him, Why have ye conspired against

me,

thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread,

and a

sword, and hast inquired of God for him, that he should rise

against

me, to lie in wait, as at this day?

1SA 22:14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who

[is so]

faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king's

son in

law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?

1SA 22:15 Did I then begin to inquire of God for him? be it far

from

me: let not the king impute [any] thing unto his servant, [nor]

to all

the house of my father: for thy servant knew nothing of all this,

less

or more.

1SA 22:16 And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech,

thou,

and all thy father's house.

1SA 22:17 And the king said unto the footmen that stood about

him,

Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; because their hand also

[is]

with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not show

it to

me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand

fall upon the priests of the LORD.

1SA 22:18 And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon

the

priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the

priests,

and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a

linen

ephod.

1SA 22:19 And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the

edge of

the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen,

and

asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

1SA 22:20 And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub,

named

Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.

1SA 22:21 And Abiathar showed David that Saul had slain the

LORD'S

priests.

1SA 22:22 And David said unto Abiathar, I knew [it] that day,

when

Doeg the Edomite [was] there, that he would surely tell Saul: I

have

occasioned [the death] of all the persons of thy father's house.

1SA 22:23 Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that seeketh my

life

seeketh thy life: but with me thou [shalt be] in safeguard.

1SA 23:01 Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines

fight

against Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors.

1SA 23:02 Therefore David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I

and smite these Philistines? And the LORD said unto David, Go,

and

smite the Philistines, and save Keilah.

1SA 23:03 And David's men said unto him, Behold, we be afraid

here in

Judah: how much more then if we come to Keilah against the

armies of

the Philistines?

1SA 23:04 Then David inquired of the LORD yet again. And the

LORD

answered him and said, Arise, go down to Keilah: for I will

deliver

the Philistines into thine hand.

1SA 23:05 So David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with

the

Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and smote them with a

great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.

1SA 23:06 And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of

Ahimelech

fled to David to Keilah, [that] he came down [with] an ephod in

his

hand.

1SA 23:07 And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah.

And

Saul said, God hath delivered him into mine hand; for he is shut

in,

by entering into a town that hath gates and bars.

1SA 23:08 And Saul called all the people together to war, to go

down

to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.

1SA 23:09 And David knew that Saul secretly practiced mischief

against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the

ephod.

1SA 23:10 Then said David, O LORD God of Israel, thy servant

hath

certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy

the

city for my sake.

1SA 23:11 Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand?

will

Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? O LORD God of Israel,

beseech thee, tell thy servant. And the LORD said, He will come

down.

1SA 23:12 Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me

and my

men into the hand of Saul? And the LORD said, They will deliver

[thee]

up.

1SA 23:13 Then David and his men, [which were] about six

hundred,

arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they

could

go. And it was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and

forbare to go forth.

1SA 23:14 And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and

remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul

sought him

every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.

1SA 23:15 And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life:

and

David [was] in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.

1SA 23:16 And Jonathan Saul's son arose, and went to David into

the

wood, and strengthened his hand in God.

1SA 23:17 And he said unto him, Fear not: for the hand of Saul

father shall not find thee; and thou shalt be king over Israel,

and I

shall be next unto thee; and that also Saul my father knoweth.

1SA 23:18 And they two made a covenant before the LORD: and

David

abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.

1SA 23:19 Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying,

Doth

not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in

the

hill of Hachilah, which [is] on the south of Jeshimon?

1SA 23:20 Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the

desire of thy soul to come down; and our part [shall be] to

deliver

him into the king's hand.

1SA 23:21 And Saul said, Blessed [be] ye of the LORD; for ye

have

compassion on me.

1SA 23:22 Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his

place

where his haunt is, [and] who hath seen him there: for it is

told me

[that] he dealeth very subtly.

1SA 23:23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking

places

where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the

certainty,

and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in

the

land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of

Judah.

1SA 23:24 And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but

David and

his men [were] in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the

south of

Jeshimon.

1SA 23:25 Saul also and his men went to seek [him]. And they

told

David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the

wilderness

of Maon. And when Saul heard [that], he pursued after David in

the

wilderness of Maon.

1SA 23:26 And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David

and

his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to

get away

for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his

men

round about to take them.

1SA 23:27 But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste

thee,

and come; for the Philistines have invaded the land.

1SA 23:28 Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing after David,

and went

against the Philistines: therefore they called that place

Selahammahlekoth.

1SA 23:29 And David went up from thence, and dwelt in strong

holds at

Engedi.

1SA 24:01 And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from

following

the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David

[is] in

the wilderness of Engedi.

1SA 24:02 Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all

Israel,

and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild

goats.

1SA 24:03 And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where [was]

cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men

remained in the sides of the cave.

1SA 24:04 And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of

which

the LORD said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into

thine

hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee.

Then

David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily.

1SA 24:05 And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart

smote

him, because he had cut off Saul's skirt.

1SA 24:06 And he said unto his men, The LORD forbid that I

should do

this thing unto my master, the LORD'S anointed, to stretch forth

mine

hand against him, seeing he [is] the anointed of the LORD.

1SA 24:07 So David stayed his servants with these words, and

suffered

them not to rise against Saul. But Saul rose up out of the cave,

and

went on [his] way.

1SA 24:08 David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave,

and

cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked

behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed

himself.

1SA 24:09 And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's

words,

saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?

1SA 24:10 Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the

LORD had

delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and [some]

bade [me]

kill thee: but [mine eye] spared thee; and I said, I will not put

forth mine hand against my lord; for he [is] the LORD'S anointed.

1SA 24:11 Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy

robe in

my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed

thee

not, know thou and see that [there is] neither evil nor

transgression

in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou

huntest my

soul to take it.

1SA 24:12 The LORD judge between me and thee, and the LORD

avenge me

of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.

1SA 24:13 As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness

proceedeth

from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.

1SA 24:14 After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom

dost

thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.

1SA 24:15 The LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and

thee,

and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.

1SA 24:16 And it came to pass, when David had made an end of

speaking

these words unto Saul, that Saul said, [Is] this thy voice, my

son

David? And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.

1SA 24:17 And he said to David, Thou [art] more righteous than

I: for

thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.

1SA 24:18 And thou hast showed this day how that thou hast

dealt well

with me: forasmuch as when the LORD had delivered me into thine

hand,

thou killedst me not.

1SA 24:19 For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well

away?

wherefore the LORD reward thee good for that thou hast done unto

this day.

1SA 24:20 And now, behold, I know well that thou shalt surely be

king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in

thine

hand.

1SA 24:21 Swear now therefore unto me by the LORD, that thou

wilt not

cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name

out

of my father's house.

1SA 24:22 And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home; but

David

and his men gat them up unto the hold.

1SA 25:01 And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered

together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah.

And

David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

1SA 25:02 And [there was] a man in Maon, whose possessions

[were] in

Carmel; and the man [was] very great, and he had three thousand

sheep,

and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

1SA 25:03 Now the name of the man [was] Nabal; and the name of

his

wife Abigail: and [she was] a woman of good understanding, and

of a

beautiful countenance: but the man [was] churlish and evil in his

doings; and he [was] of the house of Caleb.

1SA 25:04 And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did

shear his

sheep.

1SA 25:05 And David sent out ten young men, and David said unto

the

young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him

in my

name:

1SA 25:06 And thus shall ye say to him that liveth [in

prosperity],

Peace [be] both to thee, and peace [be] to thine house, and

peace [be]

unto all that thou hast.

1SA 25:07 And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy

shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there

ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.

1SA 25:08 Ask thy young men, and they will show thee. Wherefore

let

the young men find favour in thine eyes: for we come in a good

day:

give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy

servants,

and to thy son David.

1SA 25:09 And when David's young men came, they spake to Nabal

according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.

1SA 25:10 And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who

[is]

David? and who [is] the son of Jesse? there be many servants now

days that break away every man from his master.

1SA 25:11 Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my

flesh that

I have killed for my shearers, and give [it] unto men, whom I

know not

whence they [be]?

1SA 25:12 So David's young men turned their way, and went again,

and

came and told him all those sayings.

1SA 25:13 And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his

sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also

girded

on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred

men;

and two hundred abode by the stuff.

1SA 25:14 But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife,

saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to

salute

our master; and he railed on them.

1SA 25:15 But the men [were] very good unto us, and we were not

hurt,

neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with

them,

when we were in the fields:

1SA 25:16 They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all

the

while we were with them keeping the sheep.

1SA 25:17 Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do;

for evil

is determined against our master, and against all his household:

for

he [is such] a son of Belial, that [a man] cannot speak to him.

1SA 25:18 Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves,

and

two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five

measures

of parched [corn], and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two

hundred

cakes of figs, and laid [them] on asses.

1SA 25:19 And she said unto her servants, Go on before me;

behold, I

come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.

1SA 25:20 And it was [so, as] she rode on the ass, that she

came down

by the covert of the hill, and, behold, David and his men came

down

against her; and she met them.

1SA 25:21 Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all

that

this [fellow] hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed

all that [pertained] unto him: and he hath requited me evil for

good.

1SA 25:22 So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if

leave of all that [pertain] to him by the morning light any that

pisseth against the wall.

1SA 25:23 And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted

off the

ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the

ground,

1SA 25:24 And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord,

[upon] me

[let this] iniquity [be]: and let thine handmaid, I pray thee,

speak

in thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid.

1SA 25:25 Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of

Belial,

[even] Nabal: for as his name [is], so [is] he; Nabal [is] his

name,

and folly [is] with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young

men of

my lord, whom thou didst send.

1SA 25:26 Now therefore, my lord, [as] the LORD liveth, and

[as] thy

soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to

[shed] blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now

let

thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

1SA 25:27 And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath

brought

unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that

follow my

lord.

1SA 25:28 I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid:

for

the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my

lord

fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found

in thee

[all] thy days.

1SA 25:29 Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy

soul:

but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life

with the

LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he

sling out,

[as out] of the middle of a sling.

1SA 25:30 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD shall have

done to

my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning

thee,

and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel;

1SA 25:31 That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of

heart

unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or

that my

lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt

well

with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.

1SA 25:32 And David said to Abigail, Blessed [be] the LORD God

Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me:

1SA 25:33 And blessed [be] thy advice, and blessed [be] thou,

which

hast kept me this day from coming to [shed] blood, and from

avenging

myself with mine own hand.

1SA 25:34 For in very deed, [as] the LORD God of Israel liveth,

which

hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted

and come

to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the

morning

light any that pisseth against the wall.

1SA 25:35 So David received of her hand [that] which she had

brought

him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to thine house; see, I

have

hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.

1SA 25:36 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a

feast in

his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart [was]

merry

within him, for he [was] very drunken: wherefore she told him

nothing,

less or more, until the morning light.

1SA 25:37 But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was

gone

out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his

heart

died within him, and he became [as] a stone.

1SA 25:38 And it came to pass about ten days [after], that the

LORD

smote Nabal, that he died.

1SA 25:39 And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said,

Blessed

[be] the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from

the

hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD

hath

returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David

sent and

communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.

1SA 25:40 And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to

Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to

take

thee to him to wife.

1SA 25:41 And she arose, and bowed herself on [her] face to the

earth, and said, Behold, [let] thine handmaid [be] a servant to

wash

the feet of the servants of my lord.

1SA 25:42 And Abigail hasted, and arose, and rode upon an ass,

with

five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the

messengers of David, and became his wife.

1SA 25:43 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were

also both

of them his wives.

1SA 25:44 But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife,

Phalti the son of Laish, which [was] of Gallim.

1SA 26:01 And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying,

Doth not

David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, [which is] before

Jeshimon?

1SA 26:02 Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of

Ziph,

having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek

David in

the wilderness of Ziph.

1SA 26:03 And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah, which [is]

before

Jeshimon, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he

saw

that Saul came after him into the wilderness.

1SA 26:04 David therefore sent out spies, and understood that

Saul

was come in very deed.

1SA 26:05 And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had

pitched: and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner

the son

of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and

the

people pitched round about him.

1SA 26:06 Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite,

and

to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will

down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go

down

with thee.

1SA 26:07 So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and,

behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck

the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round

about

him.

1SA 26:08 Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine

enemy

into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray

thee,

with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not [smite]

him

the second time.

1SA 26:09 And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who

can

stretch forth his hand against the LORD'S anointed, and be

guiltless?

1SA 26:10 David said furthermore, [As] the LORD liveth, the LORD

shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall

descend

into battle, and perish.

1SA 26:11 The LORD forbid that I should stretch forth mine hand

against the LORD'S anointed: but, I pray thee, take thou now the

spear

that [is] at his bolster, and the cruse of water, and let us go.

1SA 26:12 So David took the spear and the cruse of water from

Saul's

bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw [it], nor knew

[it],

neither awaked: for they [were] all asleep; because a deep sleep

from

the LORD was fallen upon them.

1SA 26:13 Then David went over to the other side, and stood on

the

top of an hill afar off; a great space [being] between them:

1SA 26:14 And David cried to the people, and to Abner the son

of Ner,

saying, Answerest thou not, Abner? Then Abner answered and said,

Who

[art] thou [that] criest to the king?

1SA 26:15 And David said to Abner, [Art] not thou a [valiant]

man?

and who [is] like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast thou

not kept

thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in to

destroy the

king thy lord.

1SA 26:16 This thing [is] not good that thou hast done. [As]

the LORD

liveth, ye [are] worthy to die, because ye have not kept your

master,

the LORD'S anointed. And now see where the king's spear [is],

and the

cruse of water that [was] at his bolster.

1SA 26:17 And Saul knew David's voice, and said, [Is] this thy

voice,

my son David? And David said, [It is] my voice, my lord, O king.

1SA 26:18 And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after

his

servant? for what have I done? or what evil [is] in mine hand?

1SA 26:19 Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear

the

words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against

me, let

him accept an offering: but if [they be] the children of men,

cursed

[be] they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day

from

abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other

gods.

1SA 26:20 Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth

before

the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek

flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.

1SA 26:21 Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David:

for I

will no more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in thine

eyes

this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred

exceedingly.

1SA 26:22 And David answered and said, Behold the king's spear!

and

let one of the young men come over and fetch it.

1SA 26:23 The LORD render to every man his righteousness and his

faithfulness: for the LORD delivered thee into [my] hand to day,

but I

would not stretch forth mine hand against the LORD'S anointed.

1SA 26:24 And, behold, as thy life was much set by this day in

mine

eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the LORD, and

let

him deliver me out of all tribulation.

1SA 26:25 Then Saul said to David, Blessed [be] thou, my son

David:

thou shalt both do great [things], and also shalt still prevail.

David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.

1SA 27:01 And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one

day by

the hand of Saul: [there is] nothing better for me than that I

should

speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall

despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so

shall I

escape out of his hand.

1SA 27:02 And David arose, and he passed over with the six

hundred

men that [were] with him unto Achish, the son of Maoch, king of

Gath.

1SA 27:03 And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men,

every

man with his household, [even] David with his two wives, Ahinoam

the

Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.

1SA 27:04 And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and

sought no more again for him.

1SA 27:05 And David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace

thine eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country,

that

I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal

city

with thee?

1SA 27:06 Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Ziklag

pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this day.

1SA 27:07 And the time that David dwelt in the country of the

Philistines was a full year and four months.

1SA 27:08 And David and his men went up, and invaded the

Geshurites,

and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those [nations were]

of old

the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto

the land

of Egypt.

1SA 27:09 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.

1SA 27:10 And Achish said, Whither have ye made a road to day?

And

David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of

the

Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites.

1SA 27:11 And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring

[tidings] to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on us, saying,

So did

David, and so [will be] his manner all the while he dwelleth in

the

country of the Philistines.

1SA 27:12 And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his

people

Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant for

ever.

1SA 28:01 And it came to pass in those days, that the

Philistines

gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel.

And

Achish said unto David, Know thou assuredly, that thou shalt go

out

with me to battle, thou and thy men.

1SA 28:02 And David said to Achish, Surely thou shalt know what

thy

servant can do. And Achish said to David, Therefore will I make

thee

keeper of mine head for ever.

1SA 28:03 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him,

and

buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away

those

that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.

1SA 28:04 And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and

came

and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together,

and they

pitched in Gilboa.

1SA 28:05 And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was

afraid, and his heart greatly trembled.

1SA 28:06 And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD answered

him

not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.

1SA 28:07 Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman

that hath

a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her. And

his

servants said to him, Behold, [there is] a woman that hath a

familiar

spirit at Endor.

1SA 28:08 And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment,

and

he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by

night:

and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit,

and

bring me [him] up, whom I shall name unto thee.

1SA 28:09 And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou knowest

what Saul

hath done, how he hath cut off those that have familiar spirits,

and

the wizards, out of the land: wherefore then layest thou a snare

for

my life, to cause me to die?

1SA 28:10 And Saul sware to her by the LORD, saying, [As] the

LORD

liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing.

1SA 28:11 Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee?

And

he said, Bring me up Samuel.

1SA 28:12 And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud

voice:

and the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why hast thou deceived me?

for

thou [art] Saul.

1SA 28:13 And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what

sawest

thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of

the

earth.

1SA 28:14 And he said unto her, What form [is] he of? And she

said,

An old man cometh up; and he [is] covered with a mantle. And Saul

perceived that it [was] Samuel, and he stooped with [his] face

to the

ground, and bowed himself.

1SA 28:15 And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me,

bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the

Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and

answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams:

therefore I

have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I

shall do.

1SA 28:16 Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me,

seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?

1SA 28:17 And the LORD hath done to him, as he spake by me: for

the

LORD hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and given it to thy

neighbour, [even] to David:

1SA 28:18 Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD, nor

executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD

done

this thing unto thee this day.

1SA 28:19 Moreover the LORD will also deliver Israel with thee

into

the hand of the Philistines: and to morrow [shalt] thou and thy

sons

[be] with me: the LORD also shall deliver the host of Israel

into the

hand of the Philistines.

1SA 28:20 Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth,

and was

sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no

strength

in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.

1SA 28:21 And the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he was sore

troubled, and said unto him, Behold, thine handmaid hath obeyed

thy

voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened

unto thy

words which thou spakest unto me.

1SA 28:22 Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the

voice of thine handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before

thee;

and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy

way.

1SA 28:23 But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his

servants,

together with the woman, compelled him; and he hearkened unto

their

voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed.

1SA 28:24 And the woman had a fat calf in the house; and she

hasted,

and killed it, and took flour, and kneaded [it], and did bake

unleavened bread thereof:

1SA 28:25 And she brought [it] before Saul, and before his

servants;

and they did eat. Then they rose up, and went away that night.

1SA 29:01 Now the Philistines gathered together all their

armies to

Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which [is] in

Jezreel.

1SA 29:02 And the lords of the Philistines passed on by

hundreds, and

by thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rereward

with

Achish.

1SA 29:03 Then said the princes of the Philistines, What [do]

these

Hebrews [here]? And Achish said unto the princes of the

Philistines,

[Is] not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel,

which

hath been with me these days, or these years, and I have found no

fault in him since he fell [unto me] unto this day?

1SA 29:04 And the princes of the Philistines were wroth with

him; and

the princes of the Philistines said unto him, Make this fellow

return,

that he may go again to his place which thou hast appointed him,

and

let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he be

adversary to us: for wherewith should he reconcile himself unto

his

master? [should it] not [be] with the heads of these men?

1SA 29:05 [Is] not this David, of whom they sang one to another

dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten

thousands?

1SA 29:06 Then Achish called David, and said unto him, Surely,

[as]

the LORD liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out and

thy

coming in with me in the host [is] good in my sight: for I have

not

found evil in thee since the day of thy coming unto me unto this

day:

nevertheless the lords favour thee not.

1SA 29:07 Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou

displease

not the lords of the Philistines.

1SA 29:08 And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and

what

hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee

unto

this day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord

the

king?

1SA 29:09 And Achish answered and said to David, I know that

thou

[art] good in my sight, as an angel of God: notwithstanding the

princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us

the battle.

1SA 29:10 Wherefore now rise up early in the morning with thy

master's servants that are come with thee: and as soon as ye be

early in the morning, and have light, depart.

1SA 29:11 So David and his men rose up early to depart in the

morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the

Philistines went up to Jezreel.

1SA 30:01 And it came to pass, when David and his men were come

Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the

south,

and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;

1SA 30:02 And had taken the women captives, that [were] therein:

they

slew not any, either great or small, but carried [them] away,

and went

on their way.

1SA 30:03 So David and his men came to the city, and, behold,

[it

was] burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their

daughters, were taken captives.

1SA 30:04 Then David and the people that [were] with him lifted

their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

1SA 30:05 And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the

Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

1SA 30:06 And David was greatly distressed; for the people

spake of

stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved,

every man

for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself

the LORD his God.

1SA 30:07 And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's

son, I

pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought

thither the

ephod to David.

1SA 30:08 And David inquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue

after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him,

Pursue:

for thou shalt surely overtake [them], and without fail recover

[all].

1SA 30:09 So David went, he and the six hundred men that [were]

with

him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left

behind

stayed.

1SA 30:10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two

hundred

abode behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the

brook Besor.

1SA 30:11 And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought

him to

David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him

drink

water;

1SA 30:12 And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two

clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came

again to

him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk [any] water, three

days and

three nights.

1SA 30:13 And David said unto him, To whom [belongest] thou? and

whence [art] thou? And he said, I [am] a young man of Egypt,

servant

to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I

fell

sick.

1SA 30:14 We made an invasion [upon] the south of the

Cherethites,

and upon [the coast] which [belongeth] to Judah, and upon the

south of

Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.

1SA 30:15 And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to

this

company? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt

neither

kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will

bring

thee down to this company.

1SA 30:16 And when he had brought him down, behold, [they were]

spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and

dancing,

because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the

land of

the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

1SA 30:17 And David smote them from the twilight even unto the

evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them,

save

four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.

1SA 30:18 And David recovered all that the Amalekites had

carried

away: and David rescued his two wives.

1SA 30:19 And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small

nor

great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any

[thing] that

they had taken to them: David recovered all.

1SA 30:20 And David took all the flocks and the herds, [which]

they

drave before those [other] cattle, and said, This [is] David's

spoil.

1SA 30:21 And 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 [were] with him: and when David came near to the

people,

he saluted them.

1SA 30:22 Then answered all the wicked men and [men] of Belial,

those that went with David, and said, Because they went not with

us,

we will not give them [ought] of the spoil that we have

recovered,

save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead

[them]

away, and depart.

1SA 30:23 Then 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.

1SA 30:24 For who will hearken unto you in this matter? but as

his

part [is] that goeth down to the battle, so [shall] his part

[be] that

tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike.

1SA 30:25 And it was [so] from that day forward, that he made

it a

statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.

1SA 30:26 And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil

unto

the elders of Judah, [even] to his friends, saying, Behold a

present

for you of the spoil of the enemies of the LORD;

1SA 30:27 To [them] which [were] in Bethel, and to [them] which

[were] in south Ramoth, and to [them] which [were] in Jattir,

1SA 30:28 And to [them] which [were] in Aroer, and to [them]

which

[were] in Siphmoth, and to [them] which [were] in Eshtemoa,

1SA 30:29 And to [them] which [were] in Rachal, and to [them]

which

[were] in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to [them] which

[were]

in the cities of the Kenites,

1SA 30:30 And to [them] which [were] in Hormah, and to [them]

which

[were] in Chorashan, and to [them] which [were] in Athach,

1SA 30:31 And to [them] which [were] in Hebron, and to all the

places

where David himself and his men were wont to haunt.

1SA 31:01 Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the

men of

Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in

mount

Gilboa.

1SA 31:02 And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon

his

sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and

Melchishua,

Saul's sons.

1SA 31:03 And the battle went sore against Saul, and the

archers hit

him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.

1SA 31:04 Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword,

and

thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and

thrust

me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he

was

sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.

1SA 31:05 And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he

fell

likewise upon his sword, and died with him.

1SA 31:06 So Saul died, and his three sons, and his

armourbearer, and

all his men, that same day together.

1SA 31:07 And when the men of Israel that [were] on the other

side of

the valley, and [they] that [were] on the other side Jordan, saw

that

the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead,

they

forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt

them.

1SA 31:08 And it came to pass on the morrow, when the

Philistines

came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons

fallen in mount Gilboa.

1SA 31:09 And they cut off his head, and stripped off his

armour, and

sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish

[it in]

the house of their idols, and among the people.

1SA 31:10 And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth:

and they

fastened his body to the wall of Bethshan.

1SA 31:11 And when the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead heard of that

which the Philistines had done to Saul;

1SA 31:12 All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and

took the

body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of

Bethshan, and

came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.

1SA 31:13 And they took their bones, and buried [them] under a

tree

at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.