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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.

Copyright (c) 1985-2007

king james study

==== <1SA1>

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

mount Ephraim, and

his name [was] Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu,

the son of Tohu,

the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite:

1SA-1:2 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-1:3 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 of

Eli, Hophni

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

1SA-1:4 And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to

Peninnah his

wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:

1SA-1:5 But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved

Hannah: but

the LORD had shut up her womb.

1SA-1:6 And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make

her fret,

because the LORD had shut up her womb.

1SA-1:7 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-1:8 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-1:9 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-1:10 And she [was] in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto

the LORD, and

wept sore.

1SA-1:11 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-1:12 And it came to pass, as she continued praying before

the LORD, that

Eli marked her mouth.

1SA-1:13 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-1:14 And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken?

put away thy

wine from thee.

1SA-1:15 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-1:16 Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for

out of the

abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.

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

of Israel grant

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

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

sight. So the

woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more

[sad].

1SA-1:19 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-1:20 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-1:21 And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to

offer unto the

LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.

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

[I 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-1:23 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-1:24 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-1:25 And they slew a bullock, and brought the child to Eli.

1SA-1:26 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-1:27 For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my

petition

which I asked of him:

1SA-1:28 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.

==== <1SA2>

1SA-2:1 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-2:2 [There is] none holy as the LORD: for [there is] none

beside thee:

neither [is there] any rock like our God.

1SA-2:3 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-2:4 The bows of the mighty men [are] broken, and they that

stumbled are

girded with strength.

1SA-2:5 [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-2:6 The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to

the grave,

and bringeth up.

1SA-2:7 The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low,

and lifteth

up.

1SA-2:8 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, [and] lifteth

up 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-2:9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked

shall be silent

in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.

1SA-2:10 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-2:11 And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child

did minister

unto the LORD before Eli the priest.

1SA-2:12 Now the sons of Eli [were] sons of Belial; they knew

not the LORD.

1SA-2:13 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-2:14 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-2:15 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-2:16 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-2:17 Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great

before the LORD:

for men abhorred the offering of the LORD.

1SA-2:18 But Samuel ministered before the LORD, [being] a child,

girded with

a linen ephod.

1SA-2:19 Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and

brought [it] to him

from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer

the yearly

sacrifice.

1SA-2:20 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-2:21 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-2:22 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-2:23 And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I

hear of your

evil dealings by all this people.

1SA-2:24 Nay, my sons; for [it is] no good report that I hear:

ye make the

LORD's people to transgress.

1SA-2:25 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-2:26 And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both

with the LORD,

and also with men.

1SA-2:27 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-2:28 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-2:29 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-2:30 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-2:31 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-2:32 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-2:33 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-2:34 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-2:35 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 I will

build him a sure

house; and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever.

1SA-2:36 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.

==== <1SA3>

1SA-3:1 And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before

Eli. And the

word of the LORD was precious in those days; [there was] no open

vision.

1SA-3:2 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-3:3 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-3:4 That the LORD called Samuel: and he answered, Here [am]

1SA-3:5 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-3:6 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 he

answered, I called

not, my son; lie down again.

1SA-3:7 Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, neither was the

word of the

LORD yet revealed unto him.

1SA-3:8 And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. And he

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-3:9 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-3:10 And the LORD came, and stood, and called as at other

times, Samuel,

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

1SA-3:11 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-3:12 In that day I will perform against Eli all [things]

which I have

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

end.

1SA-3:13 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-3:14 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-3:15 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-3:16 Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. And

he answered,

Here [am] I.

1SA-3:17 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-3:18 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-3:19 And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and did

let none of his

words fall to the ground.

1SA-3:20 And all Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that

Samuel [was]

established [to be] a prophet of the LORD.

1SA-3:21 And the LORD appeared again in Shiloh: for the LORD

revealed himself

to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD.

==== <1SA4>

1SA-4:1 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-4:2 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-4:3 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-4:4 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-4:5 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-4:6 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-4:7 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-4:8 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-4:9 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-4:10 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-4:11 And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli,

Hophni and

Phinehas, were slain.

1SA-4:12 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-4:13 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-4:14 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-4:15 Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes

were dim, that

he could not see.

1SA-4:16 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-4:17 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-4:18 And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark

of 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-4:19 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-4:20 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-4:21 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-4:22 And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for

the ark of God

is taken.

==== <1SA5>

1SA-5:1 And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it

from Ebenezer

unto Ashdod.

1SA-5:2 When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought

it into the

house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.

1SA-5:3 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-5:4 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-5:5 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-5:6 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-5:7 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-5:8 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-5:9 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-5:10 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-5:11 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 of God was very

heavy there.

1SA-5:12 And the men that died not were smitten with the

emerods: and the cry

of the city went up to heaven.

==== <1SA6>

1SA-6:1 And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the

Philistines seven

months.

1SA-6:2 And the Philistines called for the priests and the

diviners, saying,

What shall we do to the ark of the LORD? tell us wherewith we

shall send it to

his place.

1SA-6:3 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-6:4 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-6:5 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-6:6 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-6:7 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-6:8 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-6:9 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-6:10 And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied

them to the

cart, and shut up their calves at home:

1SA-6:11 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-6:12 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-6:13 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-6:14 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-6:15 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-6:16 And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen

[it], they

returned to Ekron the same day.

1SA-6:17 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-6:18 And the golden mice, [according to] the number of all

the cities of

the Philistines [belonging] to the five lords, [both] of 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-6:19 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-6:20 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-6:21 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.

==== <1SA7>

1SA-7:1 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-7:2 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-7:3 And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying,

If 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-7:4 Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and

Ashtaroth, and

served the LORD only.

1SA-7:5 And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I

will pray for you

unto the LORD.

1SA-7:6 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-7:7 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-7:8 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-7:9 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-7:10 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-7:11 And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued

the

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

1SA-7:12 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-7:13 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-7:14 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-7:15 And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.

1SA-7:16 And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel,

and Gilgal, and

Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.

1SA-7:17 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.

==== <1SA8>

1SA-8:1 And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made

his sons

judges over Israel.

1SA-8:2 Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of

his second,

Abiah: [they were] judges in Beersheba.

1SA-8:3 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside

after lucre,

and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

1SA-8:4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves

together, and came

to Samuel unto Ramah,

1SA-8:5 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-8:6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give

us a king to

judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.

1SA-8:7 And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice

of 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-8:8 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-8:9 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-8:10 And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the

people that asked

of him a king.

1SA-8:11 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-8:12 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-8:13 And he will take your daughters [to be]

confectionaries, and [to be]

cooks, and [to be] bakers.

1SA-8:14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and

your

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

servants.

1SA-8:15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your

vineyards, and

give to his officers, and to his servants.

1SA-8:16 And he will take your menservants, and your

maidservants, and your

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

1SA-8:17 He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be

his servants.

1SA-8:18 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-8:19 Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of

Samuel; and

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

1SA-8:20 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-8:21 And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he

rehearsed them

in the ears of the LORD.

1SA-8:22 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.

==== <1SA9>

1SA-9:1 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-9:2 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-9:3 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-9:4 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-9:5 [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-9:6 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-9:7 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-9:8 And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold,

I 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-9:9 (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-9:10 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-9:11 [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-9:12 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-9:13 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-9:14 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-9:15 Now the LORD had told Samuel in his ear a day before

Saul came,

saying,

1SA-9:16 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 my

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 is come unto me.

1SA-9:17 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-9:18 Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said,

Tell me, I pray

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

1SA-9:19 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-9:20 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-9:21 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-9:22 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-9:23 And Samuel said unto the cook, Bring the portion which

I gave thee,

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

1SA-9:24 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-9:25 And when they were come down from the high place into

the city,

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

1SA-9:26 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-9:27 [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 of God.

==== <1SA10>

1SA-10:1 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-10:2 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-10:3 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-10:4 And they will salute thee, and give thee two [loaves]

of bread;

which thou shalt receive of their hands.

1SA-10:5 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-10:6 And the spirit of the LORD will come upon thee, and

thou shalt

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

1SA-10:7 And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee,

[that] thou do

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

1SA-10:8 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 I come to

thee, and show

thee what thou shalt do.

1SA-10:9 And it was [so], that when he had turned his back to

go 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

by their

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

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.

==== <1SA11>

1SA-11:1 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-11:2 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-11:3 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-11:4 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-11:5 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-11:6 And the spirit of God came upon Saul when he heard

those tidings,

and his anger was kindled greatly.

1SA-11:7 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-11:8 And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of

Israel were

three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

1SA-11:9 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] to 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.

==== <1SA12>

1SA-12:1 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-12:2 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-12:3 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-12:4 And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor

oppressed us, neither

hast thou taken ought of any man's hand.

1SA-12:5 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-12:6 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-12:7 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-12:8 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-12:9 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

of 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 of 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.

==== <1SA13>

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

years over

Israel,

1SA-13:2 Saul chose him three thousand [men] of Israel;

[whereof] two

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

thousand were

with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people

he sent every

man to his tent.

1SA-13:3 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-13:4 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 to

Gilgal.

1SA-13:5 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-13:6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait,

(for the

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

caves, and in

thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.

1SA-13:7 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-13:8 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-13:9 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

of 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,

to 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.

==== <1SA14>

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

of 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-14:2 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-14:3 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-14:4 And between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to

go 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-14:5 The forefront of the one [was] situate northward over

against

Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah.

1SA-14:6 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-14:7 And his armourbearer said unto him, Do all that [is]

in thine heart:

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

1SA-14:8 Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over unto

[these] men, and

we will discover ourselves unto them.

1SA-14:9 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

to 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 ox 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

he 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

a 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

of 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.

==== <1SA15>

1SA-15:1 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-15:2 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-15:3 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-15:4 And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered

them in Telaim,

two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

1SA-15:5 And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in

the valley.

1SA-15:6 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-15:7 And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah [until]

thou comest to

Shur, that [is] over against Egypt.

1SA-15:8 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and

utterly

destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

1SA-15:9 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 I 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

of 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 in

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.

==== <1SA16>

1SA-16:1 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-16:2 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 am come

to sacrifice

to the LORD.

1SA-16:3 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-16:4 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-16:5 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-16:6 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-16:7 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-16:8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before

Samuel. And he

said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this.

1SA-16:9 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.

==== <1SA17>

1SA-17:1 Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to

battle, and

were gathered together at Shochoh, which [belongeth] to Judah,

and pitched

between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammin.

1SA-17:2 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-17:3 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-17:4 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-17:5 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-17:6 And [he had] greaves of brass upon his legs, and a

target of brass

between his shoulders.

1SA-17:7 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-17:8 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-17:9 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]

in 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

of 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 in 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,

So 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 me 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,

he 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.

==== <1SA18>

1SA-18:1 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-18:2 And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no

more home to his

father's house.

1SA-18:3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he

loved him as his

own soul.

1SA-18:4 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-18:5 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-18:6 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-18:7 And the women answered [one another] as they played,

and said, Saul

hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.

1SA-18:8 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-18:9 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.

==== <1SA19>

1SA-19:1 And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his

servants, that

they should kill David.

1SA-19:2 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-19:3 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-19:4 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-19:5 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-19:6 And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and

Saul sware, [As]

the LORD liveth, he shall not be slain.

1SA-19:7 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-19:8 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-19:9 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 be 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 a

cloth.

1SA-19:14 And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said,

He [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?

==== <1SA20>

1SA-20:1 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-20:2 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-20:3 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-20:4 Then said Jonathan unto David, Whatsoever thy soul

desireth, I will

even do [it] for thee.

1SA-20:5 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] at even.

1SA-20:6 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-20:7 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 by him.

1SA-20:8 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-20:9 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],

as 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 he [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

be 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

[a 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

we have sworn

both of us in the name of the LORD, saying, The LORD be between

me and thee,

and between my seed and thy seed for ever. And he arose and

departed: and

Jonathan went into the city.

==== <1SA21>

1SA-21:1 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-21:2 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-21:3 Now therefore what is under thine hand? give [me] five

[loaves of]

bread in mine hand, or what there is present.

1SA-21:4 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-21:5 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-21:6 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-21:7 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-21:8 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-21:9 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?

==== <1SA22>

1SA-22:1 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-22:2 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-22:3 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-22:4 And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they

dwelt with him

all the while that David was in the hold.

1SA-22:5 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-22:6 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-22:7 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-22:8 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 of 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-22:9 Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the

servants of

Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to

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 to 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.

==== <1SA23>

1SA-23:1 Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines

fight against

Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors.

1SA-23:2 Therefore David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I

go and smite

these Philistines? And the LORD said unto David, Go, and smite

the

Philistines, and save Keilah.

1SA-23:3 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-23:4 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-23:5 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-23:6 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-23:7 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-23:8 And Saul called all the people together to war, to go

down to

Keilah, to besiege David and his men.

1SA-23:9 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, I 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 he 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

my 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.

==== <1SA24>

1SA-24:1 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-24:2 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-24:3 And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where [was]

a cave; and

Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained

in the sides of

the cave.

1SA-24:4 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-24:5 And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart

smote him, because

he had cut off Saul's skirt.

1SA-24:6 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-24:7 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-24:8 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-24:9 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

me 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.

==== <1SA25>

1SA-25:1 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-25:2 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-25:3 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-25:4 And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear

his sheep.

1SA-25:5 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-25:6 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-25:7 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-25:8 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-25:9 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 a 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 of

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

I 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

of 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,

to Phalti the

son of Laish, which [was] of Gallim.

==== <1SA26>

1SA-26:1 And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying,

Doth not David

hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, [which is] before Jeshimon?

1SA-26:2 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-26:3 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-26:4 David therefore sent out spies, and understood that

Saul was come in

very deed.

1SA-26:5 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-26:6 Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite,

and to

Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go

down with me

to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.

1SA-26:7 So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and,

behold, Saul

lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the

ground at his

bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.

1SA-26:8 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-26:9 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 a 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. So

David went on

his way, and Saul returned to his place.

==== <1SA27>

1SA-27:1 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-27:2 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-27:3 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-27:4 And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and

he sought no

more again for him.

1SA-27:5 And David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace

in 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-27:6 Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Ziklag

pertaineth

unto the kings of Judah unto this day.

1SA-27:7 And the time that David dwelt in the country of the

Philistines was

a full year and four months.

1SA-27:8 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-27:9 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.

==== <1SA28>

1SA-28:1 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-28:2 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-28:3 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-28:4 And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and

came and

pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and

they pitched in

Gilboa.

1SA-28:5 And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was

afraid, and

his heart greatly trembled.

1SA-28:6 And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD answered

him not,

neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.

1SA-28:7 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-28:8 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-28:9 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,

to 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.

==== <1SA29>

1SA-29:1 Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies

to Aphek: and

the Israelites pitched by a fountain which [is] in Jezreel.

1SA-29:2 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-29:3 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-29:4 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 an adversary to us:

for wherewith

should he reconcile himself unto his master? [should it] not

[be] with the

heads of these men?

1SA-29:5 [Is] not this David, of whom they sang one to another

in dances,

saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?

1SA-29:6 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-29:7 Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou

displease not the

lords of the Philistines.

1SA-29:8 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-29:9 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 to 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 up 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.

==== <1SA30>

1SA-30:1 And it came to pass, when David and his men were come

to Ziklag on

the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and

Ziklag, and

smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;

1SA-30:2 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-30:3 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-30:4 Then David and the people that [were] with him lifted

up their voice

and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

1SA-30:5 And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the

Jezreelitess,

and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

1SA-30:6 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 in the LORD

his God.

1SA-30:7 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-30:8 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-30:9 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,

of 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.

==== <1SA31>

1SA-31:1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men

of Israel

fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount

Gilboa.

1SA-31:2 And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon

his sons; and

the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Melchishua,

Saul's sons.

1SA-31:3 And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers

hit him; and

he was sore wounded of the archers.

1SA-31:4 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-31:5 And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he

fell likewise

upon his sword, and died with him.

1SA-31:6 So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer,

and all his

men, that same day together.

1SA-31:7 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 in them.

1SA-31:8 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-31:9 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.