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The two sons + of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to Yahweh, were there. +001:004 When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah + his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions: +001:005 but to Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, + but Yahweh had shut up her womb. +001:006 Her rival provoked her sore, to make her fret, because Yahweh + had shut up her womb. +001:007 [as] he did so year by year, when she went up to the house + of Yahweh, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, + and did not eat. +001:008 Elkanah her husband said to her, Hannah, why weep you? and why + don't you eat? and why is your heart grieved? am I not better + to you than ten sons? +001:009 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after + they had drunk. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat + by the doorpost of the temple of Yahweh. +001:010 She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, + and wept sore. +001:011 She vowed a vow, and said, Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed + look on the affliction of your handmaid, and remember me, + and not forget your handmaid, but will give to your handmaid + a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, + and there shall no razor come on his head. +001:012 It happened, as she continued praying before Yahweh, that Eli + marked her mouth. +001:013 Now Hannah, she spoke in her heart; only her lips moved, + but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she + had been drunken. +001:014 Eli said to her, How long will you be drunken? put away your + wine from you. +001:015 Hannah answered, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: + I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I poured + out my soul before Yahweh. +001:016 Don't count your handmaid for a wicked woman; for out + of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation have + I spoken hitherto. +001:017 Then Eli answered, Go in peace; and the God of Israel grant + your petition that you have asked of him. +001:018 She said, Let your handmaid find favor in your sight. + So the woman went her way, and ate; and her facial expression + wasn't sad any more. +001:019 They rose up in the morning early, and worshiped before Yahweh, + and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: + and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her. +001:020 It happened, when the time was come about, that Hannah conceived, + and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, [saying], Because I + have asked him of Yahweh. +001:021 The man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer to Yahweh + the yearly sacrifice, and his vow. +001:022 But Hannah didn't go up; for she said to her husband, [I will not + go up] until the child be weaned; and then I will bring him, + that he may appear before Yahweh, and there abide forever. +001:023 Elkanah her husband said to her, Do what seems you good; + wait until you have weaned him; only Yahweh establish his word. + So the woman waited and nursed her son, until she weaned him. +001:024 When she had weaned him, she took him up with her, + with three bulls, and one ephah of meal, and a bottle + of wine, and brought him to the house of Yahweh in Shiloh: + and the child was young. +001:025 They killed the bull, and brought the child to Eli. +001:026 She said, Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am + the woman who stood by you here, praying to Yahweh. +001:027 For this child I prayed; and Yahweh has given me my petition + which I asked of him: +001:028 therefore also I have granted him to Yahweh; as long as he lives + he is granted to Yahweh. He worshiped Yahweh there. +002:001 Hannah prayed, and said: My heart exults in Yahweh! My horn + is exalted in Yahweh. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, + because I rejoice in your salvation. +002:002 There is no one as holy as Yahweh, For there is no one besides you, + nor is there any rock like our God. +002:003 Talk no more so exceeding proudly. Don't let arrogance + come out of your mouth, For Yahweh is a God of knowledge. + By him actions are weighed. +002:004 The bows of the mighty men are broken. Those who stumbled + are girded with strength. +002:005 Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. + Those who were hungry have ceased [to hunger]. Yes, the barren + has borne seven. She who has many children languishes. +002:006 Yahweh kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, + and brings up. +002:007 Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich. He brings low, + he also lifts up. +002:008 He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy + from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, and inherit + the throne of glory, for the pillars of the earth are Yahweh's. + He has set the world on them. +002:009 He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked shall be put + to silence in darkness; for no man shall prevail by strength. +002:010 Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces. + He will thunder against them in the sky. Yahweh will judge + the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king, + and exalt the horn of his anointed. +002:011 Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child did minister + to Yahweh before Eli the priest. +002:012 Now the sons of Eli were base men; they didn't know Yahweh. +002:013 The custom of the priests with the people was that when any man + offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh + was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand; +002:014 and he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; + all that the fork brought up the priest took therewith. + So they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there. +002:015 Yes, before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said + to the man who sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; + for he will not have boiled flesh of you, but raw. +002:016 If the man said to him, They will surely burn the fat first, + and then take as much as your soul desires; then he would say, + No, but you shall give it me now: and if not, I will take + it by force. +002:017 The sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; + for the men despised the offering of Yahweh. +002:018 But Samuel ministered before Yahweh, being a child, + girded with a linen ephod. +002:019 Moreover his mother made him a little robe, and brought it + to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband + to offer the yearly sacrifice. +002:020 Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, Yahweh give you seed + of this woman for the petition which was asked of Yahweh. + They went to their own home. +002:021 Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons + and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh. +002:022 Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did + to all Israel, and how that they lay with the women who served + at the door of the tent of meeting. +002:023 He said to them, Why do you such things? for I hear of your + evil dealings from all this people. +002:024 No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: + you make Yahweh's people to disobey. +002:025 If one man sin against another, God shall judge him; + but if a man sin against Yahweh, who shall entreat for him? + Notwithstanding, they didn't listen to the voice of their father, + because Yahweh was minded to kill them. +002:026 The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh, + and also with men. +002:027 There came a man of God to Eli, and said to him, Thus says + Yahweh, Did I reveal myself to the house of your father, + when they were in Egypt [in bondage] to Pharaoh's house? +002:028 and did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be + my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear + an ephod before me? and did I give to the house of your father + all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire? +002:029 Why kick you at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have + commanded in [my] habitation, and honor your sons above me, + to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings + of Israel my people? +002:030 Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, I said indeed + that your house, and the house of your father, should walk + before me forever: but now Yahweh says, Be it far from me; + for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise + me shall be lightly esteemed. +002:031 Behold, the days come, that I will cut off your arm, and the arm + of your father's house, that there shall not be an old man + in your house. +002:032 You shall see the affliction of [my] habitation, in all the wealth + which [God] shall give Israel; and there shall not be an old + man in your house forever. +002:033 The man of yours, [whom] I shall not cut off from my altar, + [shall be] to consume your eyes, and to grieve your heart; + and all the increase of your house shall die in the flower + of their age. +002:034 This shall be the sign to you, that shall come on your two sons, + on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die both of them. +002:035 I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do + according to that which is in my heart and in my mind: + and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before + my anointed forever. +002:036 It shall happen, that everyone who is left in your house shall + come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf + of bread, and shall say, Please put me into one of the priests' + offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread. +003:001 The child Samuel ministered to Yahweh before Eli. + The word of Yahweh was precious in those days; there was + no frequent vision. +003:002 It happened at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place + (now his eyes had begun to grow dim, so that he could not see), +003:003 and the lamp of God hadn't yet gone out, and Samuel had laid + down [to sleep], in the temple of Yahweh, where the ark + of God was; +003:004 that Yahweh called Samuel; and he said, Here am I. +003:005 He ran to Eli, and said, Here am I; for you called me. + He said, I didn't call; lie down again. He went and lay down. +003:006 Yahweh called yet again, Samuel. Samuel arose and went to Eli, + and said, Here am I; for you called me. He answered, + I didn't call, my son; lie down again. +003:007 Now Samuel didn't yet know Yahweh, neither was the word + of Yahweh yet revealed to him. +003:008 Yahweh called Samuel again the third time. He arose + and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for you called me. + Eli perceived that Yahweh had called the child. +003:009 Therefore Eli said to Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, + if he call you, that you shall say, Speak, Yahweh; for your + servant hears. So Samuel went and lay down in his place. +003:010 Yahweh came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. + Then Samuel said, Speak; for your servant hears. +003:011 Yahweh said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, + at which both the ears of everyone who hears it shall tingle. +003:012 In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken + concerning his house, from the beginning even to the end. +003:013 For I have told him that I will judge his house forever, + for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons did bring + a curse on themselves, and he didn't restrain them. +003:014 Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli, that the iniquity + of Eli's house shall not be expiated with sacrifice + nor offering forever. +003:015 Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house + of Yahweh. Samuel feared to show Eli the vision. +003:016 Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. + He said, Here am I. +003:017 He said, "What is the thing that [Yahweh] has spoken to you? + Please don't hide it from me. God do so to you, and more also, + if you hide anything from me of all the things that he + spoke to you." +003:018 Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. + He said, It is Yahweh: let him do what seems him good. +003:019 Samuel grew, and Yahweh was with him, and did let none of his + words fall to the ground. +003:020 All Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was + established to be a prophet of Yahweh. +003:021 Yahweh appeared again in Shiloh; for Yahweh revealed himself + to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of Yahweh. +004:001 The word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out + against the Philistines to battle, and encamped beside Ebenezer: + and the Philistines encamped in Aphek. +004:002 The Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: + and when they joined battle, Israel was struck before + the Philistines; and they killed of the army in the field + about four thousand men. +004:003 When the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, + Why has Yahweh struck us today before the Philistines? Let us + get the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of Shiloh to us, + that it may come among us, and save us out of the hand + of our enemies. +004:004 So the people sent to Shiloh; and they brought from there the ark + of the covenant of Yahweh of Armies, who sits [above] the cherubim: + and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there + with the ark of the covenant of God. +004:005 When the ark of the covenant of Yahweh came into the camp, + all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again. +004:006 When the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, + What means the noise of this great shout in the camp of + the Hebrews? They understood that the ark of Yahweh was come + into the camp. +004:007 The Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come + into the camp. They said, Woe to us! for there has not been + such a thing heretofore. +004:008 Woe to us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty + gods? these are the gods that struck the Egyptians with all + manner of plagues in the wilderness. +004:009 Be strong, and behave yourselves like men, O you Philistines, + that you not be servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you: + quit yourselves like men, and fight. +004:010 The Philistines fought, and Israel was struck, and they fled + every man to his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; + for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen. +004:011 The ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni + and Phinehas, were slain. +004:012 There ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh + the same day, with his clothes torn, and with earth on his head. +004:013 When he came, behold, Eli was sitting on his seat by the + road watching; for his heart trembled for the ark of God. + When the man came into the city, and told it, all the + city cried out. +004:014 When Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What means + the noise of this tumult? The man hurried, and came + and told Eli. +004:015 Now Eli was ninety-eight years old; and his eyes were set, + so that he could not see. +004:016 The man said to Eli, I am he who came out of the army, and I fled + today out of the army. He said, How went the matter, my son? +004:017 He who brought the news answered, Israel is fled before + the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter + among the people, and your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, + are dead, and the ark of God is taken. +004:018 It happened, when he made mention of the ark of God, that [Eli] + fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; + and his neck broke, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. + He had judged Israel forty years. +004:019 His daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, + near to be delivered: and when she heard the news that + the ark of God was taken, and that her father-in-law and her + husband were dead, she bowed herself and brought forth; + for her pains came on her. +004:020 About the time of her death the women who stood by her said + to her, Don't be afraid; for you have brought forth a son. + But she didn't answer, neither did she regard it. +004:021 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. +004:022 She said, The glory is departed from Israel; for the ark + of God is taken. +005:001 Now the Philistines had taken the ark of God, and they brought + it from Ebenezer to Ashdod. +005:002 The Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it into + the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon. +005:003 When they of Ashdod arose early on the next day, behold, Dagon was + fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh. + They took Dagon, and set him in his place again. +005:004 When they arose early on the next day morning, behold, Dagon was + fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh; + and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands [lay] + cut off on the threshold; only [the stump of] Dagon was + left to him. +005:005 Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any who come into + Dagon's house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod, + to this day. +005:006 But the hand of Yahweh was heavy on them of Ashdod, + and he destroyed them, and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod + and the borders of it. +005:007 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 on us, and on Dagon our god. +005:008 They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines + to them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God + of Israel? They answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel + be carried about to Gath. They carried the ark of the God + of Israel [there]. +005:009 It was so, that after they had carried it about, the hand + of Yahweh was against the city with a very great confusion: + and he struck the men of the city, both small and great; + and tumors broke out on them. +005:010 So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. It happened, 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 kill us and our people. +005:011 They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of + the Philistines, and they said, Send away the ark of the God + of Israel, and let it go again to its own place, that it + not kill us and our people. For there was a deadly confusion + throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there. +005:012 The men who didn't die were struck with the tumors; + and the cry of the city went up to heaven. +006:001 The ark of Yahweh was in the country of the Philistines seven months. +006:002 The Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, + saying, "What shall we do with the ark of Yahweh? Show us + with which we shall send it to its place." +006:003 They said, "If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, don't send + it empty; but by all means return him a trespass offering: + then you shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why + his hand is not removed from you." +006:004 Then they said, "What shall be the trespass offering which we + shall return to him?" They said, "Five golden tumors, + 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. +006:005 Therefore you shall make images of your tumors, and images of your + mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God + of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, + and from off your gods, and from off your land. +006:006 Why then do you harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh + hardened their hearts? When he had worked wonderfully among them, + didn't they let the people go, and they departed? +006:007 Now therefore take and prepare yourselves a new cart, + and two milk cows, on which there has come no yoke; and tie + the cows to the cart, and bring their calves home from them; +006:008 and take the ark of Yahweh, and lay it on the cart; and put + the jewels of gold, which you return him for a trespass offering, + in a coffer by the side of it; and send it away, that it may go. +006:009 Behold; if it goes up by the way of its own border to + Beth Shemesh, then he has done us this great evil: but if not, + then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; + it was a chance that happened to us." +006:010 The men did so, and took two milk cows, and tied them to the cart, + and shut up their calves at home; +006:011 and they put the ark of Yahweh on the cart, and the coffer + with the mice of gold and the images of their tumors. +006:012 The cows took the straight way by the way to Beth Shemesh; + they went along the highway, lowing as they went, + and didn't turn aside to the right hand or to the left; + and the lords of the Philistines went after them to the border + of Beth Shemesh. +006:013 They of Beth Shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley; + and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced + to see it. +006:014 The cart came into the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh, + and stood there, where there was a great stone: + and they split the wood of the cart, and offered up the cows + for a burnt offering to Yahweh. +006:015 The Levites took down the ark of Yahweh, and the coffer that + was with it, in which the jewels of gold were, and put them + on the great stone: and the men of Beth Shemesh offered burnt + offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day to Yahweh. +006:016 When the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned + to Ekron the same day. +006:017 These are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for + a trespass offering to Yahweh: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, + for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one; +006:018 and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities + of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fortified + cities and of country villages, even to the great stone, + whereon they set down the ark of Yahweh, [which stone remains] + to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh. +006:019 He struck of the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked + into the ark of Yahweh, he struck of the people fifty thousand + seventy men; and the people mourned, because Yahweh had struck + the people with a great slaughter. +006:020 The men of Beth Shemesh said, Who is able to stand before Yahweh, + this holy God? and to whom shall he go up from us? +006:021 They sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath Jearim, + saying, The Philistines have brought back the ark of Yahweh; + come you down, and bring it up to you. +007:001 The men of Kiriath Jearim came, and fetched up the ark of Yahweh, + and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, + and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of Yahweh. +007:002 It happened, from the day that the ark abode in Kiriath Jearim, + that the time was long; for it was twenty years: + and all the house of Israel lamented after Yahweh. +007:003 Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If you + do return to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away + the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, + and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; + and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines. +007:004 Then the children of Israel did put away the Baals and the Ashtaroth, + and served Yahweh only. +007:005 Samuel said, "Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray + for you to Yahweh." +007:006 They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured + it out before Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, + "We have sinned against Yahweh." Samuel judged the children + of Israel in Mizpah. +007:007 When the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were + gathered together at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went + up against Israel. When the children of Israel heard it, + they were afraid of the Philistines. +007:008 The children of Israel said to Samuel, "Don't cease to cry + to Yahweh our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand + of the Philistines." +007:009 Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a whole burnt + offering to Yahweh: and Samuel cried to Yahweh for Israel; + and Yahweh answered him. +007:010 As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines + drew near to battle against Israel; but Yahweh thundered with a + great thunder on that day on the Philistines, and confused them; + and they were struck down before Israel. +007:011 The men of Israel went out of Mizpah, and pursued the Philistines, + and struck them, until they came under Beth Kar. +007:012 Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, + and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto has + Yahweh helped us. +007:013 So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more within + the border of Israel: and the hand of Yahweh was against + the Philistines all the days of Samuel. +007:014 The cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were + restored to Israel, from Ekron even to Gath; and the border + of it did Israel deliver out of the hand of the Philistines. + There was peace between Israel and the Amorites. +007:015 Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life. +007:016 He went from year to year in circuit to Bethel and Gilgal, + and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places. +007:017 His return was to Ramah, for there was his house; and there + he judged Israel: and he built there an altar to Yahweh. +008:001 It happened, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons + judges over Israel. +008:002 Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of + his second, Abijah: they were judges in Beersheba. +008:003 His sons didn't walk in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, + and took bribes, and perverted justice. +008:004 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, + and came to Samuel to Ramah; +008:005 and they said to him, Behold, you are old, and your sons + don't walk in your ways: now make us a king to judge us + like all the nations. +008:006 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king + to judge us. Samuel prayed to Yahweh. +008:007 Yahweh said to Samuel, Listen to the voice of the people + in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, + but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them. +008:008 According to all the works which they have done since the day + that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, + in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, + so do they also to you. +008:009 Now therefore listen to their voice: however you shall protest + solemnly to them, and shall show them the manner of the king + who shall reign over them. +008:010 Samuel told all the words of Yahweh to the people who asked + of him a king. +008:011 He said, This will be the manner of the king who shall reign + over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them to him, + for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run + before his chariots; +008:012 and he will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, + and captains of fifties; and [he will set some] to plow his ground, + and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, + and the instruments of his chariots. +008:013 He will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, + and to be bakers. +008:014 He will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive groves, + even the best of them, and give them to his servants. +008:015 He will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, + and give to his officers, and to his servants. +008:016 He will take your male servants, and your female servants, + and your best young men, and your donkeys, and put them + to his work. +008:017 He will take the tenth of your flocks: and you shall + be his servants. +008:018 You shall cry out in that day because of your king whom you shall + have chosen you; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day. +008:019 But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; + and they said, No: but we will have a king over us, +008:020 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. +008:021 Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed + them in the ears of Yahweh. +008:022 Yahweh said to Samuel, Listen to their voice, and make them a king. + Samuel said to the men of Israel, Go you every man to his city. +009:001 Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son + of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son + of Aphiah, the son of a Benjamite, a mighty man of valor. +009:002 He had a son, whose name was Saul, an impressive young man; + and there was not among the children of Israel a better + person than he. From his shoulders and upward he was higher + than any of the people. +009:003 The donkeys of Kish, Saul's father, were lost. Kish said + to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with you, + and arise, go seek the donkeys. +009:004 He passed through the hill country of Ephraim, and passed + through the land of Shalishah, but they didn't find them: + then they passed through the land of Shaalim, and there they + weren't there: and he passed through the land of the Benjamites, + but they didn't find them. +009:005 When they had come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant + who was with him, Come, and let us return, lest my father + leave off caring for the donkeys, and be anxious for us. +009:006 He said to him, See now, there is in this city a man of God, + and he is a man who is held in honor; all that he says comes + surely to pass: now let us go there; peradventure he can + tell us concerning our journey whereon we go. +009:007 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? +009:008 The servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have + in my hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: + that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way. +009:009 (In earlier times in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, + thus he said, Come, and let us go to the seer; for he who is + now called a Prophet was before called a Seer.) +009:010 Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. + So they went to the city where the man of God was. +009:011 As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens + going out to draw water, and said to them, Is the seer here? +009:012 They answered them, and said, He is; behold, [he is] before you: + make haste now, for he is come today into the city; + for the people have a sacrifice today in the high place: +009:013 as soon as you are come into the city, you shall immediately + find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat; + for the people will not eat until he come, because he does bless + the sacrifice; [and] afterwards they eat who are invited. + Now therefore get you up; for at this time you shall find him. +009:014 They went up to the city; [and] as they came within the city, + behold, Samuel came out toward them, to go up to the high place. +009:015 Now Yahweh had revealed to Samuel a day before Saul came, saying, +009:016 Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land + of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my + people Israel; and he shall save my people out of the hand + of the Philistines: for I have looked on my people, + because their cry is come to me. +009:017 When Samuel saw Saul, Yahweh said to him, Behold, the man + of whom I spoke to you! this same shall have authority + over my people. +009:018 Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said, + Tell me, Please, where the seer's house is. +009:019 Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the seer; go up before + me to the high place, for you shall eat with me today: + and in the morning I will let you go, and will tell you all + that is in your heart. +009:020 As for your donkeys who were lost three days ago, + don't set your mind on them; for they are found. + For whom is all that is desirable in Israel? Is it not for you, + and for all your father's house? +009:021 Saul answered, Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest + of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all + the families of the tribe of Benjamin? why then speak you + to me after this manner? +009:022 Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into + the guest room, and made them sit in the best place among + those who were invited, who were about thirty persons. +009:023 Samuel said to the cook, Bring the portion which I gave you, + of which I said to you, Set it by you. +009:024 The cook took up the thigh, and that which was on it, and set it + before Saul. [Samuel] said, Behold, that which has been reserved! + set it before you and eat; because to the appointed time has + it been kept for you, for I said, I have invited the people. + So Saul ate with Samuel that day. +009:025 When they were come down from the high place into the city, + he talked with Saul on the housetop. +009:026 They arose early: and it happened about the spring of the day, + that Samuel called to Saul on the housetop, saying, Up, that I + may send you away. Saul arose, and they went out both of them, + he and Samuel, abroad. +009:027 As they were going down at the end of the city, Samuel said + to Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us (and he passed on), + but stand you still first, that I may cause you to hear + the word of God. +010:001 Then Samuel took the vial of oil, and poured it on his head, + and kissed him, and said, Isn't it that Yahweh has anointed + you to be prince over his inheritance? +010:002 When you are departed from me today, then you shall find two men + by Rachel's tomb, in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they + will tell you, The donkeys which you went to seek are found; + and behold, your father has left off caring for the donkeys, + and is anxious for you, saying, What shall I do for my son? +010:003 Then shall you go on forward from there, and you shall + come to the oak of Tabor; and there shall meet you there + 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: +010:004 and they will greet you, and give you two loaves of bread, + which you shall receive of their hand. +010:005 After that you shall come to the hill of God, where is + the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall happen, + when you are come there to the city, that you shall meet a band + of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, + and a tambourine, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; + and they will be prophesying: +010:006 and the Spirit of Yahweh will come mightily on you, and you shall + prophesy with them, and shall be turned into another man. +010:007 Let it be, when these signs are come to you, that you do + as occasion shall serve you; for God is with you. +010:008 You shall go down before me to Gilgal; and behold, I will come + down to you, to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice + sacrifices of peace offerings: seven days shall you wait, + until I come to you, and show you what you shall do. +010:009 It was so, that when he had turned his back to go + from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs + happened that day. +010:010 When they came there to the hill, behold, a band of prophets + met him; and the Spirit of God came mightily on him, + and he prophesied among them. +010:011 It happened, when all who knew him before saw that, behold, + he prophesied with the prophets, then the people said one + to another, What is this that is come to the son of Kish? Is Saul + also among the prophets? +010:012 One of the same place answered, Who is their father? + Therefore it became a proverb, Is Saul also among the prophets? +010:013 When he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place. +010:014 Saul's uncle said to him and to his servant, Where went you? + He said, To seek the donkeys; and when we saw that they + were not found, we came to Samuel. +010:015 Saul's uncle said, Tell me, Please, what Samuel said to you. +010:016 Saul said to his uncle, He told us plainly that the donkeys + were found. But concerning the matter of the kingdom, + of which Samuel spoke, he didn't tell him. +010:017 Samuel called the people together to Yahweh to Mizpah; +010:018 and he said to the children of Israel, Thus says Yahweh, + the God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, + and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, + and out of the hand of all the kingdoms that oppressed you: +010:019 but you have this day rejected your God, who himself saves + you out of all your calamities and your distresses; + and you have said to him, [No], but set a king over us. + Now therefore present yourselves before Yahweh by your tribes, + and by your thousands. +010:020 So Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe + of Benjamin was taken. +010:021 He brought the tribe of Benjamin near by their families; + and the family of the Matrites was taken; and Saul the son + of Kish was taken: but when they sought him, he could + not be found. +010:022 Therefore they asked of Yahweh further, Is there yet a man + to come here? Yahweh answered, Behold, he has hid himself + among the baggage. +010:023 They ran and fetched him there; and when he stood among + the people, he was higher than any of the people from his + shoulders and upward. +010:024 Samuel said to all the people, "You see him whom Yahweh + has chosen, that there is none like him among all the people?" + All the people shouted, and said, [Long] live the king. +010:025 Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, + and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before Yahweh. + Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house. +010:026 Saul also went to his house to Gibeah; and there went with him + the army, whose hearts God had touched. +010:027 But certain worthless fellows said, How shall this man save us? + They despised him, and brought him no present. + But he held his peace. +011:001 Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh Gilead: + and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, Make a covenant + with us, and we will serve you. +011:002 Nahash the Ammonite said to them, On this condition will I + make it with you, that all your right eyes be put out; + and I will lay it for a reproach on all Israel. +011:003 The elders of Jabesh said to him, Give us seven days' respite, that we + may send messengers to all the borders of Israel; and then, + if there be none to save us, we will come out to you. +011:004 Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and spoke these + words in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted + up their voice, and wept. +011:005 Behold, Saul came following the oxen out of the field; + and Saul said, What ails the people that they weep? + They told him the words of the men of Jabesh. +011:006 The Spirit of God came mightily on Saul when he heard those words, + and his anger was kindled greatly. +011:007 He took a yoke of oxen, and cut them in pieces, and sent + them throughout all the borders of Israel by the hand + of messengers, saying, Whoever doesn't come forth after + Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen. + The dread of Yahweh fell on the people, and they came out + as one man. +011:008 He numbered them in Bezek; and the children of Israel were + three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand. +011:009 They said to the messengers who came, Thus shall you tell + the men of Jabesh Gilead, Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, + you shall have deliverance. The messengers came and told + the men of Jabesh; and they were glad. +011:010 Therefore the men of Jabesh said, Tomorrow we will come out to you, + and you shall do with us all that seems good to you. +011:011 It was so on the next day, that Saul put the people in + three companies; and they came into the midst of the camp in the + morning watch, and struck the Ammonites until the heat of the day: + and it happened, that those who remained were scattered, + so that no two of them were left together. +011:012 The people said to Samuel, Who is he who said, Shall Saul reign + over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death. +011:013 Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day; + for today Yahweh has worked deliverance in Israel. +011:014 Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, + and renew the kingdom there. +011:015 All the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king + before Yahweh in Gilgal; and there they offered sacrifices + of peace offerings before Yahweh; and there Saul and all + the men of Israel rejoiced greatly. +012:001 Samuel said to all Israel, Behold, I have listened to your voice + in all that you said to me, and have made a king over you. +012:002 Now, behold, the king walks before you; and I am old + and gray-headed; and behold, my sons are with you: + and I have walked before you from my youth to this day. +012:003 Here I am: witness against me before Yahweh, and before + his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose donkey have I + taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? + or of whose hand have I taken a ransom to blind my eyes + therewith? and I will restore it you. +012:004 They said, You have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, + neither have you taken anything of any man's hand. +012:005 He said to them, Yahweh is witness against you, and his anointed + is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand. + They said, He is witness. +012:006 Samuel said to the people, It is Yahweh who appointed Moses and Aaron, + and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt. +012:007 Now therefore stand still, that I may plead with you + before Yahweh concerning all the righteous acts of Yahweh, + which he did to you and to your fathers. +012:008 When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried to Yahweh, + then Yahweh sent Moses and Aaron, who brought forth your + fathers out of Egypt, and made them to dwell in this place. +012:009 But they forgot Yahweh their God; and he sold them into the hand + of Sisera, captain of the army of Hazor, and into the hand + of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab; + and they fought against them. +012:010 They cried to Yahweh, and said, We have sinned, because we have + forsaken Yahweh, and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth: + but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we + will serve you. +012:011 Yahweh sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, + and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side; + and you lived in safety. +012:012 When you saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came + against you, you said to me, No, but a king shall reign over us; + when Yahweh your God was your king. +012:013 Now therefore see the king whom you have chosen, and whom you + have asked for: and behold, Yahweh has set a king over you. +012:014 If you will fear Yahweh, and serve him, and listen to his voice, + and not rebel against the commandment of Yahweh, and both you + and also the king who reigns over you are followers of Yahweh + your God, [well]: +012:015 but if you will not listen to the voice of Yahweh, but rebel + against the commandment of Yahweh, then will the hand of Yahweh + be against you, as it was against your fathers. +012:016 Now therefore stand still and see this great thing, which Yahweh + will do before your eyes. +012:017 Isn't it wheat harvest today? I will call to Yahweh, + that he may send thunder and rain; and you shall know and see + that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight + of Yahweh, in asking you a king. +012:018 So Samuel called to Yahweh; and Yahweh sent thunder and rain + that day: and all the people greatly feared Yahweh and Samuel. +012:019 All the people said to Samuel, Pray for your servants to Yahweh + your God, that we not die; for we have added to all our sins + [this] evil, to ask us a king. +012:020 Samuel said to the people, "Don't be afraid; you have indeed + done all this evil; yet don't turn aside from following Yahweh, + but serve Yahweh with all your heart: +012:021 and don't turn aside; for [then would you go] after vain things + which can't profit nor deliver, for they are vain. +012:022 For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, + because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people to himself. +012:023 Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against + Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you + in the good and the right way. +012:024 Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; + for consider how great things he has done for you. +012:025 But if you shall still do wickedly, you shall be consumed, + both you and your king." +013:001 Saul was [forty] years old when he began to reign; + and when he had reigned two years over Israel, +013:002 Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel, of which two + thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in the Mount of Bethel, + and one thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: + and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent. +013:003 Jonathan struck the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba: + and the Philistines heard of it. Saul blew the trumpet + throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear. +013:004 All Israel heard say that Saul had struck the garrison of + the Philistines, and also that Israel was had in abomination + with the Philistines. The people were gathered together + after Saul to Gilgal. +013:005 The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, + thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, + and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude: + and they came up, and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven. +013:006 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 coverts, and in pits. +013:007 Now some of the Hebrews had gone over the Jordan to the land + of Gad and Gilead; but as for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, + and all the people followed him trembling. +013:008 He stayed seven days, according to the set time that Samuel + [had appointed]: but Samuel didn't come to Gilgal; + and the people were scattered from him. +013:009 Saul said, Bring here the burnt offering to me, and the + peace offerings. He offered the burnt offering. +013:010 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 greet him. +013:011 Samuel said, What have you done? Saul said, Because I saw + that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn't + come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines + assembled themselves together at Michmash; +013:012 therefore said I, Now will the Philistines come down on me + to Gilgal, and I haven't entreated the favor of Yahweh: I forced + myself therefore, and offered the burnt offering. +013:013 Samuel said to Saul, You have done foolishly; you have not kept + the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you: + for now would Yahweh have established your kingdom + on Israel forever. +013:014 But now your kingdom shall not continue: Yahweh has sought + him a man after his own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him + to be prince over his people, because you have not kept + that which Yahweh commanded you. +013:015 Samuel arose, and got him up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. + Saul numbered the people who were present with him, + about six hundred men. +013:016 Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people who were present + with them, abode in Geba of Benjamin: but the Philistines + encamped in Michmash. +013:017 The spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in + three companies: one company turned to the way that leads + to Ophrah, to the land of Shual; +013:018 and another company turned the way to Beth Horon; + and another company turned the way of the border that looks + down on the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness. +013:019 Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel; + for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them + swords or spears: +013:020 but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen + every man his plowshare, mattock, axe, and sickle; +013:021 yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the plowshares, + and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads. +013:022 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 who + were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan + his son was there found. +013:023 The garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash. +014:001 Now it fell on a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said + to the young man who bore his armor, Come, and let us go + over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on yonder side. + But he didn't tell his father. +014:002 Saul abode in the uttermost part of Gibeah under the pomegranate + tree which is in Migron: and the people who were with him + were about six hundred men; +014:003 and Ahijah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, + the son of Eli, the priest of Yahweh in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. + The people didn't know that Jonathan was gone. +014:004 Between the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to + the Philistines' garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side, + and a rocky crag on the other side: and the name of the one + was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh. +014:005 The one crag rose up on the north in front of Michmash, + and the other on the south in front of Geba. +014:006 Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, Come, + and let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised: + it may be that Yahweh will work for us; for there is no + restraint to Yahweh to save by many or by few. +014:007 His armor bearer said to him, Do all that is in your heart: + turn you, behold, I am with you according to your heart. +014:008 Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over to the men, + and we will disclose ourselves to them. +014:009 If they say thus to us, Wait until we come to you; then we + will stand still in our place, and will not go up to them. +014:010 But if they say thus, Come up to us; then we will go up; + for Yahweh has delivered them into our hand: and this shall + be the sign to us. +014:011 Both of them disclosed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines: + and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth + out of the holes where they had hid themselves. +014:012 The men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armor bearer, + and said, Come up to us, and we will show you a thing. + Jonathan said to his armor bearer, Come up after me; + for Yahweh has delivered them into the hand of Israel. +014:013 Jonathan climbed up on his hands and on his feet, and his + armor bearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; + and his armor bearer killed them after him. +014:014 That first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armor bearer made, + was about twenty men, within as it were half a furrow's length + in an acre of land. +014:015 There was a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all + the people; the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled; + and the earth quaked: so there was an exceeding great trembling. +014:016 The watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and behold, + the multitude melted away, and they went [here] and there. +014:017 Then said Saul to the people who were with him, Number now, + and see who is gone from us. When they had numbered, behold, + Jonathan and his armor bearer were not there. +014:018 Saul said to Ahijah, Bring here the ark of God. For the ark + of God was [there] at that time with the children of Israel. +014:019 It happened, while Saul talked to the priest, that the tumult + that was in the camp of the Philistines went on and increased: + and Saul said to the priest, Withdraw your hand. +014:020 Saul and all the people who were with him were gathered together, + and came to the battle: and behold, every man's sword was + against his fellow, [and there was] a very great confusion. +014:021 Now the Hebrews who were with the Philistines as before, + and who went up with them into the camp, [from the country] + round about, even they also [turned] to be with the Israelites + who were with Saul and Jonathan. +014:022 Likewise all the men of Israel who had hid themselves in the hill + country of Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, + even they also followed hard after them in the battle. +014:023 So Yahweh saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over + by Beth Aven. +014:024 The men of Israel were distressed that day; for Saul had + adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man who eats any + food until it be evening, and I be avenged on my enemies. + So none of the people tasted food. +014:025 All the people came into the forest; and there was honey + on the ground. +014:026 When the people were come to the forest, behold, the honey dropped: + but no man put his hand to his mouth; for the people + feared the oath. +014:027 But Jonathan didn't hear when his father charged the people + with the oath: therefore he put forth the end of the rod + who was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put + his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened. +014:028 Then answered one of the people, and said, Your father directly + charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man + who eats food this day. The people were faint. +014:029 Then said Jonathan, My father has troubled the land. + Please look how my eyes have been enlightened, because I + tasted a little of this honey. +014:030 How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely today + of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for now has + there been no great slaughter among the Philistines. +014:031 They struck of the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. + The people were very faint; +014:032 and the people flew on the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, + and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people + ate them with the blood. +014:033 Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin + against Yahweh, in that they eat with the blood. + He said, you have dealt treacherously: roll a great stone + to me this day. +014:034 Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and tell them, + Bring me here every man his ox, and every man his sheep, + and kill them here, and eat; and don't sin against Yahweh + in eating with the blood. All the people brought every man + his ox with him that night, and killed them there. +014:035 Saul built an altar to Yahweh: the same was the first altar + that he built to Yahweh. +014:036 Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, + and take spoil among them until the morning light, and let us not + leave a man of them. They said, Do whatever seems good to you. + Then said the priest, Let us draw near here to God. +014:037 Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? + will you deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he didn't + answer him that day. +014:038 Saul said, Draw near here, all you chiefs of the people; + and know and see in which this sin has been this day. +014:039 For, as Yahweh lives, who saves Israel, though it be in Jonathan + my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among + all the people who answered him. +014:040 Then said he to all Israel, Be you on one side, + and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side. + The people said to Saul, Do what seems good to you. +014:041 Therefore Saul said to Yahweh, the God of Israel, Show the right. + Jonathan and Saul were taken [by lot]; but the people escaped. +014:042 Saul said, Cast [lots] between me and Jonathan my son. + Jonathan was taken. +014:043 Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what you have done. + Jonathan told him, and said, I did certainly taste a little + honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand; and behold, + I must die. +014:044 Saul said, God do so and more also; for you shall + surely die, Jonathan. +014:045 The people said to Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who has + worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it: + as Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head + fall to the ground; for he has worked with God this day. + So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn't die. +014:046 Then Saul went up from following the Philistines; + and the Philistines went to their own place. +014:047 Now when Saul had taken the kingdom over Israel, he 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 wherever he turned himself, he put [them] to the worse. +014:048 He did valiantly, and struck the Amalekites, and delivered + Israel out of the hands of those who despoiled them. +014:049 Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishvi, and Malchishua; + and the names of his two daughters were these: the name + of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal: +014:050 and the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz. + The name of the captain of his army was Abner the son + of Ner, Saul's uncle. +014:051 Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was + the son of Abiel. +014:052 There was sore war against the Philistines all the days of Saul: + and when Saul saw any mighty man, or any valiant man, + he took him to him. +015:001 Samuel said to Saul, Yahweh sent me to anoint you to be king + over his people, over Israel: now therefore listen you + to the voice of the words of Yahweh. +015:002 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, I have marked that which Amalek + did to Israel, how he set himself against him in the way, + when he came up out of Egypt. +015:003 Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, + and don't spare them; but kill both man and woman, + infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey. +015:004 Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, + two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah. +015:005 Saul came to the city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley. +015:006 Saul said to the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among + the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you shown kindness + to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. + So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites. +015:007 Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, + that is before Egypt. +015:008 He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly + destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. +015:009 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 wouldn't utterly destroy them: but everything + that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly. +015:010 Then came the word of Yahweh to Samuel, saying, +015:011 It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned + back from following me, and has not performed my commandments. + Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night. +015:012 Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and it + was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and behold, + he set him up a monument, and turned, and passed on, + and went down to Gilgal. +015:013 Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, Blessed are you + by Yahweh: I have performed the commandment of Yahweh. +015:014 Samuel said, What means then this bleating of the sheep in my ears, + and the lowing of the oxen which I hear? +015:015 Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: + for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, + to sacrifice to Yahweh your God; and the rest we + have utterly destroyed. +015:016 Then Samuel said to Saul, Stay, and I will tell you what Yahweh + has said to me this night. He said to him, Say on. +015:017 Samuel said, "Though you were little in your own sight, + weren't you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed + you king over Israel; +015:018 and Yahweh sent you on a journey, and said, 'Go, and utterly + destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them + until they are consumed.' +015:019 Why then didn't you obey the voice of Yahweh, but flew on the spoil, + and did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh?" +015:020 Saul said to Samuel, Yes, I have obeyed the voice of Yahweh, + and have gone the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag + the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. +015:021 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief + of the devoted things, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God in Gilgal. +015:022 Samuel said, Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings + and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Yahweh? Behold, to obey + is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams. +015:023 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is + as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected the word + of Yahweh, he has also rejected you from being king. +015:024 Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned; for I have transgressed + the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared + the people, and obeyed their voice. +015:025 Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and turn again with me, + that I may worship Yahweh. +015:026 Samuel said to Saul, I will not return with you; for you + have rejected the word of Yahweh, and Yahweh has rejected + you from being king over Israel. +015:027 As Samuel turned about to go away, [Saul] laid hold on the skirt + of his robe, and it tore. +015:028 Samuel said to him, Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel + from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours + who is better than you. +015:029 Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; + for he is not a man, that he should repent. +015:030 Then he said, I have sinned: yet honor me now, Please, before the + elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, + that I may worship Yahweh your God. +015:031 So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshiped Yahweh. +015:032 Then said Samuel, Bring you here to me Agag the king + of the Amalekites. Agag came to him cheerfully. + Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past. +015:033 Samuel said, As your sword has made women childless, so shall + your mother be childless among women. Samuel hewed Agag + in pieces before Yahweh in Gilgal. +015:034 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house + to Gibeah of Saul. +015:035 Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death; + for Samuel mourned for Saul: and Yahweh grieved that he had + made Saul king over Israel. +016:001 Yahweh said to Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I + have rejected him from being king over Israel? fill your horn + with oil, and go: I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; + for I have provided me a king among his sons. +016:002 Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. + Yahweh said, Take a heifer with you, and say, I am come + to sacrifice to Yahweh. +016:003 Call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do: + and you shall anoint to me him whom I name to you. +016:004 Samuel did that which Yahweh spoke, and came to Bethlehem. + The elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, + Come you peaceably? +016:005 He said, Peaceably; I am come to sacrifice to Yahweh: + sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. + He sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice. +016:006 It happened, when they had come, that he looked at Eliab, + and said, Surely Yahweh's anointed is before him. +016:007 But Yahweh said to Samuel, "Don't look on his face, or on + the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: + for [Yahweh sees] not as man sees; for man looks at the + outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart." +016:008 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. + He said, Neither has Yahweh chosen this. +016:009 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. He said, Neither has + Yahweh chosen this. +016:010 Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. + Samuel said to Jesse, Yahweh has not chosen these. +016:011 Samuel said to Jesse, Are here all your children? + He said, There remains yet the youngest, and behold, he is + keeping the sheep. Samuel said to Jesse, Send and get him; + for we will not sit down until he come here. +016:012 He sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, + and withal of a beautiful face, and goodly to look on. + Yahweh said, Arise, anoint him; for this is he. +016:013 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst + of his brothers: and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily + on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, + and went to Ramah. +016:014 Now the Spirit of Yahweh departed from Saul, and an evil spirit + from Yahweh troubled him. +016:015 Saul's servants said to him, See now, an evil spirit from + God troubles you. +016:016 Let our lord now command your servants who are before you, + to seek out a man who is a skillful player on the harp: + and it shall happen, when the evil spirit from God is on you, + that he shall play with his hand, and you shall be well. +016:017 Saul said to his servants, Provide me now a man who can play well, + and bring him to me. +016:018 Then answered one of the young men, and said, Behold, I have seen + a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, + and a mighty man of valor, and a man of war, and prudent + in speech, and a comely person; and Yahweh is with him. +016:019 Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, Send me + David your son, who is with the sheep. +016:020 Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, and a bottle of wine, + and a kid, and sent them by David his son to Saul. +016:021 David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; + and he became his armor bearer. +016:022 Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Please let David stand before me; + for he has found favor in my sight. +016:023 It happened, when the [evil] spirit from God was on Saul, + that David took the harp, and played with his hand: + so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit + departed from him. +017:001 Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle; + and they were gathered together at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, + and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim. +017:002 Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, + and encamped in the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array + against the Philistines. +017:003 The Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, + and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side: + and there was a valley between them. +017:004 There went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, + named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. +017:005 He had a helmet of brass on his head, and he was clad with a + coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand + shekels of brass. +017:006 He had brass shin armor on his legs, and a javelin of brass + between his shoulders. +017:007 The staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; + and his spear's head [weighed] six hundred shekels of iron: + and his shield bearer went before him. +017:008 He stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them, + Why are you come out to set your battle in array? am I not + a Philistine, and you servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, + and let him come down to me. +017:009 If he be able to fight with me, and kill me, then will we + be your servants; but if I prevail against him, and kill him, + then shall you be our servants, and serve us. +017:010 The Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; + give me a man, that we may fight together. +017:011 When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, + they were dismayed, and greatly afraid. +017:012 Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, + whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man was + an old man in the days of Saul, stricken [in years] among men. +017:013 The three eldest sons of Jesse had gone after Saul to the battle: + and the names of his three sons who went to the battle + were Eliab the firstborn, and next to him Abinadab, + and the third Shammah. +017:014 David was the youngest; and the three eldest followed Saul. +017:015 Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father's + sheep at Bethlehem. +017:016 The Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented + himself forty days. +017:017 Jesse said to David his son, Take now for your brothers + an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, + and carry [them] quickly to the camp to your brothers; +017:018 and bring these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, + and look how your brothers fare, and take their pledge. +017:019 Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley + of Elah, fighting with the Philistines. +017:020 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 place of the wagons, as the army which was + going forth to the fight shouted for the battle. +017:021 Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array, + army against army. +017:022 David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage, + and ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers. +017:023 As he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, + the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the ranks + of the Philistines, and spoke according to the same words: + and David heard them. +017:024 All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, + and were sore afraid. +017:025 The men of Israel said, Have you seen this man who is come + up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, + that the man who kills him, the king will enrich him + with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make + his father's house free in Israel. +017:026 David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, What shall + be done to the man who kills this Philistine, and takes away + the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, + that he should defy the armies of the living God? +017:027 The people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall + it be done to the man who kills him. +017:028 Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab's + anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why are you come down? + and with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? + I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; + for you have come down that you might see the battle. +017:029 David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause? +017:030 He turned away from him toward another, and spoke after + the same manner: and the people answered him again after + the former manner. +017:031 When the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed + them before Saul; and he sent for him. +017:032 David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him; + your servant will go and fight with this Philistine. +017:033 Saul said to David, You are not able to go against this + Philistine to fight with him; for you are but a youth, + and he a man of war from his youth. +017:034 David said to Saul, Your servant was keeping his father's sheep; + and when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb out + of the flock, +017:035 I went out after him, and struck him, and delivered it out + of his mouth; and when he arose against me, I caught him + by his beard, and struck him, and killed him. +017:036 Your servant struck both the lion and the bear: + and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, + seeing he has defied the armies of the living God. +017:037 David said, Yahweh who 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. Saul said to David, Go, and Yahweh shall + be with you. +017:038 Saul clad David with his clothing, and he put a helmet of brass + on his head, and he clad him with a coat of mail. +017:039 David girded his sword on his clothing, and he tried to go; + for he had not proved it. David said to Saul, I can't go with these; + for I have not proved them. David put them off him. +017:040 He took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones + out of the brook, and put them in the shepherd's bag which + he had, even in his wallet; and his sling was in his hand: + and he drew near to the Philistine. +017:041 The Philistine came on and drew near to David; and the man + who bore the shield went before him. +017:042 When the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him; + for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and withal of a fair face. +017:043 The Philistine said to David, Am I a dog, that you come to me + with sticks? The Philistine cursed David by his gods. +017:044 The Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give + your flesh to the birds of the sky, and to the animals + of the field. +017:045 Then said David to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword, + and with a spear, and with a javelin: but I come to you in + the name of Yahweh of Armies, the God of the armies of Israel, + whom you have defied. +017:046 This day will Yahweh deliver you into my hand; and I will + strike you, and take your head from off you; and I will give + the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines this day + to the birds of the sky, and to the wild animals of the earth; + that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, +017:047 and that all this assembly may know that Yahweh doesn't + save with sword and spear: for the battle is Yahweh's, + and he will give you into our hand. +017:048 It happened, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew near + to meet David, that David hurried, and ran toward the army + to meet the Philistine. +017:049 David put his hand in his bag, and took there a stone, + and slang it, and struck the Philistine in his forehead; + and the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face + to the earth. +017:050 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and + with a stone, and struck the Philistine, and killed him; + but there was no sword in the hand of David. +017:051 Then David ran, and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword, + and drew it out of the sheath of it, and killed him, + and cut off his head therewith. When the Philistines saw + that their champion was dead, they fled. +017:052 The men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued + the Philistines, until you come to Gai, and to the gates of Ekron. + The wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, + even to Gath, and to Ekron. +017:053 The children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, + and they plundered their camp. +017:054 David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; + but he put his armor in his tent. +017:055 When Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said to Abner, + the captain of the army, Abner, whose son is this youth? + Abner said, As your soul lives, O king, I can't tell. +017:056 The king said, "Inquire whose son the young man is!" +017:057 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. +017:058 Saul said to him, Whose son are you, you young man? + David answered, I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite. +018:001 It happened, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, + that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, + and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. +018:002 Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home + to his father's house. +018:003 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him + as his own soul. +018:004 Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him, + and gave it to David, and his clothing, even to his sword, + and to his bow, and to his sash. +018:005 David went out wherever Saul sent him, [and] behaved himself wisely: + and Saul set him over the men of war, and it was good in the sight + of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants. +018:006 It happened as they came, when David returned from the slaughter + of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities + of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, + with tambourines, with joy, and with instruments of music. +018:007 The women sang one to another as they played, and said, + Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands. +018:008 Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him; + and he said, They have ascribed to David ten thousands, + and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can + he have more but the kingdom? +018:009 Saul eyed David from that day and forward. +018:010 It happened on the next day, that an evil spirit from God came + mightily on Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: + and David played with his hand, as he did day by day. + Saul had his spear in his hand; +018:011 and Saul cast the spear; for he said, I will strike David + even to the wall. David avoided out of his presence twice. +018:012 Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, + and was departed from Saul. +018:013 Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain + over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people. +018:014 David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and Yahweh + was with him. +018:015 When Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he stood + in awe of him. +018:016 But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came + in before them. +018:017 Saul said to David, Behold, my elder daughter Merab, her will I give + you as wife: only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh's battles. + For Saul said, Don't let my hand be on him, but let the hand + of the Philistines be on him. +018:018 David said to 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? +018:019 But it happened at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter, + should have been given to David, that she was given to Adriel + the Meholathite as wife. +018:020 Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David: and they told Saul, + and the thing pleased him. +018:021 Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, + and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. + Therefore Saul said to David, You shall this day be my son-in-law + a second time. +018:022 Saul commanded his servants, [saying], Commune with David secretly, + and say, Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his + servants love you: now therefore be the king's son-in-law. +018:023 Saul's servants spoke those words in the ears of David. + David said, Seems it to you a light thing to be the king's + son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed? +018:024 The servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spoke David. +018:025 Saul said, Thus shall you tell David, The king desires + no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, + to be avenged of the king's enemies. Now Saul thought to make + David fall by the hand of the Philistines. +018:026 When his servants told David these words, it pleased David + well to be the king's son-in-law. The days were not expired; +018:027 and David arose and went, he and his men, and killed + of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought + their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, + that he might be the king's son-in-law. Saul gave him Michal + his daughter as wife. +018:028 Saul saw and knew that Yahweh was with David; + and Michal, Saul's daughter, loved him. +018:029 Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul was + David's enemy continually. +018:030 Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: + and it happened, as often as they went forth, that David + behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; + so that his name was much set by. +019:001 Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, + that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, + delighted much in David. +019:002 Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeks to kill you: + now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, + and live in a secret place, and hide yourself: +019:003 and I will go out and stand beside my father in the field + where you are, and I will commune with my father of you; + and if I see anything, I will tell you. +019:004 Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, + Don't let the king sin against his servant, against David; + because he has not sinned against you, and because his works + have been very good toward you: +019:005 for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, + and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel: you saw it, + and did rejoice; why then will you sin against innocent blood, + to kill David without a cause? +019:006 Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan: and Saul swore, + As Yahweh lives, he shall not be put to death. +019:007 Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things. + Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, + as before. +019:008 There was war again: and David went out, and fought with + the Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter; + and they fled before him. +019:009 An evil spirit from Yahweh was on Saul, as he sat in his house + with his spear in his hand; and David was playing with his hand. +019:010 Saul sought to strike David even to the wall with the spear; + but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he struck + the spear into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night. +019:011 Saul sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, + and to kill him in the morning: and Michal, David's wife, + told him, saying, If you don't save your life tonight, + tomorrow you will be slain. +019:012 So Michal let David down through the window: and he went, + and fled, and escaped. +019:013 Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put + a pillow of goats' [hair] at the head of it, and covered it + with the clothes. +019:014 When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick. +019:015 Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, Bring him up + to me in the bed, that I may kill him. +019:016 When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, + with the pillow of goats' [hair] at the head of it. +019:017 Saul said to Michal, Why have you deceived me thus, and let my + enemy go, so that he is escaped? Michal answered Saul, He said + to me, Let me go; why should I kill you? +019:018 Now David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, + and told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel + went and lived in Naioth. +019:019 It was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah. +019:020 Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company + of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head + over them, the Spirit of God came on the messengers of Saul, + and they also prophesied. +019:021 When it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they + also prophesied. Saul sent messengers again the third time, + and they also prophesied. +019:022 Then went he also to Ramah, and came to the great well + that is in Secu: and he asked and said, Where are Samuel + and David? One said, Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah. +019:023 He went there to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God came + on him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came + to Naioth in Ramah. +019:024 He also stripped off his clothes, and he also prophesied + before Samuel, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. + Therefore they say, "Is Saul also among the prophets?" +020:001 David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said + before Jonathan, "What have I done? What is my iniquity?" + and "What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?" +020:002 He said to him, "Far from it; you shall not die: behold, my father + does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it + to me; and why should my father hide this thing from me? + It is not so." +020:003 David swore moreover, and said, "Your father knows + well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, + 'Don't let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved:' + but truly as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, there is + but a step between me and death." +020:004 Then said Jonathan to David, "Whatever your soul desires, + I will even do it for you." +020:005 David said to Jonathan, "Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, + and I should not fail to dine with the king; but let me go, + that I may hide myself in the field to the third day at evening. +020:006 If your father miss me at all, then say, 'David earnestly + asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city; + for it is the yearly sacrifice there for all the family.' +020:007 If he says, 'It is well;' your servant shall have peace: + but if he be angry, then know that evil is determined by him. +020:008 Therefore deal kindly with your servant; for you have + brought your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you: + but if there be in me iniquity, kill me yourself; for why + should you bring me to your father?" +020:009 Jonathan said, "Far be it from you; for if I should at all + know that evil were determined by my father to come on you, + then wouldn't I tell you that?" +020:010 Then said David to Jonathan, "Who shall tell me if perchance + your father answer you roughly?" +020:011 Jonathan said to David, "Come, and let us go out into the field." + They both went out into the field. +020:012 Jonathan said to David, "Yahweh, the God of Israel, [be witness]: + when I have sounded my father about this time tomorrow, + [or] the third day, behold, if there be good toward David, + shall I not then send to you, and disclose it to you? +020:013 Yahweh do so to Jonathan, and more also, should it please my + father to do you evil, if I don't disclose it to you, and send + you away, that you may go in peace: and Yahweh be with you, + as he has been with my father. +020:014 You shall not only while yet I live show me the loving kindness + of Yahweh, that I not die; +020:015 but also you shall not cut off your kindness from my house forever; + no, not when Yahweh has cut off the enemies of David everyone + from the surface of the earth." +020:016 So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, [saying], + Yahweh will require it at the hand of David's enemies. +020:017 Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had + to him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul. +020:018 Then Jonathan said to him, Tomorrow is the new moon: + and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty. +020:019 When you have stayed three days, you shall go down quickly, + and come to the place where you did hide yourself when the + business was in hand, and shall remain by the stone Ezel. +020:020 I will shoot three arrows on the side of it, as though I shot + at a mark. +020:021 Behold, I will send the boy, [saying], Go, find the arrows. + If I tell the boy, Behold, the arrows are on this side of you; + take them, and come; for there is peace to you and no hurt, + as Yahweh lives. +020:022 But if I say thus to the boy, Behold, the arrows are beyond you; + go your way; for Yahweh has sent you away. +020:023 As touching the matter which you and I have spoken of, behold, + Yahweh is between you and me forever. +020:024 So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, + the king sat him down to eat food. +020:025 The king sat on his seat, as at other times, even on the seat + by the wall; and Jonathan stood up, and Abner sat by Saul's side: + but David's place was empty. +020:026 Nevertheless Saul didn't say anything that day: + for he thought, Something has happened to him. He is not clean. + Surely he is not clean. +020:027 It happened on the next day after the new moon, [which was] + the second [day], that David's place was empty: and Saul said + to Jonathan his son, Why doesn't the son of Jesse come to meat, + neither yesterday, nor today? +020:028 Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me + to go to Bethlehem: +020:029 and he said, Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice + in the city; and my brother, he has commanded me [to + be there]: and now, if I have found favor in your eyes, + let me get away, I pray you, and see my brothers. + Therefore he is not come to the king's table. +020:030 Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said + to him, You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don't I know + that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, + and to the shame of your mother's nakedness? +020:031 For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you shall + not be established, nor your kingdom. Therefore now send + and bring him to me, for he shall surely die. +020:032 Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, "Why should + he be put to death? What has he done?" +020:033 Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan + knew that his father was determined to put David to death. +020:034 So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and ate no food + the second day of the month; for he was grieved for David, + because his father had done him shame. +020:035 It happened in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field + at the time appointed with David, and a little boy with him. +020:036 He said to his boy, Run, find now the arrows which I shoot. + As the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him. +020:037 When the boy was come to the place of the arrow which + Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the boy, and said, + Isn't the arrow beyond you? +020:038 Jonathan cried after the boy, Go fast! Hurry! Don't delay! + Jonathan's boy gathered up the arrows, and came to his master. +020:039 But the boy didn't know anything: only Jonathan and David + knew the matter. +020:040 Jonathan gave his weapons to his boy, and said to him, Go, + carry them to the city. +020:041 As soon as the boy 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. +020:042 Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, because we have sworn + both of us in the name of Yahweh, saying, Yahweh shall be + between me and you, and between my seed and your seed, forever. + He arose and departed: and Jonathan went into the city. +021:001 Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: + and Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said to him, + Why are you alone, and no man with you? +021:002 David said to Ahimelech the priest, The king has commanded me + a business, and has said to me, Let no man know anything of the + business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you: + and I have appointed the young men to such and such a place. +021:003 Now therefore what is under your hand? give me five loaves + of bread in my hand, or whatever there is present. +021:004 The priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread + under my hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young + men have kept themselves from women. +021:005 David answered the priest, and said to him, Of a truth + women have been kept from us about these three days; + when I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, + though it was but a common journey; how much more then today + shall their vessels be holy? +021:006 So the priest gave him holy [bread]; for there was no bread + there but the show bread, that was taken from before Yahweh, + to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away. +021:007 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, + detained before Yahweh; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, + the best of the herdsmen who belonged to Saul. +021:008 David said to Ahimelech, Isn't there here under your hand spear + or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons + with me, because the king's business required haste. +021:009 The priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, + whom you killed in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here + wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if you will take that, + take it; for there is no other except that here. + David said, There is none like that; give it me. +021:010 David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went + to Achish the king of Gath. +021:011 The servants of Achish said to him, "Isn't this David + the king of the land? Didn't they sing one to another + about him in dances, saying, 'Saul has slain his thousands, + David his ten thousands?'" +021:012 David laid up these words in his heart, and was very afraid + of Achish the king of Gath. +021:013 He changed his behavior before them, and feigned himself mad + in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, + and let his spittle fall down on his beard. +021:014 Then said Achish to his servants, Look, you see the man is mad; + why then have you brought him to me? +021:015 Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play + the madman in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house? +022:001 David therefore departed there, and escaped to the cave of Adullam: + and when his brothers and all his father's house heard it, + they went down there to him. +022:002 Everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, + and everyone who was discontented, gathered themselves to him; + and he became captain over them: and there were with him + about four hundred men. +022:003 David went there to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said to the king + of Moab, Please let my father and my mother come forth, + [and be] with you, until I know what God will do for me. +022:004 He brought them before the king of Moab: and they lived + with him all the while that David was in the stronghold. +022:005 The prophet Gad said to David, Don't stay in the stronghold; + depart, and get you into the land of Judah. Then David departed, + and came into the forest of Hereth. +022:006 Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men who were with him: + now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree + in Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants + were standing about him. +022:007 Saul said to his servants who stood about him, Hear now, + you Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give everyone of you + fields and vineyards, will he make you all captains of thousands + and captains of hundreds, +022:008 that all of you have conspired against me, and there is none + who discloses to me when my son makes a league with the son + of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, + or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant + against me, to lie in wait, as at this day? +022:009 Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants + of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, + to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. +022:010 He inquired of Yahweh for him, and gave him food, and gave + him the sword of Goliath the Philistine. +022:011 Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, + and all his father's house, the priests who were in Nob: + and they came all of them to the king. +022:012 Saul said, Hear now, you son of Ahitub. He answered, + Here I am, my lord. +022:013 Saul said to him, Why have you conspired against me, + you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, + and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should + rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day? +022:014 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, Who among all your + servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, + and is taken into your council, and is honorable in your house? +022:015 Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? be it far from me: + don't let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to + all the house of my father; for your servant knows nothing + of all this, less or more. +022:016 The king said, You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all + your father's house. +022:017 The king said to the guard who stood about him, Turn, and kill + the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, + and because they knew that he fled, and didn't disclose it to me. + But the servants of the king wouldn't put forth their hand + to fall on the priests of Yahweh. +022:018 The king said to Doeg, Turn you, and fall on the priests. + Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell on the priests, + and he killed on that day eighty-five persons who wore + a linen ephod. +022:019 Nob, the city of the priests, struck he with the edge of + the sword, both men and women, children and nursing babies, + and oxen and donkeys and sheep, with the edge of the sword. +022:020 One of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, + escaped, and fled after David. +022:021 Abiathar told David that Saul had slain Yahweh's priests. +022:022 David said to Abiathar, I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite + was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned + [the death] of all the persons of your father's house. +022:023 Abide you with me, don't be afraid; for he who seeks my life + seeks your life: for with me you shall be in safeguard. +023:001 They told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines are fighting + against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors. +023:002 Therefore David inquired of Yahweh, saying, Shall I go and strike + these Philistines? Yahweh said to David, Go, and strike + the Philistines, and save Keilah. +023:003 David's men said to him, Behold, we are afraid here in Judah: + how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies + of the Philistines? +023:004 Then David inquired of Yahweh yet again. Yahweh answered him, + and said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver + the Philistines into your hand. +023:005 David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, + and brought away their livestock, and killed them with a + great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah. +023:006 It happened, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David + to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand. +023:007 It was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. Saul said, + God has delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in, + by entering into a town that has gates and bars. +023:008 Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, + to besiege David and his men. +023:009 David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him; + and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring here the ephod. +023:010 Then said David, O Yahweh, the God of Israel, your servant has + surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy + the city for my sake. +023:011 Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? + will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? + Yahweh, the God of Israel, I beg you, tell your servant. + Yahweh said, He will come down. +023:012 Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver up to me + and my men into the hand of Saul? Yahweh said, They will + deliver you up. +023:013 Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and + departed out of Keilah, and went wherever they could go. + It was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; + and he gave up going there. +023:014 David abode in the wilderness in the strongholds, + and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. + Saul sought him every day, but God didn't deliver him + into his hand. +023:015 David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life: + and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the wood. +023:016 Jonathan, Saul's son, arose, and went to David into the wood, + and strengthened his hand in God. +023:017 He said to him, Don't be afraid; for the hand of Saul my father + shall not find you; and you shall be king over Israel, and I + shall be next to you; and that also Saul my father knows. +023:018 They two made a covenant before Yahweh: and David abode + in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house. +023:019 Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doesn't David + hide himself with us in the strongholds in the wood, + in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert? +023:020 Now therefore, O king, come down, according to all the desire + of your soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver + him up into the king's hand. +023:021 Saul said, Blessed be you of Yahweh; for you have had + compassion on me. +023:022 Please go make yet more sure, and know and see his place + where his haunt is, [and] who has seen him there; for it + is told me that he deals very subtly. +023:023 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places + where he hides himself, and come you again to me of a certainty, + and I will go with you: and it shall happen, if he be in the land, + that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah. +023:024 They arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men + were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south + of the desert. +023:025 Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told, + he went down to the rock, and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. + When Saul heard [that], he pursued after David in the + wilderness of Maon. +023:026 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. +023:027 But there came a messenger to Saul, saying, Haste you, and come; + for the Philistines have made a raid on the land. +023:028 So Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went + against the Philistines: therefore they called that + place Sela Hammahlekoth. +023:029 David went up from there, and lived in the strongholds + of En Gedi. +024:001 It happened, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, + that it was told him, saying, Behold, David is in the wilderness + of En Gedi. +024:002 Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, + and went to seek David and his men on the rocks of the wild goats. +024:003 He came to the sheep pens by the way, where was a cave; + and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men + were abiding in the innermost parts of the cave. +024:004 The men of David said to him, Behold, the day of which Yahweh + said to you, Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, + and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you. + Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe secretly. +024:005 It happened afterward, that David's heart struck him, + because he had cut off Saul's skirt. +024:006 He said to his men, Yahweh forbid that I should do this thing + to my lord, Yahweh's anointed, to put forth my hand against him, + seeing he is Yahweh's anointed. +024:007 So David checked his men with these words, and didn't allow + them to rise against Saul. Saul rose up out of the cave, + and went on his way. +024:008 David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, + and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. When Saul + looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth, + and did obeisance. +024:009 David said to Saul, Why listen you to men's words, saying, + Behold, David seeks your hurt? +024:010 Behold, this day your eyes have seen how that Yahweh + had delivered you today into my hand in the cave: + and some bade me kill you; but [my eye] spared you; + and I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord; + for he is Yahweh's anointed. +024:011 Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe + in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, + and didn't kill you, know you and see that there is neither evil + nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, + though you hunt after my life to take it. +024:012 Yahweh judge between me and you, and Yahweh avenge me of you; + but my hand shall not be on you. +024:013 As says the proverb of the ancients, Out of the wicked comes + forth wickedness; but my hand shall not be on you. +024:014 After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom do you + pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea. +024:015 Yahweh therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, + and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand. +024:016 It came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking + these words to Saul, that Saul said, Is this your voice, + my son David? Saul lifted up his voice, and wept. +024:017 He said to David, You are more righteous than I; for you have + rendered to me good, whereas I have rendered to you evil. +024:018 You have declared this day how that you have dealt well with me, + because when Yahweh had delivered me up into your hand, + you didn't kill me. +024:019 For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away unharmed? + Therefore may Yahweh reward you good for that which you + have done to me this day. +024:020 Now, behold, I know that you shall surely be king, and that + the kingdom of Israel shall be established in your hand. +024:021 Swear now therefore to me by Yahweh, that you will not cut + off my seed after me, and that you will not destroy my name + out of my father's house. +024:022 David swore to Saul. Saul went home; but David and his men + got them up to the stronghold. +025:001 Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together, + and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. + David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran. +025:002 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. +025:003 Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail; + and the woman was of good understanding, and of a beautiful face: + but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was + of the house of Caleb. +025:004 David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep. +025:005 David sent ten young men, and David said to the young men, + Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name: +025:006 and thus shall you tell him who lives [in prosperity], + Peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be + to all that you have. +025:007 Now I have heard that you have shearers: your shepherds have + now been with us, and we did them no hurt, neither was there + anything missing to them, all the while they were in Carmel. +025:008 Ask your young men, and they will tell you: therefore let + the young men find favor in your eyes; for we come in a good day. + Please give whatever comes to your hand, to your servants, + and to your son David. +025:009 When David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according + to all those words in the name of David, and ceased. +025:010 Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? + and who is the son of Jesse? there are many servants who break + away from their masters these days. +025:011 Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my meat that I + have killed for my shearers, and give it to men who I don't + know where they come from? +025:012 So David's young men turned on their way, and went back, + and came and told him according to all these words. +025:013 David said to his men, Gird you on every man his sword. + 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 baggage. +025:014 But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, + saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness + to Greet our master; and he railed at them. +025:015 But the men were very good to us, and we were not hurt, + neither missed we anything, as long as we went with them, + when we were in the fields: +025:016 they were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we + were with them keeping the sheep. +025:017 Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil + is determined against our master, and against all his house: + for he is such a worthless fellow that one can't speak to him. +025:018 Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, + and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five + measures of parched grain, and one hundred clusters of raisins, + and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys. +025:019 She said to her young men, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. + But she didn't tell her husband, Nabal. +025:020 It was so, as she rode on her donkey, and came down by the covert + of the mountain, that behold, David and his men came down + toward her; and she met them. +025:021 Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this + fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all + that pertained to him: and he has returned me evil for good. +025:022 God do so to the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave + of all that belongs to him by the morning light so much + as one who urinates on a wall.{or, male.} +025:023 When Abigail saw David, she hurried, and alighted from her donkey, + and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself + to the ground. +025:024 She fell at his feet, and said, On me, my lord, on me be + the iniquity; and please let your handmaid speak in your ears. + Hear the words of your handmaid. +025:025 Please don't let my lord regard this worthless fellow, even Nabal; + for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly + is with him: but I your handmaid didn't see the young men + of my lord, whom you did send. +025:026 Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, + seeing Yahweh has withheld you from blood guiltiness, + and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore + let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, + be as Nabal. +025:027 Now this present which your servant has brought to my lord, + let it be given to the young men who follow my lord. +025:028 Please forgive the trespass of your handmaid: for Yahweh + will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord + fights the battles of Yahweh; and evil shall not be found + in you all your days. +025:029 Though men be risen up to pursue you, and to seek your soul, + yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life + with Yahweh your God; and the souls of your enemies, + them shall he sling out, as from the hollow of a sling. +025:030 It shall come to pass, when Yahweh shall have done to my lord + according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, + and shall have appointed you prince over Israel, +025:031 that this shall be no grief to you, nor offense of heart + to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, + or that my lord has avenged himself. When Yahweh shall + have dealt well with my lord, then remember your handmaid. +025:032 David said to Abigail, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, + who sent you this day to meet me: +025:033 and blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, that have + kept me this day from blood guiltiness, and from avenging + myself with my own hand. +025:034 For in very deed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, who has + withheld me from hurting you, except you had hurried + and come to meet me, surely there wouldn't have been left + to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates + on a wall.{or, male.} +025:035 So David received of her hand that which she had brought him: + and he said to her, Go up in peace to your house; behold, I have + listened to your voice, and have accepted your person. +025:036 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: therefore she told him nothing, + less or more, until the morning light. +025:037 It happened in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, + that his wife told him these things, and his heart died + within him, and he became as a stone. +025:038 It happened about ten days after, that Yahweh struck Nabal, + so that he died. +025:039 When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be Yahweh, + who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand + of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil: + and the evil-doing of Nabal has Yahweh returned on his own head. + David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to + him as wife. +025:040 When the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, + they spoke to her, saying, David has sent us to you, to take + you to him as wife. +025:041 She arose, and bowed herself with her face to the earth, + and said, Behold, your handmaid is a servant to wash the feet + of the servants of my lord. +025:042 Abigail hurried, and arose, and rode on a donkey, with five ladies + of hers who followed her; and she went after the messengers + of David, and became his wife. +025:043 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they became both + of them his wives. +025:044 Now Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, + to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim. +026:001 The Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doesn't David hide + himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert? +026:002 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. +026:003 Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert, + by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw + that Saul came after him into the wilderness. +026:004 David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was + come of a certainty. +026:005 David arose, and came to the place where Saul had encamped; + and David saw the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, + the captain of his army: and Saul lay within the place + of the wagons, and the people were encamped round about him. +026:006 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? + Abishai said, I will go down with you. +026:007 So David and Abishai came to the people by night: + and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the place of the wagons, + with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner + and the people lay round about him. +026:008 Then said Abishai to David, God has delivered up your enemy + into your hand this day: now therefore please let me strike + him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will + not strike him the second time. +026:009 David said to Abishai, Don't destroy him; for who can put forth + his hand against Yahweh's anointed, and be guiltless? +026:010 David said, As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day + shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish. +026:011 Yahweh forbid that I should put forth my hand against + Yahweh's anointed: but now please take the spear that is at + his head, and the jar of water, and let us go. +026:012 So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul's head; + and they got them away: and no man saw it, nor knew it, + neither did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep + sleep from Yahweh was fallen on them. +026:013 Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top + of the mountain afar off; a great space being between them; +026:014 and David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, + saying, Don't you answer, Abner? Then Abner answered, + Who are you who cries to the king? +026:015 David said to Abner, Aren't you a [valiant] man? and who is like + you in Israel? why then have you not kept watch over your lord, + the king? for there came one of the people in to destroy + the king your lord. +026:016 This thing isn't good that you have done. As Yahweh lives, + you are worthy to die, because you have not kept watch over + your lord, Yahweh's anointed. Now see where the king's spear is, + and the jar of water that was at his head. +026:017 Saul knew David's voice, and said, Is this your voice, + my son David? David said, It is my voice, my lord, O king. +026:018 He said, Why does my lord pursue after his servant? for what + have I done? or what evil is in my hand? +026:019 Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words + of his servant. If it be Yahweh that has stirred you + up against me, let him accept an offering: but if it + be the children of men, cursed be they before Yahweh: + for they have driven me out this day that I shouldn't cling + to Yahweh's inheritance, saying, Go, serve other gods. +026:020 Now therefore, don't let my blood fall to the earth away + from the presence of Yahweh: for the king of Israel is + come out to seek a flea, as when one does hunt a partridge + in the mountains. +026:021 Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David; + for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious + in your eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, + and have erred exceedingly. +026:022 David answered, Behold the spear, O king! let then one of + the young men come over and get it. +026:023 Yahweh will render to every man his righteousness and + his faithfulness; because Yahweh delivered you into my hand today, + and I wouldn't put forth my hand against Yahweh's anointed. +026:024 Behold, as your life was much set by this day in my eyes, + so let my life be much set by in the eyes of Yahweh, and let + him deliver me out of all oppression. +026:025 Then Saul said to David, Blessed be you, my son David: + you shall both do mightily, and shall surely prevail. + So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place. +027:001 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 + escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair + of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel: + so shall I escape out of his hand. +027:002 David arose, and passed over, he and the six hundred men + who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath. +027:003 David lived 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. +027:004 It was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought + no more again for him. +027:005 David said to Achish, If now I have found favor in your eyes, + let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, + that I may dwell there: for why should your servant dwell + in the royal city with you? +027:006 Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: why Ziklag pertains + to the kings of Judah to this day. +027:007 The number of the days that David lived in the country + of the Philistines was a full year and four months. +027:008 David and his men went up, and made a raid on the Geshurites, + and the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those [nations] were + the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, as you go to Shur, + even to the land of Egypt. +027:009 David struck the land, and saved neither man nor woman alive, + and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the donkeys, + and the camels, and the clothing; and he returned, + and came to Achish. +027:010 Achish said, Against whom have you made a raid today? + David said, Against the South of Judah, and against the South + of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites. +027:011 David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring them to Gath, + saying, Lest they should tell of us, saying, So did David, + and so has been his manner all the while he has lived + in the country of the Philistines. +027:012 Achish believed David, saying, He has made his people Israel + utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant forever. +028:001 It happened in those days, that the Philistines gathered + their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. + Achish said to David, Know you assuredly, that you shall go + out with me in the army, you and your men. +028:002 David said to Achish, Therefore you shall know what your servant + will do. Achish said to David, Therefore will I make you + keeper of my head for ever. +028:003 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, + and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. Saul had + put away those who had familiar spirits, and the wizards, + out of the land. +028:004 The Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and + encamped in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, + and they encamped in Gilboa. +028:005 When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, + and his heart trembled greatly. +028:006 When Saul inquired of Yahweh, Yahweh didn't answer him, + neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets. +028:007 Then said Saul to his servants, Seek me a woman who has + a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her. + His servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman who has + a familiar spirit at Endor. +028:008 Saul disguised himself, and put on other clothing, and went, + he and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: + and he said, Please divine to me by the familiar spirit, + and bring me up whoever I shall name to you. +028:009 The woman said to him, Behold, you know what Saul has done, + how he has cut off those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards, + out of the land: why then lay you a snare for my life, + to cause me to die? +028:010 Saul swore to her by Yahweh, saying, As Yahweh lives, + there shall no punishment happen to you for this thing. +028:011 Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up to you? + He said, Bring me up Samuel. +028:012 When the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice; + and the woman spoke to Saul, saying, Why have you deceived + me? for you are Saul. +028:013 The king said to her, Don't be afraid: for what do you see? + The woman said to Saul, I see a god coming up out of the earth. +028:014 He said to her, What form is he of? She said, An old man + comes up; and he is covered with a robe. Saul perceived + that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground, + and did obeisance. +028:015 Samuel said to Saul, Why have you disquieted me, to bring me up? + Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines + make war against me, and God is departed from me, + and answers me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: + therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me + what I shall do. +028:016 Samuel said, Why then do you ask of me, seeing Yahweh is departed + from you, and is become your adversary? +028:017 Yahweh has done to you, as he spoke by me: and Yahweh has torn + the kingdom out of your hand, and given it to your neighbor, + even to David. +028:018 Because you didn't obey the voice of Yahweh, and didn't execute + his fierce wrath on Amalek, therefore has Yahweh done this + thing to you this day. +028:019 Moreover Yahweh will deliver Israel also with you into the hand + of the Philistines; and tomorrow shall you and your sons be with me: + Yahweh will deliver the army of Israel also into the hand + of the Philistines. +028:020 Then Saul fell immediately his full length 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. +028:021 The woman came to Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, + and said to him, Behold, your handmaid has listened to your voice, + and I have put my life in my hand, and have listened to your + words which you spoke to me. +028:022 Now therefore, please listen also to the voice of your handmaid, + and let me set a morsel of bread before you; and eat, + that you may have strength, when you go on your way. +028:023 But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, + together with the woman, constrained him; and he listened + to their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat on the bed. +028:024 The woman had a fattened calf in the house; and she hurried, + and killed it; and she took flour, and kneaded it, and did + bake unleavened bread of it: +028:025 and she brought it before Saul, and before his servants; + and they ate. Then they rose up, and went away that night. +029:001 Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: + and the Israelites encamped by the spring which is in Jezreel. +029:002 The lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands; + and David and his men passed on in the rearward with Achish. +029:003 Then said the princes of the Philistines, What [do] + these Hebrews [here]? Achish said to the princes of + the Philistines, Isn't this David, the servant of Saul the king + of Israel, who has been with me these days, or [rather] + these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell + away [to me] to this day? +029:004 But the princes of the Philistines were angry with him; + and the princes of the Philistines said to him, + Make the man return, that he may go back to his place + where you have appointed him, and let him not go down with us + to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us: + for with what should this [fellow] reconcile himself to his + lord? should it not be with the heads of these men? +029:005 Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, + saying, Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands? +029:006 Then Achish called David, and said to him, As Yahweh lives, + you have been upright, and your going out and your coming + in with me in the army is good in my sight; for I have not found + evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day: + nevertheless the lords don't favor you. +029:007 Therefore now return, and go in peace, that you not displease + the lords of the Philistines. +029:008 David said to Achish, But what have I done? and what have you + found in your servant so long as I have been before you + to this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies + of my lord the king? +029:009 Achish answered David, I know that you are 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. +029:010 Therefore now rise up early in the morning with the servants + of your lord who have come with you; and as soon as you are up + early in the morning, and have light, depart. +029:011 So David rose up early, he and his men, to depart in + the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. + The Philistines went up to Jezreel. +030:001 It happened, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on + the third day, that the Amalekites had made a raid on the South, + and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag, and burned it with fire, +030:002 and had taken captive the women [and all] who were therein, + both small and great: they didn't kill any, but carried them off, + and went their way. +030:003 When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned + with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, + were taken captive. +030:004 Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their + voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep. +030:005 David's two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, + and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. +030:006 David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, + because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man + for his sons and for his daughters: but David strengthened + himself in Yahweh his God. +030:007 David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, Please bring + me here the ephod. Abiathar brought there the ephod to David. +030:008 David inquired of Yahweh, saying, If I pursue after this troop, + shall I overtake them? He answered him, Pursue; for you shall + surely overtake [them], and shall without fail recover [all]. +030:009 So David went, he and the six hundred men who were with him, + and came to the brook Besor, where those who were + left behind stayed. +030:010 But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred + stayed behind, who were so faint that they couldn't go over + the brook Besor. +030:011 They found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, + and gave him bread, and he ate; and they gave him water to drink. +030:012 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. +030:013 David said to him, To whom belong you? and whence are you? + 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. +030:014 We made a raid on the South of the Cherethites, and on + that which belongs to Judah, and on the South of Caleb; + and we burned Ziklag with fire. +030:015 David said to him, Will you bring me down to this troop? + He said, Swear to me by God, that you will neither kill me, + nor deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring + you down to this troop. +030:016 When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad + over all the ground, 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. +030:017 David struck them from the twilight even to the evening + of the next day: and there not a man of them escaped, + except four hundred young men, who rode on camels and fled. +030:018 David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David + rescued his two wives. +030:019 There was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, + neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor anything + that they had taken to them: David brought back all. +030:020 David took all the flocks and the herds, [which] they drove + before those [other] livestock, and said, This is David's spoil. +030:021 David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they + could not follow David, whom also they had made to abide + at the brook Besor; and they went forth to meet David, + and to meet the people who were with him: and when David + came near to the people, he greeted them. +030:022 Then answered all the wicked men and base fellows, of those who + went with David, and said, Because they didn't go with us, + we will not give them anything of the spoil that we + have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, + that he may lead them away, and depart. +030:023 Then said David, You shall not do so, my brothers, + with that which Yahweh has given to us, who has preserved us, + and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand. +030:024 Who will listen to you in this matter? for as his share is + who goes down to the battle, so shall his share be who tarries + by the baggage: they shall share alike. +030:025 It was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute + and an ordinance for Israel to this day. +030:026 When David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil to the elders + of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold, a present + for you of the spoil of the enemies of Yahweh: +030:027 To those who were in Bethel, and to those who were in Ramoth + of the South, and to those who were in Jattir, +030:028 and to those who were in Aroer, and to those who were in Siphmoth, + and to those who were in Eshtemoa, +030:029 and to those who were in Racal, and to those who were in the cities + of the Jerahmeelites, and to those who were in the cities + of the Kenites, +030:030 and to those who were in Hormah, and to those who were in Borashan, + and to those who were in Athach, +030:031 and to those who were in Hebron, and to all the places where + David himself and his men used to stay. +031:001 Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of + Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain + on Mount Gilboa. +031:002 The Philistines followed hard on Saul and on his sons; + and the Philistines killed Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, + the sons of Saul. +031:003 The battle went sore against Saul, and the archers overtook him; + and he was greatly distressed by reason of the archers. +031:004 Then said Saul to his armor bearer, Draw your sword, and thrust + me through therewith, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust + me through, and abuse me. But his armor bearer would not; + for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took his sword, + and fell on it. +031:005 When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell + on his sword, and died with him. +031:006 So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor bearer, + and all his men, that same day together. +031:007 When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, + and those who were beyond the 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 lived in them. +031:008 It happened on the next day, when the Philistines came to strip + the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen + on Mount Gilboa. +031:009 They cut off his head, and stripped off his armor, and sent + into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry the news + to the house of their idols, and to the people. +031:010 They put his armor in the house of the Ashtaroth; and they + fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan. +031:011 When the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard concerning him + that which the Philistines had done to Saul, +031:012 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 Beth Shan; + and they came to Jabesh, and burnt them there. +031:013 They took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk tree + in Jabesh, and fasted seven days. + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE WORLD ENGLISH BIBLE (WEB): 1 SAMUEL *** + +This file should be named 8236.txt or 8236.zip + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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