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Chapter 1
1 ¶ Now
there was a certain man of Ramathaimzophim, of
mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of
Elihu,
the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite:
2
And he had two wives; the name
of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah
had
children, but Hannah had no children.
3
And this man went up out of his
city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in
Shiloh. And
the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, were
there.
4
And when the time was that
Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and
her
daughters, portions:
5
But unto Hannah he gave a worthy
portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.
6
And her adversary also provoked
her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.
7
And as he did so year by year,
when she went up to the house of the LORD, so she provoked her;
therefore she
wept, and did not eat.
8
Then said Elkanah her husband to
her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy
heart
grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?
9
¶ So Hannah rose up after they
had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat
upon a
seat by a post of the temple of the LORD.
10
And she was in bitterness of
soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore.
11
And she vowed a vow, and said,
O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine
handmaid,
and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto
thine
handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days
of his
life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.
12
And it came to pass, as she
continued praying before the LORD, that Eli marked her mouth.
13
Now Hannah, she spake in her
heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli
thought
she had been drunken.
14
And Eli said unto her, How long
wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.
15
And Hannah answered and said,
No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither
wine nor
strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD.
16
Count not thine handmaid for a
daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief
have I
spoken hitherto.
17
Then Eli answered and said, Go
in peace: and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition that thou hast
asked of
him.
18
And she said, Let thine
handmaid find grace in thy sight. So the woman went her way, and did
eat, and
her countenance was no more sad.
19
¶ And they rose up in the
morning early, and worshipped before the LORD, and returned, and came
to their
house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD
remembered her.
20
Wherefore it came to pass, when
the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a
son, and
called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.
21
And the man Elkanah, and all
his house, went up to offer unto the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his
vow.
22
But Hannah went not up; for she
said unto her husband, I will not go up until the child be weaned, and
then I
will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD, and there abide for
ever.
23
And Elkanah her husband said
unto her, Do what seemeth thee good; tarry until thou have weaned him;
only the
LORD establish his word. So the woman abode, and gave her son suck
until she
weaned him.
24
And when she had weaned him,
she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour,
and a
bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh:
and the
child was young.
25
And they slew a bullock, and
brought the child to Eli.
26
And she said, Oh my lord, as
thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here,
praying unto
the LORD.
27
For this child I prayed; and
the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him:
28
Therefore also I have lent him
to the LORD; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he
worshipped the LORD there.
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¶ And Hannah prayed, and said,
My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my
mouth is
enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.
2
There is none holy as the LORD:
for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.
3
Talk no more so exceeding
proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a
God of
knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
4
The bows of the mighty men are
broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.
5
They that were full have hired
out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the
barren
hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
6
The LORD killeth, and maketh
alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.
7
The LORD maketh poor, and maketh
rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
8
He raiseth up the poor out of
the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them
among
princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars
of the
earth are the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them.
9
He will keep the feet of his
saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength
shall no
man prevail.
10
The adversaries of the LORD
shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them:
the LORD
shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his
king,
and exalt the horn of his anointed.
11
¶ And Elkanah went to Ramah to
his house. And the child did minister unto the LORD before Eli the
priest.
12
Now the sons of Eli were sons
of Belial; they knew not the LORD.
13
And the priests' custom with
the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's
servant
came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth
in his
hand;
14
And he struck it into the pan,
or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fleshhook brought up the
priest
took for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that
came
thither.
15
Also before they burnt the fat,
the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give
flesh to
roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but
raw.
16
And if any man said unto him,
Let them not fail to burn the fat presently, and then take as much as
thy soul
desireth; then he would answer him, Nay; but thou shalt give it me now:
and if
not, I will take it by force.
17
Wherefore the sin of the young
men was very great before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of
the LORD.
18
But Samuel ministered before
the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.
19
Moreover his mother made him a
little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up
with her
husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
20
And Eli blessed Elkanah and his
wife, and said, The LORD give thee seed of this woman for the loan
which is
lent to the LORD. And they went unto their own home.
21
And the LORD visited Hannah, so
that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the
child Samuel
grew before the LORD.
22
Now Eli was very old, and heard
all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women
that
assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
23
And he said unto them, Why do
ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people.
24
Nay, my sons; for it is no good
report that I hear: ye make the LORD'S people to transgress.
25
If one man sin against another,
the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the LORD, who shall
intreat
for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their
father,
because the LORD would slay them.
26
And the child Samuel grew on,
and was in favour both with the LORD, and also with men.
27
¶ And there came a man of God
unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Did I plainly appear
unto the
house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh's house?
28
And did I choose him out of all
the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn
incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of
thy
father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel?
29
Wherefore kick ye at my
sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my
habitation; and
honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest
of all
the offerings of Israel my people?
30
Wherefore the LORD God of
Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy
father, should
walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for
them
that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly
esteemed.
31
Behold, the days come, that I
will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father's house, that there
shall not
be an old man in thine house.
32
And thou shalt see an enemy in
my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel: and there
shall
not be an old man in thine house for ever.
33
And the man of thine, whom I
shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and
to
grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in
the flower
of their age.
34
And this shall be a sign unto
thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one
day
they shall die both of them.
35
And I will raise me up a
faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in mine heart
and in
my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before
mine
anointed for ever.
36
And it shall come to pass, that
every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for
a piece
of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee,
into one
of the priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.
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¶ And the child Samuel
ministered unto the LORD before Eli. And the word of the LORD was
precious in
those days; there was no open vision.
2
And it came to pass at that
time, when Eli was laid down in his place, and his eyes began to wax
dim, that
he could not see;
3
And ere the lamp of God went out
in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was
laid down
to sleep;
4
That the LORD called Samuel: and
he answered, Here am I.
5
And he ran unto Eli, and said,
Here am I; for thou calledst me. And he said, I called not; lie down
again. And
he went and lay down.
6
And the LORD called yet again,
Samuel. And Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou
didst
call me. And he answered, I called not, my son; lie down again.
7
Now Samuel did not yet know the
LORD, neither was the word of the LORD yet revealed unto him.
8
And the LORD called Samuel again
the third time. And he arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for
thou
didst call me. And Eli perceived that the LORD had called the child.
9
Therefore Eli said unto Samuel,
Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he call thee, that thou shalt say,
Speak,
LORD; for thy servant heareth. So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
10
And the LORD came, and stood,
and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered,
Speak; for
thy servant heareth.
11
¶ And the LORD said to Samuel,
Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of every
one that
heareth it shall tingle.
12
In that day I will perform
against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house: when I
begin,
I will also make an end.
13
For I have told him that I will
judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his
sons
made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
14
And therefore I have sworn unto
the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged
with
sacrifice nor offering for ever.
15
And Samuel lay until the
morning, and opened the doors of the house of the LORD. And Samuel
feared to
shew Eli the vision.
16
Then Eli called Samuel, and
said, Samuel, my son. And he answered, Here am I.
17
And he said, What is the thing
that the LORD hath said unto thee? I pray thee hide it not from me: God
do so
to thee, and more also, if thou hide any thing from me of all the
things that
he said unto thee.
18
And Samuel told him every whit,
and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is the LORD: let him do what
seemeth
him good.
19
¶ And Samuel grew, and the LORD
was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground.
20
And all Israel from Dan even to
Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the LORD.
21
And the LORD appeared again in
Shiloh: for the LORD revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word
of the
LORD.
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¶ And the word of Samuel came to
all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and
pitched
beside Ebenezer: and the Philistines pitched in Aphek.
2
And the Philistines put
themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel
was
smitten before the Philistines: and they slew of the army in the field
about
four thousand men.
3
And when the people were come
into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the LORD
smitten us to
day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the
LORD
out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us
out of the
hand of our enemies.
4
So the people sent to Shiloh,
that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the LORD
of hosts,
which dwelleth between the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni
and
Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
5
And when the ark of the covenant
of the LORD came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout,
so that
the earth rang again.
6
And when the Philistines heard
the noise of the shout, they said, What meaneth the noise of this great
shout
in the camp of the Hebrews? And they understood that the ark of the
LORD was
come into the camp.
7
And the Philistines were afraid,
for they said, God is come into the camp. And they said, Woe unto us!
for there
hath not been such a thing heretofore.
8
Woe unto us! who shall deliver
us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these are the Gods that smote
the
Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness.
9
Be strong, and quit yourselves
like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews,
as they
have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.
10
¶ And the Philistines fought,
and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and
there was a
very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.
11
And the ark of God was taken;
and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.
12
¶ And there ran a man of
Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day with his
clothes
rent, and with earth upon his head.
13
And when he came, lo, Eli sat
upon a seat by the wayside watching: for his heart trembled for the ark
of God.
And when the man came into the city, and told it, all the city cried
out.
14
And when Eli heard the noise of
the crying, he said, What meaneth the noise of this tumult? And the man
came in
hastily, and told Eli.
15
Now Eli was ninety and eight
years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.
16
And the man said unto Eli, I am
he that came out of the army, and I fled to day out of the army. And he
said,
What is there done, my son?
17
And the messenger answered and
said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a
great
slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas,
are
dead, and the ark of God is taken.
18
And it came to pass, when he
made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward
by the
side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old
man, and
heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.
19
¶ And his daughter in law,
Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she
heard the
tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father in law and
her
husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came
upon
her.
20
And about the time of her death
the women that stood by her said unto her, Fear not; for thou hast born
a son.
But she answered not, neither did she regard it.
21
And she named the child
Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of
God was
taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.
22
And she said, The glory is
departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken.
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¶ And the Philistines took the
ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod.
2
When the Philistines took the
ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by
Dagon.
3
And when they of Ashdod arose
early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the
earth before
the ark of the LORD. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place
again.
4
And when they arose early on the
morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground
before the
ark of the LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands
were cut
off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him.
5
Therefore neither the priests of
Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon's house, tread on the threshold of
Dagon in
Ashdod unto this day.
6
¶ But the hand of the LORD was
heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with
emerods,
even Ashdod and the coasts thereof.
7
And when the men of Ashdod saw
that it was so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide
with
us: for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god.
8
They sent therefore and gathered
all the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do
with the
ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of
Israel
be carried about unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of
Israel about
thither.
9
And it was so, that, after they
had carried it about, the hand of the LORD was against the city with a
very
great destruction: and he smote the men of the city, both small and
great, and
they had emerods in their secret parts.
10
Therefore they sent the ark of
God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron,
that the
Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God
of
Israel to us, to slay us and our people.
11
So they sent and gathered
together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark
of the
God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us
not, and
our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city;
the
hand of God was very heavy there.
12
And the men that died not were
smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
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¶ And the ark of the LORD was in
the country of the Philistines seven months.
2
And the Philistines called for
the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do to the ark of
the LORD?
tell us wherewith we shall send it to his place.
3
And they said, If ye send away
the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return
him a
trespass offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to
you why
his hand is not removed from you.
4
Then said they, What shall be
the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five
golden
emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of
the
Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.
5
Wherefore ye shall make images
of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye
shall give
glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand
from off
you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
6
Wherefore then do ye harden your
hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had
wrought
wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they
departed?
7
Now therefore make a new cart,
and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the
kine to
the cart, and bring their calves home from them:
8
And take the ark of the LORD, and
lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return him
for a
trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away,
that it
may go.
9
And see, if it goeth up by the
way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, then he hath done us this great
evil: but
if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us: it
was a
chance that happened to us.
10
¶ And the men did so; and took
two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at
home:
11
And they laid the ark of the
LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images
of
their emerods.
12
And the kine took the straight
way to the way of Bethshemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as
they went,
and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of
the
Philistines went after them unto the border of Bethshemesh.
13
And they of Bethshemesh were
reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their
eyes, and
saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.
14
And the cart came into the
field of Joshua, a Bethshemite, and stood there, where there was a
great stone:
and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt
offering unto
the LORD.
15
And the Levites took down the
ark of the LORD, and the coffer that was with it, wherein the jewels of
gold
were, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Bethshemesh
offered burnt
offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the LORD.
16
And when the five lords of the
Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.
17
And these are the golden
emerods which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering unto the
LORD;
for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron
one;
18
And the golden mice, according
to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the
five lords,
both of fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the great
stone of
Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the LORD: which stone remaineth
unto
this day in the field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.
19
¶ And he smote the men of
Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he
smote of
the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people
lamented,
because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.
20
And the men of Bethshemesh
said, Who is able to stand before this holy LORD God? and to whom shall
he go
up from us?
21
And they sent messengers to the
inhabitants of Kirjathjearim, saying, The Philistines have brought
again the
ark of the LORD; come ye down, and fetch it up to you.
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¶ And the men of Kirjathjearim
came, and fetched up the ark of the LORD, and brought it into the house
of
Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of
the
LORD.
2
And it came to pass, while the
ark abode in Kirjathjearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty
years:
and all the house of Israel lamented after the LORD.
3
¶ And Samuel spake unto all the
house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your
hearts,
then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and
prepare your
hearts unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out
of the
hand of the Philistines.
4
Then the children of Israel did
put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the LORD only.
5
And Samuel said, Gather all
Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you unto the LORD.
6
And they gathered together to
Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted
on that
day, and said there, We have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged
the
children of Israel in Mizpeh.
7
¶ And when the Philistines heard
that the children of Israel were gathered together to Mizpeh, the lords
of the
Philistines went up against Israel. And when the children of Israel
heard it,
they were afraid of the Philistines.
8
And the children of Israel said
to Samuel, Cease not to cry unto the LORD our God for us, that he will
save us
out of the hand of the Philistines.
9
And Samuel took a sucking lamb,
and offered it for a burnt offering wholly unto the LORD: and Samuel
cried unto
the LORD for Israel; and the LORD heard him.
10
And as Samuel was offering up
the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel:
but the
LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines,
and
discomfited them; and they were smitten before Israel.
11
And the men of Israel went out
of Mizpeh, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them, until they came
under
Bethcar.
12
Then Samuel took a stone, and set
it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying,
Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.
13
¶ So the Philistines were
subdued, and they came no more into the coast of Israel: and the hand
of the
LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.
14
And the cities which the
Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron
even unto
Gath; and the coasts thereof did Israel deliver out of the hands of the
Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.
15
And Samuel judged Israel all
the days of his life.
16
And he went from year to year
in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all
those
places.
17
And his return was to Ramah;
for there was his house; and there he judged Israel; and there he built
an
altar unto the LORD.
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¶ And it came to pass, when
Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.
2
Now the name of his firstborn
was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in
Beersheba.
3
And his sons walked not in his
ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted
judgment.
4
¶ Then all the elders of Israel
gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,
5
And said unto him, Behold, thou
art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge
us like
all the nations.
6
But the thing displeased Samuel,
when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the
LORD.
7
And the LORD said unto Samuel,
Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee:
for they
have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not
reign over
them.
8
According to all the works which
they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even
unto this
day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they
also
unto thee.
9
Now therefore hearken unto their
voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner
of the
king that shall reign over them.
10
And Samuel told all the words
of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king.
11
And he said, This will be the
manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons,
and
appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and
some
shall run before his chariots.
12
And he will appoint him
captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them
to ear
his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of
war, and
instruments of his chariots.
13
And he will take your daughters
to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
14
And he will take your fields,
and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and
give them
to his servants.
15
And he will take the tenth of
your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his
servants.
16
And he will take your
menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and
your
asses, and put them to his work.
17
He will take the tenth of your
sheep: and ye shall be his servants.
18
And ye shall cry out in that
day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD
will not
hear you in that day.
19
Nevertheless the people refused
to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a
king over
us;
20
That we also may be like all
the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and
fight
our battles.
21
And Samuel heard all the words
of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD.
22
And the LORD said to Samuel,
Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto
the men of
Israel, Go ye every man unto his city.
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¶ Now there was a man of
Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the
son of
Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power.
2
And he had a son, whose name was
Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and there was not among the
children of
Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was
higher than
any of the people.
3
¶ And the asses of Kish Saul's
father were lost. And Kish said to Saul his son, Take now one of the
servants
with thee, and arise, go seek the asses.
4
And he passed through mount
Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalisha, but they found them
not: then
they passed through the land of Shalim, and there they were not: and he
passed
through the land of the Benjamites, but they found them not.
5
And when they were come to the
land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant that was with him, Come, and let
us
return; lest my father leave caring for the asses, and take thought for
us.
6
And he said unto him, Behold
now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is an honourable man;
all that
he saith cometh surely to pass: now let us go thither; peradventure he
can shew
us our way that we should go.
7
Then said Saul to his servant,
But, behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man? for the bread is
spent in
our vessels, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God:
what have we?
8
And the servant answered Saul
again, and said, Behold, I have here at hand the fourth part of a
shekel of
silver: that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way.
9
(Beforetime in Israel, when a
man went to enquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the
seer: for
he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)
10
Then said Saul to his servant,
Well said; come, let us go. So they went unto the city where the man of
God
was.
11
¶ And as they went up the hill
to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said
unto
them, Is the seer here?
12
And they answered them, and
said, He is; behold, he is before you: make haste now, for he came to
day to
the city; for there is a sacrifice of the people to day in the high
place:
13
As soon as ye be come into the
city, ye shall straightway find him, before he go up to the high place
to eat:
for the people will not eat until he come, because he doth bless the
sacrifice;
and afterwards they eat that be bidden. Now therefore get you up; for
about
this time ye shall find him.
14
And they went up into the city:
and when they were come into the city, behold, Samuel came out against
them,
for to go up to the high place.
15
Now the LORD had told Samuel in
his ear a day before Saul came, saying,
16
To morrow about this time I
will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint
him to
be captain over my people Israel, that he may save my people out of the
hand of
the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is
come
unto me.
17
And when Samuel saw Saul, the
LORD said unto him, Behold the man whom I spake to thee of! this same
shall
reign over my people.
18
¶ Then Saul drew near to Samuel
in the gate, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, where the seer's house is.
19
And Samuel answered Saul, and
said, I am the seer: go up before me unto the high place; for ye shall
eat with
me to day, and to morrow I will let thee go, and will tell thee all
that is in
thine heart.
20
And as for thine asses that
were lost three days ago, set not thy mind on them; for they are found.
And on
whom is all the desire of Israel? Is it not on thee, and on all thy
father's
house?
21
And Saul answered and said, Am
not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my
family the
least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then
speakest
thou so to me?
22
And Samuel took Saul and his
servant, and brought them into the parlour, and made them sit in the
chiefest
place among them that were bidden, which were about thirty persons.
23
And Samuel said unto the cook,
Bring the portion which I gave thee, of which I said unto thee, Set it
by thee.
24
And the cook took up the
shoulder, and that which was upon it, and set it before Saul. And
Samuel said,
Behold that which is left! set it before thee, and eat: for unto this
time hath
it been kept for thee since I said, I have invited the people. So Saul
did eat
with Samuel that day.
25
And when they were come down
from the high place into the city, Samuel communed with Saul upon the
top of
the house.
26
And they arose early: and it
came to pass about the spring of the day, that Samuel called Saul to
the top of
the house, saying, Up, that I may send thee away. And Saul arose, and
they went
out both of them, he and Samuel, abroad.
27
And as they were going down to
the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, Bid the servant pass on
before us,
(and he passed on,) but stand thou still a while, that I may shew thee
the word
of God.
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¶ Then Samuel took a vial of
oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not
because
the LORD hath anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance?
2
When thou art departed from me
to day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel's sepulchre in the
border of
Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou
wentest
to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses,
and
sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?
3
Then shalt thou go on forward
from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall
meet
thee three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and
another
carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:
4
And they will salute thee, and
give thee two loaves of bread; which thou shalt receive of their hands.
5
After that thou shalt come to
the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall
come to
pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a
company of
prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret,
and a
pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy:
6
And the Spirit of the LORD will
come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned
into
another man.
7
And let it be, when these signs
are come unto thee, that thou do as occasion serve thee; for God is
with thee.
8
And thou shalt go down before me
to Gilgal; and, behold, I will come down unto thee, to offer burnt
offerings,
and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings: seven days shalt thou
tarry,
till I come to thee, and shew thee what thou shalt do.
9
¶ And it was so, that when he
had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and
all
those signs came to pass that day.
10
And when they came thither to
the hill, behold, a company of prophets met him; and the Spirit of God
came
upon him, and he prophesied among them.
11
And it came to pass, when all
that knew him beforetime saw that, behold, he prophesied among the
prophets,
then the people said one to another, What is this that is come unto the
son of
Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?
12
And one of the same place
answered and said, But who is their father? Therefore it became a
proverb, Is Saul
also among the prophets?
13
And when he had made an end of
prophesying, he came to the high place.
14
And Saul's uncle said unto him
and to his servant, Whither went ye? And he said, To seek the asses:
and when
we saw that they were no where, we came to Samuel.
15
And Saul's uncle said, Tell me,
I pray thee, what Samuel said unto you.
16
And Saul said unto his uncle,
He told us plainly that the asses were found. But of the matter of the
kingdom,
whereof Samuel spake, he told him not.
17
¶ And Samuel called the people
together unto the LORD to Mizpeh;
18
And said unto the children of
Israel, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of
Egypt,
and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand
of all
kingdoms, and of them that oppressed you:
19
And ye have this day rejected
your God, who himself saved you out of all your adversities and your
tribulations; and ye have said unto him, Nay, but set a king over us.
Now
therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes, and by
your
thousands.
20
And when Samuel had caused all
the tribes of Israel to come near, the tribe of Benjamin was taken.
21
When he had caused the tribe of
Benjamin to come near by their families, the family of Matri was taken,
and
Saul the son of Kish was taken: and when they sought him, he could not
be
found.
22
Therefore they enquired of the
LORD further, if the man should yet come thither. And the LORD
answered,
Behold, he hath hid himself among the stuff.
23
And they ran and fetched him
thence: and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of
the
people from his shoulders and upward.
24
And Samuel said to all the
people, See ye him whom the LORD hath chosen, that there is none like
him among
all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king.
25
Then Samuel told the people the
manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before
the LORD.
And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.
26
And Saul also went home to
Gibeah; and there went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had
touched.
27
But the children of Belial
said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought
him no
presents. But he held his peace.
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¶ Then Nahash the Ammonite came
up, and encamped against Jabeshgilead: and all the men of Jabesh said
unto
Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee.
2
And Nahash the Ammonite answered
them, On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may
thrust out
all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.
3
And the elders of Jabesh said
unto him, Give us seven days' respite, that we may send messengers unto
all the
coasts of Israel: and then, if there be no man to save us, we will come
out to
thee.
4
Then came the messengers to
Gibeah of Saul, and told the tidings in the ears of the people: and all
the
people lifted up their voices, and wept.
5
¶ And, behold, Saul came after
the herd out of the field; and Saul said, What aileth the people that
they
weep? And they told him the tidings of the men of Jabesh.
6
And the Spirit of God came upon
Saul when he heard those tidings, and his anger was kindled greatly.
7
And he took a yoke of oxen, and
hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel
by the
hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and
after
Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD
fell on the
people, and they came out with one consent.
8
And when he numbered them in
Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men
of Judah
thirty thousand.
9
And they said unto the
messengers that came, Thus shall ye say unto the men of Jabeshgilead,
To
morrow, by that time the sun be hot, ye shall have help. And the
messengers
came and shewed it to the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.
10
Therefore the men of Jabesh
said, To morrow we will come out unto you, and ye shall do with us all
that
seemeth good unto you.
11
And it was so on the morrow,
that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the
midst of
the host in the morning watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of
the
day: and it came to pass, that they which remained were scattered, so
that two
of them were not left together.
12
¶ And the people said unto
Samuel, Who is he that said, Shall Saul reign over us? bring the men,
that we
may put them to death.
13
And Saul said, There shall not
a man be put to death this day: for to day the LORD hath wrought
salvation in
Israel.
14
Then said Samuel to the people,
Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.
15
And all the people went to
Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal; and
there they
sacrificed sacrifices of peace offerings before the LORD; and there
Saul and
all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.
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¶ And Samuel said unto all
Israel, Behold, I have hearkened unto your voice in all that ye said
unto me,
and have made a king over you.
2
And now, behold, the king
walketh before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons
are with
you: and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day.
3
Behold, here I am: witness
against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I
taken? or
whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I
oppressed? or of
whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and
I will
restore it you.
4
And they said, Thou hast not
defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken ought of any
man's
hand.
5
And he said unto them, The LORD
is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye
have not
found ought in my hand. And they answered, He is witness.
6
¶ And Samuel said unto the
people, It is the LORD that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought
your
fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
7
Now therefore stand still, that
I may reason with you before the LORD of all the righteous acts of the
LORD,
which he did to you and to your fathers.
8
When Jacob was come into Egypt,
and your fathers cried unto the LORD, then the LORD sent Moses and
Aaron, which
brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this
place.
9
And when they forgat the LORD
their God, he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the host of
Hazor,
and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of
Moab,
and they fought against them.
10
And they cried unto the LORD,
and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD, and have
served
Baalim and Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our
enemies, and we
will serve thee.
11
And the LORD sent Jerubbaal,
and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand
of your
enemies on every side, and ye dwelled safe.
12
And when ye saw that Nahash the
king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, Nay;
but a
king shall reign over us: when the LORD your God was your king.
13
Now therefore behold the king
whom ye have chosen, and whom ye have desired! and, behold, the LORD
hath set a
king over you.
14
If ye will fear the LORD, and
serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of
the
LORD, then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you
continue
following the LORD your God:
15
But if ye will not obey the
voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then
shall
the hand of the LORD be against you, as it was against your fathers.
16
¶ Now therefore stand and see
this great thing, which the LORD will do before your eyes.
17
Is it not wheat harvest to day?
I will call unto the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye
may
perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in
the sight
of the LORD, in asking you a king.
18
So Samuel called unto the LORD;
and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly
feared
the LORD and Samuel.
19
And all the people said unto
Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the LORD thy God, that we die not:
for we
have added unto all our sins this evil, to ask us a king.
20
And Samuel said unto the
people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside
from
following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart;
21
And turn ye not aside: for then
should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for
they are
vain.
22
For the LORD will not forsake
his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD
to make
you his people.
23
Moreover as for me, God forbid
that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I
will teach
you the good and the right way:
24
Only fear the LORD, and serve
him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath
done
for you.
25
But if ye shall still do
wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king.
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¶ Saul reigned one year; and
when he had reigned two years over Israel,
2
Saul chose him three thousand
men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in
mount
Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and
the rest
of the people he sent every man to his tent.
3
And Jonathan smote the garrison
of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it.
And Saul
blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.
4
And all Israel heard say that
Saul had smitten a garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel also
was had in
abomination with the Philistines. And the people were called together
after
Saul to Gilgal.
5
And the Philistines gathered
themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and
six
thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in
multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from
Bethaven.
6
When the men of Israel saw that
they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the
people did
hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high
places,
and in pits.
7
And some of the Hebrews went
over Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he was yet in
Gilgal,
and all the people followed him trembling.
8
¶ And he tarried seven days,
according to the set time that Samuel had appointed: but Samuel came
not to
Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.
9
And Saul said, Bring hither a
burnt offering to me, and peace offerings. And he offered the burnt
offering.
10
And it came to pass, that as
soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, behold,
Samuel came;
and Saul went out to meet him, that he might salute him.
11
And Samuel said, What hast thou
done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from
me, and
that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the
Philistines
gathered themselves together at Michmash;
12
Therefore said I, The
Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made
supplication unto the LORD: I forced myself therefore, and offered a
burnt
offering.
13
And Samuel said to Saul, Thou
hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy
God,
which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established thy
kingdom
upon Israel for ever.
14
But now thy kingdom shall not
continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the
LORD hath
commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept
that
which the LORD commanded thee.
15
¶ And Samuel arose, and gat him
up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people
that were
present with him, about six hundred men.
16
And Saul, and Jonathan his son,
and the people that were present with them, abode in Gibeah of
Benjamin: but
the Philistines encamped in Michmash.
17
And the spoilers came out of
the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned unto
the way
that leadeth to Ophrah, unto the land of Shual:
18
And another company turned the
way to Bethhoron: and another company turned to the way of the border
that
looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
19
Now there was no smith found
throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the
Hebrews
make them swords or spears:
20
But all the Israelites went
down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his
coulter, and
his axe, and his mattock.
21
Yet they had a file for the
mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes,
and to
sharpen the goads.
22
So it came to pass in the day
of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of
any of
the people that were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with
Jonathan
his son was there found.
23
And the garrison of the
Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.
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¶ Now it came to pass upon a
day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bare
his
armour, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison, that is
on the
other side. But he told not his father.
2
And Saul tarried in the
uttermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree which is in Migron:
and the
people that were with him were about six hundred men;
3
And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub,
Ichabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD'S
priest in
Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was
gone.
4
And between the passages, by
which Jonathan sought to go over unto the Philistines' garrison, there
was a
sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side: and the
name of
the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.
5
The forefront of the one was
situate northward over against Michmash, and the other southward over
against
Gibeah.
6
And Jonathan said to the young
man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of
these
uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work for us: for there is
no
restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few.
7
And his armourbearer said unto
him, Do all that is in thine heart: turn thee; behold, I am with thee
according
to thy heart.
8
Then said Jonathan, Behold, we
will pass over unto these men, and we will discover ourselves unto them.
9
If they say thus unto us, Tarry
until we come to you; then we will stand still in our place, and will
not go up
unto them.
10
But if they say thus, Come up
unto us; then we will go up: for the LORD hath delivered them into our
hand:
and this shall be a sign unto us.
11
And both of them discovered
themselves unto the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines
said,
Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid
themselves.
12
And the men of the garrison
answered Jonathan and his armourbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we
will
shew you a thing. And Jonathan said unto his armourbearer, Come up
after me:
for the LORD hath delivered them into the hand of Israel.
13
And Jonathan climbed up upon
his hands and upon his feet, and his armourbearer after him: and they
fell
before Jonathan; and his armourbearer slew after him.
14
And that first slaughter, which
Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it
were an
half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.
15
And there was trembling in the
host, in the field, and among all the people: the garrison, and the
spoilers,
they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great
trembling.
16
¶ And the watchmen of Saul in
Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and
they
went on beating down one another.
17
Then said Saul unto the people
that were with him, Number now, and see who is gone from us. And when
they had
numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armourbearer were not there.
18
And Saul said unto Ahiah, Bring
hither the ark of God. For the ark of God was at that time with the
children of
Israel.
19
And it came to pass, while Saul
talked unto the priest, that the noise that was in the host of the
Philistines
went on and increased: and Saul said unto the priest, Withdraw thine
hand.
20
And Saul and all the people
that were with him assembled themselves, and they came to the battle:
and,
behold, every man's sword was against his fellow, and there was a very
great
discomfiture.
21
Moreover the Hebrews that were
with the Philistines before that time, which went up with them into the
camp
from the country round about, even they also turned to be with the
Israelites
that were with Saul and Jonathan.
22
Likewise all the men of Israel
which had hid themselves in mount Ephraim, when they heard that the
Philistines
fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle.
23
So the LORD saved Israel that
day: and the battle passed over unto Bethaven.
24
¶ And the men of Israel were
distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed be
the man
that eateth any food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine
enemies. So
none of the people tasted any food.
25
And all they of the land came
to a wood; and there was honey upon the ground.
26
And when the people were come
into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; but no man put his hand to
his mouth:
for the people feared the oath.
27
But Jonathan heard not when his
father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end
of the
rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his
hand to
his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.
28
Then answered one of the
people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath,
saying,
Cursed be the man that eateth any food this day. And the people were
faint.
29
Then said Jonathan, My father
hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been
enlightened,
because I tasted a little of this honey.
30
How much more, if haply the
people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they
found?
for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the
Philistines?
31
And they smote the Philistines
that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint.
32
And the people flew upon the
spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the
ground: and
the people did eat them with the blood.
33
Then they told Saul, saying,
Behold, the people sin against the LORD, in that they eat with the
blood. And
he said, Ye have transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day.
34
And Saul said, Disperse
yourselves among the people, and say unto them, Bring me hither every
man his ox,
and every man his sheep, and slay them here, and eat; and sin not
against the
LORD in eating with the blood. And all the people brought every man his
ox with
him that night, and slew them there.
35
And Saul built an altar unto
the LORD: the same was the first altar that he built unto the LORD.
36
¶ And Saul said, Let us go down
after the Philistines by night, and spoil them until the morning light,
and let
us not leave a man of them. And they said, Do whatsoever seemeth good
unto
thee. Then said the priest, Let us draw near hither unto God.
37
And Saul asked counsel of God,
Shall I go down after the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the
hand of
Israel? But he answered him not that day.
38
And Saul said, Draw ye near
hither, all the chief of the people: and know and see wherein this sin
hath
been this day.
39
For, as the LORD liveth, which
saveth Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die.
But there
was not a man among all the people that answered him.
40
Then said he unto all Israel,
Be ye on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side.
And the
people said unto Saul, Do what seemeth good unto thee.
41
Therefore Saul said unto the
LORD God of Israel, Give a perfect lot. And Saul and Jonathan were
taken: but the
people escaped.
42
And Saul said, Cast lots
between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken.
43
Then Saul said to Jonathan,
Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said, I did but
taste a
little honey with the end of the rod that was in mine hand, and, lo, I
must
die.
44
And Saul answered, God do so
and more also: for thou shalt surely die, Jonathan.
45
And the people said unto Saul,
Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel?
God forbid:
as the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the
ground;
for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan,
that he
died not.
46
Then Saul went up from
following the Philistines: and the Philistines went to their own place.
47
¶ So Saul took the kingdom over
Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab,
and
against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings
of
Zobah, and against the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned
himself, he
vexed them.
48
And he gathered an host, and
smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of them
that
spoiled them.
49
Now the sons of Saul were
Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchishua: and the names of his two daughters
were these;
the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal:
50
And the name of Saul's wife was
Ahinoam, the daughter of Ahimaaz: and the name of the captain of his
host was
Abner, the son of Ner, Saul's uncle.
51
And Kish was the father of
Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
52
And there was sore war against
the Philistines all the days of Saul: and when Saul saw any strong man,
or any
valiant man, he took him unto him.
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¶ Samuel also said unto Saul,
The LORD sent me to anoint thee to be king over his people, over
Israel: now
therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the LORD.
2
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I
remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in
the way,
when he came up from Egypt.
3
Now go and smite Amalek, and
utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both
man and
woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
4
And Saul gathered the people
together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen,
and ten
thousand men of Judah.
5
And Saul came to a city of
Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.
6
And Saul said unto the Kenites,
Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you
with
them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they
came up
out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
7
And Saul smote the Amalekites
from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt.
8
And he took Agag the king of the
Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of
the
sword.
9
But Saul and the people spared
Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings,
and the
lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but
every
thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
10
¶ Then came the word of the
LORD unto Samuel, saying,
11
It repenteth me that I have set
up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath
not
performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the
LORD
all night.
12
And when Samuel rose early to
meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to
Carmel, and,
behold, he set him up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and
gone down
to Gilgal.
13
And Samuel came to Saul: and
Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou of the LORD: I have performed the
commandment of the LORD.
14
And Samuel said, What meaneth
then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the
oxen which
I hear?
15
And Saul said, They have
brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the
sheep
and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we
have
utterly destroyed.
16
Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay,
and I will tell thee what the LORD hath said to me this night. And he
said unto
him, Say on.
17
And Samuel said, When thou wast
little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of
Israel,
and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel?
18
And the LORD sent thee on a
journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites,
and fight
against them until they be consumed.
19
Wherefore then didst thou not
obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst
evil in the
sight of the LORD?
20
And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea,
I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the
LORD sent
me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly
destroyed the
Amalekites.
21
But the people took of the
spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been
utterly
destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal.
22
And Samuel said, Hath the LORD
as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the
voice of
the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than
the fat
of rams.
23
For rebellion is as the sin of
witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou
hast
rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being
king.
24
¶ And Saul said unto Samuel, I
have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and
thy
words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.
25
Now therefore, I pray thee,
pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD.
26
And Samuel said unto Saul, I
will not return with thee: for thou hast rejected the word of the LORD,
and the
LORD hath rejected thee from being king over Israel.
27
And as Samuel turned about to
go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.
28
And Samuel said unto him, The
LORD hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given
it to a
neighbour of thine, that is better than thou.
29
And also the Strength of Israel
will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.
30
Then he said, I have sinned:
yet honour me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and
before
Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD thy God.
31
So Samuel turned again after
Saul; and Saul worshipped the LORD.
32
¶ Then said Samuel, Bring ye
hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him
delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.
33
And Samuel said, As thy sword
hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among
women. And
Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.
34
Then Samuel went to Ramah; and
Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.
35
And Samuel came no more to see
Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul:
and the
LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.
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¶ And the LORD said unto Samuel,
How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from
reigning
over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to
Jesse the
Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.
2
And Samuel said, How can I go?
if Saul hear it, he will kill me. And the LORD said, Take an heifer
with thee,
and say, I am come to sacrifice to the LORD.
3
And call Jesse to the sacrifice,
and I will shew thee what thou shalt do: and thou shalt anoint unto me
him whom
I name unto thee.
4
And Samuel did that which the
LORD spake, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled
at his
coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably?
5
And he said, Peaceably: I am
come to sacrifice unto the LORD: sanctify yourselves, and come with me
to the
sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the
sacrifice.
6
¶ And it came to pass, when they
were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD'S
anointed is
before him.
7
But the LORD said unto Samuel,
Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I
have
refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on
the
outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.
8
Then Jesse called Abinadab, and
made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen
this.
9
Then Jesse made Shammah to pass
by. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this.
10
Again, Jesse made seven of his
sons to pass before Samuel. And Samuel said unto Jesse, The LORD hath
not
chosen these.
11
And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are
here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest,
and,
behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and
fetch him:
for we will not sit down till he come hither.
12
And he sent, and brought him
in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly
to look
to. And the LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he.
13
Then Samuel took the horn of
oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of
the LORD
came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to
Ramah.
14
¶ But the Spirit of the LORD
departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.
15
And Saul's servants said unto
him, Behold now, an evil spirit from God troubleth thee.
16
Let our lord now command thy
servants, which are before thee, to seek out a man, who is a cunning
player on
an harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is
upon thee,
that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well.
17
And Saul said unto his
servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.
18
Then answered one of the
servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the
Bethlehemite, that
is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and
prudent
in matters, and a comely person, and the LORD is with him.
19
Wherefore Saul sent messengers
unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep.
20
And Jesse took an ass laden
with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his
son
unto Saul.
21
And David came to Saul, and
stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his
armourbearer.
22
And Saul sent to Jesse, saying,
Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favour in my
sight.
23
And it came to pass, when the
evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played
with
his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit
departed
from him.
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¶ Now the Philistines gathered
together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh,
which
belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in
Ephesdammim.
2
And Saul and the men of Israel
were gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the
battle
in array against the Philistines.
3
And the Philistines stood on a
mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other
side: and
there was a valley between them.
4
And there went out a champion
out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose
height was
six cubits and a span.
5
And he had an helmet of brass
upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of
the coat
was five thousand shekels of brass.
6
And he had greaves of brass upon
his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders.
7
And the staff of his spear was
like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels
of iron:
and one bearing a shield went before him.
8
And he stood and cried unto the
armies of Israel, and said unto them, Why are ye come out to set your
battle in
array? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man
for
you, and let him come down to me.
9
If he be able to fight with me,
and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against
him,
and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.
10
And the Philistine said, I defy
the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight
together.
11
When Saul and all Israel heard
those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.
12
¶ Now David was the son of that
Ephrathite of Bethlehemjudah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight
sons: and
the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.
13
And the three eldest sons of
Jesse went and followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three
sons
that went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next unto him
Abinadab,
and the third Shammah.
14
And David was the youngest: and
the three eldest followed Saul.
15
But David went and returned
from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.
16
And the Philistine drew near
morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
17
And Jesse said unto David his
son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these
ten
loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren;
18
And carry these ten cheeses
unto the captain of their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and
take
their pledge.
19
Now Saul, and they, and all the
men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the
Philistines.
20
And David rose up early in the
morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse
had
commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth
to the
fight, and shouted for the battle.
21
For Israel and the Philistines
had put the battle in array, army against army.
22
And David left his carriage in
the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came
and
saluted his brethren.
23
And as he talked with them,
behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by
name, out
of the armies of the Philistines, and spake according to the same
words: and
David heard them.
24
And all the men of Israel, when
they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.
25
And the men of Israel said,
Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come
up: and
it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him
with great
riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house
free in
Israel.
26
And David spake to the men that
stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this
Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this
uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living
God?
27
And the people answered him
after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that killeth
him.
28
And Eliab his eldest brother
heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against
David,
and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left
those
few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of
thine
heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.
29
And David said, What have I now
done? Is there not a cause?
30
And he turned from him toward
another, and spake after the same manner: and the people answered him
again
after the former manner.
31
¶ And when the words were heard
which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul: and he sent for him.
32
And David said to Saul, Let no
man's heart fail because of him; thy servant will go and fight with
this
Philistine.
33
And Saul said to David, Thou
art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou
art but
a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.
34
And David said unto Saul, Thy
servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and
took a
lamb out of the flock:
35
And I went out after him, and
smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against
me, I
caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.
36
Thy servant slew both the lion
and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of
them, seeing
he hath defied the armies of the living God.
37
David said moreover, The LORD
that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the
bear,
he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said
unto
David, Go, and the LORD be with thee.
38
And Saul armed David with his
armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him
with a
coat of mail.
39
And David girded his sword upon
his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David
said unto
Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And David put
them
off him.
40
¶ And he took his staff in his
hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them
in a
shepherd's bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his
hand:
and he drew near to the Philistine.
41
And the Philistine came on and
drew near unto David; and the man that bare the shield went before him.
42
And when the Philistine looked
about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was but a youth, and
ruddy, and
of a fair countenance.
43
And the Philistine said unto
David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the
Philistine cursed
David by his gods.
44
And the Philistine said to
David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air,
and to
the beasts of the field.
45
Then said David to the
Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with
a
shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of
the
armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
46
This day will the LORD deliver
thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from
thee; and
I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto
the fowls
of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may
know
that there is a God in Israel.
47
And all this assembly shall
know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is
the
LORD'S, and he will give you into our hands.
48
¶ And it came to pass, when the
Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David
hasted, and
ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.
49
And David put his hand in his
bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in
his
forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his
face to
the earth.
50
So David prevailed over the
Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and
slew
him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.
51
Therefore David ran, and stood
upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath
thereof,
and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines
saw
their champion was dead, they fled.
52
And the men of Israel and of
Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until thou come
to the
valley, and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines
fell down
by the way to Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto Ekron.
53
And the children of Israel
returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they spoiled their
tents.
54
And David took the head of the
Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armour in his
tent.
55
And when Saul saw David go
forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the
host,
Abner, whose son is this youth? And Abner said, As thy soul liveth, O
king, I
cannot tell.
56
And the king said, Enquire thou
whose son the stripling is.
57
And as David returned from the
slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before
Saul with
the head of the Philistine in his hand.
58
And Saul said to him, Whose son
art thou, thou young man? And David answered, I am the son of thy
servant Jesse
the Bethlehemite.
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¶ And it came to pass, when he
had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was
knit with
the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
2
And Saul took him that day, and
would let him go no more home to his father's house.
3
Then Jonathan and David made a
covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
4
And Jonathan stripped himself of
the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments,
even to his
sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.
5
And David went out whithersoever
Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the
men of
war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in
the sight
of Saul's servants.
6
¶ And it came to pass as they
came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine,
that the
women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet
king Saul,
with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick.
7
And the women answered one
another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and
David his
ten thousands.
8
And Saul was very wroth, and the
saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten
thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he
have
more but the kingdom?
9
And Saul eyed David from that
day and forward.
10
And it came to pass on the
morrow, that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied
in the
midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as at other times:
and
there was a javelin in Saul's hand.
11
And Saul cast the javelin; for
he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided
out of
his presence twice.
12
¶ And Saul was afraid of David,
because the LORD was with him, and was departed from Saul.
13
Therefore Saul removed him from
him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came
in
before the people.
14
And David behaved himself
wisely in all his ways; and the LORD was with him.
15
Wherefore when Saul saw that he
behaved himself very wisely, he was afraid of him.
16
But all Israel and Judah loved
David, because he went out and came in before them.
17
And Saul said to David, Behold
my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou
valiant for
me, and fight the LORD'S battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be
upon him,
but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.
18
And David said unto Saul, Who
am I? and what is my life, or my father's family in Israel, that I
should be
son in law to the king?
19
But it came to pass at the time
when Merab Saul's daughter should have been given to David, that she
was given
unto Adriel the Meholathite to wife.
20
And Michal Saul's daughter
loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
21
And Saul said, I will give him
her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the
Philistines may
be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my
son in
law in the one of the twain.
22
And Saul commanded his
servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the
king hath
delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the
king's
son in law.
23
And Saul's servants spake those
words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you a light
thing to
be a king's son in law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly
esteemed?
24
And the servants of Saul told
him, saying, On this manner spake David.
25
And Saul said, Thus shall ye
say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins
of the
Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to
make
David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
26
And when his servants told
David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son in law:
and the
days were not expired.
27
Wherefore David arose and went,
he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David
brought
their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he
might be
the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.
28
And Saul saw and knew that the
LORD was with David, and that Michal Saul's daughter loved him.
29
And Saul was yet the more
afraid of David; and Saul became David's enemy continually.
30
Then the princes of the
Philistines went forth: and it came to pass, after they went forth,
that David
behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his
name was
much set by.
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¶ And Saul spake to Jonathan his
son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David.
2
But Jonathan Saul's son
delighted much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my
father
seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself
until
the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself:
3
And I will go out and stand
beside my father in the field where thou art, and I will commune with
my father
of thee; and what I see, that I will tell thee.
4
And Jonathan spake good of David
unto Saul his father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin against
his
servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and
because
his works have been to thee-ward very good:
5
For he did put his life in his
hand, and slew the Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great salvation
for all Israel:
thou sawest it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against
innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?
6
And Saul hearkened unto the
voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware, As the LORD liveth, he shall not be
slain.
7
And Jonathan called David, and
Jonathan shewed him all those things. And Jonathan brought David to
Saul, and
he was in his presence, as in times past.
8
¶ And there was war again: and
David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a
great
slaughter; and they fled from him.
9
And the evil spirit from the
LORD was upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his javelin in his
hand: and
David played with his hand.
10
And Saul sought to smite David
even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul's
presence,
and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped
that night.
11
¶ Saul also sent messengers
unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and
Michal
David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to
morrow
thou shalt be slain.
12
So Michal let David down
through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
13
And Michal took an image, and
laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster,
and
covered it with a cloth.
14
And when Saul sent messengers
to take David, she said, He is sick.
15
And Saul sent the messengers
again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may
slay him.
16
And when the messengers were come
in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' hair
for his
bolster.
17
And Saul said unto Michal, Why
hast thou deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped?
And
Michal answered Saul, He said unto me, Let me go; why should I kill
thee?
18
¶ So David fled, and escaped,
and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to
him. And he
and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth.
19
And it was told Saul, saying,
Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.
20
And Saul sent messengers to
take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying,
and
Samuel standing as appointed over them, the Spirit of God was upon the
messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.
21
And when it was told Saul, he
sent other messengers, and they prophesied likewise. And Saul sent
messengers
again the third time, and they prophesied also.
22
Then went he also to Ramah, and
came to a great well that is in Sechu: and he asked and said, Where are
Samuel
and David? And one said, Behold, they be at Naioth in Ramah.
23
And he went thither to Naioth
in Ramah: and the Spirit of God was upon him also, and he went on, and
prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah.
24
And he stripped off his clothes
also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked
all that
day and all that night. Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the
prophets?
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¶ And David fled from Naioth in
Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? what is
mine
iniquity? and what is my sin before thy father, that he seeketh my life?
2
And he said unto him, God
forbid; thou shalt not die: behold, my father will do nothing either
great or
small, but that he will shew it me: and why should my father hide this
thing
from me? it is not so.
3
And David sware moreover, and
said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine
eyes; and
he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as
the LORD
liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and
death.
4
Then said Jonathan unto David,
Whatsoever thy soul desireth, I will even do it for thee.
5
And David said unto Jonathan,
Behold, to morrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with
the king
at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field unto the
third day
at even.
6
If thy father at all miss me,
then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to
Bethlehem his
city: for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.
7
If he say thus, It is well; thy
servant shall have peace: but if he be very wroth, then be sure that
evil is
determined by him.
8
Therefore thou shalt deal kindly
with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of
the LORD
with thee: notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me
thyself; for
why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?
9
¶ And Jonathan said, Far be it
from thee: for if I knew certainly that evil were determined by my
father to
come upon thee, then would not I tell it thee?
10
Then said David to Jonathan,
Who shall tell me? or what if thy father answer thee roughly?
11
And Jonathan said unto David,
Come, and let us go out into the field. And they went out both of them
into the
field.
12
And Jonathan said unto David, O
LORD God of Israel, when I have sounded my father about to morrow any
time, or
the third day, and, behold, if there be good toward David, and I then
send not
unto thee, and shew it thee;
13
The LORD do so and much more to
Jonathan: but if it please my father to do thee evil, then I will shew
it thee,
and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace: and the LORD be with
thee, as
he hath been with my father.
14
And thou shalt not only while
yet I live shew me the kindness of the LORD, that I die not:
15
But also thou shalt not cut off
thy kindness from my house for ever: no, not when the LORD hath cut off
the
enemies of David every one from the face of the earth.
16
So Jonathan made a covenant
with the house of David, saying, Let the LORD even require it at the
hand of
David's enemies.
17
And Jonathan caused David to
swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own
soul.
18
Then Jonathan said to David, To
morrow is the new moon: and thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will
be empty.
19
And when thou hast stayed three
days, then thou shalt go down quickly, and come to the place where thou
didst
hide thyself when the business was in hand, and shalt remain by the
stone Ezel.
20
And I will shoot three arrows
on the side thereof, as though I shot at a mark.
21
And, behold, I will send a lad,
saying, Go, find out the arrows. If I expressly say unto the lad,
Behold, the
arrows are on this side of thee, take them; then come thou: for there
is peace
to thee, and no hurt; as the LORD liveth.
22
But if I say thus unto the
young man, Behold, the arrows are beyond thee; go thy way: for the LORD
hath
sent thee away.
23
And as touching the matter
which thou and I have spoken of, behold, the LORD be between thee and
me for
ever.
24
¶ So David hid himself in the
field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat
meat.
25
And the king sat upon his seat,
as at other times, even upon a seat by the wall: and Jonathan arose,
and Abner
sat by Saul's side, and David's place was empty.
26
Nevertheless Saul spake not any
thing that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not
clean;
surely he is not clean.
27
And it came to pass on the
morrow, which was the second day of the month, that David's place was
empty:
and Saul said unto Jonathan his son, Wherefore cometh not the son of
Jesse to
meat, neither yesterday, nor to day?
28
And Jonathan answered Saul,
David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem:
29
And he said, Let me go, I pray
thee; for our family hath a sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he
hath
commanded me to be there: and now, if I have found favour in thine
eyes, let me
get away, I pray thee, and see my brethren. Therefore he cometh not
unto the
king's table.
30
Then Saul's anger was kindled
against Jonathan, and he said unto him, Thou son of the perverse
rebellious
woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine
own
confusion, and unto the confusion of thy mother's nakedness?
31
For as long as the son of Jesse
liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom.
Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die.
32
And Jonathan answered Saul his
father, and said unto him, Wherefore shall he be slain? what hath he
done?
33
And Saul cast a javelin at him
to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his
father to
slay David.
34
So Jonathan arose from the
table in fierce anger, and did eat no meat the second day of the month:
for he
was grieved for David, because his father had done him shame.
35
¶ And it came to pass in the
morning, that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed
with
David, and a little lad with him.
36
And he said unto his lad, Run,
find out now the arrows which I shoot. And as the lad ran, he shot an
arrow
beyond him.
37
And when the lad was come to
the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after
the lad,
and said, Is not the arrow beyond thee?
38
And Jonathan cried after the
lad, Make speed, haste, stay not. And Jonathan's lad gathered up the
arrows,
and came to his master.
39
But the lad knew not any thing:
only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
40
And Jonathan gave his artillery
unto his lad, and said unto him, Go, carry them to the city.
41
And as soon as the lad was
gone, David arose out of a place toward the south, and fell on his face
to the
ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and
wept
one with another, until David exceeded.
42
And Jonathan said to David, Go
in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the
LORD,
saying, The LORD be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy
seed for
ever. And he arose and departed: and Jonathan went into the city.
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¶ Then came David to Nob to
Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David,
and
said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?
2
And David said unto Ahimelech
the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto
me, Let
no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what
I have
commanded thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a
place.
3
Now therefore what is under
thine hand? give me five loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there is
present.
4
And the priest answered David,
and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is
hallowed
bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.
5
And David answered the priest,
and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these
three
days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and
the
bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in
the
vessel.
6
So the priest gave him hallowed
bread: for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken
from
before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
7
Now a certain man of the
servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his
name was
Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.
8
And David said unto Ahimelech,
And is there not here under thine hand spear or sword? for I have
neither
brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business
required
haste.
9
And the priest said, The sword
of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah,
behold, it
is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that,
take it:
for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none
like that;
give it me.
10
¶ And David arose, and fled
that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.
11
And the servants of Achish said
unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one
to
another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and
David his
ten thousands?
12
And David laid up these words
in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
13
And he changed his behaviour
before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on
the doors
of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
14
Then said Achish unto his
servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him
to me?
15
Have I need of mad men, that ye
have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this
fellow
come into my house?
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¶ David therefore departed
thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all
his
father's house heard it, they went down thither to him.
2
And every one that was in
distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was
discontented,
gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and
there were
with him about four hundred men.
3
And David went thence to Mizpeh
of Moab: and he said unto the king of Moab, Let my father and my
mother, I pray
thee, come forth, and be with you, till I know what God will do for me.
4
And he brought them before the
king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in
the hold.
5
And the prophet Gad said unto
David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and get thee into the land of
Judah. Then
David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth.
6
¶ When Saul heard that David was
discovered, and the men that were with him, (now Saul abode in Gibeah
under a
tree in Ramah, having his spear in his hand, and all his servants were
standing
about him;)
7
Then Saul said unto his servants
that stood about him, Hear now, ye Benjamites; will the son of Jesse
give every
one of you fields and vineyards, and make you all captains of
thousands, and
captains of hundreds;
8
That all of you have conspired
against me, and there is none that sheweth me that my son hath made a
league
with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me,
or
sheweth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to
lie in
wait, as at this day?
9
Then answered Doeg the Edomite,
which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of
Jesse
coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
10
And he enquired of the LORD for
him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the
Philistine.
11
Then the king sent to call
Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house,
the
priests that were in Nob: and they came all of them to the king.
12
And Saul said, Hear now, thou
son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I am, my lord.
13
And Saul said unto him, Why
have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou
hast
given him bread, and a sword, and hast enquired of God for him, that he
should
rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
14
Then Ahimelech answered the
king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David,
which
is the king's son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable
in thine
house?
15
Did I then begin to enquire of
God for him? be it far from me: let not the king impute any thing unto
his
servant, nor to all the house of my father: for thy servant knew
nothing of all
this, less or more.
16
And the king said, Thou shalt
surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house.
17
And the king said unto the
footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD;
because
their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and
did not
shew it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their
hand to
fall upon the priests of the LORD.
18
And the king said to Doeg, Turn
thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he
fell upon
the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did
wear a
linen ephod.
19
And Nob, the city of the
priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women,
children and
sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
20
¶ And one of the sons of
Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after
David.
21
And Abiathar shewed David that
Saul had slain the LORD'S priests.
22
And David said unto Abiathar, I
knew it that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely
tell
Saul: I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father's
house.
23
Abide thou with me, fear not:
for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy life: but with me thou shalt be
in
safeguard.
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¶ Then they told David, saying,
Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the
threshingfloors.
2
Therefore David enquired of the
LORD, saying, Shall I go and smite these Philistines? And the LORD said
unto
David, Go, and smite the Philistines, and save Keilah.
3
And David's men said unto him,
Behold, we be afraid here in Judah: how much more then if we come to
Keilah
against the armies of the Philistines?
4
Then David enquired of the LORD
yet again. And the LORD answered him and said, Arise, go down to
Keilah; for I
will deliver the Philistines into thine hand.
5
So David and his men went to
Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle,
and
smote them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of
Keilah.
6
And it came to pass, when
Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, that he came
down with
an ephod in his hand.
7
¶ And it was told Saul that
David was come to Keilah. And Saul said, God hath delivered him into
mine hand;
for he is shut in, by entering into a town that hath gates and bars.
8
And Saul called all the people
together to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
9
And David knew that Saul
secretly practised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the
priest,
Bring hither the ephod.
10
Then said David, O LORD God of
Israel, thy servant hath certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to
Keilah,
to destroy the city for my sake.
11
Will the men of Keilah deliver
me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? O
LORD God
of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant. And the LORD said, He will
come
down.
12
Then said David, Will the men
of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul? And the LORD
said, They
will deliver thee up.
13
Then David and his men, which
were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went
whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that David was
escaped from
Keilah; and he forbare to go forth.
14
¶ And David abode in the
wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the
wilderness of
Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his
hand.
15
And David saw that Saul was
come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a
wood.
16
And Jonathan Saul's son arose,
and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.
17
And he said unto him, Fear not:
for the hand of Saul my father shall not find thee; and thou shalt be
king over
Israel, and I shall be next unto thee; and that also Saul my father
knoweth.
18
And they two made a covenant
before the LORD: and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his
house.
19
¶ Then came up the Ziphites to
Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong
holds in
the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?
20
Now therefore, O king, come
down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part
shall
be to deliver him into the king's hand.
21
And Saul said, Blessed be ye of
the LORD; for ye have compassion on me.
22
Go, I pray you, prepare yet,
and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him
there: for
it is told me that he dealeth very subtilly.
23
See therefore, and take
knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come
ye again
to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to
pass, if
he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the
thousands of
Judah.
24
And they arose, and went to
Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon,
in the
plain on the south of Jeshimon.
25
Saul also and his men went to
seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and
abode in
the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after
David in the
wilderness of Maon.
26
And Saul went on this side of
the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and
David
made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed
David
and his men round about to take them.
27
But there came a messenger unto
Saul, saying, Haste thee, and come; for the Philistines have invaded
the land.
28
Wherefore Saul returned from
pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines: therefore they
called
that place Selahammahlekoth.
29
And David went up from thence,
and dwelt in strong holds at Engedi.
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¶ And it came to pass, when Saul
was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him,
saying,
Behold, David is in the wilderness of Engedi.
2
Then Saul took three thousand
chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon
the rocks
of the wild goats.
3
And he came to the sheepcotes by
the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and
David and
his men remained in the sides of the cave.
4
And the men of David said unto
him, Behold the day of which the LORD said unto thee, Behold, I will
deliver
thine enemy into thine hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall
seem good
unto thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe
privily.
5
And it came to pass afterward,
that David's heart smote him, because he had cut off Saul's skirt.
6
And he said unto his men, The
LORD forbid that I should do this thing unto my master, the LORD'S
anointed, to
stretch forth mine hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the
LORD.
7
So David stayed his servants
with these words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul. But Saul
rose up
out of the cave, and went on his way.
8
David also arose afterward, and
went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king.
And when
Saul looked behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth, and
bowed
himself.
9
¶ And David said to Saul,
Wherefore hearest thou men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy
hurt?
10
Behold, this day thine eyes
have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee to day into mine hand in
the
cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said,
I will
not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the LORD'S anointed.
11
Moreover, my father, see, yea,
see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt
of thy
robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil
nor
transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet
thou
huntest my soul to take it.
12
The LORD judge between me and
thee, and the LORD avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon
thee.
13
As saith the proverb of the
ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall
not be
upon thee.
14
After whom is the king of
Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a
flea.
15
The LORD therefore be judge,
and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver
me out
of thine hand.
16
¶ And it came to pass, when
David had made an end of speaking these words unto Saul, that Saul
said, Is
this thy voice, my son David? And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.
17
And he said to David, Thou art more
righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have
rewarded thee
evil.
18
And thou hast shewed this day
how that thou hast dealt well with me: forasmuch as when the LORD had
delivered
me into thine hand, thou killedst me not.
19
For if a man find his enemy,
will he let him go well away? wherefore the LORD reward thee good for
that thou
hast done unto me this day.
20
And now, behold, I know well
that thou shalt surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be
established in thine hand.
21
Swear now therefore unto me by
the LORD, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou
wilt not
destroy my name out of my father's house.
22
And David sware unto Saul. And
Saul went home; but David and his men gat them up unto the hold.
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¶ And Samuel died; and all the
Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in
his
house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of
Paran.
2
¶ And there was a man in Maon,
whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he
had three
thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in
Carmel.
3
Now the name of the man was
Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good
understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish
and
evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.
4
And David heard in the
wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.
5
And David sent out ten young
men, and David said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to
Nabal,
and greet him in my name:
6
And thus shall ye say to him
that liveth in prosperity, Peace be both to thee, and peace be to thine
house,
and peace be unto all that thou hast.
7
And now I have heard that thou
hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not,
neither
was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.
8
Ask thy young men, and they will
shew thee. Wherefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes: for
we come
in a good day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto
thy
servants, and to thy son David.
9
And when David's young men came,
they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David,
and
ceased.
10
And Nabal answered David's servants,
and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there be many
servants now
a days that break away every man from his master.
11
Shall I then take my bread, and
my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it
unto
men, whom I know not whence they be?
12
¶ So David's young men turned
their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings.
13
And David said unto his men,
Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword;
and
David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about
four
hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.
14
But one of the young men told
Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the
wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them.
15
But the men were very good unto
us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we
were
conversant with them, when we were in the fields:
16
They were a wall unto us both
by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
17
Now therefore know and consider
what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and
against all
his household: for he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak
to him.
18
¶ Then Abigail made haste, and
took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready
dressed,
and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins,
and two
hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
19
And she said unto her servants,
Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband
Nabal.
20
And it was so, as she rode on
the ass, that she came down by the covert of the hill, and, behold,
David and
his men came down against her; and she met them.
21
Now David had said, Surely in
vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that
nothing
was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil
for
good.
22
So and more also do God unto
the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the
morning
light any that pisseth against the wall.
23
And when Abigail saw David, she
hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and
bowed
herself to the ground,
24
And fell at his feet, and said,
Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be: and let thine handmaid,
I pray
thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid.
25
Let not my lord, I pray thee,
regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he;
Nabal is
his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young
men of
my lord, whom thou didst send.
26
Now therefore, my lord, as the
LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden
thee from
coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand,
now let
thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
27
And now this blessing which
thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the
young
men that follow my lord.
28
I pray thee, forgive the
trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a
sure
house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath
not been
found in thee all thy days.
29
Yet a man is risen to pursue
thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in
the
bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies,
them
shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
30
And it shall come to pass, when
the LORD shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he
hath
spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel;
31
That this shall be no grief
unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast
shed blood
causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD
shall have
dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.
32
¶ And David said to Abigail,
Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me:
33
And blessed be thy advice, and
blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood,
and
from avenging myself with mine own hand.
34
For in very deed, as the LORD
God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except
thou
hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto
Nabal by
the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
35
So David received of her hand
that which she had brought him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to
thine
house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.
36
¶ And Abigail came to Nabal;
and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king;
and
Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore
she told
him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
37
But it came to pass in the
morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him
these
things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
38
And it came to pass about ten
days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died.
39
And when David heard that Nabal
was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of
my
reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil:
for the
LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David
sent
and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.
40
And when the servants of David
were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David sent
us unto
thee, to take thee to him to wife.
41
And she arose, and bowed herself
on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a
servant to
wash the feet of the servants of my lord.
42
And Abigail hasted, and arose,
and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her;
and she
went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.
43
David also took Ahinoam of
Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.
44
But Saul had given Michal his
daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.
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¶ And the Ziphites came unto
Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself in the hill of
Hachilah,
which is before Jeshimon?
2
Then Saul arose, and went down
to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel
with him,
to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.
3
And Saul pitched in the hill of
Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon, by the way. But David abode in the
wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.
4
David therefore sent out spies,
and understood that Saul was come in very deed.
5
And David arose, and came to the
place where Saul had pitched: and David beheld the place where Saul
lay, and
Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the
trench, and
the people pitched round about him.
6
¶ Then answered David and said
to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to
Joab,
saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said,
I will
go down with thee.
7
So David and Abishai came to the
people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and
his
spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay
round
about him.
8
Then said Abishai to David, God
hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let
me smite
him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will
not
smite him the second time.
9
And David said to Abishai,
Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the LORD'S
anointed, and be guiltless?
10
David said furthermore, As the
LORD liveth, the LORD shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or
he
shall descend into battle, and perish.
11
The LORD forbid that I should
stretch forth mine hand against the LORD'S anointed: but, I pray thee,
take
thou now the spear that is at his bolster, and the cruse of water, and
let us
go.
12
So David took the spear and the
cruse of water from Saul's bolster; and they gat them away, and no man
saw it,
nor knew it, neither awaked: for they were all asleep; because a deep
sleep
from the LORD was fallen upon them.
13
¶ Then David went over to the
other side, and stood on the top of an hill afar off; a great space
being
between them:
14
And David cried to the people,
and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, Answerest thou not, Abner? Then
Abner
answered and said, Who art thou that criest to the king?
15
And David said to Abner, Art
not thou a valiant man? and who is like to thee in Israel? wherefore
then hast
thou not kept thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in to
destroy
the king thy lord.
16
This thing is not good that
thou hast done. As the LORD liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye
have not
kept your master, the LORD'S anointed. And now see where the king's
spear is,
and the cruse of water that was at his bolster.
17
And Saul knew David's voice,
and said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And David said, It is my
voice, my
lord, O king.
18
And he said, Wherefore doth my
lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil
is in
mine hand?
19
Now therefore, I pray thee, let
my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD have
stirred thee
up against me, let him accept an offering: but if they be the children
of men,
cursed be they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day
from
abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods.
20
Now therefore, let not my blood
fall to the earth before the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel
is come
out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.
21
¶ Then said Saul, I have
sinned: return, my son David: for I will no more do thee harm, because
my soul
was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool,
and have
erred exceedingly.
22
And David answered and said,
Behold the king's spear! and let one of the young men come over and
fetch it.
23
The LORD render to every man
his righteousness and his faithfulness: for the LORD delivered thee
into my
hand to day, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the LORD'S
anointed.
24
And, behold, as thy life was
much set by this day in mine eyes, so let my life be much set by in the
eyes of
the LORD, and let him deliver me out of all tribulation.
25
Then Saul said to David,
Blessed be thou, my son David: thou shalt both do great things, and
also shalt
still prevail. So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.
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¶ And David said in his heart, I
shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better
for me
than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines;
and Saul
shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so
shall I
escape out of his hand.
2
And David arose, and he passed
over with the six hundred men that were with him unto Achish, the son
of Maoch,
king of Gath.
3
And David dwelt with Achish at
Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his
two
wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's
wife.
4
And it was told Saul that David
was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him.
5
And David said unto Achish, If I
have now found grace in thine eyes, let them give me a place in some
town in
the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell
in the
royal city with thee?
6
Then Achish gave him Ziklag that
day: wherefore Ziklag pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this day.
7
And the time that David dwelt in
the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.
8
¶ And David and his men went up,
and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for
those
nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur,
even
unto the land of Egypt.
9
And David smote the land, and
left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the
oxen, and
the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to
Achish.
10
And Achish said, Whither have
ye made a road to day? And David said, Against the south of Judah, and
against
the south of the Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites.
11
And David saved neither man nor
woman alive, to bring tidings to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on
us,
saying, So did David, and so will be his manner all the while he
dwelleth in
the country of the Philistines.
12
And Achish believed David,
saying, He hath made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore
he shall
be my servant for ever.
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¶ And it came to pass in those
days, that the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare,
to fight
with Israel. And Achish said unto David, Know thou assuredly, that thou
shalt
go out with me to battle, thou and thy men.
2
And David said to Achish, Surely
thou shalt know what thy servant can do. And Achish said to David,
Therefore
will I make thee keeper of mine head for ever.
3
Now Samuel was dead, and all
Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city.
And
Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out
of the
land.
4
And the Philistines gathered
themselves together, and came and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered
all
Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa.
5
And when Saul saw the host of
the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled.
6
And when Saul enquired of the
LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by
prophets.
7
¶ Then said Saul unto his
servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to
her,
and enquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a
woman that
hath a familiar spirit at Endor.
8
And Saul disguised himself, and
put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came
to the
woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the
familiar
spirit, and bring me him up, whom I shall name unto thee.
9
And the woman said unto him,
Behold, thou knowest what Saul hath done, how he hath cut off those
that have
familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: wherefore then
layest thou
a snare for my life, to cause me to die?
10
And Saul sware to her by the
LORD, saying, As the LORD liveth, there shall no punishment happen to
thee for
this thing.
11
Then said the woman, Whom shall
I bring up unto thee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel.
12
And when the woman saw Samuel,
she cried with a loud voice: and the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why
hast thou
deceived me? for thou art Saul.
13
And the king said unto her, Be
not afraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw
gods
ascending out of the earth.
14
And he said unto her, What form
is he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a
mantle.
And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to
the
ground, and bowed himself.
15
¶ And Samuel said to Saul, Why
hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore
distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is
departed from
me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams:
therefore I
have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.
16
Then said Samuel, Wherefore
then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is
become
thine enemy?
17
And the LORD hath done to him,
as he spake by me: for the LORD hath rent the kingdom out of thine
hand, and
given it to thy neighbour, even to David:
18
Because thou obeyedst not the
voice of the LORD, nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek,
therefore hath
the LORD done this thing unto thee this day.
19
Moreover the LORD will also
deliver Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines: and to
morrow shalt
thou and thy sons be with me: the LORD also shall deliver the host of
Israel
into the hand of the Philistines.
20
¶ Then Saul fell straightway
all along on the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of
Samuel:
and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the
day, nor
all the night.
21
And the woman came unto Saul,
and saw that he was sore troubled, and said unto him, Behold, thine
handmaid
hath obeyed thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have
hearkened
unto thy words which thou spakest unto me.
22
Now therefore, I pray thee,
hearken thou also unto the voice of thine handmaid, and let me set a
morsel of
bread before thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou
goest on
thy way.
23
But he refused, and said, I
will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, compelled him;
and he
hearkened unto their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon
the bed.
24
And the woman had a fat calf in
the house; and she hasted, and killed it, and took flour, and kneaded
it, and
did bake unleavened bread thereof:
25
And she brought it before Saul,
and before his servants; and they did eat. Then they rose up, and went
away
that night.
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¶ Now the Philistines gathered
together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a
fountain
which is in Jezreel.
2
And the lords of the Philistines
passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: but David and his men passed
on in the
rereward with Achish.
3
Then said the princes of the
Philistines, What do these Hebrews here? And Achish said unto the
princes of
the Philistines, Is not this David, the servant of Saul the king of
Israel,
which hath been with me these days, or these years, and I have found no
fault
in him since he fell unto me unto this day?
4
And the princes of the
Philistines were wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines
said unto
him, Make this fellow return, that he may go again to his place which
thou hast
appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the
battle he
be an adversary to us: for wherewith should he reconcile himself unto
his
master? should it not be with the heads of these men?
5
Is not this David, of whom they
sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and
David his
ten thousands?
6
¶ Then Achish called David, and
said unto him, Surely, as the LORD liveth, thou hast been upright, and
thy
going out and thy coming in with me in the host is good in my sight:
for I have
not found evil in thee since the day of thy coming unto me unto this
day:
nevertheless the lords favour thee not.
7
Wherefore now return, and go in
peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.
8
And David said unto Achish, But
what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I
have
been with thee unto this day, that I may not go fight against the
enemies of my
lord the king?
9
And Achish answered and said to
David, I know that thou art good in my sight, as an angel of God:
notwithstanding
the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to
the
battle.
10
Wherefore now rise up early in
the morning with thy master's servants that are come with thee: and as
soon as
ye be up early in the morning, and have light, depart.
11
So David and his men rose up
early to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the
Philistines. And
the Philistines went up to Jezreel.
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¶ And it came to pass, when
David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the
Amalekites had
invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with
fire;
2
And had taken the women
captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small,
but
carried them away, and went on their way.
3
So David and his men came to the
city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their
sons,
and their daughters, were taken captives.
4
Then David and the people that
were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more
power to
weep.
5
And David's two wives were taken
captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the
Carmelite.
6
And David was greatly
distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of
all the
people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but
David
encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
7
¶ And David said to Abiathar the
priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And
Abiathar
brought thither the ephod to David.
8
And David enquired at the LORD,
saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he
answered
him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail
recover all.
9
So David went, he and the six
hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where
those that
were left behind stayed.
10
But David pursued, he and four
hundred men: for two hundred abode behind, which were so faint that
they could
not go over the brook Besor.
11
And they found an Egyptian in
the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did
eat; and
they made him drink water;
12
And they gave him a piece of a
cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his
spirit
came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water,
three days
and three nights.
13
And David said unto him, To
whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man
of
Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three
days agone
I fell sick.
14
We made an invasion upon the
south of the Cherethites, and upon the coast which belongeth to Judah,
and upon
the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.
15
And David said to him, Canst
thou bring me down to this company? And he said, Swear unto me by God,
that
thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master,
and I
will bring thee down to this company.
16
And when he had brought him
down, behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and
drinking,
and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of
the land
of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
17
And David smote them from the
twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a
man of
them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.
18
And David recovered all that
the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives.
19
And there was nothing lacking
to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither
spoil,
nor any thing that they had taken to them: David recovered all.
20
And David took all the flocks
and the herds, which they drave before those other cattle, and said,
This is
David's spoil.
21
¶ And David came to the two
hundred men, which were so faint that they could not follow David, whom
they
had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet
David,
and to meet the people that were with him: and when David came near to
the
people, he saluted them.
22
Then answered all the wicked
men and men of Belial, of those that went with David, and said, Because
they
went not with us, we will not give them ought of the spoil that we have
recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may
lead them
away, and depart.
23
Then said David, Ye shall not
do so, my brethren, with that which the LORD hath given us, who hath
preserved
us, and delivered the company that came against us into our hand.
24
For who will hearken unto you
in this matter? but as his part is that goeth down to the battle, so
shall his
part be that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike.
25
And it was so from that day
forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto
this day.
26
And when David came to Ziklag,
he sent of the spoil unto the elders of Judah, even to his friends,
saying,
Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of the LORD;
27
To them which were in Bethel,
and to them which were in south Ramoth, and to them which were in
Jattir,
28
And to them which were in
Aroer, and to them which were in Siphmoth, and to them which were in
Eshtemoa,
29
And to them which were in
Rachal, and to them which were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and
to them
which were in the cities of the Kenites,
30
And to them which were in
Hormah, and to them which were in Chorashan, and to them which were in
Athach,
31
And to them which were in
Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were wont
to
haunt.
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¶ Now the Philistines fought
against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines,
and
fell down slain in mount Gilboa.
2
And the Philistines followed
hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan,
and
Abinadab, and Malchishua, Saul's sons.
3
And the battle went sore against
Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.
4
Then said Saul unto his
armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest
these
uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his
armourbearer
would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and
fell upon
it.
5
And when his armourbearer saw
that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him.
6
So Saul died, and his three
sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together.
7
And when the men of Israel that
were on the other side of the valley, and they that were on the other
side
Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons
were dead,
they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt
in them.
8
¶ And it came to pass on the
morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found
Saul and
his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa.
9
And they cut off his head, and
stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines
round about,
to publish it in the house of their idols, and among the people.
10
And they put his armour in the
house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Bethshan.
11
And when the inhabitants of
Jabeshgilead heard of that which the Philistines had done to Saul;
12
All the valiant men arose, and
went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons
from the
wall of Bethshan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
13
And they took their bones, and
buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
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