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The Book of 1 Samuel
Chapter 1
001:001 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:
001:002 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.
001:003 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.
001:004 And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he
gave to
Peninnah his wife, and to
all her sons and her daughters,
portions:
001:005 But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he
loved Hannah:
but the LORD had
shut up her womb.
001:006 And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to
make her
fret, because the LORD
had shut up her womb.
001:007 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.
001:008 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?
001:009 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.
001:010 And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto
the LORD,
and wept sore.
001:011 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.
001:012 And it came to pass, as she continued praying
before the LORD,
that Eli marked
her mouth.
001:013 Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips
moved, but
her voice was not
heard: therefore Eli thought she had
been
drunken.
001:014 And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be
drunken? put away
thy wine from
thee.
001:015 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.
001:016 Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial:
for out of
the abundance of my
complaint and grief have I spoken
hitherto.
001:017 Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the
God of Israel
grant thee thy
petition that thou hast asked of him.
001:018 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.
001:019 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.
001:020 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.
001:021 And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to
offer unto
the LORD the yearly
sacrifice, and his vow.
001:022 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.
001:023 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.
001:024 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.
001:025 And they slew a bullock, and brought the child to Eli.
001:026 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.
001:027 For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given
me my
petition which I asked of
him:
001:028 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.
002:001 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.
002:002 There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none
beside thee:
neither is there any
rock like our God.
002:003 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.
002:004 The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they
that stumbled
are girded with
strength.
002:005 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.
002:006 The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth
down to the
grave, and bringeth
up.
002:007 The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth
low, and
lifteth up.
002:008 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.
002:009 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the
wicked shall be
silent in
darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.
002:010 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.
002:011 And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the
child did
minister unto the LORD
before Eli the priest.
002:012 Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew
not the
LORD.
002:013 And the priest's 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;
002:014 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.
002:015 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.
002:016 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.
002:017 Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great
before the
LORD: for men abhorred
the offering of the LORD.
002:018 But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a
child, girded
with a linen
ephod.
002:019 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.
002:020 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.
002:021 And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she
conceived, and bare
three sons and
two daughters. And the child Samuel grew
before
the LORD.
002:022 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.
002:023 And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for
I hear of
your evil dealings by
all this people.
002:024 Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I
hear: ye make
the LORD's people to
transgress.
002:025 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.
002:026 And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour
both with the
LORD, and also with
men.
002:027 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?
002:028 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?
002:029 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?
002:030 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.
002:031 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.
002:032 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.
002:033 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.
002:034 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.
002:035 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.
002:036 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.
003:001 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.
003:002 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;
003:003 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;
003:004 That the LORD called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I.
003:005 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.
003:006 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.
003:007 Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, neither was
the word of
the LORD yet revealed
unto him.
003:008 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.
003:009 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.
003:010 And the LORD came, and stood, and called as at
other times,
Samuel, Samuel. Then
Samuel answered, Speak; for thy
servant
heareth.
003:011 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.
003:012 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.
003:013 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.
003:014 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.
003:015 And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the
doors of the
house of the LORD.
And Samuel feared to shew Eli the vision.
003:016 Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son.
And he
answered, Here am I.
003:017 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.
003:018 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.
003:019 And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and
did let none
of his words fall to
the ground.
003:020 And all Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew
that Samuel was
established to be
a prophet of the LORD.
003:021 And the LORD appeared again in Shiloh: for the
LORD revealed
himself to Samuel in
Shiloh by the word of the LORD.
004:001 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.
004:002 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.
004:003 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.
004:004 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.
004:005 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.
004:006 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.
004:007 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.
004:008 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.
004:009 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.
004:010 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.
004:011 And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons
of Eli, Hophni
and Phinehas,
were slain.
004:012 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.
004:013 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.
004:014 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.
004:015 Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his
eyes were dim,
that he could
not see.
004:016 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?
004:017 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.
004:018 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.
004:019 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.
004:020 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.
004:021 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.
004:022 And she said, The glory is departed from Israel:
for the ark
of God is taken.
005:001 And the Philistines took the ark of God, and
brought it from
Ebenezer unto
Ashdod.
005:002 When the Philistines took the ark of God, they
brought it into
the house of
Dagon, and set it by Dagon.
005:003 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.
005:004 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.
005:005 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.
005:006 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.
005:007 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.
005:008 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.
005:009 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.
005:010 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.
005:011 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.
005:012 And the men that died not were smitten with the
emerods: and
the cry of the city went up to heaven.
006:001 And the ark of the LORD was in the country of
the Philistines
seven
months.
006:002 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.
006:003 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.
006:004 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.
006:005 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.
006:006 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?
006:007 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:
006:008 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.
006:009 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.
006:010 And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and
tied them to
the cart, and shut up their calves at home:
006:011 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.
006:012 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.
006:013 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.
006:014 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.
006:015 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.
006:016 And when the five lords of the Philistines had
seen it, they
returned to Ekron the same day.
006:017 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;
006:018 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.
006:019 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.
006:020 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?
006:021 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.
007:001 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.
007:002 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.
007:003 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.
007:004 Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim
and Ashtaroth,
and served the
LORD only.
007:005 And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh,
and I will pray
for you unto the
LORD.
007:006 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.
007:007 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.
007:008 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.
007:009 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.
007:010 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.
007:011 And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and
pursued the
Philistines, and smote them, until they came under Bethcar.
007:012 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.
007:013 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.
007:014 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.
007:015 And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
007:016 And he went from year to year in circuit to
Bethel, and
Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.
007:017 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.
008:001 And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that
he made his
sons judges over Israel.
008:002 Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the
name of his
second, Abiah: they were judges in Beersheba.
008:003 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned
aside after
lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
008:004 Then all the elders of Israel gathered
themselves together,
and came to
Samuel unto Ramah,
008:005 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.
008:006 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said,
Give us a
king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.
008:007 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.
008:008 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.
008:009 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.
008:010 And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto
the people that
asked of him a
king.
008:011 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.
008:012 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.
008:013 And he will take your daughters to be
confectionaries, and to
be cooks, and to
be bakers.
008:014 And he will take your fields, and your
vineyards, and your
oliveyards, even
the best of them, and give them to his
servants.
008:015 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of
your
vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
008:016 And he will take your menservants, and your
maidservants, and
your goodliest
young men, and your asses, and put them to his
work.
008:017 He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye
shall be his
servants.
008:018 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.
008:019 Nevertheless the people refused to obey the
voice of Samuel;
and they said,
Nay; but we will have a king over us;
008:020 That we also may be like all the nations; and
that our king
may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
008:021 And Samuel heard all the words of the people,
and he rehearsed
them in the ears
of the LORD.
008:022 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.
009:001 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.
009:002 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.
009:003 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.
009:004 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.
009:005 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.
009:006 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.
009:007 Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if
we go, what
shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels,
and there is not
a present to bring to the man of God: what
have we?
009:008 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.
009:009 (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.)
009:010 Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come,
let us go. So
they went unto the city where the man of God was.
009:011 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?
009:012 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:
009:013 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.
009:014 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.
009:015 Now the LORD had told Samuel in his ear a day
before Saul
came, saying,
009:016 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.
009:017 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.
009:018 Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and
said, Tell me,
I pray thee,
where the seer's house is.
009:019 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.
009:020 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?
009:021 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?
009:022 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.
009:023 And Samuel said unto the cook, Bring the portion
which I gave
thee, of which I said unto thee, Set it by thee.
009:024 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.
009:025 And when they were come down from the high place
into the
city, Samuel communed with Saul upon the top of the house.
009:026 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.
009:027 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.
010:001 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?
010:002 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?
010:003 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:
010:004 And they will salute thee, and give thee two
loaves of bread;
which thou shalt
receive of their hands.
010:005 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:
010:006 And the Spirit of the LORD will come upon thee,
and thou shalt
prophesy with
them, and shalt be turned into another man.
010:007 And let it be, when these signs are come unto
thee, that thou
do as occasion
serve thee; for God is with thee.
010:008 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.
010:009 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.
010:010 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.
010:011 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?
010:012 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?
010:013 And when he had made an end of prophesying, he
came to the
high place.
010:014 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.
010:015 And Saul's uncle said, Tell me, I pray thee,
what Samuel said
unto you.
010:016 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.
010:017 And Samuel called the people together unto the LORD to Mizpeh;
010:018 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:
010:019 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.
010:020 And when Samuel had caused all the tribes of
Israel to come
near, the tribe
of Benjamin was taken.
010:021 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.
010:022 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.
010:023 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.
010:024 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.
010:025 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.
010:026 And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there
went with him a
band of men,
whose hearts God had touched.
010:027 But the children of Belial said, How shall this
man save us?
And they despised him, and brought no presents. But he held
his peace.
011:001 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.
011:002 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.
011:003 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.
011:004 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.
011:005 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.
011:006 And the Spirit of God came upon Saul when he
heard those
tidings, and his anger was kindled greatly.
011:007 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.
011:008 And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children
of Israel
were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty
thousand.
011:009 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.
011:010 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.
011:011 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.
011:012 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.
011:013 And Saul said, There shall not a man be put to
death this day:
for to day the
LORD hath wrought salvation in Israel.
011:014 Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us
go to Gilgal,
and renew the kingdom there.
011:015 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.
012:001 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.
012:002 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.
012:003 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.
012:004 And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor
oppressed us,
neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand.
012:005 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.
012:006 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.
012:007 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.
012:008 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.
012:009 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.
012:010 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.
012:011 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.
012:012 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.
012:013 Now therefore behold the king whom ye have
chosen, and whom ye
have desired!
and, behold, the LORD hath set a king over you.
012:014 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:
012:015 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.
012:016 Now therefore stand and see this great thing,
which the LORD
will do before
your eyes.
012:017 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.
012:018 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.
012:019 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.
012:020 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;
012:021 And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go
after vain
things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
012:022 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.
012:023 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:
012:024 Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with
all your
heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you.
012:025 But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be
consumed, both
ye and your
king.
013:001 Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned
two years over
Israel,
013:002 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.
013:003 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.
013:004 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.
013:005 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.
013:006 When the men of Israel saw that they were in a
strait, (for
the people were distressed,) then the people did hide
themselves in
caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in
high places, and
in pits.
013:007 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.
013:008 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.
013:009 And Saul said, Bring hither a burnt offering to
me, and peace
offerings. And he offered the burnt offering.
013:010 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.
013:011 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;
013:012 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.
013:013 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.
013:014 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.
013:015 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.
013:016 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.
013:017 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:
013:018 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.
013:019 Now there was no smith found throughout all the
land of
Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them
swords or
spears:
013:020 But all the Israelites went down to the
Philistines, to
sharpen every
man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and
his mattock.
013:021 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.
013:022 So it came to pass in the day of battle, that
there was
neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people
that were with
Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with
Jonathan his son
was there found.
013:023 And the garrison of the Philistines went out to
the passage of
Michmash.
014:001 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.
014:002 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;
014:003 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.
014:004 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.
014:005 The forefront of the one was situate northward
over against
Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah.
014:006 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.
014:007 And his armourbearer said unto him, Do all that
is in thine
heart: turn thee; behold, I am with thee according to thy
heart.
014:008 Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over
unto these men,
and we will
discover ourselves unto them.
014:009 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.
014:010 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.
014:011 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.
014:012 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.
014:013 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.
014:014 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.
014:015 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.
014:016 And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin
looked; and,
behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating
down one
another.
014:017 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.
014:018 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.
014:019 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.
014:020 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.
014:021 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.
014:022 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.
014:023 So the LORD saved Israel that day: and the
battle passed over
unto
Bethaven.
014:024 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.
014:025 And all they of the land came to a wood; and
there was honey
upon the
ground.
014:026 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.
014:027 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.
014:028 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.
014:029 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.
014:030 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?
014:031 And they smote the Philistines that day from
Michmash to
Aijalon: and the people were very faint.
014:032 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.
014:033 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.
014:034 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.
014:035 And Saul built an altar unto the LORD: the same
was the first
altar that he built unto the LORD.
014:036 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.
014:037 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.
014:038 And Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the
chief of the
people: and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day.
014:039 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.
014:040 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.
014:041 Therefore Saul said unto the LORD God of Israel,
Give a
perfect lot. And Saul and Jonathan were taken: but the people
escaped.
014:042 And Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan
my son. And
Jonathan was taken.
014:043 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.
014:044 And Saul answered, God do so and more also: for
thou shalt
surely die, Jonathan.
014:045 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.
014:046 Then Saul went up from following the
Philistines: and the
Philistines went
to their own place.
014:047 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.
014:048 And he gathered an host, and smote the
Amalekites, and
delivered Israel
out of the hands of them that spoiled them.
014:049 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:
014:050 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.
014:051 And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the
father of Abner
was the son of
Abiel.
014:052 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.
015:001 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.
015:002 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.
015:003 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.
015:004 And Saul gathered the people together, and
numbered them in
Telaim, two
hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of
Judah.
015:005 And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait
in the
valley.
015:006 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.
015:007 And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until
thou comest
to Shur, that is over against Egypt.
015:008 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites
alive, and utterly
destroyed all
the people with the edge of the sword.
015:009 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the
best of the
sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs,
and all that was
good, and would not utterly destroy them: but
every thing that
was vile and refuse, that they destroyed
utterly.
015:010 Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying,
015:011 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.
015:012 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.
015:013 And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him,
Blessed be
thou of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the
LORD.
015:014 And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating
of the sheep
in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?
015:015 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.
015:016 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.
015:017 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?
015:018 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.
015:019 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?
015:020 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.
015:021 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.
015:022 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.
015:023 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.
015:024 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.
015:025 Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and
turn again with
me, that I may
worship the LORD.
015:026 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.
015:027 And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid
hold upon the
skirt of his mantle, and it rent.
015:028 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.
015:029 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor
repent: for
he is not a man, that he should repent.
015:030 Then he said, I have sinned: yet 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.
015:031 So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul
worshipped the
LORD.
015:032 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.
015:033 And Samuel said, As the sword hath made women
childless, so
shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed
Agag in pieces
before the LORD in Gilgal.
015:034 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to
his house to
Gibeah of Saul.
015:035 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.
016:001 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.
016:002 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.
016:003 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.
016:004 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?
016:005 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.
016:006 And it came to pass, when they were come, that
he looked on
Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD's anointed is before him.
016:007 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.
016:008 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass
before Samuel.
And he said,
Neither hath the LORD chosen this.
016:009 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said,
Neither hath
the LORD chosen this.
016:010 Again, Jesse made seven of his sons to pass
before Samuel. And
Samuel said unto
Jesse, The LORD hath not chosen these.
016:011 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.
016:012 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.
016:013 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.
016:014 But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul,
and an evil
spirit from the LORD troubled him.
016:015 And Saul's servants said unto him, Behold now,
an evil spirit
from God
troubleth thee.
016:016 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.
016:017 And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now
a man that can
play well, and
bring him to me.
016:018 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.
016:019 Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and
said, Send me
David thy son, which is with the sheep.
016:020 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.
016:021 And David came to Saul, and stood before him:
and he loved him
greatly; and he
became his armourbearer.
016:022 And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I
pray thee, stand
before me; for
he hath found favour in my sight.
016:023 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.
017:001 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.
017:002 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.
017:003 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.
017:004 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.
017:005 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.
017:006 And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a
target of
brass between his shoulders.
017:007 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.
017:008 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.
017:009 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.
017:010 And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of
Israel this day;
give me a man,
that we may fight together.
017:011 When Saul and all Israel heard those words of
the Philistine,
they were
dismayed, and greatly afraid.
017:012 Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of
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.
017:013 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.
017:014 And David was the youngest: and the three eldest
followed
Saul.
017:015 But David went and returned from Saul to feed
his father's
sheep at Bethlehem.
017:016 And the Philistine drew near morning and
evening, and
presented himself forty days.
017:017 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 of
thy brethren;
017:018 And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of
their
thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their
pledge.
017:019 Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel,
were in the
valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
017:020 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.
017:021 For Israel and the Philistines had put the
battle in array,
army against
army.
017:022 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.
017:023 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.
017:024 And all the men of Israel, when they saw the
man, fled from
him, and were
sore afraid.
017:025 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.
017:026 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?
017:027 And the people answered him after this manner,
saying, So
shall it be done to the man that killeth him.
017:028 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.
017:029 And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?
017:030 And he turned from him toward another, and spake
after the
same manner: and the people answered him again after the
former
manner.
017:031 And when the words were heard which David spake,
they
rehearsed them before Saul: and he sent for him.
017:032 And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail
because of
him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.
017:033 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.
017:034 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:
017:035 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.
017:036 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.
017:037 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.
017:038 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.
017:039 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.
017:040 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.
017:041 And the Philistine came on and drew near unto
David; and the
man that bare
the shield went before him.
017:042 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.
017:043 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.
017:044 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.
017:045 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.
017:046 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.
017:047 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.
017:048 And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose,
and came, and
drew nigh to meet David, that David hastened, and ran toward
the army to meet
the Philistine.
017:049 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.
017:050 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.
017:051 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.
017:052 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.
017:053 And the children of Israel returned from chasing
after the
Philistines, and they spoiled their tents.
017:054 And David took the head of the Philistine, and
brought it to
Jerusalem; but he put his armour in his tent.
017:055 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.
017:056 And the king said, Enquire thou whose son the stripling is.
017:057 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.
017:058 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.
018:001 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.
018:002 And Saul took him that day, and would let him go
no more home
to his father's house.
018:003 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because
he loved him
as his own soul.
018:004 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.
018:005 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.
018:006 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.
018:007 And the women answered one another as they
played, and said,
Saul hath slain
his thousands, and David his ten thousands.
018:008 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?
018:009 And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.
018:010 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.
018:011 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.
018:012 And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD
was with him,
and was departed from Saul.
018:013 Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made
him his captain
over a thousand;
and he went out and came in before the
people.
018:014 And David behaved himself wisely in all his
ways; and the LORD
was with
him.
018:015 Wherefore when Saul saw that he behaved himself
very wisely,
he was afraid of him.
018:016 But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he
went out and
came in before them.
018:017 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.
018:018 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?
018:019 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.
018:020 And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they
told Saul,
and the thing pleased him.
018:021 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.
018:022 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.
018:023 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?
018:024 And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On
this manner
spake David.
018:025 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.
018:026 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.
018:027 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.
018:028 And Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with
David, and that
Michal Saul's
daughter loved him.
018:029 And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and
Saul became
David's enemy continually.
018:030 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.
019:001 And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all
his servants,
that they should kill David.
019:002 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:
019:003 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.
019:004 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:
019:005 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?
019:006 And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan:
and Saul sware,
As the LORD
liveth, he shall not be slain.
019:007 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.
019:008 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.
019:009 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.
019:010 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.
019:011 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.
019:012 So Michal let David down through a window: and
he went, and
fled, and escaped.
019:013 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.
019:014 And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she
said, He is
sick.
019:015 And Saul sent the messengers again to see David,
saying, Bring
him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.
019:016 And when the messengers were come in, behold,
there was an
image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' hair for his
bolster.
019:017 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?
019:018 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.
019:019 And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is
at Naioth in
Ramah.
019:020 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.
019:021 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.
019:022 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.
019:023 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.
019:024 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?
020:001 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?
020:002 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.
020:003 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.
020:004 Then said Jonathan unto David, Whatsoever thy
soul desireth, I
will even do it
for thee.
020:005 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.
020:006 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.
020:007 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.
020:008 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?
020:009 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?
020:010 Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me?
or what if thy
father answer
thee roughly?
020:011 And Jonathan said unto David, Come, and let us
go out into the
field. And they
went out both of them into the field.
020:012 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;
020:013 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.
020:014 And thou shalt not only while yet I live shew me
the kindness
of the LORD, that I die not:
020:015 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.
020:016 So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of
David, saying,
Let the LORD
even require it at the hand of David's enemies.
020:017 And Jonathan caused David to swear again,
because he loved
him: for he
loved him as he loved his own soul.
020:018 Then Jonathan said to David, To morrow is the
new moon: and
thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty.
020:019 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.
020:020 And I will shoot three arrows on the side
thereof, as though I
shot at a
mark.
020:021 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.
020:022 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.
020:023 And as touching the matter which thou and I have
spoken of,
behold, the LORD be between thee and me for ever.
020:024 So David hid himself in the field: and when the
new moon was
come, the king sat him down to eat meat.
020:025 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.
020:026 Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day:
for he
thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not clean; surely
he is not
clean.
020:027 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?
020:028 And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly
asked leave of me
to go to
Bethlehem:
020:029 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.
020:030 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?
020:031 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.
020:032 And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said
unto him,
Wherefore shall he be slain? what hath he done?
020:033 And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him:
whereby Jonathan
knew that it was
determined of his father to slay David.
020:034 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.
020:035 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.
020:036 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.
020:037 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?
020:038 And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed,
haste, stay not.
And Jonathan's
lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his
master.
020:039 But the lad knew not any thing: only Jonathan
and David knew
the matter.
020:040 And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad,
and said unto
him, Go, carry them to the city.
020:041 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.
020:042 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.
021:001 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?
021:002 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.
021:003 Now therefore what is under thine hand? give me
five loaves of
bread in mine
hand, or what there is present.
021:004 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.
021:005 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.
021:006 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.
021:007 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.
021:008 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.
021:009 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.
021:010 And David arose and fled that day for fear of
Saul, and went
to Achish the
king of Gath.
021:011 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?
021:012 And David laid up these words in his heart, and
was sore
afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
021:013 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.
021:014 Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see
the man is mad:
wherefore then
have ye brought him to me?
021:015 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?
022:001 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.
022:002 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.
022:003 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.
022:004 And he brought them before the king of Moab: and
they dwelt
with him all the while that David was in the hold.
022:005 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.
022:006 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;)
022:007 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;
022:008 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?
022:009 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.
022:010 And he enquired of the LORD for him, and gave
him victuals,
and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
022:011 Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest,
the son of
Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests that were in
Nob: and they
came all of them to the king.
022:012 And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And
he answered,
Here I am, my lord.
022:013 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?
022:014 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?
022:015 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.
022:016 And the king said, Thou shalt surely die,
Ahimelech, thou, and
all thy father's
house.
022:017 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.
022:018 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.
022:019 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.
022:020 And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of
Ahitub, named
Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.
022:021 And Abiathar shewed David that Saul had slain
the LORD's
priests.
022:022 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.
022:023 Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that
seeketh my life
seeketh thy
life: but with me thou shalt be in safeguard.
023:001 Then they told David, saying, Behold, the
Philistines fight
against Keilah,
and they rob the threshingfloors.
023:002 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.
023:003 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?
023:004 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.
023:005 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.
023:006 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.
023:007 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.
023:008 And Saul called all the people together to war,
to go down to
Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
023:009 And David knew that Saul secretly practised
mischief against
him; and he said
to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the
ephod.
023:010 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.
023:011 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.
023:012 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.
023:013 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.
023:014 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.
023:015 And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his
life: and
David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.
023:016 And Jonathan Saul's son arose, and went to David
into the
wood, and strengthened his hand in God.
023:017 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.
023:018 And they two made a covenant before the LORD:
and David abode
in the wood, and
Jonathan went to his house.
023:019 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?
023:020 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.
023:021 And Saul said, Blessed be ye of the LORD; for ye
have
compassion on me.
023:022 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.
023:023 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.
023:024 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.
023:025 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.
023:026 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.
023:027 But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying,
Haste thee, and
come; for the
Philistines have invaded the land.
023:028 Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing after
David, and went
against the
Philistines: therefore they called that place
Selahammahlekoth.
023:029 And David went up from thence, and dwelt in
strong holds at
Engedi.
024:001 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.
024:002 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.
024:003 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.
024:004 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.
024:005 And it came to pass afterward, that David's
heart smote him,
because he had
cut off Saul's skirt.
024:006 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.
024:007 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.
024:008 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.
024:009 And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou
men's words,
saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?
024:010 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.
024:011 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.
024:012 The LORD judge between me and thee, and the LORD
avenge me of
thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
024:013 As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness
proceedeth
from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
024:014 After whom is the king of Israel come out? after
whom dost
thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.
024:015 The LORD therefore be judge, and judge between
me and thee,
and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.
024:016 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.
024:017 And he said to David, Thou art more righteous
than I: for thou
hast rewarded me
good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.
024:018 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.
024:019 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.
024:020 And now, behold, I know well that thou shalt
surely be king,
and that the
kingdom of Israel shall be established in thine
hand.
024:021 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.
024:022 And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home;
but David and
his men gat them up unto the hold.
025:001 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.
025:002 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.
025:003 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.
025:004 And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did
shear his
sheep.
025:005 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:
025:006 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.
025:007 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.
025:008 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.
025:009 And when David's young men came, they spake to
Nabal according
to all those
words in the name of David, and ceased.
025:010 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.
025:011 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?
025:012 So David's young men turned their way, and went
again, and
came and told him all those sayings.
025:013 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.
025:014 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.
025:015 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:
025:016 They were a wall unto us both by night and day,
all the while
we were with them keeping the sheep.
025:017 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.
025:018 Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred
loaves, and two
bottles of wine,
and five sheep ready dressed, and five
measures of
parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins,
and two hundred
cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
025:019 And she said unto her servants, Go on before me;
behold, I
come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.
025:020 And it was so, as she rode on the ass, that she
came down by
the covert on the hill, and, behold, David and his men came
down against
her; and she met them.
025:021 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.
025:022 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.
025:023 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,
025:024 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.
025:025 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.
025:026 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.
025:027 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.
025:028 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.
025:029 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.
025:030 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;
025:031 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.
025:032 And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD
God of Israel,
which sent thee
this day to meet me:
025:033 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.
025:034 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.
025:035 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.
025:036 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.
025:037 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.
025:038 And it came to pass about ten days after, that
the LORD smote
Nabal, that he
died.
025:039 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.
025:040 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.
025:041 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.
025:042 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.
025:043 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they
were also both of
them his
wives.
025:044 But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's
wife, to
Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.
026:001 And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah,
saying, Doth not
David hide
himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before
Jeshimon?
026:002 Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness
of Ziph,
having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek
David in the
wilderness of Ziph.
026:003 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.
026:004 David therefore sent out spies, and understood
that Saul was
come in very deed.
026:005 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.
026:006 Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the
Hittite, and to
Abishai the son
of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will
go down with me
to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will
go down with
thee.
026:007 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.
026:008 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.
026:009 And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for
who can
stretch forth his hand against the LORD's anointed, and be
guiltless?
026:010 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.
026:011 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.
026:012 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.
026:013 Then David went over to the other side, and
stood on the top
of an hill afar
off; a great space being between them:
026:014 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?
026:015 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.
026:016 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.
026:017 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.
026:018 And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue
after his
servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?
026:019 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.
026:020 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.
026:021 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.
026:022 And David answered and said, Behold the king's
spear! and let
one of the young
men come over and fetch it.
026:023 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.
026:024 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.
026:025 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.
027:001 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.
027:002 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.
027:003 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.
027:004 And it was told Saul that David was fled to
Gath: and he
sought no more again for him.
027:005 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?
027:006 Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore
Ziklag
pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this day.
027:007 And the time that David dwelt in the country of
the
Philistines was a full year and four months.
027:008 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.
027:009 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.
027:010 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.
027:011 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.
027:012 And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made
his people
Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant
for ever.
028:001 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.
028:002 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.
028:003 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.
028:004 And the Philistines gathered themselves
together, and came and
pitched in
Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and
they pitched in
Gilboa.
028:005 And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines,
he was afraid,
and his heart
greatly trembled.
028:006 And when Saul enquired of the LORD, the LORD
answered him not,
neither by
dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
028:007 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.
028:008 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.
028:009 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?
028:010 And Saul sware to her by the LORD, saying, As
the LORD liveth,
there shall no
punishment happen to thee for this thing.
028:011 Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto
thee? And he
said, Bring me up Samuel.
028:012 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.
028:013 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.
028:014 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.
028:015 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.
028:016 Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask
of me, seeing
the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?
028:017 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:
028:018 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.
028:019 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.
028:020 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.
028:021 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.
028:022 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.
028:023 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.
028:024 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:
028:025 And she brought it before Saul, and before his
servants; and
they did eat. Then they rose up, and went away that night.
029:001 Now the Philistines gathered together all their
armies to
Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which is in
Jezreel.
029:002 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.
029:003 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?
029:004 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?
029:005 Is not this David, of whom they sang one to
another in dances,
saying, Saul
slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
029:006 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.
029:007 Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou
displease not
the lords of the Philistines.
029:008 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?
029:009 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.
029:010 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.
029:011 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.
030:001 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;
030:002 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.
030:003 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.
030:004 Then David and the people that were with him
lifted up their
voice and wept,
until they had no more power to weep.
030:005 And David's two wives were taken captives,
Ahinoam the
Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
030:006 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.
030:007 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.
030:008 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.
030:009 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.
030:010 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.
030:011 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;
030:012 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.
030:013 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.
030:014 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.
030:015 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.
030:016 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.
030:017 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.
030:018 And David recovered all that the Amalekites had
carried away:
and David rescued his two wives.
030:019 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.
030:020 And David took all the flocks and the herds,
which they drave
before those
other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.
030:021 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.
030:022 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.
030:023 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.
030:024 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.
030:025 And it was so from that day forward, that he
made it a statute
and an ordinance
for Israel unto this day.
030:026 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;
030:027 To them which were in Bethel, and to them which
were in south
Ramoth, and to them which were in Jattir,
030:028 And to them which were in Aroer, and to them
which were in
Siphmoth, and to them which were in Eshtemoa,
030:029 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,
030:030 And to them which were in Hormah, and to them
which were in
Chorashan, and to them which were in Athach,
030:031 And to them which were in Hebron, and to all the
places where
David himself and his men were wont to haunt.
031:001 Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and
the men of
Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain
in mount
Gilboa.
031:002 And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and
upon his sons;
and the
Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and
Melchishua,
Saul's sons.
031:003 And the battle went sore against Saul, and the
archers hit
him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.
031:004 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.
031:005 And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was
dead, he fell
likewise upon his sword, and died with him.
031:006 So Saul died, and his three sons, and his
armourbearer, and
all his men,
that same day together.
031:007 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.
031:008 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.
031:009 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.
031:010 And they put his armour in the house of
Ashtaroth: and they
fastened his
body to the wall of Bethshan.
031:011 And when the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead heard
of that which
the Philistines had done to Saul;
031:012 All the valiant men arose, and went all night,
and took the
body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of
Bethshan, and
came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
031:013 And they took their bones, and buried them under
a tree at
Jabesh, and fasted seven days.