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