1 Samuel Chapter 31
1 Now the Philistines fought against
Israel, and the men of Israel fled away
from the Philistines, and they fell down
wounded in mount Gilboa. 2 And the
Philistines pressed sore upon Saul and
his sons, and slew Jonathan, and
Abinadab, and Malchishua Saul's sons.
3 And when the battle went sore against
Saul, the archers and bowmen hit him,
and he was sore wounded of the archers.
4 Then said Saul unto his armor bearer,
Draw out thy sword, and thrust me
through therewith, lest the uncircumcised
come and thrust me through and mock
me: but his armor bearer would not, for
he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took
a sword and fell upon it.
5 And when his armor bearer saw that
Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his
sword, and died with him.
6 So Saul died, and his three sons, and
his armor bearer, and all his men that
same day together.
7 And when the men of Israel that were
on the other side of the valley, and they
of the other side Jordan saw that the men
of Israel were put to flight, and that Saul
and his sons were dead, then they left the
cities, and ran away: and the Philistines
came and dwelt in them.
8 And on the morrow when the
Philistines were come to spoil them that
were slain, they found Saul and his three
sons lying in mount Gilboa, 9 And they
cut off his head, and stripped him out of
his armor, and sent into the land of the
Philistines on every side, that they
should publish it in the temple of their
idols, and among the people.
10 And they laid up his armor in the
house of Ashtaroth, but they hanged up
his body on the wall of Beth-shan.
11 When the inhabitants of Jabesh
Gilead heard, what the Philistines had
done to Saul,
12 Then they arose (as many as were
strong men) 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 burned them there,
13 And took their bones and buried them
under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven
days.
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1 Samuel Chapter 30
1 Samuel Chapter 30
1 But when David and his men were
come to Ziklag the third day, the
Amalekites had invaded upon the south,
even unto Ziklag, and had smitten Ziklag,
and burned it with fire,
2 And had taken the women that were
therein, prisoners, both small and great,
and slew not a man, but carried them
away, and went their ways. 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 prisoners. 4 Then David and the
people that was with him, lift up their
voices and wept, until they could weep
no more.
5 David's two wives were taken
prisoners also, Ahinoam the Jezreelite,
and Abigail the wife of Nabal the
Carmelite.
6 And David was in great sorrow: for
the people intended to stone him,
because the hearts of all the people were
vexed every man for his sons and for his
daughters: but David comforted himself
in the Lord his God. 7 And David said to
Abiathar the priest Ahimelech's son, I
pray thee, bring me the ephod. And
Abiathar brought the ephod to David.
8 Then David asked counsel at the Lord,
saying, Shall I follow after this
company? Shall I overtake them? And he
answered him, Follow: for thou shalt
surely overtake them, and recover all.
9 So David and the six hundred men that
were with him, went, and came to the
river Besor, where a part of them abode:
10 But David and four hundred men
followed (for two hundred abode
behind, being too weary to go over the
river Besor)
11 And they found an Egyptian in the
field, and brought him to David, and
gave him bread and he did eat, and they
gave him water to drink. 12 Also they
gave him a few figs, and two clusters of
raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit
came again to him: for he had eaten no
bread, nor drunk any water in three days,
and three nights.
13 And David said unto him, To whom
belongest thou? And whence art thou?
And he said, I am a young man of Egypt,
and servant to an Amalekite: and my
master left me three days ago, because I
fell sick.
14 We roved upon the south of Chereth,
and upon the coast belonging to Judah,
and upon the south of Caleb, and we
burned Ziklag with fire. 15 And David
said unto him, Canst thou bring me to
this company? And he said, Swear unto
me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me,
nor deliver me into the hands of my
master, and I will bring thee to this
company.
16 And when he had brought him thither,
behold, they lay scattered abroad upon
all the earth, eating and drinking, and
dancing, because of all the great prey
that they had taken out of the land of the
Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
17 And David smote them from the
twilight, even unto the evening of the
next morrow, so that there escaped not a
man of them, save four hundred young
men, which rode upon camels, and fled.
18 And David recovered all that the
Amalekites had taken: also David
rescued his two wives.
19 And they lacked nothing, small or
great, son or daughter, or of the spoil of
all that they had taken away: David
recovered them all.
20 David also took all the sheep, and the
oxen, and they drave them before his
cattle, and said, This is David's prey.
21 And David came to the two hundred
men that were too weary for to follow
David: whom they had made also to
abide at the river Besor: and they came
to meet David, and to meet the people
that were with him: so when David came
near to the people, he saluted them.
22 Then answered all the evil and
wicked of the men that went with David,
and said, Because they went not with us,
therefore will we give them none of the
prey that we have recovered, save to
every man his wife and his children:
therefore let them carry them away and
depart.
23 Then said David, Ye shall not do so,
my brethren, with that which the Lord
hath given us, who hath preserved us,
and delivered the company that came
against us, into our hands.
24 For who will obey you in this matter?
But as his part is that goeth down to the
battle, so shall his part be, that tarrieth
by the stuff: they shall part alike. 25 So
from that day forward he made it a
statute and a law in Israel, until this day.
26 When David therefore came to
Ziklag, he sent of the prey unto the elders
of Judah and to his friends, saying, See
there is a blessing for you of the spoil of
the enemies of the Lord.
27 He sent to them of Beth-el, and to
them of south Ramoth, and to them of
Jattir,
28 And to them of Aroer, and to them of
Siphmoth, and to them of Eshtemoa, 29
And to them of Rachal, and to them of
the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to
them of the cities of the Kenites,
30 And to them of Hormah, and to them
of Chor-ashan, and to them of Athach,
31 And to them of Hebron, and to all the
places where David and his men had
haunted.
1 But when David and his men were
come to Ziklag the third day, the
Amalekites had invaded upon the south,
even unto Ziklag, and had smitten Ziklag,
and burned it with fire,
2 And had taken the women that were
therein, prisoners, both small and great,
and slew not a man, but carried them
away, and went their ways. 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 prisoners. 4 Then David and the
people that was with him, lift up their
voices and wept, until they could weep
no more.
5 David's two wives were taken
prisoners also, Ahinoam the Jezreelite,
and Abigail the wife of Nabal the
Carmelite.
6 And David was in great sorrow: for
the people intended to stone him,
because the hearts of all the people were
vexed every man for his sons and for his
daughters: but David comforted himself
in the Lord his God. 7 And David said to
Abiathar the priest Ahimelech's son, I
pray thee, bring me the ephod. And
Abiathar brought the ephod to David.
8 Then David asked counsel at the Lord,
saying, Shall I follow after this
company? Shall I overtake them? And he
answered him, Follow: for thou shalt
surely overtake them, and recover all.
9 So David and the six hundred men that
were with him, went, and came to the
river Besor, where a part of them abode:
10 But David and four hundred men
followed (for two hundred abode
behind, being too weary to go over the
river Besor)
11 And they found an Egyptian in the
field, and brought him to David, and
gave him bread and he did eat, and they
gave him water to drink. 12 Also they
gave him a few figs, and two clusters of
raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit
came again to him: for he had eaten no
bread, nor drunk any water in three days,
and three nights.
13 And David said unto him, To whom
belongest thou? And whence art thou?
And he said, I am a young man of Egypt,
and servant to an Amalekite: and my
master left me three days ago, because I
fell sick.
14 We roved upon the south of Chereth,
and upon the coast belonging to Judah,
and upon the south of Caleb, and we
burned Ziklag with fire. 15 And David
said unto him, Canst thou bring me to
this company? And he said, Swear unto
me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me,
nor deliver me into the hands of my
master, and I will bring thee to this
company.
16 And when he had brought him thither,
behold, they lay scattered abroad upon
all the earth, eating and drinking, and
dancing, because of all the great prey
that they had taken out of the land of the
Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
17 And David smote them from the
twilight, even unto the evening of the
next morrow, so that there escaped not a
man of them, save four hundred young
men, which rode upon camels, and fled.
18 And David recovered all that the
Amalekites had taken: also David
rescued his two wives.
19 And they lacked nothing, small or
great, son or daughter, or of the spoil of
all that they had taken away: David
recovered them all.
20 David also took all the sheep, and the
oxen, and they drave them before his
cattle, and said, This is David's prey.
21 And David came to the two hundred
men that were too weary for to follow
David: whom they had made also to
abide at the river Besor: and they came
to meet David, and to meet the people
that were with him: so when David came
near to the people, he saluted them.
22 Then answered all the evil and
wicked of the men that went with David,
and said, Because they went not with us,
therefore will we give them none of the
prey that we have recovered, save to
every man his wife and his children:
therefore let them carry them away and
depart.
23 Then said David, Ye shall not do so,
my brethren, with that which the Lord
hath given us, who hath preserved us,
and delivered the company that came
against us, into our hands.
24 For who will obey you in this matter?
But as his part is that goeth down to the
battle, so shall his part be, that tarrieth
by the stuff: they shall part alike. 25 So
from that day forward he made it a
statute and a law in Israel, until this day.
26 When David therefore came to
Ziklag, he sent of the prey unto the elders
of Judah and to his friends, saying, See
there is a blessing for you of the spoil of
the enemies of the Lord.
27 He sent to them of Beth-el, and to
them of south Ramoth, and to them of
Jattir,
28 And to them of Aroer, and to them of
Siphmoth, and to them of Eshtemoa, 29
And to them of Rachal, and to them of
the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to
them of the cities of the Kenites,
30 And to them of Hormah, and to them
of Chor-ashan, and to them of Athach,
31 And to them of Hebron, and to all the
places where David and his men had
haunted.
1 Samuel Chapter 29
1 Samuel Chapter 29
1 So the Philistines were gathered
together with all their armies in Aphek:
and the Israelites pitched by the fountain,
which is in Jezreel.
2 And the princes of the Philistines went
forth by hundreds and thousands, but
David and his men came behind with
Achish.
3 Then said the princes of the
Philistines, What do these Hebrews
here? And Achish said unto the princes
of the Philistines, Is not this David the
servant of Saul the king of Israel, who
hath been with me these days, or these
years, and I have found nothing in him,
since he dwelt with me unto this day?
4 But the princes of the Philistines were
wroth with him, and the princes of the
Philistines said unto him, Send this
fellow back, that he may go again to his
place which thou hast appointed him,
and let him not go down with us to
battle, lest that in the battle he be an
adversary to us: for wherewith should he
obtain the favor of his master? Should it
not be with the heads of these men?
5 Is not this David, of whom they sang in
dances, saying, Saul slew his thousand,
and David his ten thousand?
6 Then Achish called David, and said
unto him, As the Lord liveth, thou hast
been upright and good in my sight, when
thou wentest out and in with me in the
host, neither have I found evil with thee,
since thou camest to me unto this day,
but the princes do not favor thee.
7 Wherefore now return, and go in
peace, that thou displease not the princes
of the Philistines.
8 And David said unto Achish, But what
have I done? And what hast thou found
in thy servant as long as I have been with
thee unto this day, that I may not go and
fight against the enemies of my lord the
king?
9 Achish then answered, and said to
David, I know thou pleasest me, as an
angel of God: but the princes of the
Philistines have said, Let him not go up
with us to battle.
10 Wherefore now rise up early in the
morning with thy master's servants that
are come with thee: and when ye be up
early, as soon as ye have light, depart.
11 So David and his men rose up early
to depart in the morning, and to return
into the land of the Philistines: and the
Philistines went up to Jezreel.
1 So the Philistines were gathered
together with all their armies in Aphek:
and the Israelites pitched by the fountain,
which is in Jezreel.
2 And the princes of the Philistines went
forth by hundreds and thousands, but
David and his men came behind with
Achish.
3 Then said the princes of the
Philistines, What do these Hebrews
here? And Achish said unto the princes
of the Philistines, Is not this David the
servant of Saul the king of Israel, who
hath been with me these days, or these
years, and I have found nothing in him,
since he dwelt with me unto this day?
4 But the princes of the Philistines were
wroth with him, and the princes of the
Philistines said unto him, Send this
fellow back, that he may go again to his
place which thou hast appointed him,
and let him not go down with us to
battle, lest that in the battle he be an
adversary to us: for wherewith should he
obtain the favor of his master? Should it
not be with the heads of these men?
5 Is not this David, of whom they sang in
dances, saying, Saul slew his thousand,
and David his ten thousand?
6 Then Achish called David, and said
unto him, As the Lord liveth, thou hast
been upright and good in my sight, when
thou wentest out and in with me in the
host, neither have I found evil with thee,
since thou camest to me unto this day,
but the princes do not favor thee.
7 Wherefore now return, and go in
peace, that thou displease not the princes
of the Philistines.
8 And David said unto Achish, But what
have I done? And what hast thou found
in thy servant as long as I have been with
thee unto this day, that I may not go and
fight against the enemies of my lord the
king?
9 Achish then answered, and said to
David, I know thou pleasest me, as an
angel of God: but the princes of the
Philistines have said, Let him not go up
with us to battle.
10 Wherefore now rise up early in the
morning with thy master's servants that
are come with thee: and when ye be up
early, as soon as ye have light, depart.
11 So David and his men rose up early
to depart in the morning, and to return
into the land of the Philistines: and the
Philistines went up to Jezreel.
1 Samuel Chapter 28
1 Samuel Chapter 28
1 Now at that time the Philistines
assembled their bands and army to fight
with Israel: therefore Achish said to
David, Be sure, thou shalt go out with
me to the battle, thou, and thy men.
2 And David said to Achish, Surely thou
shalt know, what thy servant can do. And
Achish said to David, Surely I will make
thee keeper of mine head forever.
3 (Samuel was then dead, and all Israel
had lamented him, and buried him in
Ramah his own city: and Saul had put
away the sorcerers, and the soothsayers
out of the land)
4 Then the Philistines assembled
themselves, and came, and pitched in
Shunem: and Saul assembled all Israel,
and they pitched in Gilboa. 5 And when
Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he
was afraid, and his heart was sore
astonied.
6 Therefore Saul asked counsel of the
Lord, and the Lord answered him not,
neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor yet
by prophets.
7 Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek
me a woman that hath a familiar spirit,
that I may go to her, and ask of her. And
his servants said to him, Behold, there is
a woman at En-dor that hath a familiar
spirit. 8 Then Saul changed 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,
conjecture unto me by the familiar spirit,
and bring me him up whom I shall name
unto thee.
9 And the woman said unto him, Behold,
thou knowest what Saul hath done, how
he hath destroyed the sorcerers, and the
soothsayers out of the land: wherefore
then seekest thou to take me in a snare to
cause me to die?
10 And Saul swear to her by the Lord,
saying, As the Lord liveth, no harm shall
come to thee for this thing.
11 Then said the woman, Whom shall I
bring up unto thee? And he answered,
Bring me up Samuel.
12 And when the woman saw Samuel,
she cried with a loud voice, and the
woman spake to Saul, saying, Why hast
thou deceived me? For thou art Saul. 13
And the king said unto her, Be not
afraid: for what sawest thou? And the
woman said unto Saul, I saw gods
ascending up out of the earth. 14 Then he
said unto her, What fashion is he of?
And she answered, An old man cometh
up lapped in a mantle: and Saul knew
that it was Samuel, and he inclined his
face to the ground, and bowed himself.
15 And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast
thou disquieted me, to bring me up?
Then Saul answered, I am in great
distress: for the Philistines make war
against me, and God is departed from
me, and answereth me no more, neither
by prophets, neither by dreams:
therefore I have called thee, that thou
mayest tell me, what I shall do.
16 Then said Samuel, Wherefore then
dost thou ask of me, seeing the Lord is
gone from thee, and is thine enemy?
17 Even the Lord hath done to him, as he
spake by mine hand: for the Lord will
rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and
give it thy neighbor David. 18 Because
thou obeyest not the voice of the Lord,
nor executest his fierce wrath upon the
Amalekites, therefore hath the Lord done
this unto thee this day.
19 Moreover the Lord will deliver
Israel with thee into the hands of the
Philistines: and tomorrow shalt thou and
thy sons be with me, and the Lord shall
give the host of Israel into the hands of
the Philistines. 20 Then Saul fell straight
way all along on the earth, and was sore
afraid because of the words of Samuel,
so that there was no strength in him: for
he had eaten no bread all the day nor all
the night.
21 Then the woman came unto Saul, and
saw that he was sore troubled, and said
unto him, See, thine handmaid hath
obeyed thy voice, and I have put my soul
in mine hand, and have obeyed thy
words which thou saidest unto me. 22
Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou
also unto the voice of thine handmaid,
and let me set a morsel of bread before
thee, that thou mayest eat and get thee
strength, and go on thy journey.
23 But he refused, and said, I will not
eat: but his servants and the woman
together compelled him, and he obeyed
their voice: so he arose from the earth,
and sat on the bed.
24 Now the woman had a fat calf in the
house, and she hasted, and killed it, and
took flour and kneaded it, and baked of it
unleavened bread. 25 Then she brought
them before Saul, and before his
servants: and when they had eaten, they
stood up, and went away the same night.
1 Now at that time the Philistines
assembled their bands and army to fight
with Israel: therefore Achish said to
David, Be sure, thou shalt go out with
me to the battle, thou, and thy men.
2 And David said to Achish, Surely thou
shalt know, what thy servant can do. And
Achish said to David, Surely I will make
thee keeper of mine head forever.
3 (Samuel was then dead, and all Israel
had lamented him, and buried him in
Ramah his own city: and Saul had put
away the sorcerers, and the soothsayers
out of the land)
4 Then the Philistines assembled
themselves, and came, and pitched in
Shunem: and Saul assembled all Israel,
and they pitched in Gilboa. 5 And when
Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he
was afraid, and his heart was sore
astonied.
6 Therefore Saul asked counsel of the
Lord, and the Lord answered him not,
neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor yet
by prophets.
7 Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek
me a woman that hath a familiar spirit,
that I may go to her, and ask of her. And
his servants said to him, Behold, there is
a woman at En-dor that hath a familiar
spirit. 8 Then Saul changed 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,
conjecture unto me by the familiar spirit,
and bring me him up whom I shall name
unto thee.
9 And the woman said unto him, Behold,
thou knowest what Saul hath done, how
he hath destroyed the sorcerers, and the
soothsayers out of the land: wherefore
then seekest thou to take me in a snare to
cause me to die?
10 And Saul swear to her by the Lord,
saying, As the Lord liveth, no harm shall
come to thee for this thing.
11 Then said the woman, Whom shall I
bring up unto thee? And he answered,
Bring me up Samuel.
12 And when the woman saw Samuel,
she cried with a loud voice, and the
woman spake to Saul, saying, Why hast
thou deceived me? For thou art Saul. 13
And the king said unto her, Be not
afraid: for what sawest thou? And the
woman said unto Saul, I saw gods
ascending up out of the earth. 14 Then he
said unto her, What fashion is he of?
And she answered, An old man cometh
up lapped in a mantle: and Saul knew
that it was Samuel, and he inclined his
face to the ground, and bowed himself.
15 And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast
thou disquieted me, to bring me up?
Then Saul answered, I am in great
distress: for the Philistines make war
against me, and God is departed from
me, and answereth me no more, neither
by prophets, neither by dreams:
therefore I have called thee, that thou
mayest tell me, what I shall do.
16 Then said Samuel, Wherefore then
dost thou ask of me, seeing the Lord is
gone from thee, and is thine enemy?
17 Even the Lord hath done to him, as he
spake by mine hand: for the Lord will
rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and
give it thy neighbor David. 18 Because
thou obeyest not the voice of the Lord,
nor executest his fierce wrath upon the
Amalekites, therefore hath the Lord done
this unto thee this day.
19 Moreover the Lord will deliver
Israel with thee into the hands of the
Philistines: and tomorrow shalt thou and
thy sons be with me, and the Lord shall
give the host of Israel into the hands of
the Philistines. 20 Then Saul fell straight
way all along on the earth, and was sore
afraid because of the words of Samuel,
so that there was no strength in him: for
he had eaten no bread all the day nor all
the night.
21 Then the woman came unto Saul, and
saw that he was sore troubled, and said
unto him, See, thine handmaid hath
obeyed thy voice, and I have put my soul
in mine hand, and have obeyed thy
words which thou saidest unto me. 22
Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou
also unto the voice of thine handmaid,
and let me set a morsel of bread before
thee, that thou mayest eat and get thee
strength, and go on thy journey.
23 But he refused, and said, I will not
eat: but his servants and the woman
together compelled him, and he obeyed
their voice: so he arose from the earth,
and sat on the bed.
24 Now the woman had a fat calf in the
house, and she hasted, and killed it, and
took flour and kneaded it, and baked of it
unleavened bread. 25 Then she brought
them before Saul, and before his
servants: and when they had eaten, they
stood up, and went away the same night.
1 Samuel Chapter 27
1 Samuel Chapter 27
1 And David said in his heart, I shall
now perish one day by the hand of Saul:
is it not better for me that I save myself
in the land of the Philistines, and that
Saul may have no hope of me to seek me
any more in all the coasts of Israel, and
so escape out of his hand?
2 David therefore arose, and he, and the
six hundred men that were with him,
went unto Achish the son of Maoch king
of Gath.
3 And David dwelt with Achish at Gath,
he, and his men, every man with his
household, David with his two wives,
Ahinoam the Jezreelite, and Abigail
Nabal's wife the Carmelite.
4 And it was told Saul that David was
fled to Gath: so he sought no more for
him.
5 And David said unto Achish, If I have
now found grace in thine eyes, let them
give me a place in some other city of the
country, that I may dwell there: for why
should thy servant dwell in the head city
of the kingdom with thee?
6 Then Achish gave him Ziklag that same
day: therefore Ziklag pertaineth unto the
kings of Judah unto this day.
7 And the time that David dwelt in the
country of the Philistines, was four
months and certain days.
8 Then David and his men went up, and
invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites,
and the Amalekites: for they inhabited
the land from the beginning, from the
way, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the
land of Egypt. 9 And David smote the
land, and left neither man nor woman
alive, and took sheep, and oxen, and
asses, and camels, and apparel, and
returned and came to Achish.
10 And Achish said, Where have ye
been a roving this day? And David
answered, Against the south of Judah,
and against the south of the
Jerahmeelites, and against the south of
the Kenites.
11 And David saved neither man nor
woman alive, to bring them to Gath,
saying, Lest they should tell on us, and
say, So did David, and so will be his
manner all the while that he dwelleth in
the country of the Philistines. 12 And
Achish believed David, saying, He hath
made his people of Israel utterly to
abhor him: therefore he shall be my
servant forever.
1 And David said in his heart, I shall
now perish one day by the hand of Saul:
is it not better for me that I save myself
in the land of the Philistines, and that
Saul may have no hope of me to seek me
any more in all the coasts of Israel, and
so escape out of his hand?
2 David therefore arose, and he, and the
six hundred men that were with him,
went unto Achish the son of Maoch king
of Gath.
3 And David dwelt with Achish at Gath,
he, and his men, every man with his
household, David with his two wives,
Ahinoam the Jezreelite, and Abigail
Nabal's wife the Carmelite.
4 And it was told Saul that David was
fled to Gath: so he sought no more for
him.
5 And David said unto Achish, If I have
now found grace in thine eyes, let them
give me a place in some other city of the
country, that I may dwell there: for why
should thy servant dwell in the head city
of the kingdom with thee?
6 Then Achish gave him Ziklag that same
day: therefore Ziklag pertaineth unto the
kings of Judah unto this day.
7 And the time that David dwelt in the
country of the Philistines, was four
months and certain days.
8 Then David and his men went up, and
invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites,
and the Amalekites: for they inhabited
the land from the beginning, from the
way, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the
land of Egypt. 9 And David smote the
land, and left neither man nor woman
alive, and took sheep, and oxen, and
asses, and camels, and apparel, and
returned and came to Achish.
10 And Achish said, Where have ye
been a roving this day? And David
answered, Against the south of Judah,
and against the south of the
Jerahmeelites, and against the south of
the Kenites.
11 And David saved neither man nor
woman alive, to bring them to Gath,
saying, Lest they should tell on us, and
say, So did David, and so will be his
manner all the while that he dwelleth in
the country of the Philistines. 12 And
Achish believed David, saying, He hath
made his people of Israel utterly to
abhor him: therefore he shall be my
servant forever.
1 Samuel Chapter 26
1 Samuel Chapter 26
1 Again the Ziphims came unto Saul to
Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide
himself in the hill of Hachilah before
Jeshimon?
2 Then Saul arose, and went down to the
wilderness of Ziph, having three
thousand chosen men of Israel with him,
for to seek David in the wilderness of
Ziph.
3 And Saul pitched in the hill of
Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon by
the wayside. Now David abode in the
wilderness, and he saw that Saul came
after him into the wilderness.
4 (For David had sent out spies, and
understood, that Saul was come in very
deed)
5 Then David arose, and came to the
place where Saul had pitched, and when
David beheld the place where Saul lay,
and Abner the son of Ner which was his
chief captain, (for Saul lay in the fort,
and the people pitched round about him)
6 Then spake 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 host? Then Abishai said, I will go
down with thee.
7 So David and Abishai came down to
the people by night: and behold, Saul lay
sleeping within the fort, and his spear
did stick in the ground at his head: and
Abner and the people lay round about
him.
8 Then said Abishai to David, God hath
closed thine enemy into thine hand this
day: now therefore, I pray thee, let me
smite him once with a spear to the earth,
and I will not smite him again.
9 And David said to Abishai, Destroy
him not: for who can lay his hand on the
Lord's anointed, and be guiltless?
10 Moreover David said, As the Lord
liveth, either the Lord shall smite him, or
his day shall come to die, or he shall
descend into battle, and perish. 11 The
Lord keep me from laying mine hand
upon the Lord's anointed: but, I pray
thee, take now the spear that is at his
head, and the pot of water, and let us go
hence.
12 So David took the spear and the pot
of water from Saul's head, and they gat
them away, and no man saw it, nor
marked it, neither did any awake, but
they were all asleep: for the Lord had
sent a dead sleep upon them. 13 Then
David went unto the other side, and
stood on the top of an hill afar off, a
great space being between them.
14 And David cried to the people, and to
Abner the son of Ner, saying, Hearest
thou not, Abner? Then Abner answered,
and said, Who art thou that cryest to the
king?
15 And David said to Abner, Art not
thou a man? And who is like thee in
Israel? wherefore then hast thou not kept
thy lord the king? For there came one of
the folk in to destroy the king thy lord.
16 This is not well done of thee: 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 pot of water that
was at his head. 17 And Saul knew
David's voice, and said, Is this thy
voice, my son David?
And David said, It is my voice, my lord
O king.
18 And he said, Wherefore doth my lord
thus persecute his servant? for what have
I done? Or what evil is in mine hand?
19 Now therefore, I beseech thee, let my
lord the king hear the words of his
servant. If the Lord have stirred thee up
against me, let him smell the savor of a
sacrifice: but if the children of men have
done it, cursed be they before the Lord:
for they have cast me out this day from
abiding in the inheritance of the Lord,
saying, Go, serve other gods.
20 Now therefore let not my blood fall
to the earth before the face of the Lord:
for the king of Israel is come out to seek
a flea, as one would hunt a partridge in
the mountains.
21 Then said Saul, I have sinned: come
again, my son David: for I will do thee
no more harm, because my soul was
precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I
have done foolishly, and have erred
exceedingly.
22 Then David answered, and said,
Behold the king's spear, let one of the
young men come over and fetch it.
23 And let the Lord reward every man
according to his righteousness and
faithfulness: for the Lord had delivered
thee into mine hands this day, but I
would not lay mine hand upon the Lord's
anointed.
24 And behold, like as thy life was much
set by this day in mine eyes: so let my
life be set by in the eyes of the Lord, that
he may deliver me out of all tribulation.
25 Then Saul said to David, Blessed art
thou, my son David: for thou shalt do
great things, and also prevail. So David
went his way, and Saul returned to his
place.
1 Again the Ziphims came unto Saul to
Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide
himself in the hill of Hachilah before
Jeshimon?
2 Then Saul arose, and went down to the
wilderness of Ziph, having three
thousand chosen men of Israel with him,
for to seek David in the wilderness of
Ziph.
3 And Saul pitched in the hill of
Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon by
the wayside. Now David abode in the
wilderness, and he saw that Saul came
after him into the wilderness.
4 (For David had sent out spies, and
understood, that Saul was come in very
deed)
5 Then David arose, and came to the
place where Saul had pitched, and when
David beheld the place where Saul lay,
and Abner the son of Ner which was his
chief captain, (for Saul lay in the fort,
and the people pitched round about him)
6 Then spake 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 host? Then Abishai said, I will go
down with thee.
7 So David and Abishai came down to
the people by night: and behold, Saul lay
sleeping within the fort, and his spear
did stick in the ground at his head: and
Abner and the people lay round about
him.
8 Then said Abishai to David, God hath
closed thine enemy into thine hand this
day: now therefore, I pray thee, let me
smite him once with a spear to the earth,
and I will not smite him again.
9 And David said to Abishai, Destroy
him not: for who can lay his hand on the
Lord's anointed, and be guiltless?
10 Moreover David said, As the Lord
liveth, either the Lord shall smite him, or
his day shall come to die, or he shall
descend into battle, and perish. 11 The
Lord keep me from laying mine hand
upon the Lord's anointed: but, I pray
thee, take now the spear that is at his
head, and the pot of water, and let us go
hence.
12 So David took the spear and the pot
of water from Saul's head, and they gat
them away, and no man saw it, nor
marked it, neither did any awake, but
they were all asleep: for the Lord had
sent a dead sleep upon them. 13 Then
David went unto the other side, and
stood on the top of an hill afar off, a
great space being between them.
14 And David cried to the people, and to
Abner the son of Ner, saying, Hearest
thou not, Abner? Then Abner answered,
and said, Who art thou that cryest to the
king?
15 And David said to Abner, Art not
thou a man? And who is like thee in
Israel? wherefore then hast thou not kept
thy lord the king? For there came one of
the folk in to destroy the king thy lord.
16 This is not well done of thee: 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 pot of water that
was at his head. 17 And Saul knew
David's voice, and said, Is this thy
voice, my son David?
And David said, It is my voice, my lord
O king.
18 And he said, Wherefore doth my lord
thus persecute his servant? for what have
I done? Or what evil is in mine hand?
19 Now therefore, I beseech thee, let my
lord the king hear the words of his
servant. If the Lord have stirred thee up
against me, let him smell the savor of a
sacrifice: but if the children of men have
done it, cursed be they before the Lord:
for they have cast me out this day from
abiding in the inheritance of the Lord,
saying, Go, serve other gods.
20 Now therefore let not my blood fall
to the earth before the face of the Lord:
for the king of Israel is come out to seek
a flea, as one would hunt a partridge in
the mountains.
21 Then said Saul, I have sinned: come
again, my son David: for I will do thee
no more harm, because my soul was
precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I
have done foolishly, and have erred
exceedingly.
22 Then David answered, and said,
Behold the king's spear, let one of the
young men come over and fetch it.
23 And let the Lord reward every man
according to his righteousness and
faithfulness: for the Lord had delivered
thee into mine hands this day, but I
would not lay mine hand upon the Lord's
anointed.
24 And behold, like as thy life was much
set by this day in mine eyes: so let my
life be set by in the eyes of the Lord, that
he may deliver me out of all tribulation.
25 Then Saul said to David, Blessed art
thou, my son David: for thou shalt do
great things, and also prevail. So David
went his way, and Saul returned to his
place.
1 Samuel Chapter 25
1 Samuel Chapter 25
1 Then Samuel died, and all Israel
assembled, and mourned for him, and
buried him in his own house at Ramah.
And David arose and went down to the
wilderness of Paran.
2 Now in Maon was a man, who had his
possession in Carmel, and the man was
exceeding mighty and had three thousand
sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was
shearing his sheep in Carmel.
3 The name also of the man was Nabal,
and the name of his wife Abigail, and
she was a woman of singular wisdom,
and beautiful, but the
man was churlish, and evil conditioned,
and was of the family of Caleb. 4 And
David heard in the wilderness, that
Nabal did shear his sheep. 5 Therefore
David sent ten young men, and David
said unto the young men, Go up to
Carmel, and go to Nabal, and ask him in
my name how he doeth. 6 And thus shall
ye say for salutation, Both thou, and
thine house, and all that thou hast, be in
peace, wealth and prosperity.
7 Behold, I have heard, that thou hast
shearers: now thy shepherds were with
us, and we did them no hurt, neither did
they miss anything all the while they
were in Carmel.
8 Ask thy servants and they will show
thee. Wherefore let these young men find
favor in thine eyes: (for we come in a
good season) give, I pray thee,
whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy
servants, and to thy son David. 9 And
when David's young men came, they told
Nabal all those words in the name of
David, and held their peace.
10 Then Nabal answered David's
servants, and said, Who is David? And
who is the son of Jesse? There be many
servants now a days, that break away
every man from his master.
11 Shall I then take my bread, and my
water, and my flesh that I have killed for
my shearers, and give it unto men, whom
I know not whence they be?
12 So David's servants turned their way,
and went again, and came, and told him
all those things.
13 And David said unto his men, Gird
every man his sword about him. And
they girded every man his sword: David
also girded his sword. And about four
hundred men went up after David, and
two hundred abode by the carriage. 14
Now one of the servants told Abigail
Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent
messengers out of the wilderness to
salute our master, and he railed on them.
15 Notwithstanding the men were very
good unto us, and we had no
displeasure, neither missed we anything
as long as we were conversant with
them, when we were in the fields.
16 They were as a wall unto us both by
night and by day, all the while we were
with them keeping sheep.
17 Now therefore take heed, and see
what thou shalt do: for evil will surely
come upon our master, and upon all his
family: for he is so wicked that a man
cannot speak to him.
18 Then Abigail made haste, and took
two hundred cakes, and two bottles of
wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and
five measures of parched corn, and an
hundred frails of raisins, and two
hundred of figs, and laded them on asses.
19 Then she said unto her servants, Go
ye before me: behold, I will come after
you: yet she told not her husband Nabal.
20 And as she rode on her ass, she came
down by a secret place of the mountain,
and behold, David and his men came
down against her, and she met them.
21 And David said, Indeed I have kept
all in vain that this fellow had in the
wilderness, so that nothing was missed
of all that pertained unto him: for he hath
requited me evil for good.
22 So and more also do God unto the
enemies of David: for surely I will not
leave of all that he hath, by the dawning
of the day, any that pisseth against the
wall.
23 And when Abigail saw David, she
hasted and lighted off her ass, and fell
before David on her face, and bowed
herself to the ground,
24 And fell at his feet, and said, Oh, my
lord, I have committed the iniquity, and I
pray thee, let thine handmaid speak to
thee, and hear thou the words of thine
handmaid.
25 Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard
this wicked man Nabal: for as his name
is, so is he: Nabal is his name, and folly
is with him: but I thine handmaid saw
not the young men of my lord whom thou
sentest.
26 Now therefore my lord, as the Lord
liveth, and as thy soul liveth (the Lord, I
say, that hath withholden thee from
coming to shed blood, and that thine
hand should not save thee) so now thine
enemies shall be as Nabal, and they that
intend to do my lord evil.
27 And now, this blessing which thine
handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let
it be given unto the young men, that
follow my lord.
28 I pray thee, forgive the trespass of
thine handmaid: for the Lord will make
my lord a sure house, because my lord
fighteth the battles of the Lord, and none
evil hath been found in thee in all thy
life.
29 Yet a man hath risen up to persecute
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 soul
of thine enemies shall God cast out, as
out of the middle of a sling. 30 And
when the Lord shall have done to my
lord all the good that he hath promised
thee, and shall have made thee ruler over
Israel,
31 Then shall it be no grief unto thee,
nor offence of mind unto my lord, that he
hath not shed blood causeless, nor that
my lord hath not preserved himself: and
when the Lord shall have dealt well with
my lord, remember thine handmaid.
32 Then David said to Abigail, Blessed
be the Lord God of Israel, which sent
thee this day to meet me.
33 And blessed be thy counsel, and
blessed be thou, which hast kept me this
day from coming to shed blood, and that
mine hand hath not saved me. 34 For
indeed, as the Lord God of Israel liveth,
who hath kept me back from hurting thee,
except thou hadst hasted and met me,
surely there had not been left unto Nabal
by the dawning of the day, any that
pisseth against the wall. 35 Then David
received of her hand that which she had
brought him, and said to her, Go up in
peace to thine house: behold, I have
heard thy voice, and have granted thy
petition.
36 So Abigail came to Nabal, and
behold, he made a feast in his house, like
the feast of a king, and Nabal's heart was
merry within him, for he was very
drunken: wherefore she told him nothing,
neither less nor more, until the morning
arose.
37 Then in the morning when the wine
was gone out of Nabal, his wife told him
those words, and his heart died within
him, and he was like a stone. 38 And
about ten days after, the Lord smote
Nabal, that he died. 39 Now when
David heard, that Nabal was dead, he
said, Blessed be the Lord that hath
judged the cause of my rebuke of the
hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant
from evil: for the Lord hath
recompensed the wickedness of Nabal
upon his own head. Also David sent to
commune with Abigail to take her to his
wife.
40 And when the servants of David were
come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake
unto her, saying, David sent us to thee, to
take thee to his wife. 41 And she arose,
and bowed herself on her face to the
earth, and said, Behold, let thine
handmaid be a servant to wash the feet
of the servants of my lord.
42 And Abigail hasted, and arose, and
rode upon an ass, and her five maids
followed her, and she went after the
messengers of David, and was his wife.
43 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel,
and they were both his wives. 44 Now
Saul had given Michal his daughter
David's wife to Palti the son of Laish,
which was of Gallim.
1 Then Samuel died, and all Israel
assembled, and mourned for him, and
buried him in his own house at Ramah.
And David arose and went down to the
wilderness of Paran.
2 Now in Maon was a man, who had his
possession in Carmel, and the man was
exceeding mighty and had three thousand
sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was
shearing his sheep in Carmel.
3 The name also of the man was Nabal,
and the name of his wife Abigail, and
she was a woman of singular wisdom,
and beautiful, but the
man was churlish, and evil conditioned,
and was of the family of Caleb. 4 And
David heard in the wilderness, that
Nabal did shear his sheep. 5 Therefore
David sent ten young men, and David
said unto the young men, Go up to
Carmel, and go to Nabal, and ask him in
my name how he doeth. 6 And thus shall
ye say for salutation, Both thou, and
thine house, and all that thou hast, be in
peace, wealth and prosperity.
7 Behold, I have heard, that thou hast
shearers: now thy shepherds were with
us, and we did them no hurt, neither did
they miss anything all the while they
were in Carmel.
8 Ask thy servants and they will show
thee. Wherefore let these young men find
favor in thine eyes: (for we come in a
good season) give, I pray thee,
whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy
servants, and to thy son David. 9 And
when David's young men came, they told
Nabal all those words in the name of
David, and held their peace.
10 Then Nabal answered David's
servants, and said, Who is David? And
who is the son of Jesse? There be many
servants now a days, that break away
every man from his master.
11 Shall I then take my bread, and my
water, and my flesh that I have killed for
my shearers, and give it unto men, whom
I know not whence they be?
12 So David's servants turned their way,
and went again, and came, and told him
all those things.
13 And David said unto his men, Gird
every man his sword about him. And
they girded every man his sword: David
also girded his sword. And about four
hundred men went up after David, and
two hundred abode by the carriage. 14
Now one of the servants told Abigail
Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent
messengers out of the wilderness to
salute our master, and he railed on them.
15 Notwithstanding the men were very
good unto us, and we had no
displeasure, neither missed we anything
as long as we were conversant with
them, when we were in the fields.
16 They were as a wall unto us both by
night and by day, all the while we were
with them keeping sheep.
17 Now therefore take heed, and see
what thou shalt do: for evil will surely
come upon our master, and upon all his
family: for he is so wicked that a man
cannot speak to him.
18 Then Abigail made haste, and took
two hundred cakes, and two bottles of
wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and
five measures of parched corn, and an
hundred frails of raisins, and two
hundred of figs, and laded them on asses.
19 Then she said unto her servants, Go
ye before me: behold, I will come after
you: yet she told not her husband Nabal.
20 And as she rode on her ass, she came
down by a secret place of the mountain,
and behold, David and his men came
down against her, and she met them.
21 And David said, Indeed I have kept
all in vain that this fellow had in the
wilderness, so that nothing was missed
of all that pertained unto him: for he hath
requited me evil for good.
22 So and more also do God unto the
enemies of David: for surely I will not
leave of all that he hath, by the dawning
of the day, any that pisseth against the
wall.
23 And when Abigail saw David, she
hasted and lighted off her ass, and fell
before David on her face, and bowed
herself to the ground,
24 And fell at his feet, and said, Oh, my
lord, I have committed the iniquity, and I
pray thee, let thine handmaid speak to
thee, and hear thou the words of thine
handmaid.
25 Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard
this wicked man Nabal: for as his name
is, so is he: Nabal is his name, and folly
is with him: but I thine handmaid saw
not the young men of my lord whom thou
sentest.
26 Now therefore my lord, as the Lord
liveth, and as thy soul liveth (the Lord, I
say, that hath withholden thee from
coming to shed blood, and that thine
hand should not save thee) so now thine
enemies shall be as Nabal, and they that
intend to do my lord evil.
27 And now, this blessing which thine
handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let
it be given unto the young men, that
follow my lord.
28 I pray thee, forgive the trespass of
thine handmaid: for the Lord will make
my lord a sure house, because my lord
fighteth the battles of the Lord, and none
evil hath been found in thee in all thy
life.
29 Yet a man hath risen up to persecute
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 soul
of thine enemies shall God cast out, as
out of the middle of a sling. 30 And
when the Lord shall have done to my
lord all the good that he hath promised
thee, and shall have made thee ruler over
Israel,
31 Then shall it be no grief unto thee,
nor offence of mind unto my lord, that he
hath not shed blood causeless, nor that
my lord hath not preserved himself: and
when the Lord shall have dealt well with
my lord, remember thine handmaid.
32 Then David said to Abigail, Blessed
be the Lord God of Israel, which sent
thee this day to meet me.
33 And blessed be thy counsel, and
blessed be thou, which hast kept me this
day from coming to shed blood, and that
mine hand hath not saved me. 34 For
indeed, as the Lord God of Israel liveth,
who hath kept me back from hurting thee,
except thou hadst hasted and met me,
surely there had not been left unto Nabal
by the dawning of the day, any that
pisseth against the wall. 35 Then David
received of her hand that which she had
brought him, and said to her, Go up in
peace to thine house: behold, I have
heard thy voice, and have granted thy
petition.
36 So Abigail came to Nabal, and
behold, he made a feast in his house, like
the feast of a king, and Nabal's heart was
merry within him, for he was very
drunken: wherefore she told him nothing,
neither less nor more, until the morning
arose.
37 Then in the morning when the wine
was gone out of Nabal, his wife told him
those words, and his heart died within
him, and he was like a stone. 38 And
about ten days after, the Lord smote
Nabal, that he died. 39 Now when
David heard, that Nabal was dead, he
said, Blessed be the Lord that hath
judged the cause of my rebuke of the
hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant
from evil: for the Lord hath
recompensed the wickedness of Nabal
upon his own head. Also David sent to
commune with Abigail to take her to his
wife.
40 And when the servants of David were
come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake
unto her, saying, David sent us to thee, to
take thee to his wife. 41 And she arose,
and bowed herself on her face to the
earth, and said, Behold, let thine
handmaid be a servant to wash the feet
of the servants of my lord.
42 And Abigail hasted, and arose, and
rode upon an ass, and her five maids
followed her, and she went after the
messengers of David, and was his wife.
43 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel,
and they were both his wives. 44 Now
Saul had given Michal his daughter
David's wife to Palti the son of Laish,
which was of Gallim.
1 Samuel Chapter 24
1 Samuel Chapter 24
1 (24:2) When Saul was turned from the
Philistines, they told him, saying,
Behold, David is in the wilderness of
En-gedi.
2 (24:3) Then Saul took three thousand
chosen men out of all Israel, and went to
seek David and his men upon the rocks
among the wild goats. 3 (24:4) And he
came to the sheepcotes by the way
where there was a cave, and Saul went
in to do his easement: and David and his
men sat in the inward parts of the cave.
4 (24:5) And the men of David said unto
him, See, the day is come, whereof the
Lord said unto thee, Behold, I will
deliver thine enemy into thine hand, and
thou shalt do to him as it shall seem
good to thee. Then David arose and cut
off the lap of Saul's garment privily.
5 (24:6) And afterward David was
touched in his heart, because he had cut
off the lap which was on Saul's garment.
6 (24:7) And he said unto his men, The
Lord keep me from doing that thing unto
my master the Lord's anointed, to lay
mine hand upon him: for he is the
anointed of the Lord.
7 (24:8) So David overcame his
servants with these words, and suffered
them not to arise against Saul: so Saul
rose up out of the cave and went away. 8
(24:9) David also arose afterward, and
went out of the cave, and cried after
Saul, saying, O my lord the king. And
when Saul looked behind him, David
inclined his face to the earth, and bowed
himself.
9 (24:10) And David said to Saul,
Wherefore givest thou an ear to men's
words, that say, Behold, David seeketh
evil against thee?
10 (24:11) Behold, this day thine eyes
have seen, that the Lord had delivered
thee this day into mine hand in the cave,
and some bade me kill thee, but I had
compassion on thee, and said, I will not
lay mine hand on my master: for he is the
Lord's anointed.
11 (24:12) Moreover my father, behold:
behold, I say, the lap of thy garment in
mine hand: for when I cut off the lap of
thy garment, I killed thee not. Understand
and see, that there is neither evil nor
wickedness in me, neither have I sinned
against thee, yet thou huntest after my
soul to take it. 12 (24:13) The Lord be
judge between thee and me, and the Lord
avenge me of thee, and let not mine hand
be upon thee.
13 (24:14) According as the old proverb
sayeth, Wickedness proceedeth from the
wicked, but mine hand be not upon thee.
14 (24:15) After whom is the king of
Israel come out? After whom dost thou
pursue? After a dead dog, and after a
flea?
15 (24:16) The Lord therefore be judge,
and judge between thee and me, and see,
and plead my cause, and deliver me out
of thine hand.
16 (24:17) When David had made an
end of speaking these words to Saul,
Saul said, Is this thy voice, my son
David? And Saul lift up his voice, and
wept,
17 (24:18) And said to David, Thou art
more righteous than I: for thou hast
rendered me good, and I have rendered
thee evil.
18 (24:19) And thou hast showed this
day, that thou hast dealt well with me:
forasmuch as when the Lord had closed
me in thine hands, thou killest me not.
19 (24:20) For who shall find his
enemy, and let him depart free?
Wherefore the Lord render thee good for
that thou hast done unto me this day. 20
(24:21) For now behold, I know that
thou shalt be king, and that the kingdom
of Israel shall be stablished in thine
hand.
21 (24:22) Swear now therefore unto me
by the Lord, that thou wilt not destroy my
seed after me, and that thou wilt not
abolish my name out of my father's
house.
22 (24:23) So David swear unto Saul,
and Saul went home: but David and his
men went up unto the hold.
1 (24:2) When Saul was turned from the
Philistines, they told him, saying,
Behold, David is in the wilderness of
En-gedi.
2 (24:3) Then Saul took three thousand
chosen men out of all Israel, and went to
seek David and his men upon the rocks
among the wild goats. 3 (24:4) And he
came to the sheepcotes by the way
where there was a cave, and Saul went
in to do his easement: and David and his
men sat in the inward parts of the cave.
4 (24:5) And the men of David said unto
him, See, the day is come, whereof the
Lord said unto thee, Behold, I will
deliver thine enemy into thine hand, and
thou shalt do to him as it shall seem
good to thee. Then David arose and cut
off the lap of Saul's garment privily.
5 (24:6) And afterward David was
touched in his heart, because he had cut
off the lap which was on Saul's garment.
6 (24:7) And he said unto his men, The
Lord keep me from doing that thing unto
my master the Lord's anointed, to lay
mine hand upon him: for he is the
anointed of the Lord.
7 (24:8) So David overcame his
servants with these words, and suffered
them not to arise against Saul: so Saul
rose up out of the cave and went away. 8
(24:9) David also arose afterward, and
went out of the cave, and cried after
Saul, saying, O my lord the king. And
when Saul looked behind him, David
inclined his face to the earth, and bowed
himself.
9 (24:10) And David said to Saul,
Wherefore givest thou an ear to men's
words, that say, Behold, David seeketh
evil against thee?
10 (24:11) Behold, this day thine eyes
have seen, that the Lord had delivered
thee this day into mine hand in the cave,
and some bade me kill thee, but I had
compassion on thee, and said, I will not
lay mine hand on my master: for he is the
Lord's anointed.
11 (24:12) Moreover my father, behold:
behold, I say, the lap of thy garment in
mine hand: for when I cut off the lap of
thy garment, I killed thee not. Understand
and see, that there is neither evil nor
wickedness in me, neither have I sinned
against thee, yet thou huntest after my
soul to take it. 12 (24:13) The Lord be
judge between thee and me, and the Lord
avenge me of thee, and let not mine hand
be upon thee.
13 (24:14) According as the old proverb
sayeth, Wickedness proceedeth from the
wicked, but mine hand be not upon thee.
14 (24:15) After whom is the king of
Israel come out? After whom dost thou
pursue? After a dead dog, and after a
flea?
15 (24:16) The Lord therefore be judge,
and judge between thee and me, and see,
and plead my cause, and deliver me out
of thine hand.
16 (24:17) When David had made an
end of speaking these words to Saul,
Saul said, Is this thy voice, my son
David? And Saul lift up his voice, and
wept,
17 (24:18) And said to David, Thou art
more righteous than I: for thou hast
rendered me good, and I have rendered
thee evil.
18 (24:19) And thou hast showed this
day, that thou hast dealt well with me:
forasmuch as when the Lord had closed
me in thine hands, thou killest me not.
19 (24:20) For who shall find his
enemy, and let him depart free?
Wherefore the Lord render thee good for
that thou hast done unto me this day. 20
(24:21) For now behold, I know that
thou shalt be king, and that the kingdom
of Israel shall be stablished in thine
hand.
21 (24:22) Swear now therefore unto me
by the Lord, that thou wilt not destroy my
seed after me, and that thou wilt not
abolish my name out of my father's
house.
22 (24:23) So David swear unto Saul,
and Saul went home: but David and his
men went up unto the hold.
1 Samuel Chapter 23
1 Samuel Chapter 23
1 Then they told David, saying, Behold,
the Philistines fight against Keilah, and
spoil the barns.
2 Therefore David asked counsel of the
Lord, saying, Shall I go and smite these
Philistines? And the Lord answered
David, Go and smite the Philistines, and
save Keilah.
3 And David's men said unto him, See,
we be afraid here in Judah, how much
more if we come to Keilah against the
host of the Philistines?
4 Then David asked counsel of the Lord
again. And the Lord answered him, and
said, Arise, go down to Keilah: for I
will deliver the Philistines into thine
hand.
5 So David and his men went to Keilah,
and fought with the Philistines, and
brought away their cattle, and smote
them with a great slaughter: thus David
saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
6 (And when Abiathar the son of
Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, he
brought an ephod with him)
7 And it was told Saul that David was
come to Keilah, and Saul said, God hath
delivered him into mine hand: for he is
shut in, seeing he is come into a city that
hath gates and bars.
8 Then Saul called all the people
together to war, for to go down to
Keilah, and to besiege David and his
men.
9 And David having knowledge that Saul
imagined mischief against him, said to
Abiathar the priest, Bring the ephod.
10 Then said David, O Lord God of
Israel, thy servant hath heard, that Saul is
about to come to Keilah to destroy the
city for my sake.
11 Will the lords of Keilah deliver me
up into his hand? And will Saul come
down, as thy servant hath heard? O Lord
God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy
servant. And the Lord said, He will
come down.
12 Then said David; Will the lords of
Keilah deliver me up, and the men that
are with me, into the hand of Saul? And
the Lord said, They will deliver thee up.
13 Then David and his men, which were
about six hundred, arose, and departed
out of Keilah, and went whither they
could. And it was told Saul, that David
was fled from Keilah, and he left off his
journey.
14 And David abode in the wilderness
in holds, and remained in a mountain in
the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought
him every day, but God delivered him
not into his hand.
15 And David saw that Saul was come
out for to seek his life: and David was in
the wilderness of Ziph in the wood.
16 And Jonathan Saul's son arose and
went to David into the wood, and
comforted him in God,
17 And said unto him, Fear not: for the
hand of Saul my father shall not find
thee, and thou shalt be king over Israel,
and I shall be next unto thee: and also
Saul my father knoweth it.
18 So they twain made a covenant
before the Lord: and David did remain
in the wood: but Jonathan went to his
house.
19 Then came up the Ziphims to Saul to
Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide
himself by us in holds, in the wood in the
hill of Hachilah, which is on the right
side of Jeshimon?
20 Now therefore, O king, come down
according to all that thine heart can
desire, and our part shall be to deliver
him into the king's hands. 21 Then Saul
said, Be ye blessed of the Lord: for ye
have had compassion on me.
22 Go, I pray you, and prepare yet
better: know and see his place where he
haunteth, and who hath seen him there:
for it is said to me, He is subtle, and
crafty.
23 See therefore and know all the secret
places where he hideth himself, and
come ye again to me with the certainty,
and I will go with you: and if he be in
the land, I will search him out throughout
all the thousands of Judah. 24 Then they
arose and went to Ziph before Saul, but
David and his men were in the
wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the
right hand of Jeshimon.
25 Saul also and his men went to seek
him, and they told David: wherefore he
came down unto a rock, and abode in the
wilderness of Maon. And when Saul
heard that, he followed after David in
the wilderness of Maon.
26 And Saul and his men went on the
one side of the mountain, and David and
his men on the other side of the
mountain: and David made haste to get
from the presence of Saul: for Saul and
his men compassed David and his men
round about, to take them.
27 But there came a messenger to Saul,
saying, Haste thee, and come: for the
Philistines have invaded the land.
28 Wherefore Saul returned from
pursuing David, and went against the
Philistines. Therefore they called that
place, Sela-hammahlekoth. 29 (24:1)
And David went thence, and dwelt in
holds at En-gedi.
1 Then they told David, saying, Behold,
the Philistines fight against Keilah, and
spoil the barns.
2 Therefore David asked counsel of the
Lord, saying, Shall I go and smite these
Philistines? And the Lord answered
David, Go and smite the Philistines, and
save Keilah.
3 And David's men said unto him, See,
we be afraid here in Judah, how much
more if we come to Keilah against the
host of the Philistines?
4 Then David asked counsel of the Lord
again. And the Lord answered him, and
said, Arise, go down to Keilah: for I
will deliver the Philistines into thine
hand.
5 So David and his men went to Keilah,
and fought with the Philistines, and
brought away their cattle, and smote
them with a great slaughter: thus David
saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
6 (And when Abiathar the son of
Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, he
brought an ephod with him)
7 And it was told Saul that David was
come to Keilah, and Saul said, God hath
delivered him into mine hand: for he is
shut in, seeing he is come into a city that
hath gates and bars.
8 Then Saul called all the people
together to war, for to go down to
Keilah, and to besiege David and his
men.
9 And David having knowledge that Saul
imagined mischief against him, said to
Abiathar the priest, Bring the ephod.
10 Then said David, O Lord God of
Israel, thy servant hath heard, that Saul is
about to come to Keilah to destroy the
city for my sake.
11 Will the lords of Keilah deliver me
up into his hand? And will Saul come
down, as thy servant hath heard? O Lord
God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy
servant. And the Lord said, He will
come down.
12 Then said David; Will the lords of
Keilah deliver me up, and the men that
are with me, into the hand of Saul? And
the Lord said, They will deliver thee up.
13 Then David and his men, which were
about six hundred, arose, and departed
out of Keilah, and went whither they
could. And it was told Saul, that David
was fled from Keilah, and he left off his
journey.
14 And David abode in the wilderness
in holds, and remained in a mountain in
the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought
him every day, but God delivered him
not into his hand.
15 And David saw that Saul was come
out for to seek his life: and David was in
the wilderness of Ziph in the wood.
16 And Jonathan Saul's son arose and
went to David into the wood, and
comforted him in God,
17 And said unto him, Fear not: for the
hand of Saul my father shall not find
thee, and thou shalt be king over Israel,
and I shall be next unto thee: and also
Saul my father knoweth it.
18 So they twain made a covenant
before the Lord: and David did remain
in the wood: but Jonathan went to his
house.
19 Then came up the Ziphims to Saul to
Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide
himself by us in holds, in the wood in the
hill of Hachilah, which is on the right
side of Jeshimon?
20 Now therefore, O king, come down
according to all that thine heart can
desire, and our part shall be to deliver
him into the king's hands. 21 Then Saul
said, Be ye blessed of the Lord: for ye
have had compassion on me.
22 Go, I pray you, and prepare yet
better: know and see his place where he
haunteth, and who hath seen him there:
for it is said to me, He is subtle, and
crafty.
23 See therefore and know all the secret
places where he hideth himself, and
come ye again to me with the certainty,
and I will go with you: and if he be in
the land, I will search him out throughout
all the thousands of Judah. 24 Then they
arose and went to Ziph before Saul, but
David and his men were in the
wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the
right hand of Jeshimon.
25 Saul also and his men went to seek
him, and they told David: wherefore he
came down unto a rock, and abode in the
wilderness of Maon. And when Saul
heard that, he followed after David in
the wilderness of Maon.
26 And Saul and his men went on the
one side of the mountain, and David and
his men on the other side of the
mountain: and David made haste to get
from the presence of Saul: for Saul and
his men compassed David and his men
round about, to take them.
27 But there came a messenger to Saul,
saying, Haste thee, and come: for the
Philistines have invaded the land.
28 Wherefore Saul returned from
pursuing David, and went against the
Philistines. Therefore they called that
place, Sela-hammahlekoth. 29 (24:1)
And David went thence, and dwelt in
holds at En-gedi.
1 Samuel Chapter 22
1 Samuel Chapter 22
1 David therefore departed thence, and
saved himself in the cave of Adullam:
and when his brethren and all his father's
house heard it, they went down thither to
him.
2 And there gathered unto him all men
that were in trouble and all men that
were in debt, and all those that were
vexed in mind, and he was their prince,
and there were with him about four
hundred men.
3 And David went thence to Mizpeh in
Moab, and said unto the king of Moab, I
pray thee, let my father and my mother
come and abide with you, till I know
what God will do for me.
4 And he brought them before the king of
Moab, and they dwelt with him all the
while that David kept himself in the
hold.
5 And the prophet Gad said unto David,
Abide not in the hold, but depart and go
into the land of Judah. Then David
departed and came into the forest of
Hareth.
6 And Saul heard that David was
discovered, and the men that were with
him, and Saul remained in Gibeah under
a tree in Ramah, having his spear in his
hand, and all his men stood about him.
7 And Saul said unto his servants that
stood about him, Hear now, ye sons of
Jemini, will the son of Jesse give every
one of you fields and vineyards: will he
make you all captains over thousands,
and captains over hundreds: 8 That all
ye have conspired against me, and there
is none that telleth me that my son hath
made a covenant with the son of Jesse?
And there is none of you that is sorry for
me, or showeth me, that my son hath
stirred up my servant to lie in wait
against me, as appeareth this day?
9 Then answered Doeg the Edomite
(who was appointed over the servants of
Saul) and said, I saw the son of Jesse
when he came to Nob, to Ahimelech the
son of Ahitub,
10 Who asked counsel of the Lord for
him and gave him victuals, and he gave
him also the sword of Goliath the
Philistine.
11 Then the king sent to call Ahimelech
the priest the son of Ahitub, and all his
father's house, to wit, the priests that
were in Nob: and they came all to the
king.
12 And Saul said, Hear now thou son of
Ahitub. And he answered, Here I am, my
lord.
13 Then Saul said unto him, Why have
ye conspired against me, thou and the
son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him
victual, and a sword, and hast asked
counsel of God for him, that he should
rise against me, and lie in wait as
appeareth this day?
14 And Ahimelech answered the king,
and said, Who is so faithful among all
thy servants as David, being also the
king's son in law, and goeth at thy
commandment, and is honorable in thine
house?
15 Have I this day first begun to ask
counsel of God for him? Be it far from
me, let not the king impute anything unto
his servant, nor to all the house of my
father: for thy servant knew nothing of
all this, less nor more. 16 Then the king
said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech,
thou, and all thy father's house.
17 And the king said unto the sergeants
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 showed it not
unto me. But the servants of the king
would not move their hands to fall upon
the priests of the Lord. 18 Then the king
said to Doeg, Turn thou and fall upon the
priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned,
and ran upon the priests, and slew that
same day fourscore and five persons that
did wear a linen ephod.
19 Also Nob the city of the priests smote
he with the edge of the sword, both man
and woman, both child and suckling,
both ox and ass, and sheep with the edge
of the sword.
20 But one of the sons of Ahimelech the
son of Ahitub (whose
name was Abiathar) escaped and fled
after David.
21 And Abiathar showed David, that
Saul had slain the Lord's priests. 22 And
David said unto Abiathar, I knew it the
same day, when Doeg the Edomite was
there, that he would tell Saul. I am the
cause of the death of all the persons of
thy father's house.
23 Abide thou with me, and fear not: for
he that seeketh my life, shall seek thy life
also: for with me thou shalt be in
safeguard.
1 David therefore departed thence, and
saved himself in the cave of Adullam:
and when his brethren and all his father's
house heard it, they went down thither to
him.
2 And there gathered unto him all men
that were in trouble and all men that
were in debt, and all those that were
vexed in mind, and he was their prince,
and there were with him about four
hundred men.
3 And David went thence to Mizpeh in
Moab, and said unto the king of Moab, I
pray thee, let my father and my mother
come and abide with you, till I know
what God will do for me.
4 And he brought them before the king of
Moab, and they dwelt with him all the
while that David kept himself in the
hold.
5 And the prophet Gad said unto David,
Abide not in the hold, but depart and go
into the land of Judah. Then David
departed and came into the forest of
Hareth.
6 And Saul heard that David was
discovered, and the men that were with
him, and Saul remained in Gibeah under
a tree in Ramah, having his spear in his
hand, and all his men stood about him.
7 And Saul said unto his servants that
stood about him, Hear now, ye sons of
Jemini, will the son of Jesse give every
one of you fields and vineyards: will he
make you all captains over thousands,
and captains over hundreds: 8 That all
ye have conspired against me, and there
is none that telleth me that my son hath
made a covenant with the son of Jesse?
And there is none of you that is sorry for
me, or showeth me, that my son hath
stirred up my servant to lie in wait
against me, as appeareth this day?
9 Then answered Doeg the Edomite
(who was appointed over the servants of
Saul) and said, I saw the son of Jesse
when he came to Nob, to Ahimelech the
son of Ahitub,
10 Who asked counsel of the Lord for
him and gave him victuals, and he gave
him also the sword of Goliath the
Philistine.
11 Then the king sent to call Ahimelech
the priest the son of Ahitub, and all his
father's house, to wit, the priests that
were in Nob: and they came all to the
king.
12 And Saul said, Hear now thou son of
Ahitub. And he answered, Here I am, my
lord.
13 Then Saul said unto him, Why have
ye conspired against me, thou and the
son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him
victual, and a sword, and hast asked
counsel of God for him, that he should
rise against me, and lie in wait as
appeareth this day?
14 And Ahimelech answered the king,
and said, Who is so faithful among all
thy servants as David, being also the
king's son in law, and goeth at thy
commandment, and is honorable in thine
house?
15 Have I this day first begun to ask
counsel of God for him? Be it far from
me, let not the king impute anything unto
his servant, nor to all the house of my
father: for thy servant knew nothing of
all this, less nor more. 16 Then the king
said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech,
thou, and all thy father's house.
17 And the king said unto the sergeants
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 showed it not
unto me. But the servants of the king
would not move their hands to fall upon
the priests of the Lord. 18 Then the king
said to Doeg, Turn thou and fall upon the
priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned,
and ran upon the priests, and slew that
same day fourscore and five persons that
did wear a linen ephod.
19 Also Nob the city of the priests smote
he with the edge of the sword, both man
and woman, both child and suckling,
both ox and ass, and sheep with the edge
of the sword.
20 But one of the sons of Ahimelech the
son of Ahitub (whose
name was Abiathar) escaped and fled
after David.
21 And Abiathar showed David, that
Saul had slain the Lord's priests. 22 And
David said unto Abiathar, I knew it the
same day, when Doeg the Edomite was
there, that he would tell Saul. I am the
cause of the death of all the persons of
thy father's house.
23 Abide thou with me, and fear not: for
he that seeketh my life, shall seek thy life
also: for with me thou shalt be in
safeguard.
1 Samuel Chapter 21
1 Samuel Chapter 21
1 Then came David to Nob, to
Ahimelech the priest, and Ahimelech
was astonied at the meeting of David,
and said unto him, Why art thou alone,
and no man with thee?
2 And David said to Ahimelech the
priest, The king hath commanded me a
certain thing, and hath said unto me, Let
no man know where about I send thee,
and what I have commanded thee: and I
have appointed my servants to such and
such places.
3 Now therefore if thou hast ought under
thine hand, give me five cakes of bread,
or what cometh to hand.
4 And the priest answered David, and
said, There is no common bread under
mine hand, but here is hallowed bread, if
the young men have kept themselves, at
least from women.
5 David then answered the priest, and
said unto him, Certainly women have
been separate from us these two or three
days since I came out: and the vessels of
the young men were holy, though the way
were profane, and how much more then
shall every one be sanctified this day in
the vessel?
6 So the priest gave him hallowed
bread: for there was no bread there,
save the show bread that was taken from
before the Lord, to put hot bread there,
the day that it was taken away.
7 (And there was the same day one of
the servants of Saul abiding before the
Lord, named Doeg the Edomite, the
chiefest of Saul's herdmen)
8 And David said unto Ahimelech, Is
there not here under thine hand a spear
or a sword? For I have neither brought
my sword nor mine harness with me,
because the king's business required
haste.
9 And the priest said, The sword of
Goliath the Philistine, whom thou
slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it
is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod:
if thou wilt take that to thee, take it: for
there is none other save that here: And
David said, There is none to that, give it
me.
10 And David arose and fled the same
day from the presence of Saul, and went
to Achish the king of Gath.
11 And the servants of Achish said unto
him, Is not this David the king of the
land? Did they not sing unto him in
dances, saying, Saul hath slain his
thousand, and David his ten thousand?
12 And David considered these words,
and was sore afraid of Achish the king
of Gath.
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.
14 Then said Achish unto his servants,
Lo, ye see the man is beside himself,
wherefore have ye brought him to me?
15 Have I need of mad men, that ye have
brought this fellow to play the mad man
in my presence? Shall he come into mine
house?
1 Then came David to Nob, to
Ahimelech the priest, and Ahimelech
was astonied at the meeting of David,
and said unto him, Why art thou alone,
and no man with thee?
2 And David said to Ahimelech the
priest, The king hath commanded me a
certain thing, and hath said unto me, Let
no man know where about I send thee,
and what I have commanded thee: and I
have appointed my servants to such and
such places.
3 Now therefore if thou hast ought under
thine hand, give me five cakes of bread,
or what cometh to hand.
4 And the priest answered David, and
said, There is no common bread under
mine hand, but here is hallowed bread, if
the young men have kept themselves, at
least from women.
5 David then answered the priest, and
said unto him, Certainly women have
been separate from us these two or three
days since I came out: and the vessels of
the young men were holy, though the way
were profane, and how much more then
shall every one be sanctified this day in
the vessel?
6 So the priest gave him hallowed
bread: for there was no bread there,
save the show bread that was taken from
before the Lord, to put hot bread there,
the day that it was taken away.
7 (And there was the same day one of
the servants of Saul abiding before the
Lord, named Doeg the Edomite, the
chiefest of Saul's herdmen)
8 And David said unto Ahimelech, Is
there not here under thine hand a spear
or a sword? For I have neither brought
my sword nor mine harness with me,
because the king's business required
haste.
9 And the priest said, The sword of
Goliath the Philistine, whom thou
slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it
is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod:
if thou wilt take that to thee, take it: for
there is none other save that here: And
David said, There is none to that, give it
me.
10 And David arose and fled the same
day from the presence of Saul, and went
to Achish the king of Gath.
11 And the servants of Achish said unto
him, Is not this David the king of the
land? Did they not sing unto him in
dances, saying, Saul hath slain his
thousand, and David his ten thousand?
12 And David considered these words,
and was sore afraid of Achish the king
of Gath.
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.
14 Then said Achish unto his servants,
Lo, ye see the man is beside himself,
wherefore have ye brought him to me?
15 Have I need of mad men, that ye have
brought this fellow to play the mad man
in my presence? Shall he come into mine
house?
1 Samuel Chapter 20
1 Samuel Chapter 20
1 And David fled from Naioth in Ramah,
and came and said before Jonathan,
What have I done? What is mine
iniquity? And what sin have I committed
before thy father, that he seeketh my life?
2 And he said unto him, God forbid, thou
shalt not die: behold, my father will do
nothing great nor small, but he will show
it me: and why should my father hide this
thing from me? He will not do it.
3 And David swear again and said, Thy
father knoweth that I have found grace in
thine eyes: therefore he thinketh,
Jonathan shall not know it, lest he be
sorry: but indeed, as the Lord liveth, and
as thy soul liveth, there is but a step
between me and death.
4 Then said Jonathan unto David,
Whatsoever thy soul requireth, that I will
do unto thee.
5 And David said unto Jonathan, Behold,
tomorrow is the first day of the month,
and I should sit with the king at meat: but
let me go, that I may hide myself in the
fields unto the third day at even.
6 If thy father make mention of me, then
say, David asked leave of me, that he
might go to Beth-lehem to his own city:
for there is a yearly sacrifice for all that
family.
7 And if he say thus, It is well, thy
servant shall have peace: but if he be
angry, be sure that wickedness is
concluded of him.
8 So shalt thou show mercy unto thy
servant: for thou hast joined thy servant
into a covenant of the Lord with thee,
and if there be in me iniquity, slay thou
me: for why shouldest thou bring me to
thy father?
9 And Jonathan answered, God keep that
from thee: for if I knew that wickedness
were concluded of my father to come
upon thee, would not I tell it thee?
10 Then said David to Jonathan, Who
shall tell me? How shall I know, if thy
father answer thee cruelly?
11 And Jonathan said to David, Come
and let us go out into the field: and they
twain went out into the field.
12 Then Jonathan said to David, O Lord
God of Israel, when I have groped my
father’s mind tomorrow at this time, or
within this three days, and if it be well
with David, and I then send not unto
thee, and show it thee, 13 The Lord do
so and much more unto Jonathan: but if
my father have mind to do thee evil, I
will show thee also, and send thee away,
that thou mayest go in peace: and the
Lord be with thee as he hath been with
my father. 14 Likewise I require not
whiles I live: for I doubt not but thou
wilt show me the mercy of the Lord, that
I die not.
15 But I require that thou cut not off thy
mercy from mine house forever: no, not
when the Lord hath destroyed the
enemies of David, every one from the
earth.
16 So Jonathan made a bond with the
house of David , saying, Let the Lord
require it at the hands of David’s
enemies.
17 And again Jonathan swear unto
David, because he loved him (for he
loved him as his own soul)
18 Then said Jonathan to him,
Tomorrow is the first day of the month:
and thou shalt be looked for, for thy
place shall be empty.
19 Therefore thou shalt hide thyself three
days, then thou shalt go down quickly
and come to the place where thou didst
hide thyself, when this matter was in
hand, and shalt remain by the stone Ezel.
20 And I will shoot three arrows on the
side thereof, as though I shot at a mark.
21 And after I will send a boy, saying,
Go, seek the arrows. If I say unto the
boy, See, the arrows are on this side
thee, bring them, and come thou: for it is
well with thee and no hurt, as the Lord
liveth.
22 But if I say thus unto the boy, Behold,
the arrows are beyond thee, go thy way:
for the Lord hath sent thee away.
23 As touching the thing which thou and
I have spoken of, behold, the Lord be
between thee and me forever.
24 So David hid himself in the field: and
when the first day of the month came, the
king sat to eat meat.
25 And the king sat, as at other times
upon his seat, even upon his seat by the
wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat
by Saul’s side, but David’s place was
empty.
26 And Saul said nothing that day: for he
thought, Something hath befallen him,
though he were clean, or else because he
was not purified. 27 But on the morrow
which was the second day of the month,
David’s place was empty again: and
Saul said unto Jonathan his son,
Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse to
meat, neither yesterday nor today?
28 And Jonathan answered unto Saul,
David required of me, that he might go
to Beth-lehem.
29 For he said, Let me go, I pray thee:
for our family offereth a sacrifice in the
city, and my brother hath sent for me:
therefore now if I have found favor in
thine eyes, let me go, I pray thee, and see
my brethren: this is the cause that he
cometh not unto the king’s table.
30 Then was Saul angry with Jonathan,
and said unto him, Thou son of the
wicked rebellious woman, do not I
know, that thou hast chosen the son of
Jesse to thy confusion
and to the confusion and shame of thy
mother?
31 For as long as the son of Jesse liveth
upon the earth, thou shalt not be
stablished, nor thy kingdom: wherefore
now send and fetch him unto me, for he
shall surely die.
32 And Jonathan answered unto Saul his
father, and said unto him, Wherefore
shall he die? What hath he done?
33 And Saul cast a spear at him to hit
him, whereby Jonathan knew, that it was
determined of his father to slay David.
34 So Jonathan arose from the table in a
great anger, and did eat no meat the
second day of the month: for he was
sorry for David, and because his father
had reviled him.
35 On the next morning therefore
Jonathan then went out into the field, at
the time appointed with David, and a
little boy with him.
36 And he said unto his boy, Run now,
seek the arrows which I shoot, and as the
boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
37 And when the boy was come to the
place where the arrow was that Jonathan
had shot, Jonathan cried after the boy,
and said, Is not the arrow beyond thee?
38 And Jonathan cried after the boy,
Make speed, haste and stand not still:
and Jonathan’s boy gathered up the
arrows, and came to his master, 39 But
the boy knew nothing: only Jonathan and
David knew the matter. 40 Then
Jonathan gave his bow and arrows unto
the boy that was with him, and said unto
him, Go, carry them into the city.
41 As soon as the boy was gone, David
arose out of a place that was toward the
south, and fell on his face to the ground,
and bowed himself three times: and they
kissed one another, and wept both twain,
till David exceeded. 42 Therefore
Jonathan said to David, Go in peace:
that which 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 between thy seed, let it
stand forever. (20:43) And he arose and
departed, and Jonathan went into the
city.
1 And David fled from Naioth in Ramah,
and came and said before Jonathan,
What have I done? What is mine
iniquity? And what sin have I committed
before thy father, that he seeketh my life?
2 And he said unto him, God forbid, thou
shalt not die: behold, my father will do
nothing great nor small, but he will show
it me: and why should my father hide this
thing from me? He will not do it.
3 And David swear again and said, Thy
father knoweth that I have found grace in
thine eyes: therefore he thinketh,
Jonathan shall not know it, lest he be
sorry: but indeed, as the Lord liveth, and
as thy soul liveth, there is but a step
between me and death.
4 Then said Jonathan unto David,
Whatsoever thy soul requireth, that I will
do unto thee.
5 And David said unto Jonathan, Behold,
tomorrow is the first day of the month,
and I should sit with the king at meat: but
let me go, that I may hide myself in the
fields unto the third day at even.
6 If thy father make mention of me, then
say, David asked leave of me, that he
might go to Beth-lehem to his own city:
for there is a yearly sacrifice for all that
family.
7 And if he say thus, It is well, thy
servant shall have peace: but if he be
angry, be sure that wickedness is
concluded of him.
8 So shalt thou show mercy unto thy
servant: for thou hast joined thy servant
into a covenant of the Lord with thee,
and if there be in me iniquity, slay thou
me: for why shouldest thou bring me to
thy father?
9 And Jonathan answered, God keep that
from thee: for if I knew that wickedness
were concluded of my father to come
upon thee, would not I tell it thee?
10 Then said David to Jonathan, Who
shall tell me? How shall I know, if thy
father answer thee cruelly?
11 And Jonathan said to David, Come
and let us go out into the field: and they
twain went out into the field.
12 Then Jonathan said to David, O Lord
God of Israel, when I have groped my
father’s mind tomorrow at this time, or
within this three days, and if it be well
with David, and I then send not unto
thee, and show it thee, 13 The Lord do
so and much more unto Jonathan: but if
my father have mind to do thee evil, I
will show thee also, and send thee away,
that thou mayest go in peace: and the
Lord be with thee as he hath been with
my father. 14 Likewise I require not
whiles I live: for I doubt not but thou
wilt show me the mercy of the Lord, that
I die not.
15 But I require that thou cut not off thy
mercy from mine house forever: no, not
when the Lord hath destroyed the
enemies of David, every one from the
earth.
16 So Jonathan made a bond with the
house of David , saying, Let the Lord
require it at the hands of David’s
enemies.
17 And again Jonathan swear unto
David, because he loved him (for he
loved him as his own soul)
18 Then said Jonathan to him,
Tomorrow is the first day of the month:
and thou shalt be looked for, for thy
place shall be empty.
19 Therefore thou shalt hide thyself three
days, then thou shalt go down quickly
and come to the place where thou didst
hide thyself, when this matter was in
hand, and shalt remain by the stone Ezel.
20 And I will shoot three arrows on the
side thereof, as though I shot at a mark.
21 And after I will send a boy, saying,
Go, seek the arrows. If I say unto the
boy, See, the arrows are on this side
thee, bring them, and come thou: for it is
well with thee and no hurt, as the Lord
liveth.
22 But if I say thus unto the boy, Behold,
the arrows are beyond thee, go thy way:
for the Lord hath sent thee away.
23 As touching the thing which thou and
I have spoken of, behold, the Lord be
between thee and me forever.
24 So David hid himself in the field: and
when the first day of the month came, the
king sat to eat meat.
25 And the king sat, as at other times
upon his seat, even upon his seat by the
wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat
by Saul’s side, but David’s place was
empty.
26 And Saul said nothing that day: for he
thought, Something hath befallen him,
though he were clean, or else because he
was not purified. 27 But on the morrow
which was the second day of the month,
David’s place was empty again: and
Saul said unto Jonathan his son,
Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse to
meat, neither yesterday nor today?
28 And Jonathan answered unto Saul,
David required of me, that he might go
to Beth-lehem.
29 For he said, Let me go, I pray thee:
for our family offereth a sacrifice in the
city, and my brother hath sent for me:
therefore now if I have found favor in
thine eyes, let me go, I pray thee, and see
my brethren: this is the cause that he
cometh not unto the king’s table.
30 Then was Saul angry with Jonathan,
and said unto him, Thou son of the
wicked rebellious woman, do not I
know, that thou hast chosen the son of
Jesse to thy confusion
and to the confusion and shame of thy
mother?
31 For as long as the son of Jesse liveth
upon the earth, thou shalt not be
stablished, nor thy kingdom: wherefore
now send and fetch him unto me, for he
shall surely die.
32 And Jonathan answered unto Saul his
father, and said unto him, Wherefore
shall he die? What hath he done?
33 And Saul cast a spear at him to hit
him, whereby Jonathan knew, that it was
determined of his father to slay David.
34 So Jonathan arose from the table in a
great anger, and did eat no meat the
second day of the month: for he was
sorry for David, and because his father
had reviled him.
35 On the next morning therefore
Jonathan then went out into the field, at
the time appointed with David, and a
little boy with him.
36 And he said unto his boy, Run now,
seek the arrows which I shoot, and as the
boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
37 And when the boy was come to the
place where the arrow was that Jonathan
had shot, Jonathan cried after the boy,
and said, Is not the arrow beyond thee?
38 And Jonathan cried after the boy,
Make speed, haste and stand not still:
and Jonathan’s boy gathered up the
arrows, and came to his master, 39 But
the boy knew nothing: only Jonathan and
David knew the matter. 40 Then
Jonathan gave his bow and arrows unto
the boy that was with him, and said unto
him, Go, carry them into the city.
41 As soon as the boy was gone, David
arose out of a place that was toward the
south, and fell on his face to the ground,
and bowed himself three times: and they
kissed one another, and wept both twain,
till David exceeded. 42 Therefore
Jonathan said to David, Go in peace:
that which 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 between thy seed, let it
stand forever. (20:43) And he arose and
departed, and Jonathan went into the
city.
1 Samuel Chapter 19
1 Samuel Chapter 19
1 Then Saul spake to Jonathan his son,
and to all his servants, that they should
kill David: but Jonathan Saul’s son had a
great favor to David. 2 And Jonathan
told David, saying, Saul my father goeth
about to slay thee: now therefore, I pray
thee, take heed unto thyself unto the
morning, and abide in a secret place,
and hide thyself.
3 And I will go out, and stand by my
father in the field where thou art, and
will commune with my father of thee,
and I will see what he saith, and will
tell thee.
4 And Jonathan spake good of David
unto Saul his father, and said unto him,
Let not the king sin against his servant,
against David: for he hath not sinned
against thee, but his works have been to
thee very good.
5 For he did put his life in danger, and
slew the Philistine, and the Lord
wrought a great salvation for all Israel:
thou sawest it, and thou rejoicest:
wherefore then wilt thou sin against
innocent blood, and slay David without
a cause?
6 Then Saul hearkened unto the voice of
Jonathan, and Saul swear, As the Lord
liveth, he shall not die.
7 So Jonathan called David, and
Jonathan showed him all those words,
and Jonathan brought David to Saul, and
he was in his presence as in times past.
8 Again the war began, and David went
out and fought with the Philistines, and
slew them with a great slaughter, and
they fled from him.
9 And the evil spirit of the Lord was
upon Saul, as he sat in his house having
his spear in his hand, and David played
with his hand.
10 And Saul intended to smite David to
the wall with the spear: but he turned
aside out of Saul’s presence, and he
smote the spear against the wall: but
David fled, and escaped the same night.
11 Saul also sent messengers unto
David’s house, to watch him, and to slay
him in the morning: and Michal David’s
wife told it him, saying, If thou save not
thyself this night, tomorrow thou shalt be
slain.
12 So Michal let David down through a
window: and he went, and fled, and
escaped.
13 Then Michal took an image, and laid
it in the bed, and put a pillow stuffed
with goats’ hair under the head of it, and
covered it with a cloth. 14 And when
Saul sent messengers to take David, she
said, He is sick. 15 And Saul sent the
messengers again to see David, saying,
Bring him to me in the bed, that I may
slay him.
16 And when the messengers were come
in, behold, an image was in the bed, with
a pillow of goats’ hair under the head of
it. 17 And Saul said unto Michal, Why
hast thou mocked me so, and sent away
mine enemy, that he is escaped? And
Michal answered Saul, He said unto me,
Let me go, or else I will kill thee.
18 So David fled, and escaped, and
came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him
all that Saul had done to him: and he and
Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth. 19
But one told Saul, saying, Behold, David
is at Naioth in Ramah. 20 And Saul sent
messengers to take David: and when
they saw a company of prophets
prophesying, and Samuel standing as
appointed over them, the Spirit of God
fell upon the messengers of Saul, and
they also prophesied. 21 And when it
was told Saul, he sent other messengers,
and they prophesied likewise: again
Saul sent the third messengers, and they
prophesied also. 22 Then went he
himself to Ramah, and came to a great
well that is in Sechu, and he asked, and
said, Where are Samuel and David? And
one said, Behold, they be at Naioth in
Ramah.
23 And he went thither, even to Naioth
in Ramah, and the Spirit of God came
upon him also, and he went prophesying
until he came to Naioth in Ramah. 24
And he stripped off his clothes, and he
prophesied also before Samuel, and fell
down naked all that day and all that
night: therefore they say, Is Saul also
among the prophets?
1 Then Saul spake to Jonathan his son,
and to all his servants, that they should
kill David: but Jonathan Saul’s son had a
great favor to David. 2 And Jonathan
told David, saying, Saul my father goeth
about to slay thee: now therefore, I pray
thee, take heed unto thyself unto the
morning, and abide in a secret place,
and hide thyself.
3 And I will go out, and stand by my
father in the field where thou art, and
will commune with my father of thee,
and I will see what he saith, and will
tell thee.
4 And Jonathan spake good of David
unto Saul his father, and said unto him,
Let not the king sin against his servant,
against David: for he hath not sinned
against thee, but his works have been to
thee very good.
5 For he did put his life in danger, and
slew the Philistine, and the Lord
wrought a great salvation for all Israel:
thou sawest it, and thou rejoicest:
wherefore then wilt thou sin against
innocent blood, and slay David without
a cause?
6 Then Saul hearkened unto the voice of
Jonathan, and Saul swear, As the Lord
liveth, he shall not die.
7 So Jonathan called David, and
Jonathan showed him all those words,
and Jonathan brought David to Saul, and
he was in his presence as in times past.
8 Again the war began, and David went
out and fought with the Philistines, and
slew them with a great slaughter, and
they fled from him.
9 And the evil spirit of the Lord was
upon Saul, as he sat in his house having
his spear in his hand, and David played
with his hand.
10 And Saul intended to smite David to
the wall with the spear: but he turned
aside out of Saul’s presence, and he
smote the spear against the wall: but
David fled, and escaped the same night.
11 Saul also sent messengers unto
David’s house, to watch him, and to slay
him in the morning: and Michal David’s
wife told it him, saying, If thou save not
thyself this night, tomorrow thou shalt be
slain.
12 So Michal let David down through a
window: and he went, and fled, and
escaped.
13 Then Michal took an image, and laid
it in the bed, and put a pillow stuffed
with goats’ hair under the head of it, and
covered it with a cloth. 14 And when
Saul sent messengers to take David, she
said, He is sick. 15 And Saul sent the
messengers again to see David, saying,
Bring him to me in the bed, that I may
slay him.
16 And when the messengers were come
in, behold, an image was in the bed, with
a pillow of goats’ hair under the head of
it. 17 And Saul said unto Michal, Why
hast thou mocked me so, and sent away
mine enemy, that he is escaped? And
Michal answered Saul, He said unto me,
Let me go, or else I will kill thee.
18 So David fled, and escaped, and
came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him
all that Saul had done to him: and he and
Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth. 19
But one told Saul, saying, Behold, David
is at Naioth in Ramah. 20 And Saul sent
messengers to take David: and when
they saw a company of prophets
prophesying, and Samuel standing as
appointed over them, the Spirit of God
fell upon the messengers of Saul, and
they also prophesied. 21 And when it
was told Saul, he sent other messengers,
and they prophesied likewise: again
Saul sent the third messengers, and they
prophesied also. 22 Then went he
himself to Ramah, and came to a great
well that is in Sechu, and he asked, and
said, Where are Samuel and David? And
one said, Behold, they be at Naioth in
Ramah.
23 And he went thither, even to Naioth
in Ramah, and the Spirit of God came
upon him also, and he went prophesying
until he came to Naioth in Ramah. 24
And he stripped off his clothes, and he
prophesied also before Samuel, and fell
down naked all that day and all that
night: therefore they say, Is Saul also
among the prophets?
1 Samuel Chapter 18
1 Samuel Chapter 18
1 And when he had made an end of
speaking unto Saul, the soul of Jonathan
was knit with the soul of David, and
Jonathan loved him, as his own soul. 2
And Saul took him that day, and would
not let him return to his father's house.
3 Then Jonathan and David made a
covenant: for he loved him as his own
soul.
4 And Jonathan put off the robe that was
upon him, and gave it David, and his
garments, even to his sword, and to his
bow, and to his girdle. 5 And David
went out whithersoever Saul sent him,
and behaved himself wisely: so that
Saul set him over the men of war, and he
was accepted in the sight of all the
people, and also in the sight of Saul's
servants. 6 When they came again, and
David returned from the slaughter of the
Philistine, the women came out of all
cities of Israel singing and dancing to
meet king Saul, with timbrels, with
instruments of joy, and with rebecks. 7
And the women sang by course in their
play, and said, Saul hath slain his
thousand, and David his ten thousand.
8 Therefore Saul was exceeding wroth,
and the saying displeased him, and he
said, They have ascribed unto David ten
thousand, and to me they have ascribed
but a thousand, and what can he have
more save the kingdom?
9 Wherefore Saul had an eye on David
from that day forward.
10 And on the morrow, the evil spirit of
God came upon Saul, and he prophesied
in the midst of the house: and David
played with his hand like as at other
times, and there was a spear in Saul's
hand.
11 And Saul took the spear, and said, I
will smite David through to the wall.
But David avoided twice out of his
presence.
12 And Saul was afraid of David,
because the Lord was with him, and was
departed from Saul.
13 Therefore Saul put him from him, and
made him a captain over a thousand, and
he went out and in before the people.
14 And David behaved himself wisely
in all his ways: for the Lord was with
him.
15 Wherefore when Saul saw that he
was very wise, he was afraid of him. 16
For all Israel and Judah loved David,
because he went out and in before them.
17 Then Saul said to David, Behold
mine eldest daughter Merab, her I will
give thee to wife: only be a valiant son
unto me, and fight the Lord's battles: for
Saul thought, Mine hand shall not be
upon him, but the hand of the Philistines
shall be upon him.
18 And David answered Saul, What am
I? And what is my life, or the family of
my father in Israel, that I should be son
in law to the king?
19 Howbeit when Merab Saul's daughter
should have been given to David, she
was given unto Adriel a Meholathite to
wife.
20 Then Michal Saul's daughter loved
David: and they showed Saul, and the
thing pleased him.
21 Therefore Saul said, I will give him
her, that she may be a snare to him, and
that the hand of the Philistines may be
against him. Wherefore Saul said to
David, Thou shalt this day be my son in
law in the one of the twain. 22 And Saul
commanded his servants, Speak with
David secretly, and say, Behold, the king
hath a favor to thee, and all his servants
love thee: be now therefore the king's
son in law.
23 And Saul's servants spake these
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 of small reputation?
24 And then Saul's servants brought him
word again, saying, Such words spake
David.
25 And Saul said, This wise shall ye say
to David, The king desireth no dowry,
but an hundred foreskins of the
Philistines, to be avenged of the king's
enemies: for Saul thought to make David
fall into the hands of the Philistines. 26
And when his servants told David these
words, it pleased David well, to be the
king's son in law: and the days were not
expired.
27 Afterward David arose with his men,
and went and slew of the Philistines two
hundred men: and David brought their
foreskins, and they gave them wholly to
the king that he might be the king's son in
law: therefore Saul gave him Michal his
daughter to wife.
28 Then Saul saw, and understood that
the Lord was with David, and that
Michal the daughter of Saul loved him.
29 Then Saul was more and more afraid
of David, and Saul became always
David's enemy.
30 And when the princes of the
Philistines went forth, at their going forth
David behaved himself more wisely than
all the servants of Saul, so that his name
was much set by.
1 And when he had made an end of
speaking unto Saul, the soul of Jonathan
was knit with the soul of David, and
Jonathan loved him, as his own soul. 2
And Saul took him that day, and would
not let him return to his father's house.
3 Then Jonathan and David made a
covenant: for he loved him as his own
soul.
4 And Jonathan put off the robe that was
upon him, and gave it David, and his
garments, even to his sword, and to his
bow, and to his girdle. 5 And David
went out whithersoever Saul sent him,
and behaved himself wisely: so that
Saul set him over the men of war, and he
was accepted in the sight of all the
people, and also in the sight of Saul's
servants. 6 When they came again, and
David returned from the slaughter of the
Philistine, the women came out of all
cities of Israel singing and dancing to
meet king Saul, with timbrels, with
instruments of joy, and with rebecks. 7
And the women sang by course in their
play, and said, Saul hath slain his
thousand, and David his ten thousand.
8 Therefore Saul was exceeding wroth,
and the saying displeased him, and he
said, They have ascribed unto David ten
thousand, and to me they have ascribed
but a thousand, and what can he have
more save the kingdom?
9 Wherefore Saul had an eye on David
from that day forward.
10 And on the morrow, the evil spirit of
God came upon Saul, and he prophesied
in the midst of the house: and David
played with his hand like as at other
times, and there was a spear in Saul's
hand.
11 And Saul took the spear, and said, I
will smite David through to the wall.
But David avoided twice out of his
presence.
12 And Saul was afraid of David,
because the Lord was with him, and was
departed from Saul.
13 Therefore Saul put him from him, and
made him a captain over a thousand, and
he went out and in before the people.
14 And David behaved himself wisely
in all his ways: for the Lord was with
him.
15 Wherefore when Saul saw that he
was very wise, he was afraid of him. 16
For all Israel and Judah loved David,
because he went out and in before them.
17 Then Saul said to David, Behold
mine eldest daughter Merab, her I will
give thee to wife: only be a valiant son
unto me, and fight the Lord's battles: for
Saul thought, Mine hand shall not be
upon him, but the hand of the Philistines
shall be upon him.
18 And David answered Saul, What am
I? And what is my life, or the family of
my father in Israel, that I should be son
in law to the king?
19 Howbeit when Merab Saul's daughter
should have been given to David, she
was given unto Adriel a Meholathite to
wife.
20 Then Michal Saul's daughter loved
David: and they showed Saul, and the
thing pleased him.
21 Therefore Saul said, I will give him
her, that she may be a snare to him, and
that the hand of the Philistines may be
against him. Wherefore Saul said to
David, Thou shalt this day be my son in
law in the one of the twain. 22 And Saul
commanded his servants, Speak with
David secretly, and say, Behold, the king
hath a favor to thee, and all his servants
love thee: be now therefore the king's
son in law.
23 And Saul's servants spake these
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 of small reputation?
24 And then Saul's servants brought him
word again, saying, Such words spake
David.
25 And Saul said, This wise shall ye say
to David, The king desireth no dowry,
but an hundred foreskins of the
Philistines, to be avenged of the king's
enemies: for Saul thought to make David
fall into the hands of the Philistines. 26
And when his servants told David these
words, it pleased David well, to be the
king's son in law: and the days were not
expired.
27 Afterward David arose with his men,
and went and slew of the Philistines two
hundred men: and David brought their
foreskins, and they gave them wholly to
the king that he might be the king's son in
law: therefore Saul gave him Michal his
daughter to wife.
28 Then Saul saw, and understood that
the Lord was with David, and that
Michal the daughter of Saul loved him.
29 Then Saul was more and more afraid
of David, and Saul became always
David's enemy.
30 And when the princes of the
Philistines went forth, at their going forth
David behaved himself more wisely than
all the servants of Saul, so that his name
was much set by.
1 Samuel Chapter 17
1 Samuel Chapter 17
1 Now the Philistines gathered their
armies to battle, and came together to
Shochoh, which is in Judah, and pitched
between Shochoh and Azekah, in the
coast of Dammim.
2 And Saul, and the men of Israel
assembled, and pitched in the valley of
Elah, and put themselves in battle array
to meet the Philistines. 3 And the
Philistines stood on a mountain on the
one side, and Israel stood on a mountain
on the other side: so a valley was
between them. 4 Then came a man
between them both out of the tents of the
Philistines, named Goliath of Gath: his
height was six cubits and an hand
breadth, 5 And had an helmet of brass
upon his head, and a brigandine upon
him: and the weight of his brigandine
was five thousand shekels of brass. 6
And he had boots of brass upon his legs,
and a shield of brass upon his shoulders.
7 And the shaft of his spear was like a
weaver's beam: and his spear head
weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and
one bearing a shield went before him.
8 And he stood, and cried against the
host of Israel, and said unto them, Why
are ye come to set your battle in array?
Am not I a Philistine, and you servants to
Saul? Choose you a man for you, and let
him come down to me. 9 If he be able to
fight with me, and kill me, then will we
be your servants: but if I overcome him,
and kill him, then shall ye be our
servants, and serve us. 10 Also the
Philistine said, I defy the host of Israel
this day: give me a man that we may
fight together.
11 When Saul and all Israel heard those
words of the Philistine, they were
discouraged, and greatly afraid.
12 Now this David was the son of an
Ephrathite of Beth-lehem Judah, named
Jesse, which had eight sons: and this
man was taken for an old man in the days
of Saul.
13 And the three eldest sons of Jesse
went and followed Saul to the battle:
and the names of his three sons that went
to battle, were Eliab the eldest, and the
next Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
14 So David was the least: and the three
eldest went after Saul. `
15 David also went, but he returned
from Saul to feed his father's sheep in
Beth-lehem.
16 And the Philistine drew near in the
morning, and evening, and continued
forty days.
17 And Jesse said unto David his son,
Take now for thy brethren an ephah of
this parched corn, and these ten cakes,
and run to the host to thy brethren. 18
Also carry these ten fresh cheeses unto
the captain, and look how thy brethren
fare, and receive their pledge.
19 (Then Saul and they, and all the men
of Israel were in the valley of Elah,
fighting with the Philistines)
20 So David rose up early in the
morning, and left the sheep with a
keeper, and took and went as Jesse had
commanded him, and came within the
compass of the host: and the host went
out in array, and shouted in the battle. 21
For Israel and the Philistines had put
themselves in array, army against army.
22 And David left the things, which he
bear, under the hands of the keeper of the
carriage, and ran into the host, and came,
and asked his brethren how they did.
23 And as he talked with them, behold,
the man that was between the two
armies, came up, (whose name was
Goliath the Philistine of Gath) out of the
army of the Philistines, and spake such
words, and David heard them. 24 And
all the men of Israel, when they saw the
man, ran away from him, and were sore
afraid.
25 For every man of Israel said, Saw ye
not this man that cometh up? Even to
revile Israel is he come up: and to him
that killeth him, will the king give great
riches, and will give him his daughter,
yea, and make his father's house free in
Israel.
26 Then David spake to the men that
stood with him, and said, What shall be
done to the man that killeth this
Philistine, and taketh away the shame
from Israel? For who is this
uncircumcised Philistine, that he should
revile the host of the living God?
27 And the people answered him after
this manner, saying, Thus shall it be
done to the man that killeth him.
28 And Eliab his eldest brother heard
when he spake unto the men, and Eliab
was very angry with David, and said,
Why camest thou down hither? And with
whom hast thou left those few sheep in
the wilderness? I know thy pride and the
malice of thine heart, that thou art come
down to see the battle. 29 Then David
said, What have I now done? Is there not
a cause?
30 And he departed from him into the
presence of another, and spake of the
same manner, and the people answered
him according to the former words. 31
And they that heard the words which
David spake, rehearsed them before
Saul, which caused him to be brought.
32 So David said to Saul, Let no man's
heart fail him, because of him: thy
servant will go, and fight with this
Philistine.
33 And Saul said to David, Thou art not
able to go against this Philistine to fight
with him: for thou art a boy, and he is a
man of war from his youth. 34 And
David answered unto Saul, Thy servant
kept his father's sheep, and there came a
lion, and likewise a bear, and took a
sheep out of the flock, 35 And I went out
after him and smote him, and took it out
of his mouth: and when he arose against
me, I caught him by the beard, and smote
him, and slew him.
36 So thy servant slew both the lion, and
the bear: therefore this uncircumcised
Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing
he hath railed on the host of the living
God.
37 Moreover David said, 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. Then Saul said unto David,
Go, and the Lord be with thee. 38 And
Saul put his raiment upon David, and put
an helmet of brass upon his head, and put
a brigandine upon him.
39 Then girded David his sword upon
his raiment, and began to go: for he
never proved it: and David said unto
Saul, I cannot go with these: for I am not
accustomed. wherefore David put them
off him.
40 Then took he his staff in his hand, and
chose him five smooth stones out of a
brook, and put them in his shepherd's
bag or scrip, and his sling was in his
hand, and he drew near to the Philistine.
41 And the Philistine came and drew
near unto David, and the man that bear
the shield went before him.
42 Now when the Philistine looked
about and saw David, he disdained him:
for he was but young, ruddy, and of a
comely face.
43 And the Philistine said unto David,
Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with
staves? And the Philistine cursed David
by his gods.
44 And the Philistine said to David,
Come to me, and I will give thy flesh
unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the
beasts of the field.
45 Then said David to the Philistine,
Thou comest to me with a sword, and
with a spear, and with a shield, but I
come to thee in the name of the Lord of
hosts, the God of the host of Israel,
whom thou hast railed upon. 46 This day
shall the Lord close thee in mine hand,
and I shall smite thee, and take thine
head from thee, and I will give the
carcasses of the host of the Philistines
this day unto the fowls of the heaven,
and to the beasts of the earth, that all the
world may know that Israel hath a God,
47 And that all this assembly may know,
that the Lord saveth not with sword nor
with spear (for the battle is the Lord's)
and he will give you into our hands. 48
And when the Philistine arose to come
and draw near unto David, David hasted
and ran to fight against the Philistine.
49 And David put his hand in his bag,
and took out a stone, and slung it, and
smote the Philistine in his forehead, that
the stone sticked in his forehead, and he
fell groveling to the earth.
50 So David overcame the Philistine
with a sling and with a stone, and smote
the Philistine, and slew him, when
David had no sword in his hand. 51
Then David ran, and stood upon the
Philistine, and took his sword and drew
it out of his sheath, and slew him, and
cut off his head therewith. So when the
Philistines saw, that their champion was
dead, they fled. 52 And the men of Israel
and Judah arose, and shouted, and
followed after the Philistines, until they
came to the valley, and unto the gates of
Ekron: and the Philistines fell down
wounded by the way of Shaaraim, even
to Gath and to Ekron.
53 And the children of Israel returned
from pursuing the Philistines, and
spoiled their tents.
54 And David took the head of the
Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem,
and put his armor in his tent.
55 When Saul saw David go forth
against the Philistine, he said unto Abner
the captain of his host, Abner, whose son
is this young man? And Abner answered,
As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.
56 Then the king said, Inquire thou
whose son this young man is. 57 And
when David was returned from the
slaughter of the Philistine, then Abner
took him, and brought him before Saul
with the head of the Philistine in his
hand.
58 And Saul said to him, Whose son art
thou, thou young man? And David
answered, I am the son of thy servant
Jesse the Bethlehemite.
1 Now the Philistines gathered their
armies to battle, and came together to
Shochoh, which is in Judah, and pitched
between Shochoh and Azekah, in the
coast of Dammim.
2 And Saul, and the men of Israel
assembled, and pitched in the valley of
Elah, and put themselves in battle array
to meet the Philistines. 3 And the
Philistines stood on a mountain on the
one side, and Israel stood on a mountain
on the other side: so a valley was
between them. 4 Then came a man
between them both out of the tents of the
Philistines, named Goliath of Gath: his
height was six cubits and an hand
breadth, 5 And had an helmet of brass
upon his head, and a brigandine upon
him: and the weight of his brigandine
was five thousand shekels of brass. 6
And he had boots of brass upon his legs,
and a shield of brass upon his shoulders.
7 And the shaft of his spear was like a
weaver's beam: and his spear head
weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and
one bearing a shield went before him.
8 And he stood, and cried against the
host of Israel, and said unto them, Why
are ye come to set your battle in array?
Am not I a Philistine, and you servants to
Saul? Choose you a man for you, and let
him come down to me. 9 If he be able to
fight with me, and kill me, then will we
be your servants: but if I overcome him,
and kill him, then shall ye be our
servants, and serve us. 10 Also the
Philistine said, I defy the host of Israel
this day: give me a man that we may
fight together.
11 When Saul and all Israel heard those
words of the Philistine, they were
discouraged, and greatly afraid.
12 Now this David was the son of an
Ephrathite of Beth-lehem Judah, named
Jesse, which had eight sons: and this
man was taken for an old man in the days
of Saul.
13 And the three eldest sons of Jesse
went and followed Saul to the battle:
and the names of his three sons that went
to battle, were Eliab the eldest, and the
next Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
14 So David was the least: and the three
eldest went after Saul. `
15 David also went, but he returned
from Saul to feed his father's sheep in
Beth-lehem.
16 And the Philistine drew near in the
morning, and evening, and continued
forty days.
17 And Jesse said unto David his son,
Take now for thy brethren an ephah of
this parched corn, and these ten cakes,
and run to the host to thy brethren. 18
Also carry these ten fresh cheeses unto
the captain, and look how thy brethren
fare, and receive their pledge.
19 (Then Saul and they, and all the men
of Israel were in the valley of Elah,
fighting with the Philistines)
20 So David rose up early in the
morning, and left the sheep with a
keeper, and took and went as Jesse had
commanded him, and came within the
compass of the host: and the host went
out in array, and shouted in the battle. 21
For Israel and the Philistines had put
themselves in array, army against army.
22 And David left the things, which he
bear, under the hands of the keeper of the
carriage, and ran into the host, and came,
and asked his brethren how they did.
23 And as he talked with them, behold,
the man that was between the two
armies, came up, (whose name was
Goliath the Philistine of Gath) out of the
army of the Philistines, and spake such
words, and David heard them. 24 And
all the men of Israel, when they saw the
man, ran away from him, and were sore
afraid.
25 For every man of Israel said, Saw ye
not this man that cometh up? Even to
revile Israel is he come up: and to him
that killeth him, will the king give great
riches, and will give him his daughter,
yea, and make his father's house free in
Israel.
26 Then David spake to the men that
stood with him, and said, What shall be
done to the man that killeth this
Philistine, and taketh away the shame
from Israel? For who is this
uncircumcised Philistine, that he should
revile the host of the living God?
27 And the people answered him after
this manner, saying, Thus shall it be
done to the man that killeth him.
28 And Eliab his eldest brother heard
when he spake unto the men, and Eliab
was very angry with David, and said,
Why camest thou down hither? And with
whom hast thou left those few sheep in
the wilderness? I know thy pride and the
malice of thine heart, that thou art come
down to see the battle. 29 Then David
said, What have I now done? Is there not
a cause?
30 And he departed from him into the
presence of another, and spake of the
same manner, and the people answered
him according to the former words. 31
And they that heard the words which
David spake, rehearsed them before
Saul, which caused him to be brought.
32 So David said to Saul, Let no man's
heart fail him, because of him: thy
servant will go, and fight with this
Philistine.
33 And Saul said to David, Thou art not
able to go against this Philistine to fight
with him: for thou art a boy, and he is a
man of war from his youth. 34 And
David answered unto Saul, Thy servant
kept his father's sheep, and there came a
lion, and likewise a bear, and took a
sheep out of the flock, 35 And I went out
after him and smote him, and took it out
of his mouth: and when he arose against
me, I caught him by the beard, and smote
him, and slew him.
36 So thy servant slew both the lion, and
the bear: therefore this uncircumcised
Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing
he hath railed on the host of the living
God.
37 Moreover David said, 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. Then Saul said unto David,
Go, and the Lord be with thee. 38 And
Saul put his raiment upon David, and put
an helmet of brass upon his head, and put
a brigandine upon him.
39 Then girded David his sword upon
his raiment, and began to go: for he
never proved it: and David said unto
Saul, I cannot go with these: for I am not
accustomed. wherefore David put them
off him.
40 Then took he his staff in his hand, and
chose him five smooth stones out of a
brook, and put them in his shepherd's
bag or scrip, and his sling was in his
hand, and he drew near to the Philistine.
41 And the Philistine came and drew
near unto David, and the man that bear
the shield went before him.
42 Now when the Philistine looked
about and saw David, he disdained him:
for he was but young, ruddy, and of a
comely face.
43 And the Philistine said unto David,
Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with
staves? And the Philistine cursed David
by his gods.
44 And the Philistine said to David,
Come to me, and I will give thy flesh
unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the
beasts of the field.
45 Then said David to the Philistine,
Thou comest to me with a sword, and
with a spear, and with a shield, but I
come to thee in the name of the Lord of
hosts, the God of the host of Israel,
whom thou hast railed upon. 46 This day
shall the Lord close thee in mine hand,
and I shall smite thee, and take thine
head from thee, and I will give the
carcasses of the host of the Philistines
this day unto the fowls of the heaven,
and to the beasts of the earth, that all the
world may know that Israel hath a God,
47 And that all this assembly may know,
that the Lord saveth not with sword nor
with spear (for the battle is the Lord's)
and he will give you into our hands. 48
And when the Philistine arose to come
and draw near unto David, David hasted
and ran to fight against the Philistine.
49 And David put his hand in his bag,
and took out a stone, and slung it, and
smote the Philistine in his forehead, that
the stone sticked in his forehead, and he
fell groveling to the earth.
50 So David overcame the Philistine
with a sling and with a stone, and smote
the Philistine, and slew him, when
David had no sword in his hand. 51
Then David ran, and stood upon the
Philistine, and took his sword and drew
it out of his sheath, and slew him, and
cut off his head therewith. So when the
Philistines saw, that their champion was
dead, they fled. 52 And the men of Israel
and Judah arose, and shouted, and
followed after the Philistines, until they
came to the valley, and unto the gates of
Ekron: and the Philistines fell down
wounded by the way of Shaaraim, even
to Gath and to Ekron.
53 And the children of Israel returned
from pursuing the Philistines, and
spoiled their tents.
54 And David took the head of the
Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem,
and put his armor in his tent.
55 When Saul saw David go forth
against the Philistine, he said unto Abner
the captain of his host, Abner, whose son
is this young man? And Abner answered,
As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.
56 Then the king said, Inquire thou
whose son this young man is. 57 And
when David was returned from the
slaughter of the Philistine, then Abner
took him, and brought him before Saul
with the head of the Philistine in his
hand.
58 And Saul said to him, Whose son art
thou, thou young man? And David
answered, I am the son of thy servant
Jesse the Bethlehemite.
1 Samuel Chapter 16
1 Samuel Chapter 16
1 The Lord then said unto Samuel, How
long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I
have cast him away from reigning over
Israel? Fill thine horn with oil and come,
I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite:
for I have provided me a king
among his sons.
2 And Samuel said, How can I go? For
if Saul shall hear it, he will kill me.
Then the Lord answered, Take an heifer
with thee, and say, I am come to do
sacrifice to the Lord.
3 And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I
will show thee what thou shalt do, and
thou shalt anoint unto me him whom I
name unto thee.
4 So Samuel did that the Lord bade him,
and came to Beth-lehem, and the elders
of the town were astonied at his coming,
and said, Comest thou peaceably?
5 And he answered, Yea: I am come to
do sacrifice unto the Lord: sanctify
yourselves, and come with me to the
sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and
his sons, and called them to the
sacrifice.
6 And when they were come, he looked
on Eliab, and said, Surely the Lord's
Anointed is before him.
7 But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look
not on his countenance, nor on the height
of his stature, because I have refused
him: for God seeth not as man seeth: for
man looketh on the outward appearance,
but the Lord beholdeth the heart.
8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made
him come before Samuel. And he said,
Neither hath the Lord chosen this.
9 Then Jesse made Shammah come. And
he said, Neither yet hath the Lord chosen
him.
10 Again Jesse made his seven sons to
come before Samuel: and Samuel said
unto Jesse, The Lord hath chosen none of
these.
11 Finally, Samuel said unto Jesse, Are
there no more children but these?
And he said, There remaineth yet a little
one behind, that keepeth the sheep. Then
Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and set
him: for we will not sit down, till he be
come hither.
12 And he sent, and brought him in: and
he was ruddy, and of a good
countenance, and comely visage. And the
Lord said, Arise, and anoint him: for
this is he.
13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and
anointed him in the midst of his brethren.
And the spirit of the Lord came upon
David, from that day forward: then
Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
14 But the Spirit of the Lord departed
from Saul, and an evil spirit sent of the
Lord vexed him.
15 And Saul's servants said unto him,
Behold now, the evil spirit of God
vexeth thee.
16 Let our Lord therefore command thy
servants, that are before thee, to seek a
man that is a cunning player upon the
harp: that when the evil spirit of God
cometh upon thee, he may play with his
hand, and thou mayest be eased. 17 Saul
then said unto his servants, Provide me a
man, I pray you, that can play well, and
bring him to me.
18 Then answered one of his servants,
and said, Behold, I have seen a son of
Jesse, a Beth-lehemite, that can play, and
is strong, valiant and a man of war and
wise in matters, and a comely person,
and the Lord is with him. 19 Wherefore
Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and
said, Send me David thy son which is
with the sheep.
20 And Jesse took an ass laden with
bread and a flagon of wine and a kid,
and sent them by the hand of David his
son unto Saul.
21 And David came to Saul, and stood
before him: and he loved him very well,
and he was his armor bearer.
22 And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let
David now remain with me: for he hath
found favor in my sight.
23 And so when the evil spirit of God
came upon Saul, David took an harp and
played with his hand, and Saul was
refreshed, and was eased: for the evil
spirit departed from him.
1 The Lord then said unto Samuel, How
long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I
have cast him away from reigning over
Israel? Fill thine horn with oil and come,
I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite:
for I have provided me a king
among his sons.
2 And Samuel said, How can I go? For
if Saul shall hear it, he will kill me.
Then the Lord answered, Take an heifer
with thee, and say, I am come to do
sacrifice to the Lord.
3 And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I
will show thee what thou shalt do, and
thou shalt anoint unto me him whom I
name unto thee.
4 So Samuel did that the Lord bade him,
and came to Beth-lehem, and the elders
of the town were astonied at his coming,
and said, Comest thou peaceably?
5 And he answered, Yea: I am come to
do sacrifice unto the Lord: sanctify
yourselves, and come with me to the
sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and
his sons, and called them to the
sacrifice.
6 And when they were come, he looked
on Eliab, and said, Surely the Lord's
Anointed is before him.
7 But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look
not on his countenance, nor on the height
of his stature, because I have refused
him: for God seeth not as man seeth: for
man looketh on the outward appearance,
but the Lord beholdeth the heart.
8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made
him come before Samuel. And he said,
Neither hath the Lord chosen this.
9 Then Jesse made Shammah come. And
he said, Neither yet hath the Lord chosen
him.
10 Again Jesse made his seven sons to
come before Samuel: and Samuel said
unto Jesse, The Lord hath chosen none of
these.
11 Finally, Samuel said unto Jesse, Are
there no more children but these?
And he said, There remaineth yet a little
one behind, that keepeth the sheep. Then
Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and set
him: for we will not sit down, till he be
come hither.
12 And he sent, and brought him in: and
he was ruddy, and of a good
countenance, and comely visage. And the
Lord said, Arise, and anoint him: for
this is he.
13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and
anointed him in the midst of his brethren.
And the spirit of the Lord came upon
David, from that day forward: then
Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
14 But the Spirit of the Lord departed
from Saul, and an evil spirit sent of the
Lord vexed him.
15 And Saul's servants said unto him,
Behold now, the evil spirit of God
vexeth thee.
16 Let our Lord therefore command thy
servants, that are before thee, to seek a
man that is a cunning player upon the
harp: that when the evil spirit of God
cometh upon thee, he may play with his
hand, and thou mayest be eased. 17 Saul
then said unto his servants, Provide me a
man, I pray you, that can play well, and
bring him to me.
18 Then answered one of his servants,
and said, Behold, I have seen a son of
Jesse, a Beth-lehemite, that can play, and
is strong, valiant and a man of war and
wise in matters, and a comely person,
and the Lord is with him. 19 Wherefore
Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and
said, Send me David thy son which is
with the sheep.
20 And Jesse took an ass laden with
bread and a flagon of wine and a kid,
and sent them by the hand of David his
son unto Saul.
21 And David came to Saul, and stood
before him: and he loved him very well,
and he was his armor bearer.
22 And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let
David now remain with me: for he hath
found favor in my sight.
23 And so when the evil spirit of God
came upon Saul, David took an harp and
played with his hand, and Saul was
refreshed, and was eased: for the evil
spirit departed from him.
1 Samuel Chapter 15
1 Samuel Chapter 15
1 Afterward Samuel said unto Saul, The
Lord sent me to anoint thee king over his
people over Israel: now therefore obey
the voice of the words of the Lord. 2
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I remember
what Amalek did to Israel, how they laid
wait for them in the way, as they came
up from Egypt. 3 Now therefore go, and
smite Amalek, and destroy ye all that
pertaineth unto them, and have no
compassion on them, but slay both man
and woman, both infant and suckling,
both ox, and sheep, both camel, and ass.
4 And Saul assembled the people, and
numbered them in Telaim, two hundred
thousand footmen, and ten thousand men
of Judah.
5 And Saul came to a city of Amalek,
and set watch at the river. 6 And Saul
said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, and
get you down from among the
Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them:
for ye showed mercy to all the children
of Israel, when they came up from Egypt:
and the Kenites departed from among the
Amalekites.
7 So Saul smote the Amalekites from
Havilah as thou comest to Shur, that is
before Egypt,
8 And took Agag the king of the
Amalekites alive, and destroyed all the
people with the edge of the sword.
9 But Saul and the people spared Agag,
and the better sheep, and the oxen, and
the fat beasts, and the lambs, and all that
was good, and they would not destroy
them: but everything that was vile and
nought worth, that they destroyed.
10 Then came the word of the Lord unto
Samuel, saying,
11 It repenteth me that I have made Saul
king: for he is turned from me, and hath
not performed my commandments. And
Samuel was moved, and cried unto the
Lord all night.
12 And when Samuel arose early to meet
Saul in the morning, one told Samuel,
saying, Saul is gone to Carmel: and
behold, he hath made him there a place,
from whence he returned, and departed,
and is gone down to Gilgal. 13 Then
Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said unto
him. Blessed be thou of the Lord, I have
fulfilled the commandment of the Lord.
14 But Samuel said, What meaneth then
the bleating of the sheep in mine ears,
and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?
15 And Saul answered, They have
brought them from the Amalekites: for
the people spared the best of the sheep,
and of the oxen to sacrifice them unto the
Lord thy God, and the remnant have we
destroyed.
16 Again Samuel said to Saul, Let me
tell thee what the Lord hath said to me
this night. And he said unto him, Say on.
17 Then Samuel said, When thou wast
little in thine own sight, wast thou not
made the head of the tribes of Israel?
For the Lord anointed thee king over
Israel.
18 And the Lord sent thee on a journey,
and said, Go, and destroy those sinners
the Amalekites, and fight against them,
until thou destroy them. 19 Now
wherefore hast thou not obeyed the voice
of the Lord, but hast turned to the prey,
and hast done wickedly in the sight of
the Lord?
20 And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I
have obeyed the voice of the Lord, and
have gone the way which the Lord sent
me, and have brought Agag the king of
Amalek, and have destroyed the
Amalekites.
21 But the people took of the spoil,
sheep, and oxen, and the chiefest of the
things which should have been
destroyed, to offer unto the Lord thy God
in Gilgal.
22 And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as
great pleasure in burnt offerings and
sacrifices, as when the voice of the Lord
is obeyed? Behold, to obey is better
than sacrifice, and to hearken is better
than the fat of rams. 23 For rebellion is
as the sin of witchcraft, and
transgression is wickedness and
idolatry. Because thou hast cast away the
word of the Lord, therefore he hath cast
away thee from being king.
24 Then Saul said unto Samuel, I have
sinned: for I have transgressed the
commandment of the Lord, and thy
words, because I feared the people, and
obeyed their voice.
25 Now therefore I pray thee, take away
my sin, and turn again with me, that I
may worship the Lord.
26 But Samuel said unto Saul, I will not
return with thee: for thou hast cast away
the word of the Lord, and the Lord hath
cast away thee, that thou shalt not be
king over Israel.
27 And as Samuel turned himself to go
away, he caught the lap of his coat, and
it rent.
28 Then Samuel said unto him, The Lord
hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee
this day, and hath given it to thy
neighbor, that is better than thou. 29 For
indeed the strength of Israel will not lie
nor repent: for he is not a man that he
should repent.
30 Then he said, I have sinned: but
honor me, I pray thee, before the elders
of my people, and before Israel, and turn
again with me, that I may worship the
Lord thy God.
31 So Samuel turned again, and
followed Saul: and Saul worshiped the
Lord. 32 Then said Samuel, Bring ye
hither to me Agag the king of the
Amalekites: and Agag came unto him
pleasantly, and Agag said, Truly the
bitterness of death is passed.
33 And Samuel said, As thy sword hath
made women childless, so shall thy
mother be childless among other women.
And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces
before the Lord in Gilgal.
34 So Samuel departed to Ramah, and
Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of
Saul.
35 And Samuel came no more to see
Saul until the day of his death: but
Samuel mourned for Saul, and the Lord
repented that he made Saul king over
Israel.
1 Afterward Samuel said unto Saul, The
Lord sent me to anoint thee king over his
people over Israel: now therefore obey
the voice of the words of the Lord. 2
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I remember
what Amalek did to Israel, how they laid
wait for them in the way, as they came
up from Egypt. 3 Now therefore go, and
smite Amalek, and destroy ye all that
pertaineth unto them, and have no
compassion on them, but slay both man
and woman, both infant and suckling,
both ox, and sheep, both camel, and ass.
4 And Saul assembled the people, and
numbered them in Telaim, two hundred
thousand footmen, and ten thousand men
of Judah.
5 And Saul came to a city of Amalek,
and set watch at the river. 6 And Saul
said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, and
get you down from among the
Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them:
for ye showed mercy to all the children
of Israel, when they came up from Egypt:
and the Kenites departed from among the
Amalekites.
7 So Saul smote the Amalekites from
Havilah as thou comest to Shur, that is
before Egypt,
8 And took Agag the king of the
Amalekites alive, and destroyed all the
people with the edge of the sword.
9 But Saul and the people spared Agag,
and the better sheep, and the oxen, and
the fat beasts, and the lambs, and all that
was good, and they would not destroy
them: but everything that was vile and
nought worth, that they destroyed.
10 Then came the word of the Lord unto
Samuel, saying,
11 It repenteth me that I have made Saul
king: for he is turned from me, and hath
not performed my commandments. And
Samuel was moved, and cried unto the
Lord all night.
12 And when Samuel arose early to meet
Saul in the morning, one told Samuel,
saying, Saul is gone to Carmel: and
behold, he hath made him there a place,
from whence he returned, and departed,
and is gone down to Gilgal. 13 Then
Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said unto
him. Blessed be thou of the Lord, I have
fulfilled the commandment of the Lord.
14 But Samuel said, What meaneth then
the bleating of the sheep in mine ears,
and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?
15 And Saul answered, They have
brought them from the Amalekites: for
the people spared the best of the sheep,
and of the oxen to sacrifice them unto the
Lord thy God, and the remnant have we
destroyed.
16 Again Samuel said to Saul, Let me
tell thee what the Lord hath said to me
this night. And he said unto him, Say on.
17 Then Samuel said, When thou wast
little in thine own sight, wast thou not
made the head of the tribes of Israel?
For the Lord anointed thee king over
Israel.
18 And the Lord sent thee on a journey,
and said, Go, and destroy those sinners
the Amalekites, and fight against them,
until thou destroy them. 19 Now
wherefore hast thou not obeyed the voice
of the Lord, but hast turned to the prey,
and hast done wickedly in the sight of
the Lord?
20 And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I
have obeyed the voice of the Lord, and
have gone the way which the Lord sent
me, and have brought Agag the king of
Amalek, and have destroyed the
Amalekites.
21 But the people took of the spoil,
sheep, and oxen, and the chiefest of the
things which should have been
destroyed, to offer unto the Lord thy God
in Gilgal.
22 And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as
great pleasure in burnt offerings and
sacrifices, as when the voice of the Lord
is obeyed? Behold, to obey is better
than sacrifice, and to hearken is better
than the fat of rams. 23 For rebellion is
as the sin of witchcraft, and
transgression is wickedness and
idolatry. Because thou hast cast away the
word of the Lord, therefore he hath cast
away thee from being king.
24 Then Saul said unto Samuel, I have
sinned: for I have transgressed the
commandment of the Lord, and thy
words, because I feared the people, and
obeyed their voice.
25 Now therefore I pray thee, take away
my sin, and turn again with me, that I
may worship the Lord.
26 But Samuel said unto Saul, I will not
return with thee: for thou hast cast away
the word of the Lord, and the Lord hath
cast away thee, that thou shalt not be
king over Israel.
27 And as Samuel turned himself to go
away, he caught the lap of his coat, and
it rent.
28 Then Samuel said unto him, The Lord
hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee
this day, and hath given it to thy
neighbor, that is better than thou. 29 For
indeed the strength of Israel will not lie
nor repent: for he is not a man that he
should repent.
30 Then he said, I have sinned: but
honor me, I pray thee, before the elders
of my people, and before Israel, and turn
again with me, that I may worship the
Lord thy God.
31 So Samuel turned again, and
followed Saul: and Saul worshiped the
Lord. 32 Then said Samuel, Bring ye
hither to me Agag the king of the
Amalekites: and Agag came unto him
pleasantly, and Agag said, Truly the
bitterness of death is passed.
33 And Samuel said, As thy sword hath
made women childless, so shall thy
mother be childless among other women.
And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces
before the Lord in Gilgal.
34 So Samuel departed to Ramah, and
Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of
Saul.
35 And Samuel came no more to see
Saul until the day of his death: but
Samuel mourned for Saul, and the Lord
repented that he made Saul king over
Israel.
1 Samuel Chapter 14
1 Samuel Chapter 14
1 Then on a day Jonathan the son of Saul
said unto the young man that bear his
armor, Come and let us go over toward
the Philistines' garrison, that is yonder
on the other side, but he told not his
father.
2 And Saul tarried in the border of
Gibeah under a pomegranate tree, which
was in Migron, and the people that were
with him , were about six hundred men.
3 And Ahijah the son of Ahitub,
Ichabod's brother, the son of Phinehas,
the son of Eli, was the Lord's priest in
Shiloh, and wore an ephod: and the
people knew not that Jonathan was gone.
4 Now in the way whereby Jonathan
sought to go over to the Philistines'
garrison, there was a sharp rock on the
one side, and a sharp rock on the other
side: the name of the one was called
Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.
5 The one rock stretched from the north
toward Michmash, and the other was
from the south toward Gibeah.
6 And Jonathan said to the young man
that bear his armor, Come, and let us go
over unto the garrison of these
uncircumcised: it may be that the Lord
will work with us: for it is not hard to
the Lord to save with many, or with few.
7 And he that bear his armor, said unto
him, Do all that is in thine heart: go
where it pleaseth thee: behold, I am with
thee as thine heart desireth. 8 Then said
Jonathan, Behold, we go over unto those
men, and will show ourselves unto them.
9 If they say on this wise to us, Tarry
until we come to you, then we will stand
still in our place, and not go up to them.
10 But if they say, Come up unto us, then
we will go up: for the Lord hath
delivered them into our hand: and this
shall be a sign unto us. 11 So they both
showed themselves unto the garrison of
the Philistines: and the Philistines said,
See, the Hebrews come out of the holes
wherein they had hid themselves.
12 And the men of the garrison answered
Jonathan, and his armor bearer, and said,
Come up to us: for we will show you a
thing. Then Jonathan said unto his armor
bearer, Come up after me: for the Lord
hath delivered them into the hand of
Israel.
13 So Jonathan went up upon his hands
and upon his feet, and his armor bearer
after him: and some fell before Jonathan,
and his armor bearer slew others after
him.
14 So the first slaughter which Jonathan
and his armor bearer made, was about
twenty men, as it were within half an
acre of land which two oxen plow. 15
And there was a fear in the host, and in
the field, and among all the people: the
garrison also, and they that went out to
spoil, were afraid themselves: and the
earth trembled: for it was stricken with
fear by God. 16 Then the watchmen of
Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin saw: and
behold, the multitude was discomfited,
and smitten as they went.
17 Therefore said Saul unto the people
that were with him, Search now and see,
who is gone from us. And when they had
numbered, behold, Jonathan and his
armor bearer were not there.
18 And Saul said unto Ahijah, Bring
hither the ark of God (for the ark of God
was at that time with the children of
Israel)
19 And while Saul talked unto the priest,
the noise that was in the host of the
Philistines, spread farther abroad, and
increased: therefore Saul said unto the
priest, Withdraw thine hand.
20 And Saul was assembled with all the
people that were with him, and they
came to the battle: and behold, every
man's sword was against his fellow, and
there was a very great discomfiture.
21 Moreover, the Hebrews that were
with the Philistines before time, and
were come with them into all parts of the
host, even they also turned to be with the
Israelites that were with Saul and
Jonathan.
22 Also all the men of Israel which had
hid themselves in mount Ephraim, when
they heard, that the Philistines were fled,
they followed after them in the battle.
23 And so the Lord saved Israel that
day: and the battle continued unto
Bethaven. 24 And at that time the men of
Israel were pressed with hunger: for
Saul charged the people with an oath,
saying, Cursed be the man that eateth
food till night, that I may be avenged of
mine enemies: so none of the people
tasted any sustenance.
25 And all they of the land came to a
wood, where honey lay upon the ground.
26 And the people came into the wood,
and behold, the honey dropped, and no
man moved his hand to his mouth: for the
people feared the oath. 27 But Jonathan
heard not when his father charged the
people with the oath: wherefore he put
forth the end of the rod that was in his
hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb,
and put his hand to his mouth, and his
eyes received sight. 28 Then answered
one of the people, and said, Thy father
made the people to swear, saying,
Cursed be the man that eateth sustenance
this day: and the people were faint.
29 Then said Jonathan, My father hath
troubled the land: see now how mine
eyes are made clear, because I have
tasted a little of this honey: 30 How
much more, if the people had eaten today
of the spoil of their enemies which they
found? For had there not been now a
greater slaughter among the Philistines?
31 And they smote the Philistines that
day, from Michmash to Aijalon: and the
people were exceeding faint.
32 So the people turned to the spoil, and
took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and
slew them on the ground, and the people
did eat them with the blood. 33 Then
men told Saul, saying, Behold, the
people sin against the Lord, in that they
eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have
trespassed: roll a great stone unto me
this day.
34 Again Saul said, Go abroad among
the people, and bid them bring me 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 the people brought every man his ox
in his hand that night, and slew them
there.
35 Then Saul made an altar unto the
Lord , and that was the first altar that he
made unto the Lord.
36 And Saul said, Let us go down after
the Philistines by night, and spoil them
until the morning shine, and let us not
leave a man of them. And they said, Do
whatsoever thou thinkest best. Then said
the priest, Let us draw near hither unto
God.
37 So Saul asked of God, saying, Shall I
go down after the Philistines? Wilt thou
deliver them into the hands of Israel?
But he answered him not at that time.
38 And Saul said, All ye chief of the
people, come ye hither, and know, and
see by whom this sin is done this day.
39 For as the Lord liveth, which saveth
Israel, though it be done by Jonathan my
son, he shall die the death. But none of
all the people answered him. 40 Then he
said unto all Israel, Be ye on one side,
and I and Jonathan my son will be on the
other side. And the people said unto
Saul, Do what thou thinkest best.
41 Then Saul said unto the Lord God of
Israel, Give a perfect lot. And Jonathan
and Saul were taken, but the people
escaped.
42 And Saul said, Cast lot between me
and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was
taken.
43 Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me
what thou hast done. And Jonathan told
him, and said, I tasted a little honey with
the end of the rod, that was in mine hand,
and lo, I must die.
44 Again Saul answered, God do so and
more also, unless thou die the death,
Jonathan.
45 And the people said unto Saul, Shall
Jonathan die, who hath so mightily
delivered Israel? God forbid. As the
Lord liveth, there shall not one hair of
his head fall to the ground: for he hath
wrought with God this day. So the
people delivered Jonathan that he died
not.
46 Then Saul came up from the
Philistines: and the Philistines went to
their own place.
47 So Saul held 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 went, he handled them
as wicked men.
48 He gathered also an host and smote
Amalek, and delivered Israel out of the
hands of them that spoiled them.
49 Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan,
and Ishui, and Malchishua: and the
names of his two daughters, the elder
was called Merab, and the younger was
named Michal.
50 And the name of Saul's wife was
Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz: and
the name of his chief captain was Abner
the son of Ner, Saul's uncle. 51 And
Kish was Saul's father: and Ner the
father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
52 And there was sore war against the
Philistines all the days of Saul: and
whomsoever Saul saw to be a strong
man, and meet for the war, he took him
unto him.
1 Then on a day Jonathan the son of Saul
said unto the young man that bear his
armor, Come and let us go over toward
the Philistines' garrison, that is yonder
on the other side, but he told not his
father.
2 And Saul tarried in the border of
Gibeah under a pomegranate tree, which
was in Migron, and the people that were
with him , were about six hundred men.
3 And Ahijah the son of Ahitub,
Ichabod's brother, the son of Phinehas,
the son of Eli, was the Lord's priest in
Shiloh, and wore an ephod: and the
people knew not that Jonathan was gone.
4 Now in the way whereby Jonathan
sought to go over to the Philistines'
garrison, there was a sharp rock on the
one side, and a sharp rock on the other
side: the name of the one was called
Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.
5 The one rock stretched from the north
toward Michmash, and the other was
from the south toward Gibeah.
6 And Jonathan said to the young man
that bear his armor, Come, and let us go
over unto the garrison of these
uncircumcised: it may be that the Lord
will work with us: for it is not hard to
the Lord to save with many, or with few.
7 And he that bear his armor, said unto
him, Do all that is in thine heart: go
where it pleaseth thee: behold, I am with
thee as thine heart desireth. 8 Then said
Jonathan, Behold, we go over unto those
men, and will show ourselves unto them.
9 If they say on this wise to us, Tarry
until we come to you, then we will stand
still in our place, and not go up to them.
10 But if they say, Come up unto us, then
we will go up: for the Lord hath
delivered them into our hand: and this
shall be a sign unto us. 11 So they both
showed themselves unto the garrison of
the Philistines: and the Philistines said,
See, the Hebrews come out of the holes
wherein they had hid themselves.
12 And the men of the garrison answered
Jonathan, and his armor bearer, and said,
Come up to us: for we will show you a
thing. Then Jonathan said unto his armor
bearer, Come up after me: for the Lord
hath delivered them into the hand of
Israel.
13 So Jonathan went up upon his hands
and upon his feet, and his armor bearer
after him: and some fell before Jonathan,
and his armor bearer slew others after
him.
14 So the first slaughter which Jonathan
and his armor bearer made, was about
twenty men, as it were within half an
acre of land which two oxen plow. 15
And there was a fear in the host, and in
the field, and among all the people: the
garrison also, and they that went out to
spoil, were afraid themselves: and the
earth trembled: for it was stricken with
fear by God. 16 Then the watchmen of
Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin saw: and
behold, the multitude was discomfited,
and smitten as they went.
17 Therefore said Saul unto the people
that were with him, Search now and see,
who is gone from us. And when they had
numbered, behold, Jonathan and his
armor bearer were not there.
18 And Saul said unto Ahijah, Bring
hither the ark of God (for the ark of God
was at that time with the children of
Israel)
19 And while Saul talked unto the priest,
the noise that was in the host of the
Philistines, spread farther abroad, and
increased: therefore Saul said unto the
priest, Withdraw thine hand.
20 And Saul was assembled with all the
people that were with him, and they
came to the battle: and behold, every
man's sword was against his fellow, and
there was a very great discomfiture.
21 Moreover, the Hebrews that were
with the Philistines before time, and
were come with them into all parts of the
host, even they also turned to be with the
Israelites that were with Saul and
Jonathan.
22 Also all the men of Israel which had
hid themselves in mount Ephraim, when
they heard, that the Philistines were fled,
they followed after them in the battle.
23 And so the Lord saved Israel that
day: and the battle continued unto
Bethaven. 24 And at that time the men of
Israel were pressed with hunger: for
Saul charged the people with an oath,
saying, Cursed be the man that eateth
food till night, that I may be avenged of
mine enemies: so none of the people
tasted any sustenance.
25 And all they of the land came to a
wood, where honey lay upon the ground.
26 And the people came into the wood,
and behold, the honey dropped, and no
man moved his hand to his mouth: for the
people feared the oath. 27 But Jonathan
heard not when his father charged the
people with the oath: wherefore he put
forth the end of the rod that was in his
hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb,
and put his hand to his mouth, and his
eyes received sight. 28 Then answered
one of the people, and said, Thy father
made the people to swear, saying,
Cursed be the man that eateth sustenance
this day: and the people were faint.
29 Then said Jonathan, My father hath
troubled the land: see now how mine
eyes are made clear, because I have
tasted a little of this honey: 30 How
much more, if the people had eaten today
of the spoil of their enemies which they
found? For had there not been now a
greater slaughter among the Philistines?
31 And they smote the Philistines that
day, from Michmash to Aijalon: and the
people were exceeding faint.
32 So the people turned to the spoil, and
took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and
slew them on the ground, and the people
did eat them with the blood. 33 Then
men told Saul, saying, Behold, the
people sin against the Lord, in that they
eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have
trespassed: roll a great stone unto me
this day.
34 Again Saul said, Go abroad among
the people, and bid them bring me 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 the people brought every man his ox
in his hand that night, and slew them
there.
35 Then Saul made an altar unto the
Lord , and that was the first altar that he
made unto the Lord.
36 And Saul said, Let us go down after
the Philistines by night, and spoil them
until the morning shine, and let us not
leave a man of them. And they said, Do
whatsoever thou thinkest best. Then said
the priest, Let us draw near hither unto
God.
37 So Saul asked of God, saying, Shall I
go down after the Philistines? Wilt thou
deliver them into the hands of Israel?
But he answered him not at that time.
38 And Saul said, All ye chief of the
people, come ye hither, and know, and
see by whom this sin is done this day.
39 For as the Lord liveth, which saveth
Israel, though it be done by Jonathan my
son, he shall die the death. But none of
all the people answered him. 40 Then he
said unto all Israel, Be ye on one side,
and I and Jonathan my son will be on the
other side. And the people said unto
Saul, Do what thou thinkest best.
41 Then Saul said unto the Lord God of
Israel, Give a perfect lot. And Jonathan
and Saul were taken, but the people
escaped.
42 And Saul said, Cast lot between me
and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was
taken.
43 Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me
what thou hast done. And Jonathan told
him, and said, I tasted a little honey with
the end of the rod, that was in mine hand,
and lo, I must die.
44 Again Saul answered, God do so and
more also, unless thou die the death,
Jonathan.
45 And the people said unto Saul, Shall
Jonathan die, who hath so mightily
delivered Israel? God forbid. As the
Lord liveth, there shall not one hair of
his head fall to the ground: for he hath
wrought with God this day. So the
people delivered Jonathan that he died
not.
46 Then Saul came up from the
Philistines: and the Philistines went to
their own place.
47 So Saul held 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 went, he handled them
as wicked men.
48 He gathered also an host and smote
Amalek, and delivered Israel out of the
hands of them that spoiled them.
49 Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan,
and Ishui, and Malchishua: and the
names of his two daughters, the elder
was called Merab, and the younger was
named Michal.
50 And the name of Saul's wife was
Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz: and
the name of his chief captain was Abner
the son of Ner, Saul's uncle. 51 And
Kish was Saul's father: and Ner the
father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
52 And there was sore war against the
Philistines all the days of Saul: and
whomsoever Saul saw to be a strong
man, and meet for the war, he took him
unto him.
1 Samuel Chapter 13
1 Samuel Chapter 13
1 Saul now had been king one year, and
he reigned two years over Israel. 2 Then
Saul chose him three thousand of Israel:
and 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 one to his tent.
3 And Jonathan smote the garrison of the
Philistines, that was in the hill: and it
came to the Philistines' ears: and Saul
blew the trumpet throughout all the land,
saying, Hear, O ye Hebrews.
4 And all Israel heard say, Saul hath
destroyed a garrison of the Philistines:
wherefore Israel was had in abomination
with the Philistines: and the people
gathered together after Saul to Gilgal.
5 The Philistines also gathered
themselves together to fight with Israel,
thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand
horsemen: for the people was like the
sand which is by the sea's side in
multitude, and came up, and pitched in
Michmash eastward from Beth-aven.
6 And when the men of Israel saw that
they were in a strait ( for the people
were in distress) the people hid
themselves in caves, and in holds, and in
rocks, and in towers, and in pits.
7 And some of the Hebrews went over
Jordan unto the land of Gad and Gilead:
and Saul was yet in Gilgal, and all the
people for fear followed him. 8 And he
tarried seven days, according unto the
time that Samuel had appointed: but
Samuel came not to Gilgal, therefore the
people were scattered from him.
9 And Saul said, Bring a burnt offering
to me and peace offerings: and he
offered a burnt offering.
10 And as soon as he had made an end
of offering the burnt offering, behold,
Samuel came: and Saul went forth to
meet him, to salute him.
11 And Samuel said, What hast thou
done? Then Saul said, Because I saw
that the people was scattered from me,
and that thou camest not within the days
appointed, and that the Philistines
gathered themselves together to
Michmash,
12 Therefore said I, The Philistines will
come down now upon me to Gilgal, and
I have not made supplication unto the
Lord. I was bold therefore and offered a
burnt offering.
13 And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast
done foolishly: thou hast not kept the
commandment of the Lord thy God,
which he commanded thee: for the Lord
had now stablished thy kingdom upon
Israel forever.
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 governor over his
people, because thou hast not kept that
which the Lord had commanded thee.
15 And Samuel arose, and gat him up
from Gilgal in Gibeah of Benjamin: and
Saul numbered the people that were
found with him, about six hundred men.
16 And Saul and Jonathan his son, and
the people that were found with them,
had their abiding in Gibeah of Benjamin:
but the Philistines pitched in Michmash.
17 And there came out of the host of the
Philistines three bands to destroy, one
band turned unto the way of Ophrah unto
the land of Shual,
18 And another band turned toward the
way to Beth-horon, and the third band
turned toward the way of the coast that
looketh toward the valley of Zeboim,
toward the wilderness.
19 Then there was no smith found
throughout all the land of Israel: for the
Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make
them swords or spears.
20 Wherefore all the Israelites went
down to the Philistines, to sharpen every
man his share, his mattock, and his ax,
and his weeding hook.
21 Yet they had a file for the shares, and
for the mattocks, and for the pick forks,
and for the axes, and for to sharpen the
goads.
22 So when the day of battle was come,
there was neither sword nor spear found
in the hands of any of the people that
were with Saul and with Jonathan: but
only with Saul and Jonathan his son was
there found. 23 And the garrison of the
Philistines came out to the passage of
Michmash.
1 Saul now had been king one year, and
he reigned two years over Israel. 2 Then
Saul chose him three thousand of Israel:
and 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 one to his tent.
3 And Jonathan smote the garrison of the
Philistines, that was in the hill: and it
came to the Philistines' ears: and Saul
blew the trumpet throughout all the land,
saying, Hear, O ye Hebrews.
4 And all Israel heard say, Saul hath
destroyed a garrison of the Philistines:
wherefore Israel was had in abomination
with the Philistines: and the people
gathered together after Saul to Gilgal.
5 The Philistines also gathered
themselves together to fight with Israel,
thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand
horsemen: for the people was like the
sand which is by the sea's side in
multitude, and came up, and pitched in
Michmash eastward from Beth-aven.
6 And when the men of Israel saw that
they were in a strait ( for the people
were in distress) the people hid
themselves in caves, and in holds, and in
rocks, and in towers, and in pits.
7 And some of the Hebrews went over
Jordan unto the land of Gad and Gilead:
and Saul was yet in Gilgal, and all the
people for fear followed him. 8 And he
tarried seven days, according unto the
time that Samuel had appointed: but
Samuel came not to Gilgal, therefore the
people were scattered from him.
9 And Saul said, Bring a burnt offering
to me and peace offerings: and he
offered a burnt offering.
10 And as soon as he had made an end
of offering the burnt offering, behold,
Samuel came: and Saul went forth to
meet him, to salute him.
11 And Samuel said, What hast thou
done? Then Saul said, Because I saw
that the people was scattered from me,
and that thou camest not within the days
appointed, and that the Philistines
gathered themselves together to
Michmash,
12 Therefore said I, The Philistines will
come down now upon me to Gilgal, and
I have not made supplication unto the
Lord. I was bold therefore and offered a
burnt offering.
13 And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast
done foolishly: thou hast not kept the
commandment of the Lord thy God,
which he commanded thee: for the Lord
had now stablished thy kingdom upon
Israel forever.
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 governor over his
people, because thou hast not kept that
which the Lord had commanded thee.
15 And Samuel arose, and gat him up
from Gilgal in Gibeah of Benjamin: and
Saul numbered the people that were
found with him, about six hundred men.
16 And Saul and Jonathan his son, and
the people that were found with them,
had their abiding in Gibeah of Benjamin:
but the Philistines pitched in Michmash.
17 And there came out of the host of the
Philistines three bands to destroy, one
band turned unto the way of Ophrah unto
the land of Shual,
18 And another band turned toward the
way to Beth-horon, and the third band
turned toward the way of the coast that
looketh toward the valley of Zeboim,
toward the wilderness.
19 Then there was no smith found
throughout all the land of Israel: for the
Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make
them swords or spears.
20 Wherefore all the Israelites went
down to the Philistines, to sharpen every
man his share, his mattock, and his ax,
and his weeding hook.
21 Yet they had a file for the shares, and
for the mattocks, and for the pick forks,
and for the axes, and for to sharpen the
goads.
22 So when the day of battle was come,
there was neither sword nor spear found
in the hands of any of the people that
were with Saul and with Jonathan: but
only with Saul and Jonathan his son was
there found. 23 And the garrison of the
Philistines came out to the passage of
Michmash.
1 Samuel Chapter 12
1 Samuel Chapter 12
1 Samuel then said unto all Israel,
Behold, I have hearkened unto your
voice in all that ye said unto me, and
have appointed a king over you. 2 Now
therefore behold , your 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 unto this day.
3 Behold, here I am: bear record of me
before the Lord and before his anointed.
Whose ox have I taken? Or whose ass
have I taken? Or whom have I done
wrong to? Or whom have I hurt? Or of
whose hand have I received any bribe,
to blind mine eyes therewith, and I will
restore it you?
4 Then they said, Thou hast done us no
wrong, nor hast hurt us, neither hast thou
taken ought of any man's hand.
5 And he said unto them, The Lord is
witness against you, and his anointed is
witness this day, that ye have found
naught in mine hands. And they
answered, He is witness.
6 Then Samuel said unto the people, It is
the Lord that made Moses and Aaron,
and that brought your fathers out of the
land of Egypt.
7 Now therefore stand still, that I may
reason with you before the Lord
according to all the righteousness of the
Lord, which he showed to you and to
your fathers.
8 After that Jacob was come into Egypt,
and your fathers cried unto the Lord, then
the Lord sent Moses and Aaron which
brought your fathers out of Egypt, and
made them dwell in this place.
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. 10 And they cried
unto the Lord, and said, We have sinned,
because we have forsaken the Lord, and
have served Baalim and Ashtaroth. Now
therefore deliver us out of the hands of
our enemies, and we will serve thee. 11
Therefore the Lord sent Jerubbaal and
Bedan and Jephthah, and Samuel, and
delivered you out of the hands of your
enemies on every side, and ye dwelled
safe.
12 Notwithstanding when you saw, that
Nahash the king of the children of
Ammon came against you, ye said unto
me, No, but a king shall reign over us:
when yet the Lord your God was your
king.
13 Now therefore behold the king whom
ye have chosen, and whom ye have
desired: lo therefore, the Lord hath set a
king over you.
14 If ye will fear the Lord and serve
him, and hear his voice, and not disobey
the word of the Lord, both ye, and the
king that reigneth over you, shall follow
the Lord your God.
15 But if ye will not obey the voice of
the Lord, but disobey the Lord's mouth,
then shall the hand of the Lord be upon
you, and on your fathers. 16 Now also
stand and see this great thing which the
Lord will do before your eyes.
17 Is it not now wheat harvest? I will
call unto the Lord, and he shall send
thunder and rain, that ye may perceive
and see, how that your wickedness is
great, which ye have done in the sight of
the Lord in asking you a king. 18 Then
Samuel called unto the Lord, and the
Lord sent thunder and rain the same day:
and all the people feared the Lord and
Samuel exceedingly. 19 And all the
people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy
servants unto the Lord thy God, that we
die not: for we have sinned in asking us
a king, beside all our other sins.
20 And Samuel said unto the people,
Fear not. (ye have indeed done all this
wickedness, yet depart not from
following the Lord, but serve the Lord
with all your heart,
21 Neither turn ye back: for that should
be after vain things which cannot profit
you, nor deliver you, for they are but
vanity)
22 For the Lord will not forsake his
people for his great name's sake:
because it hath pleased the Lord to make
you his people.
23 Moreover God forbid, that I should
sin against the Lord, and cease praying
for you, but I will sh0w you the good
and right way.
24 Therefore fear you the Lord, and
serve him in the truth with all your
hearts, and consider how great things he
hath done for you.
25 But if ye do wickedly, ye shall
perish, both ye, and your king.
1 Samuel then said unto all Israel,
Behold, I have hearkened unto your
voice in all that ye said unto me, and
have appointed a king over you. 2 Now
therefore behold , your 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 unto this day.
3 Behold, here I am: bear record of me
before the Lord and before his anointed.
Whose ox have I taken? Or whose ass
have I taken? Or whom have I done
wrong to? Or whom have I hurt? Or of
whose hand have I received any bribe,
to blind mine eyes therewith, and I will
restore it you?
4 Then they said, Thou hast done us no
wrong, nor hast hurt us, neither hast thou
taken ought of any man's hand.
5 And he said unto them, The Lord is
witness against you, and his anointed is
witness this day, that ye have found
naught in mine hands. And they
answered, He is witness.
6 Then Samuel said unto the people, It is
the Lord that made Moses and Aaron,
and that brought your fathers out of the
land of Egypt.
7 Now therefore stand still, that I may
reason with you before the Lord
according to all the righteousness of the
Lord, which he showed to you and to
your fathers.
8 After that Jacob was come into Egypt,
and your fathers cried unto the Lord, then
the Lord sent Moses and Aaron which
brought your fathers out of Egypt, and
made them dwell in this place.
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. 10 And they cried
unto the Lord, and said, We have sinned,
because we have forsaken the Lord, and
have served Baalim and Ashtaroth. Now
therefore deliver us out of the hands of
our enemies, and we will serve thee. 11
Therefore the Lord sent Jerubbaal and
Bedan and Jephthah, and Samuel, and
delivered you out of the hands of your
enemies on every side, and ye dwelled
safe.
12 Notwithstanding when you saw, that
Nahash the king of the children of
Ammon came against you, ye said unto
me, No, but a king shall reign over us:
when yet the Lord your God was your
king.
13 Now therefore behold the king whom
ye have chosen, and whom ye have
desired: lo therefore, the Lord hath set a
king over you.
14 If ye will fear the Lord and serve
him, and hear his voice, and not disobey
the word of the Lord, both ye, and the
king that reigneth over you, shall follow
the Lord your God.
15 But if ye will not obey the voice of
the Lord, but disobey the Lord's mouth,
then shall the hand of the Lord be upon
you, and on your fathers. 16 Now also
stand and see this great thing which the
Lord will do before your eyes.
17 Is it not now wheat harvest? I will
call unto the Lord, and he shall send
thunder and rain, that ye may perceive
and see, how that your wickedness is
great, which ye have done in the sight of
the Lord in asking you a king. 18 Then
Samuel called unto the Lord, and the
Lord sent thunder and rain the same day:
and all the people feared the Lord and
Samuel exceedingly. 19 And all the
people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy
servants unto the Lord thy God, that we
die not: for we have sinned in asking us
a king, beside all our other sins.
20 And Samuel said unto the people,
Fear not. (ye have indeed done all this
wickedness, yet depart not from
following the Lord, but serve the Lord
with all your heart,
21 Neither turn ye back: for that should
be after vain things which cannot profit
you, nor deliver you, for they are but
vanity)
22 For the Lord will not forsake his
people for his great name's sake:
because it hath pleased the Lord to make
you his people.
23 Moreover God forbid, that I should
sin against the Lord, and cease praying
for you, but I will sh0w you the good
and right way.
24 Therefore fear you the Lord, and
serve him in the truth with all your
hearts, and consider how great things he
hath done for you.
25 But if ye do wickedly, ye shall
perish, both ye, and your king.
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