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