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Chapter: 001, of book 1 Samuel
V 001 Now there was a certain man of Ramathaimzophim, of mount Ephraim,
and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son
of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite:
V 002 And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name
of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no
children.
V 003 And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to
sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli,
Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, were there.
V 004 And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah
his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:
V 005 But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but
the LORD had shut up her womb.
V 006 And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret,
because the LORD had shut up her womb.
V 007 And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of
the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.
V 008 Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou?
and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better
to thee than ten sons?
V 009 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they
had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of
the LORD.
V 010 And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and
wept sore.
V 011 And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt
indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and
not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man
child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and
there shall no razor come upon his head.
V 012 And it came to pass, as she continued praying before the LORD,
that Eli marked her mouth.
V 013 Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her
voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.
V 014 And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy
wine from thee.
V 015 And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a
sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have
poured out my soul before the LORD.
V 016 Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the
abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.
V 017 Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel
grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him.
V 018 And she said, Let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight. So the
woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad.
V 019 And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the
LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew
Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.
V 020 Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after
Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel,
saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.
V 021 And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto the
LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.
V 022 But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, I will not
go up until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may
appear before the LORD, and there abide for ever.
V 023 And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what seemeth thee good;
tarry until thou have weaned him; only the LORD establish his word. So
the woman abode, and gave her son suck until she weaned him.
V 024 And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three
bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him
unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young.
V 025 And they slew a bullock, and brought the child to Eli.
V 026 And she said, Oh my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the
woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the LORD.
V 027 For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition
which I asked of him:
V 028 Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he liveth
he shall be lent to the LORD. And he worshipped the LORD there.
Chapter: 002, of book 1 Samuel
V 001 And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine
horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies;
because I rejoice in thy salvation.
V 002 There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee:
neither is there any rock like our God.
V 003 Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of
your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are
weighed.
V 004 The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are
girded with strength.
V 005 They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they
that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she
that hath many children is waxed feeble.
V 006 The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave,
and bringeth up.
V 007 The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and
lifteth up.
V 008 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar
from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit
the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and he
hath set the world upon them.
V 009 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be
silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.
V 010 The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of
heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the
earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of
his anointed.
V 011 And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister
unto the LORD before Eli the priest.
V 012 Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD.
V 013 And the priest's custom with the people was, that, when any man
offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in
seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand;
V 014 And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all
that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did
in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither.
V 015 Also before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and
said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for
he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.
V 016 And if any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat
presently, and then take as much as thy soul desireth; then he would
answer him, Nay; but thou shalt give it me now: and if not, I will take
it by force.
V 017 Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD:
for men abhorred the offering of the LORD.
V 018 But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with
a linen ephod.
V 019 Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him
from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly
sacrifice.
V 020 And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD give thee
seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the LORD. And they went
unto their own home.
V 021 And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three
sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD.
V 022 Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all
Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation.
V 023 And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your
evil dealings by all this people.
V 024 Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the
LORD's people to transgress.
V 025 If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if
a man sin against the LORD, who shall entreat for him? Notwithstanding
they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the LORD
would slay them.
V 026 And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favor both with the LORD,
and also with men.
V 027 And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus
saith the LORD, Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father, when
they were in Egypt in Pharaoh's house?
V 028 And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my
priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod
before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings
made by fire of the children of Israel?
V 029 Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I
have commanded in my habitation; and honorest thy sons above me, to make
yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my
people?
V 030 Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy
house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but
now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honor me I will
honor, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
V 031 Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm
of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thine
house.
V 032 And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth
which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine
house for ever.
V 033 And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar,
shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the
increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age.
V 034 And this shall be a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two
sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them.
V 035 And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according
to that which is in mine heart and in my mind: and I will build him a
sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever.
V 036 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine
house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of
bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests'
offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.
Chapter: 003, of book 1 Samuel
V 001 And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before Eli. And the
word of the LORD was precious in those days; there was no open vision.
V 002 And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in his
place, and his eyes began to wax dim, that he could not see;
V 003 And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD, where
the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep;
V 004 That the LORD called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I.
V 005 And he ran unto Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou calledst me.
And he said, I called not; lie down again. And he went and lay down.
V 006 And the LORD called yet again, Samuel. And Samuel arose and went
to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And he answered, I
called not, my son; lie down again.
V 007 Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, neither was the word of the
LORD yet revealed unto him.
V 008 And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and
went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And Eli
perceived that the LORD had called the child.
V 009 Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if
he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, LORD; for thy servant heareth.
So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
V 010 And the LORD came, and stood, and called as at other times,
Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak; for thy servant heareth.
V 011 And the LORD said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel,
at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle.
V 012 In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have
spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end.
V 013 For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the
iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he
restrained them not.
V 014 And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the
iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering
for ever.
V 015 And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the
house of the LORD. And Samuel feared to show Eli the vision.
V 016 Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. And he answered,
Here am I.
V 017 And he said, What is the thing that the LORD hath said unto thee?
I pray thee hide it not from me: God do so to thee, and more also, if
thou hide any thing from me of all the things that he said unto thee.
V 018 And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he
said, It is the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good.
V 019 And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and did let none of
his words fall to the ground.
V 020 And all Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was
established to be a prophet of the LORD.
V 021 And the LORD appeared again in Shiloh: for the LORD revealed
himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD.
Chapter: 004, of book 1 Samuel
V 001 And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out
against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside Ebenezer: and the
Philistines pitched in Aphek.
V 002 And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and
when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the Philistines: and
they slew of the army in the field about four thousand men.
V 003 And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel
said, Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us to day before the Philistines?
Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of Shiloh unto us,
that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our
enemies.
V 004 So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence
the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth between the
cherubim: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with
the ark of the covenant of God.
V 005 And when the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the camp,
all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again.
V 006 And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said,
What meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews?
And they understood that the ark of the LORD was come into the camp.
V 007 And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into
the camp. And they said, Woe unto us! for there hath not been such a
thing heretofore.
V 008 Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty
Gods? these are the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues
in the wilderness.
V 009 Be strong and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye
be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit
yourselves like men, and fight.
V 010 And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled
every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there
fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.
V 011 And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and
Phinehas, were slain.
V 012 And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to
Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head.
V 013 And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon a seat by the wayside watching:
for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into
the city, and told it, all the city cried out.
V 014 And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What meaneth
the noise of this tumult? And the man came in hastily, and told Eli.
V 015 Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim,
that he could not see.
V 016 And the man said unto Eli, I am he that came out of the army, and
I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is there done, my son?
V 017 And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the
Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the
people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the
ark of God is taken.
V 018 And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that
he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck
brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged
Israel forty years.
V 019 And his daughter in law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to
be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was
taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she bowed
herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her.
V 020 And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said
unto her, Fear not; for thou hast born a son. But she answered not,
neither did she regard it.
V 021 And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed
from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father
in law and her husband.
V 022 And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of
God is taken.
Chapter: 005, of book 1 Samuel
V 001 And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from
Ebenezer unto Ashdod.
V 002 When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the
house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.
V 003 And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon
was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD. And
they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.
V 004 And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was
fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD; and the
head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the
threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him.
V 005 Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into
Dagon's house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day.
V 006 But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he
destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts
thereof.
V 007 And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark
of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore upon
us, and upon Dagon our god.
V 008 They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines
unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?
And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about
unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel about thither.
V 009 And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of
the LORD was against the city with a very great destruction: and he
smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they had emerods in
their secret parts.
V 010 Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass,
as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying,
They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us
and our people.
V 011 So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the
Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let
it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for
there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God
was very heavy there.
V 012 And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the
cry of the city went up to heaven.
Chapter: 006, of book 1 Samuel
V 001 And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines
seven months.
V 002 And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners,
saying, What shall we do to the ark of the LORD? tell us wherewith we
shall send it to his place.
V 003 And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send
it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then ye
shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not
removed from you.
V 004 Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall
return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice,
according to the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague
was on you all, and on your lords.
V 005 Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your
mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel:
peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your
gods, and from off your land.
V 006 Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and
Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among
them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?
V 007 Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which
there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their
calves home from them:
V 008 And take the ark of the LORD, and lay it upon the cart; and put
the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a trespass offering, in a
coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.
V 009 And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh,
then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know
that it is not his hand that smote us: it was a chance that happened to
us.
V 010 And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the
cart, and shut up their calves at home:
V 011 And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer
with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.
V 012 And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, and
went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the
right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after
them unto the border of Bethshemesh.
V 013 And they of Bethshemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the
valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to
see it.
V 014 And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Bethshemite, and
stood there, where there was a great stone: and they clave the wood of
the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the LORD.
V 015 And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD, and the coffer that
was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great
stone: and the men of Bethshemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed
sacrifices the same day unto the LORD.
V 016 And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they
returned to Ekron the same day.
V 017 And these are the golden emerods which the Philistines returned
for a trespass offering unto the LORD; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for
Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;
V 018 And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of
the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities, and
of country villages, even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they set
down the ark of the LORD: which stone remaineth unto this day in the
field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.
V 019 And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into
the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and
threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had
smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.
V 020 And the men of Bethshemesh said, Who is able to stand before this
holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us?
V 021 And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjathjearim,
saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of the LORD; come ye
down, and fetch it up to you.
Chapter: 007, of book 1 Samuel
V 001 And the men of Kirjathjearim came, and fetched up the ark of the
LORD, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and
sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the LORD.
V 002 And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjathjearim, that
the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel
lamented after the LORD.
V 003 And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do
return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange
gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the
LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the
Philistines.
V 004 Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and
served the LORD only.
V 005 And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for
you unto the LORD.
V 006 And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured
it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have
sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in
Mizpeh.
V 007 And when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were
gathered together to Mizpeh, the lords of the Philistines went up
against Israel. And when the children of Israel heard it, they were
afraid of the Philistines.
V 008 And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to cry unto
the LORD our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the
Philistines.
V 009 And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt
offering wholly unto the LORD: and Samuel cried unto the LORD for
Israel; and the LORD heard him.
V 010 And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines
drew near to battle against Israel: but the LORD thundered with a great
thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they
were smitten before Israel.
V 011 And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the
Philistines, and smote them, until they came under Bethcar.
V 012 Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and
called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped
us.
V 013 So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more into the
coast of Israel: and the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines
all the days of Samuel.
V 014 And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were
restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the coasts thereof
did Israel deliver out of the hands of the Philistines. And there was
peace between Israel and the Amorites.
V 015 And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
V 016 And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal,
and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.
V 017 And his return was to Ramah; for there was his house; and there he
judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the LORD.
Chapter: 008, of book 1 Samuel
V 001 And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons
judges over Israel.
V 002 Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his
second, Abiah: they were judges in Beersheba.
V 003 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre,
and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
V 004 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and
came to Samuel unto Ramah,
V 005 And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in
thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
V 006 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to
judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.
V 007 And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the
people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee,
but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
V 008 According to all the works which they have done since the day that
I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have
forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.
V 009 Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest
solemnly unto them, and show them the manner of the king that shall
reign over them.
V 010 And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that
asked of him a king.
V 011 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign
over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his
chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his
chariots.
V 012 And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over
fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest,
and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.
V 013 And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be
cooks, and to be bakers.
V 014 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your
oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
V 015 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards,
and give to his officers, and to his servants.
V 016 And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your
goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
V 017 He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his
servants.
V 018 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye
shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.
V 019 Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and
they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;
V 020 That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may
judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
V 021 And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed
them in the ears of the LORD.
V 022 And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make
them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man
unto his city.
Chapter: 009, of book 1 Samuel
V 001 Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of
Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a
Benjamite, a mighty man of power.
V 002 And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and a
goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person
than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the
people.
V 003 And the asses of Kish Saul's father were lost. And Kish said to
Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go seek
the asses.
V 004 And he passed through mount Ephraim, and passed through the land
of Shalisha, but they found them not: then they passed through the land
of Shalim, and there they were not: and he passed through the land of
the Benjamites, but they found them not.
V 005 And when they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his
servant that was with him, Come, and let us return; lest my father leave
caring for the asses, and take thought for us.
V 006 And he said unto him, Behold now, there is in this city a man of
God, and he is an honorable man; all that he saith cometh surely to
pass: now let us go thither; peradventure he can show us our way that we
should go.
V 007 Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if we go, what shall
we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and there is
not a present to bring to the man of God: what have we?
V 008 And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have here
at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give to the
man of God, to tell us our way.
V 009 (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.)
V 010 Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they
went unto the city where the man of God was.
V 011 And as they went up the hill to the city, they found young maidens
going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here?
V 012 And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, he is before you:
make haste now, for he came to day to the city; for there is a sacrifice
of the people to day in the high place:
V 013 As soon as ye be come into the city, ye shall straightway find
him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people will not
eat until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; and afterwards
they eat that be bidden. Now therefore get you up; for about this time
ye shall find him.
V 014 And they went up into the city: and when they were come into the
city, behold, Samuel came out against them, for to go up to the high
place.
V 015 Now the LORD had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul came,
saying,
V 016 To morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land
of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be captain over my people
Israel, that he may save my people out of the hand of the Philistines:
for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is come unto me.
V 017 And when Samuel saw Saul, the LORD said unto him, Behold the man
whom I spake to thee of! this same shall reign over my people.
V 018 Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said, Tell me, I
pray thee, where the seer's house is.
V 019 And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the seer: go up before me
unto the high place; for ye shall eat with me to day, and to morrow I
will let thee go, and will tell thee all that is in thine heart.
V 020 And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not thy
mind on them; for they are found. And on whom is all the desire of
Israel? Is it not on thee, and on all thy father's house?
V 021 And Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest
of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of
the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to me?
V 022 And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the
parlor, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were
bidden, which were about thirty persons.
V 023 And Samuel said unto the cook, Bring the portion which I gave
thee, of which I said unto thee, Set it by thee.
V 024 And the cook took up the shoulder, and that which was upon it, and
set it before Saul. And Samuel said, Behold that which is left! set it
before thee, and eat: for unto this time hath it been kept for thee
since I said, I have invited the people. So Saul did eat with Samuel
that day.
V 025 And when they were come down from the high place into the city,
Samuel communed with Saul upon the top of the house.
V 026 And they arose early: and it came to pass about the spring of the
day, that Samuel called Saul to the top of the house, saying, Up, that I
may send thee away. And Saul arose, and they went out both of them, he
and Samuel, abroad.
V 027 And as they were going down to the end of the city, Samuel said to
Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us, (and he passed on), but stand
thou still a while, that I may show thee the word of God.
Chapter: 010, of book 1 Samuel
V 001 Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and
kissed him, and said, Is it not because the LORD hath anointed thee to
be captain over his inheritance?
V 002 When thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find two
men by Rachel's sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they
will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and,
lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you,
saying, What shall I do for my son?
V 003 Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to
the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God
to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of
bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:
V 004 And they will salute thee, and give thee two loaves of bread;
which thou shalt receive of their hands.
V 005 After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the
garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art
come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets
coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a
pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy:
V 006 And the Spirit of the LORD will come upon thee, and thou shalt
prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man.
V 007 And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee, that thou do
as occasion serve thee; for God is with thee.
V 008 And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I will
come down unto thee, to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice
sacrifices of peace offerings: seven days shalt thou tarry, till I come
to thee, and show thee what thou shalt do.
V 009 And it was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel,
God gave him another heart: and all those signs came to pass that day.
V 010 And when they came thither to the hill, behold, a company of
prophets met him; and the Spirit of God came upon him, and he prophesied
among them.
V 011 And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw that,
behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said one to
another, What is this that is come unto the son of Kish? Is Saul also
among the prophets?
V 012 And one of the same place answered and said, But who is their
father? Therefore it became a proverb, Is Saul also among the prophets?
V 013 And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high
place.
V 014 And Saul's uncle said unto him and to his servant, Whither went
ye? And he said, To seek the asses: and when we saw that they were no
where, we came to Samuel.
V 015 And Saul's uncle said, Tell me, I pray thee, what Samuel said unto
you.
V 016 And Saul said unto his uncle, He told us plainly that the asses
were found. But of the matter of the kingdom, whereof Samuel spake, he
told him not.
V 017 And Samuel called the people together unto the LORD to Mizpeh;
V 018 And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the LORD God of
Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the
hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, and of them
that oppressed you:
V 019 And ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saved you out
of all your adversities and your tribulations; and ye have said unto
him, Nay, but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves
before the LORD by your tribes, and by your thousands.
V 020 And when Samuel had caused all the tribes of Israel to come near,
the tribe of Benjamin was taken.
V 021 When he had caused the tribe of Benjamin to come near by their
families, the family of Matri was taken, and Saul the son of Kish was
taken: and when they sought him, he could not be found.
V 022 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.
V 023 And they ran and fetched him thence: and when he stood among the
people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and
upward.
V 024 And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the LORD hath
chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? And all the
people shouted, and said, God save the king.
V 025 Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote
it in a book, and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the
people away, every man to his house.
V 026 And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a band
of men, whose hearts God had touched.
V 027 But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And
they despised him, and brought no presents. But he held his peace.
Chapter: 011, of book 1 Samuel
V 001 Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against
Jabeshgilead: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a
covenant with us, and we will serve thee.
V 002 And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I
make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and
lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.
V 003 And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days'
respite, that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel: and
then, if there be no man to save us, we will come out to thee.
V 004 Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and told the tidings
in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voices,
and wept.
V 005 And, behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field; and Saul
said, What aileth the people that they weep? And they told him the
tidings of the men of Jabesh.
V 006 And the Spirit of God came upon Saul when he heard those tidings,
and his anger was kindled greatly.
V 007 And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent
them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers,
saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall
it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on the people,
and they came out with one consent.
V 008 And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel were
three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
V 009 And they said unto the messengers that came, Thus shall ye say
unto the men of Jabeshgilead, To morrow, by that time the sun be hot, ye
shall have help. And the messengers came and showed it to the men of
Jabesh; and they were glad.
V 010 Therefore the men of Jabesh said, To morrow we will come out unto
you, and ye shall do with us all that seemeth good unto you.
V 011 And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three
companies; and they came into the midst of the host in the morning
watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it came to
pass, that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them were
not left together.
V 012 And the people said unto Samuel, Who is he that said, Shall Saul
reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death.
V 013 And Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day: for
to day the LORD hath wrought salvation in Israel.
V 014 Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and
renew the kingdom there.
V 015 And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king
before the LORD in Gilgal; and there they sacrificed sacrifices of peace
offerings before the LORD; and there Saul and all the men of Israel
rejoiced greatly.
Chapter: 012, of book 1 Samuel
V 001 And Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened unto
your voice in all that ye said unto me, and have made a king over you.
V 002 And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and
grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before
you from my childhood unto this day.
V 003 Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before
his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom
have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I
received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it
you.
V 004 And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us,
neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand.
V 005 And he said unto them, The LORD is witness against you, and his
anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found ought in my hand.
And they answered, He is witness.
V 006 And Samuel said unto the people, It is the LORD that advanced
Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of
Egypt.
V 007 Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the
LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to
your fathers.
V 008 When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried unto the
LORD, then the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, which brought forth your
fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place.
V 009 And when they forgat the LORD their God, he sold them into the
hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the
Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought
against them.
V 010 And they cried unto the LORD, and said, We have sinned, because we
have forsaken the LORD, and have served Baalim and Ashtaroth: but now
deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee.
V 011 And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel,
and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and ye
dwelled safe.
V 012 And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came
against you, ye said unto me, Nay; but a king shall reign over us: when
the LORD your God was your king.
V 013 Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen, and whom ye
have desired! and, behold, the LORD hath set a king over you.
V 014 If ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and
not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall both ye and
also the king that reigneth over you continue following the LORD your
God:
V 015 But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against
the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against
you, as it was against your fathers.
V 016 Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which the LORD will
do before your eyes.
V 017 Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD, and he
shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your
wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in
asking you a king.
V 018 So Samuel called unto the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder and rain
that day: and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.
V 019 And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto
the LORD thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins
this evil, to ask us a king.
V 020 And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this
wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but serve the
LORD with all your heart;
V 021 And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things,
which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
V 022 For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's
sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.
V 023 Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD
in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right
way:
V 024 Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart:
for consider how great things he hath done for you.
V 025 But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye
and your king.
Chapter: 013, of book 1 Samuel
V 001 Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over
Israel,
V 002 Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand
were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with
Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every
man to his tent.
V 003 And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that was in
Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet
throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.
V 004 And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten a garrison of the
Philistines, and that Israel also was had in abomination with the
Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal.
V 005 And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with
Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people
as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up,
and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Bethaven.
V 006 When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the
people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves,
and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.
V 007 And some of the Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of Gad and
Gilead. As for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed
him trembling.
V 008 And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel
had appointed: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were
scattered from him.
V 009 And Saul said, Bring hither a burnt offering to me, and peace
offerings. And he offered the burnt offering.
V 010 And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end of
offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to
meet him, that he might salute him.
V 011 And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw
that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within
the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves
together at Michmash;
V 012 Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me to
Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the LORD: I forced myself
therefore, and offered a burnt offering.
V 013 And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not
kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for
now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.
V 014 But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a
man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be captain
over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD
commanded thee.
V 015 And Samuel arose, and gat him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of
Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people that were present with him, about
six hundred men.
V 016 And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were present
with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in
Michmash.
V 017 And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three
companies: one company turned unto the way that leadeth to Ophrah, unto
the land of Shual:
V 018 And another company turned the way to Bethhoron: and another
company turned to the way of the border that looketh to the valley of
Zeboim toward the wilderness.
V 019 Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel:
for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:
V 020 But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen
every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
V 021 Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and
for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.
V 022 So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither
sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with
Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there
found.
V 023 And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of
Michmash.
Chapter: 014, of book 1 Samuel
V 001 Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said
unto the young man that bare his armor, Come, and let us go over to the
Philistines' garrison, that is on the other side. But he told not his
father.
V 002 And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a
pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people that were with him
were about six hundred men;
V 003 And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of
Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD's priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod.
And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone.
V 004 And between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to go over unto
the Philistines' garrison, there was a sharp rock on the one side, and a
sharp rock on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the
name of the other Seneh.
V 005 The forefront of the one was situate northward over against
Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah.
V 006 And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armor, 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.
V 007 And his armourbearer said unto him, Do all that is in thine heart:
turn thee; behold, I am with thee according to thy heart.
V 008 Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over unto these men, and
we will discover ourselves unto them.
V 009 If they say thus unto us, Tarry until we come to you; then we will
stand still in our place, and will not go up unto them.
V 010 But if they say thus, Come up unto us; then we will go up: for the
LORD hath delivered them into our hand: and this shall be a sign unto
us.
V 011 And both of them discovered themselves unto the garrison of the
Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth
out of the holes where they had hid themselves.
V 012 And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armourbearer,
and said, Come up to us, and we will show you a thing. And Jonathan said
unto his armourbearer, Come up after me: for the LORD hath delivered
them into the hand of Israel.
V 013 And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet, and his
armourbearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his
armourbearer slew after him.
V 014 And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer
made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land,
which a yoke of oxen might plow.
V 015 And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all
the people: the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the
earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling.
V 016 And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and,
behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down one
another.
V 017 Then said Saul unto the people that were with him, Number now, and
see who is gone from us. And when they had numbered, behold, Jonathan
and his armourbearer were not there.
V 018 And Saul said unto Ahiah, Bring hither the ark of God. For the ark
of God was at that time with the children of Israel.
V 019 And it came to pass, while Saul talked unto the priest, that the
noise that was in the host of the Philistines went on and increased: and
Saul said unto the priest, Withdraw thine hand.
V 020 And Saul and all the people that were with him assembled
themselves, and they came to the battle: and, behold, every man's sword
was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture.
V 021 Moreover the Hebrews that were with the Philistines before that
time, which went up with them into the camp from the country round
about, even they also turned to be with the Israelites that were with
Saul and Jonathan.
V 022 Likewise all the men of Israel which had hid themselves in mount
Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also
followed hard after them in the battle.
V 023 So the LORD saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over unto
Bethaven.
V 024 And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had
adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food until
evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people
tasted any food.
V 025 And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey upon
the ground.
V 026 And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey
dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the
oath.
V 027 But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the
oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand,
and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his
eyes were enlightened.
V 028 Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly
charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth
any food this day. And the people were faint.
V 029 Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray
you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of
this honey.
V 030 How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the
spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a
much greater slaughter among the Philistines?
V 031 And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon:
and the people were very faint.
V 032 And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and
calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with
the blood.
V 033 Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the
LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have
transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day.
V 034 And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say unto
them, Bring me hither every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and
slay them here, and eat; and sin not against the LORD in eating with the
blood. And all the people brought every man his ox with him that night,
and slew them there.
V 035 And Saul built an altar unto the LORD: the same was the first
altar that he built unto the LORD.
V 036 And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and
spoil them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them.
And they said, Do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee. Then said the
priest, Let us draw near hither unto God.
V 037 And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the
Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he
answered him not that day.
V 038 And Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the chief of the people:
and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day.
V 039 For, as the LORD liveth, which saveth Israel, though it be in
Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among all
the people that answered him.
V 040 Then said he unto all Israel, Be ye on one side, and I and
Jonathan my son will be on the other side. And the people said unto
Saul, Do what seemeth good unto thee.
V 041 Therefore Saul said unto the LORD God of Israel, Give a perfect
lot. And Saul and Jonathan were taken: but the people escaped.
V 042 And Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And
Jonathan was taken.
V 043 Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And
Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end
of the rod that was in mine hand, and, lo, I must die.
V 044 And Saul answered, God do so and more also: for thou shalt surely
die, Jonathan.
V 045 And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath
wrought this great salvation in Israel? God forbid: as the LORD liveth,
there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath
wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died
not.
V 046 Then Saul went up from following the Philistines: and the
Philistines went to their own place.
V 047 So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his
enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon,
and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the
Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he vexed them.
V 048 And he gathered an host, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered
Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them.
V 049 Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchishua: and
the names of his two daughters were these; the name of the firstborn
Merab, and the name of the younger Michal:
V 050 And the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam, the daughter of Ahimaaz:
and the name of the captain of his host was Abner, the son of Ner,
Saul's uncle.
V 051 And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was
the son of Abiel.
V 052 And there was sore war against the Philistines all the days of
Saul: and when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he took him
unto him.
Chapter: 015, of book 1 Samuel
V 001 Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint thee to be
king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the
voice of the words of the LORD.
V 002 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to
Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.
V 003 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have,
and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox
and sheep, camel and ass.
V 004 And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim,
two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
V 005 And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.
V 006 And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from
among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye showed
kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt.
So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
V 007 And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to
Shur, that is over against Egypt.
V 008 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly
destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
V 009 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep,
and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was
good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile
and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
V 010 Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying,
V 011 It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is
turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments.
And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.
V 012 And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was
told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a
place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.
V 013 And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou
of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD.
V 014 And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in
mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?
V 015 And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the
people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto
the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
V 016 Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the
LORD hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on.
V 017 And Samuel said, When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast
thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed
thee king over Israel?
V 018 And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly
destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be
consumed.
V 019 Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but
didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?
V 020 And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the
LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought
Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
V 021 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the
things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the
LORD thy God in Gilgal.
V 022 And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings
and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is
better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
V 023 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as
iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD,
he hath also rejected thee from being king.
V 024 And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed
the commandment of the LORD, and thy words: because I feared the people,
and obeyed their voice.
V 025 Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me,
that I may worship the LORD.
V 026 And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou
hast rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected thee from
being king over Israel.
V 027 And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt
of his mantle, and it rent.
V 028 And Samuel said unto him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom of Israel
from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbor of thine, that is
better than thou.
V 029 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is
not a man, that he should repent.
V 030 Then he said, I have sinned: yet honor me now, I pray thee, before
the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that
I may worship the LORD thy God.
V 031 So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped the LORD.
V 032 Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the
Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the
bitterness of death is past.
V 033 And Samuel said, As the sword hath made women childless, so shall
thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces
before the LORD in Gilgal.
V 034 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah
of Saul.
V 035 And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death:
nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had
made Saul king over Israel.
Chapter: 016, of book 1 Samuel
V 001 And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul,
seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn
with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have
provided me a king among his sons.
V 002 And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me.
And the LORD said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to
sacrifice to the LORD.
V 003 And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show thee what thou
shalt do: and thou shalt anoint unto me him whom I name unto thee.
V 004 And Samuel did that which the LORD spake, and came to Bethlehem.
And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, Comest thou
peaceably?
V 005 And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice unto the LORD:
sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he
sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.
V 006 And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab,
and said, Surely the LORD's anointed is before him.
V 007 But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on
the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD
seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but
the LORD looketh on the heart.
V 008 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And
he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this.
V 009 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither hath the
LORD chosen this.
V 010 Again, Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. And
Samuel said unto Jesse, The LORD hath not chosen these.
V 011 And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he
said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the
sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not
sit down till he come hither.
V 012 And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a
beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the LORD said, Arise,
anoint him: for this is he.
V 013 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of
his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day
forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
V 014 But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit
from the LORD troubled him.
V 015 And Saul's servants said unto him, Behold now, an evil spirit from
God troubleth thee.
V 016 Let our lord now command thy servants, which are before thee, to
seek out a man, who is a cunning player on an harp: and it shall come to
pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play
with his hand, and thou shalt be well.
V 017 And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can
play well, and bring him to me.
V 018 Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a
son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty
valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely
person, and the LORD is with him.
V 019 Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David
thy son, which is with the sheep.
V 020 And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and
a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul.
V 021 And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him
greatly; and he became his armourbearer.
V 022 And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand
before me; for he hath found favor in my sight.
V 023 And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul,
that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was
refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.
Chapter: 017, of book 1 Samuel
V 001 Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and
were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched
between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim.
V 002 And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched
by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the
Philistines.
V 003 And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and
Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley
between them.
V 004 And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines,
named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
V 005 And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with
a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of
brass.
V 006 And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass
between his shoulders.
V 007 And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his
spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a
shield went before him.
V 008 And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto
them, Why are ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a
Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let
him come down to me.
V 009 If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be
your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye
be our servants, and serve us.
V 010 And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day;
give me a man, that we may fight together.
V 011 When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they
were dismayed, and greatly afraid.
V 012 Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehemjudah, whose
name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an
old man in the days of Saul.
V 013 And the three eldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to the
battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were
Eliab the firstborn, and next unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
V 014 And David was the youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul.
V 015 But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep
at Bethlehem.
V 016 And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented
himself forty days.
V 017 And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an
ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp of
thy brethren;
V 018 And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand,
and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.
V 019 Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley
of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
V 020 And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a
keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to
the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for
the battle.
V 021 For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army
against army.
V 022 And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the
carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.
V 023 And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion,
the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the
Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard
them.
V 024 And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him,
and were sore afraid.
V 025 And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up?
surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who
killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give
him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel.
V 026 And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall
be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the
reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he
should defy the armies of the living God?
V 027 And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it
be done to the man that killeth him.
V 028 And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and
Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou
down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the
wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for
thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.
V 029 And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?
V 030 And he turned from him toward another, and spake after the same
manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner.
V 031 And when the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed
them before Saul: and he sent for him.
V 032 And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him;
thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.
V 033 And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this
Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man of
war from his youth.
V 034 And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and
there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:
V 035 And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of
his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and
smote him, and slew him.
V 036 Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this
uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied
the armies of the living God.
V 037 David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of
the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the
hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the LORD be
with thee.
V 038 And Saul armed David with his armor, and he put an helmet of brass
upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail.
V 039 And David girded his sword upon his armor, 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.
V 040 And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth
stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had,
even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the
Philistine.
V 041 And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the man
that bare the shield went before him.
V 042 And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained
him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance.
V 043 And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest
to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
V 044 And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy
flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.
V 045 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword,
and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of
the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast
defied.
V 046 This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will
smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcasses
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.
V 047 And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with
sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD's, and he will give you into
our hands.
V 048 And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came, and drew
nigh to meet David, that David hastened, and ran toward the army to meet
the Philistine.
V 049 And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and
slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk
into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
V 050 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a
stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in
the hand of David.
V 051 Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his
sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off
his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion was
dead, they fled.
V 052 And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued
the Philistines, until thou come to the valley, and to the gates of
Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to
Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto Ekron.
V 053 And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the
Philistines, and they spoiled their tents.
V 054 And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to
Jerusalem; but he put his armor in his tent.
V 055 And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said
unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this youth? And
Abner said, As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.
V 056 And the king said, Inquire thou whose son the stripling is.
V 057 And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner
took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in
his hand.
V 058 And Saul said to him, Whose son art thou, thou young man? And
David answered, I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.
Chapter: 018, of book 1 Samuel
V 001 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto
Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and
Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
V 002 And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to
his father's house.
V 003 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as
his own soul.
V 004 And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and
gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow,
and to his girdle.
V 005 And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him, and behaved
himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was
accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's
servants.
V 006 And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the
slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of
Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy,
and with instruments of music.
V 007 And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul
hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.
V 008 And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he
said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have
ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?
V 009 And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.
V 010 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God
came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David
played with his hand, as at other times: and there was a javelin in
Saul's hand.
V 011 And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to
the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice.
V 012 And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and
was departed from Saul.
V 013 Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over
a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.
V 014 And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the LORD was
with him.
V 015 Wherefore when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he
was afraid of him.
V 016 But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out and came
in before them.
V 017 And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I
give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD's
battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand
of the Philistines be upon him.
V 018 And David said unto Saul, Who am I? and what is my life, or my
father's family in Israel, that I should be son in law to the king?
V 019 But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul's daughter should
have been given to David, that she was given unto Adriel the Meholathite
to wife.
V 020 And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and
the thing pleased him.
V 021 And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to
him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore
Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in the one of
the twain.
V 022 And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David
secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his
servants love thee: now therefore be the king's son in law.
V 023 And Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David. And
David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king's son in law,
seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?
V 024 And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake
David.
V 025 And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not
any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of
the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of
the Philistines.
V 026 And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David
well to be the king's son in law: and the days were not expired.
V 027 Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the
Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they
gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in
law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.
V 028 And Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that
Michal Saul's daughter loved him.
V 029 And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David's
enemy continually.
V 030 Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it came to
pass, after they went forth, that David behaved himself more wisely than
all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much set by.
Chapter: 019, of book 1 Samuel
V 001 And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that
they should kill David.
V 002 But Jonathan Saul's son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told
David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I
pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret
place, and hide thyself:
V 003 And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where
thou art, and I will commune with my father of thee; and what I see,
that I will tell thee.
V 004 And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and said
unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David;
because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works have been
to thee-ward very good:
V 005 For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and
the LORD wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest it, and
didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to
slay David without a cause?
V 006 And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware, As
the LORD liveth, he shall not be slain.
V 007 And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those
things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence,
as in times past.
V 008 And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with the
Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled from
him.
V 009 And the evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat in his
house with his javelin in his hand: and David played with his hand.
V 010 And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin:
but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin
into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.
V 011 Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to
slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If
thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.
V 012 So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled,
and escaped.
V 013 And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow
of goats' hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth.
V 014 And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.
V 015 And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him
up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.
V 016 And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an image
in the bed, with a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster.
V 017 And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent
away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said
unto me, Let me go; why should I kill thee?
V 018 So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told
him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in
Naioth.
V 019 And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.
V 020 And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the
company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as appointed
over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and they
also prophesied.
V 021 And when it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they
prophesied likewise. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and
they prophesied also.
V 022 Then went he also to Ramah, and came to a great well that is in
Sechu: and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? And one said,
Behold, they be at Naioth in Ramah.
V 023 And he went thither to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God was
upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth
in Ramah.
V 024 And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel
in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that night.
Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?
Chapter: 020, of book 1 Samuel
V 001 And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before
Jonathan, What have I done? what is mine iniquity? and what is my sin
before thy father, that he seeketh my life?
V 002 And he said unto him, God forbid; thou shalt not die: behold, my
father will do nothing either great or small, but that he will show it
me: and why should my father hide this thing from me? it is not so.
V 003 And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth
that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan
know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as the LORD liveth, and as thy
soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.
V 004 Then said Jonathan unto David, Whatsoever thy soul desireth, I
will even do it for thee.
V 005 And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to morrow is the new moon,
and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that
I may hide myself in the field unto the third day at even.
V 006 If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked
leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city: for there is a
yearly sacrifice there for all the family.
V 007 If he say thus, It is well; thy servant shall have peace: but if
he be very wroth, then be sure that evil is determined by him.
V 008 Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast
brought thy servant into a covenant of the LORD with thee:
notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why
shouldest thou bring me to thy father?
V 009 And Jonathan said, Far be it from thee: for if I knew certainly
that evil were determined by my father to come upon thee, then would not
I tell it thee?
V 010 Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what if thy
father answer thee roughly?
V 011 And Jonathan said unto David, Come, and let us go out into the
field. And they went out both of them into the field.
V 012 And Jonathan said unto David, O LORD God of Israel, when I have
sounded my father about to morrow any time, or the third day, and,
behold, if there be good toward David, and I then send not unto thee,
and show it thee;
V 013 The LORD do so and much more to Jonathan: but if it please my
father to do thee evil, then I will show 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.
V 014 And thou shalt not only while yet I live show me the kindness of
the LORD, that I die not:
V 015 But also thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house for
ever: no, not when the LORD hath cut off the enemies of David every one
from the face of the earth.
V 016 So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let
the LORD even require it at the hand of David's enemies.
V 017 And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him:
for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
V 018 Then Jonathan said to David, To morrow is the new moon: and thou
shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty.
V 019 And when thou hast stayed three days, then thou shalt go down
quickly, and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself when the
business was in hand, and shalt remain by the stone Ezel.
V 020 And I will shoot three arrows on the side thereof, as though I
shot at a mark.
V 021 And, behold, I will send a lad, saying, Go, find out the arrows.
If I expressly say unto the lad, Behold, the arrows are on this side of
thee, take them; then come thou: for there is peace to thee, and no
hurt; as the LORD liveth.
V 022 But if I say thus unto the young man, Behold, the arrows are
beyond thee; go thy way: for the LORD hath sent thee away.
V 023 And as touching the matter which thou and I have spoken of,
behold, the LORD be between thee and me for ever.
V 024 So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come,
the king sat him down to eat meat.
V 025 And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, even upon a
seat by the wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul's side, and
David's place was empty.
V 026 Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he thought,
Something hath befallen him, he is not clean; surely he is not clean.
V 027 And it came to pass on the morrow, which was the second day of the
month, that David's place was empty: and Saul said unto Jonathan his
son, Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse to meat, neither yesterday,
nor to day?
V 028 And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to
go to Bethlehem:
V 029 And he said, Let me go, I pray thee; for our family hath a
sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he hath commanded me to be there:
and now, if I have found favor in thine eyes, let me get away, I pray
thee, and see my brethren. Therefore he cometh not unto the king's
table.
V 030 Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto
him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou
hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the
confusion of thy mother's nakedness?
V 031 For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt
not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him
unto me, for he shall surely die.
V 032 And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him,
Wherefore shall he be slain? what hath he done?
V 033 And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew
that it was determined of his father to slay David.
V 034 So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and did eat no
meat the second day of the month: for he was grieved for David, because
his father had done him shame.
V 035 And it came to pass in the morning, that Jonathan went out into
the field at the time appointed with David, and a little lad with him.
V 036 And he said unto his lad, Run, find out now the arrows which I
shoot. And as the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
V 037 And when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan
had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, and said, Is not the arrow
beyond thee?
V 038 And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed, haste, stay not. And
Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.
V 039 But the lad knew not any thing: only Jonathan and David knew the
matter.
V 040 And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad, and said unto him,
Go, carry them to the city.
V 041 And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of a place toward
the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three
times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until
David exceeded.
V 042 And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have
sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying, The LORD be between me
and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever. And he arose and
departed: and Jonathan went into the city.
Chapter: 021, of book 1 Samuel
V 001 Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was
afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why art thou alone,
and no man with thee?
V 002 And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded
me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the
business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I
have appointed my servants to such and such a place.
V 003 Now therefore what is under thine hand? give me five loaves of
bread in mine hand, or what there is present.
V 004 And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread
under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept
themselves at least from women.
V 005 And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women
have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the
vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common,
yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel.
V 006 So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread
there but the showbread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot
bread in the day when it was taken away.
V 007 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day,
detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the
chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.
V 008 And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thine
hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons
with me, because the king's business required haste.
V 009 And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom
thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a
cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no
other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it
me.
V 010 And David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to
Achish the king of Gath.
V 011 And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the
king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances,
saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
V 012 And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of
Achish the king of Gath.
V 013 And he changed his behavior before them, and feigned himself mad
in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his
spittle fall down upon his beard.
V 014 Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad:
wherefore then have ye brought him to me?
V 015 Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play
the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?
Chapter: 022, of book 1 Samuel
V 001 David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam:
and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went
down thither to him.
V 002 And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in
debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him;
and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four
hundred men.
V 003 And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said unto the king
of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, and be
with you, till I know what God will do for me.
V 004 And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with
him all the while that David was in the hold.
V 005 And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold;
depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and
came into the forest of Hareth.
V 006 When Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that were
with him, (now Saul abode in Gibeah under a tree in Ramah, having his
spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him;)
V 007 Then Saul said unto his servants that stood about him, Hear now,
ye Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and
vineyards, and make you all captains of thousands, and captains of
hundreds;
V 008 That all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that
showeth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, and
there is none of you that is sorry for me, or showeth unto me that my
son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this
day?
V 009 Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of
Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the
son of Ahitub.
V 010 And he inquired of the LORD for him, and gave him victuals, and
gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
V 011 Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub,
and all his father's house, the priests that were in Nob: and they came
all of them to the king.
V 012 And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here
I am, my lord.
V 013 And Saul said unto him, Why have ye conspired against me, thou and
the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, and a sword, and
hast inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in
wait, as at this day?
V 014 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful
among all thy servants as David, which is the king's son in law, and
goeth at thy bidding, and is honorable in thine house?
V 015 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.
V 016 And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all
thy father's house.
V 017 And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and
slay the priests of the LORD: because their hand also is with David, and
because they knew when he fled, and did not show it to me. But the
servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the
priests of the LORD.
V 018 And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests.
And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on
that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.
V 019 And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the
sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses,
and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
V 020 And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar,
escaped, and fled after David.
V 021 And Abiathar showed David that Saul had slain the LORD's priests.
V 022 And David said unto Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg the
Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned the
death of all the persons of thy father's house.
V 023 Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that seeketh my life seeketh
thy life: but with me thou shalt be in safeguard.
Chapter: 023, of book 1 Samuel
V 001 Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight
against Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors.
V 002 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.
V 003 And David's men said unto him, Behold, we be afraid here in Judah:
how much more then if we come to Keilah against the armies of the
Philistines?
V 004 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.
V 005 So David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the
Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and smote them with a great
slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
V 006 And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to
David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand.
V 007 And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And Saul said,
God hath delivered him into mine hand; for he is shut in, by entering
into a town that hath gates and bars.
V 008 And Saul called all the people together to war, to go down to
Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
V 009 And David knew that Saul secretly practiced mischief against him;
and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.
V 010 Then said David, O LORD God of Israel, thy servant hath certainly
heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my
sake.
V 011 Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come
down, as thy servant hath heard? O LORD God of Israel, I beseech thee,
tell thy servant. And the LORD said, He will come down.
V 012 Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into
the hand of Saul? And the LORD said, They will deliver thee up.
V 013 Then David and his men, which were about six hundred, arose and
departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was
told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he forbare to go
forth.
V 014 And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in
a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but
God delivered him not into his hand.
V 015 And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David
was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.
V 016 And Jonathan Saul's son arose, and went to David into the wood,
and strengthened his hand in God.
V 017 And he said unto him, Fear not: for the hand of Saul my father
shall not find thee; and thou shalt be king over Israel, and I shall be
next unto thee; and that also Saul my father knoweth.
V 018 And they two made a covenant before the LORD: and David abode in
the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.
V 019 Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not
David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of
Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?
V 020 Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of
thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him into the
king's hand.
V 021 And Saul said, Blessed be ye of the LORD; for ye have compassion
on me.
V 022 Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his
haunt is, and who hath seen him there: for it is told me that he dealeth
very subtilly.
V 023 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where
he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I
will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that
I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.
V 024 And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his
men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of
Jeshimon.
V 025 Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David;
wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon.
And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of
Maon.
V 026 And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men
on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear
of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to
take them.
V 027 But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste thee, and
come; for the Philistines have invaded the land.
V 028 Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went
against the Philistines: therefore they called that place
Selahammahlekoth.
V 029 And David went up from thence, and dwelt in strong holds at Engedi.
Chapter: 024, of book 1 Samuel
V 001 And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following the
Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David is in the
wilderness of Engedi.
V 002 Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and
went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats.
V 003 And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and
Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the
sides of the cave.
V 004 And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of which the
LORD said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand,
that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then David
arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily.
V 005 And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart smote him,
because he had cut off Saul's skirt.
V 006 And he said unto his men, The LORD forbid that I should do this
thing unto my master, the LORD's anointed, to stretch forth mine hand
against him, seeing he is the anointed of the LORD.
V 007 So David stayed his servants with these words, and suffered them
not to rise against Saul. But Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on
his way.
V 008 David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried
after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him,
David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed himself.
V 009 And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's words,
saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?
V 010 Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had
delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill
thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine
hand against my lord; for he is the LORD's anointed.
V 011 Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my
hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not,
know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine
hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to
take it.
V 012 The LORD judge between me and thee, and the LORD avenge me of
thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
V 013 As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from
the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
V 014 After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou
pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.
V 015 The LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and
see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.
V 016 And it came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these
words unto Saul, that Saul said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And
Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.
V 017 And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I: for thou
hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.
V 018 And thou hast showed 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.
V 019 For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away?
wherefore the LORD reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this
day.
V 020 And now, behold, I know well that thou shalt surely be king, and
that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in thine hand.
V 021 Swear now therefore unto me by the LORD, that thou wilt not cut
off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my
father's house.
V 022 And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his
men gat them up unto the hold.
Chapter: 025, of book 1 Samuel
V 001 And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together,
and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose,
and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
V 002 And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and
the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand
goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
V 003 Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife
Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful
countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was
of the house of Caleb.
V 004 And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.
V 005 And David sent out ten young men, and David said unto the young
men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:
V 006 And thus shall ye say to him that liveth in prosperity, Peace be
both to thee, and peace be to thine house, and peace be unto all that
thou hast.
V 007 And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds
which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing
unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.
V 008 Ask thy young men, and they will show thee. Wherefore let the
young men find favor 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.
V 009 And when David's young men came, they spake to Nabal according to
all those words in the name of David, and ceased.
V 010 And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and
who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break
away every man from his master.
V 011 Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have
killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence
they be?
V 012 So David's young men turned their way, and went again, and came
and told him all those sayings.
V 013 And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And
they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword:
and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred
abode by the stuff.
V 014 But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying,
Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our
master; and he railed on them.
V 015 But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither
missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with them, when we
were in the fields:
V 016 They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we
were with them keeping the sheep.
V 017 Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is
determined against our master, and against all his household: for he is
such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him.
V 018 Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two
bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of
parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes
of figs, and laid them on asses.
V 019 And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come
after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.
V 020 And it was so, as she rode on the ass, that she came down by the
covert on the hill, and, behold, David and his men came down against
her; and she met them.
V 021 Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this
fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that
pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good.
V 022 So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of
all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against
the wall.
V 023 And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass,
and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,
V 024 And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this
iniquity be: and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine
audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid.
V 025 Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even
Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is
with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom
thou didst send.
V 026 Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth,
seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from
avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they
that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
V 027 And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto my
lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord.
V 028 I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD
will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the
battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days.
V 029 Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the
soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy
God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of
the middle of a sling.
V 030 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD shall have done to my
lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and
shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel;
V 031 That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offense 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.
V 032 And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel,
which sent thee this day to meet me:
V 033 And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me
this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine
own hand.
V 034 For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel liveth, which hath
kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to
meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light
any that pisseth against the wall.
V 035 So David received of her hand that which she had brought him, and
said unto her, Go up in peace to thine house; see, I have hearkened to
thy voice, and have accepted thy person.
V 036 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his
house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him,
for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more,
until the morning light.
V 037 But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of
Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died
within him, and he became as a stone.
V 038 And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote
Nabal, that he died.
V 039 And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the
LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal,
and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the
wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with
Abigail, to take her to him to wife.
V 040 And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel,
they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to take thee to
him to wife.
V 041 And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and
said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the
servants of my lord.
V 042 And Abigail hasted, and arose and rode upon an ass, with five
damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers
of David, and became his wife.
V 043 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of
them his wives.
V 044 But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti
the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.
Chapter: 026, of book 1 Samuel
V 001 And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David
hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon?
V 002 Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having
three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the
wilderness of Ziph.
V 003 And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon,
by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came
after him into the wilderness.
V 004 David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come
in very deed.
V 005 And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched: and
David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the
captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched
round about him.
V 006 Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to
Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down
with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.
V 007 So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold,
Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground
at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.
V 008 Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into
thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with
the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second
time.
V 009 And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch
forth his hand against the LORD's anointed, and be guiltless?
V 010 David said furthermore, As the LORD liveth, the LORD shall smite
him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and
perish.
V 011 The LORD forbid that I should stretch forth mine hand against the
LORD's anointed: but, I pray thee, take thou now the spear that is at
his bolster, and the cruse of water, and let us go.
V 012 So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's
bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither
awaked: for they were all asleep; because a deep sleep from the LORD was
fallen upon them.
V 013 Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of an
hill afar off; a great space being between them:
V 014 And David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner,
saying, Answerest thou not, Abner? Then Abner answered and said, Who art
thou that criest to the king?
V 015 And David said to Abner, Art not thou a valiant man? and who is
like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast thou not kept thy lord the
king? for there came one of the people in to destroy the king thy lord.
V 016 This thing is not good that thou hast done. As the LORD liveth, ye
are worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master, the LORD's
anointed. And now see where the king's spear is, and the cruse of water
that was at his bolster.
V 017 And Saul knew David's voice, and said, Is this thy voice, my son
David? And David said, It is my voice, my lord, O king.
V 018 And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant?
for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?
V 019 Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of
his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him accept
an offering: but if they be the children of men, cursed be they before
the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the
inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods.
V 020 Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face
of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when
one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.
V 021 Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no
more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day:
behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.
V 022 And David answered and said, Behold the king's spear! and let one
of the young men come over and fetch it.
V 023 The LORD render to every man his righteousness and his
faithfulness; for the LORD delivered thee into my hand to day, but I
would not stretch forth mine hand against the LORD's anointed.
V 024 And, behold, as thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes, so
let my life be much set by in the eyes of the LORD, and let him deliver
me out of all tribulation.
V 025 Then Saul said to David, Blessed be thou, my son David: thou shalt
both do great things, and also shalt still prevail. So David went on his
way, and Saul returned to his place.
Chapter: 027, of book 1 Samuel
V 001 And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the
hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily
escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me,
to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his
hand.
V 002 And David arose, and he passed over with the six hundred men that
were with him unto Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.
V 003 And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man
with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the
Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.
V 004 And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no
more again for him.
V 005 And David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace in thine
eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may
dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with
thee?
V 006 Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Ziklag pertaineth
unto the kings of Judah unto this day.
V 007 And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines
was a full year and four months.
V 008 And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the
Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old the
inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of
Egypt.
V 009 And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive,
and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels,
and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.
V 010 And Achish said, Whither have ye made a road to day? And David
said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the
Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites.
V 011 And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring tidings to
Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on us, saying, So did David, and so
will be his manner all the while he dwelleth in the country of the
Philistines.
V 012 And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his people Israel
utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant for ever.
Chapter: 028, of book 1 Samuel
V 001 And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered
their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. And Achish said
unto David, Know thou assuredly, that thou shalt go out with me to
battle, thou and thy men.
V 002 And David said to Achish, Surely thou shalt know what thy servant
can do. And Achish said to David, Therefore will I make thee keeper of
mine head for ever.
V 003 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried
him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had
familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.
V 004 And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and
pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they
pitched in Gilboa.
V 005 And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was afraid, and
his heart greatly trembled.
V 006 And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not,
neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
V 007 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.
V 008 And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went,
and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said,
I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him up,
whom I shall name unto thee.
V 009 And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou knowest what Saul hath
done, how he hath cut off those that have familiar spirits, and the
wizards, out of the land: wherefore then layest thou a snare for my
life, to cause me to die?
V 010 And Saul sware to her by the LORD, saying, As the LORD liveth,
there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing.
V 011 Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he said,
Bring me up Samuel.
V 012 And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice: and
the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why hast thou deceived me? for thou art
Saul.
V 013 And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou?
And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth.
V 014 And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old man
cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it
was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed
himself.
V 015 And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me
up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make
war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more,
neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that
thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.
V 016 Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the
LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?
V 017 And the LORD hath done to him, as he spake by me: for the LORD
hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and given it to thy neighbor,
even to David:
V 018 Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD, nor executedst
his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done this thing
unto thee this day.
V 019 Moreover the LORD will also deliver Israel with thee into the hand
of the Philistines: and to morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me:
the LORD also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of the
Philistines.
V 020 Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore
afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in
him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.
V 021 And the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled,
and said unto him, Behold, thine handmaid hath obeyed thy voice, and I
have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened unto thy words which
thou spakest unto me.
V 022 Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice of
thine handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat,
that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way.
V 023 But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants,
together with the woman, compelled him; and he hearkened unto their
voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed.
V 024 And the woman had a fat calf in the house; and she hasted, and
killed it, and took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread
thereof:
V 025 And she brought it before Saul, and before his servants; and they
did eat. Then they rose up, and went away that night.
Chapter: 029, of book 1 Samuel
V 001 Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek:
and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which is in Jezreel.
V 002 And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by
thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rearward with Achish.
V 003 Then said the princes of the Philistines, What do these Hebrews
here? And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines, Is not this
David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, which hath been with me
these days, or these years, and I have found no fault in him since he
fell unto me unto this day?
V 004 And the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and the
princes of the Philistines said unto him, Make this fellow return, that
he may go again to his place which thou hast appointed him, and let him
not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he be an adversary to
us: for wherewith should he reconcile himself unto his master? should it
not be with the heads of these men?
V 005 Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances,
saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
V 006 Then Achish called David, and said unto him, Surely, as the LORD
liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out and thy coming in with
me in the host is good in my sight: for I have not found evil in thee
since the day of thy coming unto me unto this day: nevertheless the
lords favor thee not.
V 007 Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the
lords of the Philistines.
V 008 And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what hast
thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee unto this
day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king?
V 009 And Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou art good
in my sight, as an angel of God: notwithstanding the princes of the
Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle.
V 010 Wherefore now rise up early in the morning with thy master's
servants that are come with thee: and as soon as ye be up early in the
morning, and have light, depart.
V 011 So David and his men rose up early to depart in the morning, to
return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to
Jezreel.
Chapter: 030, of book 1 Samuel
V 001 And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on
the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag,
and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;
V 002 And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not
any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their
way.
V 003 So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned
with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were
taken captives.
V 004 Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice
and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
V 005 And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the
Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
V 006 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning
him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his
sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his
God.
V 007 And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray
thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod
to David.
V 008 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.
V 009 So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and
came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.
V 010 But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred abode
behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor.
V 011 And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David,
and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water;
V 012 And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of
raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had
eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.
V 013 And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art
thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite;
and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.
V 014 We made an invasion upon the south of the Cherethites, and upon
the coast which belongeth to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; and we
burned Ziklag with fire.
V 015 And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this company?
And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor
deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to
this company.
V 016 And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad
upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the
great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and
out of the land of Judah.
V 017 And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of
the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred
young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.
V 018 And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and
David rescued his two wives.
V 019 And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great,
neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any thing that they had
taken to them: David recovered all.
V 020 And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave
before those other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.
V 021 And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that
they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the
brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people
that were with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted
them.
V 022 Then answered all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those that
went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will not
give them ought of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man
his wife and his children, that they may lead them away, and depart.
V 023 Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which
the LORD hath given us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the company
that came against us into our hand.
V 024 For who will hearken unto you in this matter? but as his part is
that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the
stuff: they shall part alike.
V 025 And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and
an ordinance for Israel unto this day.
V 026 And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the
elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you
of the spoil of the enemies of the LORD;
V 027 To them which were in Bethel, and to them which were in south
Ramoth, and to them which were in Jattir,
V 028 And to them which were in Aroer, and to them which were in
Siphmoth, and to them which were in Eshtemoa,
V 029 And to them which were in Rachal, and to them which were in the
cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to them which were in the cities of the
Kenites,
V 030 And to them which were in Hormah, and to them which were in
Chorashan, and to them which were in Athach,
V 031 And to them which were in Hebron, and to all the places where
David himself and his men were wont to haunt.
Chapter: 031, of book 1 Samuel
V 001 Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel
fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.
V 002 And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and
the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Melchishua, Saul's
sons.
V 003 And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him;
and he was sore wounded of the archers.
V 004 Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust
me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me
through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore
afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.
V 005 And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise
upon his sword, and died with him.
V 006 So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all
his men, that same day together.
V 007 And when the men of Israel that were on the other side of the
valley, and they that were on the other side Jordan, saw that the men of
Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the
cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.
V 008 And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to
strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount
Gilboa.
V 009 And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armor, and sent
into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the house
of their idols, and among the people.
V 010 And they put his armor in the house of Ashtaroth: and they
fastened his body to the wall of Bethshan.
V 011 And when the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead heard of that which the
Philistines had done to Saul;
V 012 All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body
of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Bethshan, and came
to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
V 013 And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh,
and fasted seven days.
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