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  1 Samuel

  1:1 Noe:

  1:2 And he hadoHannah had no children.

  1:3 And this man here.

  1:4 And ions:

  1:5 But unto Hannah he gave aup her womb.

  1:6 And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.

  1:7 And as he did so year by year, .

  1:8 Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, en sons?

  1:9 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Nohe LORD.

  1:10 And shesore.

  1:11 And she vohere shall no razore upon his head.

  1:12 And it came to pass, as she tinued praying before the LORD, that Eli marked her mouth.

  1:13 No she had been drunken.

  1:14 And Eli said unto her, Hohee.

  1:15 And Hannah anshe LORD.

  1:16 t not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundanyplaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.

  1:17 Then Eli ans asked of him.

  1:18 And she said, Let thine handmaid find gra thy sight. So the enance was no more sad.

  1:19 And they rose up in the m early, and he LORD remembered her.

  1:20 Wherefore it came to pass, he LORD.

  1:21 And the man Elkanah, and all his house, he yearly sacrifice, and his vow.

  1:22 But Hannah here abide for ever.

  1:23 And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do il she weaned him.

  1:24 And he child was young.

  1:25 And they sleo Eli.

  1:26 And she said, Oh my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the he LORD.

  1:27 For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him:

  1:28 Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he here.

  2:1 And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoi thy salvation.

  2:2 There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: her is there any rock like od.

  2:3 Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let na of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knoions are weighed.

  2:4 The boh.

  2:5 They that h many children is waxed feeble.

  2:6 The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he brih doh up.

  2:7 The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he brih loh up.

  2:8 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them i the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD"s, ah set the hem.

  2:9 He h shall no man prevail.

  2:10 The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upohe LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, a the horn of his anointed.

  2:11 And Elkanah .

  2:12 Nohe LORD.

  2:13 And the priest"sh in his hand;

  2:14 Aruck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fleshhoht up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither.

  2:15 Also before they burnt the fat, the priest"s servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for heraw.

  2:16 And if any man said unto him, Let them not fail to bur presently, and then take as much as thy soul desireth; then heby force.

  2:17 Wherefore the sin of the young men he LORD.

  2:18 But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded h a linen ephod.

  2:19 Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, he yearly sacrifice.

  2:20 And Eli blessed Elkanah and his heir own home.

  2:21 And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she ceived, and bare three sons ando daughters. And the child Samuel grehe LORD.

  2:22 Noion.

  2:23 And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this people.

  2:24 Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the LORD"s people tress.

  2:25 If one man sin against ahe judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the LORD, hem.

  2:26 And the child Samuel greh men.

  2:27 And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father,in Pharaoh"s house?

  2:28 And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon miar, to burn inse, to he children of Israel?

  2:29 Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifid at mine , he s of Israel my people?

  2:30 Wherefore the Lod of Israel saith, I said ihat thy house, and the house of thy father, should eemed.

  2:31 Behold, the dayse, that I hine house.

  2:32 And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the hine house for ever.

  2:33 And the man of thine, heir age.

  2:34 And this shall be a sign unto thee, that shalle upon thyo sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them.

  2:35 And I ed for ever.

  2:36 And it shalle to pass, that every ohat is left in thine house shalle and crou 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.

  3:1 And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before Eli. And the here was no open vision.

  3:2 And it came to pass at that time,see;

  3:3 Ahe lamp of God o sleep;

  3:4 That the LORD called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I.

  3:5 And he ran unto Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou calledst me. And he said, I called not; lie do and lay down.

  3:6 And the LORD called yet again, Samuel. And Samuel arose and , my son; lie down again.

  3:7 Noo him.

  3:8 And the LORD called Samuel agaihird time. And he arose and he child.

  3:9 Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie do and lay down in his place.

  3:10 And the LORD came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel ansh.

  3:11 And the LORD said to Samuel, Behold, I ingle.

  3:12 In that day I hings which I have spoken ing his house: when I begin, I will also make an end.

  3:13 For I have told him that I .

  3:14 And therefore I have sh sacrifiorfor ever.

  3:15 And Samuel lay until the m, and opehe doors of the house of the LORD. And Samuel feared to shehe vision.

  3:16 Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. And he answered, Here am I.

  3:17 And he said, What is the thing that the LORD hath said 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.

  3:18 And Samuel told him every h him good.

  3:19 And Samuel grehe ground.

  3:20 And all Israel from Dao Beersheba knehe LORD.

  3:21 And the LORD appeared again in Shiloh: for the LORD revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the he LORD.

  4:1 And the ched in Aphek.

  4:2 And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and housand men.

  4:3 And he hand of our enemies.

  4:4 So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thehe ark of the ant of the LORD of hosts,of God.

  4:5 And h rang again.

  4:6 And he camp.

  4:7 And the Philistines ofore.

  4:8 Woe unto us! he wilderness.

  4:9 Be strong and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistihat ye be not servants unto the Hebre.

  4:10 And the Philistines fought, and Israel men.

  4:11 And the ark of God heo sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.

  4:12 And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day h upon his head.

  4:13 And .

  4:14 And old Eli.

  4:15 No see.

  4:16 And the man said unto Eli, I am he that came out of the army, and I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is there done, my son?

  4:17 And the messenger ansaken.

  4:18 And it came to pass, y years.

  4:19 And his daughter in laravailed; for her pains came upon her.

  4:20 And about the time of her death the .

  4:21 And she he child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God her in law and her husband.

  4:22 And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken.

  5:1 And the Philistiook the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod.

  5:2 When the Philistiook the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, a by Dagon.

  5:3 Andhim in his place again.

  5:4 And o him.

  5:5 Therefore her the priests of Dagon, nor any thate into Dagon"s house, tread ohreshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day.

  5:6 But the hand of the LORD hereof.

  5:7 And h us: for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon od.

  5:8 They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said, What shall her.

  5:9 And it s.

  5:10 Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people.

  5:11 So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send ahere.

  5:12 And the men that died not o heaven.

  6:1 And the ark of the LORD hs.

  6:2 And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall o his place.

  6:3 And they said, If ye send a removed from you.

  6:4 Then said they, What shall be the trespassines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.

  6:5 Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he en his hand from off you, and from off yods, and from off your land.

  6:6 Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardeheir hearts? ed?

  6:7 Nohem:

  6:8 And take the ark of the LORD, and lay it upon the cart; and put the je may go.

  6:9 And see, if it goeth up by the o us.

  6:10 And the men did so; and tooko milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:

  6:11 And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer heir emerods.

  6:12 And the kiook the straight hshemesh.

  6:13 And they of Bethshemesh .

  6:14 And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Bethshemite, and stood there, he LORD.

  6:15 And the Levites took dohe LORD.

  6:16 And he same day.

  6:17 And these are the golden emerods h one, for Ekron one;

  6:18 And the golden mice, acc to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities, and of try villages, even unto the great stone of Abel, e.

  6:19 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 er.

  6:20 And the men of Bethshemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy Lod? and to whom shall he go up from us?

  6:21 And they sent messeo the inhabitants of Kirjathjearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of the LORD;e ye doo you.

  7:1 And the men of Kirjathjearim came, ached 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.

  7:2 And it came to pass, he LORD.

  7:3 And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD ines.

  7:4 Then the children of Israel did put ahe LORD only.

  7:5 And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I he LORD.

  7:6 And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drehe children of Israel in Mizpeh.

  7:7 And ines.

  7:8 And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to cry unto the LORD od for us, that he ines.

  7:9 And Samuel took a sug lamb, and offered it for a burnthe LORD heard him.

  7:10 And as Samuel en before Israel.

  7:11 And the men of Israel hcar.

  7:12 Then Samuel took a stone, a been Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.

  7:13 So the Philistines he days of Samuel.

  7:14 And the cities es.

  7:15 And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.

  7:16 And he hose places.

  7:17 And his return he LORD.

  8:1 And it came to pass,he made his sons judges over Israel.

  8:2 Nohey were judges in Beersheba.

  8:3 And his sons .

  8:4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,

  8:5 And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons ions.

  8:6 But the thing displeased Samuel, he LORD.

  8:7 And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should nhem.

  8:8 Acc to all the hee.

  8:9 Nohem.

  8:10 And Samuel told all theasked of him a king.

  8:11 And he said, This s.

  8:12 And he s.

  8:13 And he o be bakers.

  8:14 And he s.

  8:15 And he s.

  8:16 And he o his work.

  8:17 He s.

  8:18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your kingday.

  8:19 heless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;

  8:20 That les.

  8:21 And Samuel heard all the he LORD.

  8:22 And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city.

  9:1 Noy man of power.

  9:2 And he had a son, he people.

  9:3 And the asses of Kish Saul"s father he asses.

  9:4 And he passed through mount Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalisha, but they found them not: then they passed through the land of Shalim, and there they .

  9:5 Andfor us.

  9:6 And he said unto him, Behold no we should go.

  9:7 Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, ifhave we?

  9:8 And the servant ansell us our way.

  9:9 (Beforetime in Israel, ime called a Seer.)

  9:10 Then said Saul to his servant, Well said;e, let us go. So they he man of God was.

  9:11 And as they he seer here?

  9:12 And they anshe high place:

  9:13 As soon as ye bee into the city, ye shall straigay find him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people ime ye shall find him.

  9:14 And they he high place.

  9:15 Noold Samuel in his ear a day before Saul came, saying,

  9:16 To morroo me.

  9:17 And his same shall reign over my people.

  9:18 Then Saul drehe seer"s house is.

  9:19 And Samuel ans.

  9:20 And as for thine asses that her"s house?

  9:21 And Saul anso me?

  9:22 And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the parlour, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that y persons.

  9:23 And Samuel said unto the cook, Bring the portion hee.

  9:24 And the cook took up the shoulder, and thatday.

  9:25 And he house.

  9:26 And they arose early: and it came to pass about the spring of the day, that Samuel called Saul to the top of the house, saying, Up, that I may send thee ahem, he and Samuel, abroad.

  9:27 And as they he word of God.

  10:1 Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not because the LORD hath anoihee to be captain over his iance?

  10:2 When thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt findo men by Rachel"s sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and theyshall I do for my son?

  10:3 Then shalt thou go on forle of wine:

  10:4 And they heir hands.

  10:5 After that thou shalte to the hill of God, hey shall prophesy:

  10:6 And the Spirit of the LORD her man.

  10:7 A be, hee.

  10:8 And thou shalt go do do.

  10:9 And itday.

  10:10 And hem.

  10:11 And it came to pass, s?

  10:12 And one of the same plass?

  10:13 And he high place.

  10:14 And Saul"s uncle said unto him and to his servant, Whither o Samuel.

  10:15 And Saul"s uncle said, Tell me, I pray thee, o you.

  10:16 And Saul said unto his uncle, He told us plainly that the asses .

  10:17 And Samuel called the people together unto the LORD to Mizpeh;

  10:18 And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the Lod 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:

  10:19 And ye have this day rejected yod, housands.

  10:20 And aken.

  10:21 When he had caused the tribe of Benjamin toe near by their families, the family of Matribe found.

  10:22 Therefore they enquired of the LORD further, if the man should yete thither. And the LORD ansuff.

  10:23 And they ran ached him thence: and he people from his shoulders and upward.

  10:24 And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him he king.

  10:25 Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and o his house.

  10:26 And Saul also ouched.

  10:27 But the children of Belial said, Ho he held his peace.

  11:1 Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabeilead: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a ant hee.

  11:2 And Nahash the Ammonite ans for a reproach upon all Israel.

  11:3 And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days" respite, that hee.

  11:4 Then came the messeo Gibeah of Saul, and told the tidings in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voices, and .

  11:5 And, behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field; and Saul said, What aileth the people that they he men of Jabesh.

  11:6 And the Spirit of God came upon Saul ly.

  11:7 Aook a yoke of oxen, and he.

  11:8 And housand.

  11:9 And they said unto the messehat came, Thus shall ye say unto the men of Jabeilead, To morrohey were glad.

  11:10 Therefore the men of Jabesh said, To morroo you.

  11:11 And it her.

  11:12 And the people said unto Samuel, Who is he that said, Shall Saul reign over us? bring the men, that h.

  11:13 And Saul said, There shall not a ma to death this day: for to day the LORD hath ion in Israel.

  11:14 Then said Samuel to the people, e, a us go to Gilgal, and renehere.

  11:15 And all the people ly.

  12:1 And Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened unto your voi all that ye said unto me, and have made a king over you.

  12:2 And nohis day.

  12:3 Behold, here I am:you.

  12:4 And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, her hast thou taken ought of any man"s hand.

  12:5 And he said unto them, The LORD is ness.

  12:6 And Samuel said unto the people, It is the LORD that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.

  12:7 Nohers.

  12:8 When Jacob his place.

  12:9 And hem.

  12:10 And they cried unto the LORD, and said, We have sinned, because hee.

  12:11 And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, ahah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and ye dwelled safe.

  12:12 And he LORD yod was your king.

  12:13 No a king over you.

  12:14 If ye he LORD yod:

  12:15 But if ye hers.

  12:16 Nohe LORD will do before your eyes.

  12:17 Is it not he LORD, in asking you a king.

  12:18 So Samuel called unto the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.

  12:19 And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the LORD thy God, that o ask us a king.

  12:20 And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this ;

  12:21 And tur aside: for then should ye go after vain things, hey are vain.

  12:22 For the LORD o make you his people.

  12:23 Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but Iway:

  12:24 Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth h done for you.

  12:25 But if ye shall still do h ye and your king.

  13:1 Saul reigned one year; and when he had reignedo years over Israel,

  13:2 Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; .

  13:3 And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistihat he Hebrews hear.

  13:4 And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten a garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel also o Gilgal.

  13:5 And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight haven.

  13:6 When the men of Israel sas.

  13:7 And some of the Hebrerembling.

  13:8 Aarried seven days, acc to the set time that Samuel had appointed: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people ered from him.

  13:9 And Saul said, Bring hither a burntto me, and peace s. And he offered the burnt .

  13:10 And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end ofthe burnt , behold, Samuel came; and Saul e him.

  13:11 And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I sa Michmash;

  13:12 Therefore said I, The Philistines.

  13:13 And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept thema of the LORD thy God, hy kingdom upon Israel for ever.

  13:14 But nohee.

  13:15 And Samuel arose, and gat him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people thatsix hundred men.

  13:16 And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that ines encamped in Michmash.

  13:17 And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in threepanies: onepany turned unto the he land of Shual:

  13:18 And anotherpany turhe he wilderness.

  13:19 Nohem swords or spears:

  13:20 But all the Israelites ock.

  13:21 Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.

  13:22 So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there here found.

  13:23 And the garrison of the Philistines he passage of Michmash.

  14:1 Noher.

  14:2 And Saul tarried iermost part of Gibeah under a pomegrareesix hundred men;

  14:3 And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod"s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD"s priest in Shiloh, han was gone.

  14:4 Ahe passages, by her Seneh.

  14:5 The forefront of the oneGibeah.

  14:6 And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, e, a us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD o save by many or by few.

  14:7 And his armourbearer said unto him, Do all that is in thi: turn thee; behold, I am .

  14:8 Then said Jonathan, Behold, hem.

  14:9 If they say thus unto us, Tarry until hem.

  14:10 But if they say thus, e up unto us; then o us.

  14:11 And both of them discovered themselves unto the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrehemselves.

  14:12 And the men of the garrison anshe hand of Israel.

  14:13 And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet, and his armourbearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armourbearer sleer him.

  14:14 And that first slaughter,plow.

  14:15 And there rembling.

  14:16 And the her.

  14:17 Then said Saul unto the people that here.

  14:18 And Saul said unto Ahiah, Bring hither the ark of God. For the ark of God he children of Israel.

  14:19 And it came to pass, hine hand.

  14:20 And Saul and all the people that ure.

  14:21 Moreover the Hebrehan.

  14:22 Likele.

  14:23 So the LORD saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over unto Bethaven.

  14:24 And the men of Israel ed any food.

  14:25 And all they of the land came to a he ground.

  14:26 And h.

  14:27 But Jonathan heard not ened.

  14:28 Then ans.

  14:29 Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, hohis honey.

  14:30 Hoines?

  14:31 And they smote the Philistihat day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people .

  14:32 And the people flehe blood.

  14:33 Theold Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the LORD, in that they eat his day.

  14:34 And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say unto them, Briher every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and slay them here, a; and sin not against the LORD iing here.

  14:35 And Saul built an altar unto the LORD: the same he LORD.

  14:36 And Saul said, Let us go doo God.

  14:37 And Saul asked sel of God, Shall I go do day.

  14:38 And Saul said, Drahis day.

  14:39 For, as the LORD liveth,answered him.

  14:40 Then said he unto all Israel, Be ye on one side, and I and Jonathan my son hee.

  14:41 Therefore Saul said unto the Lod of Israel, Give a perfect lot. And Saul and Jonathan he people escaped.

  14:42 And Saul said, Cast lots been me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan aken.

  14:43 Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell medie.

  14:44 And Saul anshan.

  14:45 And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, .

  14:46 Then Saul heir own place.

  14:47 So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and hem.

  14:48 Ahered an host, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them.

  14:49 Nohe younger Michal:

  14:50 And the name of Saul"s he son of Ner, Saul"s uncle.

  14:51 And Kish he son of Abiel.

  14:52 And there o him.

  15:1 Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD seo anoint thee to be king over his people, over Israel: nohe LORD.

  15:2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that .

  15:3 No and sug, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

  15:4 And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim,o huhousand footmen, ahousand men of Judah.

  15:5 And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid he valley.

  15:6 And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you does.

  15:7 And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thouest to Shur, that is ai.

  15:8 Aook Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people he sword.

  15:9 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that erly.

  15:10 Then came the o Samuel, saying,

  15:11 It repeh me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from follo.

  15:12 And o Gilgal.

  15:13 And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou of the LORD: I have performed thema of the LORD.

  15:14 And Samuel said, What meh then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lohe oxen which I hear?

  15:15 And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifito the LORD thy God; and the rest royed.

  15:16 Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I o him, Say on.

  15:17 And Samuel said, When thou hee king over Israel?

  15:18 And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sihe Amalekites, and fight against them until they be ed.

  15:19 Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?

  15:20 And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gohe es.

  15:21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things hy God in Gilgal.

  15:22 And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt s and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken tha of rams.

  15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of hee from being king.

  15:24 And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed thema of the LORD, and thy heir voice.

  15:25 Nohe LORD.

  15:26 And Samuel said unto Saul, I hee from being king over Israel.

  15:27 And as Samuel turned about to go a.

  15:28 And Samuel said unto him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thihat is better than thou.

  15:29 And also the Strength of Israel .

  15:30 Then he said, I have sinned: yet honour me nohy God.

  15:31 So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul he LORD.

  15:32 Then said Samuel, Briher to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.

  15:33 And Samuel said, As the she LORD in Gilgal.

  15:34 Then Samuel o Gibeah of Saul.

  15:35 And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: heless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repehat he had made Saul king over Israel.

  16:1 And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hoe: for I have provided me a king among his sons.

  16:2 And Samuel said, Hohe LORD.

  16:3 And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I hee.

  16:4 And Samuel did that hou peaceably?

  16:5 And he said, Peaceably: I ame to sacrifito the LORD: sanctify yourselves, ande he sacrifice.

  16:6 And it came to pass, ed is before him.

  16:7 But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his tenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as mah; for man looketh on the oard appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.

  16:8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, her hath the LORD chosen this.

  16:9 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, her hath the LORD chosen this.

  16:10 Again, Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. And Samuel said unto Jesse, The LORD hath not chosen these.

  16:11 And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remah yet the you, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send ach him: for her.

  16:12 And he sent, and brought him in. Nohis is he.

  16:13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day foro Ramah.

  16:14 But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.

  16:15 And Saul"s servants said unto him, Behold nohee.

  16:16 Let our lord no be well.

  16:17 And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me noo me.

  16:18 Then ansh him.

  16:19 Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, he sheep.

  16:20 And Jesse took an ass laden o Saul.

  16:21 And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armourbearer.

  16:22 And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favour in my sight.

  16:23 And it came to pass, ed from him.

  17:1 Noched been Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim.

  17:2 And Saul and the men of Israel ines.

  17:3 And the Philistiood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain oher side: and there hem.

  17:4 And there s and a span.

  17:5 And he had a of brass upon his head, and he housand shekels of brass.

  17:6 And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass been his shoulders.

  17:7 And the staff of his spearbefore him.

  17:8 Aood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, Why are yee out to set your battle in array? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, a hime doo me.

  17:9 If he be able to fight s, and serve us.

  17:10 And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that her.

  17:11 When Saul and all Israel heard those ly afraid.

  17:12 Nohe days of Saul.

  17:13 And the three eldest sons of Jesse hird Shammah.

  17:14 And Davidfollowed Saul.

  17:15 But David hlehem.

  17:16 And the Philistine drey days.

  17:17 And Jesse said unto David his son, Take nohren;

  17:18 And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and look hoheir pledge.

  17:19 Noines.

  17:20 And David rose up early in the m, ahe sheep le.

  17:21 For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army against army.

  17:22 And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.

  17:23 And as he talked hem.

  17:24 And all the men of Israel, he man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.

  17:25 And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that ise up? surely to defy Israel is hee up: and it shall be, that the man her"s house free in Israel.

  17:26 And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be doo the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh ahe living God?

  17:27 And the people ansh him.

  17:28 And Eliab his eldest brother heard le.

  17:29 And David said, What have I no a cause?

  17:30 Aurned from him tohe former manner.

  17:31 Andfor him.

  17:32 And David said to Saul, Let no man"s heart fail because of him; thy servant ine.

  17:33 And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistio fight h.

  17:34 And David said unto Saul, Thy serva his father"s sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:

  17:35 And I e him, and slew him.

  17:36 Thy servant slehe living God.

  17:37 David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the pahee.

  17:38 And Saul armed Davidof mail.

  17:39 And David girded his shem off him.

  17:40 Aook his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd"s bag ine.

  17:41 And the Philistine came on and dre before him.

  17:42 And enance.

  17:43 And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thouest to me ine cursed David by his gods.

  17:44 And the Philistine said to David, e to me, and I he field.

  17:45 Then said David to the Philistihouest to medefied.

  17:46 This day here is a God in Israel.

  17:47 And all this assembly shall knoo our hands.

  17:48 And it came to pass, ine.

  17:49 And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.

  17:50 So David prevailed over the Philistine he hand of David.

  17:51 Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his shey fled.

  17:52 And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until thoue to the valley, and to the gates of Ekron. And the o Ekron.

  17:53 And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they spoiled their tents.

  17:54 And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armour in his tent.

  17:55 And ell.

  17:56 And the king said, Enquire thou ripling is.

  17:57 And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abook him, and brought him before Saul ine in his hand.

  17:58 And Saul said to him, Whose son art thou, thou young man? And David anse.

  18:1 And it came to pass, han loved him as his own soul.

  18:2 And Saul took him that day, and her"s house.

  18:3 Then Jonathan and David made a ant, because he loved him as his own soul.

  18:4 And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that o his girdle.

  18:5 And David s.

  18:6 And it came to pass as they came, s of musick.

  18:7 And the housands.

  18:8 And Saul he kingdom?

  18:9 And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.

  18:10 And it came to pass on the morrohere was a javelin in Saul"s hand.

  18:11 And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, Iof his presenceice.

  18:12 And Saul ed from Saul.

  18:13 Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he he people.

  18:14 And David behaved himself h him.

  18:15 Whereforehe behaved himself very wisely, he was afraid of him.

  18:16 But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he hem.

  18:17 And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her ines be upon him.

  18:18 And David said unto Saul, Who am I? and he king?

  18:19 But it came to pass at the time o wife.

  18:20 And Michal Saul"s daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.

  18:21 And Saul said, I heain.

  18:22 And Saulmanded his servants, saying, une he king"s son in law.

  18:23 And Saul"s servants spake those eemed?

  18:24 And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David.

  18:25 And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any doines.

  18:26 Andexpired.

  18:27 Wherefore David arose and o wife.

  18:28 And Saul saer loved him.

  18:29 And Saul inually.

  18:30 Then the princes of the Philistinesby.

  19:1 And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David.

  19:2 But Jonathan Saul"s son delighted mu David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: nohyself:

  19:3 And I hee.

  19:4 And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his hee-ward very good:

  19:5 For he did put his life in his hand, and sle a cause?

  19:6 And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul s be slain.

  19:7 And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan she.

  19:8 And there hey fled from him.

  19:9 And the evil spirit from the LORD h his hand.

  19:10 And Saul sought to smite David even to the .

  19:11 Saul also sent messengers unto David"s house, tobe slain.

  19:12 So Michal let David do, and fled, and escaped.

  19:13 And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pilloh.

  19:14 And ake David, she said, He is sick.

  19:15 And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.

  19:16 And er.

  19:17 And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, a ahee?

  19:18 So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had doo him. And he and Samuel h.

  19:19 And it h in Ramah.

  19:20 And Saul sent messeo take David: and hey also prophesied.

  19:21 And hey prophesied also.

  19:22 Then h in Ramah.

  19:23 And he h in Ramah.

  19:24 Aripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay dos?

  20:1 And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? h my life?

  20:2 And he said unto him, God forbid; thou shalt not die: behold, my fatherso.

  20:3 And David sh.

  20:4 Then said Jonathan unto David, Whatsoever thy soul desireth, I hee.

  20:5 And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to morro even.

  20:6 If thy father at all miss me, then say, David early asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city: for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.

  20:7 If he say thus, It is ermined by him.

  20:8 Therefore thou shalt deal kindly her?

  20:9 And Jonathan said, Far be it from thee: for if I knehee?

  20:10 Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or hee roughly?

  20:11 And Jonathan said unto David, e, a us go out into the field. And they he field.

  20:12 And Jonathan said unto David, od of Israel, hee;

  20:13 The LORD do so and much more to Jonathan: but if it please my father to do thee evil, then I her.

  20:14 And thou shalt not only :

  20:15 But also thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house for ever: no, not h.

  20:16 So Jonathan made a ant he hand of David"s enemies.

  20:17 And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

  20:18 Then Jonathan said to David, To morroy.

  20:19 And one Ezel.

  20:20 And Ia mark.

  20:21 And, behold, I h.

  20:22 But if I say thus unto the young man, Behold, the arrohee away.

  20:23 And as toug the matter hee and me for ever.

  20:24 So David hid himself in the field: and .

  20:25 And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, even upon a seat by the y.

  20:26 heless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not ; surely he is not .

  20:27 And it came to pass on the morroo day?

  20:28 And Jonathan anshlehem:

  20:29 And he said, Let me go, I pray thee; for our family hath a sacrifi the city; and my brother, he hathmanded me to be there: and noable.

  20:30 Then Saul"s anger her"s nakedness?

  20:31 For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore noo me, for he shall surely die.

  20:32 And Jonathan ansh he done?

  20:33 And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: o slay David.

  20:34 So Jonathan arose from the table in fierger, and did eat he sed day of the month: for he her had done him shame.

  20:35 And it came to pass in the m, that Jonathan h him.

  20:36 And he said unto his lad, Run, find out no an arrow beyond him.

  20:37 And hee?

  20:38 And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed, haste, stay not. And Jonathan"s lad gathered up the arroer.

  20:39 But the lad kneer.

  20:40 And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad, and said unto him, Go, carry them to the city.

  20:41 And as soon as the lad il David exceeded.

  20:42 And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as y.

  21:1 Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech hee?

  21:2 And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hathmanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man knoo sud such a place.

  21:3 No.

  21:4 And the priest ans from women.

  21:5 And David anshe vessel.

  21:6 So the priest gave him halloaken away.

  21:7 Noo Saul.

  21:8 And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here uhine hand spear or se.

  21:9 And the priest said, The s me.

  21:10 And David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul, and h.

  21:11 And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing oo another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?

  21:12 And David laid up these h.

  21:13 And he ged his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, a his spittle fall down upon his beard.

  21:14 Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: o me?

  21:15 Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this felloo my house?

  22:1 David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and o him.

  22:2 And every ohatfour hundred men.

  22:3 And DavidGod will do for me.

  22:4 And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dhe hold.

  22:5 And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold; depart, ahee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth.

  22:6 When Saul heard that Davidhim;)

  22:7 Then Saul said unto his servants that stood about him, Hear noains of hundreds;

  22:8 That all of you have spired against me, and there is hat shehis day?

  22:9 Then ansub.

  22:10 And he enquired of the LORD for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sine.

  22:11 Then the kio call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father"s house, the priests that he king.

  22:12 And Saul said, Hear noub. And he answered, Here I am, my lord.

  22:13 And Saul said unto him, Why have ye spired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, and a shis day?

  22:14 Then Ahimeleshine house?

  22:15 Did I then begin to enquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king impute any thing unto his servant, nor to all the house of my father: for thy servant knehis, less or more.

  22:16 And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father"s house.

  22:17 And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD: because their hand also is he LORD.

  22:18 And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and sle did wear a linen ephod.

  22:19 And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he he sword.

  22:20 And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.

  22:21 And Abiathar shes.

  22:22 And David said unto Abiathar, I kneher"s house.

  22:23 Abide thoube in safeguard.

  23:1 Theold David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors.

  23:2 Therefore David enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go and smite these Philistines? And the LORD said unto David, Go, and smite the Philistines, and save Keilah.

  23:3 And David"s men said unto him, Behold, ines?

  23:4 Then David enquired of the LORD yet again. And the LORD anshine hand.

  23:5 So David and his men s of Keilah.

  23:6 And it came to pass, h an ephod in his hand.

  23:7 And it es and bars.

  23:8 And Saul called all the people together to o besiege David and his men.

  23:9 And David knehe ephod.

  23:10 Then said David, od of Israel, thy servant hath certainly heard that Saul seeketh toe to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.

  23:11 Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? he LORD said, He wille down.

  23:12 Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul? And the LORD said, They hee up.

  23:13 Then David and his men, h.

  23:14 And David abode in the o his hand.

  23:15 And David sahe wilderness of Ziph in a wood.

  23:16 And Jonathan Saul"s son arose, and hened his hand in God.

  23:17 And he said unto him, Fear not: for the hand of Saul my father shall not find thee; and thou shalt be king over Israel, and I shall beunto thee; and that also Saul my father knoh.

  23:18 And theyo made a ant before the LORD: and David abode in the o his house.

  23:19 Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself h of Jeshimon?

  23:20 Nohe king"s hand.

  23:21 And Saul said, Blessed be ye of the LORD; for ye havepassion on me.

  23:22 Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and knoilly.

  23:23 See therefore, and take knohousands of Judah.

  23:24 And they arose, and h of Jeshimon.

  23:25 Saul also and his men he wilderness of Maon.

  23:26 And Saul hem.

  23:27 But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste thee, ande; for the Philistines have ihe land.

  23:28 Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing after David, and h.

  23:29 And DavidEngedi.

  24:1 And it came to pass, he wilderness of Engedi.

  24:2 Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and s.

  24:3 And he came to the sheepcotes by the he cave.

  24:4 And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day ofof Saul"s robe privily.

  24:5 And it came to pass after.

  24:6 And he said unto his men, The LORD forbid that I should do this thing unto my master, the LORD"s anoio stretch forth mine hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the LORD.

  24:7 So David stayed his servantson his way.

  24:8 David also arose afterh, and bowed himself.

  24:9 And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men"s ?

  24:10 Behold, this day thine eyes have seen hoed.

  24:11 Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, kno.

  24:12 The LORD judge been me and thee, and the LORD avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.

  24:13 As saith the proverb of the as, Wiess proceedeth from the hee.

  24:14 After er a flea.

  24:15 The LORD therefore be judge, and judge been me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.

  24:16 And it came to pass, .

  24:17 And he said to David, Thou art mhteous than I: for thou hast rehee evil.

  24:18 And thou hast she.

  24:19 For if a man find his enemy, his day.

  24:20 And nohine hand.

  24:21 Sher"s house.

  24:22 And David she hold.

  25:1 And Samuel died; and all the Israelites he wilderness of Paran.

  25:2 And there s: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

  25:3 Nohe house of Caleb.

  25:4 And David heard in theNabal did shear his sheep.

  25:5 And David sent out ten young men, and David said unto the young me you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:

  25:6 And thus shall ye say to him that liveth in prosperity, Peace be both to thee, and peace be to thine house, and peace be unto all that thou hast.

  25:7 And nohey were in Carmel.

  25:8 Ask thy young men, and they hy son David.

  25:9 And he name of David, and ceased.

  25:10 And Nabal anser.

  25:11 Shall I then take my bread, and my hey be?

  25:12 So David"s youurheir hose sayings.

  25:13 And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his suff.

  25:14 But one of the youold Abigail, Nabal"s hem.

  25:15 But the men he fields:

  25:16 They he sheep.

  25:17 Noo him.

  25:18 Then Abigail made haste, and tooko hundred loaves, ando bottles of hem on asses.

  25:19 And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, Ie after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.

  25:20 And it hem.

  25:21 Noed me evil food.

  25:22 So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the m light any that pisseth against the wall.

  25:23 And he ground,

  25:24 And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upo this iniquity be: ahine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience, ahe hine handmaid.

  25:25 Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly issend.

  25:26 Noo my lord, be as Nabal.

  25:27 And no follow my lord.

  25:28 I pray thee, five the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD hy days.

  25:29 Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life he middle of a sling.

  25:30 And it shalle to pass, hee ruler over Israel;

  25:31 That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but hine handmaid.

  25:32 And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the Lod of Israel,me:

  25:33 And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, h mine own hand.

  25:34 For in very deed, as the Lod of Israel liveth, he wall.

  25:35 So David received of her hand that hy person.

  25:36 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal"s heart .

  25:37 But it came to pass in the m, one.

  25:38 And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died.

  25:39 And o wife.

  25:40 And o wife.

  25:41 And she arose, and bos of my lord.

  25:42 And Abigail hasted, and arose and rode upon an ass, he messengers of David, and became his wife.

  25:43 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they hem his wives.

  25:44 But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David"s he son of Laish, which was of Gallim.

  26:1 And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon?

  26:2 Then Saul arose, and he wilderness of Ziph.

  26:3 And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah, he wilderness.

  26:4 David therefore sent out spies, and uood that Saul wase in very deed.

  26:5 And David arose, and came to the placehim.

  26:6 Then anshee.

  26:7 So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleepinghim.

  26:8 Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: noime.

  26:9 And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for less?

  26:10 David said furthermore, As the LORD liveth, the LORD shall smite him; or his day shalle to die; or he shall desd into battle, and perish.

  26:11 The LORD forbid that I should stretch forth mine hand against the LORD"s anointed: but, I pray thee, take thou no us go.

  26:12 So David took the spear and the cruse of hem.

  26:13 Then David hem:

  26:14 And David cried to the people, and to Abhe son of Ner, saying, Anshe king?

  26:15 And David said to Abner, Art not thou a valiant man? and hy lord.

  26:16 This thing is not good that thou hast done. As the LORD liveth, ye are er.

  26:17 And Saul kne is my voice, my lord, O king.

  26:18 And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? forevil is in mine hand?

  26:19 Nods.

  26:20 Noains.

  26:21 Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I he fool, and have erred exceedingly.

  26:22 And David ans.

  26:23 The LORD reo every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; for the LORD delivered thee into my hand to day, but I ed.

  26:24 And, behold, as thy life ion.

  26:25 Then Saul said to David, Blessed be thou, my son David: thou shalt both do great things, and also shalt still prevail. So David o his place.

  27:1 And David said in his heart, I shall no of his hand.

  27:2 And David arose, and he passed over h.

  27:3 And David dess, Nabal"s wife.

  27:4 And itnain for him.

  27:5 And David said unto Achish, If I have nohee?

  27:6 Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: his day.

  27:7 And the time that David dhs.

  27:8 And David and his men .

  27:9 And David smote the land, a her man nor o Achish.

  27:10 And Achish said, Whither have ye made a road to day? And David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites.

  27:11 And David saved her man nor ines.

  27:12 And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant for ever.

  28:1 And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered their armies together for hy men.

  28:2 And David said to Achish, Surely thou shalt knohee keeper of mine head for ever.

  28:3 Nohe land.

  28:4 And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa.

  28:5 And rembled.

  28:6 And s.

  28:7 Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me aEndor.

  28:8 And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he hee.

  28:9 And the o die?

  28:10 And Saul shing.

  28:11 Then said the hee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel.

  28:12 AndSaul.

  28:13 And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for h.

  28:14 And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old mah up; and he is covered he ground, and bowed himself.

  28:15 And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, t me up? And Saul ans I shall do.

  28:16 Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is be thine enemy?

  28:17 And the LORD hath doo him, as he spake by me: for the LORD hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and given it to thy neighbour, even to David:

  28:18 Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD, nor executedst his fierce his day.

  28:19 Moreover the LORD ines.

  28:20 Then Saul fell straigay all along on the earth, and .

  28:21 And the o me.

  28:22 Nohy way.

  28:23 But he refused, and said, I he bed.

  28:24 And the hereof:

  28:25 And she brought it before Saul, and before his servants; and they did eat. Then they rose up, and .

  29:1 Noain which is in Jezreel.

  29:2 And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rereh Achish.

  29:3 Then said the princes of the Philistines, What do these Hebrehis day?

  29:4 And the princes of the Philistines hese men?

  29:5 Is not this David, of housands?

  29:6 Then Achish called David, and said unto him, Surely, as the LORD liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out and thying in .

  29:7 Wherefore noines.

  29:8 And David said unto Achish, But he king?

  29:9 And Achish ansle.

  29:10 Wherefore no.

  29:11 So David and his men rose up early to depart in the m, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines o Jezreel.

  30:1 And it came to pass, h fire;

  30:2 And had taken the heir way.

  30:3 So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it ives.

  30:4 Then David and the people that o weep.

  30:5 And David"so e.

  30:6 And David he LORD his God.

  30:7 And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech"s son, I pray thee, briher the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David.

  30:8 And David enquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he ans fail recover all.

  30:9 So David ayed.

  30:10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men: foro hundred abode behind, he brook Besor.

  30:11 And they found aian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink er;

  30:12 And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, ando clusters of raisins: and s.

  30:13 And David said unto him, To hree days agone I fell sick.

  30:14 We made an invasion upon the south of the Cherethites, and upon the coast h fire.

  30:15 And David said to him, st th me dohispany.

  30:16 And he land of Judah.

  30:17 And David smote them from theilight even unto the evening of theday: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.

  30:18 And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued hiso wives.

  30:19 And there hem: David recovered all.

  30:20 And David took all the flocks and the herds, le, and said, This is David"s spoil.

  30:21 And David came to theo hundred men, hem.

  30:22 Then ans.

  30:23 Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, o our hand.

  30:24 Foralike.

  30:25 And it his day.

  30:26 And he LORD;

  30:27 To them ir,

  30:28 And to them emoa,

  30:29 And to them es,

  30:30 And to them hach,

  30:31 And to them .

  31:1 No Gilboa.

  31:2 And the Philistines follohan, and Abinadab, and Melchishua, Saul"s sons.

  31:3 And the battle he archers.

  31:4 Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Dra.

  31:5 And h him.

  31:6 So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together.

  31:7 And hem.

  31:8 And it came to pass on the milboa.

  31:9 And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, a into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the house of their idols, and among the people.

  31:10 And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the hshan.

  31:11 And o Saul;

  31:12 All the valiant men arose, and here.

  31:13 And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.