* BOOK09 1SAMUEL
= CHAPTER 1 
# 1 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:
# 2 AND HE HAD TWO WIVES; THE NAME OF THE ONE WAS HANNAH, AND THE NAME OF THE
 OTHER PENINNAH: AND PENINNAH HAD CHILDREN, BUT HANNAH HAD NO CHILDREN.
# 3 AND THIS MAN WENT UP OUT OF HIS CITY YEARLY TO WORSHIP AND TO SACRIFICE
 UNTO THE LORD OF HOSTS IN SHILOH. AND THE TWO SONS OF ELI, HOPHNI AND
 PHINEHAS, THE PRIESTS OF THE LORD, WERE THERE.
# 4 AND WHEN THE TIME WAS THAT ELKANAH OFFERED, HE GAVE TO PENINNAH HIS WIFE,
 AND TO ALL HER SONS AND HER DAUGHTERS, PORTIONS:
# 5 BUT UNTO HANNAH HE GAVE A WORTHY PORTION; FOR HE LOVED HANNAH: BUT THE
 LORD HAD SHUT UP HER WOMB.
# 6 AND HER ADVERSARY ALSO PROVOKED HER SORE, FOR TO MAKE HER FRET, BECAUSE
 THE LORD HAD SHUT UP HER WOMB.
# 7 AND AS HE DID SO YEAR BY YEAR, WHEN SHE WENT UP TO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD,
 SO SHE PROVOKED HER; THEREFORE SHE WEPT, AND DID NOT EAT.
# 8 THEN SAID ELKANAH HER HUSBAND TO HER, HANNAH, WHY WEEPEST THOU? AND WHY
 EATEST THOU NOT? AND WHY IS THY HEART GRIEVED? AM NOT I BETTER TO THEE THAN
 TEN SONS?
# 9 SO HANNAH ROSE UP AFTER THEY HAD EATEN IN SHILOH, AND AFTER THEY HAD
 DRUNK. NOW ELI THE PRIEST SAT UPON A SEAT BY A POST OF THE TEMPLE OF THE
 LORD.
# 10 AND SHE WAS IN BITTERNESS OF SOUL, AND PRAYED UNTO THE LORD, AND WEPT
 SORE.
# 11 AND SHE VOWED A VOW, AND SAID, O LORD OF HOSTS, IF THOU WILT INDEED LOOK
 ON THE AFFLICTION OF THINE HANDMAID, AND REMEMBER ME, AND NOT FORGET THINE
 HANDMAID, BUT WILT GIVE UNTO THINE HANDMAID A MAN CHILD, THEN I WILL GIVE HIM
 UNTO THE LORD ALL THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE, AND THERE SHALL NO RAZOR COME UPON
 HIS HEAD.
# 12 AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS SHE CONTINUED PRAYING BEFORE THE LORD, THAT ELI
 MARKED HER MOUTH.
# 13 NOW HANNAH, SHE SPAKE IN HER HEART; ONLY HER LIPS MOVED, BUT HER VOICE
 WAS NOT HEARD: THEREFORE ELI THOUGHT SHE HAD BEEN DRUNKEN.
# 14 AND ELI SAID UNTO HER, HOW LONG WILT THOU BE DRUNKEN? PUT AWAY THY WINE
 FROM THEE.
# 15 AND HANNAH ANSWERED AND SAID, NO, MY LORD, I AM A WOMAN OF A SORROWFUL
 SPIRIT: I HAVE DRUNK NEITHER WINE NOR STRONG DRINK, BUT HAVE POURED OUT MY
 SOUL BEFORE THE LORD.
# 16 COUNT NOT THINE HANDMAID FOR A DAUGHTER OF BELIAL: FOR OUT OF THE
 ABUNDANCE OF MY COMPLAINT AND GRIEF HAVE I SPOKEN HITHERTO.
# 17 THEN ELI ANSWERED AND SAID, GO IN PEACE: AND THE GOD OF ISRAEL GRANT
 THEE THY PETITION THAT THOU HAST ASKED OF HIM.
# 18 AND SHE SAID, LET THINE HANDMAID FIND GRACE IN THY SIGHT. SO THE WOMAN
 WENT HER WAY, AND DID EAT, AND HER COUNTENANCE WAS NO MORE SAD.
# 19 AND THEY ROSE UP IN THE MORNING EARLY, AND WORSHIPPED BEFORE THE LORD,
 AND RETURNED, AND CAME TO THEIR HOUSE TO RAMAH: AND ELKANAH KNEW HANNAH HIS
 WIFE; AND THE LORD REMEMBERED HER.
# 20 WHEREFORE IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THE TIME WAS COME ABOUT AFTER HANNAH HAD
 CONCEIVED, THAT SHE BARE A SON, AND CALLED HIS NAME SAMUEL, SAYING, BECAUSE I
 HAVE ASKED HIM OF THE LORD.
# 21 AND THE MAN ELKANAH, AND ALL HIS HOUSE, WENT UP TO OFFER UNTO THE LORD
 THE YEARLY SACRIFICE, AND HIS VOW.
# 22 BUT HANNAH WENT NOT UP; FOR SHE SAID UNTO HER HUSBAND, I WILL NOT GO UP
 UNTIL THE CHILD BE WEANED, AND THEN I WILL BRING HIM, THAT HE MAY APPEAR
 BEFORE THE LORD, AND THERE ABIDE FOR EVER.
# 23 AND ELKANAH HER HUSBAND SAID UNTO HER, DO WHAT SEEMETH THEE GOOD; TARRY
 UNTIL THOU HAVE WEANED HIM; ONLY THE LORD ESTABLISH HIS WORD. SO THE WOMAN
 ABODE, AND GAVE HER SON SUCK UNTIL SHE WEANED HIM.
# 24 AND WHEN SHE HAD WEANED HIM, SHE TOOK HIM UP WITH HER, WITH THREE
 BULLOCKS, AND ONE EPHAH OF FLOUR, AND A BOTTLE OF WINE, AND BROUGHT HIM UNTO
 THE HOUSE OF THE LORD IN SHILOH: AND THE CHILD WAS YOUNG.
# 25 AND THEY SLEW A BULLOCK, AND BROUGHT THE CHILD TO ELI.
# 26 AND SHE SAID, OH MY LORD, AS THY SOUL LIVETH, MY LORD, I AM THE WOMAN
 THAT STOOD BY THEE HERE, PRAYING UNTO THE LORD.
# 27 FOR THIS CHILD I PRAYED; AND THE LORD HATH GIVEN ME MY PETITION WHICH I
 ASKED OF HIM:
# 28 THEREFORE ALSO I HAVE LENT HIM TO THE LORD; AS LONG AS HE LIVETH HE
 SHALL BE LENT TO THE LORD. AND HE WORSHIPPED THE LORD THERE.
= CHAPTER 2 
# 1 AND HANNAH PRAYED, AND SAID, MY HEART REJOICETH IN THE LORD, MINE HORN IS
 EXALTED IN THE LORD: MY MOUTH IS ENLARGED OVER MINE ENEMIES; BECAUSE I
 REJOICE IN THY SALVATION.
# 2 THERE IS NONE HOLY AS THE LORD: FOR THERE IS NONE BESIDE THEE: NEITHER IS
 THERE ANY ROCK LIKE OUR GOD.
# 3 TALK NO MORE SO EXCEEDING PROUDLY; LET NOT ARROGANCY COME OUT OF YOUR
 MOUTH: FOR THE LORD IS A GOD OF KNOWLEDGE, AND BY HIM ACTIONS ARE WEIGHED.
# 4 THE BOWS OF THE MIGHTY MEN ARE BROKEN, AND THEY THAT STUMBLED ARE GIRDED
 WITH STRENGTH.
# 5 THEY THAT WERE FULL HAVE HIRED OUT THEMSELVES FOR BREAD; AND THEY THAT
 WERE HUNGRY CEASED: SO THAT THE BARREN HATH BORN SEVEN; AND SHE THAT HATH
 MANY CHILDREN IS WAXED FEEBLE.
# 6 THE LORD KILLETH, AND MAKETH ALIVE: HE BRINGETH DOWN TO THE GRAVE, AND
 BRINGETH UP.
# 7 THE LORD MAKETH POOR, AND MAKETH RICH: HE BRINGETH LOW, AND LIFTETH UP.
# 8 HE RAISETH UP THE POOR OUT OF THE DUST, AND LIFTETH UP THE BEGGAR FROM
 THE DUNGHILL, TO SET THEM AMONG PRINCES, AND TO MAKE THEM INHERIT THE THRONE
 OF GLORY: FOR THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH ARE THE LORDS, AND HE HATH SET THE
 WORLD UPON THEM.
# 9 HE WILL KEEP THE FEET OF HIS SAINTS, AND THE WICKED SHALL BE SILENT IN
 DARKNESS; FOR BY STRENGTH SHALL NO MAN PREVAIL.
# 10 THE ADVERSARIES OF THE LORD SHALL BE BROKEN TO PIECES; OUT OF HEAVEN
 SHALL HE THUNDER UPON THEM: THE LORD SHALL JUDGE THE ENDS OF THE EARTH; AND
 HE SHALL GIVE STRENGTH UNTO HIS KING, AND EXALT THE HORN OF HIS ANOINTED.
# 11 AND ELKANAH WENT TO RAMAH TO HIS HOUSE. AND THE CHILD DID MINISTER UNTO
 THE LORD BEFORE ELI THE PRIEST.
# 12 NOW THE SONS OF ELI WERE SONS OF BELIAL; THEY KNEW NOT THE LORD.
# 13 AND THE PRIESTS CUSTOM WITH THE PEOPLE WAS, THAT, WHEN ANY MAN OFFERED
 SACRIFICE, THE PRIESTS SERVANT CAME, WHILE THE FLESH WAS IN SEETHING, WITH A
 FLESHHOOK OF THREE TEETH IN HIS HAND;
# 14 AND HE STRUCK IT INTO THE PAN, OR KETTLE, OR CALDRON, OR POT; ALL THAT
 THE FLESHHOOK BROUGHT UP THE PRIEST TOOK FOR HIMSELF. SO THEY DID IN SHILOH
 UNTO ALL THE ISRAELITES THAT CAME THITHER.
# 15 ALSO BEFORE THEY BURNT THE FAT, THE PRIESTS SERVANT CAME, AND SAID TO
 THE MAN THAT SACRIFICED, GIVE FLESH TO ROAST FOR THE PRIEST; FOR HE WILL NOT
 HAVE SODDEN FLESH OF THEE, BUT RAW.
# 16 AND IF ANY MAN SAID UNTO HIM, LET THEM NOT FAIL TO BURN THE FAT
 PRESENTLY, AND THEN TAKE AS MUCH AS THY SOUL DESIRETH; THEN HE WOULD ANSWER
 HIM, NAY; BUT THOU SHALT GIVE IT ME NOW: AND IF NOT, I WILL TAKE IT BY FORCE.
# 17 WHEREFORE THE SIN OF THE YOUNG MEN WAS VERY GREAT BEFORE THE LORD: FOR
 MEN ABHORRED THE OFFERING OF THE LORD.
# 18 BUT SAMUEL MINISTERED BEFORE THE LORD, BEING A CHILD, GIRDED WITH A
 LINEN EPHOD.
# 19 MOREOVER HIS MOTHER MADE HIM A LITTLE COAT, AND BROUGHT IT TO HIM FROM
 YEAR TO YEAR, WHEN SHE CAME UP WITH HER HUSBAND TO OFFER THE YEARLY
 SACRIFICE.
# 20 AND ELI BLESSED ELKANAH AND HIS WIFE, AND SAID, THE LORD GIVE THEE SEED
 OF THIS WOMAN FOR THE LOAN WHICH IS LENT TO THE LORD. AND THEY WENT UNTO
 THEIR OWN HOME.
# 21 AND THE LORD VISITED HANNAH, SO THAT SHE CONCEIVED, AND BARE THREE SONS
 AND TWO DAUGHTERS. AND THE CHILD SAMUEL GREW BEFORE THE LORD.
# 22 NOW ELI WAS VERY OLD, AND HEARD ALL THAT HIS SONS DID UNTO ALL ISRAEL;
 AND HOW THEY LAY WITH THE WOMEN THAT ASSEMBLED AT THE DOOR OF THE TABERNACLE
 OF THE CONGREGATION.
# 23 AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, WHY DO YE SUCH THINGS? FOR I HEAR OF YOUR EVIL
 DEALINGS BY ALL THIS PEOPLE.
# 24 NAY, MY SONS; FOR IT IS NO GOOD REPORT THAT I HEAR: YE MAKE THE LORDS
 PEOPLE TO TRANSGRESS.
# 25 IF ONE MAN SIN AGAINST ANOTHER, THE JUDGE SHALL JUDGE HIM: BUT IF A MAN
 SIN AGAINST THE LORD, WHO SHALL INTREAT FOR HIM? NOTWITHSTANDING THEY
 HEARKENED NOT UNTO THE VOICE OF THEIR FATHER, BECAUSE THE LORD WOULD SLAY
 THEM.
# 26 AND THE CHILD SAMUEL GREW ON, AND WAS IN FAVOUR BOTH WITH THE LORD, AND
 ALSO WITH MEN.
# 27 AND THERE CAME A MAN OF GOD UNTO ELI, AND SAID UNTO HIM, THUS SAITH THE
 LORD, DID I PLAINLY APPEAR UNTO THE HOUSE OF THY FATHER, WHEN THEY WERE IN
 EGYPT IN PHARAOHS HOUSE?
# 28 AND DID I CHOOSE HIM OUT OF ALL THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL TO BE MY PRIEST, TO
 OFFER UPON MINE ALTAR, TO BURN INCENSE, TO WEAR AN EPHOD BEFORE ME? AND DID I
 GIVE UNTO THE HOUSE OF THY FATHER ALL THE OFFERINGS MADE BY FIRE OF THE
 CHILDREN OF ISRAEL?
# 29 WHEREFORE KICK YE AT MY SACRIFICE AND AT MINE OFFERING, WHICH I HAVE
 COMMANDED IN MY HABITATION; AND HONOUREST THY SONS ABOVE ME, TO MAKE
 YOURSELVES FAT WITH THE CHIEFEST OF ALL THE OFFERINGS OF ISRAEL MY PEOPLE?
# 30 WHEREFORE THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL SAITH, I SAID INDEED THAT THY HOUSE,
 AND THE HOUSE OF THY FATHER, SHOULD WALK BEFORE ME FOR EVER: BUT NOW THE LORD
 SAITH, BE IT FAR FROM ME; FOR THEM THAT HONOUR ME I WILL HONOUR, AND THEY
 THAT DESPISE ME SHALL BE LIGHTLY ESTEEMED.
# 31 BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME, THAT I WILL CUT OFF THINE ARM, AND THE ARM OF THY
 FATHERS HOUSE, THAT THERE SHALL NOT BE AN OLD MAN IN THINE HOUSE.
# 32 AND THOU SHALT SEE AN ENEMY IN MY HABITATION, IN ALL THE WEALTH WHICH
 GOD SHALL GIVE ISRAEL: AND THERE SHALL NOT BE AN OLD MAN IN THINE HOUSE FOR
 EVER.
# 33 AND THE MAN OF THINE, WHOM I SHALL NOT CUT OFF FROM MINE ALTAR, SHALL BE
 TO CONSUME THINE EYES, AND TO GRIEVE THINE HEART: AND ALL THE INCREASE OF
 THINE HOUSE SHALL DIE IN THE FLOWER OF THEIR AGE.
# 34 AND THIS SHALL BE A SIGN UNTO THEE, THAT SHALL COME UPON THY TWO SONS,
 ON HOPHNI AND PHINEHAS; IN ONE DAY THEY SHALL DIE BOTH OF THEM.
# 35 AND I WILL RAISE ME UP A FAITHFUL PRIEST, THAT SHALL DO ACCORDING TO
 THAT WHICH IS IN MINE HEART AND IN MY MIND: AND I WILL BUILD HIM A SURE
 HOUSE; AND HE SHALL WALK BEFORE MINE ANOINTED FOR EVER.
# 36 AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, THAT EVERY ONE THAT IS LEFT IN THINE HOUSE
 SHALL COME AND CROUCH TO HIM FOR A PIECE OF SILVER AND A MORSEL OF BREAD, AND
 SHALL SAY, PUT ME, I PRAY THEE, INTO ONE OF THE PRIESTS OFFICES, THAT I MAY
 EAT A PIECE OF BREAD.
= CHAPTER 3 
# 1 AND THE CHILD SAMUEL MINISTERED UNTO THE LORD BEFORE ELI. AND THE WORD OF
 THE LORD WAS PRECIOUS IN THOSE DAYS; THERE WAS NO OPEN VISION.
# 2 AND IT CAME TO PASS AT THAT TIME, WHEN ELI WAS LAID DOWN IN HIS PLACE,
 AND HIS EYES BEGAN TO WAX DIM, THAT HE COULD NOT SEE;
# 3 AND ERE THE LAMP OF GOD WENT OUT IN THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD, WHERE THE ARK
 OF GOD WAS, AND SAMUEL WAS LAID DOWN TO SLEEP;
# 4 THAT THE LORD CALLED SAMUEL: AND HE ANSWERED, HERE AM I.
# 5 AND HE RAN UNTO ELI, AND SAID, HERE AM I; FOR THOU CALLEDST ME. AND HE
 SAID, I CALLED NOT; LIE DOWN AGAIN. AND HE WENT AND LAY DOWN.
# 6 AND THE LORD CALLED YET AGAIN, SAMUEL. AND SAMUEL AROSE AND WENT TO ELI,
 AND SAID, HERE AM I; FOR THOU DIDST CALL ME. AND HE ANSWERED, I CALLED NOT,
 MY SON; LIE DOWN AGAIN.
# 7 NOW SAMUEL DID NOT YET KNOW THE LORD, NEITHER WAS THE WORD OF THE LORD
 YET REVEALED UNTO HIM.
# 8 AND THE LORD CALLED SAMUEL AGAIN THE THIRD TIME. AND HE AROSE AND WENT TO
 ELI, AND SAID, HERE AM I; FOR THOU DIDST CALL ME. AND ELI PERCEIVED THAT THE
 LORD HAD CALLED THE CHILD.
# 9 THEREFORE ELI SAID UNTO SAMUEL, GO, LIE DOWN: AND IT SHALL BE, IF HE CALL
 THEE, THAT THOU SHALT SAY, SPEAK, LORD; FOR THY SERVANT HEARETH. SO SAMUEL
 WENT AND LAY DOWN IN HIS PLACE.
# 10 AND THE LORD CAME, AND STOOD, AND CALLED AS AT OTHER TIMES, SAMUEL,
 SAMUEL. THEN SAMUEL ANSWERED, SPEAK; FOR THY SERVANT HEARETH.
# 11 AND THE LORD SAID TO SAMUEL, BEHOLD, I WILL DO A THING IN ISRAEL, AT
 WHICH BOTH THE EARS OF EVERY ONE THAT HEARETH IT SHALL TINGLE.
# 12 IN THAT DAY I WILL PERFORM AGAINST ELI ALL THINGS WHICH I HAVE SPOKEN
 CONCERNING HIS HOUSE: WHEN I BEGIN, I WILL ALSO MAKE AN END.
# 13 FOR I HAVE TOLD HIM THAT I WILL JUDGE HIS HOUSE FOR EVER FOR THE
 INIQUITY WHICH HE KNOWETH; BECAUSE HIS SONS MADE THEMSELVES VILE, AND HE
 RESTRAINED THEM NOT.
# 14 AND THEREFORE I HAVE SWORN UNTO THE HOUSE OF ELI, THAT THE INIQUITY OF
 ELIS HOUSE SHALL NOT BE PURGED WITH SACRIFICE NOR OFFERING FOR EVER.
# 15 AND SAMUEL LAY UNTIL THE MORNING, AND OPENED THE DOORS OF THE HOUSE OF
 THE LORD. AND SAMUEL FEARED TO SHEW ELI THE VISION.
# 16 THEN ELI CALLED SAMUEL, AND SAID, SAMUEL, MY SON. AND HE ANSWERED, HERE
 AM I.
# 17 AND HE SAID, WHAT IS THE THING THAT THE LORD HATH SAID UNTO THEE? I PRAY
 THEE HIDE IT NOT FROM ME: GOD DO SO TO THEE, AND MORE ALSO, IF THOU HIDE ANY
 THING FROM ME OF ALL THE THINGS THAT HE SAID UNTO THEE.
# 18 AND SAMUEL TOLD HIM EVERY WHIT, AND HID NOTHING FROM HIM. AND HE SAID,
 IT IS THE LORD: LET HIM DO WHAT SEEMETH HIM GOOD.
# 19 AND SAMUEL GREW, AND THE LORD WAS WITH HIM, AND DID LET NONE OF HIS
 WORDS FALL TO THE GROUND.
# 20 AND ALL ISRAEL FROM DAN EVEN TO BEERSHEBA KNEW THAT SAMUEL WAS
 ESTABLISHED TO BE A PROPHET OF THE LORD.
# 21 AND THE LORD APPEARED AGAIN IN SHILOH: FOR THE LORD REVEALED HIMSELF TO
 SAMUEL IN SHILOH BY THE WORD OF THE LORD.
= CHAPTER 4 
# 1 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.
# 2 AND THE PHILISTINES PUT THEMSELVES IN ARRAY AGAINST ISRAEL: AND WHEN THEY
 JOINED BATTLE, ISRAEL WAS SMITTEN BEFORE THE PHILISTINES: AND THEY SLEW OF
 THE ARMY IN THE FIELD ABOUT FOUR THOUSAND MEN.
# 3 AND WHEN THE PEOPLE WERE COME INTO THE CAMP, THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL SAID,
 WHEREFORE HATH THE LORD SMITTEN US TO DAY BEFORE THE PHILISTINES? LET US
 FETCH THE ARK OF THE COVENANT OF THE LORD OUT OF SHILOH UNTO US, THAT, WHEN
 IT COMETH AMONG US, IT MAY SAVE US OUT OF THE HAND OF OUR ENEMIES.
# 4 SO THE PEOPLE SENT TO SHILOH, THAT THEY MIGHT BRING FROM THENCE THE ARK
 OF THE COVENANT OF THE LORD OF HOSTS, WHICH DWELLETH BETWEEN THE CHERUBIMS:
 AND THE TWO SONS OF ELI, HOPHNI AND PHINEHAS, WERE THERE WITH THE ARK OF THE
 COVENANT OF GOD.
# 5 AND WHEN THE ARK OF THE COVENANT OF THE LORD CAME INTO THE CAMP, ALL
 ISRAEL SHOUTED WITH A GREAT SHOUT, SO THAT THE EARTH RANG AGAIN.
# 6 AND WHEN THE PHILISTINES HEARD THE NOISE OF THE SHOUT, THEY SAID, WHAT
 MEANETH THE NOISE OF THIS GREAT SHOUT IN THE CAMP OF THE HEBREWS? AND THEY
 UNDERSTOOD THAT THE ARK OF THE LORD WAS COME INTO THE CAMP.
# 7 AND THE PHILISTINES WERE AFRAID, FOR THEY SAID, GOD IS COME INTO THE
 CAMP. AND THEY SAID, WOE UNTO US! FOR THERE HATH NOT BEEN SUCH A THING
 HERETOFORE.
# 8 WOE UNTO US! WHO SHALL DELIVER US OUT OF THE HAND OF THESE MIGHTY GODS?
 THESE ARE THE GODS THAT SMOTE THE EGYPTIANS WITH ALL THE PLAGUES IN THE
 WILDERNESS.
# 9 BE STRONG AND QUIT YOURSELVES LIKE MEN, O YE PHILISTINES, THAT YE BE NOT
 SERVANTS UNTO THE HEBREWS, AS THEY HAVE BEEN TO YOU: QUIT YOURSELVES LIKE
 MEN, AND FIGHT.
# 10 AND THE PHILISTINES FOUGHT, AND ISRAEL WAS SMITTEN, AND THEY FLED EVERY
 MAN INTO HIS TENT: AND THERE WAS A VERY GREAT SLAUGHTER; FOR THERE FELL OF
 ISRAEL THIRTY THOUSAND FOOTMEN.
# 11 AND THE ARK OF GOD WAS TAKEN; AND THE TWO SONS OF ELI, HOPHNI AND
 PHINEHAS, WERE SLAIN.
# 12 AND THERE RAN A MAN OF BENJAMIN OUT OF THE ARMY, AND CAME TO SHILOH THE
 SAME DAY WITH HIS CLOTHES RENT, AND WITH EARTH UPON HIS HEAD.
# 13 AND WHEN HE CAME, LO, ELI SAT UPON A SEAT BY THE WAYSIDE WATCHING: FOR
 HIS HEART TREMBLED FOR THE ARK OF GOD. AND WHEN THE MAN CAME INTO THE CITY,
 AND TOLD IT, ALL THE CITY CRIED OUT.
# 14 AND WHEN ELI HEARD THE NOISE OF THE CRYING, HE SAID, WHAT MEANETH THE
 NOISE OF THIS TUMULT? AND THE MAN CAME IN HASTILY, AND TOLD ELI.
# 15 NOW ELI WAS NINETY AND EIGHT YEARS OLD; AND HIS EYES WERE DIM, THAT HE
 COULD NOT SEE.
# 16 AND THE MAN SAID UNTO ELI, I AM HE THAT CAME OUT OF THE ARMY, AND I FLED
 TO DAY OUT OF THE ARMY. AND HE SAID, WHAT IS THERE DONE, MY SON?
# 17 AND THE MESSENGER ANSWERED AND SAID, ISRAEL IS FLED BEFORE THE
 PHILISTINES, AND THERE HATH BEEN ALSO A GREAT SLAUGHTER AMONG THE PEOPLE, AND
 THY TWO SONS ALSO, HOPHNI AND PHINEHAS, ARE DEAD, AND THE ARK OF GOD IS
 TAKEN.
# 18 AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN HE MADE MENTION OF THE ARK OF GOD, THAT HE
 FELL FROM OFF THE SEAT BACKWARD BY THE SIDE OF THE GATE, AND HIS NECK BRAKE,
 AND HE DIED: FOR HE WAS AN OLD MAN, AND HEAVY. AND HE HAD JUDGED ISRAEL FORTY
 YEARS.
# 19 AND HIS DAUGHTER IN LAW, PHINEHAS WIFE, WAS WITH CHILD, NEAR TO BE
 DELIVERED: AND WHEN SHE HEARD THE TIDINGS THAT THE ARK OF GOD WAS TAKEN, AND
 THAT HER FATHER IN LAW AND HER HUSBAND WERE DEAD, SHE BOWED HERSELF AND
 TRAVAILED; FOR HER PAINS CAME UPON HER.
# 20 AND ABOUT THE TIME OF HER DEATH THE WOMEN THAT STOOD BY HER SAID UNTO
 HER, FEAR NOT; FOR THOU HAST BORN A SON. BUT SHE ANSWERED NOT, NEITHER DID
 SHE REGARD IT.
# 21 AND SHE NAMED THE CHILD 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.
# 22 AND SHE SAID, THE GLORY IS DEPARTED FROM ISRAEL: FOR THE ARK OF GOD IS
 TAKEN.
= CHAPTER 5 
# 1 AND THE PHILISTINES TOOK THE ARK OF GOD, AND BROUGHT IT FROM EBENEZER UNTO
 ASHDOD.
# 2 WHEN THE PHILISTINES TOOK THE ARK OF GOD, THEY BROUGHT IT INTO THE HOUSE
 OF DAGON, AND SET IT BY DAGON.
# 3 AND WHEN THEY OF ASHDOD AROSE EARLY ON THE MORROW, BEHOLD, DAGON WAS
 FALLEN UPON HIS FACE TO THE EARTH BEFORE THE ARK OF THE LORD. AND THEY TOOK
 DAGON, AND SET HIM IN HIS PLACE AGAIN.
# 4 AND WHEN THEY AROSE EARLY ON THE MORROW MORNING, BEHOLD, DAGON WAS FALLEN
 UPON HIS FACE TO THE GROUND BEFORE THE ARK OF THE LORD; AND THE HEAD OF DAGON
 AND BOTH THE PALMS OF HIS HANDS WERE CUT OFF UPON THE THRESHOLD; ONLY THE
 STUMP OF DAGON WAS LEFT TO HIM.
# 5 THEREFORE NEITHER THE PRIESTS OF DAGON, NOR ANY THAT COME INTO DAGONS
 HOUSE, TREAD ON THE THRESHOLD OF DAGON IN ASHDOD UNTO THIS DAY.
# 6 BUT THE HAND OF THE LORD WAS HEAVY UPON THEM OF ASHDOD, AND HE DESTROYED
 THEM, AND SMOTE THEM WITH EMERODS, EVEN ASHDOD AND THE COASTS THEREOF.
# 7 AND WHEN THE MEN OF ASHDOD SAW THAT IT WAS SO, THEY SAID, THE ARK OF THE
 GOD OF ISRAEL SHALL NOT ABIDE WITH US: FOR HIS HAND IS SORE UPON US, AND UPON
 DAGON OUR GOD.
# 8 THEY SENT THEREFORE AND GATHERED ALL THE LORDS OF THE PHILISTINES UNTO
 THEM, AND SAID, WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH THE ARK OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL? AND THEY
 ANSWERED, LET THE ARK OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL BE CARRIED ABOUT UNTO GATH. AND
 THEY CARRIED THE ARK OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL ABOUT THITHER.
# 9 AND IT WAS SO, THAT, AFTER THEY HAD CARRIED IT ABOUT, THE HAND OF THE
 LORD WAS AGAINST THE CITY WITH A VERY GREAT DESTRUCTION: AND HE SMOTE THE MEN
 OF THE CITY, BOTH SMALL AND GREAT, AND THEY HAD EMERODS IN THEIR SECRET
 PARTS.
# 10 THEREFORE THEY SENT THE ARK OF GOD TO EKRON. AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS THE
 ARK OF GOD CAME TO EKRON, THAT THE EKRONITES CRIED OUT, SAYING, THEY HAVE
 BROUGHT ABOUT THE ARK OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL TO US, TO SLAY US AND OUR PEOPLE.
# 11 SO THEY SENT AND GATHERED TOGETHER ALL THE LORDS OF THE PHILISTINES, AND
 SAID, SEND AWAY THE ARK OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL, AND LET IT GO AGAIN TO HIS OWN
 PLACE, THAT IT SLAY US NOT, AND OUR PEOPLE: FOR THERE WAS A DEADLY
 DESTRUCTION THROUGHOUT ALL THE CITY; THE HAND OF GOD WAS VERY HEAVY THERE.
# 12 AND THE MEN THAT DIED NOT WERE SMITTEN WITH THE EMERODS: AND THE CRY OF
 THE CITY WENT UP TO HEAVEN.
= CHAPTER 6 
# 1 AND THE ARK OF THE LORD WAS IN THE COUNTRY OF THE PHILISTINES SEVEN
 MONTHS.
# 2 AND THE PHILISTINES CALLED FOR THE PRIESTS AND THE DIVINERS, SAYING, WHAT
 SHALL WE DO TO THE ARK OF THE LORD? TELL US WHEREWITH WE SHALL SEND IT TO HIS
 PLACE.
# 3 AND THEY SAID, IF YE SEND AWAY THE ARK OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL, SEND IT NOT
 EMPTY; BUT IN ANY WISE RETURN HIM A TRESPASS OFFERING: THEN YE SHALL BE
 HEALED, AND IT SHALL BE KNOWN TO YOU WHY HIS HAND IS NOT REMOVED FROM YOU.
# 4 THEN SAID THEY, WHAT SHALL BE THE TRESPASS OFFERING WHICH WE SHALL RETURN
 TO HIM? THEY ANSWERED, FIVE GOLDEN EMERODS, AND FIVE GOLDEN MICE, ACCORDING
 TO THE NUMBER OF THE LORDS OF THE PHILISTINES: FOR ONE PLAGUE WAS ON YOU ALL,
 AND ON YOUR LORDS.
# 5 WHEREFORE YE SHALL MAKE IMAGES OF YOUR EMERODS, AND IMAGES OF YOUR MICE
 THAT MAR THE LAND; AND YE SHALL GIVE GLORY UNTO THE GOD OF ISRAEL:
 PERADVENTURE HE WILL LIGHTEN HIS HAND FROM OFF YOU, AND FROM OFF YOUR GODS,
 AND FROM OFF YOUR LAND.
# 6 WHEREFORE THEN DO YE HARDEN YOUR HEARTS, AS THE EGYPTIANS AND PHARAOH
 HARDENED THEIR HEARTS? WHEN HE HAD WROUGHT WONDERFULLY AMONG THEM, DID THEY
 NOT LET THE PEOPLE GO, AND THEY DEPARTED?
# 7 NOW THEREFORE MAKE A NEW CART, AND TAKE TWO MILCH KINE, ON WHICH THERE
 HATH COME NO YOKE, AND TIE THE KINE TO THE CART, AND BRING THEIR CALVES HOME
 FROM THEM:
# 8 AND TAKE THE ARK OF THE LORD, AND LAY IT UPON THE CART; AND PUT THE
 JEWELS OF GOLD, WHICH YE RETURN HIM FOR A TRESPASS OFFERING, IN A COFFER BY
 THE SIDE THEREOF; AND SEND IT AWAY, THAT IT MAY GO.
# 9 AND SEE, IF IT GOETH UP BY THE WAY OF HIS OWN COAST TO 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.
# 10 AND THE MEN DID SO; AND TOOK TWO MILCH KINE, AND TIED THEM TO THE CART,
 AND SHUT UP THEIR CALVES AT HOME:
# 11 AND THEY LAID THE ARK OF THE LORD UPON THE CART, AND THE COFFER WITH THE
 MICE OF GOLD AND THE IMAGES OF THEIR EMERODS.
# 12 AND THE KINE TOOK THE STRAIGHT WAY TO THE WAY OF 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.
# 13 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.
# 14 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.
# 15 AND THE LEVITES TOOK DOWN THE ARK OF THE LORD, AND THE COFFER THAT WAS
 WITH IT, WHEREIN THE JEWELS OF GOLD WERE, AND PUT THEM ON THE GREAT STONE:
 AND THE MEN OF BETHSHEMESH OFFERED BURNT OFFERINGS AND SACRIFICED SACRIFICES
 THE SAME DAY UNTO THE LORD.
# 16 AND WHEN THE FIVE LORDS OF THE PHILISTINES HAD SEEN IT, THEY RETURNED TO
 EKRON THE SAME DAY.
# 17 AND THESE ARE THE GOLDEN EMERODS WHICH THE PHILISTINES RETURNED FOR A
 TRESPASS OFFERING UNTO THE LORD; FOR ASHDOD ONE, FOR GAZA ONE, FOR ASKELON
 ONE, FOR GATH ONE, FOR EKRON ONE;
# 18 AND THE GOLDEN MICE, ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF ALL THE CITIES OF THE
 PHILISTINES BELONGING TO THE FIVE LORDS, BOTH OF FENCED CITIES, AND OF
 COUNTRY VILLAGES, EVEN UNTO THE GREAT STONE OF ABEL, WHEREON THEY SET DOWN
 THE ARK OF THE LORD: WHICH STONE REMAINETH UNTO THIS DAY IN THE FIELD OF
 JOSHUA, THE BETHSHEMITE.
# 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 WITH A GREAT SLAUGHTER.
# 20 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?
# 21 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 7 
# 1 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.
# 2 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.
# 3 AND SAMUEL SPAKE UNTO ALL THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, SAYING, IF YE DO RETURN
 UNTO THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEARTS, THEN PUT AWAY THE STRANGE GODS AND
 ASHTAROTH FROM AMONG YOU, AND PREPARE YOUR HEARTS UNTO THE LORD, AND SERVE
 HIM ONLY: AND HE WILL DELIVER YOU OUT OF THE HAND OF THE PHILISTINES.
# 4 THEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DID PUT AWAY BAALIM AND ASHTAROTH, AND SERVED
 THE LORD ONLY.
# 5 AND SAMUEL SAID, GATHER ALL ISRAEL TO MIZPEH, AND I WILL PRAY FOR YOU
 UNTO THE LORD.
# 6 AND THEY GATHERED TOGETHER TO MIZPEH, AND DREW WATER, AND POURED IT OUT
 BEFORE THE LORD, AND FASTED ON THAT DAY, AND SAID THERE, WE HAVE SINNED
 AGAINST THE LORD. AND SAMUEL JUDGED THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL IN MIZPEH.
# 7 AND WHEN THE PHILISTINES HEARD THAT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE GATHERED
 TOGETHER TO MIZPEH, THE LORDS OF THE PHILISTINES WENT UP AGAINST ISRAEL. AND
 WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL HEARD IT, THEY WERE AFRAID OF THE PHILISTINES.
# 8 AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SAID TO SAMUEL, CEASE NOT TO CRY UNTO THE LORD
 OUR GOD FOR US, THAT HE WILL SAVE US OUT OF THE HAND OF THE PHILISTINES.
# 9 AND SAMUEL TOOK A SUCKING LAMB, AND OFFERED IT FOR A BURNT OFFERING
 WHOLLY UNTO THE LORD: AND SAMUEL CRIED UNTO THE LORD FOR ISRAEL; AND THE LORD
 HEARD HIM.
# 10 AND AS SAMUEL WAS OFFERING UP THE BURNT OFFERING, THE PHILISTINES DREW
 NEAR TO BATTLE AGAINST ISRAEL: BUT THE LORD THUNDERED WITH A GREAT THUNDER ON
 THAT DAY UPON THE PHILISTINES, AND DISCOMFITED THEM; AND THEY WERE SMITTEN
 BEFORE ISRAEL.
# 11 AND THE MEN OF ISRAEL WENT OUT OF MIZPEH, AND PURSUED THE PHILISTINES,
 AND SMOTE THEM, UNTIL THEY CAME UNDER BETHCAR.
# 12 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.
# 13 SO THE PHILISTINES WERE SUBDUED, AND THEY CAME NO MORE INTO THE COAST OF
 ISRAEL: AND THE HAND OF THE LORD WAS AGAINST THE PHILISTINES ALL THE DAYS OF
 SAMUEL.
# 14 AND THE CITIES WHICH THE PHILISTINES HAD TAKEN FROM ISRAEL WERE RESTORED
 TO ISRAEL, FROM EKRON EVEN UNTO GATH; AND THE COASTS THEREOF DID ISRAEL
 DELIVER OUT OF THE HANDS OF THE PHILISTINES. AND THERE WAS PEACE BETWEEN
 ISRAEL AND THE AMORITES.
# 15 AND SAMUEL JUDGED ISRAEL ALL THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE.
# 16 AND HE WENT FROM YEAR TO YEAR IN CIRCUIT TO BETHEL, AND GILGAL, AND
 MIZPEH, AND JUDGED ISRAEL IN ALL THOSE PLACES.
# 17 AND HIS RETURN WAS TO RAMAH; FOR THERE WAS HIS HOUSE; AND THERE HE
 JUDGED ISRAEL; AND THERE HE BUILT AN ALTAR UNTO THE LORD.
= CHAPTER 8 
# 1 AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN SAMUEL WAS OLD, THAT HE MADE HIS SONS JUDGES
 OVER ISRAEL.
# 2 NOW THE NAME OF HIS FIRSTBORN WAS JOEL; AND THE NAME OF HIS SECOND,
 ABIAH: THEY WERE JUDGES IN BEERSHEBA.
# 3 AND HIS SONS WALKED NOT IN HIS WAYS, BUT TURNED ASIDE AFTER LUCRE, AND
 TOOK BRIBES, AND PERVERTED JUDGMENT.
# 4 THEN ALL THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER, AND CAME TO
 SAMUEL UNTO RAMAH,
# 5 AND SAID UNTO HIM, BEHOLD, THOU ART OLD, AND THY SONS WALK NOT IN THY
 WAYS: NOW MAKE US A KING TO JUDGE US LIKE ALL THE NATIONS.
# 6 BUT THE THING DISPLEASED SAMUEL, WHEN THEY SAID, GIVE US A KING TO JUDGE
 US. AND SAMUEL PRAYED UNTO THE LORD.
# 7 AND THE LORD SAID UNTO SAMUEL, HEARKEN UNTO THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE IN
 ALL THAT THEY SAY UNTO THEE: FOR THEY HAVE NOT REJECTED THEE, BUT THEY HAVE
 REJECTED ME, THAT I SHOULD NOT REIGN OVER THEM.
# 8 ACCORDING TO ALL THE WORKS WHICH THEY HAVE DONE SINCE THE DAY THAT I
 BROUGHT THEM UP OUT OF EGYPT EVEN UNTO THIS DAY, WHEREWITH THEY HAVE FORSAKEN
 ME, AND SERVED OTHER GODS, SO DO THEY ALSO UNTO THEE.
# 9 NOW THEREFORE HEARKEN UNTO THEIR VOICE: HOWBEIT YET PROTEST SOLEMNLY UNTO
 THEM, AND SHEW THEM THE MANNER OF THE KING THAT SHALL REIGN OVER THEM.
# 10 AND SAMUEL TOLD ALL THE WORDS OF THE LORD UNTO THE PEOPLE THAT ASKED OF
 HIM A KING.
# 11 AND HE SAID, THIS WILL BE THE MANNER OF THE KING THAT SHALL REIGN OVER
 YOU: HE WILL TAKE YOUR SONS, AND APPOINT THEM FOR HIMSELF, FOR HIS CHARIOTS,
 AND TO BE HIS HORSEMEN; AND SOME SHALL RUN BEFORE HIS CHARIOTS.
# 12 AND HE WILL APPOINT HIM CAPTAINS OVER THOUSANDS, AND CAPTAINS OVER
 FIFTIES; AND WILL SET THEM TO EAR HIS GROUND, AND TO REAP HIS HARVEST, AND TO
 MAKE HIS INSTRUMENTS OF WAR, AND INSTRUMENTS OF HIS CHARIOTS.
# 13 AND HE WILL TAKE YOUR DAUGHTERS TO BE CONFECTIONARIES, AND TO BE COOKS,
 AND TO BE BAKERS.
# 14 AND HE WILL TAKE YOUR FIELDS, AND YOUR VINEYARDS, AND YOUR OLIVEYARDS,
 EVEN THE BEST OF THEM, AND GIVE THEM TO HIS SERVANTS.
# 15 AND HE WILL TAKE THE TENTH OF YOUR SEED, AND OF YOUR VINEYARDS, AND GIVE
 TO HIS OFFICERS, AND TO HIS SERVANTS.
# 16 AND HE WILL TAKE YOUR MENSERVANTS, AND YOUR MAIDSERVANTS, AND YOUR
 GOODLIEST YOUNG MEN, AND YOUR ASSES, AND PUT THEM TO HIS WORK.
# 17 HE WILL TAKE THE TENTH OF YOUR SHEEP: AND YE SHALL BE HIS SERVANTS.
# 18 AND YE SHALL CRY OUT IN THAT DAY BECAUSE OF YOUR KING WHICH YE SHALL
 HAVE CHOSEN YOU; AND THE LORD WILL NOT HEAR YOU IN THAT DAY.
# 19 NEVERTHELESS THE PEOPLE REFUSED TO OBEY THE VOICE OF SAMUEL; AND THEY
 SAID, NAY; BUT WE WILL HAVE A KING OVER US;
# 20 THAT WE ALSO MAY BE LIKE ALL THE NATIONS; AND THAT OUR KING MAY JUDGE
 US, AND GO OUT BEFORE US, AND FIGHT OUR BATTLES.
# 21 AND SAMUEL HEARD ALL THE WORDS OF THE PEOPLE, AND HE REHEARSED THEM IN
 THE EARS OF THE LORD.
# 22 AND THE LORD SAID TO SAMUEL, HEARKEN UNTO THEIR VOICE, AND MAKE THEM A
 KING. AND SAMUEL SAID UNTO THE MEN OF ISRAEL, GO YE EVERY MAN UNTO HIS CITY.
= CHAPTER 9 
# 1 NOW THERE WAS A MAN OF BENJAMIN, WHOSE NAME WAS KISH, THE SON OF ABIEL,
 THE SON OF ZEROR, THE SON OF BECHORATH, THE SON OF APHIAH, A BENJAMITE, A
 MIGHTY MAN OF POWER.
# 2 AND HE HAD A SON, WHOSE NAME WAS SAUL, A CHOICE YOUNG MAN, AND A GOODLY:
 AND THERE WAS NOT AMONG THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL A GOODLIER PERSON THAN HE:
 FROM HIS SHOULDERS AND UPWARD HE WAS HIGHER THAN ANY OF THE PEOPLE.
# 3 AND THE ASSES OF KISH SAULS FATHER WERE LOST. AND KISH SAID TO SAUL HIS
 SON, TAKE NOW ONE OF THE SERVANTS WITH THEE, AND ARISE, GO SEEK THE ASSES.
# 4 AND HE PASSED THROUGH MOUNT EPHRAIM, AND PASSED THROUGH THE LAND OF
 SHALISHA, BUT THEY FOUND THEM NOT: THEN THEY PASSED THROUGH THE LAND OF
 SHALIM, AND THERE THEY WERE NOT: AND HE PASSED THROUGH THE LAND OF THE
 BENJAMITES, BUT THEY FOUND THEM NOT.
# 5 AND WHEN THEY WERE COME TO THE LAND OF ZUPH, SAUL SAID TO HIS SERVANT
 THAT WAS WITH HIM, COME, AND LET US RETURN; LEST MY FATHER LEAVE CARING FOR
 THE ASSES, AND TAKE THOUGHT FOR US.
# 6 AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, BEHOLD NOW, THERE IS IN THIS CITY A MAN OF GOD, AND
 HE IS AN HONOURABLE MAN; ALL THAT HE SAITH COMETH SURELY TO PASS: NOW LET US
 GO THITHER; PERADVENTURE HE CAN SHEW US OUR WAY THAT WE SHOULD GO.
# 7 THEN SAID SAUL TO HIS SERVANT, BUT, BEHOLD, IF WE GO, WHAT SHALL WE BRING
 THE MAN? FOR THE BREAD IS SPENT IN OUR VESSELS, AND THERE IS NOT A PRESENT TO
 BRING TO THE MAN OF GOD: WHAT HAVE WE?
# 8 AND THE SERVANT ANSWERED SAUL AGAIN, AND SAID, BEHOLD, I HAVE HERE AT
 HAND THE FOURTH PART OF A SHEKEL OF SILVER: THAT WILL I GIVE TO THE MAN OF
 GOD, TO TELL US OUR WAY.
# 9 (BEFORETIME IN ISRAEL, WHEN A MAN WENT TO ENQUIRE OF GOD, THUS HE SPAKE,
 COME, AND LET US GO TO THE SEER: FOR HE THAT IS NOW CALLED A PROPHET WAS
 BEFORETIME CALLED A SEER.)
# 10 THEN SAID SAUL TO HIS SERVANT, WELL SAID; COME, LET US GO. SO THEY WENT
 UNTO THE CITY WHERE THE MAN OF GOD WAS.
# 11 AND AS THEY WENT UP THE HILL TO THE CITY, THEY FOUND YOUNG MAIDENS GOING
 OUT TO DRAW WATER, AND SAID UNTO THEM, IS THE SEER HERE?
# 12 AND THEY ANSWERED THEM, AND SAID, HE IS; BEHOLD, HE IS BEFORE YOU: MAKE
 HASTE NOW, FOR HE CAME TO DAY TO THE CITY; FOR THERE IS A SACRIFICE OF THE
 PEOPLE TO DAY IN THE HIGH PLACE:
# 13 AS SOON AS YE BE COME INTO THE CITY, YE SHALL STRAIGHTWAY FIND HIM,
 BEFORE HE GO UP TO THE HIGH PLACE TO EAT: FOR THE PEOPLE WILL NOT EAT UNTIL
 HE COME, BECAUSE HE DOTH BLESS THE SACRIFICE; AND AFTERWARDS THEY EAT THAT BE
 BIDDEN. NOW THEREFORE GET YOU UP; FOR ABOUT THIS TIME YE SHALL FIND HIM.
# 14 AND THEY WENT UP INTO THE CITY: AND WHEN THEY WERE COME INTO THE CITY,
 BEHOLD, SAMUEL CAME OUT AGAINST THEM, FOR TO GO UP TO THE HIGH PLACE.
# 15 NOW THE LORD HAD TOLD SAMUEL IN HIS EAR A DAY BEFORE SAUL CAME, SAYING,
# 16 TO MORROW ABOUT THIS TIME I WILL SEND THEE A MAN OUT OF THE LAND OF
 BENJAMIN, AND THOU SHALT ANOINT HIM TO BE CAPTAIN OVER MY PEOPLE ISRAEL, THAT
 HE MAY SAVE MY PEOPLE OUT OF THE HAND OF THE PHILISTINES: FOR I HAVE LOOKED
 UPON MY PEOPLE, BECAUSE THEIR CRY IS COME UNTO ME.
# 17 AND WHEN SAMUEL SAW SAUL, THE LORD SAID UNTO HIM, BEHOLD THE MAN WHOM I
 SPAKE TO THEE OF! THIS SAME SHALL REIGN OVER MY PEOPLE.
# 18 THEN SAUL DREW NEAR TO SAMUEL IN THE GATE, AND SAID, TELL ME, I PRAY
 THEE, WHERE THE SEERS HOUSE IS.
# 19 AND SAMUEL ANSWERED SAUL, AND SAID, I AM THE SEER: GO UP BEFORE ME UNTO
 THE HIGH PLACE; FOR YE SHALL EAT WITH ME TO DAY, AND TO MORROW I WILL LET
 THEE GO, AND WILL TELL THEE ALL THAT IS IN THINE HEART.
# 20 AND AS FOR THINE ASSES THAT WERE LOST THREE DAYS AGO, SET NOT THY MIND
 ON THEM; FOR THEY ARE FOUND. AND ON WHOM IS ALL THE DESIRE OF ISRAEL? IS IT
 NOT ON THEE, AND ON ALL THY FATHERS HOUSE?
# 21 AND SAUL ANSWERED AND SAID, AM NOT I A BENJAMITE, OF THE SMALLEST OF THE
 TRIBES OF ISRAEL? AND MY FAMILY THE LEAST OF ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE TRIBE OF
 BENJAMIN? WHEREFORE THEN SPEAKEST THOU SO TO ME?
# 22 AND SAMUEL TOOK SAUL AND HIS SERVANT, AND BROUGHT THEM INTO THE PARLOUR,
 AND MADE THEM SIT IN THE CHIEFEST PLACE AMONG THEM THAT WERE BIDDEN, WHICH
 WERE ABOUT THIRTY PERSONS.
# 23 AND SAMUEL SAID UNTO THE COOK, BRING THE PORTION WHICH I GAVE THEE, OF
 WHICH I SAID UNTO THEE, SET IT BY THEE.
# 24 AND THE COOK TOOK UP THE SHOULDER, AND THAT WHICH WAS UPON IT, AND SET
 IT BEFORE SAUL. AND SAMUEL SAID, BEHOLD THAT WHICH IS LEFT! SET IT BEFORE
 THEE, AND EAT: FOR UNTO THIS TIME HATH IT BEEN KEPT FOR THEE SINCE I SAID, I
 HAVE INVITED THE PEOPLE. SO SAUL DID EAT WITH SAMUEL THAT DAY.
# 25 AND WHEN THEY WERE COME DOWN FROM THE HIGH PLACE INTO THE CITY, SAMUEL
 COMMUNED WITH SAUL UPON THE TOP OF THE HOUSE.
# 26 AND THEY AROSE EARLY: AND IT CAME TO PASS ABOUT THE SPRING OF THE DAY,
 THAT SAMUEL CALLED SAUL TO THE TOP OF THE HOUSE, SAYING, UP, THAT I MAY SEND
 THEE AWAY. AND SAUL AROSE, AND THEY WENT OUT BOTH OF THEM, HE AND SAMUEL,
 ABROAD.
# 27 AND AS THEY WERE GOING DOWN TO THE END OF THE CITY, SAMUEL SAID TO SAUL,
 BID THE SERVANT PASS ON BEFORE US, (AND HE PASSED ON), BUT STAND THOU STILL A
 WHILE, THAT I MAY SHEW THEE THE WORD OF GOD.
= CHAPTER 10 
# 1 THEN SAMUEL TOOK A VIAL OF OIL, AND POURED IT UPON HIS HEAD, AND KISSED
 HIM, AND SAID, IS IT NOT BECAUSE THE LORD HATH ANOINTED THEE TO BE CAPTAIN
 OVER HIS INHERITANCE?
# 2 WHEN THOU ART DEPARTED FROM ME TO DAY, THEN THOU SHALT FIND TWO MEN BY
 RACHELS SEPULCHRE IN THE BORDER OF BENJAMIN AT ZELZAH; AND THEY WILL SAY UNTO
 THEE, THE ASSES WHICH THOU WENTEST TO SEEK ARE FOUND: AND, LO, THY FATHER
 HATH LEFT THE CARE OF THE ASSES, AND SORROWETH FOR YOU, SAYING, WHAT SHALL I
 DO FOR MY SON?
# 3 THEN SHALT THOU GO ON FORWARD FROM THENCE, AND THOU SHALT COME TO THE
 PLAIN OF TABOR, AND THERE SHALL MEET THEE THREE MEN GOING UP TO GOD TO
 BETHEL, ONE CARRYING THREE KIDS, AND ANOTHER CARRYING THREE LOAVES OF BREAD,
 AND ANOTHER CARRYING A BOTTLE OF WINE:
# 4 AND THEY WILL SALUTE THEE, AND GIVE THEE TWO LOAVES OF BREAD; WHICH THOU
 SHALT RECEIVE OF THEIR HANDS.
# 5 AFTER THAT THOU SHALT COME TO THE HILL OF GOD, WHERE IS THE GARRISON OF
 THE PHILISTINES: AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, WHEN THOU ART COME THITHER TO THE
 CITY, THAT THOU SHALT MEET A COMPANY OF PROPHETS COMING DOWN FROM THE HIGH
 PLACE WITH A PSALTERY, AND A TABRET, AND A PIPE, AND A HARP, BEFORE THEM; AND
 THEY SHALL PROPHESY:
# 6 AND THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD WILL COME UPON THEE, AND THOU SHALT PROPHESY
 WITH THEM, AND SHALT BE TURNED INTO ANOTHER MAN.
# 7 AND LET IT BE, WHEN THESE SIGNS ARE COME UNTO THEE, THAT THOU DO AS
 OCCASION SERVE THEE; FOR GOD IS WITH THEE.
# 8 AND THOU SHALT GO DOWN BEFORE ME TO GILGAL; AND, BEHOLD, I WILL COME DOWN
 UNTO THEE, TO OFFER BURNT OFFERINGS, AND TO SACRIFICE SACRIFICES OF PEACE
 OFFERINGS: SEVEN DAYS SHALT THOU TARRY, TILL I COME TO THEE, AND SHEW THEE
 WHAT THOU SHALT DO.
# 9 AND IT WAS SO, THAT WHEN HE HAD TURNED HIS BACK TO GO FROM SAMUEL, GOD
 GAVE HIM ANOTHER HEART: AND ALL THOSE SIGNS CAME TO PASS THAT DAY.
# 10 AND WHEN THEY CAME THITHER TO THE HILL, BEHOLD, A COMPANY OF PROPHETS
 MET HIM; AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD CAME UPON HIM, AND HE PROPHESIED AMONG THEM.
# 11 AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN ALL THAT KNEW HIM BEFORETIME SAW THAT, BEHOLD,
 HE PROPHESIED AMONG THE PROPHETS, THEN THE PEOPLE SAID ONE TO ANOTHER, WHAT
 IS THIS THAT IS COME UNTO THE SON OF KISH? IS SAUL ALSO AMONG THE PROPHETS?
# 12 AND ONE OF THE SAME PLACE ANSWERED AND SAID, BUT WHO IS THEIR FATHER?
 THEREFORE IT BECAME A PROVERB, IS SAUL ALSO AMONG THE PROPHETS?
# 13 AND WHEN HE HAD MADE AN END OF PROPHESYING, HE CAME TO THE HIGH PLACE.
# 14 AND SAULS UNCLE SAID UNTO HIM AND TO HIS SERVANT, WHITHER WENT YE? AND
 HE SAID, TO SEEK THE ASSES: AND WHEN WE SAW THAT THEY WERE NO WHERE, WE CAME
 TO SAMUEL.
# 15 AND SAULS UNCLE SAID, TELL ME, I PRAY THEE, WHAT SAMUEL SAID UNTO YOU.
# 16 AND SAUL SAID UNTO HIS UNCLE, HE TOLD US PLAINLY THAT THE ASSES WERE
 FOUND. BUT OF THE MATTER OF THE KINGDOM, WHEREOF SAMUEL SPAKE, HE TOLD HIM
 NOT.
# 17 AND SAMUEL CALLED THE PEOPLE TOGETHER UNTO THE LORD TO MIZPEH;
# 18 AND SAID UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL,
 I BROUGHT UP ISRAEL OUT OF EGYPT, AND DELIVERED YOU OUT OF THE HAND OF THE
 EGYPTIANS, AND OUT OF THE HAND OF ALL KINGDOMS, AND OF THEM THAT OPPRESSED
 YOU:
# 19 AND YE HAVE THIS DAY REJECTED YOUR GOD, WHO HIMSELF SAVED YOU OUT OF ALL
 YOUR ADVERSITIES AND YOUR TRIBULATIONS; AND YE HAVE SAID UNTO HIM, NAY, BUT
 SET A KING OVER US. NOW THEREFORE PRESENT YOURSELVES BEFORE THE LORD BY YOUR
 TRIBES, AND BY YOUR THOUSANDS.
# 20 AND WHEN SAMUEL HAD CAUSED ALL THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL TO COME NEAR, THE
 TRIBE OF BENJAMIN WAS TAKEN.
# 21 WHEN HE HAD CAUSED THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN TO COME NEAR BY THEIR FAMILIES,
 THE FAMILY OF MATRI WAS TAKEN, AND SAUL THE SON OF KISH WAS TAKEN: AND WHEN
 THEY SOUGHT HIM, HE COULD NOT BE FOUND.
# 22 THEREFORE THEY ENQUIRED OF THE LORD FURTHER, IF THE MAN SHOULD YET COME
 THITHER. AND THE LORD ANSWERED, BEHOLD HE HATH HID HIMSELF AMONG THE STUFF.
# 23 AND THEY RAN AND FETCHED HIM THENCE: AND WHEN HE STOOD AMONG THE PEOPLE,
 HE WAS HIGHER THAN ANY OF THE PEOPLE FROM HIS SHOULDERS AND UPWARD.
# 24 AND SAMUEL SAID TO ALL THE PEOPLE, SEE YE HIM WHOM THE LORD HATH CHOSEN,
 THAT THERE IS NONE LIKE HIM AMONG ALL THE PEOPLE? AND ALL THE PEOPLE SHOUTED,
 AND SAID, GOD SAVE THE KING.
# 25 THEN SAMUEL TOLD THE PEOPLE THE MANNER OF THE KINGDOM, AND WROTE IT IN A
 BOOK, AND LAID IT UP BEFORE THE LORD. AND SAMUEL SENT ALL THE PEOPLE AWAY,
 EVERY MAN TO HIS HOUSE.
# 26 AND SAUL ALSO WENT HOME TO GIBEAH; AND THERE WENT WITH HIM A BAND OF
 MEN, WHOSE HEARTS GOD HAD TOUCHED.
# 27 BUT THE CHILDREN OF BELIAL SAID, HOW SHALL THIS MAN SAVE US? AND THEY
 DESPISED HIM, AND BROUGHT NO PRESENTS. BUT HE HELD HIS PEACE.
= CHAPTER 11 
# 1 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.
# 2 AND NAHASH THE AMMONITE ANSWERED THEM, ON THIS CONDITION WILL I MAKE A
 COVENANT WITH YOU, THAT I MAY THRUST OUT ALL YOUR RIGHT EYES, AND LAY IT FOR
 A REPROACH UPON ALL ISRAEL.
# 3 AND THE ELDERS OF JABESH SAID UNTO HIM, GIVE US SEVEN DAYS RESPITE, THAT
 WE MAY SEND MESSENGERS UNTO ALL THE COASTS OF ISRAEL: AND THEN, IF THERE BE
 NO MAN TO SAVE US, WE WILL COME OUT TO THEE.
# 4 THEN CAME THE MESSENGERS TO GIBEAH OF SAUL, AND TOLD THE TIDINGS IN THE
 EARS OF THE PEOPLE: AND ALL THE PEOPLE LIFTED UP THEIR VOICES, AND WEPT.
# 5 AND, BEHOLD, SAUL CAME AFTER THE HERD OUT OF THE FIELD; AND SAUL SAID,
 WHAT AILETH THE PEOPLE THAT THEY WEEP? AND THEY TOLD HIM THE TIDINGS OF THE
 MEN OF JABESH.
# 6 AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD CAME UPON SAUL WHEN HE HEARD THOSE TIDINGS, AND HIS
 ANGER WAS KINDLED GREATLY.
# 7 AND HE TOOK A YOKE OF OXEN, AND HEWED THEM IN PIECES, AND SENT THEM
 THROUGHOUT ALL THE COASTS OF ISRAEL BY THE HANDS OF MESSENGERS, SAYING,
 WHOSOEVER COMETH NOT FORTH AFTER SAUL AND AFTER SAMUEL, SO SHALL IT BE DONE
 UNTO HIS OXEN. AND THE FEAR OF THE LORD FELL ON THE PEOPLE, AND THEY CAME OUT
 WITH ONE CONSENT.
# 8 AND WHEN HE NUMBERED THEM IN BEZEK, THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE THREE
 HUNDRED THOUSAND, AND THE MEN OF JUDAH THIRTY THOUSAND.
# 9 AND THEY SAID UNTO THE MESSENGERS THAT CAME, THUS SHALL YE SAY UNTO THE
 MEN OF JABESHGILEAD, TO MORROW, BY THAT TIME THE SUN BE HOT, YE SHALL HAVE
 HELP. AND THE MESSENGERS CAME AND SHEWED IT TO THE MEN OF JABESH; AND THEY
 WERE GLAD.
# 10 THEREFORE THE MEN OF JABESH SAID, TO MORROW WE WILL COME OUT UNTO YOU,
 AND YE SHALL DO WITH US ALL THAT SEEMETH GOOD UNTO YOU.
# 11 AND IT WAS SO ON THE MORROW, THAT SAUL PUT THE PEOPLE IN THREE
 COMPANIES; AND THEY CAME INTO THE MIDST OF THE HOST IN THE MORNING WATCH, AND
 SLEW THE AMMONITES UNTIL THE HEAT OF THE DAY: AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT THEY
 WHICH REMAINED WERE SCATTERED, SO THAT TWO OF THEM WERE NOT LEFT TOGETHER.
# 12 AND THE PEOPLE SAID UNTO SAMUEL, WHO IS HE THAT SAID, SHALL SAUL REIGN
 OVER US? BRING THE MEN, THAT WE MAY PUT THEM TO DEATH.
# 13 AND SAUL SAID, THERE SHALL NOT A MAN BE PUT TO DEATH THIS DAY: FOR TO
 DAY THE LORD HATH WROUGHT SALVATION IN ISRAEL.
# 14 THEN SAID SAMUEL TO THE PEOPLE, COME, AND LET US GO TO GILGAL, AND RENEW
 THE KINGDOM THERE.
# 15 AND ALL THE PEOPLE WENT TO GILGAL; AND THERE THEY MADE SAUL KING BEFORE
 THE LORD IN GILGAL; AND THERE THEY SACRIFICED SACRIFICES OF PEACE OFFERINGS
 BEFORE THE LORD; AND THERE SAUL AND ALL THE MEN OF ISRAEL REJOICED GREATLY.
= CHAPTER 12 
# 1 AND SAMUEL SAID UNTO ALL ISRAEL, BEHOLD, I HAVE HEARKENED UNTO YOUR VOICE
 IN ALL THAT YE SAID UNTO ME, AND HAVE MADE A KING OVER YOU.
# 2 AND NOW, BEHOLD, THE KING WALKETH BEFORE YOU: AND I AM OLD AND
 GRAYHEADED; AND, BEHOLD, MY SONS ARE WITH YOU: AND I HAVE WALKED BEFORE YOU
 FROM MY CHILDHOOD UNTO THIS DAY.
# 3 BEHOLD, HERE I AM: WITNESS AGAINST ME BEFORE THE LORD, AND BEFORE HIS
 ANOINTED: WHOSE OX HAVE I TAKEN? OR WHOSE ASS HAVE I TAKEN? OR WHOM HAVE I
 DEFRAUDED? WHOM HAVE I OPPRESSED? OR OF WHOSE HAND HAVE I RECEIVED ANY BRIBE
 TO BLIND MINE EYES THEREWITH? AND I WILL RESTORE IT YOU.
# 4 AND THEY SAID, THOU HAST NOT DEFRAUDED US, NOR OPPRESSED US, NEITHER HAST
 THOU TAKEN OUGHT OF ANY MANS HAND.
# 5 AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, THE LORD IS WITNESS AGAINST YOU, AND HIS ANOINTED
 IS WITNESS THIS DAY, THAT YE HAVE NOT FOUND OUGHT IN MY HAND. AND THEY
 ANSWERED, HE IS WITNESS.
# 6 AND SAMUEL SAID UNTO THE PEOPLE, IT IS THE LORD THAT ADVANCED MOSES AND
 AARON, AND THAT BROUGHT YOUR FATHERS UP OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT.
# 7 NOW THEREFORE STAND STILL, THAT I MAY REASON WITH YOU BEFORE THE LORD OF
 ALL THE RIGHTEOUS ACTS OF THE LORD, WHICH HE DID TO YOU AND TO YOUR FATHERS.
# 8 WHEN JACOB WAS COME INTO EGYPT, AND YOUR FATHERS CRIED UNTO THE LORD,
 THEN THE LORD SENT MOSES AND AARON, WHICH BROUGHT FORTH YOUR FATHERS OUT OF
 EGYPT, AND MADE THEM DWELL IN THIS PLACE.
# 9 AND WHEN THEY FORGAT THE LORD THEIR GOD, HE SOLD THEM INTO THE HAND OF
 SISERA, CAPTAIN OF THE HOST OF HAZOR, AND INTO THE HAND OF THE PHILISTINES,
 AND INTO THE HAND OF THE KING OF MOAB, AND THEY FOUGHT AGAINST THEM.
# 10 AND THEY CRIED UNTO THE LORD, AND SAID, WE HAVE SINNED, BECAUSE WE HAVE
 FORSAKEN THE LORD, AND HAVE SERVED BAALIM AND ASHTAROTH: BUT NOW DELIVER US
 OUT OF THE HAND OF OUR ENEMIES, AND WE WILL SERVE THEE.
# 11 AND THE LORD SENT JERUBBAAL, AND BEDAN, AND JEPHTHAH, AND SAMUEL, AND
 DELIVERED YOU OUT OF THE HAND OF YOUR ENEMIES ON EVERY SIDE, AND YE DWELLED
 SAFE.
# 12 AND WHEN YE SAW THAT NAHASH THE KING OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON CAME
 AGAINST YOU, YE SAID UNTO ME, NAY; BUT A KING SHALL REIGN OVER US: WHEN THE
 LORD YOUR GOD WAS YOUR KING.
# 13 NOW THEREFORE BEHOLD THE KING WHOM YE HAVE CHOSEN, AND WHOM YE HAVE
 DESIRED! AND, BEHOLD, THE LORD HATH SET A KING OVER YOU.
# 14 IF YE WILL FEAR THE LORD, AND SERVE HIM, AND OBEY HIS VOICE, AND NOT
 REBEL AGAINST THE COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD, THEN SHALL BOTH YE AND ALSO THE
 KING THAT REIGNETH OVER YOU CONTINUE FOLLOWING THE LORD YOUR GOD:
# 15 BUT IF YE WILL NOT OBEY THE VOICE OF THE LORD, BUT REBEL AGAINST THE
 COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD, THEN SHALL THE HAND OF THE LORD BE AGAINST YOU, AS
 IT WAS AGAINST YOUR FATHERS.
# 16 NOW THEREFORE STAND AND SEE THIS GREAT THING, WHICH THE LORD WILL DO
 BEFORE YOUR EYES.
# 17 IS IT NOT WHEAT HARVEST TO DAY? I WILL CALL UNTO THE LORD, AND HE SHALL
 SEND THUNDER AND RAIN; THAT YE MAY PERCEIVE AND SEE THAT YOUR WICKEDNESS IS
 GREAT, WHICH YE HAVE DONE IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, IN ASKING YOU A KING.
# 18 SO SAMUEL CALLED UNTO THE LORD; AND THE LORD SENT THUNDER AND RAIN THAT
 DAY: AND ALL THE PEOPLE GREATLY FEARED THE LORD AND SAMUEL.
# 19 AND ALL THE PEOPLE SAID UNTO SAMUEL, PRAY FOR THY SERVANTS UNTO THE LORD
 THY GOD, THAT WE DIE NOT: FOR WE HAVE ADDED UNTO ALL OUR SINS THIS EVIL, TO
 ASK US A KING.
# 20 AND SAMUEL SAID UNTO THE PEOPLE, FEAR NOT: YE HAVE DONE ALL THIS
 WICKEDNESS: YET TURN NOT ASIDE FROM FOLLOWING THE LORD, BUT SERVE THE LORD
 WITH ALL YOUR HEART;
# 21 AND TURN YE NOT ASIDE: FOR THEN SHOULD YE GO AFTER VAIN THINGS, WHICH
 CANNOT PROFIT NOR DELIVER; FOR THEY ARE VAIN.
# 22 FOR THE LORD WILL NOT FORSAKE HIS PEOPLE FOR HIS GREAT NAMES SAKE:
 BECAUSE IT HATH PLEASED THE LORD TO MAKE YOU HIS PEOPLE.
# 23 MOREOVER AS FOR ME, GOD FORBID THAT I SHOULD SIN AGAINST THE LORD IN
 CEASING TO PRAY FOR YOU: BUT I WILL TEACH YOU THE GOOD AND THE RIGHT WAY:
# 24 ONLY FEAR THE LORD, AND SERVE HIM IN TRUTH WITH ALL YOUR HEART: FOR
 CONSIDER HOW GREAT THINGS HE HATH DONE FOR YOU.
# 25 BUT IF YE SHALL STILL DO WICKEDLY, YE SHALL BE CONSUMED, BOTH YE AND
 YOUR KING.
= CHAPTER 13 
# 1 SAUL REIGNED ONE YEAR; AND WHEN HE HAD REIGNED TWO YEARS OVER ISRAEL,
# 2 SAUL CHOSE HIM THREE THOUSAND MEN OF ISRAEL; WHEREOF TWO THOUSAND WERE
 WITH SAUL IN MICHMASH AND IN MOUNT BETHEL, AND A THOUSAND WERE WITH JONATHAN
 IN GIBEAH OF BENJAMIN: AND THE REST OF THE PEOPLE HE SENT EVERY MAN TO HIS
 TENT.
# 3 AND JONATHAN SMOTE THE GARRISON OF THE PHILISTINES THAT WAS IN GEBA, AND
 THE PHILISTINES HEARD OF IT. AND SAUL BLEW THE TRUMPET THROUGHOUT ALL THE
 LAND, SAYING, LET THE HEBREWS HEAR.
# 4 AND ALL ISRAEL HEARD SAY THAT SAUL HAD SMITTEN A GARRISON OF THE
 PHILISTINES, AND THAT ISRAEL ALSO WAS HAD IN ABOMINATION WITH THE
 PHILISTINES. AND THE PEOPLE WERE CALLED TOGETHER AFTER SAUL TO GILGAL.
# 5 AND THE PHILISTINES GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER TO FIGHT WITH ISRAEL,
 THIRTY THOUSAND CHARIOTS, AND SIX THOUSAND HORSEMEN, AND PEOPLE AS THE SAND
 WHICH IS ON THE SEA SHORE IN MULTITUDE: AND THEY CAME UP, AND PITCHED IN
 MICHMASH, EASTWARD FROM BETHAVEN.
# 6 WHEN THE MEN OF ISRAEL SAW THAT THEY WERE IN A STRAIT, (FOR THE PEOPLE
 WERE DISTRESSED,) THEN THE PEOPLE DID HIDE THEMSELVES IN CAVES, AND IN
 THICKETS, AND IN ROCKS, AND IN HIGH PLACES, AND IN PITS.
# 7 AND SOME OF THE HEBREWS WENT OVER JORDAN TO THE LAND OF GAD AND GILEAD.
 AS FOR SAUL, HE WAS YET IN GILGAL, AND ALL THE PEOPLE FOLLOWED HIM TREMBLING.
# 8 AND HE TARRIED SEVEN DAYS, ACCORDING TO THE SET TIME THAT SAMUEL HAD
 APPOINTED: BUT SAMUEL CAME NOT TO GILGAL; AND THE PEOPLE WERE SCATTERED FROM
 HIM.
# 9 AND SAUL SAID, BRING HITHER A BURNT OFFERING TO ME, AND PEACE OFFERINGS.
 AND HE OFFERED THE BURNT OFFERING.
# 10 AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT AS SOON AS HE HAD MADE AN END OF OFFERING THE
 BURNT OFFERING, BEHOLD, SAMUEL CAME; AND SAUL WENT OUT TO MEET HIM, THAT HE
 MIGHT SALUTE HIM.
# 11 AND SAMUEL SAID, WHAT HAST THOU DONE? AND SAUL SAID, BECAUSE I SAW THAT
 THE PEOPLE WERE SCATTERED FROM ME, AND THAT THOU CAMEST NOT WITHIN THE DAYS
 APPOINTED, AND THAT THE PHILISTINES GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER AT MICHMASH;
# 12 THEREFORE SAID I, THE PHILISTINES WILL COME DOWN NOW UPON ME TO GILGAL,
 AND I HAVE NOT MADE SUPPLICATION UNTO THE LORD: I FORCED MYSELF THEREFORE,
 AND OFFERED A BURNT OFFERING.
# 13 AND SAMUEL SAID TO SAUL, THOU HAST DONE FOOLISHLY: THOU HAST NOT KEPT
 THE COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD THY GOD, WHICH HE COMMANDED THEE: FOR NOW WOULD
 THE LORD HAVE ESTABLISHED THY KINGDOM UPON ISRAEL FOR EVER.
# 14 BUT NOW THY KINGDOM SHALL NOT CONTINUE: THE LORD HATH SOUGHT HIM A MAN
 AFTER HIS OWN HEART, AND THE LORD HATH COMMANDED HIM TO BE CAPTAIN OVER HIS
 PEOPLE, BECAUSE THOU HAST NOT KEPT THAT WHICH THE LORD COMMANDED THEE.
# 15 AND SAMUEL AROSE, AND GAT HIM UP FROM GILGAL UNTO GIBEAH OF BENJAMIN.
 AND SAUL NUMBERED THE PEOPLE THAT WERE PRESENT WITH HIM, ABOUT SIX HUNDRED
 MEN.
# 16 AND SAUL, AND JONATHAN HIS SON, AND THE PEOPLE THAT WERE PRESENT WITH
 THEM, ABODE IN GIBEAH OF BENJAMIN: BUT THE PHILISTINES ENCAMPED IN MICHMASH.
# 17 AND THE SPOILERS CAME OUT OF THE CAMP OF THE PHILISTINES IN THREE
 COMPANIES: ONE COMPANY TURNED UNTO THE WAY THAT LEADETH TO OPHRAH, UNTO THE
 LAND OF SHUAL:
# 18 AND ANOTHER COMPANY TURNED THE WAY TO BETHHORON: AND ANOTHER COMPANY
 TURNED TO THE WAY OF THE BORDER THAT LOOKETH TO THE VALLEY OF ZEBOIM TOWARD
 THE WILDERNESS.
# 19 NOW THERE WAS NO SMITH FOUND THROUGHOUT ALL THE LAND OF ISRAEL: FOR THE
 PHILISTINES SAID, LEST THE HEBREWS MAKE THEM SWORDS OR SPEARS:
# 20 BUT ALL THE ISRAELITES WENT DOWN TO THE PHILISTINES, TO SHARPEN EVERY
 MAN HIS SHARE, AND HIS COULTER, AND HIS AXE, AND HIS MATTOCK.
# 21 YET THEY HAD A FILE FOR THE MATTOCKS, AND FOR THE COULTERS, AND FOR THE
 FORKS, AND FOR THE AXES, AND TO SHARPEN THE GOADS.
# 22 SO IT CAME TO PASS IN THE DAY OF BATTLE, THAT THERE WAS NEITHER SWORD
 NOR SPEAR FOUND IN THE HAND OF ANY OF THE PEOPLE THAT WERE WITH SAUL AND
 JONATHAN: BUT WITH SAUL AND WITH JONATHAN HIS SON WAS THERE FOUND.
# 23 AND THE GARRISON OF THE PHILISTINES WENT OUT TO THE PASSAGE OF MICHMASH.
= CHAPTER 14 
# 1 NOW IT CAME TO PASS UPON A DAY, THAT JONATHAN THE SON OF SAUL SAID UNTO
 THE YOUNG MAN THAT BARE HIS ARMOUR, COME, AND LET US GO OVER TO THE
 PHILISTINES GARRISON, THAT IS ON THE OTHER SIDE. BUT HE TOLD NOT HIS FATHER.
# 2 AND SAUL TARRIED IN THE UTTERMOST PART OF GIBEAH UNDER A POMEGRANATE TREE
 WHICH IS IN MIGRON: AND THE PEOPLE THAT WERE WITH HIM WERE ABOUT SIX HUNDRED
 MEN;
# 3 AND AHIAH, THE SON OF AHITUB, ICHABODS BROTHER, THE SON OF PHINEHAS, THE
 SON OF ELI, THE LORDS PRIEST IN SHILOH, WEARING AN EPHOD. AND THE PEOPLE KNEW
 NOT THAT JONATHAN WAS GONE.
# 4 AND BETWEEN THE PASSAGES, BY WHICH JONATHAN SOUGHT TO GO OVER UNTO THE
 PHILISTINES GARRISON, THERE WAS A SHARP ROCK ON THE ONE SIDE, AND A SHARP
 ROCK ON THE OTHER SIDE: AND THE NAME OF THE ONE WAS BOZEZ, AND THE NAME OF
 THE OTHER SENEH.
# 5 THE FOREFRONT OF THE ONE WAS SITUATE NORTHWARD OVER AGAINST MICHMASH, AND
 THE OTHER SOUTHWARD OVER AGAINST GIBEAH.
# 6 AND JONATHAN SAID TO THE YOUNG MAN THAT BARE HIS ARMOUR, COME, AND LET US
 GO OVER UNTO THE GARRISON OF THESE UNCIRCUMCISED: IT MAY BE THAT THE LORD
 WILL WORK FOR US: FOR THERE IS NO RESTRAINT TO THE LORD TO SAVE BY MANY OR BY
 FEW.
# 7 AND HIS ARMOURBEARER SAID UNTO HIM, DO ALL THAT IS IN THINE HEART: TURN
 THEE; BEHOLD, I AM WITH THEE ACCORDING TO THY HEART.
# 8 THEN SAID JONATHAN, BEHOLD, WE WILL PASS OVER UNTO THESE MEN, AND WE WILL
 DISCOVER OURSELVES UNTO THEM.
# 9 IF THEY SAY THUS UNTO US, TARRY UNTIL WE COME TO YOU; THEN WE WILL STAND
 STILL IN OUR PLACE, AND WILL NOT GO UP UNTO THEM.
# 10 BUT IF THEY SAY THUS, COME UP UNTO US; THEN WE WILL GO UP: FOR THE LORD
 HATH DELIVERED THEM INTO OUR HAND: AND THIS SHALL BE A SIGN UNTO US.
# 11 AND BOTH OF THEM DISCOVERED THEMSELVES UNTO THE GARRISON OF THE
 PHILISTINES: AND THE PHILISTINES SAID, BEHOLD, THE HEBREWS COME FORTH OUT OF
 THE HOLES WHERE THEY HAD HID THEMSELVES.
# 12 AND THE MEN OF THE GARRISON ANSWERED JONATHAN AND HIS ARMOURBEARER, AND
 SAID, COME UP TO US, AND WE WILL SHEW YOU A THING. AND JONATHAN SAID UNTO HIS
 ARMOURBEARER, COME UP AFTER ME: FOR THE LORD HATH DELIVERED THEM INTO THE
 HAND OF ISRAEL.
# 13 AND JONATHAN CLIMBED UP UPON HIS HANDS AND UPON HIS FEET, AND HIS
 ARMOURBEARER AFTER HIM: AND THEY FELL BEFORE JONATHAN; AND HIS ARMOURBEARER
 SLEW AFTER HIM.
# 14 AND THAT FIRST SLAUGHTER, WHICH JONATHAN AND HIS ARMOURBEARER MADE, WAS
 ABOUT TWENTY MEN, WITHIN AS IT WERE AN HALF ACRE OF LAND, WHICH A YOKE OF
 OXEN MIGHT PLOW.
# 15 AND THERE WAS TREMBLING IN THE HOST, IN THE FIELD, AND AMONG ALL THE
 PEOPLE: THE GARRISON, AND THE SPOILERS, THEY ALSO TREMBLED, AND THE EARTH
 QUAKED: SO IT WAS A VERY GREAT TREMBLING.
# 16 AND THE WATCHMEN OF SAUL IN GIBEAH OF BENJAMIN LOOKED; AND, BEHOLD, THE
 MULTITUDE MELTED AWAY, AND THEY WENT ON BEATING DOWN ONE ANOTHER.
# 17 THEN SAID SAUL UNTO THE PEOPLE THAT WERE WITH HIM, NUMBER NOW, AND SEE
 WHO IS GONE FROM US. AND WHEN THEY HAD NUMBERED, BEHOLD, JONATHAN AND HIS
 ARMOURBEARER WERE NOT THERE.
# 18 AND SAUL SAID UNTO AHIAH, BRING HITHER THE ARK OF GOD. FOR THE ARK OF
 GOD WAS AT THAT TIME WITH THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.
# 19 AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHILE SAUL TALKED UNTO THE PRIEST, THAT THE NOISE
 THAT WAS IN THE HOST OF THE PHILISTINES WENT ON AND INCREASED: AND SAUL SAID
 UNTO THE PRIEST, WITHDRAW THINE HAND.
# 20 AND SAUL AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WERE WITH HIM ASSEMBLED THEMSELVES, AND
 THEY CAME TO THE BATTLE: AND, BEHOLD, EVERY MANS SWORD WAS AGAINST HIS
 FELLOW, AND THERE WAS A VERY GREAT DISCOMFITURE.
# 21 MOREOVER THE HEBREWS THAT WERE WITH THE PHILISTINES BEFORE THAT TIME,
 WHICH WENT UP WITH THEM INTO THE CAMP FROM THE COUNTRY ROUND ABOUT, EVEN THEY
 ALSO TURNED TO BE WITH THE ISRAELITES THAT WERE WITH SAUL AND JONATHAN.
# 22 LIKEWISE ALL THE MEN OF ISRAEL WHICH HAD HID THEMSELVES IN MOUNT
 EPHRAIM, WHEN THEY HEARD THAT THE PHILISTINES FLED, EVEN THEY ALSO FOLLOWED
 HARD AFTER THEM IN THE BATTLE.
# 23 SO THE LORD SAVED ISRAEL THAT DAY: AND THE BATTLE PASSED OVER UNTO
 BETHAVEN.
# 24 AND THE MEN OF ISRAEL WERE DISTRESSED THAT DAY: FOR SAUL HAD ADJURED THE
 PEOPLE, SAYING, CURSED BE THE MAN THAT EATETH ANY FOOD UNTIL EVENING, THAT I
 MAY BE AVENGED ON MINE ENEMIES. SO NONE OF THE PEOPLE TASTED ANY FOOD.
# 25 AND ALL THEY OF THE LAND CAME TO A WOOD; AND THERE WAS HONEY UPON THE
 GROUND.
# 26 AND WHEN THE PEOPLE WERE COME INTO THE WOOD, BEHOLD, THE HONEY DROPPED;
 BUT NO MAN PUT HIS HAND TO HIS MOUTH: FOR THE PEOPLE FEARED THE OATH.
# 27 BUT JONATHAN HEARD NOT WHEN HIS FATHER CHARGED THE PEOPLE WITH THE OATH:
 WHEREFORE HE PUT FORTH THE END OF THE ROD THAT WAS IN HIS HAND, AND DIPPED IT
 IN AN HONEYCOMB, AND PUT HIS HAND TO HIS MOUTH; AND HIS EYES WERE
 ENLIGHTENED.
# 28 THEN ANSWERED ONE OF THE PEOPLE, AND SAID, THY FATHER STRAITLY CHARGED
 THE PEOPLE WITH AN OATH, SAYING, CURSED BE THE MAN THAT EATETH ANY FOOD THIS
 DAY. AND THE PEOPLE WERE FAINT.
# 29 THEN SAID JONATHAN, MY FATHER HATH TROUBLED THE LAND: SEE, I PRAY YOU,
 HOW MINE EYES HAVE BEEN ENLIGHTENED, BECAUSE I TASTED A LITTLE OF THIS HONEY.
# 30 HOW MUCH MORE, IF HAPLY THE PEOPLE HAD EATEN FREELY TO DAY OF THE SPOIL
 OF THEIR ENEMIES WHICH THEY FOUND? FOR HAD THERE NOT BEEN NOW A MUCH GREATER
 SLAUGHTER AMONG THE PHILISTINES?
# 31 AND THEY SMOTE THE PHILISTINES THAT DAY FROM MICHMASH TO AIJALON: AND
 THE PEOPLE WERE VERY FAINT.
# 32 AND THE PEOPLE FLEW UPON THE SPOIL, AND TOOK SHEEP, AND OXEN, AND
 CALVES, AND SLEW THEM ON THE GROUND: AND THE PEOPLE DID EAT THEM WITH THE
 BLOOD.
# 33 THEN THEY TOLD SAUL, SAYING, BEHOLD, THE PEOPLE SIN AGAINST THE LORD, IN
 THAT THEY EAT WITH THE BLOOD. AND HE SAID, YE HAVE TRANSGRESSED: ROLL A GREAT
 STONE UNTO ME THIS DAY.
# 34 AND SAUL SAID, DISPERSE YOURSELVES AMONG THE PEOPLE, AND SAY UNTO THEM,
 BRING ME HITHER EVERY MAN HIS OX, AND EVERY MAN HIS SHEEP, AND SLAY THEM
 HERE, AND EAT; AND SIN NOT AGAINST THE LORD IN EATING WITH THE BLOOD. AND ALL
 THE PEOPLE BROUGHT EVERY MAN HIS OX WITH HIM THAT NIGHT, AND SLEW THEM THERE.
# 35 AND SAUL BUILT AN ALTAR UNTO THE LORD: THE SAME WAS THE FIRST ALTAR THAT
 HE BUILT UNTO THE LORD.
# 36 AND SAUL SAID, LET US GO DOWN AFTER THE PHILISTINES BY NIGHT, AND SPOIL
 THEM UNTIL THE MORNING LIGHT, AND LET US NOT LEAVE A MAN OF THEM. AND THEY
 SAID, DO WHATSOEVER SEEMETH GOOD UNTO THEE. THEN SAID THE PRIEST, LET US DRAW
 NEAR HITHER UNTO GOD.
# 37 AND SAUL ASKED COUNSEL OF GOD, SHALL I GO DOWN AFTER THE PHILISTINES?
 WILT THOU DELIVER THEM INTO THE HAND OF ISRAEL? BUT HE ANSWERED HIM NOT THAT
 DAY.
# 38 AND SAUL SAID, DRAW YE NEAR HITHER, ALL THE CHIEF OF THE PEOPLE: AND
 KNOW AND SEE WHEREIN THIS SIN HATH BEEN THIS DAY.
# 39 FOR, AS THE LORD LIVETH, WHICH SAVETH ISRAEL, THOUGH IT BE IN JONATHAN
 MY SON, HE SHALL SURELY DIE. BUT THERE WAS NOT A MAN AMONG ALL THE PEOPLE
 THAT ANSWERED HIM.
# 40 THEN SAID HE UNTO ALL ISRAEL, BE YE ON ONE SIDE, AND I AND JONATHAN MY
 SON WILL BE ON THE OTHER SIDE. AND THE PEOPLE SAID UNTO SAUL, DO WHAT SEEMETH
 GOOD UNTO THEE.
# 41 THEREFORE SAUL SAID UNTO THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, GIVE A PERFECT LOT. AND
 SAUL AND JONATHAN WERE TAKEN: BUT THE PEOPLE ESCAPED.
# 42 AND SAUL SAID, CAST LOTS BETWEEN ME AND JONATHAN MY SON. AND JONATHAN
 WAS TAKEN.
# 43 THEN SAUL SAID TO JONATHAN, TELL ME WHAT THOU HAST DONE. AND JONATHAN
 TOLD HIM, AND SAID, I DID BUT TASTE A LITTLE HONEY WITH THE END OF THE ROD
 THAT WAS IN MINE HAND, AND, LO, I MUST DIE.
# 44 AND SAUL ANSWERED, GOD DO SO AND MORE ALSO: FOR THOU SHALT SURELY DIE,
 JONATHAN.
# 45 AND THE PEOPLE SAID UNTO SAUL, SHALL JONATHAN DIE, WHO HATH WROUGHT THIS
 GREAT SALVATION IN ISRAEL? GOD FORBID: AS THE LORD LIVETH, THERE SHALL NOT
 ONE HAIR OF HIS HEAD FALL TO THE GROUND; FOR HE HATH WROUGHT WITH GOD THIS
 DAY. SO THE PEOPLE RESCUED JONATHAN, THAT HE DIED NOT.
# 46 THEN SAUL WENT UP FROM FOLLOWING THE PHILISTINES: AND THE PHILISTINES
 WENT TO THEIR OWN PLACE.
# 47 SO SAUL TOOK THE KINGDOM OVER ISRAEL, AND FOUGHT AGAINST ALL HIS ENEMIES
 ON EVERY SIDE, AGAINST MOAB, AND AGAINST THE CHILDREN OF AMMON, AND AGAINST
 EDOM, AND AGAINST THE KINGS OF ZOBAH, AND AGAINST THE PHILISTINES: AND
 WHITHERSOEVER HE TURNED HIMSELF, HE VEXED THEM.
# 48 AND HE GATHERED AN HOST, AND SMOTE THE AMALEKITES, AND DELIVERED ISRAEL
 OUT OF THE HANDS OF THEM THAT SPOILED THEM.
# 49 NOW THE SONS OF SAUL WERE JONATHAN, AND ISHUI, AND MELCHISHUA: AND THE
 NAMES OF HIS TWO DAUGHTERS WERE THESE; THE NAME OF THE FIRSTBORN MERAB, AND
 THE NAME OF THE YOUNGER MICHAL:
# 50 AND THE NAME OF SAULS WIFE WAS AHINOAM, THE DAUGHTER OF AHIMAAZ: AND THE
 NAME OF THE CAPTAIN OF HIS HOST WAS ABNER, THE SON OF NER, SAULS UNCLE.
# 51 AND KISH WAS THE FATHER OF SAUL; AND NER THE FATHER OF ABNER WAS THE SON
 OF ABIEL.
# 52 AND THERE WAS SORE WAR AGAINST THE PHILISTINES ALL THE DAYS OF SAUL: AND
 WHEN SAUL SAW ANY STRONG MAN, OR ANY VALIANT MAN, HE TOOK HIM UNTO HIM.
= CHAPTER 15 
# 1 SAMUEL ALSO SAID UNTO SAUL, THE LORD SENT ME TO ANOINT THEE TO BE KING
 OVER HIS PEOPLE, OVER ISRAEL: NOW THEREFORE HEARKEN THOU UNTO THE VOICE OF
 THE WORDS OF THE LORD.
# 2 THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, I REMEMBER THAT WHICH AMALEK DID TO ISRAEL,
 HOW HE LAID WAIT FOR HIM IN THE WAY, WHEN HE CAME UP FROM EGYPT.
# 3 NOW GO AND SMITE AMALEK, AND UTTERLY DESTROY ALL THAT THEY HAVE, AND
 SPARE THEM NOT; BUT SLAY BOTH MAN AND WOMAN, INFANT AND SUCKLING, OX AND
 SHEEP, CAMEL AND ASS.
# 4 AND SAUL GATHERED THE PEOPLE TOGETHER, AND NUMBERED THEM IN TELAIM, TWO
 HUNDRED THOUSAND FOOTMEN, AND TEN THOUSAND MEN OF JUDAH.
# 5 AND SAUL CAME TO A CITY OF AMALEK, AND LAID WAIT IN THE VALLEY.
# 6 AND SAUL SAID UNTO THE KENITES, GO, DEPART, GET YOU DOWN FROM AMONG THE
 AMALEKITES, LEST I DESTROY YOU WITH THEM: FOR YE SHEWED KINDNESS TO ALL THE
 CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, WHEN THEY CAME UP OUT OF EGYPT. SO THE KENITES DEPARTED
 FROM AMONG THE AMALEKITES.
# 7 AND SAUL SMOTE THE AMALEKITES FROM HAVILAH UNTIL THOU COMEST TO SHUR,
 THAT IS OVER AGAINST EGYPT.
# 8 AND HE TOOK AGAG THE KING OF THE AMALEKITES ALIVE, AND UTTERLY DESTROYED
 ALL THE PEOPLE WITH THE EDGE OF THE SWORD.
# 9 BUT SAUL AND THE PEOPLE SPARED AGAG, AND THE BEST OF THE SHEEP, AND OF
 THE OXEN, AND OF THE FATLINGS, AND THE LAMBS, AND ALL THAT WAS GOOD, AND
 WOULD NOT UTTERLY DESTROY THEM: BUT EVERY THING THAT WAS VILE AND REFUSE,
 THAT THEY DESTROYED UTTERLY.
# 10 THEN CAME THE WORD OF THE LORD UNTO SAMUEL, SAYING,
# 11 IT REPENTETH ME THAT I HAVE SET UP SAUL TO BE KING: FOR HE IS TURNED
 BACK FROM FOLLOWING ME, AND HATH NOT PERFORMED MY COMMANDMENTS. AND IT
 GRIEVED SAMUEL; AND HE CRIED UNTO THE LORD ALL NIGHT.
# 12 AND WHEN SAMUEL ROSE EARLY TO MEET SAUL IN THE MORNING, IT WAS TOLD
 SAMUEL, SAYING, SAUL CAME TO CARMEL, AND, BEHOLD, HE SET HIM UP A PLACE, AND
 IS GONE ABOUT, AND PASSED ON, AND GONE DOWN TO GILGAL.
# 13 AND SAMUEL CAME TO SAUL: AND SAUL SAID UNTO HIM, BLESSED BE THOU OF THE
 LORD: I HAVE PERFORMED THE COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD.
# 14 AND SAMUEL SAID, WHAT MEANETH THEN THIS BLEATING OF THE SHEEP IN MINE
 EARS, AND THE LOWING OF THE OXEN WHICH I HEAR?
# 15 AND SAUL SAID, THEY HAVE BROUGHT THEM FROM THE AMALEKITES: FOR THE
 PEOPLE SPARED THE BEST OF THE SHEEP AND OF THE OXEN, TO SACRIFICE UNTO THE
 LORD THY GOD; AND THE REST WE HAVE UTTERLY DESTROYED.
# 16 THEN SAMUEL SAID UNTO SAUL, STAY, AND I WILL TELL THEE WHAT THE LORD
 HATH SAID TO ME THIS NIGHT. AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, SAY ON.
# 17 AND SAMUEL SAID, WHEN THOU WAST LITTLE IN THINE OWN SIGHT, WAST THOU NOT
 MADE THE HEAD OF THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL, AND THE LORD ANOINTED THEE KING OVER
 ISRAEL?
# 18 AND THE LORD SENT THEE ON A JOURNEY, AND SAID, GO AND UTTERLY DESTROY
 THE SINNERS THE AMALEKITES, AND FIGHT AGAINST THEM UNTIL THEY BE CONSUMED.
# 19 WHEREFORE THEN DIDST THOU NOT OBEY THE VOICE OF THE LORD, BUT DIDST FLY
 UPON THE SPOIL, AND DIDST EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD?
# 20 AND SAUL SAID UNTO SAMUEL, YEA, I HAVE OBEYED THE VOICE OF THE LORD, AND
 HAVE GONE THE WAY WHICH THE LORD SENT ME, AND HAVE BROUGHT AGAG THE KING OF
 AMALEK, AND HAVE UTTERLY DESTROYED THE AMALEKITES.
# 21 BUT THE PEOPLE TOOK OF THE SPOIL, SHEEP AND OXEN, THE CHIEF OF THE
 THINGS WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN UTTERLY DESTROYED, TO SACRIFICE UNTO THE LORD
 THY GOD IN GILGAL.
# 22 AND SAMUEL SAID, HATH THE LORD AS GREAT DELIGHT IN BURNT OFFERINGS AND
 SACRIFICES, AS IN OBEYING THE VOICE OF THE LORD? BEHOLD, TO OBEY IS BETTER
 THAN SACRIFICE, AND TO HEARKEN THAN THE FAT OF RAMS.
# 23 FOR REBELLION IS AS THE SIN OF WITCHCRAFT, AND STUBBORNNESS IS AS
 INIQUITY AND IDOLATRY. BECAUSE THOU HAST REJECTED THE WORD OF THE LORD, HE
 HATH ALSO REJECTED THEE FROM BEING KING.
# 24 AND SAUL SAID UNTO SAMUEL, I HAVE SINNED: FOR I HAVE TRANSGRESSED THE
 COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD, AND THY WORDS: BECAUSE I FEARED THE PEOPLE, AND
 OBEYED THEIR VOICE.
# 25 NOW THEREFORE, I PRAY THEE, PARDON MY SIN, AND TURN AGAIN WITH ME, THAT
 I MAY WORSHIP THE LORD.
# 26 AND SAMUEL SAID UNTO SAUL, I WILL NOT RETURN WITH THEE: FOR THOU HAST
 REJECTED THE WORD OF THE LORD, AND THE LORD HATH REJECTED THEE FROM BEING
 KING OVER ISRAEL.
# 27 AND AS SAMUEL TURNED ABOUT TO GO AWAY, HE LAID HOLD UPON THE SKIRT OF
 HIS MANTLE, AND IT RENT.
# 28 AND SAMUEL SAID UNTO HIM, THE LORD HATH RENT THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL FROM
 THEE THIS DAY, AND HATH GIVEN IT TO A NEIGHBOUR OF THINE, THAT IS BETTER THAN
 THOU.
# 29 AND ALSO THE STRENGTH OF ISRAEL WILL NOT LIE NOR REPENT: FOR HE IS NOT A
 MAN, THAT HE SHOULD REPENT.
# 30 THEN HE SAID, I HAVE SINNED: YET HONOUR ME NOW, I PRAY THEE, BEFORE THE
 ELDERS OF MY PEOPLE, AND BEFORE ISRAEL, AND TURN AGAIN WITH ME, THAT I MAY
 WORSHIP THE LORD THY GOD.
# 31 SO SAMUEL TURNED AGAIN AFTER SAUL; AND SAUL WORSHIPPED THE LORD.
# 32 THEN SAID SAMUEL, BRING YE HITHER TO ME AGAG THE KING OF THE AMALEKITES.
 AND AGAG CAME UNTO HIM DELICATELY. AND AGAG SAID, SURELY THE BITTERNESS OF
 DEATH IS PAST.
# 33 AND SAMUEL SAID, AS 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.
# 34 THEN SAMUEL WENT TO RAMAH; AND SAUL WENT UP TO HIS HOUSE TO GIBEAH OF
 SAUL.
# 35 AND SAMUEL CAME NO MORE TO SEE SAUL UNTIL THE DAY OF HIS DEATH:
 NEVERTHELESS SAMUEL MOURNED FOR SAUL: AND THE LORD REPENTED THAT HE HAD MADE
 SAUL KING OVER ISRAEL.
= CHAPTER 16 
# 1 AND THE LORD SAID UNTO SAMUEL, HOW LONG WILT THOU MOURN FOR SAUL, SEEING I
 HAVE REJECTED HIM FROM REIGNING OVER ISRAEL? FILL THINE HORN WITH OIL, AND
 GO, I WILL SEND THEE TO JESSE THE BETHLEHEMITE: FOR I HAVE PROVIDED ME A KING
 AMONG HIS SONS.
# 2 AND SAMUEL SAID, HOW CAN I GO? IF SAUL HEAR IT, HE WILL KILL ME. AND THE
 LORD SAID, TAKE AN HEIFER WITH THEE, AND SAY, I AM COME TO SACRIFICE TO THE
 LORD.
# 3 AND CALL JESSE TO THE SACRIFICE, AND I WILL SHEW THEE WHAT THOU SHALT DO:
 AND THOU SHALT ANOINT UNTO ME HIM WHOM I NAME UNTO THEE.
# 4 AND SAMUEL DID THAT WHICH THE LORD SPAKE, AND CAME TO BETHLEHEM. AND THE
 ELDERS OF THE TOWN TREMBLED AT HIS COMING, AND SAID, COMEST THOU PEACEABLY?
# 5 AND HE SAID, PEACEABLY: I AM COME TO SACRIFICE UNTO THE LORD: SANCTIFY
 YOURSELVES, AND COME WITH ME TO THE SACRIFICE. AND HE SANCTIFIED JESSE AND
 HIS SONS, AND CALLED THEM TO THE SACRIFICE.
# 6 AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THEY WERE COME, THAT HE LOOKED ON ELIAB, AND
 SAID, SURELY THE LORDS ANOINTED IS BEFORE HIM.
# 7 BUT THE LORD SAID UNTO SAMUEL, LOOK NOT ON HIS COUNTENANCE, OR ON THE
 HEIGHT OF HIS STATURE; BECAUSE I HAVE REFUSED HIM: FOR THE LORD SEETH NOT AS
 MAN SEETH; FOR MAN LOOKETH ON THE OUTWARD APPEARANCE, BUT THE LORD LOOKETH ON
 THE HEART.
# 8 THEN JESSE CALLED ABINADAB, AND MADE HIM PASS BEFORE SAMUEL. AND HE SAID,
 NEITHER HATH THE LORD CHOSEN THIS.
# 9 THEN JESSE MADE SHAMMAH TO PASS BY. AND HE SAID, NEITHER HATH THE LORD
 CHOSEN THIS.
# 10 AGAIN, JESSE MADE SEVEN OF HIS SONS TO PASS BEFORE SAMUEL. AND SAMUEL
 SAID UNTO JESSE, THE LORD HATH NOT CHOSEN THESE.
# 11 AND SAMUEL SAID UNTO JESSE, ARE HERE ALL THY CHILDREN? AND HE SAID,
 THERE REMAINETH YET THE YOUNGEST, AND, BEHOLD, HE KEEPETH THE SHEEP. AND
 SAMUEL SAID UNTO JESSE, SEND AND FETCH HIM: FOR WE WILL NOT SIT DOWN TILL HE
 COME HITHER.
# 12 AND HE SENT, AND BROUGHT HIM IN. NOW HE WAS RUDDY, AND WITHAL OF A
 BEAUTIFUL COUNTENANCE, AND GOODLY TO LOOK TO. AND THE LORD SAID, ARISE,
 ANOINT HIM: FOR THIS IS HE.
# 13 THEN SAMUEL TOOK THE HORN OF OIL, AND ANOINTED HIM IN THE MIDST OF HIS
 BRETHREN: AND THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME UPON DAVID FROM THAT DAY FORWARD.
 SO SAMUEL ROSE UP, AND WENT TO RAMAH.
# 14 BUT THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD DEPARTED FROM SAUL, AND AN EVIL SPIRIT FROM
 THE LORD TROUBLED HIM.
# 15 AND SAULS SERVANTS SAID UNTO HIM, BEHOLD NOW, AN EVIL SPIRIT FROM GOD
 TROUBLETH THEE.
# 16 LET OUR LORD NOW COMMAND THY SERVANTS, WHICH ARE BEFORE THEE, TO SEEK
 OUT A MAN, WHO IS A CUNNING PLAYER ON AN HARP: AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS,
 WHEN THE EVIL SPIRIT FROM GOD IS UPON THEE, THAT HE SHALL PLAY WITH HIS HAND,
 AND THOU SHALT BE WELL.
# 17 AND SAUL SAID UNTO HIS SERVANTS, PROVIDE ME NOW A MAN THAT CAN PLAY
 WELL, AND BRING HIM TO ME.
# 18 THEN ANSWERED ONE OF THE SERVANTS, AND SAID, BEHOLD, I HAVE SEEN A SON
 OF JESSE THE BETHLEHEMITE, THAT IS CUNNING IN PLAYING, AND A MIGHTY VALIANT
 MAN, AND A MAN OF WAR, AND PRUDENT IN MATTERS, AND A COMELY PERSON, AND THE
 LORD IS WITH HIM.
# 19 WHEREFORE SAUL SENT MESSENGERS UNTO JESSE, AND SAID, SEND ME DAVID THY
 SON, WHICH IS WITH THE SHEEP.
# 20 AND JESSE TOOK AN ASS LADEN WITH BREAD, AND A BOTTLE OF WINE, AND A KID,
 AND SENT THEM BY DAVID HIS SON UNTO SAUL.
# 21 AND DAVID CAME TO SAUL, AND STOOD BEFORE HIM: AND HE LOVED HIM GREATLY;
 AND HE BECAME HIS ARMOURBEARER.
# 22 AND SAUL SENT TO JESSE, SAYING, LET DAVID, I PRAY THEE, STAND BEFORE ME;
 FOR HE HATH FOUND FAVOUR IN MY SIGHT.
# 23 AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THE EVIL SPIRIT FROM GOD WAS UPON SAUL, THAT
 DAVID TOOK AN HARP, AND PLAYED WITH HIS HAND: SO SAUL WAS REFRESHED, AND WAS
 WELL, AND THE EVIL SPIRIT DEPARTED FROM HIM.
= CHAPTER 17 
# 1 NOW THE PHILISTINES GATHERED TOGETHER THEIR ARMIES TO BATTLE, AND WERE
 GATHERED TOGETHER AT SHOCHOH, WHICH BELONGETH TO JUDAH, AND PITCHED BETWEEN
 SHOCHOH AND AZEKAH, IN EPHESDAMMIM.
# 2 AND SAUL AND THE MEN OF ISRAEL WERE GATHERED TOGETHER, AND PITCHED BY THE
 VALLEY OF ELAH, AND SET THE BATTLE IN ARRAY AGAINST THE PHILISTINES.
# 3 AND THE PHILISTINES STOOD ON A MOUNTAIN ON THE ONE SIDE, AND ISRAEL STOOD
 ON A MOUNTAIN ON THE OTHER SIDE: AND THERE WAS A VALLEY BETWEEN THEM.
# 4 AND THERE WENT OUT A CHAMPION OUT OF THE CAMP OF THE PHILISTINES, NAMED
 GOLIATH, OF GATH, WHOSE HEIGHT WAS SIX CUBITS AND A SPAN.
# 5 AND HE HAD AN HELMET OF BRASS UPON HIS HEAD, AND HE WAS ARMED WITH A COAT
 OF MAIL; AND THE WEIGHT OF THE COAT WAS FIVE THOUSAND SHEKELS OF BRASS.
# 6 AND HE HAD GREAVES OF BRASS UPON HIS LEGS, AND A TARGET OF BRASS BETWEEN
 HIS SHOULDERS.
# 7 AND THE STAFF OF HIS SPEAR WAS LIKE A WEAVERS BEAM; AND HIS SPEARS HEAD
 WEIGHED SIX HUNDRED SHEKELS OF IRON: AND ONE BEARING A SHIELD WENT BEFORE
 HIM.
# 8 AND HE STOOD AND CRIED UNTO THE ARMIES OF ISRAEL, AND SAID UNTO THEM, WHY
 ARE YE COME OUT TO SET YOUR BATTLE IN ARRAY? AM NOT I A PHILISTINE, AND YE
 SERVANTS TO SAUL? CHOOSE YOU A MAN FOR YOU, AND LET HIM COME DOWN TO ME.
# 9 IF HE BE ABLE TO FIGHT WITH ME, AND TO KILL ME, THEN WILL WE BE YOUR
 SERVANTS: BUT IF I PREVAIL AGAINST HIM, AND KILL HIM, THEN SHALL YE BE OUR
 SERVANTS, AND SERVE US.
# 10 AND THE PHILISTINE SAID, I DEFY THE ARMIES OF ISRAEL THIS DAY; GIVE ME A
 MAN, THAT WE MAY FIGHT TOGETHER.
# 11 WHEN SAUL AND ALL ISRAEL HEARD THOSE WORDS OF THE PHILISTINE, THEY WERE
 DISMAYED, AND GREATLY AFRAID.
# 12 NOW DAVID WAS THE SON OF THAT EPHRATHITE OF BETHLEHEMJUDAH, WHOSE NAME
 WAS JESSE; AND HE HAD EIGHT SONS: AND THE MAN WENT AMONG MEN FOR AN OLD MAN
 IN THE DAYS OF SAUL.
# 13 AND THE THREE ELDEST SONS OF JESSE WENT AND FOLLOWED SAUL TO THE BATTLE:
 AND THE NAMES OF HIS THREE SONS THAT WENT TO THE BATTLE WERE ELIAB THE
 FIRSTBORN, AND NEXT UNTO HIM ABINADAB, AND THE THIRD SHAMMAH.
# 14 AND DAVID WAS THE YOUNGEST: AND THE THREE ELDEST FOLLOWED SAUL.
# 15 BUT DAVID WENT AND RETURNED FROM SAUL TO FEED HIS FATHERS SHEEP AT
 BETHLEHEM.
# 16 AND THE PHILISTINE DREW NEAR MORNING AND EVENING, AND PRESENTED HIMSELF
 FORTY DAYS.
# 17 AND JESSE SAID UNTO DAVID HIS SON, TAKE NOW FOR THY BRETHREN AN EPHAH OF
 THIS PARCHED CORN, AND THESE TEN LOAVES, AND RUN TO THE CAMP OF THY BRETHREN;
# 18 AND CARRY THESE TEN CHEESES UNTO THE CAPTAIN OF THEIR THOUSAND, AND LOOK
 HOW THY BRETHREN FARE, AND TAKE THEIR PLEDGE.
# 19 NOW SAUL, AND THEY, AND ALL THE MEN OF ISRAEL, WERE IN THE VALLEY OF
 ELAH, FIGHTING WITH THE PHILISTINES.
# 20 AND DAVID ROSE UP EARLY IN THE MORNING, AND LEFT THE SHEEP WITH A
 KEEPER, AND TOOK, AND WENT, AS JESSE HAD COMMANDED HIM; AND HE CAME TO THE
 TRENCH, AS THE HOST WAS GOING FORTH TO THE FIGHT, AND SHOUTED FOR THE BATTLE.
# 21 FOR ISRAEL AND THE PHILISTINES HAD PUT THE BATTLE IN ARRAY, ARMY AGAINST
 ARMY.
# 22 AND DAVID LEFT HIS CARRIAGE IN THE HAND OF THE KEEPER OF THE CARRIAGE,
 AND RAN INTO THE ARMY, AND CAME AND SALUTED HIS BRETHREN.
# 23 AND AS HE TALKED WITH THEM, BEHOLD, THERE CAME UP THE CHAMPION, THE
 PHILISTINE OF GATH, GOLIATH BY NAME, OUT OF THE ARMIES OF THE PHILISTINES,
 AND SPAKE ACCORDING TO THE SAME WORDS: AND DAVID HEARD THEM.
# 24 AND ALL THE MEN OF ISRAEL, WHEN THEY SAW THE MAN, FLED FROM HIM, AND
 WERE SORE AFRAID.
# 25 AND THE MEN OF ISRAEL SAID, HAVE YE SEEN THIS MAN THAT IS COME UP?
 SURELY TO DEFY ISRAEL IS HE COME UP: AND IT SHALL BE, THAT THE MAN WHO
 KILLETH HIM, THE KING WILL ENRICH HIM WITH GREAT RICHES, AND WILL GIVE HIM
 HIS DAUGHTER, AND MAKE HIS FATHERS HOUSE FREE IN ISRAEL.
# 26 AND DAVID SPAKE TO THE MEN THAT STOOD BY HIM, SAYING, WHAT SHALL BE DONE
 TO THE MAN THAT KILLETH THIS PHILISTINE, AND TAKETH AWAY THE REPROACH FROM
 ISRAEL? FOR WHO IS THIS UNCIRCUMCISED PHILISTINE, THAT HE SHOULD DEFY THE
 ARMIES OF THE LIVING GOD?
# 27 AND THE PEOPLE ANSWERED HIM AFTER THIS MANNER, SAYING, SO SHALL IT BE
 DONE TO THE MAN THAT KILLETH HIM.
# 28 AND ELIAB HIS ELDEST BROTHER HEARD WHEN HE SPAKE UNTO THE MEN; AND
 ELIABS ANGER WAS KINDLED AGAINST DAVID, AND HE SAID, WHY CAMEST THOU DOWN
 HITHER? AND WITH WHOM HAST THOU LEFT THOSE FEW SHEEP IN THE WILDERNESS? I
 KNOW THY PRIDE, AND THE NAUGHTINESS OF THINE HEART; FOR THOU ART COME DOWN
 THAT THOU MIGHTEST SEE THE BATTLE.
# 29 AND DAVID SAID, WHAT HAVE I NOW DONE? IS THERE NOT A CAUSE?
# 30 AND HE TURNED FROM HIM TOWARD ANOTHER, AND SPAKE AFTER THE SAME MANNER:
 AND THE PEOPLE ANSWERED HIM AGAIN AFTER THE FORMER MANNER.
# 31 AND WHEN THE WORDS WERE HEARD WHICH DAVID SPAKE, THEY REHEARSED THEM
 BEFORE SAUL: AND HE SENT FOR HIM.
# 32 AND DAVID SAID TO SAUL, LET NO MANS HEART FAIL BECAUSE OF HIM; THY
 SERVANT WILL GO AND FIGHT WITH THIS PHILISTINE.
# 33 AND SAUL SAID TO DAVID, THOU ART NOT ABLE TO GO AGAINST THIS PHILISTINE
 TO FIGHT WITH HIM: FOR THOU ART BUT A YOUTH, AND HE A MAN OF WAR FROM HIS
 YOUTH.
# 34 AND DAVID SAID UNTO SAUL, THY SERVANT KEPT HIS FATHERS SHEEP, AND THERE
 CAME A LION, AND A BEAR, AND TOOK A LAMB OUT OF THE FLOCK:
# 35 AND I WENT OUT AFTER HIM, AND SMOTE HIM, AND DELIVERED IT OUT OF HIS
 MOUTH: AND WHEN HE AROSE AGAINST ME, I CAUGHT HIM BY HIS BEARD, AND SMOTE
 HIM, AND SLEW HIM.
# 36 THY SERVANT SLEW BOTH THE LION AND THE BEAR: AND THIS UNCIRCUMCISED
 PHILISTINE SHALL BE AS ONE OF THEM, SEEING HE HATH DEFIED THE ARMIES OF THE
 LIVING GOD.
# 37 DAVID SAID MOREOVER, THE LORD THAT DELIVERED ME OUT OF THE PAW OF THE
 LION, AND OUT OF THE PAW OF THE BEAR, HE WILL DELIVER ME OUT OF THE HAND OF
 THIS PHILISTINE. AND SAUL SAID UNTO DAVID, GO, AND THE LORD BE WITH THEE.
# 38 AND SAUL ARMED DAVID WITH HIS ARMOUR, AND HE PUT AN HELMET OF BRASS UPON
 HIS HEAD; ALSO HE ARMED HIM WITH A COAT OF MAIL.
# 39 AND DAVID GIRDED HIS SWORD UPON HIS ARMOUR, AND HE ASSAYED TO GO; FOR HE
 HAD NOT PROVED IT. AND DAVID SAID UNTO SAUL, I CANNOT GO WITH THESE; FOR I
 HAVE NOT PROVED THEM. AND DAVID PUT THEM OFF HIM.
# 40 AND HE TOOK HIS STAFF IN HIS HAND, AND CHOSE HIM FIVE SMOOTH STONES OUT
 OF THE BROOK, AND PUT THEM IN A SHEPHERDS BAG WHICH HE HAD, EVEN IN A SCRIP;
 AND HIS SLING WAS IN HIS HAND: AND HE DREW NEAR TO THE PHILISTINE.
# 41 AND THE PHILISTINE CAME ON AND DREW NEAR UNTO DAVID; AND THE MAN THAT
 BARE THE SHIELD WENT BEFORE HIM.
# 42 AND WHEN THE PHILISTINE LOOKED ABOUT, AND SAW DAVID, HE DISDAINED HIM:
 FOR HE WAS BUT A YOUTH, AND RUDDY, AND OF A FAIR COUNTENANCE.
# 43 AND THE PHILISTINE SAID UNTO DAVID, AM I A DOG, THAT THOU COMEST TO ME
 WITH STAVES? AND THE PHILISTINE CURSED DAVID BY HIS GODS.
# 44 AND THE PHILISTINE SAID TO DAVID, COME TO ME, AND I WILL GIVE THY FLESH
 UNTO THE FOWLS OF THE AIR, AND TO THE BEASTS OF THE FIELD.
# 45 THEN SAID DAVID TO THE PHILISTINE, THOU COMEST TO ME WITH A SWORD, AND
 WITH A SPEAR, AND WITH A SHIELD: BUT I COME TO THEE IN THE NAME OF THE LORD
 OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF THE ARMIES OF ISRAEL, WHOM THOU HAST DEFIED.
# 46 THIS DAY WILL THE LORD DELIVER THEE INTO MINE HAND; AND I WILL SMITE
 THEE, AND TAKE THINE HEAD FROM THEE; AND I WILL GIVE THE CARCASES OF THE HOST
 OF THE PHILISTINES THIS DAY UNTO THE FOWLS OF THE AIR, AND TO THE WILD BEASTS
 OF THE EARTH; THAT ALL THE EARTH MAY KNOW THAT THERE IS A GOD IN ISRAEL.
# 47 AND ALL THIS ASSEMBLY SHALL KNOW THAT THE LORD SAVETH NOT WITH SWORD AND
 SPEAR: FOR THE BATTLE IS THE LORDS, AND HE WILL GIVE YOU INTO OUR HANDS.
# 48 AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THE PHILISTINE AROSE, AND CAME, AND DREW NIGH
 TO MEET DAVID, THAT DAVID HASTENED, AND RAN TOWARD THE ARMY TO MEET THE
 PHILISTINE.
# 49 AND DAVID PUT HIS HAND IN HIS BAG, AND TOOK THENCE A STONE, AND SLANG
 IT, AND SMOTE THE PHILISTINE IN HIS FOREHEAD, THAT THE STONE SUNK INTO HIS
 FOREHEAD; AND HE FELL UPON HIS FACE TO THE EARTH.
# 50 SO DAVID PREVAILED OVER THE PHILISTINE WITH A SLING AND WITH A STONE,
 AND SMOTE THE PHILISTINE, AND SLEW HIM; BUT THERE WAS NO SWORD IN THE HAND OF
 DAVID.
# 51 THEREFORE DAVID RAN, AND STOOD UPON THE PHILISTINE, AND TOOK HIS SWORD,
 AND DREW IT OUT OF THE SHEATH THEREOF, AND SLEW HIM, AND CUT OFF HIS HEAD
 THEREWITH. AND WHEN THE PHILISTINES SAW THEIR CHAMPION WAS DEAD, THEY FLED.
# 52 AND THE MEN OF ISRAEL AND OF JUDAH AROSE, AND SHOUTED, AND PURSUED THE
 PHILISTINES, UNTIL THOU COME TO THE VALLEY, AND TO THE GATES OF EKRON. AND
 THE WOUNDED OF THE PHILISTINES FELL DOWN BY THE WAY TO SHAARAIM, EVEN UNTO
 GATH, AND UNTO EKRON.
# 53 AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL RETURNED FROM CHASING AFTER THE PHILISTINES,
 AND THEY SPOILED THEIR TENTS.
# 54 AND DAVID TOOK THE HEAD OF THE PHILISTINE, AND BROUGHT IT TO JERUSALEM;
 BUT HE PUT HIS ARMOUR IN HIS TENT.
# 55 AND WHEN SAUL SAW DAVID GO FORTH AGAINST THE PHILISTINE, HE SAID UNTO
 ABNER, THE CAPTAIN OF THE HOST, ABNER, WHOSE SON IS THIS YOUTH? AND ABNER
 SAID, AS THY SOUL LIVETH, O KING, I CANNOT TELL.
# 56 AND THE KING SAID, ENQUIRE THOU WHOSE SON THE STRIPLING IS.
# 57 AND AS DAVID RETURNED FROM THE SLAUGHTER OF THE PHILISTINE, ABNER TOOK
 HIM, AND BROUGHT HIM BEFORE SAUL WITH THE HEAD OF THE PHILISTINE IN HIS HAND.
# 58 AND SAUL SAID TO HIM, WHOSE SON ART THOU, THOU YOUNG MAN? AND DAVID
 ANSWERED, I AM THE SON OF THY SERVANT JESSE THE BETHLEHEMITE.
= CHAPTER 18 
# 1 AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN HE HAD MADE AN END OF SPEAKING UNTO SAUL, THAT
 THE SOUL OF JONATHAN WAS KNIT WITH THE SOUL OF DAVID, AND JONATHAN LOVED HIM
 AS HIS OWN SOUL.
# 2 AND SAUL TOOK HIM THAT DAY, AND WOULD LET HIM GO NO MORE HOME TO HIS
 FATHERS HOUSE.
# 3 THEN JONATHAN AND DAVID MADE A COVENANT, BECAUSE HE LOVED HIM AS HIS OWN
 SOUL.
# 4 AND JONATHAN STRIPPED HIMSELF OF THE ROBE THAT WAS UPON HIM, AND GAVE IT
 TO DAVID, AND HIS GARMENTS, EVEN TO HIS SWORD, AND TO HIS BOW, AND TO HIS
 GIRDLE.
# 5 AND DAVID WENT OUT WHITHERSOEVER SAUL SENT HIM, AND BEHAVED HIMSELF
 WISELY: AND SAUL SET HIM OVER THE MEN OF WAR, AND HE WAS ACCEPTED IN THE
 SIGHT OF ALL THE PEOPLE, AND ALSO IN THE SIGHT OF SAULS SERVANTS.
# 6 AND IT CAME TO PASS AS THEY CAME, WHEN DAVID WAS RETURNED FROM THE
 SLAUGHTER OF THE PHILISTINE, THAT THE WOMEN CAME OUT OF ALL CITIES OF ISRAEL,
 SINGING AND DANCING, TO MEET KING SAUL, WITH TABRETS, WITH JOY, AND WITH
 INSTRUMENTS OF MUSICK.
# 7 AND THE WOMEN ANSWERED ONE ANOTHER AS THEY PLAYED, AND SAID, SAUL HATH
 SLAIN HIS THOUSANDS, AND DAVID HIS TEN THOUSANDS.
# 8 AND SAUL WAS VERY WROTH, AND THE SAYING DISPLEASED HIM; AND HE SAID, THEY
 HAVE ASCRIBED UNTO DAVID TEN THOUSANDS, AND TO ME THEY HAVE ASCRIBED BUT
 THOUSANDS: AND WHAT CAN HE HAVE MORE BUT THE KINGDOM?
# 9 AND SAUL EYED DAVID FROM THAT DAY AND FORWARD.
# 10 AND IT CAME TO PASS ON THE MORROW, THAT THE EVIL SPIRIT FROM GOD CAME
 UPON SAUL, AND HE PROPHESIED IN THE MIDST OF THE HOUSE: AND DAVID PLAYED WITH
 HIS HAND, AS AT OTHER TIMES: AND THERE WAS A JAVELIN IN SAULS HAND.
# 11 AND SAUL CAST THE JAVELIN; FOR HE SAID, I WILL SMITE DAVID EVEN TO THE
 WALL WITH IT. AND DAVID AVOIDED OUT OF HIS PRESENCE TWICE.
# 12 AND SAUL WAS AFRAID OF DAVID, BECAUSE THE LORD WAS WITH HIM, AND WAS
 DEPARTED FROM SAUL.
# 13 THEREFORE SAUL REMOVED HIM FROM HIM, AND MADE HIM HIS CAPTAIN OVER A
 THOUSAND; AND HE WENT OUT AND CAME IN BEFORE THE PEOPLE.
# 14 AND DAVID BEHAVED HIMSELF WISELY IN ALL HIS WAYS; AND THE LORD WAS WITH
 HIM.
# 15 WHEREFORE WHEN SAUL SAW THAT HE BEHAVED HIMSELF VERY WISELY, HE WAS
 AFRAID OF HIM.
# 16 BUT ALL ISRAEL AND JUDAH LOVED DAVID, BECAUSE HE WENT OUT AND CAME IN
 BEFORE THEM.
# 17 AND SAUL SAID TO DAVID, BEHOLD MY ELDER DAUGHTER MERAB, HER WILL I GIVE
 THEE TO WIFE: ONLY BE THOU VALIANT FOR ME, AND FIGHT THE LORDS BATTLES. FOR
 SAUL SAID, LET NOT MINE HAND BE UPON HIM, BUT LET THE HAND OF THE PHILISTINES
 BE UPON HIM.
# 18 AND DAVID SAID UNTO SAUL, WHO AM I? AND WHAT IS MY LIFE, OR MY FATHERS
 FAMILY IN ISRAEL, THAT I SHOULD BE SON IN LAW TO THE KING?
# 19 BUT IT CAME TO PASS AT THE TIME WHEN MERAB SAULS DAUGHTER SHOULD HAVE
 BEEN GIVEN TO DAVID, THAT SHE WAS GIVEN UNTO ADRIEL THE MEHOLATHITE TO WIFE.
# 20 AND MICHAL SAULS DAUGHTER LOVED DAVID: AND THEY TOLD SAUL, AND THE THING
 PLEASED HIM.
# 21 AND SAUL SAID, I WILL GIVE HIM HER, THAT SHE MAY BE A SNARE TO HIM, AND
 THAT THE HAND OF THE PHILISTINES MAY BE AGAINST HIM. WHEREFORE SAUL SAID TO
 DAVID, THOU SHALT THIS DAY BE MY SON IN LAW IN THE ONE OF THE TWAIN.
# 22 AND SAUL COMMANDED HIS SERVANTS, SAYING, COMMUNE WITH DAVID SECRETLY,
 AND SAY, BEHOLD, THE KING HATH DELIGHT IN THEE, AND ALL HIS SERVANTS LOVE
 THEE: NOW THEREFORE BE THE KINGS SON IN LAW.
# 23 AND SAULS SERVANTS SPAKE THOSE WORDS IN THE EARS OF DAVID. AND DAVID
 SAID, SEEMETH IT TO YOU A LIGHT THING TO BE A KINGS SON IN LAW, SEEING THAT I
 AM A POOR MAN, AND LIGHTLY ESTEEMED?
# 24 AND THE SERVANTS OF SAUL TOLD HIM, SAYING, ON THIS MANNER SPAKE DAVID.
# 25 AND SAUL SAID, THUS SHALL YE SAY TO DAVID, THE KING DESIRETH NOT ANY
 DOWRY, BUT AN HUNDRED FORESKINS OF THE PHILISTINES, TO BE AVENGED OF THE
 KINGS ENEMIES. BUT SAUL THOUGHT TO MAKE DAVID FALL BY THE HAND OF THE
 PHILISTINES.
# 26 AND WHEN HIS SERVANTS TOLD DAVID THESE WORDS, IT PLEASED DAVID WELL TO
 BE THE KINGS SON IN LAW: AND THE DAYS WERE NOT EXPIRED.
# 27 WHEREFORE DAVID AROSE AND WENT, HE AND HIS MEN, AND SLEW OF THE
 PHILISTINES TWO HUNDRED MEN; AND DAVID BROUGHT THEIR FORESKINS, AND THEY GAVE
 THEM IN FULL TALE TO THE KING, THAT HE MIGHT BE THE KINGS SON IN LAW. AND
 SAUL GAVE HIM MICHAL HIS DAUGHTER TO WIFE.
# 28 AND SAUL SAW AND KNEW THAT THE LORD WAS WITH DAVID, AND THAT MICHAL
 SAULS DAUGHTER LOVED HIM.
# 29 AND SAUL WAS YET THE MORE AFRAID OF DAVID; AND SAUL BECAME DAVIDS ENEMY
 CONTINUALLY.
# 30 THEN THE PRINCES OF THE PHILISTINES WENT FORTH: AND IT CAME TO PASS,
 AFTER THEY WENT FORTH, THAT DAVID BEHAVED HIMSELF MORE WISELY THAN ALL THE
 SERVANTS OF SAUL; SO THAT HIS NAME WAS MUCH SET BY.
= CHAPTER 19 
# 1 AND SAUL SPAKE TO JONATHAN HIS SON, AND TO ALL HIS SERVANTS, THAT THEY
 SHOULD KILL DAVID.
# 2 BUT JONATHAN SAULS SON DELIGHTED MUCH IN DAVID: AND JONATHAN TOLD DAVID,
 SAYING, SAUL MY FATHER SEEKETH TO KILL THEE: NOW THEREFORE, I PRAY THEE, TAKE
 HEED TO THYSELF UNTIL THE MORNING, AND ABIDE IN A SECRET PLACE, AND HIDE
 THYSELF:
# 3 AND I WILL GO OUT AND STAND BESIDE MY FATHER IN THE FIELD WHERE THOU ART,
 AND I WILL COMMUNE WITH MY FATHER OF THEE; AND WHAT I SEE, THAT I WILL TELL
 THEE.
# 4 AND JONATHAN SPAKE GOOD OF DAVID UNTO SAUL HIS FATHER, AND SAID UNTO HIM,
 LET NOT THE KING SIN AGAINST HIS SERVANT, AGAINST DAVID; BECAUSE HE HATH NOT
 SINNED AGAINST THEE, AND BECAUSE HIS WORKS HAVE BEEN TO THEE-WARD VERY GOOD:
# 5 FOR HE DID PUT HIS LIFE IN HIS HAND, AND SLEW THE PHILISTINE, AND THE
 LORD WROUGHT A GREAT SALVATION FOR ALL ISRAEL: THOU SAWEST IT, AND DIDST
 REJOICE: WHEREFORE THEN WILT THOU SIN AGAINST INNOCENT BLOOD, TO SLAY DAVID
 WITHOUT A CAUSE?
# 6 AND SAUL HEARKENED UNTO THE VOICE OF JONATHAN: AND SAUL SWARE, AS THE
 LORD LIVETH, HE SHALL NOT BE SLAIN.
# 7 AND JONATHAN CALLED DAVID, AND JONATHAN SHEWED HIM ALL THOSE THINGS. AND
 JONATHAN BROUGHT DAVID TO SAUL, AND HE WAS IN HIS PRESENCE, AS IN TIMES PAST.
# 8 AND THERE WAS WAR AGAIN: AND DAVID WENT OUT, AND FOUGHT WITH THE
 PHILISTINES, AND SLEW THEM WITH A GREAT SLAUGHTER; AND THEY FLED FROM HIM.
# 9 AND THE EVIL SPIRIT FROM THE LORD WAS UPON SAUL, AS HE SAT IN HIS HOUSE
 WITH HIS JAVELIN IN HIS HAND: AND DAVID PLAYED WITH HIS HAND.
# 10 AND SAUL SOUGHT TO SMITE DAVID EVEN TO THE WALL WITH THE JAVELIN: BUT HE
 SLIPPED AWAY OUT OF SAULS PRESENCE, AND HE SMOTE THE JAVELIN INTO THE WALL:
 AND DAVID FLED, AND ESCAPED THAT NIGHT.
# 11 SAUL ALSO SENT MESSENGERS UNTO DAVIDS HOUSE, TO WATCH HIM, AND TO SLAY
 HIM IN THE MORNING: AND MICHAL DAVIDS WIFE TOLD HIM, SAYING, IF THOU SAVE NOT
 THY LIFE TO NIGHT, TO MORROW THOU SHALT BE SLAIN.
# 12 SO MICHAL LET DAVID DOWN THROUGH A WINDOW: AND HE WENT, AND FLED, AND
 ESCAPED.
# 13 AND MICHAL TOOK AN IMAGE, AND LAID IT IN THE BED, AND PUT A PILLOW OF
 GOATS HAIR FOR HIS BOLSTER, AND COVERED IT WITH A CLOTH.
# 14 AND WHEN SAUL SENT MESSENGERS TO TAKE DAVID, SHE SAID, HE IS SICK.
# 15 AND SAUL SENT THE MESSENGERS AGAIN TO SEE DAVID, SAYING, BRING HIM UP TO
 ME IN THE BED, THAT I MAY SLAY HIM.
# 16 AND WHEN THE MESSENGERS WERE COME IN, BEHOLD, THERE WAS AN IMAGE IN THE
 BED, WITH A PILLOW OF GOATS HAIR FOR HIS BOLSTER.
# 17 AND SAUL SAID UNTO MICHAL, WHY HAST THOU DECEIVED ME SO, AND SENT AWAY
 MINE ENEMY, THAT HE IS ESCAPED? AND MICHAL ANSWERED SAUL, HE SAID UNTO ME,
 LET ME GO; WHY SHOULD I KILL THEE?
# 18 SO DAVID FLED, AND ESCAPED, AND CAME TO SAMUEL TO RAMAH, AND TOLD HIM
 ALL THAT SAUL HAD DONE TO HIM. AND HE AND SAMUEL WENT AND DWELT IN NAIOTH.
# 19 AND IT WAS TOLD SAUL, SAYING, BEHOLD, DAVID IS AT NAIOTH IN RAMAH.
# 20 AND SAUL SENT MESSENGERS TO TAKE DAVID: AND WHEN THEY SAW THE COMPANY OF
 THE PROPHETS PROPHESYING, AND SAMUEL STANDING AS APPOINTED OVER THEM, THE
 SPIRIT OF GOD WAS UPON THE MESSENGERS OF SAUL, AND THEY ALSO PROPHESIED.
# 21 AND WHEN IT WAS TOLD SAUL, HE SENT OTHER MESSENGERS, AND THEY PROPHESIED
 LIKEWISE. AND SAUL SENT MESSENGERS AGAIN THE THIRD TIME, AND THEY PROPHESIED
 ALSO.
# 22 THEN WENT HE ALSO TO RAMAH, AND CAME TO A GREAT WELL THAT IS IN SECHU:
 AND HE ASKED AND SAID, WHERE ARE SAMUEL AND DAVID? AND ONE SAID, BEHOLD, THEY
 BE AT NAIOTH IN RAMAH.
# 23 AND HE WENT THITHER TO NAIOTH IN RAMAH: AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD WAS UPON
 HIM ALSO, AND HE WENT ON, AND PROPHESIED, UNTIL HE CAME TO NAIOTH IN RAMAH.
# 24 AND HE STRIPPED OFF HIS CLOTHES ALSO, AND PROPHESIED BEFORE SAMUEL IN
 LIKE MANNER, AND LAY DOWN NAKED ALL THAT DAY AND ALL THAT NIGHT. WHEREFORE
 THEY SAY, IS SAUL ALSO AMONG THE PROPHETS?
= CHAPTER 20 
# 1 AND DAVID FLED FROM NAIOTH IN RAMAH, AND CAME AND SAID BEFORE JONATHAN,
 WHAT HAVE I DONE? WHAT IS MINE INIQUITY? AND WHAT IS MY SIN BEFORE THY
 FATHER, THAT HE SEEKETH MY LIFE?
# 2 AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, GOD FORBID; THOU SHALT NOT DIE: BEHOLD, MY FATHER
 WILL DO NOTHING EITHER GREAT OR SMALL, BUT THAT HE WILL SHEW IT ME: AND WHY
 SHOULD MY FATHER HIDE THIS THING FROM ME? IT IS NOT SO.
# 3 AND DAVID SWARE MOREOVER, AND SAID, THY FATHER CERTAINLY KNOWETH THAT I
 HAVE FOUND GRACE IN THINE EYES; AND HE SAITH, LET NOT JONATHAN KNOW THIS,
 LEST HE BE GRIEVED: BUT TRULY AS THE LORD LIVETH, AND AS THY SOUL LIVETH,
 THERE IS BUT A STEP BETWEEN ME AND DEATH.
# 4 THEN SAID JONATHAN UNTO DAVID, WHATSOEVER THY SOUL DESIRETH, I WILL EVEN
 DO IT FOR THEE.
# 5 AND DAVID SAID UNTO JONATHAN, BEHOLD, TO MORROW IS THE NEW MOON, AND I
 SHOULD NOT FAIL TO SIT WITH THE KING AT MEAT: BUT LET ME GO, THAT I MAY HIDE
 MYSELF IN THE FIELD UNTO THE THIRD DAY AT EVEN.
# 6 IF THY FATHER AT ALL MISS ME, THEN SAY, DAVID EARNESTLY ASKED LEAVE OF ME
 THAT HE MIGHT RUN TO BETHLEHEM HIS CITY: FOR THERE IS A YEARLY SACRIFICE
 THERE FOR ALL THE FAMILY.
# 7 IF HE SAY THUS, IT IS WELL; THY SERVANT SHALL HAVE PEACE: BUT IF HE BE
 VERY WROTH, THEN BE SURE THAT EVIL IS DETERMINED BY HIM.
# 8 THEREFORE THOU SHALT DEAL KINDLY WITH THY SERVANT; FOR THOU HAST BROUGHT
 THY SERVANT INTO A COVENANT OF THE LORD WITH THEE: NOTWITHSTANDING, IF THERE
 BE IN ME INIQUITY, SLAY ME THYSELF; FOR WHY SHOULDEST THOU BRING ME TO THY
 FATHER?
# 9 AND JONATHAN SAID, FAR BE IT FROM THEE: FOR IF I KNEW CERTAINLY THAT EVIL
 WERE DETERMINED BY MY FATHER TO COME UPON THEE, THEN WOULD NOT I TELL IT
 THEE?
# 10 THEN SAID DAVID TO JONATHAN, WHO SHALL TELL ME? OR WHAT IF THY FATHER
 ANSWER THEE ROUGHLY?
# 11 AND JONATHAN SAID UNTO DAVID, COME, AND LET US GO OUT INTO THE FIELD.
 AND THEY WENT OUT BOTH OF THEM INTO THE FIELD.
# 12 AND JONATHAN SAID UNTO DAVID, O LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, WHEN I HAVE SOUNDED
 MY FATHER ABOUT TO MORROW ANY TIME, OR THE THIRD DAY, AND, BEHOLD, IF THERE
 BE GOOD TOWARD DAVID, AND I THEN SEND NOT UNTO THEE, AND SHEW IT THEE;
# 13 THE LORD DO SO AND MUCH MORE TO JONATHAN: BUT IF IT PLEASE MY FATHER TO
 DO THEE EVIL, THEN I WILL SHEW IT THEE, AND SEND THEE AWAY, THAT THOU MAYEST
 GO IN PEACE: AND THE LORD BE WITH THEE, AS HE HATH BEEN WITH MY FATHER.
# 14 AND THOU SHALT NOT ONLY WHILE YET I LIVE SHEW ME THE KINDNESS OF THE
 LORD, THAT I DIE NOT:
# 15 BUT ALSO THOU SHALT NOT CUT OFF THY KINDNESS FROM MY HOUSE FOR EVER: NO,
 NOT WHEN THE LORD HATH CUT OFF THE ENEMIES OF DAVID EVERY ONE FROM THE FACE
 OF THE EARTH.
# 16 SO JONATHAN MADE A COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE OF DAVID, SAYING, LET THE
 LORD EVEN REQUIRE IT AT THE HAND OF DAVIDS ENEMIES.
# 17 AND JONATHAN CAUSED DAVID TO SWEAR AGAIN, BECAUSE HE LOVED HIM: FOR HE
 LOVED HIM AS HE LOVED HIS OWN SOUL.
# 18 THEN JONATHAN SAID TO DAVID, TO MORROW IS THE NEW MOON: AND THOU SHALT
 BE MISSED, BECAUSE THY SEAT WILL BE EMPTY.
# 19 AND WHEN THOU HAST STAYED THREE DAYS, THEN THOU SHALT GO DOWN QUICKLY,
 AND COME TO THE PLACE WHERE THOU DIDST HIDE THYSELF WHEN THE BUSINESS WAS IN
 HAND, AND SHALT REMAIN BY THE STONE EZEL.
# 20 AND I WILL SHOOT THREE ARROWS ON THE SIDE THEREOF, AS THOUGH I SHOT AT A
 MARK.
# 21 AND, BEHOLD, I WILL SEND A LAD, SAYING, GO, FIND OUT THE ARROWS. IF I
 EXPRESSLY SAY UNTO THE LAD, BEHOLD, THE ARROWS ARE ON THIS SIDE OF THEE, TAKE
 THEM; THEN COME THOU: FOR THERE IS PEACE TO THEE, AND NO HURT; AS THE LORD
 LIVETH.
# 22 BUT IF I SAY THUS UNTO THE YOUNG MAN, BEHOLD, THE ARROWS ARE BEYOND
 THEE; GO THY WAY: FOR THE LORD HATH SENT THEE AWAY.
# 23 AND AS TOUCHING THE MATTER WHICH THOU AND I HAVE SPOKEN OF, BEHOLD, THE
 LORD BE BETWEEN THEE AND ME FOR EVER.
# 24 SO DAVID HID HIMSELF IN THE FIELD: AND WHEN THE NEW MOON WAS COME, THE
 KING SAT HIM DOWN TO EAT MEAT.
# 25 AND THE KING SAT UPON HIS SEAT, AS AT OTHER TIMES, EVEN UPON A SEAT BY
 THE WALL: AND JONATHAN AROSE, AND ABNER SAT BY SAULS SIDE, AND DAVIDS PLACE
 WAS EMPTY.
# 26 NEVERTHELESS SAUL SPAKE NOT ANY THING THAT DAY: FOR HE THOUGHT,
 SOMETHING HATH BEFALLEN HIM, HE IS NOT CLEAN; SURELY HE IS NOT CLEAN.
# 27 AND IT CAME TO PASS ON THE MORROW, WHICH WAS THE SECOND DAY OF THE
 MONTH, THAT DAVIDS PLACE WAS EMPTY: AND SAUL SAID UNTO JONATHAN HIS SON,
 WHEREFORE COMETH NOT THE SON OF JESSE TO MEAT, NEITHER YESTERDAY, NOR TO DAY?
# 28 AND JONATHAN ANSWERED SAUL, DAVID EARNESTLY ASKED LEAVE OF ME TO GO TO
 BETHLEHEM:
# 29 AND HE SAID, LET ME GO, I PRAY THEE; FOR OUR FAMILY HATH A SACRIFICE IN
 THE CITY; AND MY BROTHER, HE HATH COMMANDED ME TO BE THERE: AND NOW, IF I
 HAVE FOUND FAVOUR IN THINE EYES, LET ME GET AWAY, I PRAY THEE, AND SEE MY
 BRETHREN. THEREFORE HE COMETH NOT UNTO THE KINGS TABLE.
# 30 THEN SAULS 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
 MOTHERS NAKEDNESS?
# 31 FOR AS LONG AS THE SON OF JESSE LIVETH UPON THE GROUND, THOU SHALT NOT
 BE ESTABLISHED, NOR THY KINGDOM. WHEREFORE NOW SEND AND FETCH HIM UNTO ME,
 FOR HE SHALL SURELY DIE.
# 32 AND JONATHAN ANSWERED SAUL HIS FATHER, AND SAID UNTO HIM, WHEREFORE
 SHALL HE BE SLAIN? WHAT HATH HE DONE?
# 33 AND SAUL CAST A JAVELIN AT HIM TO SMITE HIM: WHEREBY JONATHAN KNEW THAT
 IT WAS DETERMINED OF HIS FATHER TO SLAY DAVID.
# 34 SO JONATHAN AROSE FROM THE TABLE IN FIERCE ANGER, AND DID EAT NO MEAT
 THE SECOND DAY OF THE MONTH: FOR HE WAS GRIEVED FOR DAVID, BECAUSE HIS FATHER
 HAD DONE HIM SHAME.
# 35 AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THE MORNING, THAT JONATHAN WENT OUT INTO THE
 FIELD AT THE TIME APPOINTED WITH DAVID, AND A LITTLE LAD WITH HIM.
# 36 AND HE SAID UNTO HIS LAD, RUN, FIND OUT NOW THE ARROWS WHICH I SHOOT.
 AND AS THE LAD RAN, HE SHOT AN ARROW BEYOND HIM.
# 37 AND WHEN THE LAD WAS COME TO THE PLACE OF THE ARROW WHICH JONATHAN HAD
 SHOT, JONATHAN CRIED AFTER THE LAD, AND SAID, IS NOT THE ARROW BEYOND THEE?
# 38 AND JONATHAN CRIED AFTER THE LAD, MAKE SPEED, HASTE, STAY NOT. AND
 JONATHANS LAD GATHERED UP THE ARROWS, AND CAME TO HIS MASTER.
# 39 BUT THE LAD KNEW NOT ANY THING: ONLY JONATHAN AND DAVID KNEW THE MATTER.
# 40 AND JONATHAN GAVE HIS ARTILLERY UNTO HIS LAD, AND SAID UNTO HIM, GO,
 CARRY THEM TO THE CITY.
# 41 AND AS SOON AS THE LAD WAS GONE, DAVID AROSE OUT OF A PLACE TOWARD THE
 SOUTH, AND FELL ON HIS FACE TO THE GROUND, AND BOWED HIMSELF THREE TIMES: AND
 THEY KISSED ONE ANOTHER, AND WEPT ONE WITH ANOTHER, UNTIL DAVID EXCEEDED.
# 42 AND JONATHAN SAID TO DAVID, GO IN PEACE, FORASMUCH AS WE HAVE SWORN BOTH
 OF US IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, SAYING, THE LORD BE BETWEEN ME AND THEE, AND
 BETWEEN MY SEED AND THY SEED FOR EVER. AND HE AROSE AND DEPARTED: AND
 JONATHAN WENT INTO THE CITY.
= CHAPTER 21 
# 1 THEN CAME DAVID TO NOB TO AHIMELECH THE PRIEST: AND AHIMELECH WAS AFRAID
 AT THE MEETING OF DAVID, AND SAID UNTO HIM, WHY ART THOU ALONE, AND NO MAN
 WITH THEE?
# 2 AND DAVID SAID UNTO AHIMELECH THE PRIEST, THE KING HATH COMMANDED ME A
 BUSINESS, AND HATH SAID UNTO ME, LET NO MAN KNOW ANY THING OF THE BUSINESS
 WHEREABOUT I SEND THEE, AND WHAT I HAVE COMMANDED THEE: AND I HAVE APPOINTED
 MY SERVANTS TO SUCH AND SUCH A PLACE.
# 3 NOW THEREFORE WHAT IS UNDER THINE HAND? GIVE ME FIVE LOAVES OF BREAD IN
 MINE HAND, OR WHAT THERE IS PRESENT.
# 4 AND THE PRIEST ANSWERED DAVID, AND SAID, THERE IS NO COMMON BREAD UNDER
 MINE HAND, BUT THERE IS HALLOWED BREAD; IF THE YOUNG MEN HAVE KEPT THEMSELVES
 AT LEAST FROM WOMEN.
# 5 AND DAVID ANSWERED THE PRIEST, AND SAID UNTO HIM, OF A TRUTH WOMEN HAVE
 BEEN KEPT FROM US ABOUT THESE THREE DAYS, SINCE I CAME OUT, AND THE VESSELS
 OF THE YOUNG MEN ARE HOLY, AND THE BREAD IS IN A MANNER COMMON, YEA, THOUGH
 IT WERE SANCTIFIED THIS DAY IN THE VESSEL.
# 6 SO THE PRIEST GAVE HIM HALLOWED BREAD: FOR THERE WAS NO BREAD THERE BUT
 THE SHEWBREAD, THAT WAS TAKEN FROM BEFORE THE LORD, TO PUT HOT BREAD IN THE
 DAY WHEN IT WAS TAKEN AWAY.
# 7 NOW A CERTAIN MAN OF THE SERVANTS OF SAUL WAS THERE THAT DAY, DETAINED
 BEFORE THE LORD; AND HIS NAME WAS DOEG, AN EDOMITE, THE CHIEFEST OF THE
 HERDMEN THAT BELONGED TO SAUL.
# 8 AND DAVID SAID UNTO AHIMELECH, AND IS THERE NOT HERE UNDER THINE HAND
 SPEAR OR SWORD? FOR I HAVE NEITHER BROUGHT MY SWORD NOR MY WEAPONS WITH ME,
 BECAUSE THE KINGS BUSINESS REQUIRED HASTE.
# 9 AND THE PRIEST SAID, THE SWORD OF GOLIATH THE PHILISTINE, WHOM THOU
 SLEWEST IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH, BEHOLD, IT IS HERE WRAPPED IN A CLOTH BEHIND
 THE EPHOD: IF THOU WILT TAKE THAT, TAKE IT: FOR THERE IS NO OTHER SAVE THAT
 HERE. AND DAVID SAID, THERE IS NONE LIKE THAT; GIVE IT ME.
# 10 AND DAVID AROSE AND FLED THAT DAY FOR FEAR OF SAUL, AND WENT TO ACHISH
 THE KING OF GATH.
# 11 AND THE SERVANTS OF ACHISH SAID UNTO HIM, IS NOT THIS DAVID THE KING OF
 THE LAND? DID THEY NOT SING ONE TO ANOTHER OF HIM IN DANCES, SAYING, SAUL
 HATH SLAIN HIS THOUSANDS, AND DAVID HIS TEN THOUSANDS?
# 12 AND DAVID LAID UP THESE WORDS IN HIS HEART, AND WAS SORE AFRAID OF
 ACHISH THE KING OF GATH.
# 13 AND HE CHANGED HIS BEHAVIOUR BEFORE THEM, AND FEIGNED HIMSELF MAD IN
 THEIR HANDS, AND SCRABBLED ON THE DOORS OF THE GATE, AND LET HIS SPITTLE FALL
 DOWN UPON HIS BEARD.
# 14 THEN SAID ACHISH UNTO HIS SERVANTS, LO, YE SEE THE MAN IS MAD: WHEREFORE
 THEN HAVE YE BROUGHT HIM TO ME?
# 15 HAVE I NEED OF MAD MEN, THAT YE HAVE BROUGHT THIS FELLOW TO PLAY THE MAD
 MAN IN MY PRESENCE? SHALL THIS FELLOW COME INTO MY HOUSE?
= CHAPTER 22 
# 1 DAVID THEREFORE DEPARTED THENCE, AND ESCAPED TO THE CAVE ADULLAM: AND WHEN
 HIS BRETHREN AND ALL HIS FATHERS HOUSE HEARD IT, THEY WENT DOWN THITHER TO
 HIM.
# 2 AND EVERY ONE THAT WAS IN DISTRESS, AND EVERY ONE THAT WAS IN DEBT, AND
 EVERY ONE THAT WAS DISCONTENTED, GATHERED THEMSELVES UNTO HIM; AND HE BECAME
 A CAPTAIN OVER THEM: AND THERE WERE WITH HIM ABOUT FOUR HUNDRED MEN.
# 3 AND DAVID WENT THENCE TO MIZPEH OF MOAB: AND HE SAID UNTO THE KING OF
 MOAB, LET MY FATHER AND MY MOTHER, I PRAY THEE, COME FORTH, AND BE WITH YOU,
 TILL I KNOW WHAT GOD WILL DO FOR ME.
# 4 AND HE BROUGHT THEM BEFORE THE KING OF MOAB: AND THEY DWELT WITH HIM ALL
 THE WHILE THAT DAVID WAS IN THE HOLD.
# 5 AND THE PROPHET GAD SAID UNTO DAVID, ABIDE NOT IN THE HOLD; DEPART, AND
 GET THEE INTO THE LAND OF JUDAH. THEN DAVID DEPARTED, AND CAME INTO THE
 FOREST OF HARETH.
# 6 WHEN SAUL HEARD THAT DAVID WAS DISCOVERED, AND THE MEN THAT WERE WITH
 HIM, (NOW SAUL ABODE IN GIBEAH UNDER A TREE IN RAMAH, HAVING HIS SPEAR IN HIS
 HAND, AND ALL HIS SERVANTS WERE STANDING ABOUT HIM;)
# 7 THEN SAUL SAID UNTO HIS SERVANTS THAT STOOD ABOUT HIM, HEAR NOW, YE
 BENJAMITES; WILL THE SON OF JESSE GIVE EVERY ONE OF YOU FIELDS AND VINEYARDS,
 AND MAKE YOU ALL CAPTAINS OF THOUSANDS, AND CAPTAINS OF HUNDREDS;
# 8 THAT ALL OF YOU HAVE CONSPIRED AGAINST ME, AND THERE IS NONE THAT SHEWETH
 ME THAT MY SON HATH MADE A LEAGUE WITH THE SON OF JESSE, AND THERE IS NONE OF
 YOU THAT IS SORRY FOR ME, OR SHEWETH UNTO ME THAT MY SON HATH STIRRED UP MY
 SERVANT AGAINST ME, TO LIE IN WAIT, AS AT THIS DAY?
# 9 THEN ANSWERED DOEG THE EDOMITE, WHICH WAS SET OVER THE SERVANTS OF SAUL,
 AND SAID, I SAW THE SON OF JESSE COMING TO NOB, TO AHIMELECH THE SON OF
 AHITUB.
# 10 AND HE ENQUIRED OF THE LORD FOR HIM, AND GAVE HIM VICTUALS, AND GAVE HIM
 THE SWORD OF GOLIATH THE PHILISTINE.
# 11 THEN THE KING SENT TO CALL AHIMELECH THE PRIEST, THE SON OF AHITUB, AND
 ALL HIS FATHERS HOUSE, THE PRIESTS THAT WERE IN NOB: AND THEY CAME ALL OF
 THEM TO THE KING.
# 12 AND SAUL SAID, HEAR NOW, THOU SON OF AHITUB. AND HE ANSWERED, HERE I AM,
 MY LORD.
# 13 AND SAUL SAID UNTO HIM, WHY HAVE YE CONSPIRED AGAINST ME, THOU AND THE
 SON OF JESSE, IN THAT THOU HAST GIVEN HIM BREAD, AND A SWORD, AND HAST
 ENQUIRED OF GOD FOR HIM, THAT HE SHOULD RISE AGAINST ME, TO LIE IN WAIT, AS
 AT THIS DAY?
# 14 THEN AHIMELECH ANSWERED THE KING, AND SAID, AND WHO IS SO FAITHFUL AMONG
 ALL THY SERVANTS AS DAVID, WHICH IS THE KINGS SON IN LAW, AND GOETH AT THY
 BIDDING, AND IS HONOURABLE IN THINE HOUSE?
# 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 KNEW NOTHING OF ALL THIS, LESS OR MORE.
# 16 AND THE KING SAID, THOU SHALT SURELY DIE, AHIMELECH, THOU, AND ALL THY
 FATHERS HOUSE.
# 17 AND THE KING SAID UNTO THE FOOTMEN THAT STOOD ABOUT HIM, TURN, AND SLAY
 THE PRIESTS OF THE LORD: BECAUSE THEIR HAND ALSO IS WITH DAVID, AND BECAUSE
 THEY KNEW WHEN HE FLED, AND DID NOT SHEW IT TO ME. BUT THE SERVANTS OF THE
 KING WOULD NOT PUT FORTH THEIR HAND TO FALL UPON THE PRIESTS OF THE LORD.
# 18 AND THE KING SAID TO DOEG, TURN THOU, AND FALL UPON THE PRIESTS. AND
 DOEG THE EDOMITE TURNED, AND HE FELL UPON THE PRIESTS, AND SLEW ON THAT DAY
 FOURSCORE AND FIVE PERSONS THAT DID WEAR A LINEN EPHOD.
# 19 AND NOB, THE CITY OF THE PRIESTS, SMOTE HE WITH THE EDGE OF THE SWORD,
 BOTH MEN AND WOMEN, CHILDREN AND SUCKLINGS, AND OXEN, AND ASSES, AND SHEEP,
 WITH THE EDGE OF THE SWORD.
# 20 AND ONE OF THE SONS OF AHIMELECH THE SON OF AHITUB, NAMED ABIATHAR,
 ESCAPED, AND FLED AFTER DAVID.
# 21 AND ABIATHAR SHEWED DAVID THAT SAUL HAD SLAIN THE LORDS PRIESTS.
# 22 AND DAVID SAID UNTO ABIATHAR, I KNEW IT THAT DAY, WHEN DOEG THE EDOMITE
 WAS THERE, THAT HE WOULD SURELY TELL SAUL: I HAVE OCCASIONED THE DEATH OF ALL
 THE PERSONS OF THY FATHERS HOUSE.
# 23 ABIDE THOU WITH ME, FEAR NOT: FOR HE THAT SEEKETH MY LIFE SEEKETH THY
 LIFE: BUT WITH ME THOU SHALT BE IN SAFEGUARD.
= CHAPTER 23 
# 1 THEN THEY TOLD DAVID, SAYING, BEHOLD, THE PHILISTINES FIGHT AGAINST
 KEILAH, AND THEY ROB THE THRESHINGFLOORS.
# 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.
# 3 AND DAVIDS MEN SAID UNTO HIM, BEHOLD, WE BE AFRAID HERE IN JUDAH: HOW
 MUCH MORE THEN IF WE COME TO KEILAH AGAINST THE ARMIES OF THE PHILISTINES?
# 4 THEN DAVID ENQUIRED OF THE LORD YET AGAIN. AND THE LORD ANSWERED HIM AND
 SAID, ARISE, GO DOWN TO KEILAH; FOR I WILL DELIVER THE PHILISTINES INTO THINE
 HAND.
# 5 SO DAVID AND HIS MEN WENT TO KEILAH, AND FOUGHT WITH THE PHILISTINES, AND
 BROUGHT AWAY THEIR CATTLE, AND SMOTE THEM WITH A GREAT SLAUGHTER. SO DAVID
 SAVED THE INHABITANTS OF KEILAH.
# 6 AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN ABIATHAR THE SON OF AHIMELECH FLED TO DAVID TO
 KEILAH, THAT HE CAME DOWN WITH AN EPHOD IN HIS HAND.
# 7 AND IT WAS TOLD SAUL THAT DAVID WAS COME TO KEILAH. AND SAUL SAID, GOD
 HATH DELIVERED HIM INTO MINE HAND; FOR HE IS SHUT IN, BY ENTERING INTO A TOWN
 THAT HATH GATES AND BARS.
# 8 AND SAUL CALLED ALL THE PEOPLE TOGETHER TO WAR, TO GO DOWN TO KEILAH, TO
 BESIEGE DAVID AND HIS MEN.
# 9 AND DAVID KNEW THAT SAUL SECRETLY PRACTISED MISCHIEF AGAINST HIM; AND HE
 SAID TO ABIATHAR THE PRIEST, BRING HITHER THE EPHOD.
# 10 THEN SAID DAVID, O LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, THY SERVANT HATH CERTAINLY HEARD
 THAT SAUL SEEKETH TO COME TO KEILAH, TO DESTROY THE CITY FOR MY SAKE.
# 11 WILL THE MEN OF KEILAH DELIVER ME UP INTO HIS HAND? WILL SAUL COME DOWN,
 AS THY SERVANT HATH HEARD? O LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, I BESEECH THEE, TELL THY
 SERVANT. AND THE LORD SAID, HE WILL COME DOWN.
# 12 THEN SAID DAVID, WILL THE MEN OF KEILAH DELIVER ME AND MY MEN INTO THE
 HAND OF SAUL? AND THE LORD SAID, THEY WILL DELIVER THEE UP.
# 13 THEN DAVID AND HIS MEN, WHICH WERE ABOUT SIX HUNDRED, AROSE AND DEPARTED
 OUT OF KEILAH, AND WENT WHITHERSOEVER THEY COULD GO. AND IT WAS TOLD SAUL
 THAT DAVID WAS ESCAPED FROM KEILAH; AND HE FORBARE TO GO FORTH.
# 14 AND DAVID ABODE IN THE WILDERNESS IN STRONG HOLDS, AND REMAINED IN A
 MOUNTAIN IN THE WILDERNESS OF ZIPH. AND SAUL SOUGHT HIM EVERY DAY, BUT GOD
 DELIVERED HIM NOT INTO HIS HAND.
# 15 AND DAVID SAW THAT SAUL WAS COME OUT TO SEEK HIS LIFE: AND DAVID WAS IN
 THE WILDERNESS OF ZIPH IN A WOOD.
# 16 AND JONATHAN SAULS SON AROSE, AND WENT TO DAVID INTO THE WOOD, AND
 STRENGTHENED HIS HAND IN GOD.
# 17 AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, FEAR NOT: FOR THE HAND OF SAUL MY FATHER SHALL NOT
 FIND THEE; AND THOU SHALT BE KING OVER ISRAEL, AND I SHALL BE NEXT UNTO THEE;
 AND THAT ALSO SAUL MY FATHER KNOWETH.
# 18 AND THEY TWO MADE A COVENANT BEFORE THE LORD: AND DAVID ABODE IN THE
 WOOD, AND JONATHAN WENT TO HIS HOUSE.
# 19 THEN CAME UP THE ZIPHITES TO SAUL TO GIBEAH, SAYING, DOTH NOT DAVID HIDE
 HIMSELF WITH US IN STRONG HOLDS IN THE WOOD, IN THE HILL OF HACHILAH, WHICH
 IS ON THE SOUTH OF JESHIMON?
# 20 NOW THEREFORE, O KING, COME DOWN ACCORDING TO ALL THE DESIRE OF THY SOUL
 TO COME DOWN; AND OUR PART SHALL BE TO DELIVER HIM INTO THE KINGS HAND.
# 21 AND SAUL SAID, BLESSED BE YE OF THE LORD; FOR YE HAVE COMPASSION ON ME.
# 22 GO, I PRAY YOU, PREPARE YET, AND KNOW AND SEE HIS PLACE WHERE HIS HAUNT
 IS, AND WHO HATH SEEN HIM THERE: FOR IT IS TOLD ME THAT HE DEALETH VERY
 SUBTILLY.
# 23 SEE THEREFORE, AND TAKE KNOWLEDGE OF ALL THE LURKING PLACES WHERE HE
 HIDETH HIMSELF, AND COME YE AGAIN TO ME WITH THE CERTAINTY, AND I WILL GO
 WITH YOU: AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, IF HE BE IN THE LAND, THAT I WILL SEARCH
 HIM OUT THROUGHOUT ALL THE THOUSANDS OF JUDAH.
# 24 AND THEY AROSE, AND WENT TO ZIPH BEFORE SAUL: BUT DAVID AND HIS MEN WERE
 IN THE WILDERNESS OF MAON, IN THE PLAIN ON THE SOUTH OF JESHIMON.
# 25 SAUL ALSO AND HIS MEN WENT TO SEEK HIM. AND THEY TOLD DAVID; WHEREFORE
 HE CAME DOWN INTO A ROCK, AND ABODE IN THE WILDERNESS OF MAON. AND WHEN SAUL
 HEARD THAT, HE PURSUED AFTER DAVID IN THE WILDERNESS OF MAON.
# 26 AND SAUL WENT ON THIS SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN, AND DAVID AND HIS MEN ON
 THAT SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN: AND DAVID MADE HASTE TO GET AWAY FOR FEAR OF SAUL;
 FOR SAUL AND HIS MEN COMPASSED DAVID AND HIS MEN ROUND ABOUT TO TAKE THEM.
# 27 BUT THERE CAME A MESSENGER UNTO SAUL, SAYING, HASTE THEE, AND COME; FOR
 THE PHILISTINES HAVE INVADED THE LAND.
# 28 WHEREFORE SAUL RETURNED FROM PURSUING AFTER DAVID, AND WENT AGAINST THE
 PHILISTINES: THEREFORE THEY CALLED THAT PLACE SELAHAMMAHLEKOTH.
# 29 AND DAVID WENT UP FROM THENCE, AND DWELT IN STRONG HOLDS AT ENGEDI.
= CHAPTER 24 
# 1 AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN SAUL WAS RETURNED FROM FOLLOWING THE
 PHILISTINES, THAT IT WAS TOLD HIM, SAYING, BEHOLD, DAVID IS IN THE WILDERNESS
 OF ENGEDI.
# 2 THEN SAUL TOOK THREE THOUSAND CHOSEN MEN OUT OF ALL ISRAEL, AND WENT TO
 SEEK DAVID AND HIS MEN UPON THE ROCKS OF THE WILD GOATS.
# 3 AND HE CAME TO THE SHEEPCOTES BY THE WAY, WHERE WAS A CAVE; AND SAUL WENT
 IN TO COVER HIS FEET: AND DAVID AND HIS MEN REMAINED IN THE SIDES OF THE
 CAVE.
# 4 AND THE MEN OF DAVID SAID UNTO HIM, BEHOLD THE DAY OF WHICH THE LORD SAID
 UNTO THEE, BEHOLD, I WILL DELIVER THINE ENEMY INTO THINE HAND, THAT THOU
 MAYEST DO TO HIM AS IT SHALL SEEM GOOD UNTO THEE. THEN DAVID AROSE, AND CUT
 OFF THE SKIRT OF SAULS ROBE PRIVILY.
# 5 AND IT CAME TO PASS AFTERWARD, THAT DAVIDS HEART SMOTE HIM, BECAUSE HE
 HAD CUT OFF SAULS SKIRT.
# 6 AND HE SAID UNTO HIS MEN, THE LORD FORBID THAT I SHOULD DO THIS THING
 UNTO MY MASTER, THE LORDS ANOINTED, TO STRETCH FORTH MINE HAND AGAINST HIM,
 SEEING HE IS THE ANOINTED OF THE LORD.
# 7 SO DAVID STAYED HIS SERVANTS WITH THESE WORDS, AND SUFFERED THEM NOT TO
 RISE AGAINST SAUL. BUT SAUL ROSE UP OUT OF THE CAVE, AND WENT ON HIS WAY.
# 8 DAVID ALSO AROSE AFTERWARD, AND WENT OUT OF THE CAVE, AND CRIED AFTER
 SAUL, SAYING, MY LORD THE KING. AND WHEN SAUL LOOKED BEHIND HIM, DAVID
 STOOPED WITH HIS FACE TO THE EARTH, AND BOWED HIMSELF.
# 9 AND DAVID SAID TO SAUL, WHEREFORE HEAREST THOU MENS WORDS, SAYING,
 BEHOLD, DAVID SEEKETH THY HURT?
# 10 BEHOLD, THIS DAY THINE EYES HAVE SEEN HOW THAT THE LORD HAD DELIVERED
 THEE TO DAY INTO MINE HAND IN THE CAVE: AND SOME BADE ME KILL THEE: BUT MINE
 EYE SPARED THEE; AND I SAID, I WILL NOT PUT FORTH MINE HAND AGAINST MY LORD;
 FOR HE IS THE LORDS ANOINTED.
# 11 MOREOVER, MY FATHER, SEE, YEA, SEE THE SKIRT OF THY ROBE IN MY HAND: FOR
 IN THAT I CUT OFF THE SKIRT OF THY ROBE, AND KILLED THEE NOT, KNOW THOU AND
 SEE THAT THERE IS NEITHER EVIL NOR TRANSGRESSION IN MINE HAND, AND I HAVE NOT
 SINNED AGAINST THEE; YET THOU HUNTEST MY SOUL TO TAKE IT.
# 12 THE LORD JUDGE BETWEEN ME AND THEE, AND THE LORD AVENGE ME OF THEE: BUT
 MINE HAND SHALL NOT BE UPON THEE.
# 13 AS SAITH THE PROVERB OF THE ANCIENTS, WICKEDNESS PROCEEDETH FROM THE
 WICKED: BUT MINE HAND SHALL NOT BE UPON THEE.
# 14 AFTER WHOM IS THE KING OF ISRAEL COME OUT? AFTER WHOM DOST THOU PURSUE?
 AFTER A DEAD DOG, AFTER A FLEA.
# 15 THE LORD THEREFORE BE JUDGE, AND JUDGE BETWEEN ME AND THEE, AND SEE, AND
 PLEAD MY CAUSE, AND DELIVER ME OUT OF THINE HAND.
# 16 AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN DAVID HAD MADE AN END OF SPEAKING THESE WORDS
 UNTO SAUL, THAT SAUL SAID, IS THIS THY VOICE, MY SON DAVID? AND SAUL LIFTED
 UP HIS VOICE, AND WEPT.
# 17 AND HE SAID TO DAVID, THOU ART MORE RIGHTEOUS THAN I: FOR THOU HAST
 REWARDED ME GOOD, WHEREAS I HAVE REWARDED THEE EVIL.
# 18 AND THOU HAST SHEWED THIS DAY HOW THAT THOU HAST DEALT WELL WITH ME:
 FORASMUCH AS WHEN THE LORD HAD DELIVERED ME INTO THINE HAND, THOU KILLEDST ME
 NOT.
# 19 FOR IF A MAN FIND HIS ENEMY, WILL HE LET HIM GO WELL AWAY? WHEREFORE THE
 LORD REWARD THEE GOOD FOR THAT THOU HAST DONE UNTO ME THIS DAY.
# 20 AND NOW, BEHOLD, I KNOW WELL THAT THOU SHALT SURELY BE KING, AND THAT
 THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL SHALL BE ESTABLISHED IN THINE HAND.
# 21 SWEAR NOW THEREFORE UNTO ME BY THE LORD, THAT THOU WILT NOT CUT OFF MY
 SEED AFTER ME, AND THAT THOU WILT NOT DESTROY MY NAME OUT OF MY FATHERS
 HOUSE.
# 22 AND DAVID SWARE UNTO SAUL. AND SAUL WENT HOME; BUT DAVID AND HIS MEN GAT
 THEM UP UNTO THE HOLD.
= CHAPTER 25 
# 1 AND SAMUEL DIED; AND ALL THE ISRAELITES WERE GATHERED TOGETHER, AND
 LAMENTED HIM, AND BURIED HIM IN HIS HOUSE AT RAMAH. AND DAVID AROSE, AND WENT
 DOWN TO THE WILDERNESS OF PARAN.
# 2 AND THERE WAS A MAN IN MAON, WHOSE POSSESSIONS WERE IN CARMEL; AND THE
 MAN WAS VERY GREAT, AND HE HAD THREE THOUSAND SHEEP, AND A THOUSAND GOATS:
 AND HE WAS SHEARING HIS SHEEP IN CARMEL.
# 3 NOW THE NAME OF THE MAN WAS NABAL; AND THE NAME OF HIS WIFE ABIGAIL: AND
 SHE WAS A WOMAN OF GOOD UNDERSTANDING, AND OF A BEAUTIFUL COUNTENANCE: BUT
 THE MAN WAS CHURLISH AND EVIL IN HIS DOINGS; AND HE WAS OF THE HOUSE OF
 CALEB.
# 4 AND DAVID HEARD IN THE WILDERNESS THAT NABAL DID SHEAR HIS SHEEP.
# 5 AND DAVID SENT OUT TEN YOUNG MEN, AND DAVID SAID UNTO THE YOUNG MEN, GET
 YOU UP TO CARMEL, AND GO TO NABAL, AND GREET HIM IN MY NAME:
# 6 AND THUS SHALL YE SAY TO HIM THAT LIVETH IN PROSPERITY, PEACE BE BOTH TO
 THEE, AND PEACE BE TO THINE HOUSE, AND PEACE BE UNTO ALL THAT THOU HAST.
# 7 AND NOW I HAVE HEARD THAT THOU HAST SHEARERS: NOW THY SHEPHERDS WHICH
 WERE WITH US, WE HURT THEM NOT, NEITHER WAS THERE OUGHT MISSING UNTO THEM,
 ALL THE WHILE THEY WERE IN CARMEL.
# 8 ASK THY YOUNG MEN, AND THEY WILL SHEW THEE. WHEREFORE LET THE YOUNG MEN
 FIND FAVOUR IN THINE EYES: FOR WE COME IN A GOOD DAY: GIVE, I PRAY THEE,
 WHATSOEVER COMETH TO THINE HAND UNTO THY SERVANTS, AND TO THY SON DAVID.
# 9 AND WHEN DAVIDS YOUNG MEN CAME, THEY SPAKE TO NABAL ACCORDING TO ALL
 THOSE WORDS IN THE NAME OF DAVID, AND CEASED.
# 10 AND NABAL ANSWERED DAVIDS SERVANTS, AND SAID, WHO IS DAVID? AND WHO IS
 THE SON OF JESSE? THERE BE MANY SERVANTS NOW A DAYS THAT BREAK AWAY EVERY MAN
 FROM HIS MASTER.
# 11 SHALL I THEN TAKE MY BREAD, AND MY WATER, AND MY FLESH THAT I HAVE
 KILLED FOR MY SHEARERS, AND GIVE IT UNTO MEN, WHOM I KNOW NOT WHENCE THEY BE?
# 12 SO DAVIDS YOUNG MEN TURNED THEIR WAY, AND WENT AGAIN, AND CAME AND TOLD
 HIM ALL THOSE SAYINGS.
# 13 AND DAVID SAID UNTO HIS MEN, GIRD YE ON EVERY MAN HIS SWORD. AND THEY
 GIRDED ON EVERY MAN HIS SWORD; AND DAVID ALSO GIRDED ON HIS SWORD: AND THERE
 WENT UP AFTER DAVID ABOUT FOUR HUNDRED MEN; AND TWO HUNDRED ABODE BY THE
 STUFF.
# 14 BUT ONE OF THE YOUNG MEN TOLD ABIGAIL, NABALS WIFE, SAYING, BEHOLD,
 DAVID SENT MESSENGERS OUT OF THE WILDERNESS TO SALUTE OUR MASTER; AND HE
 RAILED ON THEM.
# 15 BUT THE MEN WERE VERY GOOD UNTO US, AND WE WERE NOT HURT, NEITHER MISSED
 WE ANY THING, AS LONG AS WE WERE CONVERSANT WITH THEM, WHEN WE WERE IN THE
 FIELDS:
# 16 THEY WERE A WALL UNTO US BOTH BY NIGHT AND DAY, ALL THE WHILE WE WERE
 WITH THEM KEEPING THE SHEEP.
# 17 NOW THEREFORE KNOW AND CONSIDER WHAT THOU WILT DO; FOR EVIL IS
 DETERMINED AGAINST OUR MASTER, AND AGAINST ALL HIS HOUSEHOLD: FOR HE IS SUCH
 A SON OF BELIAL, THAT A MAN CANNOT SPEAK TO HIM.
# 18 THEN ABIGAIL MADE HASTE, AND TOOK TWO HUNDRED LOAVES, AND TWO BOTTLES OF
 WINE, AND FIVE SHEEP READY DRESSED, AND FIVE MEASURES OF PARCHED CORN, AND AN
 HUNDRED CLUSTERS OF RAISINS, AND TWO HUNDRED CAKES OF FIGS, AND LAID THEM ON
 ASSES.
# 19 AND SHE SAID UNTO HER SERVANTS, GO ON BEFORE ME; BEHOLD, I COME AFTER
 YOU. BUT SHE TOLD NOT HER HUSBAND NABAL.
# 20 AND IT WAS SO, AS SHE RODE ON THE ASS, THAT SHE CAME DOWN BY THE COVERT
 ON THE HILL, AND, BEHOLD, DAVID AND HIS MEN CAME DOWN AGAINST HER; AND SHE
 MET THEM.
# 21 NOW DAVID HAD SAID, SURELY IN VAIN HAVE I KEPT ALL THAT THIS FELLOW HATH
 IN THE WILDERNESS, SO THAT NOTHING WAS MISSED OF ALL THAT PERTAINED UNTO HIM:
 AND HE HATH REQUITED ME EVIL FOR GOOD.
# 22 SO AND MORE ALSO DO GOD UNTO THE ENEMIES OF DAVID, IF I LEAVE OF ALL
 THAT PERTAIN TO HIM BY THE MORNING LIGHT ANY THAT PISSETH AGAINST THE WALL.
# 23 AND WHEN ABIGAIL SAW DAVID, SHE HASTED, AND LIGHTED OFF THE ASS, AND
 FELL BEFORE DAVID ON HER FACE, AND BOWED HERSELF TO THE GROUND,
# 24 AND FELL AT HIS FEET, AND SAID, UPON ME, MY LORD, UPON ME LET THIS
 INIQUITY BE: AND LET THINE HANDMAID, I PRAY THEE, SPEAK IN THINE AUDIENCE,
 AND HEAR THE WORDS OF THINE HANDMAID.
# 25 LET NOT MY LORD, I PRAY THEE, REGARD THIS MAN OF BELIAL, EVEN NABAL: FOR
 AS HIS NAME IS, SO IS HE; NABAL IS HIS NAME, AND FOLLY IS WITH HIM: BUT I
 THINE HANDMAID SAW NOT THE YOUNG MEN OF MY LORD, WHOM THOU DIDST SEND.
# 26 NOW THEREFORE, MY LORD, AS THE LORD LIVETH, AND AS THY SOUL LIVETH,
 SEEING THE LORD HATH WITHHOLDEN THEE FROM COMING TO SHED BLOOD, AND FROM
 AVENGING THYSELF WITH THINE OWN HAND, NOW LET THINE ENEMIES, AND THEY THAT
 SEEK EVIL TO MY LORD, BE AS NABAL.
# 27 AND NOW THIS BLESSING WHICH THINE HANDMAID HATH BROUGHT UNTO MY LORD,
 LET IT EVEN BE GIVEN UNTO THE YOUNG MEN THAT FOLLOW MY LORD.
# 28 I PRAY THEE, FORGIVE THE TRESPASS OF THINE HANDMAID: FOR THE LORD WILL
 CERTAINLY MAKE MY LORD A SURE HOUSE; BECAUSE MY LORD FIGHTETH THE BATTLES OF
 THE LORD, AND EVIL HATH NOT BEEN FOUND IN THEE ALL THY DAYS.
# 29 YET A MAN IS RISEN TO PURSUE THEE, AND TO SEEK THY SOUL: BUT THE SOUL OF
 MY LORD SHALL BE BOUND IN THE BUNDLE OF LIFE WITH THE LORD THY GOD; AND THE
 SOULS OF THINE ENEMIES, THEM SHALL HE SLING OUT, AS OUT OF THE MIDDLE OF A
 SLING.
# 30 AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, WHEN THE LORD SHALL HAVE DONE TO MY LORD
 ACCORDING TO ALL THE GOOD THAT HE HATH SPOKEN CONCERNING THEE, AND SHALL HAVE
 APPOINTED THEE RULER OVER ISRAEL;
# 31 THAT THIS SHALL BE NO GRIEF UNTO THEE, NOR OFFENCE OF HEART UNTO MY
 LORD, EITHER THAT THOU HAST SHED BLOOD CAUSELESS, OR THAT MY LORD HATH
 AVENGED HIMSELF: BUT WHEN THE LORD SHALL HAVE DEALT WELL WITH MY LORD, THEN
 REMEMBER THINE HANDMAID.
# 32 AND DAVID SAID TO ABIGAIL, BLESSED BE THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, WHICH SENT
 THEE THIS DAY TO MEET ME:
# 33 AND BLESSED BE THY ADVICE, AND BLESSED BE THOU, WHICH HAST KEPT ME THIS
 DAY FROM COMING TO SHED BLOOD, AND FROM AVENGING MYSELF WITH MINE OWN HAND.
# 34 FOR IN VERY DEED, AS THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL LIVETH, WHICH HATH KEPT ME
 BACK FROM HURTING THEE, EXCEPT THOU HADST HASTED AND COME TO MEET ME, SURELY
 THERE HAD NOT BEEN LEFT UNTO NABAL BY THE MORNING LIGHT ANY THAT PISSETH
 AGAINST THE WALL.
# 35 SO DAVID RECEIVED OF HER HAND THAT WHICH SHE HAD BROUGHT HIM, AND SAID
 UNTO HER, GO UP IN PEACE TO THINE HOUSE; SEE, I HAVE HEARKENED TO THY VOICE,
 AND HAVE ACCEPTED THY PERSON.
# 36 AND ABIGAIL CAME TO NABAL; AND, BEHOLD, HE HELD A FEAST IN HIS HOUSE,
 LIKE THE FEAST OF A KING; AND NABALS HEART WAS MERRY WITHIN HIM, FOR HE WAS
 VERY DRUNKEN: WHEREFORE SHE TOLD HIM NOTHING, LESS OR MORE, UNTIL THE MORNING
 LIGHT.
# 37 BUT IT CAME TO PASS IN THE MORNING, WHEN THE WINE WAS GONE OUT OF NABAL,
 AND HIS WIFE HAD TOLD HIM THESE THINGS, THAT HIS HEART DIED WITHIN HIM, AND
 HE BECAME AS A STONE.
# 38 AND IT CAME TO PASS ABOUT TEN DAYS AFTER, THAT THE LORD SMOTE NABAL,
 THAT HE DIED.
# 39 AND WHEN DAVID HEARD THAT NABAL WAS DEAD, HE SAID, BLESSED BE THE LORD,
 THAT HATH PLEADED THE CAUSE OF MY REPROACH FROM THE HAND OF NABAL, AND HATH
 KEPT HIS SERVANT FROM EVIL: FOR THE LORD HATH RETURNED THE WICKEDNESS OF
 NABAL UPON HIS OWN HEAD. AND DAVID SENT AND COMMUNED WITH ABIGAIL, TO TAKE
 HER TO HIM TO WIFE.
# 40 AND WHEN THE SERVANTS OF DAVID WERE COME TO ABIGAIL TO CARMEL, THEY
 SPAKE UNTO HER, SAYING, DAVID SENT US UNTO THEE, TO TAKE THEE TO HIM TO WIFE.
# 41 AND SHE AROSE, AND BOWED HERSELF ON HER FACE TO THE EARTH, AND SAID,
 BEHOLD, LET THINE HANDMAID BE A SERVANT TO WASH THE FEET OF THE SERVANTS OF
 MY LORD.
# 42 AND ABIGAIL HASTED, AND AROSE AND RODE UPON AN ASS, WITH FIVE DAMSELS OF
 HERS THAT WENT AFTER HER; AND SHE WENT AFTER THE MESSENGERS OF DAVID, AND
 BECAME HIS WIFE.
# 43 DAVID ALSO TOOK AHINOAM OF JEZREEL; AND THEY WERE ALSO BOTH OF THEM HIS
 WIVES.
# 44 BUT SAUL HAD GIVEN MICHAL HIS DAUGHTER, DAVIDS WIFE, TO PHALTI THE SON
 OF LAISH, WHICH WAS OF GALLIM.
= CHAPTER 26 
# 1 AND THE ZIPHITES CAME UNTO SAUL TO GIBEAH, SAYING, DOTH NOT DAVID HIDE
 HIMSELF IN THE HILL OF HACHILAH, WHICH IS BEFORE JESHIMON?
# 2 THEN SAUL AROSE, AND WENT DOWN TO THE WILDERNESS OF ZIPH, HAVING THREE
 THOUSAND CHOSEN MEN OF ISRAEL WITH HIM, TO SEEK DAVID IN THE WILDERNESS OF
 ZIPH.
# 3 AND SAUL PITCHED IN THE HILL OF HACHILAH, WHICH IS BEFORE JESHIMON, BY
 THE WAY. BUT DAVID ABODE IN THE WILDERNESS, AND HE SAW THAT SAUL CAME AFTER
 HIM INTO THE WILDERNESS.
# 4 DAVID THEREFORE SENT OUT SPIES, AND UNDERSTOOD THAT SAUL WAS COME IN VERY
 DEED.
# 5 AND DAVID AROSE, AND CAME TO THE PLACE WHERE SAUL HAD PITCHED: AND DAVID
 BEHELD THE PLACE WHERE SAUL LAY, AND ABNER THE SON OF NER, THE CAPTAIN OF HIS
 HOST: AND SAUL LAY IN THE TRENCH, AND THE PEOPLE PITCHED ROUND ABOUT HIM.
# 6 THEN ANSWERED DAVID AND SAID TO AHIMELECH THE HITTITE, AND TO ABISHAI THE
 SON OF ZERUIAH, BROTHER TO JOAB, SAYING, WHO WILL GO DOWN WITH ME TO SAUL TO
 THE CAMP? AND ABISHAI SAID, I WILL GO DOWN WITH THEE.
# 7 SO DAVID AND ABISHAI CAME TO THE PEOPLE BY NIGHT: AND, BEHOLD, SAUL LAY
 SLEEPING WITHIN THE TRENCH, AND HIS SPEAR STUCK IN THE GROUND AT HIS BOLSTER:
 BUT ABNER AND THE PEOPLE LAY ROUND ABOUT HIM.
# 8 THEN SAID ABISHAI TO DAVID, GOD HATH DELIVERED THINE ENEMY INTO THINE
 HAND THIS DAY: NOW THEREFORE LET ME SMITE HIM, I PRAY THEE, WITH THE SPEAR
 EVEN TO THE EARTH AT ONCE, AND I WILL NOT SMITE HIM THE SECOND TIME.
# 9 AND DAVID SAID TO ABISHAI, DESTROY HIM NOT: FOR WHO CAN STRETCH FORTH HIS
 HAND AGAINST THE LORDS ANOINTED, AND BE GUILTLESS?
# 10 DAVID SAID FURTHERMORE, AS THE LORD LIVETH, THE LORD SHALL SMITE HIM; OR
 HIS DAY SHALL COME TO DIE; OR HE SHALL DESCEND INTO BATTLE, AND PERISH.
# 11 THE LORD FORBID THAT I SHOULD STRETCH FORTH MINE HAND AGAINST THE LORDS
 ANOINTED: BUT, I PRAY THEE, TAKE THOU NOW THE SPEAR THAT IS AT HIS BOLSTER,
 AND THE CRUSE OF WATER, AND LET US GO.
# 12 SO DAVID TOOK THE SPEAR AND THE CRUSE OF WATER FROM SAULS BOLSTER; AND
 THEY GAT THEM AWAY, AND NO MAN SAW IT, NOR KNEW IT, NEITHER AWAKED: FOR THEY
 WERE ALL ASLEEP; BECAUSE A DEEP SLEEP FROM THE LORD WAS FALLEN UPON THEM.
# 13 THEN DAVID WENT OVER TO THE OTHER SIDE, AND STOOD ON THE TOP OF AN HILL
 AFAR OFF; A GREAT SPACE BEING BETWEEN THEM:
# 14 AND DAVID CRIED TO THE PEOPLE, AND TO ABNER THE SON OF NER, SAYING,
 ANSWEREST THOU NOT, ABNER? THEN ABNER ANSWERED AND SAID, WHO ART THOU THAT
 CRIEST TO THE KING?
# 15 AND DAVID SAID TO ABNER, ART NOT THOU A VALIANT MAN? AND WHO IS LIKE TO
 THEE IN ISRAEL? WHEREFORE THEN HAST THOU NOT KEPT THY LORD THE KING? FOR
 THERE CAME ONE OF THE PEOPLE IN TO DESTROY THE KING THY LORD.
# 16 THIS THING IS NOT GOOD THAT THOU HAST DONE. AS THE LORD LIVETH, YE ARE
 WORTHY TO DIE, BECAUSE YE HAVE NOT KEPT YOUR MASTER, THE LORDS ANOINTED. AND
 NOW SEE WHERE THE KINGS SPEAR IS, AND THE CRUSE OF WATER THAT WAS AT HIS
 BOLSTER.
# 17 AND SAUL KNEW DAVIDS VOICE, AND SAID, IS THIS THY VOICE, MY SON DAVID?
 AND DAVID SAID, IT IS MY VOICE, MY LORD, O KING.
# 18 AND HE SAID, WHEREFORE DOTH MY LORD THUS PURSUE AFTER HIS SERVANT? FOR
 WHAT HAVE I DONE? OR WHAT EVIL IS IN MINE HAND?
# 19 NOW THEREFORE, I PRAY THEE, LET MY LORD THE KING HEAR THE WORDS OF HIS
 SERVANT. IF THE LORD HAVE STIRRED THEE UP AGAINST ME, LET HIM ACCEPT AN
 OFFERING: BUT IF THEY BE THE CHILDREN OF MEN, CURSED BE THEY BEFORE THE LORD;
 FOR THEY HAVE DRIVEN ME OUT THIS DAY FROM ABIDING IN THE INHERITANCE OF THE
 LORD, SAYING, GO, SERVE OTHER GODS.
# 20 NOW THEREFORE, LET NOT MY BLOOD FALL TO THE EARTH BEFORE THE FACE OF THE
 LORD: FOR THE KING OF ISRAEL IS COME OUT TO SEEK A FLEA, AS WHEN ONE DOTH
 HUNT A PARTRIDGE IN THE MOUNTAINS.
# 21 THEN SAID SAUL, I HAVE SINNED: RETURN, MY SON DAVID: FOR I WILL NO MORE
 DO THEE HARM, BECAUSE MY SOUL WAS PRECIOUS IN THINE EYES THIS DAY: BEHOLD, I
 HAVE PLAYED THE FOOL, AND HAVE ERRED EXCEEDINGLY.
# 22 AND DAVID ANSWERED AND SAID, BEHOLD THE KINGS SPEAR! AND LET ONE OF THE
 YOUNG MEN COME OVER AND FETCH IT.
# 23 THE LORD RENDER TO EVERY MAN HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS AND HIS FAITHFULNESS; FOR
 THE LORD DELIVERED THEE INTO MY HAND TO DAY, BUT I WOULD NOT STRETCH FORTH
 MINE HAND AGAINST THE LORDS ANOINTED.
# 24 AND, BEHOLD, AS THY LIFE WAS MUCH SET BY THIS DAY IN MINE EYES, SO LET
 MY LIFE BE MUCH SET BY IN THE EYES OF THE LORD, AND LET HIM DELIVER ME OUT OF
 ALL TRIBULATION.
# 25 THEN SAUL SAID TO DAVID, BLESSED BE THOU, MY SON DAVID: THOU SHALT BOTH
 DO GREAT THINGS, AND ALSO SHALT STILL PREVAIL. SO DAVID WENT ON HIS WAY, AND
 SAUL RETURNED TO HIS PLACE.
= CHAPTER 27 
# 1 AND DAVID SAID IN HIS HEART, I SHALL NOW PERISH ONE DAY BY THE HAND OF
 SAUL: THERE IS NOTHING BETTER FOR ME THAN THAT I SHOULD SPEEDILY ESCAPE INTO
 THE LAND OF THE PHILISTINES; AND SAUL SHALL DESPAIR OF ME, TO SEEK ME ANY
 MORE IN ANY COAST OF ISRAEL: SO SHALL I ESCAPE OUT OF HIS HAND.
# 2 AND DAVID AROSE, AND HE PASSED OVER WITH THE SIX HUNDRED MEN THAT WERE
 WITH HIM UNTO ACHISH, THE SON OF MAOCH, KING OF GATH.
# 3 AND DAVID DWELT WITH ACHISH AT GATH, HE AND HIS MEN, EVERY MAN WITH HIS
 HOUSEHOLD, EVEN DAVID WITH HIS TWO WIVES, AHINOAM THE JEZREELITESS, AND
 ABIGAIL THE CARMELITESS, NABALS WIFE.
# 4 AND IT WAS TOLD SAUL THAT DAVID WAS FLED TO GATH: AND HE SOUGHT NO MORE
 AGAIN FOR HIM.
# 5 AND DAVID SAID UNTO ACHISH, IF I HAVE NOW FOUND GRACE IN THINE EYES, LET
 THEM GIVE ME A PLACE IN SOME TOWN IN THE COUNTRY, THAT I MAY DWELL THERE: FOR
 WHY SHOULD THY SERVANT DWELL IN THE ROYAL CITY WITH THEE?
# 6 THEN ACHISH GAVE HIM ZIKLAG THAT DAY: WHEREFORE ZIKLAG PERTAINETH UNTO
 THE KINGS OF JUDAH UNTO THIS DAY.
# 7 AND THE TIME THAT DAVID DWELT IN THE COUNTRY OF THE PHILISTINES WAS A
 FULL YEAR AND FOUR MONTHS.
# 8 AND DAVID AND HIS MEN WENT UP, AND INVADED THE GESHURITES, AND THE
 GEZRITES, AND THE AMALEKITES: FOR THOSE NATIONS WERE OF OLD THE INHABITANTS
 OF THE LAND, AS THOU GOEST TO SHUR, EVEN UNTO THE LAND OF EGYPT.
# 9 AND DAVID SMOTE THE LAND, AND LEFT NEITHER MAN NOR WOMAN ALIVE, AND TOOK
 AWAY THE SHEEP, AND THE OXEN, AND THE ASSES, AND THE CAMELS, AND THE APPAREL,
 AND RETURNED, AND CAME TO ACHISH.
# 10 AND ACHISH SAID, WHITHER HAVE YE MADE A ROAD TO DAY? AND DAVID SAID,
 AGAINST THE SOUTH OF JUDAH, AND AGAINST THE SOUTH OF THE JERAHMEELITES, AND
 AGAINST THE SOUTH OF THE KENITES.
# 11 AND DAVID SAVED NEITHER MAN NOR WOMAN ALIVE, TO BRING TIDINGS TO GATH,
 SAYING, LEST THEY SHOULD TELL ON US, SAYING, SO DID DAVID, AND SO WILL BE HIS
 MANNER ALL THE WHILE HE DWELLETH IN THE COUNTRY OF THE PHILISTINES.
# 12 AND ACHISH BELIEVED DAVID, SAYING, HE HATH MADE HIS PEOPLE ISRAEL
 UTTERLY TO ABHOR HIM; THEREFORE HE SHALL BE MY SERVANT FOR EVER.
= CHAPTER 28 
# 1 AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THOSE DAYS, THAT THE PHILISTINES GATHERED THEIR
 ARMIES TOGETHER FOR WARFARE, TO FIGHT WITH ISRAEL. AND ACHISH SAID UNTO
 DAVID, KNOW THOU ASSUREDLY, THAT THOU SHALT GO OUT WITH ME TO BATTLE, THOU
 AND THY MEN.
# 2 AND DAVID SAID TO ACHISH, SURELY THOU SHALT KNOW WHAT THY SERVANT CAN DO.
 AND ACHISH SAID TO DAVID, THEREFORE WILL I MAKE THEE KEEPER OF MINE HEAD FOR
 EVER.
# 3 NOW SAMUEL WAS DEAD, AND ALL ISRAEL HAD LAMENTED HIM, AND BURIED HIM IN
 RAMAH, EVEN IN HIS OWN CITY. AND SAUL HAD PUT AWAY THOSE THAT HAD FAMILIAR
 SPIRITS, AND THE WIZARDS, OUT OF THE LAND.
# 4 AND THE PHILISTINES GATHERED THEMSELVES TOGETHER, AND CAME AND PITCHED IN
 SHUNEM: AND SAUL GATHERED ALL ISRAEL TOGETHER, AND THEY PITCHED IN GILBOA.
# 5 AND WHEN SAUL SAW THE HOST OF THE PHILISTINES, HE WAS AFRAID, AND HIS
 HEART GREATLY TREMBLED.
# 6 AND WHEN SAUL ENQUIRED OF THE LORD, THE LORD ANSWERED HIM NOT, NEITHER BY
 DREAMS, NOR BY URIM, NOR BY PROPHETS.
# 7 THEN SAID SAUL UNTO HIS SERVANTS, SEEK ME A WOMAN THAT HATH A FAMILIAR
 SPIRIT, THAT I MAY GO TO HER, AND ENQUIRE OF HER. AND HIS SERVANTS SAID TO
 HIM, BEHOLD, THERE IS A WOMAN THAT HATH A FAMILIAR SPIRIT AT ENDOR.
# 8 AND SAUL DISGUISED HIMSELF, AND PUT ON OTHER RAIMENT, AND HE WENT, AND
 TWO MEN WITH HIM, AND THEY CAME TO THE WOMAN BY NIGHT: AND HE SAID, I PRAY
 THEE, DIVINE UNTO ME BY THE FAMILIAR SPIRIT, AND BRING ME HIM UP, WHOM I
 SHALL NAME UNTO THEE.
# 9 AND THE WOMAN SAID UNTO HIM, BEHOLD, THOU KNOWEST WHAT SAUL HATH DONE,
 HOW HE HATH CUT OFF THOSE THAT HAVE FAMILIAR SPIRITS, AND THE WIZARDS, OUT OF
 THE LAND: WHEREFORE THEN LAYEST THOU A SNARE FOR MY LIFE, TO CAUSE ME TO DIE?
# 10 AND SAUL SWARE TO HER BY THE LORD, SAYING, AS THE LORD LIVETH, THERE
 SHALL NO PUNISHMENT HAPPEN TO THEE FOR THIS THING.
# 11 THEN SAID THE WOMAN, WHOM SHALL I BRING UP UNTO THEE? AND HE SAID, BRING
 ME UP SAMUEL.
# 12 AND WHEN THE WOMAN SAW SAMUEL, SHE CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE: AND THE
 WOMAN SPAKE TO SAUL, SAYING, WHY HAST THOU DECEIVED ME? FOR THOU ART SAUL.
# 13 AND THE KING SAID UNTO HER, BE NOT AFRAID: FOR WHAT SAWEST THOU? AND THE
 WOMAN SAID UNTO SAUL, I SAW GODS ASCENDING OUT OF THE EARTH.
# 14 AND HE SAID UNTO HER, WHAT FORM IS HE OF? AND SHE SAID, AN OLD MAN
 COMETH UP; AND HE IS COVERED WITH A MANTLE. AND SAUL PERCEIVED THAT IT WAS
 SAMUEL, AND HE STOOPED WITH HIS FACE TO THE GROUND, AND BOWED HIMSELF.
# 15 AND SAMUEL SAID TO SAUL, WHY HAST THOU DISQUIETED ME, TO BRING ME UP?
 AND SAUL ANSWERED, I AM SORE DISTRESSED; FOR THE PHILISTINES MAKE WAR AGAINST
 ME, AND GOD IS DEPARTED FROM ME, AND ANSWERETH ME NO MORE, NEITHER BY
 PROPHETS, NOR BY DREAMS: THEREFORE I HAVE CALLED THEE, THAT THOU MAYEST MAKE
 KNOWN UNTO ME WHAT I SHALL DO.
# 16 THEN SAID SAMUEL, WHEREFORE THEN DOST THOU ASK OF ME, SEEING THE LORD IS
 DEPARTED FROM THEE, AND IS BECOME THINE ENEMY?
# 17 AND THE LORD HATH DONE TO HIM, AS HE SPAKE BY ME: FOR THE LORD HATH RENT
 THE KINGDOM OUT OF THINE HAND, AND GIVEN IT TO THY NEIGHBOUR, EVEN TO DAVID:
# 18 BECAUSE THOU OBEYEDST NOT THE VOICE OF THE LORD, NOR EXECUTEDST HIS
 FIERCE WRATH UPON AMALEK, THEREFORE HATH THE LORD DONE THIS THING UNTO THEE
 THIS DAY.
# 19 MOREOVER THE LORD WILL ALSO DELIVER ISRAEL WITH THEE INTO THE HAND OF
 THE PHILISTINES: AND TO MORROW SHALT THOU AND THY SONS BE WITH ME: THE LORD
 ALSO SHALL DELIVER THE HOST OF ISRAEL INTO THE HAND OF THE PHILISTINES.
# 20 THEN SAUL FELL STRAIGHTWAY ALL ALONG ON THE EARTH, AND WAS SORE AFRAID,
 BECAUSE OF THE WORDS OF SAMUEL: AND THERE WAS NO STRENGTH IN HIM; FOR HE HAD
 EATEN NO BREAD ALL THE DAY, NOR ALL THE NIGHT.
# 21 AND THE WOMAN CAME UNTO SAUL, AND SAW THAT HE WAS SORE TROUBLED, AND
 SAID UNTO HIM, BEHOLD, THINE HANDMAID HATH OBEYED THY VOICE, AND I HAVE PUT
 MY LIFE IN MY HAND, AND HAVE HEARKENED UNTO THY WORDS WHICH THOU SPAKEST UNTO
 ME.
# 22 NOW THEREFORE, I PRAY THEE, HEARKEN THOU ALSO UNTO THE VOICE OF THINE
 HANDMAID, AND LET ME SET A MORSEL OF BREAD BEFORE THEE; AND EAT, THAT THOU
 MAYEST HAVE STRENGTH, WHEN THOU GOEST ON THY WAY.
# 23 BUT HE REFUSED, AND SAID, I WILL NOT EAT. BUT HIS SERVANTS, TOGETHER
 WITH THE WOMAN, COMPELLED HIM; AND HE HEARKENED UNTO THEIR VOICE. SO HE AROSE
 FROM THE EARTH, AND SAT UPON THE BED.
# 24 AND THE WOMAN HAD A FAT CALF IN THE HOUSE; AND SHE HASTED, AND KILLED
 IT, AND TOOK FLOUR, AND KNEADED IT, AND DID BAKE UNLEAVENED BREAD THEREOF:
# 25 AND SHE BROUGHT IT BEFORE SAUL, AND BEFORE HIS SERVANTS; AND THEY DID
 EAT. THEN THEY ROSE UP, AND WENT AWAY THAT NIGHT.
= CHAPTER 29 
# 1 NOW THE PHILISTINES GATHERED TOGETHER ALL THEIR ARMIES TO APHEK: AND THE
 ISRAELITES PITCHED BY A FOUNTAIN WHICH IS IN JEZREEL.
# 2 AND THE LORDS OF THE PHILISTINES PASSED ON BY HUNDREDS, AND BY THOUSANDS:
 BUT DAVID AND HIS MEN PASSED ON IN THE REREWARD WITH ACHISH.
# 3 THEN SAID THE PRINCES OF THE PHILISTINES, WHAT DO THESE HEBREWS HERE? AND
 ACHISH SAID UNTO THE PRINCES OF THE PHILISTINES, IS NOT THIS DAVID, THE
 SERVANT OF SAUL THE KING OF ISRAEL, WHICH HATH BEEN WITH ME THESE DAYS, OR
 THESE YEARS, AND I HAVE FOUND NO FAULT IN HIM SINCE HE FELL UNTO ME UNTO THIS
 DAY?
# 4 AND THE PRINCES OF THE PHILISTINES WERE WROTH WITH HIM; AND THE PRINCES
 OF THE PHILISTINES SAID UNTO HIM, MAKE THIS FELLOW RETURN, THAT HE MAY GO
 AGAIN TO HIS PLACE WHICH THOU HAST APPOINTED HIM, AND LET HIM NOT GO DOWN
 WITH US TO BATTLE, LEST IN THE BATTLE HE BE AN ADVERSARY TO US: FOR WHEREWITH
 SHOULD HE RECONCILE HIMSELF UNTO HIS MASTER? SHOULD IT NOT BE WITH THE HEADS
 OF THESE MEN?
# 5 IS NOT THIS DAVID, OF WHOM THEY SANG ONE TO ANOTHER IN DANCES, SAYING,
 SAUL SLEW HIS THOUSANDS, AND DAVID HIS TEN THOUSANDS?
# 6 THEN ACHISH CALLED DAVID, AND SAID UNTO HIM, SURELY, AS THE LORD LIVETH,
 THOU HAST BEEN UPRIGHT, AND THY GOING OUT AND THY COMING IN WITH ME IN THE
 HOST IS GOOD IN MY SIGHT: FOR I HAVE NOT FOUND EVIL IN THEE SINCE THE DAY OF
 THY COMING UNTO ME UNTO THIS DAY: NEVERTHELESS THE LORDS FAVOUR THEE NOT.
# 7 WHEREFORE NOW RETURN, AND GO IN PEACE, THAT THOU DISPLEASE NOT THE LORDS
 OF THE PHILISTINES.
# 8 AND DAVID SAID UNTO ACHISH, BUT WHAT HAVE I DONE? AND WHAT HAST THOU
 FOUND IN THY SERVANT SO LONG AS I HAVE BEEN WITH THEE UNTO THIS DAY, THAT I
 MAY NOT GO FIGHT AGAINST THE ENEMIES OF MY LORD THE KING?
# 9 AND ACHISH ANSWERED AND SAID TO DAVID, I KNOW THAT THOU ART GOOD IN MY
 SIGHT, AS AN ANGEL OF GOD: NOTWITHSTANDING THE PRINCES OF THE PHILISTINES
 HAVE SAID, HE SHALL NOT GO UP WITH US TO THE BATTLE.
# 10 WHEREFORE NOW RISE UP EARLY IN THE MORNING WITH THY MASTERS SERVANTS
 THAT ARE COME WITH THEE: AND AS SOON AS YE BE UP EARLY IN THE MORNING, AND
 HAVE LIGHT, DEPART.
# 11 SO DAVID AND HIS MEN ROSE UP EARLY TO DEPART IN THE MORNING, TO RETURN
 INTO THE LAND OF THE PHILISTINES. AND THE PHILISTINES WENT UP TO JEZREEL.
= CHAPTER 30 
# 1 AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN DAVID AND HIS MEN WERE COME TO ZIKLAG ON THE
 THIRD DAY, THAT THE AMALEKITES HAD INVADED THE SOUTH, AND ZIKLAG, AND SMITTEN
 ZIKLAG, AND BURNED IT WITH FIRE;
# 2 AND HAD TAKEN THE WOMEN CAPTIVES, THAT WERE THEREIN: THEY SLEW NOT ANY,
 EITHER GREAT OR SMALL, BUT CARRIED THEM AWAY, AND WENT ON THEIR WAY.
# 3 SO DAVID AND HIS MEN CAME TO THE CITY, AND, BEHOLD, IT WAS BURNED WITH
 FIRE; AND THEIR WIVES, AND THEIR SONS, AND THEIR DAUGHTERS, WERE TAKEN
 CAPTIVES.
# 4 THEN DAVID AND THE PEOPLE THAT WERE WITH HIM LIFTED UP THEIR VOICE AND
 WEPT, UNTIL THEY HAD NO MORE POWER TO WEEP.
# 5 AND DAVIDS TWO WIVES WERE TAKEN CAPTIVES, AHINOAM THE JEZREELITESS, AND
 ABIGAIL THE WIFE OF NABAL THE CARMELITE.
# 6 AND DAVID WAS GREATLY DISTRESSED; FOR THE PEOPLE SPAKE OF STONING HIM,
 BECAUSE THE SOUL OF ALL THE PEOPLE WAS GRIEVED, EVERY MAN FOR HIS SONS AND
 FOR HIS DAUGHTERS: BUT DAVID ENCOURAGED HIMSELF IN THE LORD HIS GOD.
# 7 AND DAVID SAID TO ABIATHAR THE PRIEST, AHIMELECHS SON, I PRAY THEE, BRING
 ME HITHER THE EPHOD. AND ABIATHAR BROUGHT THITHER THE EPHOD TO DAVID.
# 8 AND DAVID ENQUIRED AT THE LORD, SAYING, SHALL I PURSUE AFTER THIS TROOP?
 SHALL I OVERTAKE THEM? AND HE ANSWERED HIM, PURSUE: FOR THOU SHALT SURELY
 OVERTAKE THEM, AND WITHOUT FAIL RECOVER ALL.
# 9 SO DAVID WENT, HE AND THE SIX HUNDRED MEN THAT WERE WITH HIM, AND CAME TO
 THE BROOK BESOR, WHERE THOSE THAT WERE LEFT BEHIND STAYED.
# 10 BUT DAVID PURSUED, HE AND FOUR HUNDRED MEN: FOR TWO HUNDRED ABODE
 BEHIND, WHICH WERE SO FAINT THAT THEY COULD NOT GO OVER THE BROOK BESOR.
# 11 AND THEY FOUND AN EGYPTIAN IN THE FIELD, AND BROUGHT HIM TO DAVID, AND
 GAVE HIM BREAD, AND HE DID EAT; AND THEY MADE HIM DRINK WATER;
# 12 AND THEY GAVE HIM A PIECE OF A CAKE OF FIGS, AND TWO CLUSTERS OF
 RAISINS: AND WHEN HE HAD EATEN, HIS SPIRIT CAME AGAIN TO HIM: FOR HE HAD
 EATEN NO BREAD, NOR DRUNK ANY WATER, THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS.
# 13 AND DAVID SAID UNTO HIM, TO WHOM BELONGEST THOU? AND WHENCE ART THOU?
 AND HE SAID, I AM A YOUNG MAN OF EGYPT, SERVANT TO AN AMALEKITE; AND MY
 MASTER LEFT ME, BECAUSE THREE DAYS AGONE I FELL SICK.
# 14 WE MADE AN INVASION UPON THE SOUTH OF THE CHERETHITES, AND UPON THE
 COAST WHICH BELONGETH TO JUDAH, AND UPON THE SOUTH OF CALEB; AND WE BURNED
 ZIKLAG WITH FIRE.
# 15 AND DAVID SAID TO HIM, CANST THOU BRING ME DOWN TO THIS COMPANY? AND HE
 SAID, SWEAR UNTO ME BY GOD, THAT THOU WILT NEITHER KILL ME, NOR DELIVER ME
 INTO THE HANDS OF MY MASTER, AND I WILL BRING THEE DOWN TO THIS COMPANY.
# 16 AND WHEN HE HAD BROUGHT HIM DOWN, BEHOLD, THEY WERE SPREAD ABROAD UPON
 ALL THE EARTH, EATING AND DRINKING, AND DANCING, BECAUSE OF ALL THE GREAT
 SPOIL THAT THEY HAD TAKEN OUT OF THE LAND OF THE PHILISTINES, AND OUT OF THE
 LAND OF JUDAH.
# 17 AND DAVID SMOTE THEM FROM THE TWILIGHT EVEN UNTO THE EVENING OF THE NEXT
 DAY: AND THERE ESCAPED NOT A MAN OF THEM, SAVE FOUR HUNDRED YOUNG MEN, WHICH
 RODE UPON CAMELS, AND FLED.
# 18 AND DAVID RECOVERED ALL THAT THE AMALEKITES HAD CARRIED AWAY: AND DAVID
 RESCUED HIS TWO WIVES.
# 19 AND THERE WAS NOTHING LACKING TO THEM, NEITHER SMALL NOR GREAT, NEITHER
 SONS NOR DAUGHTERS, NEITHER SPOIL, NOR ANY THING THAT THEY HAD TAKEN TO THEM:
 DAVID RECOVERED ALL.
# 20 AND DAVID TOOK ALL THE FLOCKS AND THE HERDS, WHICH THEY DRAVE BEFORE
 THOSE OTHER CATTLE, AND SAID, THIS IS DAVIDS SPOIL.
# 21 AND DAVID CAME TO THE TWO HUNDRED MEN, WHICH WERE SO FAINT THAT THEY
 COULD NOT FOLLOW DAVID, WHOM THEY HAD MADE ALSO TO ABIDE AT THE BROOK BESOR:
 AND THEY WENT FORTH TO MEET DAVID, AND TO MEET THE PEOPLE THAT WERE WITH HIM:
 AND WHEN DAVID CAME NEAR TO THE PEOPLE, HE SALUTED THEM.
# 22 THEN ANSWERED ALL THE WICKED MEN AND MEN OF BELIAL, OF THOSE THAT WENT
 WITH DAVID, AND SAID, BECAUSE THEY WENT NOT WITH US, WE WILL NOT GIVE THEM
 OUGHT OF THE SPOIL THAT WE HAVE RECOVERED, SAVE TO EVERY MAN HIS WIFE AND HIS
 CHILDREN, THAT THEY MAY LEAD THEM AWAY, AND DEPART.
# 23 THEN SAID DAVID, YE SHALL NOT DO SO, MY BRETHREN, WITH THAT WHICH THE
 LORD HATH GIVEN US, WHO HATH PRESERVED US, AND DELIVERED THE COMPANY THAT
 CAME AGAINST US INTO OUR HAND.
# 24 FOR WHO WILL HEARKEN UNTO YOU IN THIS MATTER? BUT AS HIS PART IS THAT
 GOETH DOWN TO THE BATTLE, SO SHALL HIS PART BE THAT TARRIETH BY THE STUFF:
 THEY SHALL PART ALIKE.
# 25 AND IT WAS SO FROM THAT DAY FORWARD, THAT HE MADE IT A STATUTE AND AN
 ORDINANCE FOR ISRAEL UNTO THIS DAY.
# 26 AND WHEN DAVID CAME TO ZIKLAG, HE SENT OF THE SPOIL UNTO THE ELDERS OF
 JUDAH, EVEN TO HIS FRIENDS, SAYING, BEHOLD A PRESENT FOR YOU OF THE SPOIL OF
 THE ENEMIES OF THE LORD;
# 27 TO THEM WHICH WERE IN BETHEL, AND TO THEM WHICH WERE IN SOUTH RAMOTH,
 AND TO THEM WHICH WERE IN JATTIR,
# 28 AND TO THEM WHICH WERE IN AROER, AND TO THEM WHICH WERE IN SIPHMOTH, AND
 TO THEM WHICH WERE IN ESHTEMOA,
# 29 AND TO THEM WHICH WERE IN RACHAL, AND TO THEM WHICH WERE IN THE CITIES
 OF THE JERAHMEELITES, AND TO THEM WHICH WERE IN THE CITIES OF THE KENITES,
# 30 AND TO THEM WHICH WERE IN HORMAH, AND TO THEM WHICH WERE IN CHORASHAN,
 AND TO THEM WHICH WERE IN ATHACH,
# 31 AND TO THEM WHICH WERE IN HEBRON, AND TO ALL THE PLACES WHERE DAVID
 HIMSELF AND HIS MEN WERE WONT TO HAUNT.
= CHAPTER 31 
# 1 NOW THE PHILISTINES FOUGHT AGAINST ISRAEL: AND THE MEN OF ISRAEL FLED FROM
 BEFORE THE PHILISTINES, AND FELL DOWN SLAIN IN MOUNT GILBOA.
# 2 AND THE PHILISTINES FOLLOWED HARD UPON SAUL AND UPON HIS SONS; AND THE
 PHILISTINES SLEW JONATHAN, AND ABINADAB, AND MELCHISHUA, SAULS SONS.
# 3 AND THE BATTLE WENT SORE AGAINST SAUL, AND THE ARCHERS HIT HIM; AND HE
 WAS SORE WOUNDED OF THE ARCHERS.
# 4 THEN SAID SAUL UNTO HIS ARMOURBEARER, DRAW THY SWORD, AND THRUST ME
 THROUGH THEREWITH; LEST THESE UNCIRCUMCISED COME AND THRUST ME THROUGH, AND
 ABUSE ME. BUT HIS ARMOURBEARER WOULD NOT; FOR HE WAS SORE AFRAID. THEREFORE
 SAUL TOOK A SWORD, AND FELL UPON IT.
# 5 AND WHEN HIS ARMOURBEARER SAW THAT SAUL WAS DEAD, HE FELL LIKEWISE UPON
 HIS SWORD, AND DIED WITH HIM.
# 6 SO SAUL DIED, AND HIS THREE SONS, AND HIS ARMOURBEARER, AND ALL HIS MEN,
 THAT SAME DAY TOGETHER.
# 7 AND WHEN THE MEN OF ISRAEL THAT WERE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE VALLEY, AND
 THEY THAT WERE ON THE OTHER SIDE JORDAN, SAW THAT THE MEN OF ISRAEL FLED, AND
 THAT SAUL AND HIS SONS WERE DEAD, THEY FORSOOK THE CITIES, AND FLED; AND THE
 PHILISTINES CAME AND DWELT IN THEM.
# 8 AND IT CAME TO PASS ON THE MORROW, WHEN THE PHILISTINES CAME TO STRIP THE
 SLAIN, THAT THEY FOUND SAUL AND HIS THREE SONS FALLEN IN MOUNT GILBOA.
# 9 AND THEY CUT OFF HIS HEAD, AND STRIPPED OFF HIS ARMOUR, AND SENT INTO THE
 LAND OF THE PHILISTINES ROUND ABOUT, TO PUBLISH IT IN THE HOUSE OF THEIR
 IDOLS, AND AMONG THE PEOPLE.
# 10 AND THEY PUT HIS ARMOUR IN THE HOUSE OF ASHTAROTH: AND THEY FASTENED HIS
 BODY TO THE WALL OF BETHSHAN.
# 11 AND WHEN THE INHABITANTS OF JABESHGILEAD HEARD OF THAT WHICH THE
 PHILISTINES HAD DONE TO SAUL;
# 12 ALL THE VALIANT MEN AROSE, AND WENT ALL NIGHT, AND TOOK THE BODY OF SAUL
 AND THE BODIES OF HIS SONS FROM THE WALL OF BETHSHAN, AND CAME TO JABESH, AND
 BURNT THEM THERE.
# 13 AND THEY TOOK THEIR BONES, AND BURIED THEM UNDER A TREE AT JABESH, AND
 FASTED SEVEN DAYS.
