FORE 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, THUBOOK09BIB[.050044]BOOK09.BIB[.050044]    X14|H [4;Ik(&'( k ߫H&P` \RrPP2PPzPP{PPPPP2P~\$\\TD 0D \~ hi) +\ ^( n ^( np\^txY\^ˀ\!kVk<\F˰<˴ˬ\VVkˤ1`@lP ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$.?0123456789<@<SЬTЬ UQS>?\\\\\\\\\`:#@'="\abcdefghi\\\\\\\jklmnopqr\\\\\\\~stuvwxyz\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\{ABCDEFGHI\\\\\\}JKLMNOPQR\\\\\\\\STUVWXYZ\\\\\\0123456789\\\\\  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ{|}~@ggh<i|o<m<4p<p<k|Zn<l fr rwx<x<x<x޺<w@]@@fjnr]Ze@@|> | |v<H|  |  |xz|  |zt f r   < &^ @&@'*/V,"?Lh:hmBmz|z{x`y~|fN|@@|@͂|@ ݃ƃ<ns<|Ŏ |️|ep|u|-@率|<ﾲ2ֻr||ZRM | ntB|xyvZw|J=|R>|J? nnaa|bddf. 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 ABOOK09BIB[.050044]BOOK09.BIB[.050044]    X14|H [4;Ik(&'( k ߫H&P` \RrPP2PPzPP{PPPPP2P~\$\\TD 0D \~ hi) +\ ^( n ^( np\^txY\^ˀ\!kVk<\F˰<˴ˬ\VVkˤ1`@lP ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$.?0123456789<@<SЬTЬ UQS>?\\\\\\\\\`:#@'="\abcdefghi\\\\\\\jklmnopqr\\\\\\\~stuvwxyz\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\{ABCDEFGHI\\\\\\}JKLMNOPQR\\\\\\\\STUVWXYZ\\\\\\0123456789\\\\\  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ{|}~@ggh<i|o<m<4p<p<k|Zn<l fr rwx<x<x<x޺<w@]@@fjnr]Ze@@|> | |v<H|  |  |xz|  |zt f r   < &^ @&@'*/V,"?Lh:hmBmz|z{x`y~|fN|@@|@͂|@ ݃ƃ<ns<|Ŏ |️|ep|u|-@率|<ﾲ2ֻr||ZRM | ntB|xyvZw|J=|R>|J? nnaa|bddfEIR 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 MIZPEHBOOK09BIB[.050044]BOOK09.BIB[.050044]    X14|H [4;Ik(&'( k ߫H&P` \RrPP2PPzPP{PPPPP2P~\$\\TD 0D \~ hi) +\ ^( n ^( np\^txY\^ˀ\!kVk<\F˰<˴ˬ\VVkˤ1`@lP ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$.?0123456789<@<SЬTЬ UQS>?\\\\\\\\\`:#@'="\abcdefghi\\\\\\\jklmnopqr\\\\\\\~stuvwxyz\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\{ABCDEFGHI\\\\\\}JKLMNOPQR\\\\\\\\STUVWXYZ\\\\\\0123456789\\\\\  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ{|}~@ggh<i|o<m<4p<p<k|Zn<l fr rwx<x<x<x޺<w@]@@fjnr]Ze@@|> | |v<H|  |  |xz|  |zt f r   < &^ @&@'*/V,"?Lh:hmBmz|z{x`y~|fN|@@|@͂|@ ݃ƃ<ns<|Ŏ |️|ep|u|-@率|<ﾲ2ֻr||ZRM | ntB|xyvZw|J=|R>|J? nnaa|bddfILL 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 BOOK09BIB[.050044]BOOK09.BIB[.050044]    X14|H [4;Ik(&'( k ߫H&P` \RrPP2PPzPP{PPPPP2P~\$\\TD 0D \~ hi) +\ ^( n ^( np\^txY\^ˀ\!kVk<\F˰<˴ˬ\VVkˤ1`@lP ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$.?0123456789<@<SЬTЬ UQS>?\\\\\\\\\`:#@'="\abcdefghi\\\\\\\jklmnopqr\\\\\\\~stuvwxyz\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\{ABCDEFGHI\\\\\\}JKLMNOPQR\\\\\\\\STUVWXYZ\\\\\\0123456789\\\\\  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ{|}~@ggh<i|o<m<4p<p<k|Zn<l fr rwx<x<x<x޺<w@]@@fjnr]Ze@@|> | |v<H|  |  |xz|  |zt f r   < &^ @&@'*/V,"?Lh:hmBmz|z{x`y~|fN|@@|@͂|@ ݃ƃ<ns<|Ŏ |️|ep|u|-@率|<ﾲ2ֻr||ZRM | ntB|xyvZw|J=|R>|J? nnaa|bddfPROVERB, 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 WEBOOK09BIB[.050044]BOOK09.BIB[.050044]    X14|H [4;Ik(&'( k ߫H&P` \RrPP2PPzPP{PPPPP2P~\$\\TD 0D \~ hi) +\ ^( n ^( np\^txY\^ˀ\!kVk<\F˰<˴ˬ\VVkˤ1`@lP ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$.?0123456789<@<SЬTЬ UQS>?\\\\\\\\\`:#@'="\abcdefghi\\\\\\\jklmnopqr\\\\\\\~stuvwxyz\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\{ABCDEFGHI\\\\\\}JKLMNOPQR\\\\\\\\STUVWXYZ\\\\\\0123456789\\\\\  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ{|}~@ggh<i|o<m<4p<p<k|Zn<l fr rwx<x<x<x޺<w@]@@fjnr]Ze@@|> | |v<H|  |  |xz|  |zt f r   < &^ @&@'*/V,"?Lh:hmBmz|z{x`y~|fN|@@|@͂|@ ݃ƃ<ns<|Ŏ |️|ep|u|-@率|<ﾲ2ֻr||ZRM | ntB|xyvZw|J=|R>|J? nnaa|bddfRD 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 BOOK09BIB[.050044]BOOK09.BIB[.050044]    X14|H [4;Ik(&'( k ߫H&P` \RrPP2PPzPP{PPPPP2P~\$\\TD 0D \~ hi) +\ ^( n ^( np\^txY\^ˀ\!kVk<\F˰<˴ˬ\VVkˤ1`@lP ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$.?0123456789<@<SЬTЬ UQS>?\\\\\\\\\`:#@'="\abcdefghi\\\\\\\jklmnopqr\\\\\\\~stuvwxyz\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\{ABCDEFGHI\\\\\\}JKLMNOPQR\\\\\\\\STUVWXYZ\\\\\\0123456789\\\\\  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ{|}~@ggh<i|o<m<4p<p<k|Zn<l fr rwx<x<x<x޺<w@]@@fjnr]Ze@@|> | |v<H|  |  |xz|  |zt f r   < &^ @&@'*/V,"?Lh:hmBmz|z{x`y~|fN|@@|@͂|@ ݃ƃ<ns<|Ŏ |️|ep|u|-@率|<ﾲ2ֻr||ZRM | ntB|xyvZw|J=|R>|J? nnaa|bddfK 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: BBOOK09BIB[.050044]BOOK09.BIB[.050044]    X14|H [4;Ik(&'( k ߫H&P` \RrPP2PPzPP{PPPPP2P~\$\\TD 0D \~ hi) +\ ^( n ^( np\^txY\^ˀ\!kVk<\F˰<˴ˬ\VVkˤ1`@lP ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$.?0123456789<@<SЬTЬ UQS>?\\\\\\\\\`:#@'="\abcdefghi\\\\\\\jklmnopqr\\\\\\\~stuvwxyz\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\{ABCDEFGHI\\\\\\}JKLMNOPQR\\\\\\\\STUVWXYZ\\\\\\0123456789\\\\\  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ{|}~@ggh<i|o<m<4p<p<k|Zn<l fr rwx<x<x<x޺<w@]@@fjnr]Ze@@|> | |v<H|  |  |xz|  |zt f r   < &^ @&@'*/V,"?Lh:hmBmz|z{x`y~|fN|@@|@͂|@ ݃ƃ<ns<|Ŏ |️|ep|u|-@率|<ﾲ2ֻr||ZRM | ntB|xyvZw|J=|R>|J? nnaa|bddfHE 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 PASBOOK09BIB[.050044]BOOK09.BIB[.050044]    X14|H [4;Ik(&'( k ߫H&P` \RrPP2PPzPP{PPPPP2P~\$\\TD 0D \~ hi) +\ ^( n ^( np\^txY\^ˀ\!kVk<\F˰<˴ˬ\VVkˤ1`@lP ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$.?0123456789<@<SЬTЬ UQS>?\\\\\\\\\`:#@'="\abcdefghi\\\\\\\jklmnopqr\\\\\\\~stuvwxyz\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\{ABCDEFGHI\\\\\\}JKLMNOPQR\\\\\\\\STUVWXYZ\\\\\\0123456789\\\\\  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ{|}~@ggh<i|o<m<4p<p<k|Zn<l fr rwx<x<x<x޺<w@]@@fjnr]Ze@@|> | |v<H|  |  |xz|  |zt f r   < &^ @&@'*/V,"?Lh:hmBmz|z{x`y~|fN|@@|@͂|@ ݃ƃ<ns<|Ŏ |️|ep|u|-@率|<ﾲ2ֻr||ZRM | ntB|xyvZw|J=|R>|J? nnaa|bddfND 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 BOOK09BIB[.050044]BOOK09.BIB[.050044]    X14|H [4;Ik(&'( k ߫H&P` \RrPP2PPzPP{PPPPP2P~\$\\TD 0D \~ hi) +\ ^( n ^( np\^txY\^ˀ\!kVk<\F˰<˴ˬ\VVkˤ1`@lP ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$.?0123456789<@<SЬTЬ UQS>?\\\\\\\\\`:#@'="\abcdefghi\\\\\\\jklmnopqr\\\\\\\~stuvwxyz\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\{ABCDEFGHI\\\\\\}JKLMNOPQR\\\\\\\\STUVWXYZ\\\\\\0123456789\\\\\  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ{|}~@ggh<i|o<m<4p<p<k|Zn<l fr rwx<x<x<x޺<w@]@@fjnr]Ze@@|> | |v<H|  |  |xz|  |zt f r   < &^ @&@'*/V,"?Lh:hmBmz|z{x`y~|fN|@@|@͂|@ ݃ƃ<ns<|Ŏ |️|ep|u|-@率|<ﾲ2ֻr||ZRM | ntB|xyvZw|J=|R>|J? nnaa|bddfE 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 WIFEBOOK09BIB[.050044]BOOK09.BIB[.050044]    X14|H [4;Ik(&'( k ߫H&P` \RrPP2PPzPP{PPPPP2P~\$\\TD 0D \~ hi) +\ ^( n ^( np\^txY\^ˀ\!kVk<\F˰<˴ˬ\VVkˤ1`@lP ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$.?0123456789<@<SЬTЬ UQS>?\\\\\\\\\`:#@'="\abcdefghi\\\\\\\jklmnopqr\\\\\\\~stuvwxyz\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\{ABCDEFGHI\\\\\\}JKLMNOPQR\\\\\\\\STUVWXYZ\\\\\\0123456789\\\\\  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ{|}~@ggh<i|o<m<4p<p<k|Zn<l fr rwx<x<x<x޺<w@]@@fjnr]Ze@@|> | |v<H|  |  |xz|  |zt f r   < &^ @&@'*/V,"?Lh:hmBmz|z{x`y~|fN|@@|@͂|@ ݃ƃ<ns<|Ŏ |️|ep|u|-@率|<ﾲ2ֻr||ZRM | ntB|xyvZw|J=|R>|J? nnaa|bddf 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 ANDBOOK09BIB[.050044]BOOK09.BIB[.050044]    X14|H [4;Ik(&'( k ߫H&P` \RrPP2PPzPP{PPPPP2P~\$\\TD 0D \~ hi) +\ ^( n ^( np\^txY\^ˀ\!kVk<\F˰<˴ˬ\VVkˤ1`@lP ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$.?0123456789<@<SЬTЬ UQS>?\\\\\\\\\`:#@'="\abcdefghi\\\\\\\jklmnopqr\\\\\\\~stuvwxyz\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\{ABCDEFGHI\\\\\\}JKLMNOPQR\\\\\\\\STUVWXYZ\\\\\\0123456789\\\\\  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ{|}~@ggh<i|o<m<4p<p<k|Zn<l fr rwx<x<x<x޺<w@]@@fjnr]Ze@@|> | |v<H|  |  |xz|  |zt f r   < &^ @&@'*/V,"?Lh:hmBmz|z{x`y~|fN|@@|@͂|@ ݃ƃ<ns<|Ŏ |️|ep|u|-@率|<ﾲ2ֻr||ZRM | ntB|xyvZw|J=|R>|J? nnaa|bddfT 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 BOOK09BIB[.050044]BOOK09.BIB[.050044]    X14|H [4;Ik(&'( k ߫H&P` \RrPP2PPzPP{PPPPP2P~\$\\TD 0D \~ hi) +\ ^( n ^( np\^txY\^ˀ\!kVk<\F˰<˴ˬ\VVkˤ1`@lP ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$.?0123456789<@<SЬTЬ UQS>?\\\\\\\\\`:#@'="\abcdefghi\\\\\\\jklmnopqr\\\\\\\~stuvwxyz\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\{ABCDEFGHI\\\\\\}JKLMNOPQR\\\\\\\\STUVWXYZ\\\\\\0123456789\\\\\  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ{|}~@ggh<i|o<m<4p<p<k|Zn<l fr rwx<x<x<x޺<w@]@@fjnr]Ze@@|> | |v<H|  |  |xz|  |zt f r   < &^ @&@'*/V,"?Lh:hmBmz|z{x`y~|fN|@@|@͂|@ ݃ƃ<ns<|Ŏ |️|ep|u|-@率|<ﾲ2ֻr||ZRM | ntB|xyvZw|J=|R>|J? nnaa|bddfENGTHENED 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 NEITHERBOOK09BIB[.050044]BOOK09.BIB[.050044]    X14|H [4;Ik(&'( k ߫H&P` \RrPP2PPzPP{PPPPP2P~\$\\TD 0D \~ hi) +\ ^( n ^( np\^txY\^ˀ\!kVk<\F˰<˴ˬ\VVkˤ1`@lP ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$.?0123456789<@<SЬTЬ UQS>?\\\\\\\\\`:#@'="\abcdefghi\\\\\\\jklmnopqr\\\\\\\~stuvwxyz\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\{ABCDEFGHI\\\\\\}JKLMNOPQR\\\\\\\\STUVWXYZ\\\\\\0123456789\\\\\  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ{|}~@ggh<i|o<m<4p<p<k|Zn<l fr rwx<x<x<x޺<w@]@@fjnr]Ze@@|> | |v<H|  |  |xz|  |zt f r   < &^ @&@'*/V,"?Lh:hmBmz|z{x`y~|fN|@@|@͂|@ ݃ƃ<ns<|Ŏ |️|ep|u|-@率|<ﾲ2ֻr||ZRM | ntB|xyvZw|J=|R>|J? nnaa|bddfE 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 MOBOOK09BIB[.050044]BOOK09.BIB[.050044]    X14|H [4;Ik(&'( k ߫H&P` \RrPP2PPzPP{PPPPP2P~\$\\TD 0D \~ hi) +\ ^( n ^( np\^txY\^ˀ\!kVk<\F˰<˴ˬ\VVkˤ1`@lP ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$.?0123456789<@<SЬTЬ UQS>?\\\\\\\\\`:#@'="\abcdefghi\\\\\\\jklmnopqr\\\\\\\~stuvwxyz\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\{ABCDEFGHI\\\\\\}JKLMNOPQR\\\\\\\\STUVWXYZ\\\\\\0123456789\\\\\  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ{|}~@ggh<i|o<m<4p<p<k|Zn<l fr rwx<x<x<x޺<w@]@@fjnr]Ze@@|> | |v<H|  |  |xz|  |zt f r   < &^ @&@'*/V,"?Lh:hmBmz|z{x`y~|fN|@@|@͂|@ ݃ƃ<ns<|Ŏ |️|ep|u|-@率|<ﾲ2ֻr||ZRM | ntB|xyvZw|J=|R>|J? nnaa|bddf 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 THOUBOOK09BIB[.050044]BOOK09.BIB[.050044]    X14|H [4;Ik(&'( k ߫H&P` \RrPP2PPzPP{PPPPP2P~\$\\TD 0D \~ hi) +\ ^( n ^( np\^txY\^ˀ\!kVk<\F˰<˴ˬ\VVkˤ1`@lP ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$.?0123456789<@<SЬTЬ UQS>?\\\\\\\\\`:#@'="\abcdefghi\\\\\\\jklmnopqr\\\\\\\~stuvwxyz\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\{ABCDEFGHI\\\\\\}JKLMNOPQR\\\\\\\\STUVWXYZ\\\\\\0123456789\\\\\  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ{|}~@ggh<i|o<m<4p<p<k|Zn<l fr rwx<x<x<x޺<w@]@@fjnr]Ze@@|> | |v<H|  |  |xz|  |zt f r   < &^ @&@'*/V,"?Lh:hmBmz|z{x`y~|fN|@@|@͂|@ ݃ƃ<ns<|Ŏ |️|ep|u|-@率|<ﾲ2ֻr||ZRM | ntB|xyvZw|J=|R>|J? nnaa|bddfN 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 ANDBOOK09BIB[.050044]BOOK09.BIB[.050044]    X14|H [4;Ik(&'( k ߫H&P` \RrPP2PPzPP{PPPPP2P~\$\\TD 0D \~ hi) +\ ^( n ^( np\^txY\^ˀ\!kVk<\F˰<˴ˬ\VVkˤ1`@lP ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$.?0123456789<@<SЬTЬ UQS>?\\\\\\\\\`:#@'="\abcdefghi\\\\\\\jklmnopqr\\\\\\\~stuvwxyz\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\{ABCDEFGHI\\\\\\}JKLMNOPQR\\\\\\\\STUVWXYZ\\\\\\0123456789\\\\\  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ{|}~@ggh<i|o<m<4p<p<k|Zn<l fr rwx<x<x<x޺<w@]@@fjnr]Ze@@|> | |v<H|  |  |xz|  |zt f r   < &^ @&@'*/V,"?Lh:hmBmz|z{x`y~|fN|@@|@͂|@ ݃ƃ<ns<|Ŏ |️|ep|u|-@率|<ﾲ2ֻr||ZRM | ntB|xyvZw|J=|R>|J? nnaa|bddf 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. 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