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    <book number='9' name='1 Samuel' abbreviation='1 Sam' testament='old'>
        <chapter number='1'>
            <verse number='1'>Now there <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='259'>certain</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='7436'>Ramathaim</strongs>-zophim, of <strongs hebrew='4480 2022'>mount</strongs><strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='511'>Elkanah</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3395'>Jeroham</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='453'>Elihu</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8459'>Tohu</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6689'>Zuph</strongs>, an <strongs hebrew='6733'>Ephrathite</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And he had <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='802'>wives</strongs>; the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='2584'>Hannah</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8145'>other</strongs><strongs hebrew='6444'>Peninnah</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='6444'>Peninnah</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>had</strongs><strongs hebrew='3206'>children</strongs>, but <strongs hebrew='2584'>Hannah</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='3206'>children</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And <strongs hebrew='1931'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>out of his <strongs hebrew='4480 5892'>city</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 3117 3117'>yearly</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7812'>worship</strongs>and to <strongs hebrew='2076'>sacrifice</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6635'>hosts</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7887'>Shiloh</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5941'>Eli</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2652'>Hophni</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6372'>Phinehas</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And when the <strongs hebrew='3117'>time</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='511'>Elkanah</strongs><strongs hebrew='2076'>offered</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6444'>Peninnah</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>and her <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughters</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4490'>portions</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='5'>But unto <strongs hebrew='2584'>Hannah</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>a</strongs><strongs hebrew='639'>worthy</strongs><strongs hebrew='4490'>portion</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='157'>loved</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2584'>Hannah</strongs>: but the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>had shut <strongs hebrew='5462'>up</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='7358'>womb</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And her <strongs hebrew='6869'>adversary</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs><strongs hebrew='3707'>provoked</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='3708'>sore</strongs>, for <strongs hebrew='5668'>to</strongs>make her <strongs hebrew='7481'>fret</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>had shut <strongs hebrew='5462 1157'>up</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='7358'>womb</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And <em>as</em> he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4480 1767'>when</strongs>she went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='4480 1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs>she <strongs hebrew='3707'>provoked</strongs>her; therefore she <strongs hebrew='1058'>wept</strongs>, and did <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='511'>Elkanah</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='376'>husband</strongs>to her, <strongs hebrew='2584'>Hannah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>why</strongs><strongs hebrew='1058'>weepest</strongs>thou? and <strongs hebrew='4100'>why</strongs><strongs hebrew='398'>eatest</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>? and <strongs hebrew='4100'>why</strongs>is thy <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs><strongs hebrew='7489'>grieved</strongs>? <em>am</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='2896'>better</strongs>to thee than <strongs hebrew='4480 6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='9'>So <strongs hebrew='2584'>Hannah</strongs>rose <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>they had <strongs hebrew='398'>eaten</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7887'>Shiloh</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>they had <strongs hebrew='8354'>drunk</strongs>. Now <strongs hebrew='5941'>Eli</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>sat</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3678'>seat</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>by</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4201'>post</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1964'>temple</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And <strongs hebrew='1931'>she</strongs><em>was</em> in <strongs hebrew='4751'>bitterness</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5315'>soul</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6419'>prayed</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and wept <strongs hebrew='1058 1058'>sore</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And she <strongs hebrew='5087'>vowed</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='5088'>vow</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, O <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6635'>hosts</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>thou wilt indeed <strongs hebrew='7200 7200'>look</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='6040'>affliction</strongs>of thine <strongs hebrew='519'>handmaid</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2142'>remember</strongs>me, and <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='7911'>forget</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='519'>handmaid</strongs>, but wilt <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>unto thine <strongs hebrew='519'>handmaid</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='2233'>child</strongs>, then I will <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>him unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='2416'>life</strongs>, and there shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='4177'>razor</strongs><strongs hebrew='5927'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>as</strongs>she <strongs hebrew='7235'>continued</strongs><strongs hebrew='6419'>praying</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='5941'>Eli</strongs><strongs hebrew='8104'>marked</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>her <strongs hebrew='6310'>mouth</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>Now <strongs hebrew='2584'>Hannah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>she</strongs><strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='7535'>only</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='8193'>lips</strongs><strongs hebrew='5128'>moved</strongs>, but her <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs>: therefore <strongs hebrew='5941'>Eli</strongs><strongs hebrew='2803'>thought</strongs>she had been <strongs hebrew='7910'>drunken</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And <strongs hebrew='5941'>Eli</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>her, <strongs hebrew='5704'>How</strongs><strongs hebrew='4970'>long</strongs>wilt thou be <strongs hebrew='7937'>drunken</strongs>? put <strongs hebrew='5493'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='3196'>wine</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>from</strongs>thee. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And <strongs hebrew='2584'>Hannah</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3808'>No</strongs>, my <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>, I <em>am</em> a <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>of a <strongs hebrew='7186'>sorrowful</strongs><strongs hebrew='7307'>spirit</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='8354'>drunk</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>neither</strongs><strongs hebrew='3196'>wine</strongs>nor strong <strongs hebrew='7941'>drink</strongs>, but have poured <strongs hebrew='8210'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>my <strongs hebrew='5315'>soul</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'><strongs hebrew='5414'>Count</strongs><strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='519'>handmaid</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>for</strongs>a daughter of <strongs hebrew='1323 1100'>Belial</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 7230'>abundance</strongs>of my <strongs hebrew='7879'>complaint</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3708'>grief</strongs>have I <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoken</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704 6258'>hitherto</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>Then <strongs hebrew='5941'>Eli</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Go</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7965'>peace</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>grant</strongs><em>thee</em> <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='7596'>petition</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='7592'>asked</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5973'>of</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And she <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Let thine <strongs hebrew='8198'>handmaid</strongs><strongs hebrew='4672'>find</strongs><strongs hebrew='2580'>grace</strongs>in thy <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>. So the <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>, and did <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>, and her <strongs hebrew='6440'>countenance</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='5750'>more</strongs><em>sad</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And they rose up in the morning <strongs hebrew='7925 1242'>early</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7812'>worshiped</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7414'>Ramah</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='511'>Elkanah</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>knew</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2584'>Hannah</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='2142'>remembered</strongs>her. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>Wherefore it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, when the <strongs hebrew='3117'>time</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='8622'>come</strongs>about after <strongs hebrew='2584'>Hannah</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='2029'>conceived</strongs>, that she <strongs hebrew='3205'>bore</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>, <em>saying</em> , <strongs hebrew='3588'>Because</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='7592'>asked</strongs>him of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='511'>Elkanah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2076'>offer</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3117'>yearly</strongs><strongs hebrew='2077'>sacrifice</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='5088'>vow</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>But <strongs hebrew='2584'>Hannah</strongs>went not <strongs hebrew='5927 3808'>up</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>she <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto her <strongs hebrew='376'>husband</strongs>, <em>I</em> <em>will</em> <em>not</em> <em>go</em> <em>up</em> <strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5288'>child</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='1580'>weaned</strongs>, and <em>then</em> I will <strongs hebrew='935'>bring</strongs>him, that he may <strongs hebrew='7200'>appear</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>abide</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704 5769'>forever</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And <strongs hebrew='511'>Elkanah</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='376'>husband</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto her, <strongs hebrew='6213'>Do</strongs>what <strongs hebrew='5869'>seemeth</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3427'>tarry</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>thou have <strongs hebrew='1580'>weaned</strongs>him; <strongs hebrew='389'>only</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='6965'>establish</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>. So the <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>abode</strongs>, and gave her son <strongs hebrew='3243 *853 1121'>suck</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>she <strongs hebrew='1580'>weaned</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And <strongs hebrew='834'>when</strongs>she had <strongs hebrew='1580'>weaned</strongs>him, she took him <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>her, with <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='6499'>bullocks</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='374'>ephah</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7058'>flour</strongs>, and a <strongs hebrew='5035'>bottle</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3196'>wine</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>him unto the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7887'>Shiloh</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='5288'>child</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5288'>young</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>And they <strongs hebrew='7819'>slew</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>a <strongs hebrew='6499'>bullock</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5288'>child</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='5941'>Eli</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>And she <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='994'>Oh</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>, <em>as</em> thy <strongs hebrew='5315'>soul</strongs><strongs hebrew='2416'>liveth</strongs>, my <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><em>am</em> the <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='5324'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>by</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='2088'>here</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6419'>praying</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'><strongs hebrew='413'>For</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='5288'>child</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='6419'>prayed</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>my <strongs hebrew='7596'>petition</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='7592'>asked</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5973'>of</strongs>him: </verse>
            <verse number='28'>Therefore <strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs><strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='7592'>lent</strongs>him to the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>; as <strongs hebrew='3605'>long</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='3117'>liveth</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='7592'>lent</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='7812'>worshiped</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='2'>
            <verse number='1'>And <strongs hebrew='2584'>Hannah</strongs><strongs hebrew='6419'>prayed</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, My <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs><strongs hebrew='5970'>rejoiceth</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, mine <strongs hebrew='7161'>horn</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='7311'>exalted</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: my <strongs hebrew='6310'>mouth</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='7337'>enlarged</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>mine <strongs hebrew='341'>enemies</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='8055'>rejoice</strongs>in thy <strongs hebrew='3444'>salvation</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'><em>There</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>none</strongs><strongs hebrew='6918'>holy</strongs>as the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><em>there</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>none</strongs><strongs hebrew='1115'>beside</strongs>thee: <strongs hebrew='369'>neither</strongs><em>is</em> <em>there</em> any <strongs hebrew='6697'>rock</strongs>like our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs hebrew='1696'>Talk</strongs><strongs hebrew='408'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='7235'>more</strongs>so exceeding <strongs hebrew='1364 1364'>proudly</strongs>; let <em>not</em> <strongs hebrew='6277'>arrogance</strongs>come <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>of your <strongs hebrew='4480 6310'>mouth</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><em>is</em> a <strongs hebrew='410'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1844'>knowledge</strongs>, and by him <strongs hebrew='5949'>actions</strongs>are <strongs hebrew='8505'>weighed</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>The <strongs hebrew='7198'>bows</strongs>of the mighty <strongs hebrew='1368'>men</strongs><em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='2844'>broken</strongs>, and they that <strongs hebrew='3782'>stumbled</strongs>are <strongs hebrew='247'>girded</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='2428'>strength</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'><em>They</em> <em>that</em> <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='7649'>full</strongs>have hired out <strongs hebrew='7936'>themselves</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='3899'>bread</strongs>; and <em>they</em> <em>that</em> <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='7457'>hungry</strongs><strongs hebrew='2308'>ceased</strongs>: so <strongs hebrew='5704'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6135'>barren</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='3205'>born</strongs><strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs>; and she that hath <strongs hebrew='7227'>many</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>is waxed <strongs hebrew='535'>feeble</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>The <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='4191'>killeth</strongs>, and maketh <strongs hebrew='2421'>alive</strongs>: he bringeth <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='7585'>grave</strongs>, and bringeth <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>The <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>maketh <strongs hebrew='3423'>poor</strongs>, and maketh <strongs hebrew='6238'>rich</strongs>: he bringeth <strongs hebrew='8213'>low</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='637'>and</strongs>lifteth <strongs hebrew='7311'>up</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>He raiseth <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1800'>poor</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 6083'>dust</strongs>, <em>and</em> lifteth <strongs hebrew='7311'>up</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='34'>beggar</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 830'>dunghill</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='3427'>set</strongs><em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>among</strongs><strongs hebrew='5081'>princes</strongs>, and to make them <strongs hebrew='5157'>inherit</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3678'>throne</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3519'>glory</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4690'>pillars</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>earth</strongs><em>are</em> the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>'s, and he hath <strongs hebrew='7896'>set</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8398'>world</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>He will <strongs hebrew='8104'>keep</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7272'>feet</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='2623'>saints</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='7563'>wicked</strongs>shall be <strongs hebrew='1826'>silent</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='2822'>darkness</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='3581'>strength</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='1396'>prevail</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>The <strongs hebrew='7378'>adversaries</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>shall be broken to <strongs hebrew='2865'>pieces</strongs>; out of <strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>shall he <strongs hebrew='7481'>thunder</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>them: the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='1777'>judge</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='657'>ends</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>earth</strongs>; and he shall <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs><strongs hebrew='5797'>strength</strongs>unto his <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7311'>exalt</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7161'>horn</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='4899'>anointed</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And <strongs hebrew='511'>Elkanah</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7414'>Ramah</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='5288'>child</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>did</strongs><strongs hebrew='8334'>minister</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='5941'>Eli</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>Now the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5941'>Eli</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1100'>Belial</strongs>; they <strongs hebrew='3045'>knew</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>' <strongs hebrew='4941'>custom</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><em>was,</em> <em>that</em> , when <strongs hebrew='3605'>any</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='2076'>offered</strongs><strongs hebrew='2077'>sacrifice</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='5288'>servant</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>, while the <strongs hebrew='1320'>flesh</strongs>was in <strongs hebrew='1310'>seething</strongs>, with a <strongs hebrew='4207'>fleshhook</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='8127'>teeth</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And he <strongs hebrew='5221'>struck</strongs><em>it</em> into the <strongs hebrew='3595'>pan</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='176'>or</strongs><strongs hebrew='1731'>kettle</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='176'>or</strongs><strongs hebrew='7037'>caldron</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='176'>or</strongs><strongs hebrew='6517'>pot</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4207'>fleshhook</strongs>brought <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs>for himself. <strongs hebrew='3602'>So</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7887'>Shiloh</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israelites</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>thither</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'><strongs hebrew='1571'>Also</strongs><strongs hebrew='2962'>before</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='6999'>burnt</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2459'>fat</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='5288'>servant</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='2076'>sacrificed</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5414'>Give</strongs><strongs hebrew='1320'>flesh</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6740'>roast</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>; for he will <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>have</strongs>sodden <strongs hebrew='1320 1310'>flesh</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>thee, <strongs hebrew='3588 518'>but</strongs><strongs hebrew='2416'>raw</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And <em>if</em> any <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, Let them not fail to <strongs hebrew='6999 6999'>burn</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2459'>fat</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>presently</strongs>, and <em>then</em> <strongs hebrew='3947'>take</strongs><em>as</em> <em>much</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5315'>soul</strongs><strongs hebrew='183'>desireth</strongs>; then he would <strongs hebrew='559'>answer</strongs>him, <em>Nay</em> ; <strongs hebrew='3588'>but</strongs>thou shalt <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs><em>it</em> <em>me</em> <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>, I will <strongs hebrew='3947'>take</strongs><em>it</em> by <strongs hebrew='2394'>force</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>Wherefore the <strongs hebrew='2403'>sin</strongs>of the young <strongs hebrew='5288'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='3966'>very</strongs><strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='5006'>abhorred</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4503'>offering</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>But <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='8334'>ministered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <em>being</em> a <strongs hebrew='5288'>child</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2296'>girded</strongs>with a <strongs hebrew='906'>linen</strongs><strongs hebrew='646'>ephod</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>Moreover his <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>made</strongs>him a <strongs hebrew='6996'>little</strongs><strongs hebrew='4598'>coat</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5927'>brought</strongs><em>it</em> to him from year to <strongs hebrew='4480 3117 3117'>year</strongs>, when she came <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='376'>husband</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2076'>offer</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3117'>yearly</strongs><strongs hebrew='2077'>sacrifice</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And <strongs hebrew='5941'>Eli</strongs><strongs hebrew='1288'>blessed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='511'>Elkanah</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='7760'>give</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='2233'>seed</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs><strongs hebrew='8478'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7596'>loan</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='7592'>lent</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. And they <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>unto their own <strongs hebrew='4725'>home</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'><strongs hebrew='3588'>And</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='6485'>visited</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2584'>Hannah</strongs>, so that she <strongs hebrew='2029'>conceived</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3205'>bore</strongs><strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='1323'>daughters</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='5288'>child</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='1431'>grew</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>Now <strongs hebrew='5941'>Eli</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3966'>very</strongs><strongs hebrew='2204'>old</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='834'>how</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='7901'>lay</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='802'>women</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='6633'>assembled</strongs><em>at</em> the <strongs hebrew='6607'>door</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='168'>tabernacle</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4150'>congregation</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto them, <strongs hebrew='4100'>Why</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>ye <strongs hebrew='428'>such</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>things</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='834'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>hear</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>your <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>dealings</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 854'>by</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'><strongs hebrew='408'>Nay</strongs>, my <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><em>it</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs><strongs hebrew='8052'>report</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>hear</strongs>: ye make the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5674'>transgress</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'><strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs>one <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='2398'>sin</strongs>against <strongs hebrew='376'>another</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='430'>judge</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='6419'>judge</strongs>him: but <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='2398'>sin</strongs>against the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4310'>who</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='6419'>entreat</strongs>for him? <strongs hebrew='3808'>Notwithstanding</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='8085'>hearkened</strongs>not unto the <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='2654'>would</strongs><strongs hebrew='4191'>slay</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>And the <strongs hebrew='5288'>child</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>grew</strongs><strongs hebrew='1432'>on</strongs>, and was in <strongs hebrew='2896'>favor</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>both</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>And there <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='5941'>Eli</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, Did I plainly <strongs hebrew='1540 1540'>appear</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, when they <strongs hebrew='1961'>were</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='4714'>Egypt</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='6547'>Pharaoh</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='28'>And did I <strongs hebrew='977'>choose</strongs>him out of <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7626'>tribes</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><em>to</em> <em>be</em> my <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='5927'>offer</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>mine <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='6999'>burn</strongs><strongs hebrew='7004'>incense</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='5375'>wear</strongs>an <strongs hebrew='646'>ephod</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>me? and did I <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the offerings made by <strongs hebrew='801'>fire</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='29'><strongs hebrew='4100'>Wherefore</strongs><strongs hebrew='1163'>kick</strongs>ye at my <strongs hebrew='2077'>sacrifice</strongs>and at mine <strongs hebrew='4503'>offering</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs><em>in</em> <em>my</em> <strongs hebrew='4583'>habitation</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='3513'>honorest</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>above</strongs>me, to make yourselves <strongs hebrew='1254'>fat</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='4480 7225'>chiefest</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4503'>offerings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='30'><strongs hebrew='3651'>Wherefore</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='5002'>saith</strongs>, I <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>indeed</strongs><em>that</em> thy <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, should <strongs hebrew='1980'>walk</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='5704 5769'>forever</strongs>: but <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5002'>saith</strongs>, Be it <strongs hebrew='2486'>far</strongs>from me; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>them that <strongs hebrew='3513'>honor</strongs>me I will <strongs hebrew='3513'>honor</strongs>, and they that <strongs hebrew='959'>despise</strongs>me shall be lightly <strongs hebrew='7043'>esteemed</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='31'><strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>, that I will cut <strongs hebrew='1438'>off</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='2220'>arm</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='2220'>arm</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, that there shall not <strongs hebrew='4480 1961'>be</strongs>an old <strongs hebrew='2205'>man</strongs>in thine <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='32'>And thou shalt <strongs hebrew='5027'>see</strongs>an <strongs hebrew='6862'>enemy</strongs><em>in</em> <em>my</em> <strongs hebrew='4583'>habitation</strongs>, in <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><em>the</em> <em>wealth</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>God</em> shall <strongs hebrew='3190'>give</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>: and there shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>an old <strongs hebrew='2205'>man</strongs>in thine <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605 3117'>forever</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='33'>And the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of thine, <em>whom</em> I shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>cut <strongs hebrew='3772'>off</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5973'>from</strongs>mine <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>, <em>shall</em> <em>be</em> to <strongs hebrew='3615'>consume</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='109'>grieve</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='5315'>heart</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4768'>increase</strongs>of thine <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='4191'>die</strongs>in the flower of their <strongs hebrew='376'>age</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='34'>And <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><em>shall</em> <em>be</em> a <strongs hebrew='226'>sign</strongs>unto thee, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>upon</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='413'>on</strongs><strongs hebrew='2652'>Hophni</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6372'>Phinehas</strongs>; in <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>they shall <strongs hebrew='4191'>die</strongs><strongs hebrew='8147'>both</strongs>of them. </verse>
            <verse number='35'>And I will raise me <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='539'>faithful</strongs><strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>, <em>that</em> shall <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>according to <em>that</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>is</em> in mine <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>and in my <strongs hebrew='5315'>mind</strongs>: and I will <strongs hebrew='1129'>build</strongs>him a <strongs hebrew='539'>sure</strongs><strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>; and he shall <strongs hebrew='1980'>walk</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>mine <strongs hebrew='4899'>anointed</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605 3117'>forever</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='36'>And it shall come to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, <em>that</em> every <strongs hebrew='3605'>one</strongs>that is <strongs hebrew='3498'>left</strongs>in thine <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='7812'>crouch</strongs>to him for a <strongs hebrew='95'>piece</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>and a <strongs hebrew='3603'>morsel</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3899'>bread</strongs>, and shall <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5596'>Put</strongs>me, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs>of the priests' <strongs hebrew='3550'>offices</strongs>, that I may <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='6595'>piece</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3899'>bread</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='3'>
            <verse number='1'>And the <strongs hebrew='5288'>child</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='8334'>ministered</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='5941'>Eli</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='3368'>precious</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='1992'>those</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>; <em>there</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='6555'>open</strongs><strongs hebrew='2377'>vision</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>at that <strongs hebrew='3117'>time</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>when</strongs><strongs hebrew='5941'>Eli</strongs><em>was</em> laid <strongs hebrew='7901'>down</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs><strongs hebrew='2490'>began</strongs>to wax <strongs hebrew='3544'>dim</strongs>, <em>that</em> he <strongs hebrew='3201'>could</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And <strongs hebrew='2962'>ere</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5216'>lamp</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3518'>out</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1964'>temple</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834 8033'>where</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><em>was</em> , and <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>was laid <strongs hebrew='7901'>down</strongs><em>to</em> <em>sleep</em> ; </verse>
            <verse number='4'>That the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='7121 413'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>: and he <strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Here</strongs><em>am</em> I. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And he <strongs hebrew='7323'>ran</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='5941'>Eli</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Here</strongs><em>am</em> I; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='7121'>calledst</strongs>me. And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, I <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>; lie <strongs hebrew='7901'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>and lay <strongs hebrew='7901'>down</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='5750'>yet</strongs><strongs hebrew='3254'>again</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='5941'>Eli</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Here</strongs><em>am</em> I; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>thou didst <strongs hebrew='7121'>call</strongs>me. And he <strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, I <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>, my <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>; lie <strongs hebrew='7901'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>Now <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>did not <strongs hebrew='2962'>yet</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, neither was the <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='2962'>yet</strongs><strongs hebrew='1540'>revealed</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='3254'>again</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7992'>third</strongs>time. And he <strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='5941'>Eli</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Here</strongs><em>am</em> I; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>thou didst <strongs hebrew='7121'>call</strongs>me. And <strongs hebrew='5941'>Eli</strongs><strongs hebrew='995'>perceived</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5288'>child</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>Therefore <strongs hebrew='5941'>Eli</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Go</strongs>, lie <strongs hebrew='7901'>down</strongs>: and it shall <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='7121 413'>call</strongs>thee, that thou shalt <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1696'>Speak</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>heareth</strongs>. So <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>and lay <strongs hebrew='7901'>down</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3320'>stood</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs>as at other <strongs hebrew='6471 6471'>times</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>. Then <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1696'>Speak</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>heareth</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, at <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='8147'>both</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='241'>ears</strongs>of every <strongs hebrew='3605'>one</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='8085'>heareth</strongs>it shall <strongs hebrew='6750'>tingle</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>In <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>I will <strongs hebrew='6965'>perform</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='5941'>Eli</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><em>things</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoken</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>concerning</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>: when I <strongs hebrew='2490'>begin</strongs>, I will also make an <strongs hebrew='3615'>end</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>For I have <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='8199'>judge</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704 5769'>forever</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='5771'>iniquity</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='3045'>knoweth</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>made themselves <strongs hebrew='7043'>vile</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='3543'>restrained</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And <strongs hebrew='3651'>therefore</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='7650'>sworn</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5941'>Eli</strongs>, that the <strongs hebrew='5771'>iniquity</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5941'>Eli</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='518'>not</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='3722'>purged</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='2077'>sacrifice</strongs>nor <strongs hebrew='4503'>offering</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704 5769'>forever</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='7901'>lay</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1242'>morning</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6605'>opened</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1817'>doors</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='3372'>feared</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4480 5046 413'>show</strongs><strongs hebrew='5941'>Eli</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4759'>vision</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>Then <strongs hebrew='5941'>Eli</strongs><strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>, my <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Here</strongs><em>am</em> I. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs><em>is</em> the <strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>the</em> <em>LORD</em> hath <strongs hebrew='1696'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>thee? I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs><strongs hebrew='3582'>hide</strongs><em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>me: <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><strongs hebrew='3541'>so</strongs>to thee, and <strongs hebrew='3254'>more</strongs><strongs hebrew='3541'>also</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='3582'>hide</strongs><em>any</em> <strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>me of <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>things</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='1696'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>thee. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>every</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>whit</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3582'>hid</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>nothing</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>him. And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>It</strongs><em>is</em> the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: let him <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>what <strongs hebrew='5869'>seemeth</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='1431'>grew</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him, and did let <strongs hebrew='3808 4480 3605'>none</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs><strongs hebrew='5307'>fall</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='776'>ground</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 1835'>Dan</strongs>even <strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='884'>Beer</strongs>-sheba <strongs hebrew='3045'>knew</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='539'>established</strongs><em>to</em> <em>be</em> a <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophet</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>appeared</strongs><strongs hebrew='3254'>again</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7887'>Shiloh</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>revealed <strongs hebrew='1540'>himself</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7887'>Shiloh</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='4'>
            <verse number='1'>And the <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. Now <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='7125'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2583'>pitched</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>beside</strongs><strongs hebrew='72'>Ebenezer</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='2583'>pitched</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='663'>Aphek</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>put themselves in <strongs hebrew='6186'>array</strongs><strongs hebrew='7125'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>: and when they <strongs hebrew='5203'>joined</strongs><strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='5062'>smitten</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='5221'>slew</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4634'>army</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7704'>field</strongs>about <strongs hebrew='702'>four</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And when the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4264'>camp</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='2205'>elders</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>Wherefore</strongs>hath the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5062'>smitten</strongs>us <strongs hebrew='3117'>today</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>? Let us <strongs hebrew='3947'>fetch</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1285'>covenant</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 7887'>Shiloh</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>us, that, when it <strongs hebrew='935'>cometh</strongs><strongs hebrew='7130'>among</strongs>us, it may <strongs hebrew='3467'>save</strongs>us out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3709'>hand</strongs>of our <strongs hebrew='341'>enemies</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>So the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7887'>Shiloh</strongs>, that they might <strongs hebrew='5375'>bring</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 8033'>thence</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1285'>covenant</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6635'>hosts</strongs>, which <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelleth</strongs><em>between</em> the <strongs hebrew='3742'>cherubims</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5941'>Eli</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2652'>Hophni</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6372'>Phinehas</strongs>, <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1285'>covenant</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And when the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1285'>covenant</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4264'>camp</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='7321'>shouted</strongs>with a <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='8643'>shout</strongs>, so that the <strongs hebrew='776'>earth</strongs><strongs hebrew='1949'>rang</strongs>again. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And when the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6963'>noise</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8643'>shout</strongs>, they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs><em>meaneth</em> the <strongs hebrew='6963'>noise</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='8643'>shout</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4264'>camp</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5680'>Hebrews</strongs>? And they <strongs hebrew='3045'>understood</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4264'>camp</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='3372'>afraid</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4264'>camp</strongs>. And they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='188'>Woe</strongs>unto us! <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>there hath <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>been</strongs>such a <strongs hebrew='2063'>thing</strongs><strongs hebrew='865 8032'>heretofore</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs hebrew='188'>Woe</strongs>unto us! <strongs hebrew='4310'>who</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='5337'>deliver</strongs>us out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='117'>mighty</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>Gods</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><em>are</em> the <strongs hebrew='430'>Gods</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4714'>Egyptians</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4347'>plagues</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4057'>wilderness</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>Be <strongs hebrew='2388'>strong</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1961'>quit</strongs>yourselves like <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>, O ye <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>, that ye be not <strongs hebrew='3645 5647'>servants</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='5680'>Hebrews</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>they have <strongs hebrew='5647'>been</strongs>to you: <strongs hebrew='1961'>quit</strongs>yourselves like <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='3898'>fought</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='5062'>smitten</strongs>, and they <strongs hebrew='5127'>fled</strongs>every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>into his <strongs hebrew='168'>tent</strongs>: and there <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3966'>very</strongs><strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='4347'>slaughter</strongs>; for there <strongs hebrew='5307'>fell</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='7273'>footmen</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3947'>taken</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5941'>Eli</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2652'>Hophni</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6372'>Phinehas</strongs>, were <strongs hebrew='4191'>slain</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And there <strongs hebrew='7323'>ran</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 4634'>army</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7887'>Shiloh</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1931'>same</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>with his <strongs hebrew='4055'>clothes</strongs><strongs hebrew='7167'>rent</strongs>, and with <strongs hebrew='127'>earth</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And when he <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>lo</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5941'>Eli</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>sat</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3678'>seat</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='3197 1870'>wayside</strongs><strongs hebrew='6822'>watching</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs><strongs hebrew='2730'>trembled</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>. And when the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs><em>it</em> , <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>cried <strongs hebrew='2199'>out</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And when <strongs hebrew='5941'>Eli</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6963'>noise</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6818'>crying</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs><em>meaneth</em> the <strongs hebrew='6963'>noise</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1995'>tumult</strongs>? And the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='4116'>hastily</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs><strongs hebrew='5941'>Eli</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>Now <strongs hebrew='5941'>Eli</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='8375'>ninety</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8083'>eight</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>old</strongs>; and his <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='6965'>dim</strongs>, that he <strongs hebrew='3201'>could</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='5941'>Eli</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs><em>am</em> he that <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4634'>army</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='5127'>fled</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>today</strongs>out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4634'>army</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>is</strongs>there <strongs hebrew='1697'>done</strongs>, my <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And the <strongs hebrew='1319'>messenger</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='5127'>fled</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>, and there hath <strongs hebrew='1961'>been</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='4046'>slaughter</strongs>among the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, and thy <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2652'>Hophni</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6372'>Phinehas</strongs>, are <strongs hebrew='4191'>dead</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='3947'>taken</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, when he made <strongs hebrew='2142'>mention</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, that he <strongs hebrew='5307'>fell</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>off</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3678'>seat</strongs><strongs hebrew='322'>backward</strongs><strongs hebrew='1157'>by</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3027'>side</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='4665'>neck</strongs><strongs hebrew='7665'>broke</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he was an <strongs hebrew='2204'>old</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3515'>heavy</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='8199'>judged</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='705'>forty</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And his <strongs hebrew='3618'>daughter</strongs>-in-law, <strongs hebrew='6372'>Phinehas</strongs>' <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>, was with <strongs hebrew='2030'>child</strongs>, <em>near</em> to be <strongs hebrew='3205'>delivered</strongs>: and when she <strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8052'>tidings</strongs>that the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3947'>taken</strongs>, and that her <strongs hebrew='2524'>father</strongs>-in-law and her <strongs hebrew='376'>husband</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='4191'>dead</strongs>, she bowed <strongs hebrew='3766'>herself</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3205'>travailed</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='6735'>pains</strongs><strongs hebrew='2015'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>her. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And about the <strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs>of her <strongs hebrew='4191'>death</strongs>the women that <strongs hebrew='5324'>stood</strongs>by her <strongs hebrew='1696'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs>her, <strongs hebrew='3372'>Fear</strongs><strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='3205'>born</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>. But she <strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3808'>neither</strongs>did she <strongs hebrew='7896 3820'>regard</strongs><em>it</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And she <strongs hebrew='7121'>named</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5288'>child</strongs><strongs hebrew='350'>Ichabod</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='3519'>glory</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='1540'>departed</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 3478'>Israel</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='413'>because</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3947'>taken</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='413'>because</strongs>of her <strongs hebrew='2524'>father</strongs>-in-law and her <strongs hebrew='376'>husband</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And she <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='3519'>glory</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='1540'>departed</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 3478'>Israel</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='3947'>taken</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='5'>
            <verse number='1'>And the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>it from <strongs hebrew='4480 72'>Ebenezer</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='795'>Ashdod</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>When the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, they <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>it into the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1712'>Dagon</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3322'>set</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='681'>by</strongs><strongs hebrew='1712'>Dagon</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And when they of <strongs hebrew='795'>Ashdod</strongs>arose <strongs hebrew='7925'>early</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='4480 4283'>morrow</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1712'>Dagon</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5307'>fallen</strongs>upon his <strongs hebrew='6440'>face</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='776'>earth</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. And they <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1712'>Dagon</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7725'>set</strongs>him in his <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>again. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And when they arose <strongs hebrew='7925'>early</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='4480 4283'>morrow</strongs><strongs hebrew='1242'>morning</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1712'>Dagon</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5307'>fallen</strongs>upon his <strongs hebrew='6440'>face</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='776'>ground</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1712'>Dagon</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8147'>both</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3709'>palms</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs><em>were</em> cut <strongs hebrew='3772'>off</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4670'>threshold</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='7535'>only</strongs><em>the</em> <em>stump</em> <em>of</em> <strongs hebrew='1712'>Dagon</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='7604'>left</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='5'><strongs hebrew='5921 3651'>Therefore</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>neither</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1712'>Dagon</strongs>, nor <strongs hebrew='3605'>any</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>into <strongs hebrew='1712'>Dagon</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1869'>tread</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4670'>threshold</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1712'>Dagon</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='795'>Ashdod</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>But the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3513'>heavy</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>upon</strongs>them of <strongs hebrew='795'>Ashdod</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='8074'>destroyed</strongs>them, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs>them with <strongs hebrew='6076'>emerods</strongs>, <em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='795'>Ashdod</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='1366'>coasts</strongs>thereof. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And when the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='795'>Ashdod</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><em>it</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs>, they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>abide</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>us: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='7185'>sore</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>us, and <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='1712'>Dagon</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='430'>god</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>They <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>therefore and <strongs hebrew='622'>gathered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5633'>lords</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs>shall we <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>? And they <strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, Let the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>be carried <strongs hebrew='5437'>about</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='1661'>Gath</strongs>. And they <strongs hebrew='5437'>carried</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>about <em>thither</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And it <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><em>so</em> , that, <strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>they had carried it <strongs hebrew='5437 *853'>about</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>against the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>with a <strongs hebrew='3966'>very</strongs><strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='4103'>destruction</strongs>: and he <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, both <strongs hebrew='4480 6996'>small</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs>, and they had <strongs hebrew='6076'>emerods</strongs>in their secret <strongs hebrew='8368'>parts</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>Therefore they <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6138'>Ekron</strongs>. And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, as the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6138'>Ekron</strongs>, that the <strongs hebrew='6139'>Ekronites</strongs>cried <strongs hebrew='2199'>out</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, They have brought <strongs hebrew='5437'>about</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>us, to <strongs hebrew='4191'>slay</strongs>us and our <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>So they <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>and gathered <strongs hebrew='622'>together</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5633'>lords</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Send <strongs hebrew='7971'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and let it go <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs>to his own <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>, that it <strongs hebrew='4191'>slay</strongs>us <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>, and our <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>there <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4194'>deadly</strongs><strongs hebrew='4103'>destruction</strongs>throughout <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>; the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3966'>very</strongs><strongs hebrew='3513'>heavy</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='5221'>smitten</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='6076'>emerods</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='7775'>cry</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8064'>heaven</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='6'>
            <verse number='1'>And the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7704'>country</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>months</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='7080'>diviners</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs>shall we <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='3045'>tell</strongs>us <strongs hebrew='4100'>wherewith</strongs>we shall <strongs hebrew='7971'>send</strongs>it to his <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs>ye send <strongs hebrew='7971'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7971'>send</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='7387'>empty</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>but</strongs>in any wise <strongs hebrew='7725 7725'>return</strongs>him a trespass <strongs hebrew='817'>offering</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='227'>then</strongs>ye shall be <strongs hebrew='7495'>healed</strongs>, and it shall be <strongs hebrew='3045'>known</strongs>to you <strongs hebrew='4100'>why</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5493'>removed</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>you. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>they, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs><em>shall</em> <em>be</em> the trespass <strongs hebrew='817'>offering</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>we shall <strongs hebrew='7725'>return</strongs>to him? They <strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2568'>Five</strongs><strongs hebrew='2091'>golden</strongs><strongs hebrew='6076'>emerods</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='2091'>golden</strongs><strongs hebrew='5909'>mice</strongs>, <em>according</em> <em>to</em> the <strongs hebrew='4557'>number</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5633'>lords</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='4046'>plague</strongs><em>was</em> on you <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>, and on your <strongs hebrew='5633'>lords</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>Wherefore ye shall <strongs hebrew='6213'>make</strongs><strongs hebrew='6754'>images</strongs>of your <strongs hebrew='6076'>emerods</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6754'>images</strongs>of your <strongs hebrew='5909'>mice</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='7843'>mar</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>; and ye shall <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs><strongs hebrew='3519'>glory</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='194'>peradventure</strongs>he will <strongs hebrew='7043'>lighten</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>off</strongs>you, and from <strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>off</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>, and from <strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>off</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'><strongs hebrew='4100'>Wherefore</strongs>then do ye <strongs hebrew='3513'>harden</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>your <strongs hebrew='3824'>hearts</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4714'>Egyptians</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6547'>Pharaoh</strongs><strongs hebrew='3513'>hardened</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='3820'>hearts</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='834'>when</strongs>he had wrought <strongs hebrew='5953'>wonderfully</strongs>among them, did they <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>let the people <strongs hebrew='7971'>go</strongs>, and they <strongs hebrew='1980'>departed</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='7'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>therefore <strongs hebrew='6213'>make</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>a</strongs><strongs hebrew='2319'>new</strongs><strongs hebrew='5699'>cart</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3947'>take</strongs><strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='5763'>milch</strongs><strongs hebrew='6510'>kine</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>there hath <strongs hebrew='5927'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='5923'>yoke</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='631'>tie</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6510'>kine</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='5699'>cart</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7725'>bring</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='1121'>calves</strongs><strongs hebrew='1004'>home</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 310'>from</strongs>them: </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And <strongs hebrew='3947'>take</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>lay</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='413'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5699'>cart</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='7760'>put</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3627'>jewels</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>ye <strongs hebrew='7725'>return</strongs>him <em>for</em> a trespass <strongs hebrew='817'>offering</strongs>, in a <strongs hebrew='712'>coffer</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='4480 6654'>side</strongs>thereof; and send it <strongs hebrew='7971 *853'>away</strongs>, that it may <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>it goeth <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>of his own <strongs hebrew='1366'>coast</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1053'>Beth</strongs>-shemesh, <em>then</em> <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>us <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>: but <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>, then we shall <strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><em>it</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs><em>that</em> <strongs hebrew='5060'>smote</strongs>us: <strongs hebrew='1931'>it</strongs><em>was</em> a <strongs hebrew='4745'>chance</strongs><em>that</em> <strongs hebrew='1961'>happened</strongs>to us. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='5763'>milch</strongs><strongs hebrew='6510'>kine</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='631'>tied</strongs>them to the <strongs hebrew='5699'>cart</strongs>, and shut <strongs hebrew='3607'>up</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='1121'>calves</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='1004'>home</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And they <strongs hebrew='7760'>laid</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5699'>cart</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='712'>coffer</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5909'>mice</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='6754'>images</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='2914'>emerods</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And the <strongs hebrew='6510'>kine</strongs>took the <strongs hebrew='3474'>straight</strongs><strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1053'>Beth</strongs>-shemesh, <em>and</em> went <strongs hebrew='1980'>along</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>the</strongs><strongs hebrew='4546'>highway</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1600'>lowing</strongs>as they <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>, and turned not <strongs hebrew='5493 3808'>aside</strongs><em>to</em> the right <strongs hebrew='3225'>hand</strongs>or <em>to</em> the <strongs hebrew='8040'>left</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='5633'>lords</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1366'>border</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1053'>Beth</strongs>-shemesh. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And <em>they</em> <em>of</em> <strongs hebrew='1053'>Beth</strongs>-shemesh <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='7114'>reaping</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='2406'>wheat</strongs><strongs hebrew='7105'>harvest</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='6010'>valley</strongs>: and they lifted <strongs hebrew='5375'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8055'>rejoiced</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs><em>it</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And the <strongs hebrew='5699'>cart</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7704'>field</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3091'>Joshua</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='1030'>Beth</strongs>-shemite, and <strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8033'>where</strongs><em>there</em> <em>was</em> a <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='68'>stone</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='1234'>cleaved</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6086'>wood</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5699'>cart</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5927'>offered</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6510'>kine</strongs>a burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offering</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And the <strongs hebrew='3881'>Levites</strongs>took <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='712'>coffer</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>it, <strongs hebrew='834'>wherein</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3627'>jewels</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2091'>gold</strongs><em>were</em> , and <strongs hebrew='7760'>put</strongs><em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='413'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='68'>stone</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1053'>Beth</strongs>-shemesh <strongs hebrew='5927'>offered</strongs>burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offerings</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2076'>sacrificed</strongs><strongs hebrew='2077'>sacrifices</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1931'>same</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And when the <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='5633'>lords</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='7200'>seen</strongs><em>it</em> , they <strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6138'>Ekron</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1931'>same</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And <strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><em>are</em> the <strongs hebrew='2091'>golden</strongs><strongs hebrew='2914'>emerods</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs><em>for</em> a trespass <strongs hebrew='817'>offering</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>; for <strongs hebrew='795'>Ashdod</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs>, for <strongs hebrew='5804'>Gaza</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs>, for <strongs hebrew='831'>Askelon</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs>, for <strongs hebrew='1661'>Gath</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs>, for <strongs hebrew='6138'>Ekron</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And the <strongs hebrew='2091'>golden</strongs><strongs hebrew='5909'>mice</strongs>, <em>according</em> <em>to</em> the <strongs hebrew='4557'>number</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><em>belonging</em> to the <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='5633'>lords</strongs>, <em>both</em> of fenced <strongs hebrew='4480 5892 4013'>cities</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5704'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='6521'>country</strongs><strongs hebrew='3724'>villages</strongs>, even <strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><em>stone</em> <em>of</em> <strongs hebrew='59'>Abel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834 5921'>whereon</strongs>they set <strongs hebrew='5117'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: <em>which</em> <em>stone</em> <em>remaineth</em> <strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7704'>field</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3091'>Joshua</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1030'>Beth</strongs>-shemite. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And he <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1053'>Beth</strongs>-shemesh, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>they had <strongs hebrew='7200'>looked</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, even he <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='2572'>fifty</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>and threescore and <strongs hebrew='7657'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='56'>lamented</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='5221'>smitten</strongs><em>many</em> of the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>with a <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='4347'>slaughter</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1053'>Beth</strongs>-shemesh <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4310'>Who</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='3201'>able</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5975'>stand</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='6918'>holy</strongs><strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>? and <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='4310'>whom</strongs>shall he go <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>from</strongs>us? </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And they <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7157'>Kirjath</strongs>-jearim, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>have brought <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>; come ye <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>, <em>and</em> fetch it <strongs hebrew='5927 *853'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>you. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='7'>
            <verse number='1'>And the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7157'>Kirjath</strongs>-jearim <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>, and fetched <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='41'>Abinadab</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1389'>hill</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6942'>sanctified</strongs><strongs hebrew='499'>Eleazar</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8104'>keep</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4480 3117'>while</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>abode</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7157'>Kirjath</strongs>-jearim, that the <strongs hebrew='3117'>time</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='7235'>long</strongs>; for it <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='5091'>lamented</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs>do <strongs hebrew='7725'>return</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='3824'>hearts</strongs>, <em>then</em> put <strongs hebrew='5493'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5236'>strange</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6252'>Ashtaroth</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 8432'>among</strongs>you, and <strongs hebrew='3559'>prepare</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='3824'>hearts</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5647'>serve</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='905'>only</strongs>: and he will <strongs hebrew='5337'>deliver</strongs>you out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>Then the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>did put <strongs hebrew='5493'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1168'>Baalim</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6252'>Ashtaroth</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5647'>served</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='905'>only</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6908'>Gather</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4709'>Mizpeh</strongs>, and I will <strongs hebrew='6419'>pray</strongs><strongs hebrew='1157'>for</strongs>you <strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And they gathered <strongs hebrew='6908'>together</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4709'>Mizpeh</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7579'>drew</strongs><strongs hebrew='4325'>water</strongs>, and poured <em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='8210'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6684'>fasted</strongs>on <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>, We have <strongs hebrew='2398'>sinned</strongs>against the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='8199'>judged</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='4709'>Mizpeh</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And when the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>were gathered <strongs hebrew='6908'>together</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4709'>Mizpeh</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='5633'>lords</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. And when the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><em>it</em> , they were <strongs hebrew='3372'>afraid</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2790'>Cease</strongs><strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4480 2199'>cry</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>for</strongs>us, that he will <strongs hebrew='3467'>save</strongs>us out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>a</strongs><strongs hebrew='2461'>sucking</strongs><strongs hebrew='2924'>lamb</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5927'>offered</strongs><em>it</em> <em>for</em> a burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offering</strongs><strongs hebrew='3632'>wholly</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='2199'>cried</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1157'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>heard</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And as <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>offering <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>the burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offering</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>drew <strongs hebrew='5066'>near</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs>against <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>: but the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='7481'>thundered</strongs>with a <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='6963'>thunder</strongs>on <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2000'>discomfited</strongs>them; and they were <strongs hebrew='5062'>smitten</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='4709'>Mizpeh</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7291'>pursued</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs><em>they</em> <em>came</em> <strongs hebrew='4480 8478'>under</strongs><strongs hebrew='1033'>Beth</strongs>-car. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>Then <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>a</strongs><strongs hebrew='68'>stone</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7760'>set</strongs><em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='996'>between</strongs><strongs hebrew='4709'>Mizpeh</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8129'>Shen</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of it <strongs hebrew='72'>Ebenezer</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704 2009'>Hitherto</strongs>hath the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5826'>helped</strongs>us. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>So the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='3665'>subdued</strongs>, and they <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='3254 5750'>more</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='1366'>coast</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>against the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='3947'>taken</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 854'>from</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='7725'>restored</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, from <strongs hebrew='4480 6138'>Ekron</strongs>even <strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='1661'>Gath</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='1366'>coasts</strongs>thereof did <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='5337'>deliver</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hands</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>. And there <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='7965'>peace</strongs><strongs hebrew='996'>between</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='567'>Amorites</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='8199'>judged</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='2416'>life</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And he <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='4880 1767'>from</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='5437'>circuit</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1008'>Bethel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1537'>Gilgal</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4709'>Mizpeh</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8199'>judged</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>those</strongs><strongs hebrew='4725'>places</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And his <strongs hebrew='8666'>return</strongs><em>was</em> to <strongs hebrew='7414'>Ramah</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs><em>was</em> his <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='8199'>judged</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs>an <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='8'>
            <verse number='1'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>when</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='2204'>old</strongs>, that he <strongs hebrew='7760'>made</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs><strongs hebrew='8199'>judges</strongs>over <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>Now the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='1060'>firstborn</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='3100'>Joel</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='4932'>second</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='29'>Abiah</strongs>: <em>they</em> <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='8199'>judges</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='884'>Beer</strongs>-sheba. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And his <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>walked</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='1870'>ways</strongs>, but turned <strongs hebrew='5186'>aside</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs><strongs hebrew='1215'>lucre</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='7810'>bribes</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5186'>perverted</strongs><strongs hebrew='4941'>judgment</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>Then <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2205'>elders</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>gathered themselves <strongs hebrew='6908'>together</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='7414'>Ramah</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>art <strongs hebrew='2204'>old</strongs>, and thy <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>walk</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>in thy <strongs hebrew='1870'>ways</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs><strongs hebrew='7760'>make</strongs>us a <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8199'>judge</strongs>us like <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1471'>nations</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>But the <strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs><strongs hebrew='3415 5869'>displeased</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>when</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5414'>Give</strongs>us a <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8199'>judge</strongs>us. And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='6419'>prayed</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8085'>Hearken</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>thee: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>they have <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3988'>rejected</strongs>thee, <strongs hebrew='3588'>but</strongs>they have <strongs hebrew='3988'>rejected</strongs>me, that I should not <strongs hebrew='4480 4427'>reign</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>According to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4639'>works</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>they have <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>since the <strongs hebrew='4480 3117'>day</strongs>that I brought them <strongs hebrew='5927 *853'>up</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 4714'>Egypt</strongs>even <strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, wherewith they have <strongs hebrew='5800'>forsaken</strongs>me, and <strongs hebrew='5647'>served</strongs><strongs hebrew='312'>other</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>unto thee. </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>therefore <strongs hebrew='8085'>hearken</strongs>unto their <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='389'>howbeit</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>yet</strongs>protest <strongs hebrew='5749 5749'>solemnly</strongs>unto them, and <strongs hebrew='5046'>show</strongs>them the <strongs hebrew='4941'>manner</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>told</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='7592'>asked</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 854'>of</strongs>him a <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2088'>This</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4941'>manner</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>you: He will <strongs hebrew='3947'>take</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>your <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7760'>appoint</strongs><em>them</em> for himself, for his <strongs hebrew='4818'>chariots</strongs>, and <em>to</em> <em>be</em> his <strongs hebrew='6571'>horsemen</strongs>; and <em>some</em> shall <strongs hebrew='7323'>run</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4818'>chariots</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And he will <strongs hebrew='7760'>appoint</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='8269'>captains</strongs>over <strongs hebrew='505'>thousands</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8269'>captains</strongs>over <strongs hebrew='2572'>fifties</strongs>; and <em>will</em> <em>set</em> <em>them</em> to <strongs hebrew='2790'>ear</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='2758'>ground</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='7114'>reap</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7105'>harvest</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='6213'>make</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3627'>instruments</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4421'>war</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3627'>instruments</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='7393'>chariots</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And he will <strongs hebrew='3947'>take</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughters</strongs><em>to</em> <em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='7548'>confectionaries</strongs>, and <em>to</em> <em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='2879'>cooks</strongs>, and <em>to</em> <em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='644'>bakers</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And he will <strongs hebrew='3947'>take</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='7704'>fields</strongs>, and your <strongs hebrew='3754'>vineyards</strongs>, and your <strongs hebrew='2132'>oliveyards</strongs>, <em>even</em> the <strongs hebrew='2896'>best</strongs><em>of</em> <em>them</em> , and <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs><em>them</em> to his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And he will take the <strongs hebrew='6237'>tenth</strongs>of your <strongs hebrew='2233'>seed</strongs>, and of your <strongs hebrew='3754'>vineyards</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>to his <strongs hebrew='5631'>officers</strongs>, and to his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And he will <strongs hebrew='3947'>take</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='5650'>menservants</strongs>, and your <strongs hebrew='8198'>maidservants</strongs>, and your <strongs hebrew='2896'>goodliest</strongs>young <strongs hebrew='970'>men</strongs>, and your <strongs hebrew='2543'>asses</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6213'>put</strongs><em>them</em> to his <strongs hebrew='4399'>work</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>He will take the <strongs hebrew='6237'>tenth</strongs>of your <strongs hebrew='6629'>sheep</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And ye shall cry <strongs hebrew='2199'>out</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>because</strongs>of your <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>ye shall have <strongs hebrew='977'>chosen</strongs>you; and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>hear</strongs>you in <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>Nevertheless the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='3985'>refused</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8085'>obey</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>; and they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3808'>Nay</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588 518'>but</strongs>we will <strongs hebrew='1961'>have</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>us; </verse>
            <verse number='20'>That <strongs hebrew='587'>we</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>may <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>like <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1471'>nations</strongs>; and that our <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>may <strongs hebrew='8199'>judge</strongs>us, and go <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>us, and <strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>our <strongs hebrew='4421'>battles</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='1696'>rehearsed</strongs>them in the <strongs hebrew='241'>ears</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8085'>Hearken</strongs>unto their <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>, and make them a <strongs hebrew='4427 4428'>king</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Go</strongs>ye every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>unto his <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='9'>
            <verse number='1'>Now there <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 1144'>Benjamin</strongs>, whose <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='7027'>Kish</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='22'>Abiel</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6872'>Zeror</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1064'>Bechorath</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='647'>Aphiah</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='1145'>Benjamite</strongs>, a mighty <strongs hebrew='1368'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2428'>power</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And he <strongs hebrew='1961'>had</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>, whose <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, a choice young <strongs hebrew='970'>man</strongs>, and a <strongs hebrew='2896'>goodly</strongs>: and <em>there</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>not</strongs>among the <strongs hebrew='4480 1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='2896'>goodlier</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>person</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>than</strongs>he: from his <strongs hebrew='4480 7926'>shoulders</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4605'>upward</strongs><em>he</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='1364'>higher</strongs>than <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>any</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And the <strongs hebrew='860'>asses</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7027'>Kish</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='6'>lost</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='7027'>Kish</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3947'>Take</strongs><strongs hebrew='4994'>now</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 5288'>servants</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>thee, and <strongs hebrew='6965'>arise</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='1245'>seek</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='860'>asses</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And he passed <strongs hebrew='5674'>through</strongs><strongs hebrew='2022'>mount</strongs><strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs>, and passed <strongs hebrew='5674'>through</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8031'>Shalisha</strongs>, but they <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs><em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>: then they passed <strongs hebrew='5674'>through</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8171'>Shalim</strongs>, and <em>there</em> <em>they</em> <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>not</strongs>: and he passed <strongs hebrew='5674'>through</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1145'>Benjamites</strongs>, but they <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs><em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'><em>And</em> when <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6689'>Zuph</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>to his <strongs hebrew='5288'>servant</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Come</strongs>, and let us <strongs hebrew='7725'>return</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='6435'>lest</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs><strongs hebrew='2308'>leave</strongs><em>caring</em> <strongs hebrew='4480'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='860'>asses</strongs>, and take <strongs hebrew='1672'>thought</strongs>for us. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs><strongs hebrew='4994'>now</strongs>, <em>there</em> <em>is</em> in <strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, and <em>he</em> <em>is</em> an <strongs hebrew='3513'>honorable</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='1696'>saith</strongs>cometh surely to <strongs hebrew='935 935'>pass</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='4994'>now</strongs>let us <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>thither</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='194'>peradventure</strongs>he can <strongs hebrew='5046'>show</strongs>us <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>our <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs><strongs hebrew='834 5921'>that</strongs>we should <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>to his <strongs hebrew='5288'>servant</strongs>, But, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, <em>if</em> we <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs>shall we <strongs hebrew='935'>bring</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3899'>bread</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='235'>spent</strongs>in our <strongs hebrew='4480 3627'>vessels</strongs>, and <em>there</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>not</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='8670'>present</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='935'>bring</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs>have we? </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And the <strongs hebrew='5288'>servant</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='3254'>again</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, I have <strongs hebrew='4672'>here</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>the fourth <strongs hebrew='7253'>part</strongs>of a <strongs hebrew='8255'>shekel</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3701'>silver</strongs>: <em>that</em> will I <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='5046'>tell</strongs>us <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>our <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>( <strongs hebrew='6440'>Formerly</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, when a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1875'>inquire</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3541'>thus</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='559'>spoke</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Come</strongs>, and let us <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7200'>seer</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><em>he</em> <em>that</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='3117'>now</strongs><em>called</em> a <strongs hebrew='5030'>Prophet</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='6440'>formerly</strongs><strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='7200'>Seer</strongs>.) </verse>
            <verse number='10'>Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>to his <strongs hebrew='5288'>servant</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2896'>Well</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>said</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='1980'>come</strongs>, let us <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>. So they <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs><strongs hebrew='834 8033'>where</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><em>was</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='11'><em>And</em> as <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4608'>hill</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>young <strongs hebrew='5291'>maidens</strongs>going <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7579'>draw</strongs><strongs hebrew='4325'>water</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto them, <strongs hebrew='3426'>Is</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7200'>seer</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>here</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And they <strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs>them, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, He <strongs hebrew='3426'>is</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, <em>he</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>you: make <strongs hebrew='4116'>haste</strongs><strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>today</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><em>there</em> <em>is</em> a <strongs hebrew='2077'>sacrifice</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>today</strongs>in the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>place</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='13'>As soon as ye be <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, ye shall <strongs hebrew='3651'>straightway</strongs><strongs hebrew='4672'>find</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='2962'>before</strongs>he go <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>to the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>place</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>doth <strongs hebrew='1288'>bless</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2077'>sacrifice</strongs>; <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='310 3651'>afterwards</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>that be <strongs hebrew='7121'>bidden</strongs>. <strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>therefore get you <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>about this <strongs hebrew='3117'>time</strongs>ye shall <strongs hebrew='4672'>find</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And they went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>: <em>and</em> when <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='8432'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='7125'>against</strongs>them, for to go <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>to the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>place</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>Now the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='1540'>told</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>in</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='241'>ear</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>a</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='16'><strongs hebrew='4279'>Tomorrow</strongs>about this <strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs>I will <strongs hebrew='7971'>send</strongs>thee a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>, and thou shalt <strongs hebrew='4886'>anoint</strongs>him <em>to</em> <em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='5057'>captain</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, that he may <strongs hebrew='3467'>save</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>my <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>I have looked <strongs hebrew='7200'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>my <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='6818'>cry</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='413'>me</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And when <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>said</strongs>unto him, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='559'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>thee of! this <strongs hebrew='2088'>same</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='6113'>reign</strongs>over my <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>Then <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>drew <strongs hebrew='5066'>near</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='8432'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5046'>Tell</strongs>me, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='335 2088'>where</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7200'>seer</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs><em>is</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs><em>am</em> the <strongs hebrew='7200'>seer</strongs>: go <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>me unto the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>place</strongs>; for ye shall <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='3117'>today</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1242'>tomorrow</strongs>I will let thee <strongs hebrew='7971'>go</strongs>, and will <strongs hebrew='5046'>tell</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>is</em> in thine <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And as for thine <strongs hebrew='860'>asses</strongs>that were <strongs hebrew='6'>lost</strongs><strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>ago</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7760'>set</strongs><strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='3820'>mind</strongs>on them; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>they are <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>. And on <strongs hebrew='4310'>whom</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2532'>desire</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>? <em>Is</em> <em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>on thee, and on <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <em>Am</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1145'>Benjamite</strongs>, of the <strongs hebrew='4480 6996'>smallest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7626'>tribes</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>? and my <strongs hebrew='4940'>family</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6810'>least</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4940'>families</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7626'>tribe</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='4100'>wherefore</strongs>then <strongs hebrew='1696'>speakest</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='1697 2088'>so</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>me? </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='5288'>servant</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>them into the <strongs hebrew='3957'>parlor</strongs>, and made them <strongs hebrew='5414'>sit</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7218'>chiefest</strongs><strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>among them that were <strongs hebrew='7121'>bidden</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1992'>which</strongs><em>were</em> about <strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>persons</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='2876'>cook</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5414'>Bring</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4490'>portion</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>thee, of <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>thee, <strongs hebrew='7760'>Set</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='5973'>by</strongs>thee. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And the <strongs hebrew='2876'>cook</strongs>took <strongs hebrew='7311'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7785'>shoulder</strongs>, and <em>that</em> which <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>it, and <strongs hebrew='7760'>set</strongs><em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>. And <em>Samuel</em> <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>that which is <strongs hebrew='7604'>left</strongs>! <strongs hebrew='7760'>set</strongs><em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>thee, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>unto this <strongs hebrew='4150'>time</strongs>hath it been <strongs hebrew='8104'>kept</strongs>for thee since I <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, I have <strongs hebrew='7121'>invited</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>. So <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>And when they were come <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>from the high <strongs hebrew='4480 1116'>place</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, <em>Samuel</em> <strongs hebrew='1696'>communed</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the top of the <strongs hebrew='1406'>house</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>And they arose <strongs hebrew='7925'>early</strongs>: and it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>about the <strongs hebrew='5927'>spring</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7837'>day</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='7121 413'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>to the top of the <strongs hebrew='1406'>house</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6965'>Up</strongs>, that I may send thee <strongs hebrew='7971'>away</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>, and they went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='8147'>both</strongs>of them, <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2351'>abroad</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'><em>And</em> as <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs>were going <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='7097'>end</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>Bid</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5288'>servant</strongs>pass <strongs hebrew='5674'>on</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>us, (and he passed <strongs hebrew='5674'>on</strongs>,) but stand thou <strongs hebrew='5975 859'>still</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3117'>while</strongs>, that I may <strongs hebrew='8085'>show</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='10'>
            <verse number='1'>Then <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>a <strongs hebrew='6378'>vial</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8081'>oil</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3332'>poured</strongs><em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5401'>kissed</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <em>Is</em> <em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='4886'>anointed</strongs>thee <em>to</em> <em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='5057'>captain</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5159'>inheritance</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='2'>When thou art <strongs hebrew='1980'>departed</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5973'>from</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='3117'>today</strongs>, then thou shalt <strongs hebrew='4672'>find</strongs><strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>by</strongs><strongs hebrew='7354'>Rachel</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='6900'>sepulcher</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1366'>border</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='6766'>Zelzah</strongs>; and they will <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>thee, The <strongs hebrew='860'>asses</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='1980'>wentest</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1245'>seek</strongs>are <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>: and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>lo</strongs>, thy <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='5203'>left</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>care</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='860'>asses</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1672'>sorroweth</strongs>for you, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs>shall I <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>for my <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='3'>Then shalt thou go <strongs hebrew='2498'>on</strongs><strongs hebrew='1973'>forward</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 8033'>thence</strongs>, and thou shalt <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='436'>plain</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8396'>Tabor</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='4672'>meet</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>going <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1008'>Bethel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='5375'>carrying</strongs><strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='1423'>kids</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='259'>another</strongs><strongs hebrew='5375'>carrying</strongs><strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3603'>loaves</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3899'>bread</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='259'>another</strongs><strongs hebrew='5375'>carrying</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='5035'>bottle</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3196'>wine</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And they will <strongs hebrew='7592 7965'>salute</strongs>thee, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><em>loaves</em> of <strongs hebrew='3899'>bread</strongs>; which thou shalt <strongs hebrew='3947'>receive</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hands</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>After <strongs hebrew='310 3651'>that</strongs>thou shalt <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='1389'>hill</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834 8033'>where</strongs><em>is</em> the <strongs hebrew='5333'>garrison</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>: and it shall come to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, when thou art <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>thither</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, that thou shalt <strongs hebrew='6293'>meet</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='2256'>company</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs>coming <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>from the high <strongs hebrew='4480 1116'>place</strongs>with a <strongs hebrew='5035'>psaltery</strongs>, and a <strongs hebrew='8596'>tabret</strongs>, and a <strongs hebrew='2485'>pipe</strongs>, and a <strongs hebrew='3658'>harp</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>them; and <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='5012'>prophesy</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And the <strongs hebrew='7307'>Spirit</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='6743'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>thee, and thou shalt <strongs hebrew='5012'>prophesy</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='5973'>them</strongs>, and shalt be <strongs hebrew='2015'>turned</strongs>into <strongs hebrew='312'>another</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And let it <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>when</strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='226'>signs</strongs>are <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>unto thee, <em>that</em> thou <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>as occasion <strongs hebrew='834 4672 3027'>serve</strongs>thee; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>thee. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And thou shalt go <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>me to <strongs hebrew='1537'>Gilgal</strongs>; and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs>will come <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>thee, to <strongs hebrew='5927'>offer</strongs>burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offerings</strongs>, <em>and</em> to <strongs hebrew='2076'>sacrifice</strongs><strongs hebrew='2077'>sacrifices</strongs>of peace <strongs hebrew='8002'>offerings</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>shalt thou <strongs hebrew='3176'>tarry</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704'>till</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>thee, and <strongs hebrew='3045'>show</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>what</strongs>thou shalt <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And it <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><em>so</em> , that when he had <strongs hebrew='6437'>turned</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7926'>back</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5973'>from</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='2015'>gave</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='312'>another</strongs><strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>those</strongs><strongs hebrew='226'>signs</strongs>came to <strongs hebrew='935'>pass</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And when they <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>thither</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='1389'>hill</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, a <strongs hebrew='2256'>company</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs><strongs hebrew='7125'>met</strongs>him; and the <strongs hebrew='7307'>Spirit</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='6743'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>him, and he <strongs hebrew='5012'>prophesied</strongs><strongs hebrew='8432'>among</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, when <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='3045'>knew</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='4480 865 8032'>formerly</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs>that, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='5012'>prophesied</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>among</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs>, then the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='7453'>another</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><em>that</em> is <strongs hebrew='1961'>come</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7027'>Kish</strongs>? <em>Is</em> <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>among the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And <strongs hebrew='376'>one</strongs>of the same <strongs hebrew='4480 8033'>place</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, But <strongs hebrew='4310'>who</strongs><em>is</em> their <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='5921 3651'>Therefore</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='1961'>became</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4912'>proverb</strongs>, <em>Is</em> <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>among the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And when he had made an <strongs hebrew='3615'>end</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 5012'>prophesying</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to the high <strongs hebrew='1116'>place</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1730'>uncle</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him and <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5288'>servant</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='575'>Whither</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>ye? And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, To <strongs hebrew='1245'>seek</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='860'>asses</strongs>: and when we <strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><em>they</em> <em>were</em> no <strongs hebrew='369'>where</strongs>, we <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1730'>uncle</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5046'>Tell</strongs>me, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto you. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1730'>uncle</strongs>, He told us <strongs hebrew='5046 5046'>plainly</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='860'>asses</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>. But of the <strongs hebrew='1697'>matter</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4410'>kingdom</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>whereof</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>spoke</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>called the people <strongs hebrew='6817 *853 5971'>together</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4709'>Mizpeh</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs>brought <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 4714'>Egypt</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5337'>delivered</strongs>you out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4714'>Egyptians</strongs>, and out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='4467'>kingdoms</strongs>, <em>and</em> of them that <strongs hebrew='3905'>oppressed</strongs>you: </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And <strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs>have this <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs><strongs hebrew='3988'>rejected</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>your <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>who</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>himself</strongs><strongs hebrew='3467'>saved</strongs>you out of <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='7451'>adversities</strongs>and your <strongs hebrew='6869'>tribulations</strongs>; and ye have <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, <em>Nay</em> , <strongs hebrew='3588'>but</strongs><strongs hebrew='7760'>set</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>us. <strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>therefore present <strongs hebrew='3320'>yourselves</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>by your <strongs hebrew='7626'>tribes</strongs>, and by your <strongs hebrew='505'>thousands</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And when <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>had caused <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7626'>tribes</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>to come <strongs hebrew='7126'>near</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='7626'>tribe</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3920'>taken</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>When he had caused <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7626'>tribe</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>to come <strongs hebrew='7126'>near</strongs>by their <strongs hebrew='4940'>families</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='4940'>family</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4309'>Matri</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3920'>taken</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7027'>Kish</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3920'>taken</strongs>: and when they <strongs hebrew='1245'>sought</strongs>him, he could <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>Therefore they <strongs hebrew='7592'>inquired</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5750'>further</strongs>, if the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>should <strongs hebrew='5750'>yet</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='1988'>thither</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>hath hid <strongs hebrew='2244'>himself</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>among</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3627'>stuff</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And they <strongs hebrew='7323'>ran</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3947'>fetched</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='4480 8033'>thence</strongs>: and when he <strongs hebrew='3320'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='8432'>among</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, he was <strongs hebrew='1361'>higher</strongs>than <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>any</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>from his <strongs hebrew='4480 7926'>shoulders</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4605'>upward</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7200'>See</strongs>ye him <strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='977'>chosen</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><em>there</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>none</strongs>like <strongs hebrew='3644'>him</strongs>among <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>? And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='7321'>shouted</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, God <strongs hebrew='2421'>save</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>Then <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='1696 413'>told</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4941'>manner</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4410'>kingdom</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3789'>wrote</strongs><em>it</em> in a <strongs hebrew='5612'>book</strongs>, and laid <em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='5117'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>away, every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>to his <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='1004'>home</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1390'>Gibeah</strongs>; and there <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him a band of <strongs hebrew='2428'>men</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>whose</strongs><strongs hebrew='3820'>hearts</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='5060'>touched</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>But the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1100'>Belial</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>How</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs>man <strongs hebrew='3467'>save</strongs>us? And they <strongs hebrew='959'>despised</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='4503'>presents</strongs>. But he held his <strongs hebrew='2790'>peace</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='11'>
            <verse number='1'>Then <strongs hebrew='5176'>Nahash</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5984'>Ammonite</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2583'>encamped</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='3003 1568'>Jabesh</strongs>-gilead: and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3003'>Jabesh</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='5176'>Nahash</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3772'>Make</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1285'>covenant</strongs>with us, and we will <strongs hebrew='5647'>serve</strongs>thee. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And <strongs hebrew='5176'>Nahash</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5984'>Ammonite</strongs><strongs hebrew='559 413'>answered</strongs>them, On <strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><em>condition</em> will I <strongs hebrew='3772'>make</strongs><em>a</em> <em>covenant</em> with you, that I may thrust <strongs hebrew='5365'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='3225'>right</strongs><strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7760'>lay</strongs>it <em>for</em> a <strongs hebrew='2781'>reproach</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And the <strongs hebrew='2205'>elders</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3003'>Jabesh</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, Give us <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>' <strongs hebrew='7503'>respite</strongs>, that we may <strongs hebrew='7971'>send</strongs><strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1366'>coasts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>: and then, <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs><em>there</em> <em>be</em> no <strongs hebrew='369'>man</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3467'>save</strongs>us, we will come <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>thee. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>Then <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1390'>Gibeah</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1696'>told</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>tidings</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='241'>ears</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>lifted <strongs hebrew='5375'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='6963'>voices</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1058'>wept</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1241'>herd</strongs>out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7704'>field</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs><em>aileth</em> the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='1058'>weep</strongs>? And they <strongs hebrew='5608'>told</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>tidings</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3003'>Jabesh</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And the <strongs hebrew='7307'>Spirit</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='6743'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>when he <strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>those</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>tidings</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='639'>anger</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='2734'>kindled</strongs><strongs hebrew='3966'>greatly</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And he <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='6776'>yoke</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1241'>oxen</strongs>, and hewed them in <strongs hebrew='5408'>pieces</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><em>them</em> throughout <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1366'>coasts</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>Whosoever</strongs>cometh not <strongs hebrew='369 3318'>forth</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3541'>so</strongs>shall it be <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>unto his <strongs hebrew='1241'>oxen</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='6343'>fear</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5307'>fell</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, and they came <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>consent</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And when he <strongs hebrew='6485'>numbered</strongs>them in <strongs hebrew='966'>Bezek</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>were</strongs><strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs>shall ye <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3003 1568'>Jabesh</strongs>-gilead, <strongs hebrew='4279'>Tomorrow</strongs>, by <em>that</em> <em>time</em> the <strongs hebrew='8121'>sun</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='2527'>hot</strongs>, ye shall <strongs hebrew='1961'>have</strongs><strongs hebrew='8668'>help</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5046'>showed</strongs><em>it</em> to the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3003'>Jabesh</strongs>; and they were <strongs hebrew='8055'>glad</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>Therefore the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3003'>Jabesh</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4279'>Tomorrow</strongs>we will come <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>you, and ye shall <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>with us <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='5869'>seemeth</strongs><strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs>unto you. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And it <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><em>so</em> on the <strongs hebrew='4480 4283'>morrow</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='7760'>put</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='7218'>companies</strongs>; and they <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='8432'>midst</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4264'>host</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1242'>morning</strongs><strongs hebrew='821'>watch</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>slew</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammonites</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2527'>heat</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>: and it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, that they which <strongs hebrew='7604'>remained</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='6327'>scattered</strongs>, so that <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs>of them were <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='7604'>left</strongs><strongs hebrew='3162'>together</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4310'>Who</strongs><em>is</em> he that <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Shall <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>us? <strongs hebrew='5414'>bring</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>, that we may put them to <strongs hebrew='4191'>death</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, There shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>be put to <strongs hebrew='4191'>death</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>today</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='6213'>wrought</strongs><strongs hebrew='8668'>salvation</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Come</strongs>, and let us <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1537'>Gilgal</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2318'>renew</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4410'>kingdom</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1537'>Gilgal</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>they made Saul <strongs hebrew='4427 *853 7586'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='1537'>Gilgal</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='2076'>sacrificed</strongs><strongs hebrew='2077'>sacrifices</strongs>of peace <strongs hebrew='8002'>offerings</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='8055'>rejoiced</strongs><strongs hebrew='3966'>greatly</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='12'>
            <verse number='1'>And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, I have <strongs hebrew='8085'>hearkened</strongs>unto your <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>ye <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto me, and have made a <strongs hebrew='4427 4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>you. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>walketh</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>you: and <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs>am <strongs hebrew='2204'>old</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7867'>grayheaded</strongs>; and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, my <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs><em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>you: and <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='1980'>walked</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>you from my <strongs hebrew='4480 5271'>childhood</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, here I <em>am</em> : <strongs hebrew='6030'>witness</strongs>against me <strongs hebrew='5048'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5048'>before</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4899'>anointed</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='4310'>whose</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='7794'>ox</strongs>have I <strongs hebrew='3947'>taken</strongs>? or <strongs hebrew='4310'>whose</strongs><strongs hebrew='2543'>ass</strongs>have I <strongs hebrew='3947'>taken</strongs>? or <strongs hebrew='4310'>whom</strongs>have I <strongs hebrew='6231'>defrauded</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='4310'>whom</strongs>have I <strongs hebrew='7533'>oppressed</strongs>? or of whose <strongs hebrew='4480 3027 4310'>hand</strongs>have I <strongs hebrew='3947'>received</strongs><em>any</em> <strongs hebrew='3724'>bribe</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5956'>blind</strongs>mine <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>therewith? and I will <strongs hebrew='7725'>restore</strongs>it you. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Thou hast <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='6231'>defrauded</strongs>us, <strongs hebrew='3808'>nor</strongs><strongs hebrew='7533'>oppressed</strongs>us, <strongs hebrew='3808'>neither</strongs>hast thou <strongs hebrew='3947'>taken</strongs><strongs hebrew='3972'>aught</strongs>of any man's <strongs hebrew='4480 3027 376'>hand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them, The <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5707'>witness</strongs>against you, and his <strongs hebrew='4899'>anointed</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5707'>witness</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>ye have <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs><strongs hebrew='3972'>aught</strongs>in my <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>. And they <strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, <em>He</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5707'>witness</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, <em>It</em> <em>is</em> the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>advanced</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='4872'>Moses</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='175'>Aaron</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='5927'>brought</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>your <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>up out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4714'>Egypt</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>therefore stand <strongs hebrew='3320'>still</strongs>, that I may <strongs hebrew='8199'>reason</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>you <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the righteous <strongs hebrew='6666'>acts</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>to</strongs>you and <strongs hebrew='854'>to</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs hebrew='834'>When</strongs><strongs hebrew='3290'>Jacob</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>into <strongs hebrew='4714'>Egypt</strongs>, and your <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs><strongs hebrew='2199'>cried</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, then the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='4872'>Moses</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='175'>Aaron</strongs>, which brought <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>your <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 4714'>Egypt</strongs>, and made them <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwell</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And when they <strongs hebrew='7911'>forgot</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='4376'>sold</strongs>them into the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5516'>Sisera</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8269'>captain</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6635'>host</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2674'>Hazor</strongs>, and into the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>, and into the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moab</strongs>, and they <strongs hebrew='3898'>fought</strongs>against them. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And they <strongs hebrew='2199'>cried</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, We have <strongs hebrew='2398'>sinned</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>we have <strongs hebrew='5800'>forsaken</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and have <strongs hebrew='5647'>served</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1168'>Baalim</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6252'>Ashtaroth</strongs>: but <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs><strongs hebrew='5337'>deliver</strongs>us out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>of our <strongs hebrew='341'>enemies</strongs>, and we will <strongs hebrew='5647'>serve</strongs>thee. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3378'>Jerubbaal</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='917'>Bedan</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3316'>Jephthah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5337'>delivered</strongs>you out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>of your <strongs hebrew='341'>enemies</strongs>on every <strongs hebrew='4480 5439'>side</strongs>, and ye <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelled</strongs><strongs hebrew='983'>safe</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And when ye <strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='5176'>Nahash</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammon</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>you, ye <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto me, <strongs hebrew='3808'>Nay</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>but</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='4427'>reign</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>us: when the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><em>was</em> your <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>therefore <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>ye have <strongs hebrew='977'>chosen</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>ye have <strongs hebrew='7592'>desired</strongs>! and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='5414'>set</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>you. </verse>
            <verse number='14'><strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs>ye will <strongs hebrew='3372'>fear</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5647'>serve</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='8085'>obey</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>rebel <strongs hebrew='4784'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6310'>commandment</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, then shall <strongs hebrew='1571'>both</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>reigneth</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>you <strongs hebrew='1961'>continue</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>following</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='15'>But <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>ye will <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>obey</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, but rebel <strongs hebrew='4784'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6310'>commandment</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, then shall the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>against you, as <em>it</em> <em>was</em> against your <strongs hebrew='1'>fathers</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>therefore</strongs><strongs hebrew='3320'>stand</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>before your <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'><em>Is</em> <em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='2406'>wheat</strongs><strongs hebrew='7105'>harvest</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>today</strongs>? I will <strongs hebrew='7121'>call</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and he shall <strongs hebrew='5414'>send</strongs><strongs hebrew='6963'>thunder</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4306'>rain</strongs>; that ye may <strongs hebrew='3045'>perceive</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='7451'>wickedness</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='7227'>great</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>ye have <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, in <strongs hebrew='7592'>asking</strongs>you a <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>So <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='6963'>thunder</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4306'>rain</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='3966'>greatly</strongs><strongs hebrew='3372'>feared</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6419'>Pray</strongs><strongs hebrew='1157'>for</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, that we <strongs hebrew='4191'>die</strongs><strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>we have <strongs hebrew='3254'>added</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='2403'>sins</strongs><em>this</em> <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='7592'>ask</strongs>us a <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3372'>Fear</strongs><strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>wickedness</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='389'>yet</strongs>turn not <strongs hebrew='408 5493'>aside</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 310'>following</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, but <strongs hebrew='5647'>serve</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And turn ye not <strongs hebrew='3808 5493'>aside</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><em>then</em> <em>should</em> <em>ye</em> <em>go</em> <strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs><strongs hebrew='8414'>vain</strongs><em>things</em> , <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>cannot</strongs><strongs hebrew='3276'>profit</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>nor</strongs><strongs hebrew='5337'>deliver</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='8414'>vain</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'><strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5203'>forsake</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>for his <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='5668'>sake</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>it hath <strongs hebrew='2974'>pleased</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6213'>make</strongs>you his <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'><strongs hebrew='1571'>Moreover</strongs>as for <strongs hebrew='595'>me</strongs>, God <strongs hebrew='486'>forbid</strongs>that I should <strongs hebrew='4480 2398'>sin</strongs>against the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='4480 2308'>ceasing</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6419'>pray</strongs><strongs hebrew='1157'>for</strongs>you: but I will <strongs hebrew='3384'>teach</strongs>you the <strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='3477'>right</strongs><strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='24'><strongs hebrew='389'>Only</strongs><strongs hebrew='3372'>fear</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5647'>serve</strongs>him in <strongs hebrew='571'>truth</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>consider</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>how</strongs>great <em>things</em> he hath <strongs hebrew='1431'>done</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>for</strongs>you. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>But <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>ye shall still do <strongs hebrew='7489 7489'>wickedly</strongs>, ye shall be <strongs hebrew='5595'>consumed</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1571'>both</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>and</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='13'>
            <verse number='1'><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>year</strongs>; and when he had <strongs hebrew='4427'>reigned</strongs><strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='2'><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='977'>chose</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><em>men</em> of <strongs hebrew='4480 3478'>Israel</strongs>; <em>whereof</em> two <strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>were</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='4363'>Michmash</strongs>and in <strongs hebrew='2022'>mount</strongs><strongs hebrew='1008'>Bethel</strongs>, and a <strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>were</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='1390'>Gibeah</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='3499'>rest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>to his <strongs hebrew='168'>tent</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs><strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5333'>garrison</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>was</em> in <strongs hebrew='1387'>Geba</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><em>of</em> <em>it</em> . And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='8628'>blew</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7782'>trumpet</strongs>throughout <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, Let the <strongs hebrew='5680'>Hebrews</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>hear</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs><em>that</em> <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='5221'>smitten</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>a <strongs hebrew='5333'>garrison</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>, and <em>that</em> <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>was had in <strongs hebrew='887'>abomination</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>were called <strongs hebrew='6817'>together</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1537'>Gilgal</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>gathered themselves <strongs hebrew='622'>together</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7970'>thirty</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='7393'>chariots</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='6571'>horsemen</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>as the <strongs hebrew='2344'>sand</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3220'>sea</strongs><strongs hebrew='8193'>shore</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7230'>multitude</strongs>: and they came <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2583'>pitched</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='4363'>Michmash</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6926'>eastward</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='1007'>Beth</strongs>-aven. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>When the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>they were in a <strongs hebrew='6887'>strait</strongs>, ( <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='5065'>distressed</strongs>,) then the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>did hide <strongs hebrew='2244'>themselves</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='4631'>caves</strongs>, and in <strongs hebrew='2337'>thickets</strongs>, and in <strongs hebrew='5553'>rocks</strongs>, and in high <strongs hebrew='6877'>places</strongs>, and in <strongs hebrew='953'>pits</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And <em>some</em> <em>of</em> the <strongs hebrew='5680'>Hebrews</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5674'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3383'>Jordan</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1410'>Gad</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1568'>Gilead</strongs>. As for <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, he <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5750'>yet</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='1537'>Gilgal</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>followed</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='2729'>trembling</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And he <strongs hebrew='3176'>tarried</strongs><strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>, according to the set <strongs hebrew='4150'>time</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><em>had</em> <em>appointed</em> : but <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1537'>Gilgal</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='6327'>scattered</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>from</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Bring <strongs hebrew='5066'>hither</strongs>a burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offering</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>me, and peace <strongs hebrew='8002'>offerings</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='5927'>offered</strongs>the burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offering</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, that as soon as he had made an <strongs hebrew='3615'>end</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5927'>offering</strongs>the burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offering</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7125'>meet</strongs>him, that he might <strongs hebrew='1288'>salute</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs>hast thou <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>? And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>Because</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='5310'>scattered</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>from</strongs>me, and <em>that</em> <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>camest</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>within the <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs><strongs hebrew='4150'>appointed</strongs>, and <em>that</em> the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>gathered themselves <strongs hebrew='622'>together</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='4363'>Michmash</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='12'>Therefore <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>I, The <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>will come <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>upon</strongs>me to <strongs hebrew='1537'>Gilgal</strongs>, and I have <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>made <strongs hebrew='2470'>supplication</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: I forced <strongs hebrew='662'>myself</strongs>therefore, and <strongs hebrew='5927'>offered</strongs>a burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offering</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, Thou hast done <strongs hebrew='5528'>foolishly</strongs>: thou hast <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='8104'>kept</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4687'>commandment</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs>thee: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>would the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='3559'>established</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='4467'>kingdom</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704 5769'>forever</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>But <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='4467'>kingdom</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='6965'>continue</strongs>: the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='1245'>sought</strongs>him a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>after his own <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs>him <em>to</em> <em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='5057'>captain</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='8104'>kept</strongs><em>that</em> <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs>thee. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>, and got him <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs><strongs hebrew='1537'>Gilgal</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='1390'>Gibeah</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='6485'>numbered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><em>that</em> <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='4672'>present</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him, about <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><em>that</em> <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='4672'>present</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='3427'>abode</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='1387'>Gibeah</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs>: but the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='2583'>encamped</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='4363'>Michmash</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And the <strongs hebrew='7843'>spoilers</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 4264'>camp</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='7218'>companies</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='7218'>company</strongs><strongs hebrew='6437'>turned</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs><em>that</em> <em>leadeth</em> <em>to</em> <strongs hebrew='6084'>Ophrah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7777'>Shual</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And <strongs hebrew='259'>another</strongs><strongs hebrew='7218'>company</strongs><strongs hebrew='6437'>turned</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs><em>to</em> <strongs hebrew='1032'>Beth</strongs>-horon: and <strongs hebrew='259'>another</strongs><strongs hebrew='7218'>company</strongs><strongs hebrew='6437'>turned</strongs><em>to</em> the <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1366'>border</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='8259'>looketh</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1516'>valley</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6650'>Zeboim</strongs>toward the <strongs hebrew='4057'>wilderness</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>Now there was <strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='2796'>blacksmith</strongs><strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>throughout <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6435'>Lest</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5680'>Hebrews</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>make</strongs><em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='2719'>swords</strongs><strongs hebrew='176'>or</strongs><strongs hebrew='2595'>spears</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='20'>But <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israelites</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='3913'>sharpen</strongs>every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4282'>share</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='855'>colter</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='7134'>axe</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='4281'>mattock</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>Yet they <strongs hebrew='1961'>had</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='6477 6310'>file</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='4281'>mattocks</strongs>, and for the <strongs hebrew='855'>colters</strongs>, and for the <strongs hebrew='7969 7053'>forks</strongs>, and for the <strongs hebrew='7134'>axes</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='5324'>sharpen</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1861'>goads</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>So it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs>, that there was <strongs hebrew='3808'>neither</strongs><strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>nor <strongs hebrew='2595'>spear</strongs><strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3605'>any</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>: but with <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>and with <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>was there <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And the <strongs hebrew='4673'>garrison</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4569'>passage</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4363'>Michmash</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='14'>
            <verse number='1'>Now it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>upon a <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the young <strongs hebrew='5288'>man</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='5375'>bore</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3627'>armor</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Come</strongs>, and let us go <strongs hebrew='5674'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>' <strongs hebrew='4673'>garrison</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>is</em> on the other <strongs hebrew='4480 5676 1975'>side</strongs>. But he <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>tarried</strongs>in the uttermost <strongs hebrew='7097'>part</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1390'>Gibeah</strongs><strongs hebrew='8478'>under</strongs>a pomegranate <strongs hebrew='7416'>tree</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>is</em> in <strongs hebrew='4051'>Migron</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him <em>were</em> about <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And <strongs hebrew='281'>Ahiah</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='285'>Ahitub</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='350'>Ichabod</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='251'>brother</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6372'>Phinehas</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5941'>Eli</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7887'>Shiloh</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5375'>wearing</strongs>an <strongs hebrew='646'>ephod</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>knew</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='1980'>gone</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And <strongs hebrew='996'>between</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4569'>passages</strongs>, by <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs><strongs hebrew='1245'>sought</strongs>to go <strongs hebrew='5674'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>' <strongs hebrew='4673'>garrison</strongs>, <em>there</em> <em>was</em> a <strongs hebrew='8127'>sharp</strongs><strongs hebrew='5553'>rock</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='4480 2088'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5676'>side</strongs>, and a <strongs hebrew='8127'>sharp</strongs><strongs hebrew='5553'>rock</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='4480 2088'>other</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5676'>side</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='949'>Bozez</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='259'>other</strongs><strongs hebrew='5573'>Seneh</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>The <strongs hebrew='8127'>forefront</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='4690'>situated</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 6828'>northward</strongs>over <strongs hebrew='4136'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='4363'>Michmash</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='259'>other</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5045'>southward</strongs>over <strongs hebrew='4136'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='1387'>Gibeah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the young <strongs hebrew='5288'>man</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='5375'>bore</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3627'>armor</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Come</strongs>, and let us go <strongs hebrew='5674'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4673'>garrison</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='6189'>uncircumcised</strongs>: it may be <strongs hebrew='194'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='6213'>work</strongs>for us: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><em>there</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='4622'>restraint</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3467'>save</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='7227'>many</strongs><strongs hebrew='176'>or</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='4592'>few</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And his <strongs hebrew='3627 5375'>armorbearer</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, <strongs hebrew='6213'>Do</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>is</em> in thine <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='5186'>turn</strongs>thee; <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, I <em>am</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>thee according to thy <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='587'>we</strongs>will pass <strongs hebrew='5674'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><em>these</em> <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>, and we will discover <strongs hebrew='1540'>ourselves</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs><strongs hebrew='3541'>thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>us, <strongs hebrew='1826'>Tarry</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>we <strongs hebrew='5060'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>you; then we will stand <strongs hebrew='5975'>still</strongs>in our <strongs hebrew='8478'>place</strongs>, and will <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>go <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>But <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs><strongs hebrew='3541'>thus</strongs>, Come <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs>us; then we will go <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs>them into our <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><em>shall</em> <em>be</em> a <strongs hebrew='226'>sign</strongs>unto us. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And <strongs hebrew='8147'>both</strongs>of them discovered <strongs hebrew='1540'>themselves</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4673'>garrison</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='5680'>Hebrews</strongs>come <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs>out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2356'>holes</strongs><strongs hebrew='834 8033'>where</strongs>they had hid <strongs hebrew='2244'>themselves</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4675'>garrison</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='3627 5375'>armorbearer</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Come <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>us, and we will <strongs hebrew='3045'>show</strongs>you a <strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3627 5375'>armorbearer</strongs>, Come <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>me: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs>them into the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>climbed <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7272'>feet</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='3627 5375'>armorbearer</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>him: and they <strongs hebrew='5307'>fell</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>; and his <strongs hebrew='3627 5375'>armorbearer</strongs><strongs hebrew='4191'>slew</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And that <strongs hebrew='7223'>first</strongs><strongs hebrew='4347'>slaughter</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='3627 5375'>armorbearer</strongs><strongs hebrew='5221'>made</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>about <strongs hebrew='6242'>twenty</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>, within as it were a <strongs hebrew='2677'>half</strongs><strongs hebrew='4618'>acre</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7704'>land</strongs>, <em>which</em> a <strongs hebrew='6776'>yoke</strongs><em>of</em> <em>oxen</em> <em>might</em> <em>plow</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And there <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='2731'>trembling</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4264'>host</strongs>, in the <strongs hebrew='7704'>field</strongs>, and among <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>: the <strongs hebrew='4673'>garrison</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='7843'>spoilers</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs><strongs hebrew='2729'>trembled</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='776'>earth</strongs><strongs hebrew='7264'>quaked</strongs>: so it <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>a very <strongs hebrew='430'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='2731'>trembling</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And the <strongs hebrew='6822'>watchmen</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='1390'>Gibeah</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1144'>Benjamin</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>looked</strongs>; and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1995'>multitude</strongs>melted <strongs hebrew='4127'>away</strongs>, and they <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>on beating <strongs hebrew='1986'>down</strongs><em>one</em> <em>another</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='17'>Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='6485'>Number</strongs><strongs hebrew='4994'>now</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs><strongs hebrew='4310'>who</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='1980'>gone</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5973'>from</strongs>us. And when they had <strongs hebrew='6485'>numbered</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='3627 5375'>armorbearer</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>not</strongs><em>there</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='281'>Ahiah</strongs>, Bring <strongs hebrew='5066'>hither</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>. <strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='727'>ark</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>time</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704'>while</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='1696'>talked</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>, that the <strongs hebrew='1995'>noise</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>was</em> in the <strongs hebrew='4264'>host</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='1980'>on</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1980 7227'>increased</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='622'>Withdraw</strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>him assembled <strongs hebrew='2199'>themselves</strongs>, and they <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs>: and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>against his <strongs hebrew='7453'>fellow</strongs>, <em>and</em> <em>there</em> <em>was</em> a <strongs hebrew='3966'>very</strongs><strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='4103'>discomfiture</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>Moreover the <strongs hebrew='5680'>Hebrews</strongs><em>that</em> <strongs hebrew='1961'>were</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='865'>before</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='8032'>time</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>them into the <strongs hebrew='4264'>camp</strongs><em>from</em> <em>the</em> <em>country</em> round <strongs hebrew='5439'>about</strongs>, even <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs><em>turned</em> to <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israelites</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>Likewise <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>which had hid <strongs hebrew='2244'>themselves</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='2022'>mount</strongs><strongs hebrew='669'>Ephraim</strongs>, <em>when</em> they <strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='5127'>fled</strongs>, even <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>followed <strongs hebrew='1692'>hard</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>them in the <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>So the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='3467'>saved</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs>passed <strongs hebrew='5674'>over</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1007'>Beth</strongs>-aven. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='5065'>distressed</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>: for <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='422'>adjured</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='779'>Cursed</strongs><em>be</em> the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='398'>eateth</strongs><em>any</em> <strongs hebrew='3899'>food</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs><strongs hebrew='6153'>evening</strongs>, that I may be <strongs hebrew='5358'>avenged</strongs>on mine <strongs hebrew='4480 341'>enemies</strongs>. So <strongs hebrew='3808 3605'>none</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='2938'>tasted</strongs><em>any</em> <strongs hebrew='3899'>food</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><em>they</em> <em>of</em> the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to a <strongs hebrew='3293'>wood</strongs>; and there <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='1706'>honey</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921 6440'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7704'>ground</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>And when the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3293'>wood</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1706'>honey</strongs><strongs hebrew='1982'>dropped</strongs>; but <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs>man <strongs hebrew='5381'>put</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='6310'>mouth</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='3372'>feared</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7621'>oath</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>But <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>when his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>charged the people with the <strongs hebrew='7650 *853 5971'>oath</strongs>: wherefore he put <strongs hebrew='7971'>forth</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7097'>end</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4294'>rod</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>was</em> in his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2881'>dipped</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'>it</strongs>in a <strongs hebrew='3295 1706'>honeycomb</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7725'>put</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='6310'>mouth</strongs>; and his <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='215'>enlightened</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='28'>Then <strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>one</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 5971'>people</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Thy <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>straitly charged the people with an <strongs hebrew='7650 7650 *853 5971'>oath</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='779'>Cursed</strongs><em>be</em> the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='398'>eateth</strongs><em>any</em> <strongs hebrew='3899'>food</strongs>this <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='5888'>faint</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='29'>Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>, My <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='5916'>troubled</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs>, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>you</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>how</strongs>mine <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>have been <strongs hebrew='215'>enlightened</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='2938'>tasted</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4592'>little</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1706'>honey</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='30'>How much <strongs hebrew='637 3588'>more</strongs>, if <strongs hebrew='3588 3863'>haply</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>had eaten <strongs hebrew='398 398'>freely</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>today</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 7998'>spoil</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='341'>enemies</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>had there <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>been <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>a much <strongs hebrew='7235'>greater</strongs><strongs hebrew='4347'>slaughter</strongs>among the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='31'>And they <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 4363'>Michmash</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='357'>Aijalon</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='3966'>very</strongs><strongs hebrew='5888'>faint</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='32'>And the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>flew</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7998'>spoil</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='6629'>sheep</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1241'>oxen</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1121 1241'>calves</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7819'>slew</strongs><em>them</em> on the <strongs hebrew='776'>ground</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs><em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1818'>blood</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='33'>Then they <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='2398'>sin</strongs>against the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, in that they <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1818'>blood</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Ye have <strongs hebrew='898'>transgressed</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='1556'>roll</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='68'>stone</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>me this <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='34'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Disperse <strongs hebrew='6327'>yourselves</strongs>among the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs>unto them, Bring me <strongs hebrew='5066 413'>hither</strongs>every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7794'>ox</strongs>, and every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7716'>sheep</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7819'>slay</strongs><em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='2088'>here</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='2398'>sin</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>against the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='398'>eating</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1818'>blood</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='5066'>brought</strongs>every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7794'>ox</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>with</strongs>him that <strongs hebrew='3915'>night</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7819'>slew</strongs><em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='35'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs>an <strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: the same was the <strongs hebrew='2490'>first</strongs><strongs hebrew='4196'>altar</strongs>that he <strongs hebrew='1129'>built</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='36'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Let us go <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='3915'>night</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='962'>spoil</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1242'>morning</strongs><strongs hebrew='216'>light</strongs>, and let us <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='7604'>leave</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of them. And they <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6213'>Do</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>whatsoever</strongs><strongs hebrew='5869'>seemeth</strongs><strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs>unto thee. Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>, Let us draw <strongs hebrew='7126'>near</strongs><strongs hebrew='1988'>hither</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='37'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>asked <strongs hebrew='7592'>counsel</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, Shall I go <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>? wilt thou <strongs hebrew='5414'>deliver</strongs>them into the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>? But he <strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='38'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Draw ye <strongs hebrew='5066'>near</strongs><strongs hebrew='1988'>hither</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6438'>chief</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs><strongs hebrew='4100'>wherein</strongs>this <strongs hebrew='2403'>sin</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='1961'>been</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='39'><strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs>, <em>as</em> the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='2416'>liveth</strongs>, which <strongs hebrew='3467'>saveth</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588 518'>though</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='3426'>be</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>, he shall surely <strongs hebrew='4191 4191'>die</strongs>. But <em>there</em> <em>was</em> not a <strongs hebrew='369'>man</strongs>among <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><em>that</em> <strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='40'>Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1961'>Be</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs>on <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='5676'>side</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='259'>other</strongs><strongs hebrew='5676'>side</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6213'>Do</strongs>what <strongs hebrew='5869'>seemeth</strongs><strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs>unto thee. </verse>
            <verse number='41'>Therefore <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3051'>Give</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='8549'>perfect</strongs><em>lot</em> . And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='3920'>taken</strongs>: but the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='3318'>escaped</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='42'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5307'>Cast</strongs><em>lots</em> <strongs hebrew='996'>between</strongs>me and <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3920'>taken</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='43'>Then <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5046'>Tell</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs><strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, I did but <strongs hebrew='2938 2938'>taste</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4592'>little</strongs><strongs hebrew='1706'>honey</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='7097'>end</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4294'>rod</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>was</em> in mine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, <em>and</em> , <strongs hebrew='2009'>lo</strongs>, I must <strongs hebrew='4191'>die</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='44'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><strongs hebrew='3541'>so</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3254'>more</strongs><strongs hebrew='3541'>also</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>thou shalt surely <strongs hebrew='4191 4191'>die</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='45'>And the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, Shall <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs><strongs hebrew='4191'>die</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>who</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='6213'>wrought</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='3444'>salvation</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>? God <strongs hebrew='2486'>forbid</strongs>: <em>as</em> the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='2416'>liveth</strongs>, there shall <strongs hebrew='518'>not</strongs>one <strongs hebrew='4480 8185'>hair</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs><strongs hebrew='5307'>fall</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='776'>ground</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he hath <strongs hebrew='6213'>wrought</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. So the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='6299'>rescued</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>, that he <strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='46'>Then <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 310'>following</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>to their own <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='47'>So <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='3920'>took</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4410'>kingdom</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3898'>fought</strongs>against <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='341'>enemies</strongs>on every <strongs hebrew='5439'>side</strongs>, against <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moab</strongs>, and against the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5983'>Ammon</strongs>, and against <strongs hebrew='123'>Edom</strongs>, and against the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6678'>Zobah</strongs>, and against the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='3605 834'>whithersoever</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='6437'>turned</strongs>himself, he <strongs hebrew='7561'>vexed</strongs><em>them</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='48'>And he <strongs hebrew='6213'>gathered</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='2428'>host</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6002'>Amalekites</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5337'>delivered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hands</strongs>of them that <strongs hebrew='8154'>spoiled</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='49'>Now the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>were</strongs><strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3440'>Ishui</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4444'>Melchi</strongs>-shua: and the <strongs hebrew='8034'>names</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='1323'>daughters</strongs><em>were</em> <em>these</em> ; the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1067'>firstborn</strongs><strongs hebrew='4764'>Merab</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6996'>younger</strongs><strongs hebrew='4324'>Michal</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='50'>And the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='293'>Ahinoam</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='290'>Ahimaaz</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8269'>captain</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='6635'>host</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='74'>Abner</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5369'>Ner</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1730'>uncle</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='51'>And <strongs hebrew='7027'>Kish</strongs><em>was</em> the <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='5369'>Ner</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='74'>Abner</strongs><em>was</em> the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='22'>Abiel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='52'>And there <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='2389'>sore</strongs><strongs hebrew='4421'>war</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>: and when <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>any</strongs><strongs hebrew='1368'>strong</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>, or <strongs hebrew='3605'>any</strongs><strongs hebrew='2428'>valiant</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>man</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='622'>took</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='15'>
            <verse number='1'><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>also <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>me to <strongs hebrew='4886'>anoint</strongs>thee <em>to</em> <em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>therefore <strongs hebrew='8085'>hearken</strongs>thou unto the <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'><strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6635'>hosts</strongs>, I <strongs hebrew='6485'>remember</strongs><em>that</em> <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='6002'>Amalek</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>how</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='7760'>laid</strongs><em>wait</em> for him in the <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>, when he came <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 4714'>Egypt</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smite</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='6002'>Amalek</strongs>, and utterly <strongs hebrew='2763'>destroy</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>they have, and <strongs hebrew='2550 5921'>spare</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>; but <strongs hebrew='4191'>slay</strongs>both <strongs hebrew='4480 376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>and</strongs><strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='*4480 5768'>infant</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3243'>suckling</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='*4480 7794'>ox</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7716'>sheep</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='*4480 1581'>camel</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2543'>ass</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>gathered the people <strongs hebrew='8085 *853 5971'>together</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6485'>numbered</strongs>them in <strongs hebrew='2923'>Telaim</strongs>, two <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='7273'>footmen</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6002'>Amalek</strongs>, and laid <strongs hebrew='693'>wait</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5158'>valley</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7017'>Kenites</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Go</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5493'>depart</strongs>, get you <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 8432'>among</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6002'>Amalekites</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6435'>lest</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='622'>destroy</strongs>you <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>them: for <strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>showed</strongs><strongs hebrew='2617'>kindness</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, when they came <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 4714'>Egypt</strongs>. So the <strongs hebrew='7017'>Kenites</strongs><strongs hebrew='5493'>departed</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 8432'>among</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6003'>Amalekites</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6002'>Amalekites</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 2341'>Havilah</strongs><em>until</em> thou <strongs hebrew='935'>comest</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7793'>Shur</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='4714'>Egypt</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And he <strongs hebrew='8610'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='90'>Agag</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6002'>Amalekites</strongs><strongs hebrew='2416'>alive</strongs>, and utterly <strongs hebrew='2763'>destroyed</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='6310'>edge</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>But <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='2550 5921'>spared</strongs><strongs hebrew='90'>Agag</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='4315'>best</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6629'>sheep</strongs>, and of the <strongs hebrew='1241'>oxen</strongs>, and of the <strongs hebrew='4932'>fatlings</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3733'>lambs</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><em>that</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='14'>would</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>utterly <strongs hebrew='2763'>destroy</strongs>them: but <strongs hebrew='3605'>every</strongs><strongs hebrew='4399'>thing</strongs><em>that</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5240'>vile</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4549'>refuse</strongs>, that they destroyed <strongs hebrew='2763'>utterly</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>Then <strongs hebrew='1961'>came</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='11'>It repenteth <strongs hebrew='5162'>me</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>I have set <strongs hebrew='4427'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><em>to</em> <em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he is turned <strongs hebrew='7725'>back</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 310'>following</strongs>me, and hath <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='6965'>performed</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1697'>commandments</strongs>. And it <strongs hebrew='2734'>grieved</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>; and he <strongs hebrew='2199'>cried</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3915'>night</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And when <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>rose <strongs hebrew='7925'>early</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7125'>meet</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1242'>morning</strongs>, it was <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3760'>Carmel</strongs>, and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, he set him <strongs hebrew='5324'>up</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3027'>place</strongs>, and is gone <strongs hebrew='5437'>about</strongs>, and passed <strongs hebrew='5674'>on</strongs>, and gone <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1537'>Gilgal</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, <strongs hebrew='1288'>Blessed</strongs><em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: I have <strongs hebrew='6965'>performed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>commandment</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs><em>meaneth</em> then <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='6963'>bleating</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6629'>sheep</strongs>in mine <strongs hebrew='241'>ears</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='6963'>lowing</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1241'>oxen</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>hear</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, They have <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>them from the <strongs hebrew='4480 6003'>Amalekites</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='834'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='2550 5921'>spared</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4315'>best</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6629'>sheep</strongs>and of the <strongs hebrew='1241'>oxen</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='4616 2076'>sacrifice</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='3498'>rest</strongs>we have utterly <strongs hebrew='2763'>destroyed</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>Then <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7503'>Stay</strongs>, and I will <strongs hebrew='5046'>tell</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>what</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='1696'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>me this <strongs hebrew='3915'>night</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, Say <strongs hebrew='1696'>on</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>When</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><em>wast</em> <strongs hebrew='6996'>little</strongs>in thine own <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>, <em>wast</em> <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><em>made</em> the <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7626'>tribes</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='4886'>anointed</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>thee on a <strongs hebrew='1870'>journey</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Go</strongs>and utterly <strongs hebrew='2763'>destroy</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2400'>sinners</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6002'>Amalekites</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs>against them <strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>they be <strongs hebrew='3615'>consumed</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'><strongs hebrew='4100'>Wherefore</strongs>then didst thou <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>obey</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, but didst <strongs hebrew='5860'>fly</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7998'>spoil</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6213'>didst</strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>Yea</strongs>, I have <strongs hebrew='8085'>obeyed</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and have <strongs hebrew='1980'>gone</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>me, and have <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='90'>Agag</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6002'>Amalek</strongs>, and have utterly <strongs hebrew='2763'>destroyed</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6002'>Amalekites</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>But the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 7998'>spoil</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6629'>sheep</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1241'>oxen</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='7225'>chief</strongs>of the things which should have been utterly <strongs hebrew='2764'>destroyed</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='2076'>sacrifice</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='1537'>Gilgal</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Hath the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><em>as</em> <em>great</em> <strongs hebrew='2656'>delight</strongs>in burnt <strongs hebrew='5930'>offerings</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2077'>sacrifices</strongs>, as in <strongs hebrew='8085'>obeying</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='8085'>obey</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='2896'>better</strongs>than <strongs hebrew='4480 2077'>sacrifice</strongs>, <em>and</em> to <strongs hebrew='7181'>hearken</strongs>than the <strongs hebrew='4480 2459'>fat</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='352'>rams</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'><strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs><strongs hebrew='4805'>rebellion</strongs><em>is</em> <em>as</em> the <strongs hebrew='2403'>sin</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7081'>witchcraft</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6484'>stubbornness</strongs><em>is</em> <em>as</em> <strongs hebrew='205'>iniquity</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8655'>idolatry</strongs>. <strongs hebrew='3282'>Because</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='3988'>rejected</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, he hath also <strongs hebrew='3988'>rejected</strongs>thee from <em>being</em> <strongs hebrew='4480 4428'>king</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>, I have <strongs hebrew='2398'>sinned</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='5674'>transgressed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6310'>commandment</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and thy <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='3372'>feared</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8085'>obeyed</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>therefore, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5375'>pardon</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>my <strongs hebrew='2403'>sin</strongs>, and turn <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>me, that I may <strongs hebrew='7812'>worship</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, I will <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='7725'>return</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>thee: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='3988'>rejected</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>word</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='3988'>rejected</strongs>thee from <strongs hebrew='4480 1961'>being</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>And as <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>turned <strongs hebrew='5437'>about</strongs>to go <strongs hebrew='1980'>away</strongs>, he laid <strongs hebrew='2388'>hold</strongs>upon the <strongs hebrew='3671'>skirt</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='4598'>mantle</strongs>, and it <strongs hebrew='7167'>rent</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='28'>And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, The <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='7167'>rent</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4468'>kingdom</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>from</strongs>thee this <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, and hath <strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs>it to a <strongs hebrew='7453'>neighbor</strongs>of thine, <em>that</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='2896'>better</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>than</strongs>thou. </verse>
            <verse number='29'>And <strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5331'>Strength</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='8266'>lie</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>nor</strongs><strongs hebrew='5162'>repent</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='120'>man</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>should <strongs hebrew='5162'>repent</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='30'>Then he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, I have <strongs hebrew='2398'>sinned</strongs>: <em>yet</em> <strongs hebrew='3513'>honor</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5048'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2205'>elders</strongs>of my <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5048'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and turn <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>me, that I may <strongs hebrew='7812'>worship</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='31'>So <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>turned <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='7812'>worshiped</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='32'>Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>, Bring ye <strongs hebrew='5066'>hither</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='90'>Agag</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6002'>Amalekites</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='90'>Agag</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='4574'>delicately</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='90'>Agag</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='403'>Surely</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4751'>bitterness</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4194'>death</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='5493'>past</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='33'>And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>As</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>hath made <strongs hebrew='802'>women</strongs><strongs hebrew='7921'>childless</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs>shall thy <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='7921'>childless</strongs>among <strongs hebrew='4480 802'>women</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>hewed Agag in <strongs hebrew='8158 *853 90'>pieces</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='1537'>Gilgal</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='34'>Then <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7414'>Ramah</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1390'>Gibeah</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='35'>And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='3254'>more</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='4194'>death</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>nevertheless</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='56'>mourned</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5162'>repented</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>he had made Saul <strongs hebrew='4427 *853 7586'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='16'>
            <verse number='1'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>, How <strongs hebrew='5704 4100'>long</strongs>wilt <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><strongs hebrew='56'>mourn</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, seeing <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='3988'>rejected</strongs>him from <strongs hebrew='4480 4427'>reigning</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='4390'>fill</strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='7161'>horn</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='8081'>oil</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>, I will <strongs hebrew='7971'>send</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3448'>Jesse</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1022'>Bethlehemite</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='7200'>provided</strongs>me a <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>among his <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='349'>How</strongs>can I <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>? if <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>hear</strongs><em>it</em> , he will <strongs hebrew='2026'>kill</strongs>me. And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3947'>Take</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='5697 1241'>heifer</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>with</strongs>thee, and <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs>, I am <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2076'>sacrifice</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And <strongs hebrew='7121'>call</strongs><strongs hebrew='3448'>Jesse</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='2077'>sacrifice</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='3045'>show</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>what</strongs>thou shalt <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>: and thou shalt <strongs hebrew='4886'>anoint</strongs>unto me <em>him</em> <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='559'>name</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>thee. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>that <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1035'>Bethlehem</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='2205'>elders</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5892'>town</strongs><strongs hebrew='2729'>trembled</strongs>at his <strongs hebrew='7122'>coming</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='935'>Comest</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='7965'>peaceably</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7965'>Peaceably</strongs>: I am <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2076'>sacrifice</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: sanctify <strongs hebrew='6942'>yourselves</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>me to the <strongs hebrew='2077'>sacrifice</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='6942'>sanctified</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3448'>Jesse</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs>them to the <strongs hebrew='2077'>sacrifice</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, when they were <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>, that he looked <strongs hebrew='7200'>on</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='446'>Eliab</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='389'>Surely</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='4899'>anointed</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5048'>before</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>But the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5027'>Look</strongs><strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>on</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4758'>countenance</strongs>, or <strongs hebrew='413'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1364'>height</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='6967'>stature</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='3988'>refused</strongs>him: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><em>the</em> <em>LORD</em> <em>seeth</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs><strongs hebrew='120'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>seeth</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='120'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>looketh</strongs>on the outward <strongs hebrew='5869'>appearance</strongs>, but the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>looketh</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>Then <strongs hebrew='3448'>Jesse</strongs><strongs hebrew='7121 413'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='41'>Abinadab</strongs>, and made him <strongs hebrew='5674'>pass</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1571 3808'>Neither</strongs>hath the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='977'>chosen</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>Then <strongs hebrew='3448'>Jesse</strongs>made <strongs hebrew='8048'>Shammah</strongs>to pass <strongs hebrew='5674'>by</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1571 3808'>Neither</strongs>hath the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='977'>chosen</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>Again, <strongs hebrew='3448'>Jesse</strongs>made <strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5674'>pass</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='3448'>Jesse</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='977'>chosen</strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='3448'>Jesse</strongs>, Are here <strongs hebrew='8552'>all</strongs><em>thy</em> <strongs hebrew='5288'>children</strongs>? And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, There <strongs hebrew='7604'>remaineth</strongs><strongs hebrew='5750'>yet</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6996'>youngest</strongs>, and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='7462'>keepeth</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6629'>sheep</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='3448'>Jesse</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7971'>Send</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3947'>fetch</strongs>him: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>we will <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>sit <strongs hebrew='5437'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>till</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='6311'>hither</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And he <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>him in. Now <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='132'>ruddy</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>withal</strongs>of a <strongs hebrew='3303'>beautiful</strongs><strongs hebrew='5869'>countenance</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2896'>goodly</strongs>to look <strongs hebrew='7210'>to</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6965'>Arise</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4886'>anoint</strongs>him: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>Then <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7161'>horn</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8081'>oil</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4886'>anointed</strongs>him in the <strongs hebrew='7130'>midst</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='7307'>Spirit</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='6743'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>from that <strongs hebrew='4480 3117 1931'>day</strongs><strongs hebrew='4605'>forward</strongs>. So <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>rose <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7414'>Ramah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>But the <strongs hebrew='7307'>Spirit</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5493'>departed</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5973'>from</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, and an <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs><strongs hebrew='7307'>spirit</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 854'>from</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1204'>troubled</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs><strongs hebrew='4994'>now</strongs>, an <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs><strongs hebrew='7307'>spirit</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='1204'>troubleth</strongs>thee. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>Let our <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs><strongs hebrew='4994'>now</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>command</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>, <em>which</em> <em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>thee, to seek <strongs hebrew='1245'>out</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>, <em>who</em> <em>is</em> a <strongs hebrew='3045'>cunning</strongs><strongs hebrew='5059'>player</strongs>on a <strongs hebrew='3658'>harp</strongs>: and it shall come to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1961'>when</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs><strongs hebrew='7307'>spirit</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>thee, that he shall <strongs hebrew='5059'>play</strongs>with his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, and thou shalt be <strongs hebrew='2895'>well</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7200'>Provide</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='4994'>now</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>that can <strongs hebrew='5059'>play</strongs><strongs hebrew='3190'>well</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>bring</strongs><em>him</em> <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>me. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>Then <strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5288'>servants</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, I have <strongs hebrew='7200'>seen</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3448'>Jesse</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1022'>Bethlehemite</strongs>, <em>that</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='3045'>cunning</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='5059'>playing</strongs>, and a <strongs hebrew='1368'>mighty</strongs>valiant <strongs hebrew='2428'>man</strongs>, and a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4421'>war</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='995'>prudent</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='1697'>matters</strongs>, and a <strongs hebrew='8389'>comely</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>person</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>Wherefore <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='3448'>Jesse</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7971'>Send</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>is</em> with the <strongs hebrew='6629'>sheep</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And <strongs hebrew='3448'>Jesse</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs>an <strongs hebrew='2543'>ass</strongs><em>laden</em> with <strongs hebrew='3899'>bread</strongs>, and a <strongs hebrew='4997'>bottle</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3196'>wine</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='259'>a</strongs><strongs hebrew='1423 5795'>kid</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='3027'>by</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>him: and he <strongs hebrew='157'>loved</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3966'>greatly</strongs>; and he <strongs hebrew='1961'>became</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3627 5375'>armorbearer</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3448'>Jesse</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, Let <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5975'>stand</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>me; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he hath <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs><strongs hebrew='2580'>favor</strongs>in my <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1961'>when</strongs>the <em>evil</em> <strongs hebrew='7307'>spirit</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='413'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3658'>harp</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5059'>played</strongs>with his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>: so <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='7304'>refreshed</strongs>, and was <strongs hebrew='2895'>well</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs><strongs hebrew='7307'>spirit</strongs><strongs hebrew='5493'>departed</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>from</strongs>him. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='17'>
            <verse number='1'>Now the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>gathered <strongs hebrew='622'>together</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='4264'>armies</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs>, and were gathered <strongs hebrew='622'>together</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='7755'>Shochoh</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>belongeth</em> to <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2583'>pitched</strongs><strongs hebrew='996'>between</strongs><strongs hebrew='7755'>Shochoh</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5825'>Azekah</strongs>, in <strongs hebrew='658'>Ephes</strongs>-dammim. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>were gathered <strongs hebrew='622'>together</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2583'>pitched</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='6010'>valley</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='425'>Elah</strongs>, and set the <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='6186'>array</strongs><strongs hebrew='7125'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>on</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='2022'>mountain</strongs>on the one <strongs hebrew='4480 2088'>side</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>on</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='2022'>mountain</strongs>on the other <strongs hebrew='4480 2088'>side</strongs>: and <em>there</em> <em>was</em> a <strongs hebrew='1516'>valley</strongs><strongs hebrew='996'>between</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And there went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='376 1143'>champion</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 4264'>camp</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8034'>named</strongs><strongs hebrew='1555'>Goliath</strongs>, of <strongs hebrew='4480 1661'>Gath</strongs>, whose <strongs hebrew='1363'>height</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='520'>cubits</strongs>and a <strongs hebrew='2239'>span</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And <em>he</em> <em>had</em> a <strongs hebrew='3553'>helmet</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5178'>brass</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='3847'>armed</strongs>with a <strongs hebrew='8302'>coat</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7193'>mail</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='4948'>weight</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8302'>coat</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='8255'>shekels</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5178'>brass</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And <em>he</em> <em>had</em> <strongs hebrew='4697'>greaves</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5178'>brass</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7272'>legs</strongs>, and a <strongs hebrew='3591'>target</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5178'>brass</strongs><strongs hebrew='996'>between</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3802'>shoulders</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And the <strongs hebrew='2671'>staff</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='2595'>spear</strongs><em>was</em> like a <strongs hebrew='707'>weaver</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='4500'>beam</strongs>; and his <strongs hebrew='2595'>spear</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='3852'>head</strongs><em>weighed</em> <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='8255'>shekels</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1270'>iron</strongs>: and one <strongs hebrew='5375'>bearing</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='6793'>shield</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And he <strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7121'>cried</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4634'>armies</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto them, <strongs hebrew='4100'>Why</strongs>are ye come <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>to set <em>your</em> <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='6186'>array</strongs>? <em>am</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistine</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs><strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='1262'>choose</strongs>you a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>for you, and let him come <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>me. </verse>
            <verse number='9'><strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs>he be <strongs hebrew='3201'>able</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>me, and to <strongs hebrew='5221'>kill</strongs>me, then will we <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>: but <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs><strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='3201'>prevail</strongs>against him, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>kill</strongs>him, then shall ye <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5647'>serve</strongs>us. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistine</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='2778'>defy</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4634'>armies</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>me a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>, that we may <strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs><strongs hebrew='3162'>together</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>When <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>those</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistine</strongs>, they were <strongs hebrew='2865'>dismayed</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3966'>greatly</strongs><strongs hebrew='3372'>afraid</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>Now <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><em>was</em> the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2088'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='376 673'>Ephrathite</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 1035'>Bethlehem</strongs>-judah, whose <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='3448'>Jesse</strongs>; and he had <strongs hebrew='8083'>eight</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>went</strongs>among <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><em>for</em> an <strongs hebrew='2204'>old</strongs>man in the <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And the <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='1419'>eldest</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3448'>Jesse</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='1980 310'>followed</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='8034'>names</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='446'>Eliab</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1060'>firstborn</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4932'>next</strongs>unto him <strongs hebrew='41'>Abinadab</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='7992'>third</strongs><strongs hebrew='8048'>Shammah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><em>was</em> the <strongs hebrew='6996'>youngest</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='1419'>eldest</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980 310'>followed</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>But <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>from</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7462'>feed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='6629'>sheep</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='1035'>Bethlehem</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistine</strongs>drew <strongs hebrew='5066'>near</strongs><strongs hebrew='7925'>morning</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='6150'>evening</strongs>, and presented <strongs hebrew='3320'>himself</strongs><strongs hebrew='705'>forty</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And <strongs hebrew='3448'>Jesse</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3947'>Take</strongs><strongs hebrew='4994'>now</strongs>for thy <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>an <strongs hebrew='374'>ephah</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='7039'>parched</strongs><em>corn</em> , and <strongs hebrew='2088'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='3899'>loaves</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7323'>run</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='4264'>camp</strongs>to thy <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And <strongs hebrew='935'>carry</strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='2757 2461'>cheeses</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='8269'>captain</strongs>of <em>their</em> <strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>, and look <strongs hebrew='6485'>how</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs><strongs hebrew='7965'>fare</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3947'>take</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='6161'>pledge</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>Now <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <em>were</em> in the <strongs hebrew='6010'>valley</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='425'>Elah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3898'>fighting</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>rose up <strongs hebrew='7925'>early</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1242'>morning</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5203'>left</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6629'>sheep</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>with</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='8104'>keeper</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5375'>took</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs><strongs hebrew='3448'>Jesse</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs>him; and he <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='4570'>trench</strongs>, as the <strongs hebrew='2428'>host</strongs>was going <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4634'>fight</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7321'>shouted</strongs>for the <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>For <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>had put the battle in <strongs hebrew='6186'>array</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4634'>army</strongs><strongs hebrew='7125'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='4634'>army</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='5203'>left</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3627'>carriage</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8104'>keeper</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3627'>carriage</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7323'>ran</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='4634'>army</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7592 7965'>saluted</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And as <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><strongs hebrew='1696'>talked</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, there came <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376 1143'>champion</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistine</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 1661'>Gath</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1555'>Goliath</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>, out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 4630'>armies</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs>according to the <strongs hebrew='428'>same</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><em>them</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, when they <strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5127'>fled</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>from</strongs>him, and were <strongs hebrew='3966'>sore</strongs><strongs hebrew='3372'>afraid</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>And the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Have ye <strongs hebrew='7200'>seen</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>that is come <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='3588'>surely</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2778'>defy</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>is he come <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>: and it shall <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>, <em>that</em> the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>who</strongs><strongs hebrew='5221'>killeth</strongs>him, the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='6238'>enrich</strongs>him with <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='6239'>riches</strongs>, and will <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>him his <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6213'>make</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs><strongs hebrew='2670'>free</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>by</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs>shall be <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='5221'>killeth</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1975'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistine</strongs>, and taketh <strongs hebrew='5493'>away</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2781'>reproach</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>from</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='4310'>who</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='6189'>uncircumcised</strongs><strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistine</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>he should <strongs hebrew='2778'>defy</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4634'>armies</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2416'>living</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='27'>And the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>him after <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>manner</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3541'>So</strongs>shall it be <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='5221'>killeth</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='28'>And <strongs hebrew='446'>Eliab</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1419'>eldest</strongs><strongs hebrew='251'>brother</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs>when he <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='446'>Eliab</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='639'>anger</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='2734'>kindled</strongs>against <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>Why</strongs>camest thou <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>hither? and <strongs hebrew='5921'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='4310'>whom</strongs>hast thou <strongs hebrew='5203'>left</strongs><strongs hebrew='2007'>those</strongs><strongs hebrew='4592'>few</strongs><strongs hebrew='6629'>sheep</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4057'>wilderness</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='2087'>pride</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='7455'>naughtiness</strongs>of thine <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>thou art come <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='4616'>that</strongs>thou mightest <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='29'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs>have I <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>? <em>Is</em> <em>there</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1697'>cause</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='30'>And he <strongs hebrew='5437'>turned</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 681'>from</strongs>him toward <strongs hebrew='413 4136 312'>another</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>spoke</strongs>after the <strongs hebrew='2088'>same</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>manner</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>answered</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs>after the <strongs hebrew='7223'>former</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>manner</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='31'>And when the <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs>, they <strongs hebrew='5046'>rehearsed</strongs><em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>: and he <strongs hebrew='3947'>sent</strongs>for him. </verse>
            <verse number='32'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, Let <strongs hebrew='408'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='120'>man</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs><strongs hebrew='5307'>fail</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>because</strongs>of him; thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistine</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='33'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, Thou art <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3201'>able</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistine</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><em>art</em> <em>but</em> a <strongs hebrew='5288'>youth</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4421'>war</strongs>from his <strongs hebrew='4480 5271'>youth</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='34'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, Thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961 7462'>kept</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='6629'>sheep</strongs>, and there <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='738'>lion</strongs>, and a <strongs hebrew='1677'>bear</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5375'>took</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='7716'>lamb</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 5739'>flock</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='35'>And I went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='5337'>delivered</strongs><em>it</em> out of his <strongs hebrew='4480 6310'>mouth</strongs>: and when he <strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>me, I <strongs hebrew='2388'>caught</strongs><em>him</em> by his <strongs hebrew='2206'>beard</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='4191'>slew</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='36'>Thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs><strongs hebrew='5221'>slew</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>both</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='738'>lion</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>and</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1677'>bear</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='6189'>uncircumcised</strongs><strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistine</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>as <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>them, <strongs hebrew='3588'>seeing</strongs>he hath <strongs hebrew='2778'>defied</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4634'>armies</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2416'>living</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='37'><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>moreover, The <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='5337'>delivered</strongs>me out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>paw</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='738'>lion</strongs>, and out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>paw</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1677'>bear</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='5337'>deliver</strongs>me out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistine</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Go</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>thee. </verse>
            <verse number='38'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='3847'>armed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>with his <strongs hebrew='4055'>armor</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='5414'>put</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='6959'>helmet</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5178'>brass</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs>; also he <strongs hebrew='3847'>armed</strongs>him with a coat of <strongs hebrew='8302'>mail</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='39'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='2296'>girded</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>upon</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4055'>armor</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='2974'>attempted</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5254'>proved</strongs><em>it</em> . And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, I <strongs hebrew='3201 3808'>cannot</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5254'>proved</strongs><em>them</em> . And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='5493'>put</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>off</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='40'>And he <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4731'>staff</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='977'>chose</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='2512'>smooth</strongs><strongs hebrew='68'>stones</strongs>out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5158'>brook</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7760'>put</strongs>them in a <strongs hebrew='7462'>shepherd</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='3627'>bag</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>he had, even in a <strongs hebrew='3219'>scrip</strongs>; and his <strongs hebrew='7050'>sling</strongs><em>was</em> in his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>: and he drew <strongs hebrew='5066'>near</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistine</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='41'>And the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistine</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>on</strongs>and drew <strongs hebrew='7131'>near</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='5375'>bore</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6793'>shield</strongs><em>went</em> <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='42'>And when the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistine</strongs>looked <strongs hebrew='5027'>about</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='959'>disdained</strongs>him: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><em>but</em> a <strongs hebrew='5288'>youth</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='132'>ruddy</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5973'>of</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3303'>fair</strongs><strongs hebrew='4758'>countenance</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='43'>And the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistine</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, <em>Am</em> <strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3611'>dog</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>comest</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>me with <strongs hebrew='4731'>staves</strongs>? And the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistine</strongs><strongs hebrew='7043'>cursed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>by his <strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='44'>And the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistine</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Come</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>me, and I will <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='1320'>flesh</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='5775'>fowls</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8064'>air</strongs>, and to the <strongs hebrew='929'>beasts</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7704'>field</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='45'>Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistine</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='859'>Thou</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>comest</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>me with a <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>, and with a <strongs hebrew='2595'>spear</strongs>, and with a <strongs hebrew='3591'>shield</strongs>: but <strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>thee in the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6635'>hosts</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4634'>armies</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='2778'>defied</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='46'><strongs hebrew='2088'>This</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>will the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5462'>deliver</strongs>thee into mine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>; and I will <strongs hebrew='5221'>smite</strongs>thee, and <strongs hebrew='5493'>take</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>from</strongs>thee; and I will <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6297'>carcasses</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4264'>host</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='5775'>fowls</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8064'>air</strongs>, and to the wild <strongs hebrew='2416'>beasts</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>earth</strongs>; that <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>earth</strongs>may <strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>there <strongs hebrew='3426'>is</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='47'>And <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='6951'>assembly</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='3467'>saveth</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2595'>spear</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs><em>is</em> the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>'s, and he will <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>you into our <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='48'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>when</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistine</strongs><strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>came</strongs>and drew <strongs hebrew='7126'>nigh</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7125'>meet</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='4116'>hasted</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7323'>ran</strongs>toward the <strongs hebrew='4634'>army</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7125'>meet</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistine</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='49'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>put</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>in</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3627'>bag</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 8033'>thence</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='68'>stone</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7049'>slung</strongs><em>it</em> , and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistine</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>in</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4696'>forehead</strongs>, that the <strongs hebrew='68'>stone</strongs><strongs hebrew='2883'>sunk</strongs>into his <strongs hebrew='4696'>forehead</strongs>; and he <strongs hebrew='5307'>fell</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='6440'>face</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='776'>earth</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='50'>So <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='2388'>prevailed</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>over</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistine</strongs>with a <strongs hebrew='7050'>sling</strongs>and with a <strongs hebrew='68'>stone</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistine</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4191'>slew</strongs>him; but <em>there</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='51'>Therefore <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='7323'>ran</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistine</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8025'>drew</strongs>it out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 8593'>sheath</strongs>thereof, and <strongs hebrew='4191'>slew</strongs>him, and cut <strongs hebrew='3772'>off</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs>therewith. And when the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='1368'>champion</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='4191'>dead</strongs>, they <strongs hebrew='5127'>fled</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='52'>And the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>and of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7321'>shouted</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7291'>pursued</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='1516'>valley</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8179'>gates</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6138'>Ekron</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='2491'>wounded</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>fell <strongs hebrew='5307'>down</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='8189'>Shaaraim</strongs>, even <strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='1661'>Gath</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='6138'>Ekron</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='53'>And the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 1814'>chasing</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>, and they <strongs hebrew='8155'>spoiled</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='4264'>tents</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='54'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistine</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>it to <strongs hebrew='3389'>Jerusalem</strongs>; but he <strongs hebrew='7760'>put</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3627'>armor</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='168'>tent</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='55'>And when <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>go <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs><strongs hebrew='7125'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistine</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='74'>Abner</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='8269'>captain</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6635'>host</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='74'>Abner</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4310'>whose</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='5288'>youth</strongs>? And <strongs hebrew='74'>Abner</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <em>As</em> thy <strongs hebrew='5315'>soul</strongs><strongs hebrew='2416'>liveth</strongs>, O <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, I <strongs hebrew='518'>cannot</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>tell</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='56'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7592'>Inquire</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><strongs hebrew='4310'>whose</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5958'>stripling</strongs><em>is</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='57'>And as <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 5221'>slaughter</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistine</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='74'>Abner</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistine</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='58'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='4310'>Whose</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><em>art</em> <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>, <em>thou</em> young <strongs hebrew='5288'>man</strongs>? And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, I <em>am</em> the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs><strongs hebrew='3448'>Jesse</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1022'>Bethlehemite</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='18'>
            <verse number='1'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, when he had made an <strongs hebrew='3615'>end</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1696'>speaking</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, that the <strongs hebrew='5315'>soul</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='7194'>knit</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='5315'>soul</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs><strongs hebrew='157'>loved</strongs>him as his own <strongs hebrew='5315'>soul</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, and would <strongs hebrew='5414'>let</strongs>him go no more <strongs hebrew='7725 3808'>home</strongs>to his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>Then <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='3772'>made</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1285'>covenant</strongs>, because he <strongs hebrew='157'>loved</strongs>him as his own <strongs hebrew='5315'>soul</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>stripped <strongs hebrew='6584'>himself</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4598'>robe</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>it to <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='4055'>garments</strongs>, even <strongs hebrew='5740'>to</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7198'>bow</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='2290'>girdle</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='834 3605'>whithersoever</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>him, <em>and</em> behaved himself <strongs hebrew='7919'>wisely</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='7760'>set</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4421'>war</strongs>, and he was <strongs hebrew='3190'>accepted</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>as they <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>, when <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 5221'>slaughter</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistine</strongs>, that the <strongs hebrew='802'>women</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7891'>singing</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='4246'>dancing</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='7125'>meet</strongs><strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, with <strongs hebrew='8596'>tabrets</strongs>, with <strongs hebrew='8057'>joy</strongs>, and with instruments of <strongs hebrew='7991'>music</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And the <strongs hebrew='802'>women</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs><em>one</em> <em>another</em> as they <strongs hebrew='7832'>played</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='5221'>slain</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='505'>thousands</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>his ten <strongs hebrew='7233'>thousands</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3966'>very</strongs><strongs hebrew='2734'>wroth</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2088'>the</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>saying</strongs><strongs hebrew='3415 5869'>displeased</strongs>him; and he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, They have <strongs hebrew='5414'>ascribed</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>ten <strongs hebrew='7233'>thousands</strongs>, and to me they have <strongs hebrew='5414'>ascribed</strongs><em>but</em> <strongs hebrew='505'>thousands</strongs>: and <em>what</em> can he have <strongs hebrew='5750'>more</strongs><strongs hebrew='389'>but</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4410'>kingdom</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='5770'>eyed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>from that <strongs hebrew='4480 3117 1931'>day</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1973'>forward</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='4480 4283'>morrow</strongs>, that the <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs><strongs hebrew='7307'>spirit</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='6743'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='5012'>prophesied</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='8432'>midst</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='5059'>played</strongs>with his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, as at other <strongs hebrew='3117 3117'>times</strongs>: and <em>there</em> <em>was</em> a <strongs hebrew='2595'>javelin</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='2904'>cast</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2595'>javelin</strongs>; for he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, I will <strongs hebrew='5221'>smite</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>even to the <strongs hebrew='7023'>wall</strongs><em>with</em> <em>it</em> . And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='5437'>avoided</strongs>out of his <strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>presence</strongs><strongs hebrew='6471'>twice</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3372'>afraid</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him, and was <strongs hebrew='5493'>departed</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5973'>from</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>Therefore <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='5493'>removed</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='4480 5973'>from</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='7760'>made</strongs>him his <strongs hebrew='8269'>captain</strongs>over a <strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs>; and he went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>and came <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>behaved himself <strongs hebrew='7919'>wisely</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1870'>ways</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>Wherefore when <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>behaved himself very <strongs hebrew='7919 3966'>wisely</strongs>, he was <strongs hebrew='1481'>afraid</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>of</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>But <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='157'>loved</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>and came <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1419'>elder</strongs><strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs><strongs hebrew='4764'>Merab</strongs>, her will I <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>thee to <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='389'>only</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='1121 2428'>valiant</strongs>for me, and <strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='4421'>battles</strongs>. For <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Let <strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs>mine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>upon him, but let the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>upon him. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4310'>Who</strongs><em>am</em> <strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs>? and <strongs hebrew='4310'>what</strongs><em>is</em> my <strongs hebrew='2416'>life</strongs>, <em>or</em> my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='4940'>family</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>I should <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='2860'>son</strongs>-in-law to the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='19'>But it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>at the <strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs>when <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='4764'>Merab</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>should have been <strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='1931'>she</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='5741'>Adriel</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4259'>Meholathite</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And <strongs hebrew='4324'>Michal</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs><strongs hebrew='157'>loved</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs><strongs hebrew='3474 5869'>pleased</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, I will <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>him her, that she may <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4170'>snare</strongs>to him, and that the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>may <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>against him. Wherefore <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, Thou shalt this <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>be my <strongs hebrew='2860'>son</strongs>-in-law in <em>the</em> <em>one</em> <em>of</em> the <strongs hebrew='8147'>twain</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>, <em>saying</em> , <strongs hebrew='1696'>Commune</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='3909'>secretly</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='2654'>delight</strongs>in thee, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs><strongs hebrew='157'>love</strongs>thee: <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>therefore be the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='2860'>son</strongs>-in-law. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs><strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>those</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='241'>ears</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5869'>Seemeth</strongs>it to you <em>a</em> <strongs hebrew='7043'>light</strongs><em>thing</em> to be a <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='2860'>son</strongs>-in-law, seeing that <strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs><em>am</em> a <strongs hebrew='7326'>poor</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>, and lightly <strongs hebrew='7034'>esteemed</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And the <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, On <strongs hebrew='428'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>manner</strongs><strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3541'>Thus</strongs>shall ye <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='2656'>desireth</strongs><strongs hebrew='369'>not</strongs>any <strongs hebrew='4119'>dowry</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>but</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='6190'>foreskins</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>, to be <strongs hebrew='5358'>avenged</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='341'>enemies</strongs>. But <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='2803'>thought</strongs>to make <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='5307'>fall</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>And when his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs><strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>, it <strongs hebrew='3474 1697 5869'>pleased</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>well to be the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='2860'>son</strongs>-in-law: and the <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='4390'>expired</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>Wherefore <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>slew</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>two <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='6190'>foreskins</strongs>, and they gave them in full <strongs hebrew='4390'>tale</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, that he might be the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='2860'>son</strongs>-in-law. And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='4324'>Michal</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='28'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3045'>knew</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, and <em>that</em> <strongs hebrew='4324'>Michal</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs><strongs hebrew='157'>loved</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='29'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='5750'>yet</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3254'>more</strongs><strongs hebrew='3372'>afraid</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>became</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='341'>enemy</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605 3117'>continually</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='30'>Then the <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs>: and it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4480 167'>after</strongs>they went <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs>, <em>that</em> <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>behaved himself more <strongs hebrew='7919'>wisely</strongs>than <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>; so that his <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3966'>much</strongs>set <strongs hebrew='3365'>by</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='19'>
            <verse number='1'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>, that they should <strongs hebrew='4191'>kill</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>But <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='2654'>delighted</strongs><strongs hebrew='3966'>much</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs><strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs><strongs hebrew='1245'>seeketh</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4191'>kill</strongs>thee: <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>therefore, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, take heed to <strongs hebrew='8104'>thyself</strongs>until the <strongs hebrew='1242'>morning</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3427'>abide</strongs>in a <strongs hebrew='5643'>secret</strongs><em>place</em> , and hide <strongs hebrew='2244'>thyself</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs>will go <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5975'>stand</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>beside</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7704'>field</strongs><strongs hebrew='834 8033'>where</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><em>art</em> , and <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='1696'>commune</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>with</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>of thee; and <strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs>, that I will <strongs hebrew='5046'>tell</strongs>thee. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs><strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, Let <strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='2398'>sin</strongs>against his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>, against <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>he hath <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='2398'>sinned</strongs>against thee, and <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4639'>works</strongs><em>have</em> <em>been</em> to thee-ward <strongs hebrew='3966'>very</strongs><strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='5'>For he did <strongs hebrew='7760'>put</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5315'>life</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='3709'>hand</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>slew</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistine</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>wrought</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='8668'>salvation</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>: thou <strongs hebrew='7200'>sawest</strongs><em>it</em> , and didst <strongs hebrew='8055'>rejoice</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='4100'>wherefore</strongs>then wilt thou <strongs hebrew='2398'>sin</strongs>against <strongs hebrew='5355'>innocent</strongs><strongs hebrew='1818'>blood</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='4191'>slay</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>without a <strongs hebrew='2600'>cause</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>hearkened</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='7650'>swore</strongs>, <em>As</em> the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='2416'>liveth</strongs>, he shall <strongs hebrew='518'>not</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='4191'>slain</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs><strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs><strongs hebrew='5046'>showed</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>those</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>things</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='6440'>presence</strongs>, as in times <strongs hebrew='8032 865'>past</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And there <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='4421'>war</strongs><strongs hebrew='3254'>again</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3898'>fought</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>slew</strongs>them with a <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='4347'>slaughter</strongs>; and they <strongs hebrew='5127'>fled</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>from</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And the <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs><strongs hebrew='7307'>spirit</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, as <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>sat</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>with his <strongs hebrew='2595'>javelin</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='5059'>played</strongs>with <em>his</em> <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='1245'>sought</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5221'>smite</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>even to the <strongs hebrew='7023'>wall</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='2595'>javelin</strongs>; but he slipped <strongs hebrew='6362'>away</strongs>out of Saul's <strongs hebrew='4480 6440 7586'>presence</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2595'>javelin</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='7023'>wall</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='5127'>fled</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4422'>escaped</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3915'>night</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>also <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='8104'>watch</strongs>him, and to <strongs hebrew='4191'>slay</strongs>him in the <strongs hebrew='1242'>morning</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='4324'>Michal</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs><strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='4422'>save</strongs><strongs hebrew='369'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5315'>life</strongs><strongs hebrew='3915'>tonight</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4279'>tomorrow</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>shalt be <strongs hebrew='4191'>slain</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>So <strongs hebrew='4324'>Michal</strongs>let David <strongs hebrew='3381 *853 1732'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='1157'>through</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='2474'>window</strongs>: and he <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1272'>fled</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4422'>escaped</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And <strongs hebrew='4324'>Michal</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>an <strongs hebrew='8655'>image</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7760'>laid</strongs><em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='413'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4296'>bed</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7760'>put</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='3523'>pillow</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5795'>goats</strongs>' <em>hair</em> for his <strongs hebrew='4763'>bolster</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3680'>covered</strongs><em>it</em> with a <strongs hebrew='899'>cloth</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And when <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3947'>take</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, she <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>He</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='2470'>sick</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs><em>again</em> to <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, Bring him <strongs hebrew='5927 *853'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>me in the <strongs hebrew='4296'>bed</strongs>, that I may <strongs hebrew='4191'>slay</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And when the <strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs>were come <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, <em>there</em> <em>was</em> an <strongs hebrew='8655'>image</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>in</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4296'>bed</strongs>, with a <strongs hebrew='3523'>pillow</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5795'>goats</strongs>' <em>hair</em> for his <strongs hebrew='4763'>bolster</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='4324'>Michal</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>Why</strongs>hast thou <strongs hebrew='7411'>deceived</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='3602'>so</strongs>, and sent <strongs hebrew='7971'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>mine <strongs hebrew='341'>enemy</strongs>, that he is <strongs hebrew='4422'>escaped</strongs>? And <strongs hebrew='4324'>Michal</strongs><strongs hebrew='559 413'>answered</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>He</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>me, Let me <strongs hebrew='7971'>go</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='4100'>why</strongs>should I <strongs hebrew='4191'>kill</strongs>thee? </verse>
            <verse number='18'>So <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='1272'>fled</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4422'>escaped</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7414'>Ramah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>to him. And <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='5121'>Naioth</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And it was <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><em>is</em> at <strongs hebrew='5121'>Naioth</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7414'>Ramah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3947'>take</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>: and when they <strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3862'>company</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs><strongs hebrew='5012'>prophesying</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>standing</strongs><em>as</em> <strongs hebrew='5324'>appointed</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>them, the <strongs hebrew='7307'>Spirit</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs><strongs hebrew='5012'>prophesied</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And when it was <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='312'>other</strongs><strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='5012'>prophesied</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>likewise</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs><strongs hebrew='3254'>again</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7992'>third</strongs>time, and <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='5012'>prophesied</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>Then <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7414'>Ramah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='953'>well</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>is</em> in <strongs hebrew='7906'>Sechu</strongs>: and he <strongs hebrew='7592'>asked</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='375'>Where</strongs><em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>? And <em>one</em> <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, <em>they</em> <em>be</em> at <strongs hebrew='5121'>Naioth</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7414'>Ramah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And he <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>thither</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='5121'>Naioth</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7414'>Ramah</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='7307'>Spirit</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>him</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>, and he went <strongs hebrew='1980 1980'>on</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5012'>prophesied</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5121'>Naioth</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7414'>Ramah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>stripped <strongs hebrew='6584'>off</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='899'>clothes</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5012'>prophesied</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>in like <strongs hebrew='1571'>manner</strongs>, and lay <strongs hebrew='5307'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='6174'>naked</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='3915'>night</strongs>. <strongs hebrew='5921 3651'>Wherefore</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs>, <em>Is</em> <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>among the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs>? </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='20'>
            <verse number='1'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='1272'>fled</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 5121'>Naioth</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7414'>Ramah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs>have I <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs><em>is</em> mine <strongs hebrew='5771'>iniquity</strongs>? and <strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs><em>is</em> my <strongs hebrew='2403'>sin</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='1245'>seeketh</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>my <strongs hebrew='5315'>life</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, God <strongs hebrew='2486'>forbid</strongs>; thou shalt <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='4191'>die</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808 1697'>nothing</strongs>either <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='176'>or</strongs><strongs hebrew='6996'>small</strongs>, but that he will <strongs hebrew='3808 1540'>show</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='241'>me</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='4069'>why</strongs>should my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs><strongs hebrew='5641'>hide</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>from</strongs>me? <strongs hebrew='2063'>it</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>not</strongs><em>so</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='7650'>swore</strongs><strongs hebrew='5750'>moreover</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Thy <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>certainly <strongs hebrew='3045 3045'>knoweth</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs><strongs hebrew='2580'>grace</strongs>in thine <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>; and he <strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>, Let <strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6435'>lest</strongs>he be <strongs hebrew='6087'>grieved</strongs>: but <strongs hebrew='199'>truly</strongs><em>as</em> the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='2416'>liveth</strongs>, and <em>as</em> thy <strongs hebrew='5315'>soul</strongs><strongs hebrew='2416'>liveth</strongs>, <em></em> <em>there</em> <em>is</em> but a <strongs hebrew='6587'>step</strongs><strongs hebrew='996'>between</strongs>me and <strongs hebrew='4194'>death</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>Whatsoever</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5315'>soul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>desireth</strongs>, I will even <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><em>it</em> for thee. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4279'>tomorrow</strongs><em>is</em> the new <strongs hebrew='2320'>moon</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs>should not fail to <strongs hebrew='3427 3427'>sit</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='398'>meat</strongs>: but let me <strongs hebrew='7971'>go</strongs>, that I may hide <strongs hebrew='5641'>myself</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7704'>field</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7992'>third</strongs><em>day</em> at <strongs hebrew='6153'>even</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'><strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>at all <strongs hebrew='6485 6485'>miss</strongs>me, then <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>earnestly <strongs hebrew='7592 7592'>asked</strongs><em>leave</em> <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>me that he might <strongs hebrew='7323'>run</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1035'>Bethlehem</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><em>there</em> <em>is</em> a <strongs hebrew='3117'>yearly</strongs><strongs hebrew='2077'>sacrifice</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4940'>family</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'><strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs><strongs hebrew='3541'>thus</strongs>, <em>It</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='2896'>well</strongs>; thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>shall have <strongs hebrew='7965'>peace</strongs>: but <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>he be very <strongs hebrew='2734 2734'>wroth</strongs>, <em>then</em> be <strongs hebrew='3045'>sure</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='3615'>determined</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5973'>by</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>Therefore thou shalt <strongs hebrew='6213'>deal</strongs><strongs hebrew='2617'>kindly</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>with</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>into a <strongs hebrew='1285'>covenant</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>thee: notwithstanding, <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>there <strongs hebrew='3426'>be</strongs>in me <strongs hebrew='5771'>iniquity</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4191'>slay</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='859'>thyself</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='5704'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='4100'>why</strongs>shouldest thou <strongs hebrew='935'>bring</strongs>me to thy <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Far be <strongs hebrew='2486'>it</strongs>from thee: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>I knew <strongs hebrew='3045 3045'>certainly</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='3615'>determined</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5973'>by</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>thee, then would <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='5046'>tell</strongs>it thee? </verse>
            <verse number='10'>Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4310'>Who</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='5046'>tell</strongs>me? <strongs hebrew='176'>or</strongs><strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs><em>if</em> thy <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>answer</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='7186'>roughly</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Come</strongs>, and let us go <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='7704'>field</strongs>. And they went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='8147'>both</strongs>of them into the <strongs hebrew='7704'>field</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, O <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>when</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='2713'>sounded</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>about <strongs hebrew='4279'>tomorrow</strongs>any <strongs hebrew='6256'>time</strongs>, <em>or</em> the <strongs hebrew='7992'>third</strongs><em>day</em> , and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, <em>if</em> <em>there</em> <em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>toward</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, and I <strongs hebrew='227'>then</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>send</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>thee, and show it <strongs hebrew='1540 *853 241'>thee</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='13'>The <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><strongs hebrew='3541'>so</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3541'>much</strongs><strongs hebrew='3254'>more</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>: but <strongs hebrew='3588'>if</strongs>it <strongs hebrew='3190 413'>please</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs><em>to</em> <em>do</em> thee <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>, then I will show it <strongs hebrew='1540 *853 241'>thee</strongs>, and send thee <strongs hebrew='7971'>away</strongs>, that thou mayest <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7965'>peace</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>thee, <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>he hath <strongs hebrew='1961'>been</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And thou shalt <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>only <strongs hebrew='518'>while</strongs><strongs hebrew='5750'>yet</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='2416'>live</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213 5973'>show</strongs>me the <strongs hebrew='2617'>kindness</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, that I <strongs hebrew='4191'>die</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='15'>But <em>also</em> thou shalt <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>cut <strongs hebrew='3772'>off</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='2617'>kindness</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5973'>from</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704 5769'>forever</strongs>: no, <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>when the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath cut <strongs hebrew='3772'>off</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='341'>enemies</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>every <strongs hebrew='376'>one</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 5921 6440'>face</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='127'>earth</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>So <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs><strongs hebrew='3772'>made</strongs><em>a</em> <em>covenant</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, <em>saying</em> , Let the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>even <strongs hebrew='1245'>require</strongs><em>it</em> at the <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='341'>enemies</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>caused <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7650'>swear</strongs><strongs hebrew='3254'>again</strongs>, because he <strongs hebrew='160'>loved</strongs>him: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='157'>loved</strongs>him as he <strongs hebrew='160'>loved</strongs>his own <strongs hebrew='5315'>soul</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>Then <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>to David, <strongs hebrew='4279'>Tomorrow</strongs><em>is</em> the new <strongs hebrew='2320'>moon</strongs>: and thou shalt be <strongs hebrew='6485'>missed</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='4186'>seat</strongs>will be <strongs hebrew='6485'>empty</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And <em>when</em> thou hast stayed three <strongs hebrew='8027'>days</strongs>, <em>then</em> thou shalt go <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='3966'>quickly</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>where</strongs>thou didst hide <strongs hebrew='5641'>thyself</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033 3117'>when</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4639'>business</strongs>was <em>in</em> <em>hand</em> , and shalt <strongs hebrew='3427'>remain</strongs><strongs hebrew='681'>by</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='68'>stone</strongs><strongs hebrew='237'>Ezel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='3384'>shoot</strongs><strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='2671'>arrows</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='6654'>side</strongs><em>thereof</em> , as though I <strongs hebrew='7971'>shot</strongs>at a <strongs hebrew='4307'>mark</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, I will <strongs hebrew='7971'>send</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>a <strongs hebrew='5288'>lad</strongs>, <em>saying</em> , <strongs hebrew='1980'>Go</strongs>, find <strongs hebrew='4672'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2671'>arrows</strongs>. <strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs>I expressly <strongs hebrew='559 559'>say</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='5288'>lad</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='2671'>arrows</strongs><em>are</em> on this <strongs hebrew='4480 2008'>side</strongs>of thee, <strongs hebrew='3947'>take</strongs>them; then <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>thou: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><em>there</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='7965'>peace</strongs>to thee, and <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>hurt</strongs>; <em>as</em> the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='2416'>liveth</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>But <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs><strongs hebrew='3541'>thus</strongs>unto the young <strongs hebrew='5958'>man</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='2671'>arrows</strongs><em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='4480 1973'>beyond</strongs>thee; go thy <strongs hebrew='1980'>way</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath sent thee <strongs hebrew='7971'>away</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And <em>as</em> <em>touching</em> the <strongs hebrew='1697'>matter</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoken</strongs>of, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='996'>between</strongs>thee and me <strongs hebrew='5704 5769'>forever</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>So <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>hid <strongs hebrew='5641'>himself</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7704'>field</strongs>: and when the new <strongs hebrew='2320'>moon</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='1961'>come</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>sat him <strongs hebrew='3427'>down</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs><strongs hebrew='3899'>meat</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>sat</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4186'>seat</strongs>, as at other <strongs hebrew='6471 6471'>times</strongs>, <em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='413'>upon</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4186'>seat</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='7023'>wall</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs><strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='74'>Abner</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>sat</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='4480 6654'>side</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='6485'>empty</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>Nevertheless <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>any <strongs hebrew='3972'>thing</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='559'>thought</strongs>, Something hath <strongs hebrew='4745'>befallen</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='1115'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='2889'>clean</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>surely</strongs>he <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='2889'>clean</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='4480 4283'>morrow</strongs>, <em>which</em> <em>was</em> the <strongs hebrew='8145'>second</strongs><em>day</em> of the <strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='6485'>empty</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4069'>Wherefore</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>cometh</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3448'>Jesse</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='3899'>meat</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1571'>neither</strongs><strongs hebrew='8543'>yesterday</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1571'>nor</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>today</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='28'>And <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>earnestly <strongs hebrew='7592 7592'>asked</strongs><em>leave</em> <strongs hebrew='4480 5973'>of</strongs>me <em>to</em> <em>go</em> <strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='1035'>Bethlehem</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='29'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Let me <strongs hebrew='7971'>go</strongs>, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='4940'>family</strongs>hath a <strongs hebrew='2077'>sacrifice</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>; and my <strongs hebrew='251'>brother</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs>me <em>to</em> <em>be</em> <em>there</em> : and <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs><strongs hebrew='2580'>favor</strongs>in thine <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>, let me get <strongs hebrew='4422'>away</strongs>, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>my <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>. <strongs hebrew='5921 3651'>Therefore</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='935'>cometh</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='7979'>table</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='30'>Then <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='639'>anger</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='2734'>kindled</strongs>against <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, Thou <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5753'>perverse</strongs><strongs hebrew='4780'>rebellious</strongs><em>woman</em> , do <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>hast <strongs hebrew='977'>chosen</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3448'>Jesse</strongs>to thine own <strongs hebrew='1322'>confusion</strongs>, and unto the <strongs hebrew='1322'>confusion</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='6172'>nakedness</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='31'><strongs hebrew='3588'>For</strongs>as <strongs hebrew='3605 3117'>long</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3448'>Jesse</strongs><strongs hebrew='2416'>liveth</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='127'>ground</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>shalt <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='3559'>established</strongs>, nor thy <strongs hebrew='4438'>kingdom</strongs>. Wherefore <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>send</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3947'>fetch</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>him <strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>me, <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>shall surely <strongs hebrew='1121 4194'>die</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='32'>And <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='4100'>Wherefore</strongs>shall he be <strongs hebrew='4191'>slain</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs>hath he <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='33'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='2904'>cast</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>a <strongs hebrew='2595'>javelin</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>at</strongs>him to <strongs hebrew='5221'>smite</strongs>him: whereby <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>knew</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>it</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3615'>determined</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5973'>of</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4191'>slay</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='34'>So <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs><strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5973'>from</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7979'>table</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='2750'>fierce</strongs><strongs hebrew='639'>anger</strongs>, and did <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='3899'>meat</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8145'>second</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2320'>month</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he was <strongs hebrew='6087'>grieved</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>had done him <strongs hebrew='3637'>shame</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='35'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1242'>morning</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='7704'>field</strongs>at the time <strongs hebrew='4150'>appointed</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, and a <strongs hebrew='6996'>little</strongs><strongs hebrew='5288'>lad</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='36'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto his <strongs hebrew='5288'>lad</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7323'>Run</strongs>, find <strongs hebrew='4672'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='4994'>now</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2671'>arrows</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='3384'>shoot</strongs>. <em>And</em> as the <strongs hebrew='5288'>lad</strongs><strongs hebrew='7323'>ran</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><strongs hebrew='3384'>shot</strongs>an <strongs hebrew='2678'>arrow</strongs><strongs hebrew='5674'>beyond</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='37'>And when the <strongs hebrew='5288'>lad</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2678'>arrow</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='3384'>shot</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs><strongs hebrew='7121'>cried</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5288'>lad</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <em>Is</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2678'>arrow</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 1973'>beyond</strongs>thee? </verse>
            <verse number='38'>And <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs><strongs hebrew='7121'>cried</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5288'>lad</strongs>, Make <strongs hebrew='2363'>speed</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4120'>haste</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5975'>stay</strongs><strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='5288'>lad</strongs>gathered <strongs hebrew='3950'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2678'>arrows</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='39'>But the <strongs hebrew='5288'>lad</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>knew</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>any <strongs hebrew='3972'>thing</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='389'>only</strongs><strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>knew</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>matter</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='40'>And <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3627'>artillery</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>his</strongs><strongs hebrew='5288'>lad</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Go</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='935'>carry</strongs><em>them</em> to the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='41'><em>And</em> as soon as the <strongs hebrew='5288'>lad</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='935'>gone</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>out of <em>a</em> <em>place</em> <strongs hebrew='4480 681'>toward</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5045'>south</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5307'>fell</strongs>on his <strongs hebrew='639'>face</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='776'>ground</strongs>, and bowed <strongs hebrew='7812'>himself</strongs><strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='6471'>times</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='5401'>kissed</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='7453'>another</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1058'>wept</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='7453'>another</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='1431'>exceeded</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='42'>And <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Go</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7965'>peace</strongs>, forasmuch <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>we have <strongs hebrew='7650'>sworn</strongs><strongs hebrew='8147'>both</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='587'>us</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='996'>between</strongs>me and thee, and <strongs hebrew='996'>between</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='2233'>seed</strongs>and thy <strongs hebrew='2233'>seed</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704 5769'>forever</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1980'>departed</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>went</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='21'>
            <verse number='1'>Then <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5011'>Nob</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='288'>Ahimelech</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='288'>Ahimelech</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='2729'>afraid</strongs>at the <strongs hebrew='7125'>meeting</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, <strongs hebrew='4069'>Why</strongs><em>art</em> <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><strongs hebrew='905'>alone</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>thee? </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='288'>Ahimelech</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs>me a <strongs hebrew='1697'>business</strongs>, and hath <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>me, Let <strongs hebrew='408'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs>any <strongs hebrew='3972'>thing</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>business</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>whereabout</strongs><strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>send</strongs>thee, and <strongs hebrew='834'>what</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='6680'>commanded</strongs>thee: and I have <strongs hebrew='3045'>appointed</strongs><em>my</em> <strongs hebrew='5288'>servants</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='6423'>such</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='492'>such</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>therefore <strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs><strongs hebrew='3426'>is</strongs><strongs hebrew='8478'>under</strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs><em>me</em> <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><em>loaves</em> <em>of</em> <strongs hebrew='3899'>bread</strongs>in mine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='176'>or</strongs>what there is <strongs hebrew='4672'>present</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <em>There</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='2455'>common</strongs><strongs hebrew='3899'>bread</strongs><strongs hebrew='413 8478'>under</strongs>mine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588 518'>but</strongs>there <strongs hebrew='3426'>is</strongs><strongs hebrew='6944'>hallowed</strongs><strongs hebrew='3899'>bread</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>the young <strongs hebrew='5288'>men</strongs>have kept <strongs hebrew='8104'>themselves</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='389'>least</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 802'>women</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, <strongs hebrew='3588 518'>Of</strongs>a truth <strongs hebrew='802'>women</strongs><em>have</em> <em>been</em> <strongs hebrew='6113'>kept</strongs>from us about these <strongs hebrew='8032'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='8543'>days</strongs>, since I came <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3627'>vessels</strongs>of the young <strongs hebrew='5288'>men</strongs>are <strongs hebrew='6944'>holy</strongs>, and <em>the</em> <em>bread</em> <em>is</em> in a <strongs hebrew='1870'>manner</strongs><strongs hebrew='2455'>common</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='637'>yea</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>though</strongs>it were <strongs hebrew='6942'>sanctified</strongs>this <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='3627'>vessel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>So the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='6944'>hallowed</strongs><em>bread</em> : <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>there <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='3899'>bread</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588 518'>but</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3899 6440'>shewbread</strongs>, that was <strongs hebrew='5493'>taken</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='7760'>put</strongs><strongs hebrew='2527'>hot</strongs><strongs hebrew='3899'>bread</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>when it was taken <strongs hebrew='3947'>away</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>Now a certain <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 5650'>servants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6113'>detained</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>; and his <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='1673'>Doeg</strongs>, an <strongs hebrew='130'>Edomite</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='47'>chiefest</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7462'>herdsmen</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>belonged</em> to <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='288'>Ahimelech</strongs>, And is <strongs hebrew='3426'>there</strongs><strongs hebrew='371'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='6311'>here</strongs><strongs hebrew='8478'>under</strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs><strongs hebrew='2595'>spear</strongs><strongs hebrew='176'>or</strongs><strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='1571 3808'>neither</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>brought</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>nor</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='3627'>weapons</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>with</strongs>me, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1697'>business</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>required</strongs><strongs hebrew='5169'>haste</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1555'>Goliath</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistine</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='5221'>slewest</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='6010'>valley</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='425'>Elah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>it</strongs><em>is</em> <em>here</em> <strongs hebrew='3874'>wrapped</strongs>in a <strongs hebrew='8071'>cloth</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>behind</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='646'>ephod</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>thou wilt <strongs hebrew='3947'>take</strongs>that, <strongs hebrew='3947'>take</strongs><em>it</em> : <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><em>there</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='312'>other</strongs><strongs hebrew='2108'>save</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='2088'>here</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <em>There</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>none</strongs>like that; <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>it me. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1272'>fled</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>for fear <strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='397'>Achish</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1661'>Gath</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And the <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='397'>Achish</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <em>Is</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>? did they <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>sing one to <strongs hebrew='6030'>another</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2088'>him</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='4246'>dances</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='5221'>slain</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='505'>thousands</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>his ten <strongs hebrew='7233'>thousands</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>laid <strongs hebrew='7760'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='3824'>heart</strongs>, and was <strongs hebrew='3966'>sore</strongs><strongs hebrew='3372'>afraid</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='397'>Achish</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1661'>Gath</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And he <strongs hebrew='8138'>changed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='2940'>behavior</strongs><strongs hebrew='5869'>before</strongs>them, and feigned himself <strongs hebrew='1984'>mad</strongs>in their <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8427'>scrabbled</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1817'>doors</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='8179'>gate</strongs>, and let his <strongs hebrew='7388'>spittle</strongs>fall <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>upon</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='2206'>beard</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='397'>Achish</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Lo</strongs>, ye <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='7696'>mad</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='4100'>wherefore</strongs><em>then</em> have ye <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>me? </verse>
            <verse number='15'>Have <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs><strongs hebrew='2638'>need</strongs>of mad <strongs hebrew='7696'>men</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>ye have <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><em>fellow</em> to play the mad <strongs hebrew='7696'>man</strongs>in my <strongs hebrew='5921'>presence</strongs>? shall <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><em>fellow</em> <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>? </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='22'>
            <verse number='1'><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>therefore <strongs hebrew='1980'>departed</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 8033'>thence</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4422'>escaped</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4631'>cave</strongs><strongs hebrew='5725'>Adullam</strongs>: and when his <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><em>it</em> , they went <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>thither</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And <strongs hebrew='3605'>every</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>one</strongs><em>that</em> <em>was</em> in <strongs hebrew='4689'>distress</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>every</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>was</em> in <strongs hebrew='5378'>debt</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>every</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>one</strongs><em>that</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='4751 5315'>discontented</strongs>, gathered <strongs hebrew='6908'>themselves</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him; and he <strongs hebrew='1961'>became</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='8269'>captain</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>them: and there <strongs hebrew='1961'>were</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him about <strongs hebrew='702'>four</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 8033'>thence</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4708'>Mizpeh</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moab</strongs>: and he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moab</strongs>, Let my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>and my <strongs hebrew='517'>mother</strongs>, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, come <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs>, <em>and</em> <em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>you, <strongs hebrew='5704 834'>till</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs><strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>for me. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And he <strongs hebrew='5148'>brought</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4124'>Moab</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3117'>while</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4686'>hold</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And the <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophet</strongs><strongs hebrew='1410'>Gad</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3427'>Abide</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4686'>hold</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='1980'>depart</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>get</strongs>thee into the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>. Then <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>departed</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='3293'>forest</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2802'>Hareth</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>When <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3045'>discovered</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>him, (now <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>abode</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='1390'>Gibeah</strongs><strongs hebrew='8478'>under</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='815'>tree</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7414'>Ramah</strongs>, having his <strongs hebrew='2595'>spear</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='5324'>standing</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>about</strongs>him;) </verse>
            <verse number='7'>Then <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='5324'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>about</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='8085'>Hear</strongs><strongs hebrew='4994'>now</strongs>, ye <strongs hebrew='1145'>Benjamites</strongs>; will the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3448'>Jesse</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>every <strongs hebrew='3605'>one</strongs>of you <strongs hebrew='7704'>fields</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3754'>vineyards</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='7760'>make</strongs>you <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='8269'>captains</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='505'>thousands</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8269'>captains</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundreds</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs hebrew='3588'>That</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>of you have <strongs hebrew='7194'>conspired</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>me, and <em>there</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>none</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='1540 *853 241'>showeth</strongs>me that my <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>hath made a <strongs hebrew='3772'>league</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3448'>Jesse</strongs>, and <em>there</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>none</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>you that is <strongs hebrew='2470'>sorry</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs>me, or showeth <strongs hebrew='1540 *853 241'>unto</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>hath stirred <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>my <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>me, to lie in <strongs hebrew='693'>wait</strongs>, as at <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='9'>Then <strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs><strongs hebrew='1673'>Doeg</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='130'>Edomite</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>which</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='5324'>set</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, I <strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3448'>Jesse</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>coming</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5011'>Nob</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='288'>Ahimelech</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='285'>Ahitub</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And he <strongs hebrew='7592'>inquired</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>for him, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='6720'>victuals</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>him the <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1555'>Goliath</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistine</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>Then the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7121'>call</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='288'>Ahimelech</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='285'>Ahitub</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> in <strongs hebrew='5011'>Nob</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>of them <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8085'>Hear</strongs><strongs hebrew='4994'>now</strongs>, thou <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='285'>Ahitub</strongs>. And he <strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Here</strongs>I <em>am</em> , my <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='4100'>Why</strongs>have ye <strongs hebrew='7194'>conspired</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>me, <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3448'>Jesse</strongs>, in that thou hast <strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3899'>bread</strongs>, and a <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>, and hast <strongs hebrew='7592'>inquired</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>for him, that he should <strongs hebrew='6965'>rise</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>against</strongs>me, to lie in <strongs hebrew='693'>wait</strongs>, as at <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='14'>Then <strongs hebrew='288'>Ahimelech</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, And <strongs hebrew='4310'>who</strongs><em>is</em> <em>so</em> <strongs hebrew='539'>faithful</strongs>among <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>as <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, which is the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='2860'>son</strongs>-in-law, and <strongs hebrew='5493'>goeth</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>at</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='4928'>bidding</strongs>, and is <strongs hebrew='3513'>honorable</strongs>in thine <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='15'>Did I <strongs hebrew='3117'>then</strongs><strongs hebrew='2490'>begin</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7592'>inquire</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>for him? be it <strongs hebrew='2486'>far</strongs>from me: let <strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='7760'>impute</strongs><em>any</em> <strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs>unto his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>, <em>nor</em> to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>knew</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>nothing</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6996'>less</strongs><strongs hebrew='176'>or</strongs><strongs hebrew='1419'>more</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Thou shalt surely <strongs hebrew='4191 4191'>die</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='288'>Ahimelech</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='7323'>footmen</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='5324'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>about</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='5437'>Turn</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4191'>slay</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='3045'>knew</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>when</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><strongs hebrew='1272'>fled</strongs>, and did <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='1540'>show</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>it to <strongs hebrew='241'>me</strongs>. But the <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='14'>would</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>put <strongs hebrew='7971'>forth</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6293'>fall</strongs>upon the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1673'>Doeg</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5437'>Turn</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6293'>fall</strongs>upon the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='1673'>Doeg</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='130'>Edomite</strongs><strongs hebrew='5437'>turned</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><strongs hebrew='6293'>fell</strongs>upon the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4191'>slew</strongs>on <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs><strongs hebrew='8084'>fourscore</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>persons</strongs>that did <strongs hebrew='5375'>wear</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='906'>linen</strongs><strongs hebrew='646'>ephod</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And <strongs hebrew='5011'>Nob</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs>he with the <strongs hebrew='6310'>edge</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>, both <strongs hebrew='4480 376'>men</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='802'>women</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4480 5768'>children</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3243'>sucklings</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7794'>oxen</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2543'>asses</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7716'>sheep</strongs>, with the <strongs hebrew='6310'>edge</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='288'>Ahimelech</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='285'>Ahitub</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8034'>named</strongs><strongs hebrew='54'>Abiathar</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4422'>escaped</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1272'>fled</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And <strongs hebrew='54'>Abiathar</strongs><strongs hebrew='5046'>showed</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='2026'>slain</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='3548'>priests</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='54'>Abiathar</strongs>, I <strongs hebrew='3045'>knew</strongs><em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>when</strongs><strongs hebrew='1673'>Doeg</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='130'>Edomite</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>he would surely <strongs hebrew='5046 5046'>tell</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='5437'>occasioned</strongs><em>the</em> <em>death</em> of <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5315'>persons</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'><strongs hebrew='3427'>Abide</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>me, <strongs hebrew='3372'>fear</strongs><strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1245'>seeketh</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>my <strongs hebrew='5315'>life</strongs><strongs hebrew='1245'>seeketh</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5315'>life</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>but</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><em>shalt</em> <em>be</em> in <strongs hebrew='4931'>safeguard</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='23'>
            <verse number='1'>Then they <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs>against <strongs hebrew='7084'>Keilah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='8154'>rob</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1637'>threshingfloors</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>Therefore <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='7592'>inquired</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, Shall I <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smite</strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>? And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Go</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smite</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3467'>save</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='7084'>Keilah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='587'>we</strongs>be <strongs hebrew='3372'>afraid</strongs><strongs hebrew='6311'>here</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>: how <strongs hebrew='637'>much</strongs>more then <strongs hebrew='3588'>if</strongs>we <strongs hebrew='1980'>come</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7084'>Keilah</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4634'>armies</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='4'>Then <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='7592'>inquired</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5750'>yet</strongs><strongs hebrew='3254'>again</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs>him and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6965'>Arise</strongs>, go <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7084'>Keilah</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='5414'>deliver</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>into thine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>So <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7084'>Keilah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3898'>fought</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>, and brought <strongs hebrew='5090'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='4735'>cattle</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs>them with a <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='4347'>slaughter</strongs>. So <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='3467'>saved</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7084'>Keilah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, when <strongs hebrew='54'>Abiathar</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='288'>Ahimelech</strongs><strongs hebrew='1272'>fled</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7084'>Keilah</strongs>, <em>that</em> he came <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><em>with</em> an <strongs hebrew='646'>ephod</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And it was <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7084'>Keilah</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='5234'>delivered</strongs>him into mine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he is shut <strongs hebrew='5462'>in</strongs>, by <strongs hebrew='935'>entering</strongs>into a <strongs hebrew='5892'>town</strongs>that hath <strongs hebrew='1817'>gates</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1280'>bars</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>together to <strongs hebrew='4421'>war</strongs>, to go <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7084'>Keilah</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='6696 413'>besiege</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>knew</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>secretly <strongs hebrew='2790'>practiced</strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>mischief</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>him; and he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='54'>Abiathar</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>, Bring <strongs hebrew='5066'>hither</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='646'>ephod</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, O <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>hath certainly <strongs hebrew='8085 8085'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='1245'>seeketh</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='7084'>Keilah</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='7843'>destroy</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>for my <strongs hebrew='5668'>sake</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>Will the <strongs hebrew='1167'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7084'>Keilah</strongs>deliver me <strongs hebrew='5462'>up</strongs>into his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>? will <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>come <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs>? O <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, I beseech <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5046'>tell</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, He will come <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, Will the <strongs hebrew='1167'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7084'>Keilah</strongs><strongs hebrew='5462'>deliver</strongs>me and my <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>? And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, They will deliver <em>thee</em> <strongs hebrew='5462'>up</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>Then <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>, <em>which</em> <em>were</em> about <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967 *376'>hundred</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3318'>departed</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 7084'>Keilah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>whithersoever</strongs>they could <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>. And it was <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='4422'>escaped</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 7084'>Keilah</strongs>; and he <strongs hebrew='2308'>forbore</strongs>to go <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>abode</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4057'>wilderness</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='4679'>strongholds</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3427'>remained</strongs>in a <strongs hebrew='2022'>mountain</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4057'>wilderness</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2128'>Ziph</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='1245'>sought</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3605'>every</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, but <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>into his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>was come <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1245'>seek</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5315'>life</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><em>was</em> in the <strongs hebrew='4057'>wilderness</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2128'>Ziph</strongs>in a <strongs hebrew='2793'>wood</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='2793'>wood</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2388'>strengthened</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='3372'>Fear</strongs><strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='4672'>find</strongs>thee; and <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>shalt be <strongs hebrew='4427'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='4932'>next</strongs>unto thee; and <strongs hebrew='3651'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>knoweth</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And they <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='3772'>made</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1285'>covenant</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>abode</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='2793'>wood</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>to his <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>Then came <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2130'>Ziphites</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1390'>Gibeah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, Doth <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>hide <strongs hebrew='5641'>himself</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>us in <strongs hebrew='4679'>strongholds</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='2793'>wood</strongs>, in the <strongs hebrew='1389'>hill</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2444'>Hachilah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>is</em> on the <strongs hebrew='4480 3225'>south</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3452'>Jeshimon</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='20'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>therefore, O <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>, come <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>according to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='185'>desire</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='5315'>soul</strongs>to come <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>; and our part <em>shall</em> <em>be</em> to <strongs hebrew='5462'>deliver</strongs>him into the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1288'>Blessed</strongs><em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>ye have <strongs hebrew='2550'>compassion</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>me. </verse>
            <verse number='22'><strongs hebrew='1980'>Go</strongs>, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>you</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3559'>prepare</strongs><strongs hebrew='5750'>yet</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>where</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7272'>haunt</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>is</strongs>, <em>and</em> <strongs hebrew='4310'>who</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='7200'>seen</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>it is <strongs hebrew='559 413'>told</strongs>me <em>that</em> <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>dealeth very <strongs hebrew='6191 6191'>subtlely</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'><strongs hebrew='7200'>See</strongs>therefore, and take <strongs hebrew='3045'>knowledge</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs>the lurking <strongs hebrew='4224'>places</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>where</strongs>he hideth <strongs hebrew='2244'>himself</strongs>, and come ye <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='413'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3559'>certainty</strongs>, and I will <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>you: and it shall come to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='1961 3426'>be</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>, that I will search him <strongs hebrew='2664 *853'>out</strongs>throughout <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='505'>thousands</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And they <strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='2128'>Ziph</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>: but <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><em>were</em> in the <strongs hebrew='4057'>wilderness</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4584'>Maon</strongs>, in the <strongs hebrew='6160'>plain</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3225'>south</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3452'>Jeshimon</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>also and his <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1245'>seek</strongs><em>him</em> . And they <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>: wherefore he came <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>into a <strongs hebrew='5553'>rock</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3427'>abode</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4057'>wilderness</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4584'>Maon</strongs>. And when <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><em>that</em> , he <strongs hebrew='7291'>pursued</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4057'>wilderness</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4584'>Maon</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>on this <strongs hebrew='4480 2088 4480 6654'>side</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2022'>mountain</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>on that <strongs hebrew='4480 2088 4480 6654'>side</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2022'>mountain</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>made <strongs hebrew='1961 2648'>haste</strongs>to get <strongs hebrew='1980'>away</strongs>for fear <strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>of</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>; for <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='5849 413'>compassed</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>round about to <strongs hebrew='8610'>take</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>But there <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4397'>messenger</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4116'>Haste</strongs>thee, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>come</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='6584 5921'>invaded</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='28'>Wherefore <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 7291'>pursuing</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='7125'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='5921 3651'>therefore</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs><strongs hebrew='5555*'>Sela</strongs>-hammahlekoth. </verse>
            <verse number='29'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 8033'>thence</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='4679'>strongholds</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='5872'>En</strongs>-gedi. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='24'>
            <verse number='1'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>when</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 310'>following</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>, that it was <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><em>is</em> in the <strongs hebrew='4057'>wilderness</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5872'>En</strongs>-gedi. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>Then <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='977'>chosen</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>out of <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1245'>seek</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='592 6440'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6697'>rocks</strongs>of the wild <strongs hebrew='3277'>goats</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And he <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1448 6629'>sheepcotes</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>by</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8033'>where</strongs><em>was</em> a <strongs hebrew='4631'>cave</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='5526'>cover</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7272'>feet</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>remained</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='3411'>sides</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4631'>cave</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>thee, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='5414'>deliver</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='341'>enemy</strongs>into thine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, that thou mayest <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>to him <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>it shall seem <strongs hebrew='3190 5869'>good</strongs>unto thee. Then <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>, and cut <strongs hebrew='3772'>off</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3671'>skirt</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='4598'>robe</strongs><strongs hebrew='3909'>privily</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs><strongs hebrew='310 3651'>afterward</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs><strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='5921 834'>because</strongs>he had cut <strongs hebrew='3772'>off</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='3671'>skirt</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto his <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>, The <strongs hebrew='4480 3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='2486'>forbid</strongs><strongs hebrew='518'>that</strongs>I should <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs>unto my <strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='4899'>anointed</strongs>, to stretch <strongs hebrew='7971'>forth</strongs>mine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>against him, <strongs hebrew='3588'>seeing</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><em>is</em> the <strongs hebrew='4899'>anointed</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>So <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='8156'>stayed</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='376'>servants</strongs>with these <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>suffered</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6965'>rise</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>. But <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>rose <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 4631'>cave</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>on <em>his</em> <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>also <strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs><strongs hebrew='310 3651'>afterward</strongs>, and went <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4631'>cave</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7121'>cried</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, My <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>. And when <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='5027'>looked</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>behind</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='6915'>stooped</strongs>with his <strongs hebrew='639'>face</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='776'>earth</strongs>, and bowed <strongs hebrew='7812'>himself</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>Wherefore</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>hearest</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='120'>men</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='1245'>seeketh</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='7451'>hurt</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='10'><strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='7200'>seen</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>how</strongs>that the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='3117'>today</strongs>into mine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4631'>cave</strongs>: and <em>some</em> <strongs hebrew='559'>bade</strongs><em>me</em> <strongs hebrew='2026'>kill</strongs>thee: but <em>mine</em> <em>eye</em> <strongs hebrew='2347 5921'>spared</strongs>thee; and I <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, I will <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>put <strongs hebrew='7971'>forth</strongs>mine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>against my <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><em>is</em> the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='4899'>anointed</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>Moreover, my <strongs hebrew='1'>father</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1571'>yea</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3671'>skirt</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='4598'>robe</strongs>in my <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>in that I cut <strongs hebrew='3772'>off</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3671'>skirt</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='4598'>robe</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2026'>killed</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs>thou and <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><em>there</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>neither</strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>nor <strongs hebrew='6588'>transgression</strongs>in mine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, and I have <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='2398'>sinned</strongs>against thee; yet <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><strongs hebrew='6658'>huntest</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>my <strongs hebrew='5315'>soul</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3947'>take</strongs>it. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>The <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='8199'>judge</strongs><strongs hebrew='996'>between</strongs>me and thee, and the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5358'>avenge</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>thee: but mine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>upon thee. </verse>
            <verse number='13'><strongs hebrew='834'>As</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>saith</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4912'>proverb</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6931'>ancients</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7562'>Wickedness</strongs><strongs hebrew='3318'>proceedeth</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 7563'>wicked</strongs>: but mine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>upon thee. </verse>
            <verse number='14'><strongs hebrew='310'>After</strongs><strongs hebrew='4310'>whom</strongs>is the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>come <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs><strongs hebrew='4310'>whom</strongs>dost <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><strongs hebrew='7291'>pursue</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4191'>dead</strongs><strongs hebrew='3611'>dog</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>a</strongs><strongs hebrew='6550'>flea</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>The <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>therefore <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='1781'>judge</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8199'>judge</strongs><strongs hebrew='996'>between</strongs>me and thee, and <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7378'>plead</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>my <strongs hebrew='7379'>cause</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8199'>deliver</strongs>me out of thine <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, when <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>had made an <strongs hebrew='3615'>end</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1696'>speaking</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <em>Is</em> <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>, my <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>? And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>lifted <strongs hebrew='5375'>up</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1058'>wept</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='859'>Thou</strongs><em>art</em> more <strongs hebrew='6662'>righteous</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>than</strongs>I: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>hast <strongs hebrew='1580'>rewarded</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs>, whereas <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='1580'>rewarded</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>hast <strongs hebrew='5046'>showed</strongs>this <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>how <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='6213'>dealt</strongs><strongs hebrew='2896'>well</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>me: <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>forasmuch as <strongs hebrew='834'>when</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='5462'>delivered</strongs>me into thine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, thou <strongs hebrew='2026'>killedst</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>For <strongs hebrew='3588'>if</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='4672'>find</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='341'>enemy</strongs>, will he let him <strongs hebrew='7971'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='2896'>well</strongs><strongs hebrew='1870'>away</strongs>? wherefore the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='7999'>reward</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs><strongs hebrew='8478'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>unto me <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, I know <strongs hebrew='3045'>well</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>thou shalt surely be <strongs hebrew='4427 4427'>king</strongs>, and that the <strongs hebrew='4467'>kingdom</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>shall be <strongs hebrew='6965'>established</strongs>in thine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'><strongs hebrew='7650'>Swear</strongs><strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>therefore unto me by the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>that</strongs>thou wilt not cut <strongs hebrew='3772'>off</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>my <strongs hebrew='2233'>seed</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>me, and <strongs hebrew='518'>that</strongs>thou wilt not <strongs hebrew='8045'>destroy</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>my <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>out of my father's <strongs hebrew='4480 1004 1'>house</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='7650'>swore</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980 413'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='1004'>home</strongs>; but <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>got them <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4686'>hold</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='25'>
            <verse number='1'>And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israelites</strongs>were gathered <strongs hebrew='6908'>together</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5594'>lamented</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='6912'>buried</strongs>him in his <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='7414'>Ramah</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>, and went <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4057'>wilderness</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6290'>Paran</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And <em>there</em> <em>was</em> a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='4584'>Maon</strongs>, whose <strongs hebrew='4639'>possessions</strongs><em>were</em> in <strongs hebrew='3760'>Carmel</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='3966'>very</strongs><strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs>, and he had <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='6629'>sheep</strongs>, and a <strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='5795'>goats</strongs>: and he <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='1494'>shearing</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='6629'>sheep</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3760'>Carmel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>Now the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5037'>Nabal</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs><strongs hebrew='26'>Abigail</strongs>: and <em>she</em> <em>was</em> a <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs><strongs hebrew='7922'>understanding</strongs>, and of a <strongs hebrew='3303'>beautiful</strongs><strongs hebrew='8389'>countenance</strongs>: but the <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='7186'>churlish</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='4611'>doings</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><em>was</em> of the house of <strongs hebrew='3612'>Caleb</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4057'>wilderness</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='5037'>Nabal</strongs>did <strongs hebrew='1494'>shear</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='6629'>sheep</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>sent <strongs hebrew='7971'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs>young <strongs hebrew='5288'>men</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto the young <strongs hebrew='5288'>men</strongs>, Get you <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3760'>Carmel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='5037'>Nabal</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7592 7965'>greet</strongs>him in my <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And <strongs hebrew='3541'>thus</strongs>shall ye <strongs hebrew='559'>say</strongs>to him that <strongs hebrew='2416'>liveth</strongs><em>in</em> <em>prosperity</em> , <strongs hebrew='7965'>Peace</strongs><em>be</em> both to <strongs hebrew='859'>thee</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7965'>peace</strongs><em>be</em> to thine <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7965'>peace</strongs><em>be</em> unto <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>thou hast. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='1494'>shearers</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='7462'>shepherds</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>were</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>us, we <strongs hebrew='3637'>hurt</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3808'>neither</strongs>was there <strongs hebrew='3972'>aught</strongs><strongs hebrew='6485'>missing</strongs>unto them, <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3117'>while</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='1961'>were</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3760'>Carmel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'><strongs hebrew='7592'>Ask</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy young <strongs hebrew='5288'>men</strongs>, and they will <strongs hebrew='5046'>show</strongs>thee. Wherefore let the young <strongs hebrew='5288'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='4672'>find</strongs><strongs hebrew='2580'>favor</strongs>in thine <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>we <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>in</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>whatsoever</strongs><strongs hebrew='4672'>cometh</strongs>to thine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>unto thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>, and to thy <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And when <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>'s young <strongs hebrew='5288'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>, they <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='5037'>Nabal</strongs>according to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>those</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5117'>ceased</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And <strongs hebrew='5037'>Nabal</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4310'>Who</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>? and <strongs hebrew='4310'>who</strongs><em>is</em> the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3448'>Jesse</strongs>? there be <strongs hebrew='7231'>many</strongs><strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>now a <strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>that break <strongs hebrew='6555'>away</strongs>every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>from</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>Shall I then <strongs hebrew='3947'>take</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>my <strongs hebrew='3899'>bread</strongs>, and my <strongs hebrew='4325'>water</strongs>, and my <strongs hebrew='2878'>flesh</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='2873'>killed</strongs>for my <strongs hebrew='1494'>shearers</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs><em>it</em> unto <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='335 4480 2088'>whence</strongs><strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><em>be</em> ? </verse>
            <verse number='12'>So <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>'s young <strongs hebrew='5288'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='2015'>turned</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>, and went <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>those</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>sayings</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto his <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>, Gird ye <strongs hebrew='2296'>on</strongs>every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>. And they girded <strongs hebrew='2296'>on</strongs>every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>girded <strongs hebrew='2296'>on</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>: and there went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>about <strongs hebrew='702'>four</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>; and two <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>abode</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>by</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3627'>stuff</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>But <strongs hebrew='259 5288'>one</strongs>of the young <strongs hebrew='4480 5288'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs><strongs hebrew='26'>Abigail</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5037'>Nabal</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs><strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 4057'>wilderness</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1288'>salute</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>our <strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs>; and he <strongs hebrew='5860'>railed</strongs>on them. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>But the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='3966'>very</strongs><strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs>unto us, and we were <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3637'>hurt</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3808'>neither</strongs><strongs hebrew='6485'>missed</strongs>we any <strongs hebrew='3972'>thing</strongs>, as long <strongs hebrew='3605 3117'>as</strongs>we were <strongs hebrew='1980'>conversant</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>them, when we <strongs hebrew='1961'>were</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7704'>fields</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='16'>They <strongs hebrew='1961'>were</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='2346'>wall</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>unto</strongs>us <strongs hebrew='1571'>both</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='3915'>night</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>and</strongs><strongs hebrew='3119'>day</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3117'>while</strongs>we <strongs hebrew='1961'>were</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='7462'>keeping</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6629'>sheep</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>therefore <strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7200'>consider</strongs><strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs>thou wilt <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='3615'>determined</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>against</strongs>our <strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1004'>household</strongs>: for <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><em>is</em> <em>such</em> a <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1100'>Belial</strongs>, that <em>a</em> <em>man</em> cannot <strongs hebrew='4480 1696'>speak</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>Then <strongs hebrew='26'>Abigail</strongs>made <strongs hebrew='4116'>haste</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs>two <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='3899'>loaves</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='5035'>bottles</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3196'>wine</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='6629'>sheep</strongs>ready <strongs hebrew='6213'>dressed</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='5429'>measures</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7039'>parched</strongs><em>corn</em> , and a <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>clusters of <strongs hebrew='6778'>raisins</strongs>, and two <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs>cakes of <strongs hebrew='1690'>figs</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7760'>laid</strongs><em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs><strongs hebrew='2543'>asses</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And she <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto her <strongs hebrew='5288'>servants</strongs>, Go <strongs hebrew='5674'>on</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>me; <strongs hebrew='2005'>behold</strongs>, I <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>you. But she <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='376'>husband</strongs><strongs hebrew='5037'>Nabal</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And it <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><em>so,</em> <em>as</em> <strongs hebrew='1931'>she</strongs><strongs hebrew='7392'>rode</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2543'>ass</strongs>, that she came <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='5643'>covert</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='2022'>hill</strongs>, and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='7125'>against</strongs>her; and she <strongs hebrew='6298'>met</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>Now <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='389'>Surely</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='8267'>vain</strongs>have I <strongs hebrew='8104'>kept</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><em>fellow</em> hath in the <strongs hebrew='4057'>wilderness</strongs>, so that <strongs hebrew='3808 3972'>nothing</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='6485'>missed</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>pertained</em> unto him: and he hath <strongs hebrew='7725'>requited</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs><strongs hebrew='8478'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'><strongs hebrew='3541'>So</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3254'>more</strongs><strongs hebrew='3541'>also</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='341'>enemies</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs>I <strongs hebrew='7604'>leave</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>pertain</em> to him <strongs hebrew='5704'>by</strongs>the morning <strongs hebrew='1242'>light</strongs>any that <strongs hebrew='8366'>pisseth</strongs>against the <strongs hebrew='7023'>wall</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>And when <strongs hebrew='26'>Abigail</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, she <strongs hebrew='4116'>hasted</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3381'>lighted</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>off</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2543'>ass</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5307'>fell</strongs><strongs hebrew='639'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>her <strongs hebrew='6440'>face</strongs>, and bowed <strongs hebrew='7812'>herself</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='776'>ground</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And <strongs hebrew='5307'>fell</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>at</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7272'>feet</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Upon <strongs hebrew='589'>me</strongs>, my <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>, <em>upon</em> me <em>let</em> <em>this</em> <strongs hebrew='5771'>iniquity</strongs><em>be</em> : and let thine <strongs hebrew='519'>handmaid</strongs>, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1696'>speak</strongs>in thine <strongs hebrew='241'>audience</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8085'>hear</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>of thine <strongs hebrew='519'>handmaid</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>Let <strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7760 *853 3820 413'>regard</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1100'>Belial</strongs>, <em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='5037'>Nabal</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>as his <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs><em>is</em> , <strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='5037'>Nabal</strongs><em>is</em> his <strongs hebrew='8034'>name</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5039'>folly</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him: but <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='519'>handmaid</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the young <strongs hebrew='5288'>men</strongs>of my <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>thou didst <strongs hebrew='7971'>send</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>therefore, my <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>, <em>as</em> the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='2416'>liveth</strongs>, and <em>as</em> thy <strongs hebrew='5315'>soul</strongs><strongs hebrew='2416'>liveth</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>seeing</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='4513'>withheld</strongs>thee from <strongs hebrew='4480 935'>coming</strongs>to <em>shed</em> <strongs hebrew='1818'>blood</strongs>, and from <strongs hebrew='3467'>avenging</strongs>thyself with thine own <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>let thine <strongs hebrew='341'>enemies</strongs>, and they that <strongs hebrew='1245'>seek</strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>as <strongs hebrew='5037'>Nabal</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='27'>And <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs><strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1293'>blessing</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='8198'>handmaid</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>unto my <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>, let it even be <strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs>unto the young <strongs hebrew='5288'>men</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='1980 7272'>follow</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='28'>I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5375'>forgive</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6588'>trespass</strongs>of thine <strongs hebrew='519'>handmaid</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>will certainly <strongs hebrew='6213 6213'>make</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='539'>sure</strongs><strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs><strongs hebrew='3898'>fighteth</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4421'>battles</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>been <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>in thee <em>all</em> thy <strongs hebrew='4480 3117'>days</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='29'>Yet a <strongs hebrew='120'>man</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='6965'>risen</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7291'>pursue</strongs>thee, and to <strongs hebrew='1245'>seek</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5315'>soul</strongs>: but the <strongs hebrew='5315'>soul</strongs>of my <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='6887'>bound</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='6872'>bundle</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2416'>life</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='5315'>souls</strongs>of thine <strongs hebrew='341'>enemies</strongs>, them shall he sling <strongs hebrew='7049'>out</strongs>, <em>as</em> <em>out</em> of the <strongs hebrew='8432'>middle</strongs>of a <strongs hebrew='7050'>sling</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='30'>And it shall come to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>when</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>shall have <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>to my <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>according to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>he hath <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoken</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>concerning</strongs>thee, and shall have <strongs hebrew='6680'>appointed</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='5057'>ruler</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='31'>That <strongs hebrew='2063'>this</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='6330'>grief</strongs>unto thee, nor <strongs hebrew='4383'>offense</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs>unto my <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>, either that thou hast <strongs hebrew='8210'>shed</strongs><strongs hebrew='1818'>blood</strongs><strongs hebrew='2600'>causeless</strongs>, or that my <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='3467'>avenged</strongs>himself: but when the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>shall have dealt <strongs hebrew='3190'>well</strongs>with my <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>, then <strongs hebrew='2142'>remember</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='519'>handmaid</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='32'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='26'>Abigail</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1288'>Blessed</strongs><em>be</em> the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7125'>meet</strongs>me: </verse>
            <verse number='33'>And <strongs hebrew='1288'>blessed</strongs><em>be</em> thy <strongs hebrew='2940'>advice</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1288'>blessed</strongs><em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>hast <strongs hebrew='3607'>kept</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 935'>coming</strongs>to <em>shed</em> <strongs hebrew='1818'>blood</strongs>, and from <strongs hebrew='3467'>avenging</strongs>myself with mine own <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='34'>For in very <strongs hebrew='199'>deed</strongs>, <em>as</em> the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='2416'>liveth</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>hath kept me <strongs hebrew='4513'>back</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 7489'>hurting</strongs>thee, <strongs hebrew='3588 3884'>except</strongs>thou hadst <strongs hebrew='4116'>hasted</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7125'>meet</strongs>me, <strongs hebrew='3588'>surely</strongs>there had <strongs hebrew='518'>not</strongs>been <strongs hebrew='3498'>left</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='5037'>Nabal</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>by</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1242'>morning</strongs><strongs hebrew='216'>light</strongs>any that <strongs hebrew='8366'>pisseth</strongs>against the <strongs hebrew='7023'>wall</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='35'>So <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>received</strongs>of her <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><em>that</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>she had <strongs hebrew='935'>brought</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto her, Go <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7965'>peace</strongs>to thine <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs>, I have <strongs hebrew='8085'>hearkened</strongs>to thy <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>, and have <strongs hebrew='5375'>accepted</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='6440'>person</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='36'>And <strongs hebrew='26'>Abigail</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='5037'>Nabal</strongs>; and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, he held a <strongs hebrew='4960'>feast</strongs>in his <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>, like the <strongs hebrew='4960'>feast</strongs>of a <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='5037'>Nabal</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='2896'>merry</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>within</strongs>him, for <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='5704 3966'>very</strongs><strongs hebrew='7910'>drunken</strongs>: wherefore she <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3808 1697'>nothing</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6996'>less</strongs>or <strongs hebrew='1419'>more</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704'>until</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1242'>morning</strongs><strongs hebrew='216'>light</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='37'>But it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1242'>morning</strongs>, when the <strongs hebrew='3196'>wine</strongs>was gone <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 5037'>Nabal</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>things</strongs>, that his <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs><strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs><strongs hebrew='7130'>within</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>became</strongs><em>as</em> a <strongs hebrew='68'>stone</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='38'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>about <strongs hebrew='6235'>ten</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs><em>after</em> , that the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5062'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='5037'>Nabal</strongs>, that he <strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='39'>And when <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='5037'>Nabal</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='4191'>dead</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1288'>Blessed</strongs><em>be</em> the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='7378'>pleaded</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7379'>cause</strongs>of my <strongs hebrew='2781'>reproach</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5037'>Nabal</strongs>, and hath <strongs hebrew='2820'>kept</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 7451'>evil</strongs>: for the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7451'>wickedness</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5037'>Nabal</strongs>upon his own <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1696'>communed</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='26'>Abigail</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='3947'>take</strongs>her to him to <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='40'>And when the <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='26'>Abigail</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3760'>Carmel</strongs>, they <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>her, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>us <strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>thee, to <strongs hebrew='3947'>take</strongs>thee to him to <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='41'>And she <strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>, and bowed <strongs hebrew='7812'>herself</strongs>on <em>her</em> <strongs hebrew='639'>face</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='776'>earth</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, <em>let</em> thine <strongs hebrew='519'>handmaid</strongs><em>be</em> a <strongs hebrew='8198'>servant</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7364'>wash</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7272'>feet</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>of my <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='42'>And <strongs hebrew='26'>Abigail</strongs><strongs hebrew='4116'>hasted</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7392'>rode</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>an <strongs hebrew='2543'>ass</strongs>, with <strongs hebrew='2568'>five</strongs><strongs hebrew='5291'>damsels</strongs>of hers that <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='7272'>after</strongs>her; and she <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4397'>messengers</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1961'>became</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='43'><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>also <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='293'>Ahinoam</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4480 3157'>Jezreel</strongs>; and they <strongs hebrew='1961'>were</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs><strongs hebrew='8147'>both</strongs>of them his <strongs hebrew='802'>wives</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='44'>But <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='4324'>Michal</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughter</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='6406'>Phalti</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3919'>Laish</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>was</em> of <strongs hebrew='4480 1554'>Gallim</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='26'>
            <verse number='1'>And the <strongs hebrew='2130'>Ziphites</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1390'>Gibeah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, Doth <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>hide <strongs hebrew='5641'>himself</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1389'>hill</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2444'>Hachilah</strongs>, <em>which</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5921 6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='3452'>Jeshimon</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='2'>Then <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>, and went <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4057'>wilderness</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2128'>Ziph</strongs>, having <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='505'>thousand</strongs><strongs hebrew='977'>chosen</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>him, to <strongs hebrew='1245'>seek</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4057'>wilderness</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2128'>Ziph</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='2583'>pitched</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1389'>hill</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='2444'>Hachilah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5921 6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='3452'>Jeshimon</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5921'>by</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>. But <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>abode</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4057'>wilderness</strongs>, and he <strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>him into the <strongs hebrew='4057'>wilderness</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>therefore sent <strongs hebrew='7971'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='7270'>spies</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3045'>understood</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>was come <strongs hebrew='935 413'>in</strongs>very <strongs hebrew='3559'>deed</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs><strongs hebrew='834 8033'>where</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='2583'>pitched</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>beheld</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs><strongs hebrew='834 8033'>where</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='7901'>lay</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='74'>Abner</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5369'>Ner</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='8269'>captain</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='6635'>host</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='7901'>lay</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4570'>trench</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='2583'>pitched</strongs>round <strongs hebrew='5439'>about</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>Then <strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='288'>Ahimelech</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2850'>Hittite</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='52'>Abishai</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6870'>Zeruiah</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='251'>brother</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3097'>Joab</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4310'>Who</strongs>will go <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4264'>camp</strongs>? And <strongs hebrew='52'>Abishai</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='589'>I</strongs>will go <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>thee. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>So <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='52'>Abishai</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='3915'>night</strongs>: and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='7901'>lay</strongs><strongs hebrew='3463'>sleeping</strongs>within the <strongs hebrew='4570'>trench</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='2595'>spear</strongs><strongs hebrew='4600'>stuck</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='776'>ground</strongs>at his <strongs hebrew='4763'>bolster</strongs>: but <strongs hebrew='74'>Abner</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='7901'>lay</strongs>round <strongs hebrew='5439'>about</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='52'>Abishai</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='5462'>delivered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='341'>enemy</strongs>into thine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>this <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>therefore let me <strongs hebrew='5221'>smite</strongs>him, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, with the <strongs hebrew='2595'>spear</strongs>even to the <strongs hebrew='776'>earth</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='259 6471'>once</strongs>, and I will <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><em>smite</em> him the second <strongs hebrew='8138'>time</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='52'>Abishai</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7843'>Destroy</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='4310'>who</strongs>can stretch <strongs hebrew='7971'>forth</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>against the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='4899'>anointed</strongs>, and be <strongs hebrew='5352'>guiltless</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='10'><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588 518'>furthermore</strongs>, <em>As</em> the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='2416'>liveth</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='5062'>smite</strongs>him; <strongs hebrew='176'>or</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4191'>die</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='176'>or</strongs>he shall <strongs hebrew='3381'>descend</strongs>into <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5595'>perish</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>The <strongs hebrew='4480 3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='2486'>forbid</strongs>that I should stretch <strongs hebrew='4480 7971'>forth</strongs>mine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>against the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='4899'>anointed</strongs>: but, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3947'>take</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2595'>spear</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>is</em> at his <strongs hebrew='4763'>bolster</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='6835'>cruse</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4325'>water</strongs>, and let us <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>So <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2595'>spear</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='6835'>cruse</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4325'>water</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='4763'>bolster</strongs>; and they got them <strongs hebrew='1980'>away</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='369'>no</strongs>man <strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><em>it</em> , <strongs hebrew='369'>nor</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>knew</strongs><em>it</em> , <strongs hebrew='369'>neither</strongs><strongs hebrew='6974'>awaked</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>they <em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3463'>asleep</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>a deep <strongs hebrew='8639'>sleep</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='5307'>fallen</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>Then <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5674'>over</strongs>to the other <strongs hebrew='5676'>side</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5975'>stood</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7218'>top</strongs>of a <strongs hebrew='2022'>hill</strongs>afar <strongs hebrew='4480 7350'>off</strongs>; a <strongs hebrew='7227'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='4725'>space</strongs><em>being</em> <strongs hebrew='996'>between</strongs>them: </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='7121'>cried</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='74'>Abner</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5369'>Ner</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6030'>Answerest</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='74'>Abner</strongs>? Then <strongs hebrew='74'>Abner</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4310'>Who</strongs><em>art</em> <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><em>that</em> <strongs hebrew='7121'>criest</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='74'>Abner</strongs>, <em>Art</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>a <em>valiant</em> <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>? and <strongs hebrew='4310'>who</strongs><em>is</em> like to <strongs hebrew='3644'>thee</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='4100'>wherefore</strongs>then hast thou <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='8104 413'>kept</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>there <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>in to <strongs hebrew='7843'>destroy</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'><strongs hebrew='2088'>This</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>. <em>As</em> the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='2416'>liveth</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='859'>ye</strongs><em>are</em> <strongs hebrew='1121'>worthy</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='4194'>die</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>because</strongs>ye have <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='8104 5921'>kept</strongs>your <strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='4899'>anointed</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>see</strongs><strongs hebrew='335'>where</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='2595'>spear</strongs><em>is</em> , and the <strongs hebrew='6835'>cruse</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4325'>water</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>was</em> at his <strongs hebrew='4763'>bolster</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='5234'>knew</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <em>Is</em> <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>, my <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>? And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <em>It</em> <em>is</em> my <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>, my <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>, O <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>Wherefore</strongs>doth my <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>thus</strongs><strongs hebrew='7291'>pursue</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs>have I <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>? or <strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs><em>is</em> in mine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='19'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>therefore, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, let my <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='8085'>hear</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>. <strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>have stirred thee <strongs hebrew='5496'>up</strongs>against me, let him <strongs hebrew='7306'>accept</strongs>an <strongs hebrew='4503'>offering</strongs>: but <strongs hebrew='518'>if</strongs><em>they</em> <em>be</em> the <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='120'>men</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='779'>cursed</strongs><em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='1992'>they</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>they have driven me <strongs hebrew='1644'>out</strongs>this <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 5596'>abiding</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='5159'>inheritance</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1980'>Go</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5647'>serve</strongs><strongs hebrew='312'>other</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>therefore, let <strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='1818'>blood</strongs><strongs hebrew='5307'>fall</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='776'>earth</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5048'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6440'>face</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>is come <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1245'>seek</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>a <strongs hebrew='6550'>flea</strongs>, as <strongs hebrew='834'>when</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs>doth <strongs hebrew='7291'>hunt</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='7124'>partridge</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='2022'>mountains</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, I have <strongs hebrew='2398'>sinned</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='7725'>return</strongs>, my <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>I will <strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='5750'>more</strongs>do thee <strongs hebrew='7489'>harm</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8478 834'>because</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='5315'>soul</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3365'>precious</strongs>in thine <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, I have played the <strongs hebrew='5528'>fool</strongs>, and have <strongs hebrew='7686'>erred</strongs><strongs hebrew='7235 3966'>exceedingly</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='2595'>spear</strongs>! and let <strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs>of the young <strongs hebrew='4480 5288'>men</strongs>come <strongs hebrew='5674'>over</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3947'>fetch</strongs>it. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>The <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='7725'>render</strongs>to every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='6666'>righteousness</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='530'>faithfulness</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='834'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs>thee into <em>my</em> <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>today</strongs>, but I <strongs hebrew='14'>would</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>stretch <strongs hebrew='7971'>forth</strongs>mine <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>against the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='4899'>anointed</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5315'>life</strongs>was much <strongs hebrew='1431'>set</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>in mine <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs>let my <strongs hebrew='5315'>life</strongs>be much <strongs hebrew='1431'>set</strongs>by in the <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, and let him <strongs hebrew='5337'>deliver</strongs>me out of <strongs hebrew='4480 3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='6869'>tribulation</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>Then <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1288'>Blessed</strongs><em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>, my <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>: thou shalt <strongs hebrew='1571'>both</strongs>do <strongs hebrew='6213 6213'>great</strongs><em>things</em> , and <strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>shalt still <strongs hebrew='3201 3201'>prevail</strongs>. So <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>on his <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs>to his <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='27'>
            <verse number='1'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>in</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs>, I shall <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs><strongs hebrew='5595'>perish</strongs><strongs hebrew='259'>one</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>by the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>: <em>there</em> <em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='369'>nothing</strongs><strongs hebrew='2896'>better</strongs>for me <strongs hebrew='3588'>than</strongs>that I should speedily <strongs hebrew='4422 4422'>escape</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='2976'>despair</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>me, to <strongs hebrew='1245'>seek</strongs>me any <strongs hebrew='5750'>more</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='3605'>any</strongs><strongs hebrew='1366'>coast</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>: so shall I <strongs hebrew='4422'>escape</strongs>out of his <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>passed <strongs hebrew='5674'>over</strongs>with the <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='397'>Achish</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4582'>Maoch</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1661'>Gath</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='397'>Achish</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='1661'>Gath</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>, every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>with his <strongs hebrew='1004'>household</strongs>, <em>even</em> <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>with his <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='802'>wives</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='293'>Ahinoam</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3159'>Jezreelitess</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='26'>Abigail</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3761'>Carmelitess</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5037'>Nabal</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And it was <strongs hebrew='5046'>told</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='1272'>fled</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1661'>Gath</strongs>: and he <strongs hebrew='1245'>sought</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='5750'>more</strongs><strongs hebrew='3254'>again</strongs>for him. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='397'>Achish</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='518'>If</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='4994'>now</strongs><strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs><strongs hebrew='2580'>grace</strongs>in thine <strongs hebrew='5869'>eyes</strongs>, let them <strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>me a <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='259'>some</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>town</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7704'>country</strongs>, that I may <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwell</strongs><strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>: for <strongs hebrew='4100'>why</strongs>should thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>dwell</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4467'>royal</strongs><strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>thee? </verse>
            <verse number='6'>Then <strongs hebrew='397'>Achish</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='6860'>Ziklag</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3651'>wherefore</strongs><strongs hebrew='6860'>Ziklag</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>pertaineth</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='4428'>kings</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And the <strongs hebrew='3117'>time</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7704'>country</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='4557'>full</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>year</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='702'>four</strongs><strongs hebrew='2320'>months</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6584 413'>invaded</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1651'>Geshurites</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='1511'>Gezrites</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='6003'>Amalekites</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='2007'>those</strongs><em>nations</em> <em>were</em> of <strongs hebrew='834 4480 5769'>old</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>, as thou <strongs hebrew='935'>goest</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7793'>Shur</strongs>, even <strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4714'>Egypt</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2421'>left</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>neither</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>nor <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>alive, and took <strongs hebrew='3947'>away</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6629'>sheep</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='1241'>oxen</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='2543'>asses</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='1581'>camels</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='899'>apparel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7725'>returned</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='397'>Achish</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And <strongs hebrew='397'>Achish</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='408'>Whither</strongs>have ye made a <strongs hebrew='6584'>road</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>today</strongs>? And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5921'>Against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5045'>south</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5045'>south</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3397'>Jerahmeelites</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='413'>against</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5045'>south</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7017'>Kenites</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='2421'>saved</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>neither</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>nor <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>alive, to <strongs hebrew='935'>bring</strongs><em>tidings</em> to <strongs hebrew='1661'>Gath</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6435'>Lest</strongs>they should <strongs hebrew='5046'>tell</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>on</strongs>us, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3541'>So</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>did</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3541'>so</strongs><em>will</em> <em>be</em> his <strongs hebrew='4941'>manner</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3117'>while</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelleth</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7704'>country</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And <strongs hebrew='397'>Achish</strongs><strongs hebrew='539'>believed</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, He hath made his <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>utterly to <strongs hebrew='887 887'>abhor</strongs>him; therefore he shall <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs><strongs hebrew='5769'>forever</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='28'>
            <verse number='1'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='1992'>those</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>, that the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>gathered <strongs hebrew='6908'>together</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='4264'>armies</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='6635'>warfare</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='397'>Achish</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, Know thou <strongs hebrew='3045 3045'>assuredly</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>thou shalt go <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>me to <strongs hebrew='4264'>battle</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>and thy <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='397'>Achish</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3651'>Surely</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>shalt <strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>what</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>can <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='397'>Achish</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3651'>Therefore</strongs>will I <strongs hebrew='7760'>make</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='8104'>keeper</strongs>of mine <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605 3117'>forever</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>Now <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='4191'>dead</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='5594'>lamented</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='6912'>buried</strongs>him in <strongs hebrew='7414'>Ramah</strongs>, even in his own <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>had put <strongs hebrew='5493'>away</strongs>those that had familiar <strongs hebrew='178'>spirits</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3049'>wizards</strongs>, out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 776'>land</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>gathered themselves <strongs hebrew='6908'>together</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='2583'>pitched</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7766'>Shunem</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>gathered all Israel <strongs hebrew='6908 *853 3605 3478'>together</strongs>, and they <strongs hebrew='2583'>pitched</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='1533'>Gilboa</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And when <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4264'>host</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>, he was <strongs hebrew='3372'>afraid</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='3820'>heart</strongs><strongs hebrew='3966'>greatly</strongs><strongs hebrew='2729'>trembled</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And when <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='7592'>inquired</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1571'>neither</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='2472'>dreams</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1571'>nor</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='224'>Urim</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1571'>nor</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>unto his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1245'>Seek</strongs>me a <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='1172'>hath</strongs>a familiar <strongs hebrew='178'>spirit</strongs>, that I may <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>her, and <strongs hebrew='1875'>inquire</strongs>of her. And his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, <em>there</em> <em>is</em> a <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='1172'>hath</strongs>a familiar <strongs hebrew='178'>spirit</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='5874'>Endor</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>disguised <strongs hebrew='2664'>himself</strongs>, and put <strongs hebrew='3847'>on</strongs><strongs hebrew='312'>other</strongs><strongs hebrew='899'>raiment</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him, and they <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='3915'>night</strongs>: and he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7080'>divine</strongs>unto me by the familiar <strongs hebrew='178'>spirit</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5927'>bring</strongs>me <em>him</em> up, <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>I shall <strongs hebrew='559'>name</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>thee. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And the <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>knowest</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>what</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>how</strongs>he hath cut <strongs hebrew='3772'>off</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>those that have familiar <strongs hebrew='178'>spirits</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3049'>wizards</strongs>, out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='4100'>wherefore</strongs>then layest <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='5367'>snare</strongs>for my <strongs hebrew='5315'>life</strongs>, to cause me to <strongs hebrew='4191'>die</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='7650'>swore</strongs>to her by the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <em>As</em> the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='2416'>liveth</strongs>, there shall <strongs hebrew='518'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='5771'>punishment</strongs><strongs hebrew='7136'>happen</strongs>to thee for <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='4130'>Whom</strongs>shall I bring <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>unto thee? And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, Bring me <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And when the <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>, she <strongs hebrew='2199'>cried</strongs>with a <strongs hebrew='1419'>loud</strongs><strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>Why</strongs>hast thou <strongs hebrew='7411'>deceived</strongs>me? for <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><em>art</em> <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto her, Be <strongs hebrew='408'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='3372'>afraid</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs><strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>sawest</strongs>thou? And the <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, I <strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='430'>gods</strongs><strongs hebrew='5927'>ascending</strongs>out <strongs hebrew='4480'>of</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>earth</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'>And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto her, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs><strongs hebrew='8389'>form</strongs><em>is</em> he of? And she <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, An <strongs hebrew='2205'>old</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>cometh <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>; and <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='5844'>covered</strongs>with a <strongs hebrew='4598'>mantle</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='3045'>perceived</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>it <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><strongs hebrew='6915'>stooped</strongs>with <em>his</em> <strongs hebrew='639'>face</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='776'>ground</strongs>, and bowed <strongs hebrew='7812'>himself</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>Why</strongs>hast thou <strongs hebrew='7264'>disquieted</strongs>me, to bring me <strongs hebrew='5927 *853'>up</strongs>? And <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>, I am <strongs hebrew='3966'>sore</strongs><strongs hebrew='6887'>distressed</strongs>; for the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>make <strongs hebrew='3898'>war</strongs>against me, and <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='5493'>departed</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>from</strongs>me, and <strongs hebrew='6030'>answereth</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='5750'>more</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1571'>neither</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>by</strongs><strongs hebrew='5030'>prophets</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1571'>nor</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='2472'>dreams</strongs>: therefore I have <strongs hebrew='7121'>called</strongs>thee, that thou mayest make <strongs hebrew='3045'>known</strongs>unto me <strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs>I shall <strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>Wherefore</strongs>then dost thou <strongs hebrew='7592'>ask</strongs>of me, seeing the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>is <strongs hebrew='5493'>departed</strongs><strongs hebrew='4480 5921'>from</strongs>thee, and is <strongs hebrew='1961'>become</strongs>thine <strongs hebrew='6145'>enemy</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>to him, <strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='1696'>spoke</strongs><strongs hebrew='3027'>by</strongs>me: for the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='7167'>rent</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4467'>kingdom</strongs>out of thine <strongs hebrew='4480 3027'>hand</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs>it to thy <strongs hebrew='7453'>neighbor</strongs>, <em>even</em> to <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>: </verse>
            <verse number='18'><strongs hebrew='834'>Because</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='8085'>obeyedst</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3808'>nor</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>executedst</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='2740'>fierce</strongs><strongs hebrew='639'>wrath</strongs>upon <strongs hebrew='6002'>Amalek</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5921 3651'>therefore</strongs>hath the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>thing</strongs>unto thee <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'><strongs hebrew='1571'>Moreover</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>will also <strongs hebrew='5414'>deliver</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>thee into the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='4279'>tomorrow</strongs><em>shalt</em> <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>and thy <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs><em>be</em> <strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>me: the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>shall <strongs hebrew='5414'>deliver</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4264'>host</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>Then <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='5307'>fell</strongs><strongs hebrew='4116'>straightway</strongs>all <strongs hebrew='4393 6967'>along</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='776'>earth</strongs>, and was <strongs hebrew='3966'>sore</strongs><strongs hebrew='3372'>afraid</strongs>, because of the <strongs hebrew='4480 1697'>words</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='8050'>Samuel</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='1571'>and</strongs>there <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='3581'>strength</strongs>in him; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='398'>eaten</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='3899'>bread</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, nor <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3915'>night</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And the <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>he was <strongs hebrew='3966'>sore</strongs><strongs hebrew='926'>troubled</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>, thine <strongs hebrew='8198'>handmaid</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='8085'>obeyed</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>, and I have <strongs hebrew='7760'>put</strongs>my <strongs hebrew='5315'>life</strongs>in my <strongs hebrew='3709'>hand</strongs>, and have <strongs hebrew='8085'>hearkened</strongs>unto <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='1697'>words</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='1696'>spokest</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>me. </verse>
            <verse number='22'><strongs hebrew='6258'>Now</strongs>therefore, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8085'>hearken</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>also</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>of thine <strongs hebrew='8198'>handmaid</strongs>, and let me <strongs hebrew='7760'>set</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='6595'>morsel</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3899'>bread</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>thee; and <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>, that thou mayest <strongs hebrew='1961'>have</strongs><strongs hebrew='3581'>strength</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>when</strongs>thou <strongs hebrew='1980'>goest</strongs>on thy <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>But he <strongs hebrew='3985'>refused</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, I will <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>. But his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>, together <strongs hebrew='1571'>with</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='6555'>compelled</strongs>him; and he <strongs hebrew='8085'>hearkened</strongs>unto their <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>. So he <strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 776'>earth</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3427'>sat</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4296'>bed</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>And the <strongs hebrew='802'>woman</strongs>had a <strongs hebrew='4770'>fat</strongs><strongs hebrew='5695'>calf</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>; and she <strongs hebrew='4116'>hasted</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2076'>killed</strongs>it, and <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='7058'>flour</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3888'>kneaded</strongs><em>it</em> , and did <strongs hebrew='644'>bake</strongs>unleavened <strongs hebrew='4682'>bread</strongs>thereof: </verse>
            <verse number='25'>And she <strongs hebrew='5066'>brought</strongs><em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs>; and they did <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>. Then they rose <strongs hebrew='6965'>up</strongs>, and went <strongs hebrew='1980'>away</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='3915'>night</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='29'>
            <verse number='1'>Now the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>gathered <strongs hebrew='6908'>together</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>their <strongs hebrew='4264'>armies</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='663'>Aphek</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israelites</strongs><strongs hebrew='2583'>pitched</strongs>by a <strongs hebrew='5869'>fountain</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>is</em> in <strongs hebrew='3157'>Jezreel</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And the <strongs hebrew='5633'>lords</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>passed <strongs hebrew='5674'>on</strongs>by <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundreds</strongs>, and by <strongs hebrew='505'>thousands</strongs>: but <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>passed <strongs hebrew='5674'>on</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='314'>rearward</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='397'>Achish</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='4100'>What</strongs><em>do</em> <strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='5680'>Hebrews</strongs><em>here</em> ? And <strongs hebrew='397'>Achish</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>, <em>Is</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, the <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='1961'>been</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='2088'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='176'>or</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='8141'>years</strongs>, and I have <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='3972'>fault</strongs>in him <strongs hebrew='4480 3117'>since</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='5307'>fell</strongs><em>unto</em> <em>me</em> <strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='4'>And the <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='7107'>wroth</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him; and the <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, Make this fellow <strongs hebrew='7725 *853 376'>return</strongs>, that he may go <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='4725'>place</strongs><strongs hebrew='834 8033'>which</strongs>thou hast <strongs hebrew='6485'>appointed</strongs>him, and let him <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>go <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>us to <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3808'>lest</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs>he <strongs hebrew='1961'>be</strongs>an <strongs hebrew='7854'>adversary</strongs>to us: for <strongs hebrew='4100'>wherewith</strongs>should he <strongs hebrew='7521'>reconcile</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>himself</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs>? <em>should</em> <em>it</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><em>be</em> with the <strongs hebrew='7218'>heads</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1992'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='5'><em>Is</em> <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, of <strongs hebrew='834'>whom</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='6030'>sang</strongs>one to another in <strongs hebrew='4246'>dances</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='5221'>slew</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='505'>thousands</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>his ten <strongs hebrew='7233'>thousands</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='6'>Then <strongs hebrew='397'>Achish</strongs><strongs hebrew='7121 413'>called</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>him, Surely, <em>as</em> the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs><strongs hebrew='2416'>liveth</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>hast been <strongs hebrew='3477'>upright</strongs>, and thy going <strongs hebrew='3318'>out</strongs>and thy coming <strongs hebrew='935'>in</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>me in the <strongs hebrew='4264'>host</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs>in my <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs><strongs hebrew='7451'>evil</strongs>in thee since the <strongs hebrew='4480 3117'>day</strongs>of thy <strongs hebrew='935'>coming</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs>me <strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>: nevertheless the <strongs hebrew='5869 5633'>lords</strongs><strongs hebrew='2896'>favor</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thee</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>Wherefore <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs><strongs hebrew='7725'>return</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='7965'>peace</strongs>, that thou <strongs hebrew='6213 7451 5869'>displease</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5633'>lords</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='397'>Achish</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>But</strongs><strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs>have I <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>? and <strongs hebrew='4100'>what</strongs>hast thou <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>in thy <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>so <strongs hebrew='4480 3117'>long</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>as</strongs>I have <strongs hebrew='1961'>been</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>with</strongs>thee <strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>I may <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>go</strongs><strongs hebrew='3898'>fight</strongs>against the <strongs hebrew='341'>enemies</strongs>of my <strongs hebrew='113'>lord</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4428'>king</strongs>? </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And <strongs hebrew='397'>Achish</strongs><strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, I <strongs hebrew='3045'>know</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs><em>art</em> <strongs hebrew='2896'>good</strongs>in my <strongs hebrew='5869'>sight</strongs>, as an <strongs hebrew='4397'>angel</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='389'>notwithstanding</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='8269'>princes</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>have <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, He shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>go <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>us to the <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>Wherefore <strongs hebrew='6258'>now</strongs>rise up <strongs hebrew='7925'>early</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1242'>morning</strongs>with thy <strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='5650'>servants</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>are <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs><strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>thee: and as soon as ye be up <strongs hebrew='7925'>early</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1242'>morning</strongs>, and have <strongs hebrew='216'>light</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1980'>depart</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>So <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>rose up <strongs hebrew='7925'>early</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1980'>depart</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1242'>morning</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='7725'>return</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>into</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>. And the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='5927'>up</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3157'>Jezreel</strongs>. </verse>
        </chapter>
        <chapter number='30'>
            <verse number='1'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>, when <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6860'>Ziklag</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='7992'>third</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>, that the <strongs hebrew='6003'>Amalekites</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6584 413'>invaded</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5045'>south</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6860'>Ziklag</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5221'>smitten</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='6860'>Ziklag</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8313'>burned</strongs>it with <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And had taken the women <strongs hebrew='7617 *853 802'>captives</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> therein: they <strongs hebrew='4191'>slew</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>any</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704'>either</strongs><strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs>or <strongs hebrew='4480 6996'>small</strongs>, but carried <em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='5090'>away</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>on their <strongs hebrew='1870'>way</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>So <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>city</strongs>, and, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, <em>it</em> <em>was</em> <strongs hebrew='8313'>burned</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs>; and their <strongs hebrew='802'>wives</strongs>, and their <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>, and their <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughters</strongs>, were taken <strongs hebrew='7617'>captives</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>Then <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>him lifted <strongs hebrew='5375'>up</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='6963'>voice</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='1058'>wept</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704 834'>until</strongs>they had no <strongs hebrew='369'>more</strongs><strongs hebrew='3581'>power</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='1058'>weep</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='802'>wives</strongs>were taken <strongs hebrew='7617'>captives</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='293'>Ahinoam</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3159'>Jezreelitess</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='26'>Abigail</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5037'>Nabal</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3761'>Carmelite</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='3966'>greatly</strongs><strongs hebrew='3334'>distressed</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>spoke</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='5619'>stoning</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5315'>soul</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='4843'>grieved</strongs>, every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='5921'>for</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughters</strongs>: but <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>encouraged <strongs hebrew='2388'>himself</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='54'>Abiathar</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3548'>priest</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='288'>Ahimelech</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1121'>son</strongs>, I pray <strongs hebrew='4994'>thee</strongs>, bring me <strongs hebrew='5066'>hither</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='646'>ephod</strongs>. And <strongs hebrew='54'>Abiathar</strongs><strongs hebrew='5066'>brought</strongs>thither <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='646'>ephod</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='7592'>inquired</strongs>at the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, Shall I <strongs hebrew='7291'>pursue</strongs><strongs hebrew='310'>after</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1416'>troop</strongs>? shall I <strongs hebrew='5381'>overtake</strongs>them? And he <strongs hebrew='559'>answered</strongs>him, <strongs hebrew='7291'>Pursue</strongs>: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>thou shalt surely <strongs hebrew='5381 5381'>overtake</strongs><em>them</em> , and without fail <strongs hebrew='5337 5337'>recover</strongs><em>all</em> . </verse>
            <verse number='9'>So <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='8337'>six</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>him, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>to</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5158'>brook</strongs><strongs hebrew='1308'>Besor</strongs>, where those that were left <strongs hebrew='3498'>behind</strongs><strongs hebrew='5975'>stayed</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>But <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='7291'>pursued</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='702'>four</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>: for two <strongs hebrew='3967 *376'>hundred</strongs>abode <strongs hebrew='5975'>behind</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>were so <strongs hebrew='6296'>faint</strongs>that they could not go <strongs hebrew='4480 5674'>over</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5158'>brook</strongs><strongs hebrew='1308'>Besor</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And they <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs>an <strongs hebrew='376 4713'>Egyptian</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='7704'>field</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3947'>brought</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>him <strongs hebrew='3899'>bread</strongs>, and he did <strongs hebrew='398'>eat</strongs>; and they made him <strongs hebrew='8248'>drink</strongs><strongs hebrew='4325'>water</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='12'>And they <strongs hebrew='5414'>gave</strongs>him a <strongs hebrew='6400'>piece</strongs>of a cake of <strongs hebrew='1690'>figs</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs>clusters of <strongs hebrew='6778'>raisins</strongs>: and when he had <strongs hebrew='398'>eaten</strongs>, his <strongs hebrew='7307'>spirit</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='7725'>again</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>him: <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he had <strongs hebrew='398'>eaten</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>no</strongs><strongs hebrew='3899'>bread</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3808'>nor</strongs><strongs hebrew='8354'>drunk</strongs><em>any</em> <strongs hebrew='4325'>water</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3915'>nights</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>unto him, To <strongs hebrew='4310'>whom</strongs><em>belongest</em> <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>? and <strongs hebrew='335 4480 2088'>whence</strongs><em>art</em> <strongs hebrew='859'>thou</strongs>? And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='595'>I</strongs><em>am</em> a young <strongs hebrew='5288'>man</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='4713'>Egypt</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5650'>servant</strongs>to an <strongs hebrew='376 6003'>Amalekite</strongs>; and my <strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs><strongs hebrew='5800'>left</strongs>me, <strongs hebrew='3588'>because</strongs><strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>ago I fell <strongs hebrew='2470'>sick</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='14'><strongs hebrew='587'>We</strongs>made an <strongs hebrew='6584'>invasion</strongs><em>upon</em> the <strongs hebrew='5045'>south</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3774'>Cherethites</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs><em>the</em> <em>coast</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>belongeth</em> to <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5045'>south</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3612'>Caleb</strongs>; and we <strongs hebrew='8313'>burned</strongs><strongs hebrew='6860'>Ziklag</strongs>with <strongs hebrew='784'>fire</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='15'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>him, Canst thou bring me <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1416'>company</strongs>? And he <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7650'>Swear</strongs>unto me by <strongs hebrew='430'>God</strongs>, that thou wilt <strongs hebrew='518'>neither</strongs><strongs hebrew='4191'>kill</strongs>me, <strongs hebrew='518'>nor</strongs><strongs hebrew='5462'>deliver</strongs>me into the <strongs hebrew='3027'>hands</strongs>of my <strongs hebrew='113'>master</strongs>, and I will bring thee <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1416'>company</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='16'>And when he had brought him <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>behold</strongs>, <em>they</em> <em>were</em> spread <strongs hebrew='5203'>abroad</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921 6440'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='776'>earth</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='398'>eating</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='8354'>drinking</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='2287'>dancing</strongs>, because of <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs><strongs hebrew='7998'>spoil</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>they had <strongs hebrew='3947'>taken</strongs>out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 776'>land</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>, and out of the <strongs hebrew='4480 776'>land</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='17'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='5221'>smote</strongs>them from the <strongs hebrew='4480 5399'>twilight</strongs>even <strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6153'>evening</strongs>of the next <strongs hebrew='4283'>day</strongs>: and there <strongs hebrew='4422'>escaped</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs>of them, <strongs hebrew='3588 518'>save</strongs><strongs hebrew='702'>four</strongs><strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='5288'>young</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><strongs hebrew='7392'>rode</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='1581'>camels</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5127'>fled</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='18'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='5337'>recovered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6002'>Amalekites</strongs>had carried <strongs hebrew='3947'>away</strongs>: and <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='5337'>rescued</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='8147'>two</strongs><strongs hebrew='802'>wives</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='19'>And there was <strongs hebrew='3808'>nothing</strongs><strongs hebrew='5737'>lacking</strongs>to them, <strongs hebrew='4480'>neither</strongs><strongs hebrew='6996'>small</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>nor</strongs><strongs hebrew='1419'>great</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704'>neither</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>nor <strongs hebrew='1323'>daughters</strongs>, neither <strongs hebrew='4480 7998'>spoil</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='5704'>nor</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>any</strongs><em>thing</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>they had <strongs hebrew='3947'>taken</strongs>to them: <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='7725'>recovered</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='20'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6629'>flocks</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='1241'>herds</strongs>, <em>which</em> they <strongs hebrew='5090'>drove</strongs><strongs hebrew='6440'>before</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>those</strongs><em>other</em> <strongs hebrew='4735'>cattle</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2088'>This</strongs><em>is</em> <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='7998'>spoil</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='21'>And <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs>the two <strongs hebrew='3967'>hundred</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>were so <strongs hebrew='6296'>faint</strongs>that they could not <strongs hebrew='1980 310'>follow</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, whom they had made also to <strongs hebrew='3427'>abide</strongs>at the <strongs hebrew='5158'>brook</strongs><strongs hebrew='1308'>Besor</strongs>: and they went <strongs hebrew='3318'>forth</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7125'>meet</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='7125'>meet</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>him: and when <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>came <strongs hebrew='5066'>near</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='7592 7965'>saluted</strongs>them. </verse>
            <verse number='22'>Then <strongs hebrew='6030'>answered</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='7451'>wicked</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>and <em>men</em> of <strongs hebrew='1100'>Belial</strongs>, of <strongs hebrew='4480 376'>those</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3282 834'>Because</strongs>they <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>us, we will <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='5414'>give</strongs>them <em>aught</em> of the <strongs hebrew='4480 7998'>spoil</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs>we have <strongs hebrew='5337'>recovered</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='3588 518'>save</strongs>to every <strongs hebrew='376'>man</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='802'>wife</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='1121'>children</strongs>, that they may lead <em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='5090'>away</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>depart</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='23'>Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs>, Ye shall <strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs><strongs hebrew='6213'>do</strongs><strongs hebrew='3651'>so</strongs>, my <strongs hebrew='251'>brethren</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='854'>with</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>hath <strongs hebrew='5414'>given</strongs>us, who hath <strongs hebrew='8104'>preserved</strongs>us, and <strongs hebrew='5414'>delivered</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1416'>company</strongs>that <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>against</strongs>us into our <strongs hebrew='3027'>hand</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='24'>For <strongs hebrew='4310'>who</strongs>will <strongs hebrew='8085'>hearken</strongs>unto you in <strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='1697'>matter</strongs>? <strongs hebrew='3588'>but</strongs>as his <strongs hebrew='2506'>part</strongs><em>is</em> that goeth <strongs hebrew='3381'>down</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs>, so <em>shall</em> his <strongs hebrew='2506'>part</strongs><em>be</em> that <strongs hebrew='3427'>tarrieth</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>by</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='3627'>stuff</strongs>: they shall <strongs hebrew='2505'>part</strongs><strongs hebrew='3162'>alike</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='25'>And it <strongs hebrew='1961'>was</strongs><em>so</em> from that <strongs hebrew='4480 3117 1931'>day</strongs><strongs hebrew='4605'>forward</strongs>, that he <strongs hebrew='7760'>made</strongs>it a <strongs hebrew='2706'>statute</strongs>and an <strongs hebrew='4941'>ordinance</strongs>for <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='5704'>unto</strongs><strongs hebrew='2088'>this</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='26'>And when <strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>to</strongs><strongs hebrew='6860'>Ziklag</strongs>, he <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 7998'>spoil</strongs>unto the <strongs hebrew='2205'>elders</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3063'>Judah</strongs>, <em>even</em> to his <strongs hebrew='7453'>friends</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='559'>saying</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='2009'>Behold</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='1293'>present</strongs>for you of the <strongs hebrew='4480 7998'>spoil</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='341'>enemies</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3068'>LORD</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='27'>To <em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>were</em> in <strongs hebrew='1008'>Bethel</strongs>, and to <em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>were</em> in <strongs hebrew='5045'>south</strongs><strongs hebrew='7418'>Ramoth</strongs>, and to <em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>were</em> in <strongs hebrew='3492'>Jattir</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='28'>And to <em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>were</em> in <strongs hebrew='6177'>Aroer</strongs>, and to <em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>were</em> in <strongs hebrew='8224'>Siphmoth</strongs>, and to <em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>were</em> in <strongs hebrew='851'>Eshtemoa</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='29'>And to <em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>were</em> in <strongs hebrew='7403'>Rachal</strongs>, and to <em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>were</em> in the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='3397'>Jerahmeelites</strongs>, and to <em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>were</em> in the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='7017'>Kenites</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='30'>And to <em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>were</em> in <strongs hebrew='2767'>Hormah</strongs>, and to <em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>were</em> in <strongs hebrew='3565'>Chor</strongs>-ashan, and to <em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>were</em> in <strongs hebrew='6269'>Athach</strongs>, </verse>
            <verse number='31'>And to <em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs><em>were</em> in <strongs hebrew='2275'>Hebron</strongs>, and to <strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='4725'>places</strongs><strongs hebrew='834 8033'>where</strongs><strongs hebrew='1732'>David</strongs><strongs hebrew='1931'>himself</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>were wont to <strongs hebrew='1980'>haunt</strongs>. </verse>
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        <chapter number='31'>
            <verse number='1'>Now the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='3898'>fought</strongs>against <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs>: and the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='5127'>fled</strongs>from <strongs hebrew='4480 6440'>before</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>, and fell <strongs hebrew='5307'>down</strongs><strongs hebrew='2491'>slain</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='2022'>mount</strongs><strongs hebrew='1533'>Gilboa</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='2'>And the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>followed hard <strongs hebrew='1692'>upon</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>and upon his <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='5221'>slew</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='3083'>Jonathan</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='41'>Abinadab</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4444'>Malchi</strongs>-shua, <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>'s <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='3'>And the <strongs hebrew='4421'>battle</strongs>went <strongs hebrew='3513'>sore</strongs><strongs hebrew='413'>against</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>, and the <strongs hebrew='3384 376'>archers</strongs><strongs hebrew='4672'>hit</strongs>him; and he was <strongs hebrew='3966'>sore</strongs><strongs hebrew='2342'>wounded</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='4480 3384'>archers</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='4'>Then <strongs hebrew='559'>said</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>unto his <strongs hebrew='5375 3627'>armorbearer</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='8025'>Draw</strongs>thy <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>, and thrust me <strongs hebrew='1856'>through</strongs>therewith; <strongs hebrew='6435'>lest</strongs><strongs hebrew='428'>these</strongs><strongs hebrew='6189'>uncircumcised</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>come</strongs>and thrust me <strongs hebrew='1856'>through</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5953'>abuse</strongs>me. But his <strongs hebrew='5375 3627'>armorbearer</strongs><strongs hebrew='14'>would</strongs><strongs hebrew='3808'>not</strongs>; <strongs hebrew='3588'>for</strongs>he was <strongs hebrew='3966'>sore</strongs><strongs hebrew='3372'>afraid</strongs>. Therefore <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>a <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5307'>fell</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>it. </verse>
            <verse number='5'>And when his <strongs hebrew='5375 3627'>armorbearer</strongs><strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>was <strongs hebrew='4191'>dead</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1931'>he</strongs><strongs hebrew='5307'>fell</strongs><strongs hebrew='1571'>likewise</strongs><strongs hebrew='5921'>upon</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='2719'>sword</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs><strongs hebrew='5973'>with</strongs>him. </verse>
            <verse number='6'>So <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs><strongs hebrew='4191'>died</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>, and his <strongs hebrew='5375 3627'>armorbearer</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='1571'>and</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>, that <strongs hebrew='1931'>same</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>day</strongs><strongs hebrew='3162'>together</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='7'>And when the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> on the other <strongs hebrew='5676'>side</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6010'>valley</strongs>, and <em>they</em> <strongs hebrew='834'>that</strongs><em>were</em> on the other <strongs hebrew='5676'>side</strongs><strongs hebrew='3383'>Jordan</strongs>, <strongs hebrew='7200'>saw</strongs><strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3478'>Israel</strongs><strongs hebrew='5127'>fled</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3588'>that</strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>were <strongs hebrew='4191'>dead</strongs>, they <strongs hebrew='5800'>forsook</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5892'>cities</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='5127'>fled</strongs>; and the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>and <strongs hebrew='3427'>dwelt</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='2004'>them</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='8'>And it came to <strongs hebrew='1961'>pass</strongs>on the <strongs hebrew='4480 4283'>morrow</strongs>, when the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs><strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='6584'>strip</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2491'>slain</strongs>, that they <strongs hebrew='4672'>found</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs><strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>and his <strongs hebrew='7969'>three</strongs><strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs><strongs hebrew='5307'>fallen</strongs>in <strongs hebrew='2022'>mount</strongs><strongs hebrew='1533'>Gilboa</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='9'>And they cut <strongs hebrew='3772'>off</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='7218'>head</strongs>, and stripped <strongs hebrew='6584'>off</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3627'>armor</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='7971'>sent</strongs>into the <strongs hebrew='776'>land</strongs>of the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>round <strongs hebrew='5439'>about</strongs>, to <strongs hebrew='1319'>publish</strongs><em>it</em> <em>in</em> the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of their <strongs hebrew='6091'>idols</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='854'>among</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='5971'>people</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='10'>And they <strongs hebrew='7760'>put</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>his <strongs hebrew='3627'>armor</strongs>in the <strongs hebrew='1004'>house</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='6252'>Ashtaroth</strongs>: and they <strongs hebrew='8628'>fastened</strongs>his <strongs hebrew='1472'>body</strongs>to the <strongs hebrew='2346'>wall</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1052'>Beth</strongs>-shan. </verse>
            <verse number='11'>And when the <strongs hebrew='3427'>inhabitants</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='3003 1568'>Jabesh</strongs>-gilead <strongs hebrew='8085 413'>heard</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>of that <strongs hebrew='834'>which</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='6430'>Philistines</strongs>had <strongs hebrew='6213'>done</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>; </verse>
            <verse number='12'><strongs hebrew='3605'>All</strongs>the <strongs hebrew='2428'>valiant</strongs><strongs hebrew='376'>men</strongs><strongs hebrew='6965'>arose</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='1980'>went</strongs><strongs hebrew='3605'>all</strongs><strongs hebrew='3915'>night</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>the <strongs hebrew='1472'>body</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='7586'>Saul</strongs>and the <strongs hebrew='1472'>bodies</strongs>of his <strongs hebrew='1121'>sons</strongs>from the <strongs hebrew='4480 2346'>wall</strongs>of <strongs hebrew='1052'>Beth</strongs>-shan, and <strongs hebrew='935'>came</strongs>to <strongs hebrew='3003'>Jabesh</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='8313'>burnt</strongs>them <strongs hebrew='8033'>there</strongs>. </verse>
            <verse number='13'>And they <strongs hebrew='3947'>took</strongs><strongs hebrew='*853'></strongs>their <strongs hebrew='6106'>bones</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6912'>buried</strongs><em>them</em> <strongs hebrew='8478'>under</strongs>a <strongs hebrew='815'>tree</strongs>at <strongs hebrew='3003'>Jabesh</strongs>, and <strongs hebrew='6684'>fasted</strongs><strongs hebrew='7651'>seven</strongs><strongs hebrew='3117'>days</strongs>. </verse>
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