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Book 09 1 Samuel
09:001:001 Now there was a certain
man of Ramathaimzophim, of mount
Ephraim, and his name
was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son
of Elihu, the son of
Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite:
09:001:002 And he had two wives;
the name of the one was Hannah, and the
name of the other
Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but
Hannah had no children.
09:001:003 And this man went up
out of his city yearly to worship and to
sacrifice unto the LORD
of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons
of Eli, Hophni and
Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, were
there.
09:001:004 And when the time was
that Elkanah offered, he gave to
Peninnah his wife, and
to all her sons and her daughters,
portions:
09:001:005 But unto Hannah he gave
a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah:
but the LORD had shut
up her womb.
09:001:006 And her adversary also
provoked her sore, for to make her
fret, because the LORD
had shut up her womb.
09:001:007 And as he did so year
by year, when she went up to the house
of the LORD, so she
provoked her; therefore she wept, and did
not eat.
09:001:008 Then said Elkanah her
husband to her, Hannah, why weepest
thou? and why eatest
thou not? and why is thy heart grieved?
am not I better to thee
than ten sons?
09:001:009 So Hannah rose up after
they had eaten in Shiloh, and after
they had drunk. Now Eli
the priest sat upon a seat by a post
of the temple of the
LORD.
09:001:010 And she was in
bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD,
and wept sore.
09:001:011 And she vowed a vow,
and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt
indeed look on the
affliction of thine handmaid, and remember
me, and not forget
thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine
handmaid a man child,
then I will give him unto the LORD all
the days of his life,
and there shall no razor come upon his
head.
09:001:012 And it came to pass, as
she continued praying before the LORD,
that Eli marked her
mouth.
09:001:013 Now Hannah, she spake
in her heart; only her lips moved, but
her voice was not
heard: therefore Eli thought she had been
drunken.
09:001:014 And Eli said unto her,
How long wilt thou be drunken? put away
thy wine from thee.
09:001:015 And Hannah answered and
said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a
sorrowful spirit: I
have drunk neither wine nor strong drink,
but have poured out my
soul before the LORD.
09:001:016 Count not thine
handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of
the abundance of my
complaint and grief have I spoken
hitherto.
09:001:017 Then Eli answered and
said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel
grant thee thy petition
that thou hast asked of him.
09:001:018 And she said, Let thine
handmaid find grace in thy sight. So
the woman went her way,
and did eat, and her countenance was
no more sad.
09:001:019 And they rose up in the
morning early, and worshipped before
the LORD, and returned,
and came to their house to Ramah: and
Elkanah knew Hannah his
wife; and the LORD remembered her.
09:001:020 Wherefore it came to
pass, when the time was come about after
Hannah had conceived,
that she bare a son, and called his name
Samuel, saying, Because
I have asked him of the LORD.
09:001:021 And the man Elkanah,
and all his house, went up to offer unto
the LORD the yearly
sacrifice, and his vow.
09:001:022 But Hannah went not up;
for she said unto her husband, I will
not go up until the
child be weaned, and then I will bring
him, that he may appear
before the LORD, and there abide for
ever.
09:001:023 And Elkanah her husband
said unto her, Do what seemeth thee
good; tarry until thou
have weaned him; only the LORD
establish his word. So
the woman abode, and gave her son suck
until she weaned him.
09:001:024 And when she had weaned
him, she took him up with her, with
three bullocks, and one
ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine,
and brought him unto
the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the
child was young.
09:001:025 And they slew a
bullock, and brought the child to Eli.
09:001:026 And she said, Oh my
lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am
the woman that stood by
thee here, praying unto the LORD.
09:001:027 For this child I
prayed; and the LORD hath given me my
petition which I asked
of him:
09:001:028 Therefore also I have
lent him to the LORD; as long as he
liveth he shall be lent
to the LORD. And he worshipped the
LORD there.
09:002:001 And Hannah prayed, and
said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD,
mine horn is exalted in
the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over
mine enemies; because I
rejoice in thy salvation.
09:002:002 There is none holy as
the LORD: for there is none beside thee:
neither is there any
rock like our God.
09:002:003 Talk no more so
exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out
of your mouth: for the
LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him
actions are weighed.
09:002:004 The bows of the mighty
men are broken, and they that stumbled
are girded with
strength.
09:002:005 They that were full
have hired out themselves for bread; and
they that were hungry
ceased: so that the barren hath born
seven; and she that
hath many children is waxed feeble.
09:002:006 The LORD killeth, and
maketh alive: he bringeth down to the
grave, and bringeth up.
09:002:007 The LORD maketh poor,
and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and
lifteth up.
09:002:008 He raiseth up the poor
out of the dust, and lifteth up the
beggar from the
dunghill, to set them among princes, and to
make them inherit the
throne of glory: for the pillars of the
earth are the LORD's,
and he hath set the world upon them.
09:002:009 He will keep the feet
of his saints, and the wicked shall be
silent in darkness; for
by strength shall no man prevail.
09:002:010 The adversaries of the
LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of
heaven shall he thunder
upon them: the LORD shall judge the
ends of the earth; and
he shall give strength unto his king,
and exalt the horn of
his anointed.
09:002:011 And Elkanah went to
Ramah to his house. And the child did
minister unto the LORD
before Eli the priest.
09:002:012 Now the sons of Eli
were sons of Belial; they knew not the
LORD.
09:002:013 And the priest's custom
with the people was, that, when any
man offered sacrifice,
the priest's servant came, while the
flesh was in seething,
with a fleshhook of three teeth in his
hand;
09:002:014 And he struck it into
the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot;
all that the fleshhook
brought up the priest took for himself.
So they did in Shiloh
unto all the Israelites that came
thither.
09:002:015 Also before they burnt
the fat, the priest's servant came, and
said to the man that
sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the
priest; for he will not
have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.
09:002:016 And if any man said
unto him, Let them not fail to burn the
fat presently, and then
take as much as thy soul desireth;
then he would answer
him, Nay; but thou shalt give it me now:
and if not, I will take
it by force.
09:002:017 Wherefore the sin of
the young men was very great before the
LORD: for men abhorred
the offering of the LORD.
09:002:018 But Samuel ministered
before the LORD, being a child, girded
with a linen ephod.
09:002:019 Moreover his mother
made him a little coat, and brought it to
him from year to year,
when she came up with her husband to
offer the yearly
sacrifice.
09:002:020 And Eli blessed Elkanah
and his wife, and said, The LORD give
thee seed of this woman
for the loan which is lent to the
LORD. And they went
unto their own home.
09:002:021 And the LORD visited
Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare
three sons and two
daughters. And the child Samuel grew before
the LORD.
09:002:022 Now Eli was very old,
and heard all that his sons did unto all
Israel; and how they
lay with the women that assembled at the
door of the tabernacle
of the congregation.
09:002:023 And he said unto them,
Why do ye such things? for I hear of
your evil dealings by
all this people.
09:002:024 Nay, my sons; for it is
no good report that I hear: ye make
the LORD's people to
transgress.
09:002:025 If one man sin against
another, the judge shall judge him: but
if a man sin against
the LORD, who shall intreat for him?
Notwithstanding they
hearkened not unto the voice of their
father, because the
LORD would slay them.
09:002:026 And the child Samuel
grew on, and was in favour both with the
LORD, and also with
men.
09:002:027 And there came a man of
God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus
saith the LORD, Did I
plainly appear unto the house of thy
father, when they were
in Egypt in Pharaoh's house?
09:002:028 And did I choose him
out of all the tribes of Israel to be my
priest, to offer upon
mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an
ephod before me? and
did I give unto the house of thy father
all the offerings made
by fire of the children of Israel?
09:002:029 Wherefore kick ye at my
sacrifice and at mine offering, which
I have commanded in my
habitation; and honourest thy sons
above me, to make
yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the
offerings of Israel my
people?
09:002:030 Wherefore the LORD God
of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy
house, and the house of
thy father, should walk before me for
ever: but now the LORD
saith, Be it far from me; for them that
honour me I will honour,
and they that despise me shall be
lightly esteemed.
09:002:031 Behold, the days come,
that I will cut off thine arm, and the
arm of thy father's
house, that there shall not be an old man
in thine house.
09:002:032 And thou shalt see an
enemy in my habitation, in all the
wealth which God shall
give Israel: and there shall not be an
old man in thine house
for ever.
09:002:033 And the man of thine,
whom I shall not cut off from mine
altar, shall be to
consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine
heart: and all the
increase of thine house shall die in the
flower of their age.
09:002:034 And this shall be a
sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy
two sons, on Hophni and
Phinehas; in one day they shall die
both of them.
09:002:035 And I will raise me up
a faithful priest, that shall do
according to that which
is in mine heart and in my mind: and I
will build him a sure
house; and he shall walk before mine
anointed for ever.
09:002:036 And it shall come to
pass, that every one that is left in
thine house shall come
and crouch to him for a piece of silver
and a morsel of bread,
and shall say, Put me, I pray thee,
into one of the
priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of
bread.
09:003:001 And the child Samuel
ministered unto the LORD before Eli. And
the word of the LORD
was precious in those days; there was no
open vision.
09:003:002 And it came to pass at
that time, when Eli was laid down in
his place, and his eyes
began to wax dim, that he could not
see;
09:003:003 And ere the lamp of God
went out in the temple of the LORD,
where the ark of God
was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep;
09:003:004 That the LORD called
Samuel: and he answered, Here am I.
09:003:005 And he ran unto Eli,
and said, Here am I; for thou calledst
me. And he said, I
called not; lie down again. And he went and
lay down.
09:003:006 And the LORD called yet
again, Samuel. And Samuel arose and
went to Eli, and said,
Here am I; for thou didst call me. And
he answered, I called
not, my son; lie down again.
09:003:007 Now Samuel did not yet
know the LORD, neither was the word of
the LORD yet revealed
unto him.
09:003:008 And the LORD called
Samuel again the third time. And he arose
and went to Eli, and
said, Here am I; for thou didst call me.
And Eli perceived that
the LORD had called the child.
09:003:009 Therefore Eli said unto
Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be,
if he call thee, that
thou shalt say, Speak, LORD; for thy
servant heareth. So
Samuel went and lay down in his place.
09:003:010 And the LORD came, and
stood, and called as at other times,
Samuel, Samuel. Then
Samuel answered, Speak; for thy servant
heareth.
09:003:011 And the LORD said to
Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in
Israel, at which both
the ears of every one that heareth it
shall tingle.
09:003:012 In that day I will
perform against Eli all things which I have
spoken concerning his
house: when I begin, I will also make an
end.
09:003:013 For I have told him
that I will judge his house for ever for
the iniquity which he
knoweth; because his sons made
themselves vile, and he
restrained them not.
09:003:014 And therefore I have
sworn unto the house of Eli, that the
iniquity of Eli's house
shall not be purged with sacrifice nor
offering for ever.
09:003:015 And Samuel lay until
the morning, and opened the doors of the
house of the LORD. And
Samuel feared to shew Eli the vision.
09:003:016 Then Eli called Samuel,
and said, Samuel, my son. And he
answered, Here am I.
09:003:017 And he said, What is
the thing that the LORD hath said unto
thee? I pray thee hide
it not from me: God do so to thee, and
more also, if thou hide
any thing from me of all the things
that he said unto thee.
09:003:018 And Samuel told him
every whit, and hid nothing from him. And
he said, It is the
LORD: let him do what seemeth him good.
09:003:019 And Samuel grew, and
the LORD was with him, and did let none
of his words fall to
the ground.
09:003:020 And all Israel from Dan
even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was
established to be a
prophet of the LORD.
09:003:021 And the LORD appeared
again in Shiloh: for the LORD revealed
himself to Samuel in
Shiloh by the word of the LORD.
09:004:001 And the word of Samuel
came to all Israel. Now Israel went out
against the Philistines
to battle, and pitched beside
Ebenezer: and the
Philistines pitched in Aphek.
09:004:002 And the Philistines put
themselves in array against Israel:
and when they joined
battle, Israel was smitten before the
Philistines: and they
slew of the army in the field about four
thousand men.
09:004:003 And when the people
were come into the camp, the elders of
Israel said, Wherefore
hath the LORD smitten us to day before
the Philistines? Let us
fetch the ark of the covenant of the
LORD out of Shiloh unto
us, that, when it cometh among us, it
may save us out of the
hand of our enemies.
09:004:004 So the people sent to
Shiloh, that they might bring from
thence the ark of the
covenant of the LORD of hosts, which
dwelleth between the
cherubims: and the two sons of Eli,
Hophni and Phinehas,
were there with the ark of the covenant
of God.
09:004:005 And when the ark of the
covenant of the LORD came into the
camp, all Israel
shouted with a great shout, so that the earth
rang again.
09:004:006 And when the
Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they
said, What meaneth the
noise of this great shout in the camp
of the Hebrews? And
they understood that the ark of the LORD
was come into the camp.
09:004:007 And the Philistines
were afraid, for they said, God is come
into the camp. And they
said, Woe unto us! for there hath not
been such a thing
heretofore.
09:004:008 Woe unto us! who shall
deliver us out of the hand of these
mighty Gods? these are
the Gods that smote the Egyptians with
all the plagues in the
wilderness.
09:004:009 Be strong and quit
yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that
ye be not servants unto
the Hebrews, as they have been to you:
quit yourselves like
men, and fight.
09:004:010 And the Philistines
fought, and Israel was smitten, and they
fled every man into his
tent: and there was a very great
slaughter; for there
fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.
09:004:011 And the ark of God was
taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni
and Phinehas, were
slain.
09:004:012 And there ran a man of
Benjamin out of the army, and came to
Shiloh the same day
with his clothes rent, and with earth upon
his head.
09:004:013 And when he came, lo,
Eli sat upon a seat by the wayside
watching: for his heart
trembled for the ark of God. And when
the man came into the
city, and told it, all the city cried
out.
09:004:014 And when Eli heard the
noise of the crying, he said, What
meaneth the noise of
this tumult? And the man came in hastily,
and told Eli.
09:004:015 Now Eli was ninety and
eight years old; and his eyes were dim,
that he could not see.
09:004:016 And the man said unto
Eli, I am he that came out of the army,
and I fled to day out
of the army. And he said, What is there
done, my son?
09:004:017 And the messenger
answered and said, Israel is fled before the
Philistines, and there
hath been also a great slaughter among
the people, and thy two
sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are
dead, and the ark of
God is taken.
09:004:018 And it came to pass,
when he made mention of the ark of God,
that he fell from off
the seat backward by the side of the
gate, and his neck
brake, and he died: for he was an old man,
and heavy. And he had
judged Israel forty years.
09:004:019 And his daughter in
law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near
to be delivered: and
when she heard the tidings that the ark
of God was taken, and
that her father in law and her husband
were dead, she bowed
herself and travailed; for her pains came
upon her.
09:004:020 And about the time of
her death the women that stood by her
said unto her, Fear
not; for thou hast born a son. But she
answered not, neither
did she regard it.
09:004:021 And she named the child
Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed
from Israel: because
the ark of God was taken, and because of
her father in law and
her husband.
09:004:022 And she said, The glory
is departed from Israel: for the ark
of God is taken.
09:005:001 And the Philistines
took the ark of God, and brought it from
Ebenezer unto Ashdod.
09:005:002 When the Philistines
took the ark of God, they brought it into
the house of Dagon, and
set it by Dagon.
09:005:003 And when they of Ashdod
arose early on the morrow, behold,
Dagon was fallen upon
his face to the earth before the ark of
the LORD. And they took
Dagon, and set him in his place again.
09:005:004 And when they arose
early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon
was fallen upon his
face to the ground before the ark of the
LORD; and the head of
Dagon and both the palms of his hands
were cut off upon the
threshold; only the stump of Dagon was
left to him.
09:005:005 Therefore neither the
priests of Dagon, nor any that come into
Dagon's house, tread on
the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto
this day.
09:005:006 But the hand of the
LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he
destroyed them, and
smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and
the coasts thereof.
09:005:007 And when the men of
Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The
ark of the God of
Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand
is sore upon us, and
upon Dagon our god.
09:005:008 They sent therefore and
gathered all the lords of the
Philistines unto them,
and said, What shall we do with the ark
of the God of Israel?
And they answered, Let the ark of the
God of Israel be
carried about unto Gath. And they carried the
ark of the God of
Israel about thither.
09:005:009 And it was so, that,
after they had carried it about, the hand
of the LORD was against
the city with a very great
destruction: and he
smote the men of the city, both small and
great, and they had
emerods in their secret parts.
09:005:010 Therefore they sent the
ark of God to Ekron. And it came to
pass, as the ark of God
came to Ekron, that the Ekronites
cried out, saying, They
have brought about the ark of the God
of Israel to us, to
slay us and our people.
09:005:011 So they sent and
gathered together all the lords of the
Philistines, and said,
Send away the ark of the God of Israel,
and let it go again to
his own place, that it slay us not, and
our people: for there
was a deadly destruction throughout all
the city; the hand of
God was very heavy there.
09:005:012 And the men that died
not were smitten with the emerods: and
the cry of the city
went up to heaven.
09:006:001 And the ark of the LORD
was in the country of the Philistines
seven months.
09:006:002 And the Philistines
called for the priests and the diviners,
saying, What shall we
do to the ark of the LORD? tell us
wherewith we shall send
it to his place.
09:006:003 And they said, If ye
send away the ark of the God of Israel,
send it not empty; but
in any wise return him a trespass
offering: then ye shall
be healed, and it shall be known to
you why his hand is not
removed from you.
09:006:004 Then said they, What
shall be the trespass offering which we
shall return to him?
They answered, Five golden emerods, and
five golden mice,
according to the number of the lords of the
Philistines: for one
plague was on you all, and on your lords.
09:006:005 Wherefore ye shall make
images of your emerods, and images of
your mice that mar the
land; and ye shall give glory unto the
God of Israel:
peradventure he will lighten his hand from off
you, and from off your
gods, and from off your land.
09:006:006 Wherefore then do ye
harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and
Pharaoh hardened their
hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully
among them, did they
not let the people go, and they departed?
09:006:007 Now therefore make a
new cart, and take two milch kine, on
which there hath come
no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart,
and bring their calves
home from them:
09:006:008 And take the ark of the
LORD, and lay it upon the cart; and
put the jewels of gold,
which ye return him for a trespass
offering, in a coffer
by the side thereof; and send it away,
that it may go.
09:006:009 And see, if it goeth up
by the way of his own coast to
Bethshemesh, then he
hath done us this great evil: but if not,
then we shall know that
it is not his hand that smote us: it
was a chance that
happened to us.
09:006:010 And the men did so; and
took two milch kine, and tied them to
the cart, and shut up
their calves at home:
09:006:011 And they laid the ark
of the LORD upon the cart, and the
coffer with the mice of
gold and the images of their emerods.
09:006:012 And the kine took the
straight way to the way of Bethshemesh,
and went along the
highway, lowing as they went, and turned
not aside to the right
hand or to the left; and the lords of
the Philistines went
after them unto the border of
Bethshemesh.
09:006:013 And they of Bethshemesh
were reaping their wheat harvest in
the valley: and they
lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark,
and rejoiced to see it.
09:006:014 And the cart came into
the field of Joshua, a Bethshemite, and
stood there, where
there was a great stone: and they clave the
wood of the cart, and
offered the kine a burnt offering unto
the LORD.
09:006:015 And the Levites took
down the ark of the LORD, and the coffer
that was with it,
wherein the jewels of gold were, and put
them on the great
stone: and the men of Bethshemesh offered
burnt offerings and
sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto
the LORD.
09:006:016 And when the five lords
of the Philistines had seen it, they
returned to Ekron the
same day.
09:006:017 And these are the
golden emerods which the Philistines
returned for a trespass
offering unto the LORD; for Ashdod
one, for Gaza one, for
Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron
one;
09:006:018 And the golden mice,
according to the number of all the cities
of the Philistines
belonging to the five lords, both of fenced
cities, and of country
villages, even unto the great stone of
Abel, whereon they set
down the ark of the LORD: which stone
remaineth unto this day
in the field of Joshua, the
Bethshemite.
09:006:019 And he smote the men of
Bethshemesh, because they had looked
into the ark of the
LORD, even he smote of the people fifty
thousand and threescore
and ten men: and the people lamented,
because the LORD had
smitten many of the people with a great
slaughter.
09:006:020 And the men of
Bethshemesh said, Who is able to stand before
this holy LORD God? and
to whom shall he go up from us?
09:006:021 And they sent
messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjathjearim,
saying, The Philistines
have brought again the ark of the
LORD; come ye down, and
fetch it up to you.
09:007:001 And the men of
Kirjathjearim came, and fetched up the ark of
the LORD, and brought
it into the house of Abinadab in the
hill, and sanctified
Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the
LORD.
09:007:002 And it came to pass,
while the ark abode in Kirjathjearim,
that the time was long;
for it was twenty years: and all the
house of Israel
lamented after the LORD.
09:007:003 And Samuel spake unto
all the house of Israel, saying, If ye
do return unto the LORD
with all your hearts, then put away
the strange gods and
Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare
your hearts unto the
LORD, and serve him only: and he will
deliver you out of the
hand of the Philistines.
09:007:004 Then the children of
Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth,
and served the LORD
only.
09:007:005 And Samuel said, Gather
all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray
for you unto the LORD.
09:007:006 And they gathered
together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and
poured it out before
the LORD, and fasted on that day, and
said there, We have
sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged
the children of Israel
in Mizpeh.
09:007:007 And when the
Philistines heard that the children of Israel
were gathered together
to Mizpeh, the lords of the Philistines
went up against Israel.
And when the children of Israel heard
it, they were afraid of
the Philistines.
09:007:008 And the children of
Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to cry
unto the LORD our God
for us, that he will save us out of the
hand of the
Philistines.
09:007:009 And Samuel took a
sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt
offering wholly unto
the LORD: and Samuel cried unto the LORD
for Israel; and the
LORD heard him.
09:007:010 And as Samuel was
offering up the burnt offering, the
Philistines drew near
to battle against Israel: but the LORD
thundered with a great
thunder on that day upon the
Philistines, and
discomfited them; and they were smitten
before Israel.
09:007:011 And the men of Israel
went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the
Philistines, and smote
them, until they came under Bethcar.
09:007:012 Then Samuel took a
stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen,
and called the name of
it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the
LORD helped us.
09:007:013 So the Philistines were
subdued, and they came no more into
the coast of Israel:
and the hand of the LORD was against the
Philistines all the
days of Samuel.
09:007:014 And the cities which
the Philistines had taken from Israel
were restored to
Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the
coasts thereof did
Israel deliver out of the hands of the
Philistines. And there
was peace between Israel and the
Amorites.
09:007:015 And Samuel judged
Israel all the days of his life.
09:007:016 And he went from year
to year in circuit to Bethel, and
Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and
judged Israel in all those places.
09:007:017 And his return was to
Ramah; for there was his house; and
there he judged Israel;
and there he built an altar unto the
LORD.
09:008:001 And it came to pass,
when Samuel was old, that he made his
sons judges over
Israel.
09:008:002 Now the name of his
firstborn was Joel; and the name of his
second, Abiah: they
were judges in Beersheba.
09:008:003 And his sons walked not
in his ways, but turned aside after
lucre, and took bribes,
and perverted judgment.
09:008:004 Then all the elders of
Israel gathered themselves together,
and came to Samuel unto
Ramah,
09:008:005 And said unto him,
Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not
in thy ways: now make
us a king to judge us like all the
nations.
09:008:006 But the thing
displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a
king to judge us. And
Samuel prayed unto the LORD.
09:008:007 And the LORD said unto
Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the
people in all that they
say unto thee: for they have not
rejected thee, but they
have rejected me, that I should not
reign over them.
09:008:008 According to all the
works which they have done since the day
that I brought them up
out of Egypt even unto this day,
wherewith they have
forsaken me, and served other gods, so do
they also unto thee.
09:008:009 Now therefore hearken
unto their voice: howbeit yet protest
solemnly unto them, and
shew them the manner of the king that
shall reign over them.
09:008:010 And Samuel told all the
words of the LORD unto the people that
asked of him a king.
09:008:011 And he said, This will
be the manner of the king that shall
reign over you: He will
take your sons, and appoint them for
himself, for his
chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some
shall run before his
chariots.
09:008:012 And he will appoint him
captains over thousands, and captains
over fifties; and will
set them to ear his ground, and to reap
his harvest, and to
make his instruments of war, and
instruments of his
chariots.
09:008:013 And he will take your
daughters to be confectionaries, and to
be cooks, and to be
bakers.
09:008:014 And he will take your
fields, and your vineyards, and your
oliveyards, even the
best of them, and give them to his
servants.
09:008:015 And he will take the
tenth of your seed, and of your
vineyards, and give to
his officers, and to his servants.
09:008:016 And he will take your
menservants, and your maidservants, and
your goodliest young
men, and your asses, and put them to his
work.
09:008:017 He will take the tenth
of your sheep: and ye shall be his
servants.
09:008:018 And ye shall cry out in
that day because of your king which ye
shall have chosen you;
and the LORD will not hear you in that
day.
09:008:019 Nevertheless the people
refused to obey the voice of Samuel;
and they said, Nay; but
we will have a king over us;
09:008:020 That we also may be
like all the nations; and that our king
may judge us, and go
out before us, and fight our battles.
09:008:021 And Samuel heard all
the words of the people, and he rehearsed
them in the ears of the
LORD.
09:008:022 And the LORD said to
Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and
make them a king. And
Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go
ye every man unto his
city.
09:009:001 Now there was a man of
Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son
of Abiel, the son of
Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of
Aphiah, a Benjamite, a
mighty man of power.
09:009:002 And he had a son, whose
name was Saul, a choice young man, and
a goodly: and there was
not among the children of Israel a
goodlier person than
he: from his shoulders and upward he was
higher than any of the
people.
09:009:003 And the asses of Kish
Saul's father were lost. And Kish said
to Saul his son, Take
now one of the servants with thee, and
arise, go seek the
asses.
09:009:004 And he passed through
mount Ephraim, and passed through the
land of Shalisha, but
they found them not: then they passed
through the land of
Shalim, and there they were not: and he
passed through the land
of the Benjamites, but they found them
not.
09:009:005 And when they were come
to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his
servant that was with
him, Come, and let us return; lest my
father leave caring for
the asses, and take thought for us.
09:009:006 And he said unto him,
Behold now, there is in this city a man
of God, and he is an
honourable man; all that he saith cometh
surely to pass: now let
us go thither; peradventure he can
shew us our way that we
should go.
09:009:007 Then said Saul to his
servant, But, behold, if we go, what
shall we bring the man?
for the bread is spent in our vessels,
and there is not a
present to bring to the man of God: what
have we?
09:009:008 And the servant
answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have
here at hand the fourth
part of a shekel of silver: that will
I give to the man of
God, to tell us our way.
09:009:009 (Beforetime in Israel,
when a man went to enquire of God, thus
he spake, Come, and let
us go to the seer: for he that is now
called a Prophet was
beforetime called a Seer.)
09:009:010 Then said Saul to his
servant, Well said; come, let us go. So
they went unto the city
where the man of God was.
09:009:011 And as they went up the
hill to the city, they found young
maidens going out to
draw water, and said unto them, Is the
seer here?
09:009:012 And they answered them,
and said, He is; behold, he is before
you: make haste now,
for he came to day to the city; for there
is a sacrifice of the
people to day in the high place:
09:009:013 As soon as ye be come
into the city, ye shall straightway find
him, before he go up to
the high place to eat: for the people
will not eat until he
come, because he doth bless the
sacrifice; and
afterwards they eat that be bidden. Now
therefore get you up;
for about this time ye shall find him.
09:009:014 And they went up into
the city: and when they were come into
the city, behold,
Samuel came out against them, for to go up
to the high place.
09:009:015 Now the LORD had told
Samuel in his ear a day before Saul
came, saying,
09:009:016 To morrow about this
time I will send thee a man out of the
land of Benjamin, and
thou shalt anoint him to be captain over
my people Israel, that
he may save my people out of the hand
of the Philistines: for
I have looked upon my people, because
their cry is come unto
me.
09:009:017 And when Samuel saw
Saul, the LORD said unto him, Behold the
man whom I spake to
thee of! this same shall reign over my
people.
09:009:018 Then Saul drew near to
Samuel in the gate, and said, Tell me,
I pray thee, where the
seer's house is.
09:009:019 And Samuel answered
Saul, and said, I am the seer: go up
before me unto the high
place; for ye shall eat with me to
day, and to morrow I
will let thee go, and will tell thee all
that is in thine heart.
09:009:020 And as for thine asses
that were lost three days ago, set not
thy mind on them; for
they are found. And on whom is all the
desire of Israel? Is it
not on thee, and on all thy father's
house?
09:009:021 And Saul answered and
said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the
smallest of the tribes
of Israel? and my family the least of
all the families of the
tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then
speakest thou so to me?
09:009:022 And Samuel took Saul
and his servant, and brought them into
the parlour, and made
them sit in the chiefest place among
them that were bidden,
which were about thirty persons.
09:009:023 And Samuel said unto
the cook, Bring the portion which I gave
thee, of which I said
unto thee, Set it by thee.
09:009:024 And the cook took up
the shoulder, and that which was upon it,
and set it before Saul.
And Samuel said, Behold that which is
left! set it before
thee, and eat: for unto this time hath it
been kept for thee
since I said, I have invited the people. So
Saul did eat with
Samuel that day.
09:009:025 And when they were come
down from the high place into the
city, Samuel communed
with Saul upon the top of the house.
09:009:026 And they arose early:
and it came to pass about the spring of
the day, that Samuel
called Saul to the top of the house,
saying, Up, that I may
send thee away. And Saul arose, and
they went out both of
them, he and Samuel, abroad.
09:009:027 And as they were going
down to the end of the city, Samuel
said to Saul, Bid the
servant pass on before us, (and he
passed on), but stand
thou still a while, that I may shew thee
the word of God.
09:010:001 Then Samuel took a vial
of oil, and poured it upon his head,
and kissed him, and
said, Is it not because the LORD hath
anointed thee to be
captain over his inheritance?
09:010:002 When thou art departed
from me to day, then thou shalt find
two men by Rachel's
sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at
Zelzah; and they will
say unto thee, The asses which thou
wentest to seek are
found: and, lo, thy father hath left the
care of the asses, and
sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I
do for my son?
09:010:003 Then shalt thou go on
forward from thence, and thou shalt come
to the plain of Tabor,
and there shall meet thee three men
going up to God to
Bethel, one carrying three kids, and
another carrying three
loaves of bread, and another carrying a
bottle of wine:
09:010:004 And they will salute
thee, and give thee two loaves of bread;
which thou shalt
receive of their hands.
09:010:005 After that thou shalt
come to the hill of God, where is the
garrison of the
Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when
thou art come thither
to the city, that thou shalt meet a
company of prophets
coming down from the high place with a
psaltery, and a tabret,
and a pipe, and a harp, before them;
and they shall
prophesy:
09:010:006 And the Spirit of the
LORD will come upon thee, and thou shalt
prophesy with them, and
shalt be turned into another man.
09:010:007 And let it be, when
these signs are come unto thee, that thou
do as occasion serve
thee; for God is with thee.
09:010:008 And thou shalt go down
before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I
will come down unto
thee, to offer burnt offerings, and to
sacrifice sacrifices of
peace offerings: seven days shalt thou
tarry, till I come to
thee, and shew thee what thou shalt do.
09:010:009 And it was so, that
when he had turned his back to go from
Samuel, God gave him
another heart: and all those signs came
to pass that day.
09:010:010 And when they came
thither to the hill, behold, a company of
prophets met him; and
the Spirit of God came upon him, and he
prophesied among them.
09:010:011 And it came to pass,
when all that knew him beforetime saw
that, behold, he
prophesied among the prophets, then the
people said one to
another, What is this that is come unto the
son of Kish? Is Saul
also among the prophets?
09:010:012 And one of the same
place answered and said, But who is their
father? Therefore it
became a proverb, Is Saul also among the
prophets?
09:010:013 And when he had made an
end of prophesying, he came to the
high place.
09:010:014 And Saul's uncle said
unto him and to his servant, Whither
went ye? And he said,
To seek the asses: and when we saw that
they were no where, we
came to Samuel.
09:010:015 And Saul's uncle said,
Tell me, I pray thee, what Samuel said
unto you.
09:010:016 And Saul said unto his
uncle, He told us plainly that the
asses were found. But
of the matter of the kingdom, whereof
Samuel spake, he told
him not.
09:010:017 And Samuel called the
people together unto the LORD to Mizpeh;
09:010:018 And said unto the
children of Israel, Thus saith the LORD God
of Israel, I brought up
Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you
out of the hand of the
Egyptians, and out of the hand of all
kingdoms, and of them
that oppressed you:
09:010:019 And ye have this day
rejected your God, who himself saved you
out of all your
adversities and your tribulations; and ye have
said unto him, Nay, but
set a king over us. Now therefore
present yourselves
before the LORD by your tribes, and by your
thousands.
09:010:020 And when Samuel had
caused all the tribes of Israel to come
near, the tribe of
Benjamin was taken.
09:010:021 When he had caused the
tribe of Benjamin to come near by their
families, the family of
Matri was taken, and Saul the son of
Kish was taken: and
when they sought him, he could not be
found.
09:010:022 Therefore they enquired
of the LORD further, if the man should
yet come thither. And
the LORD answered, Behold he hath hid
himself among the
stuff.
09:010:023 And they ran and
fetched him thence: and when he stood among
the people, he was
higher than any of the people from his
shoulders and upward.
09:010:024 And Samuel said to all
the people, See ye him whom the LORD
hath chosen, that there
is none like him among all the people?
And all the people
shouted, and said, God save the king.
09:010:025 Then Samuel told the
people the manner of the kingdom, and
wrote it in a book, and
laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel
sent all the people
away, every man to his house.
09:010:026 And Saul also went home
to Gibeah; and there went with him a
band of men, whose
hearts God had touched.
09:010:027 But the children of
Belial said, How shall this man save us?
And they despised him,
and brought no presents. But he held
his peace.
09:011:001 Then Nahash the
Ammonite came up, and encamped against
Jabeshgilead: and all
the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make
a covenant with us, and
we will serve thee.
09:011:002 And Nahash the Ammonite
answered them, On this condition will
I make a covenant with
you, that I may thrust out all your
right eyes, and lay it
for a reproach upon all Israel.
09:011:003 And the elders of
Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days'
respite, that we may
send messengers unto all the coasts of
Israel: and then, if
there be no man to save us, we will come
out to thee.
09:011:004 Then came the
messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and told the
tidings in the ears of
the people: and all the people lifted
up their voices, and
wept.
09:011:005 And, behold, Saul came
after the herd out of the field; and
Saul said, What aileth
the people that they weep? And they
told him the tidings of
the men of Jabesh.
09:011:006 And the Spirit of God
came upon Saul when he heard those
tidings, and his anger
was kindled greatly.
09:011:007 And he took a yoke of
oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent
them throughout all the
coasts of Israel by the hands of
messengers, saying,
Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and
after Samuel, so shall
it be done unto his oxen. And the fear
of the LORD fell on the
people, and they came out with one
consent.
09:011:008 And when he numbered
them in Bezek, the children of Israel
were three hundred
thousand, and the men of Judah thirty
thousand.
09:011:009 And they said unto the
messengers that came, Thus shall ye say
unto the men of
Jabeshgilead, To morrow, by that time the sun
be hot, ye shall have
help. And the messengers came and shewed
it to the men of Jabesh;
and they were glad.
09:011:010 Therefore the men of
Jabesh said, To morrow we will come out
unto you, and ye shall
do with us all that seemeth good unto
you.
09:011:011 And it was so on the
morrow, that Saul put the people in three
companies; and they
came into the midst of the host in the
morning watch, and slew
the Ammonites until the heat of the
day: and it came to
pass, that they which remained were
scattered, so that two
of them were not left together.
09:011:012 And the people said
unto Samuel, Who is he that said, Shall
Saul reign over us?
bring the men, that we may put them to
death.
09:011:013 And Saul said, There
shall not a man be put to death this day:
for to day the LORD
hath wrought salvation in Israel.
09:011:014 Then said Samuel to the
people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal,
and renew the kingdom
there.
09:011:015 And all the people went
to Gilgal; and there they made Saul
king before the LORD in
Gilgal; and there they sacrificed
sacrifices of peace
offerings before the LORD; and there Saul
and all the men of
Israel rejoiced greatly.
09:012:001 And Samuel said unto
all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened unto
your voice in all that
ye said unto me, and have made a king
over you.
09:012:002 And now, behold, the
king walketh before you: and I am old and
grayheaded; and,
behold, my sons are with you: and I have
walked before you from
my childhood unto this day.
09:012:003 Behold, here I am:
witness against me before the LORD, and
before his anointed:
whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have
I taken? or whom have I
defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or
of whose hand have I
received any bribe to blind mine eyes
therewith? and I will
restore it you.
09:012:004 And they said, Thou
hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us,
neither hast thou taken
ought of any man's hand.
09:012:005 And he said unto them,
The LORD is witness against you, and
his anointed is witness
this day, that ye have not found ought
in my hand. And they
answered, He is witness.
09:012:006 And Samuel said unto
the people, It is the LORD that advanced
Moses and Aaron, and
that brought your fathers up out of the
land of Egypt.
09:012:007 Now therefore stand
still, that I may reason with you before
the LORD of all the
righteous acts of the LORD, which he did
to you and to your
fathers.
09:012:008 When Jacob was come
into Egypt, and your fathers cried unto
the LORD, then the LORD
sent Moses and Aaron, which brought
forth your fathers out
of Egypt, and made them dwell in this
place.
09:012:009 And when they forgat
the LORD their God, he sold them into the
hand of Sisera, captain
of the host of Hazor, and into the
hand of the
Philistines, and into the hand of the king of
Moab, and they fought
against them.
09:012:010 And they cried unto the
LORD, and said, We have sinned,
because we have
forsaken the LORD, and have served Baalim and
Ashtaroth: but now
deliver us out of the hand of our enemies,
and we will serve thee.
09:012:011 And the LORD sent
Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and
Samuel, and delivered
you out of the hand of your enemies on
every side, and ye
dwelled safe.
09:012:012 And when ye saw that
Nahash the king of the children of Ammon
came against you, ye
said unto me, Nay; but a king shall reign
over us: when the LORD
your God was your king.
09:012:013 Now therefore behold
the king whom ye have chosen, and whom ye
have desired! and,
behold, the LORD hath set a king over you.
09:012:014 If ye will fear the
LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice,
and not rebel against
the commandment of the LORD, then shall
both ye and also the
king that reigneth over you continue
following the LORD your
God:
09:012:015 But if ye will not obey
the voice of the LORD, but rebel
against the commandment
of the LORD, then shall the hand of
the LORD be against
you, as it was against your fathers.
09:012:016 Now therefore stand and
see this great thing, which the LORD
will do before your
eyes.
09:012:017 Is it not wheat harvest
to day? I will call unto the LORD, and
he shall send thunder
and rain; that ye may perceive and see
that your wickedness is
great, which ye have done in the sight
of the LORD, in asking
you a king.
09:012:018 So Samuel called unto
the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder and
rain that day: and all
the people greatly feared the LORD and
Samuel.
09:012:019 And all the people said
unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants
unto the LORD thy God,
that we die not: for we have added unto
all our sins this evil,
to ask us a king.
09:012:020 And Samuel said unto
the people, Fear not: ye have done all
this wickedness: yet
turn not aside from following the LORD,
but serve the LORD with
all your heart;
09:012:021 And turn ye not aside:
for then should ye go after vain
things, which cannot
profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
09:012:022 For the LORD will not
forsake his people for his great name's
sake: because it hath
pleased the LORD to make you his people.
09:012:023 Moreover as for me, God
forbid that I should sin against the
LORD in ceasing to pray
for you: but I will teach you the good
and the right way:
09:012:024 Only fear the LORD, and
serve him in truth with all your
heart: for consider how
great things he hath done for you.
09:012:025 But if ye shall still
do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both
ye and your king.
09:013:001 Saul reigned one year;
and when he had reigned two years over
Israel,
09:013:002 Saul chose him three
thousand men of Israel; whereof two
thousand were with Saul
in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a
thousand were with
Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the
rest of the people he
sent every man to his tent.
09:013:003 And Jonathan smote the
garrison of the Philistines that was in
Geba, and the
Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the
trumpet throughout all
the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.
09:013:004 And all Israel heard
say that Saul had smitten a garrison of
the Philistines, and
that Israel also was had in abomination
with the Philistines.
And the people were called together
after Saul to Gilgal.
09:013:005 And the Philistines
gathered themselves together to fight with
Israel, thirty thousand
chariots, and six thousand horsemen,
and people as the sand
which is on the sea shore in multitude:
and they came up, and
pitched in Michmash, eastward from
Bethaven.
09:013:006 When the men of Israel
saw that they were in a strait, (for
the people were
distressed,) then the people did hide
themselves in caves,
and in thickets, and in rocks, and in
high places, and in
pits.
09:013:007 And some of the Hebrews
went over Jordan to the land of Gad
and Gilead. As for
Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the
people followed him
trembling.
09:013:008 And he tarried seven
days, according to the set time that
Samuel had appointed:
but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the
people were scattered
from him.
09:013:009 And Saul said, Bring
hither a burnt offering to me, and peace
offerings. And he
offered the burnt offering.
09:013:010 And it came to pass,
that as soon as he had made an end of
offering the burnt
offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul
went out to meet him,
that he might salute him.
09:013:011 And Samuel said, What
hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I
saw that the people
were scattered from me, and that thou
camest not within the
days appointed, and that the Philistines
gathered themselves
together at Michmash;
09:013:012 Therefore said I, The
Philistines will come down now upon me
to Gilgal, and I have
not made supplication unto the LORD: I
forced myself
therefore, and offered a burnt offering.
09:013:013 And Samuel said to
Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast
not kept the
commandment of the LORD thy God, which he
commanded thee: for now
would the LORD have established thy
kingdom upon Israel for
ever.
09:013:014 But now thy kingdom
shall not continue: the LORD hath sought
him a man after his own
heart, and the LORD hath commanded him
to be captain over his
people, because thou hast not kept that
which the LORD
commanded thee.
09:013:015 And Samuel arose, and
gat him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of
Benjamin. And Saul
numbered the people that were present with
him, about six hundred
men.
09:013:016 And Saul, and Jonathan
his son, and the people that were
present with them,
abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the
Philistines encamped in
Michmash.
09:013:017 And the spoilers came
out of the camp of the Philistines in
three companies: one
company turned unto the way that leadeth
to Ophrah, unto the
land of Shual:
09:013:018 And another company
turned the way to Bethhoron: and another
company turned to the
way of the border that looketh to the
valley of Zeboim toward
the wilderness.
09:013:019 Now there was no smith
found throughout all the land of
Israel: for the
Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them
swords or spears:
09:013:020 But all the Israelites
went down to the Philistines, to
sharpen every man his
share, and his coulter, and his axe, and
his mattock.
09:013:021 Yet they had a file for
the mattocks, and for the coulters,
and for the forks, and
for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.
09:013:022 So it came to pass in
the day of battle, that there was
neither sword nor spear
found in the hand of any of the people
that were with Saul and
Jonathan: but with Saul and with
Jonathan his son was
there found.
09:013:023 And the garrison of the
Philistines went out to the passage of
Michmash.
09:014:001 Now it came to pass
upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul
said unto the young man
that bare his armour, Come, and let us
go over to the
Philistines' garrison, that is on the other
side. But he told not
his father.
09:014:002 And Saul tarried in the
uttermost part of Gibeah under a
pomegranate tree which
is in Migron: and the people that were
with him were about six
hundred men;
09:014:003 And Ahiah, the son of
Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of
Phinehas, the son of
Eli, the LORD's priest in Shiloh, wearing
an ephod. And the
people knew not that Jonathan was gone.
09:014:004 And between the
passages, by which Jonathan sought to go over
unto the Philistines'
garrison, there was a sharp rock on the
one side, and a sharp
rock on the other side: and the name of
the one was Bozez, and
the name of the other Seneh.
09:014:005 The forefront of the
one was situate northward over against
Michmash, and the other
southward over against Gibeah.
09:014:006 And Jonathan said to
the young man that bare his armour, Come,
and let us go over unto
the garrison of these uncircumcised:
it may be that the LORD
will work for us: for there is no
restraint to the LORD
to save by many or by few.
09:014:007 And his armourbearer
said unto him, Do all that is in thine
heart: turn thee;
behold, I am with thee according to thy
heart.
09:014:008 Then said Jonathan,
Behold, we will pass over unto these men,
and we will discover
ourselves unto them.
09:014:009 If they say thus unto
us, Tarry until we come to you; then we
will stand still in our
place, and will not go up unto them.
09:014:010 But if they say thus,
Come up unto us; then we will go up: for
the LORD hath delivered
them into our hand: and this shall be
a sign unto us.
09:014:011 And both of them
discovered themselves unto the garrison of
the Philistines: and
the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews
come forth out of the
holes where they had hid themselves.
09:014:012 And the men of the
garrison answered Jonathan and his
armourbearer, and said,
Come up to us, and we will shew you a
thing. And Jonathan
said unto his armourbearer, Come up after
me: for the LORD hath
delivered them into the hand of Israel.
09:014:013 And Jonathan climbed up
upon his hands and upon his feet, and
his armourbearer after
him: and they fell before Jonathan; and
his armourbearer slew
after him.
09:014:014 And that first
slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer
made, was about twenty
men, within as it were an half acre of
land, which a yoke of
oxen might plow.
09:014:015 And there was trembling
in the host, in the field, and among
all the people: the
garrison, and the spoilers, they also
trembled, and the earth
quaked: so it was a very great
trembling.
09:014:016 And the watchmen of
Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and,
behold, the multitude
melted away, and they went on beating
down one another.
09:014:017 Then said Saul unto the
people that were with him, Number now,
and see who is gone
from us. And when they had numbered,
behold, Jonathan and
his armourbearer were not there.
09:014:018 And Saul said unto
Ahiah, Bring hither the ark of God. For the
ark of God was at that
time with the children of Israel.
09:014:019 And it came to pass,
while Saul talked unto the priest, that
the noise that was in
the host of the Philistines went on and
increased: and Saul
said unto the priest, Withdraw thine hand.
09:014:020 And Saul and all the
people that were with him assembled
themselves, and they
came to the battle: and, behold, every
man's sword was against
his fellow, and there was a very great
discomfiture.
09:014:021 Moreover the Hebrews
that were with the Philistines before
that time, which went
up with them into the camp from the
country round about,
even they also turned to be with the
Israelites that were
with Saul and Jonathan.
09:014:022 Likewise all the men of
Israel which had hid themselves in
mount Ephraim, when
they heard that the Philistines fled, even
they also followed hard
after them in the battle.
09:014:023 So the LORD saved
Israel that day: and the battle passed over
unto Bethaven.
09:014:024 And the men of Israel
were distressed that day: for Saul had
adjured the people,
saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any
food until evening,
that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So
none of the people
tasted any food.
09:014:025 And all they of the
land came to a wood; and there was honey
upon the ground.
09:014:026 And when the people
were come into the wood, behold, the honey
dropped; but no man put
his hand to his mouth: for the people
feared the oath.
09:014:027 But Jonathan heard not
when his father charged the people with
the oath: wherefore he
put forth the end of the rod that was
in his hand, and dipped
it in an honeycomb, and put his hand
to his mouth; and his
eyes were enlightened.
09:014:028 Then answered one of
the people, and said, Thy father straitly
charged the people with
an oath, saying, Cursed be the man
that eateth any food
this day. And the people were faint.
09:014:029 Then said Jonathan, My
father hath troubled the land: see, I
pray you, how mine eyes
have been enlightened, because I
tasted a little of this
honey.
09:014:030 How much more, if haply
the people had eaten freely to day of
the spoil of their
enemies which they found? for had there not
been now a much greater
slaughter among the Philistines?
09:014:031 And they smote the
Philistines that day from Michmash to
Aijalon: and the people
were very faint.
09:014:032 And the people flew
upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen,
and calves, and slew
them on the ground: and the people did
eat them with the
blood.
09:014:033 Then they told Saul,
saying, Behold, the people sin against
the LORD, in that they
eat with the blood. And he said, Ye
have transgressed: roll
a great stone unto me this day.
09:014:034 And Saul said, Disperse
yourselves among the people, and say
unto them, Bring me
hither every man his ox, and every man his
sheep, and slay them
here, and eat; and sin not against the
LORD in eating with the
blood. And all the people brought
every man his ox with
him that night, and slew them there.
09:014:035 And Saul built an altar
unto the LORD: the same was the first
altar that he built
unto the LORD.
09:014:036 And Saul said, Let us
go down after the Philistines by night,
and spoil them until
the morning light, and let us not leave a
man of them. And they
said, Do whatsoever seemeth good unto
thee. Then said the
priest, Let us draw near hither unto God.
09:014:037 And Saul asked counsel
of God, Shall I go down after the
Philistines? wilt thou
deliver them into the hand of Israel?
But he answered him not
that day.
09:014:038 And Saul said, Draw ye
near hither, all the chief of the
people: and know and
see wherein this sin hath been this day.
09:014:039 For, as the LORD liveth,
which saveth Israel, though it be in
Jonathan my son, he
shall surely die. But there was not a man
among all the people
that answered him.
09:014:040 Then said he unto all
Israel, Be ye on one side, and I and
Jonathan my son will be
on the other side. And the people said
unto Saul, Do what
seemeth good unto thee.
09:014:041 Therefore Saul said
unto the LORD God of Israel, Give a
perfect lot. And Saul
and Jonathan were taken: but the people
escaped.
09:014:042 And Saul said, Cast
lots between me and Jonathan my son. And
Jonathan was taken.
09:014:043 Then Saul said to
Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And
Jonathan told him, and
said, I did but taste a little honey
with the end of the rod
that was in mine hand, and, lo, I must
die.
09:014:044 And Saul answered, God
do so and more also: for thou shalt
surely die, Jonathan.
09:014:045 And the people said
unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath
wrought this great
salvation in Israel? God forbid: as the
LORD liveth, there
shall not one hair of his head fall to the
ground; for he hath
wrought with God this day. So the people
rescued Jonathan, that
he died not.
09:014:046 Then Saul went up from
following the Philistines: and the
Philistines went to
their own place.
09:014:047 So Saul took the
kingdom over Israel, and fought against all
his enemies on every
side, against Moab, and against the
children of Ammon, and
against Edom, and against the kings of
Zobah, and against the
Philistines: and whithersoever he
turned himself, he
vexed them.
09:014:048 And he gathered an
host, and smote the Amalekites, and
delivered Israel out of
the hands of them that spoiled them.
09:014:049 Now the sons of Saul
were Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchishua:
and the names of his
two daughters were these; the name of the
firstborn Merab, and
the name of the younger Michal:
09:014:050 And the name of Saul's
wife was Ahinoam, the daughter of
Ahimaaz: and the name
of the captain of his host was Abner,
the son of Ner, Saul's
uncle.
09:014:051 And Kish was the father
of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner
was the son of Abiel.
09:014:052 And there was sore war
against the Philistines all the days of
Saul: and when Saul saw
any strong man, or any valiant man, he
took him unto him.
09:015:001 Samuel also said unto
Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint thee to
be king over his
people, over Israel: now therefore hearken
thou unto the voice of
the words of the LORD.
09:015:002 Thus saith the LORD of
hosts, I remember that which Amalek did
to Israel, how he laid
wait for him in the way, when he came
up from Egypt.
09:015:003 Now go and smite Amalek,
and utterly destroy all that they
have, and spare them
not; but slay both man and woman, infant
and suckling, ox and
sheep, camel and ass.
09:015:004 And Saul gathered the
people together, and numbered them in
Telaim, two hundred
thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of
Judah.
09:015:005 And Saul came to a city
of Amalek, and laid wait in the
valley.
09:015:006 And Saul said unto the
Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from
among the Amalekites,
lest I destroy you with them: for ye
shewed kindness to all
the children of Israel, when they came
up out of Egypt. So the
Kenites departed from among the
Amalekites.
09:015:007 And Saul smote the
Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest
to Shur, that is over
against Egypt.
09:015:008 And he took Agag the
king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly
destroyed all the
people with the edge of the sword.
09:015:009 But Saul and the people
spared Agag, and the best of the
sheep, and of the oxen,
and of the fatlings, and the lambs,
and all that was good,
and would not utterly destroy them: but
every thing that was
vile and refuse, that they destroyed
utterly.
09:015:010 Then came the word of
the LORD unto Samuel, saying,
09:015:011 It repenteth me that I
have set up Saul to be king: for he is
turned back from
following me, and hath not performed my
commandments. And it
grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the
LORD all night.
09:015:012 And when Samuel rose
early to meet Saul in the morning, it was
told Samuel, saying,
Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set
him up a place, and is
gone about, and passed on, and gone
down to Gilgal.
09:015:013 And Samuel came to
Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be
thou of the LORD: I
have performed the commandment of the
LORD.
09:015:014 And Samuel said, What
meaneth then this bleating of the sheep
in mine ears, and the
lowing of the oxen which I hear?
09:015:015 And Saul said, They
have brought them from the Amalekites: for
the people spared the
best of the sheep and of the oxen, to
sacrifice unto the LORD
thy God; and the rest we have utterly
destroyed.
09:015:016 Then Samuel said unto
Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what
the LORD hath said to
me this night. And he said unto him, Say
on.
09:015:017 And Samuel said, When
thou wast little in thine own sight,
wast thou not made the
head of the tribes of Israel, and the
LORD anointed thee king
over Israel?
09:015:018 And the LORD sent thee
on a journey, and said, Go and utterly
destroy the sinners the
Amalekites, and fight against them
until they be consumed.
09:015:019 Wherefore then didst
thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but
didst fly upon the
spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the
LORD?
09:015:020 And Saul said unto
Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the
LORD, and have gone the
way which the LORD sent me, and have
brought Agag the king
of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed
the Amalekites.
09:015:021 But the people took of
the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of
the things which should
have been utterly destroyed, to
sacrifice unto the LORD
thy God in Gilgal.
09:015:022 And Samuel said, Hath
the LORD as great delight in burnt
offerings and
sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD?
Behold, to obey is
better than sacrifice, and to hearken than
the fat of rams.
09:015:023 For rebellion is as the
sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is
as iniquity and
idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word
of the LORD, he hath
also rejected thee from being king.
09:015:024 And Saul said unto
Samuel, I have sinned: for I have
transgressed the
commandment of the LORD, and thy words:
because I feared the
people, and obeyed their voice.
09:015:025 Now therefore, I pray
thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with
me, that I may worship
the LORD.
09:015:026 And Samuel said unto
Saul, I will not return with thee: for
thou hast rejected the
word of the LORD, and the LORD hath
rejected thee from
being king over Israel.
09:015:027 And as Samuel turned
about to go away, he laid hold upon the
skirt of his mantle,
and it rent.
09:015:028 And Samuel said unto
him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom of
Israel from thee this
day, and hath given it to a neighbour of
thine, that is better
than thou.
09:015:029 And also the Strength
of Israel will not lie nor repent: for
he is not a man, that
he should repent.
09:015:030 Then he said, I have
sinned: yet honour me now, I pray thee,
before the elders of my
people, and before Israel, and turn
again with me, that I
may worship the LORD thy God.
09:015:031 So Samuel turned again
after Saul; and Saul worshipped the
LORD.
09:015:032 Then said Samuel, Bring
ye hither to me Agag the king of the
Amalekites. And Agag
came unto him delicately. And Agag said,
Surely the bitterness
of death is past.
09:015:033 And Samuel said, As the
sword hath made women childless, so
shall thy mother be
childless among women. And Samuel hewed
Agag in pieces before
the LORD in Gilgal.
09:015:034 Then Samuel went to
Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to
Gibeah of Saul.
09:015:035 And Samuel came no more
to see Saul until the day of his
death: nevertheless
Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD
repented that he had
made Saul king over Israel.
09:016:001 And the LORD said unto
Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for
Saul, seeing I have
rejected him from reigning over Israel?
fill thine horn with
oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse
the Bethlehemite: for I
have provided me a king among his
sons.
09:016:002 And Samuel said, How
can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill
me. And the LORD said,
Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am
come to sacrifice to
the LORD.
09:016:003 And call Jesse to the
sacrifice, and I will shew thee what
thou shalt do: and thou
shalt anoint unto me him whom I name
unto thee.
09:016:004 And Samuel did that
which the LORD spake, and came to
Bethlehem. And the
elders of the town trembled at his coming,
and said, Comest thou
peaceably?
09:016:005 And he said, Peaceably:
I am come to sacrifice unto the LORD:
sanctify yourselves,
and come with me to the sacrifice. And he
sanctified Jesse and
his sons, and called them to the
sacrifice.
09:016:006 And it came to pass,
when they were come, that he looked on
Eliab, and said, Surely
the LORD's anointed is before him.
09:016:007 But the LORD said unto
Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or
on the height of his
stature; because I have refused him: for
the LORD seeth not as
man seeth; for man looketh on the
outward appearance, but
the LORD looketh on the heart.
09:016:008 Then Jesse called
Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel.
And he said, Neither
hath the LORD chosen this.
09:016:009 Then Jesse made Shammah
to pass by. And he said, Neither hath
the LORD chosen this.
09:016:010 Again, Jesse made seven
of his sons to pass before Samuel. And
Samuel said unto Jesse,
The LORD hath not chosen these.
09:016:011 And Samuel said unto
Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he
said, There remaineth
yet the youngest, and, behold, he
keepeth the sheep. And
Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch
him: for we will not
sit down till he come hither.
09:016:012 And he sent, and
brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal
of a beautiful
countenance, and goodly to look to. And the
LORD said, Arise,
anoint him: for this is he.
09:016:013 Then Samuel took the
horn of oil, and anointed him in the
midst of his brethren:
and the Spirit of the LORD came upon
David from that day
forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to
Ramah.
09:016:014 But the Spirit of the
LORD departed from Saul, and an evil
spirit from the LORD
troubled him.
09:016:015 And Saul's servants
said unto him, Behold now, an evil spirit
from God troubleth
thee.
09:016:016 Let our lord now
command thy servants, which are before thee,
to seek out a man, who
is a cunning player on an harp: and it
shall come to pass,
when the evil spirit from God is upon
thee, that he shall
play with his hand, and thou shalt be
well.
09:016:017 And Saul said unto his
servants, Provide me now a man that can
play well, and bring
him to me.
09:016:018 Then answered one of
the servants, and said, Behold, I have
seen a son of Jesse the
Bethlehemite, that is cunning in
playing, and a mighty
valiant man, and a man of war, and
prudent in matters, and
a comely person, and the LORD is with
him.
09:016:019 Wherefore Saul sent
messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me
David thy son, which is
with the sheep.
09:016:020 And Jesse took an ass
laden with bread, and a bottle of wine,
and a kid, and sent
them by David his son unto Saul.
09:016:021 And David came to Saul,
and stood before him: and he loved him
greatly; and he became
his armourbearer.
09:016:022 And Saul sent to Jesse,
saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand
before me; for he hath
found favour in my sight.
09:016:023 And it came to pass,
when the evil spirit from God was upon
Saul, that David took
an harp, and played with his hand: so
Saul was refreshed, and
was well, and the evil spirit departed
from him.
09:017:001 Now the Philistines
gathered together their armies to battle,
and were gathered
together at Shochoh, which belongeth to
Judah, and pitched
between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim.
09:017:002 And Saul and the men of
Israel were gathered together, and
pitched by the valley
of Elah, and set the battle in array
against the
Philistines.
09:017:003 And the Philistines
stood on a mountain on the one side, and
Israel stood on a
mountain on the other side: and there was a
valley between them.
09:017:004 And there went out a
champion out of the camp of the
Philistines, named
Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six
cubits and a span.
09:017:005 And he had an helmet of
brass upon his head, and he was armed
with a coat of mail;
and the weight of the coat was five
thousand shekels of
brass.
09:017:006 And he had greaves of
brass upon his legs, and a target of
brass between his
shoulders.
09:017:007 And the staff of his
spear was like a weaver's beam; and his
spear's head weighed
six hundred shekels of iron: and one
bearing a shield went
before him.
09:017:008 And he stood and cried
unto the armies of Israel, and said
unto them, Why are ye
come out to set your battle in array? am
not I a Philistine, and
ye servants to Saul? choose you a man
for you, and let him
come down to me.
09:017:009 If he be able to fight
with me, and to kill me, then will we
be your servants: but
if I prevail against him, and kill him,
then shall ye be our
servants, and serve us.
09:017:010 And the Philistine
said, I defy the armies of Israel this day;
give me a man, that we
may fight together.
09:017:011 When Saul and all
Israel heard those words of the Philistine,
they were dismayed, and
greatly afraid.
09:017:012 Now David was the son
of that Ephrathite of Bethlehemjudah,
whose name was Jesse;
and he had eight sons: and the man went
among men for an old
man in the days of Saul.
09:017:013 And the three eldest
sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to
the battle: and the
names of his three sons that went to the
battle were Eliab the
firstborn, and next unto him Abinadab,
and the third Shammah.
09:017:014 And David was the
youngest: and the three eldest followed
Saul.
09:017:015 But David went and
returned from Saul to feed his father's
sheep at Bethlehem.
09:017:016 And the Philistine drew
near morning and evening, and
presented himself forty
days.
09:017:017 And Jesse said unto
David his son, Take now for thy brethren
an ephah of this
parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run
to the camp of thy
brethren;
09:017:018 And carry these ten
cheeses unto the captain of their
thousand, and look how
thy brethren fare, and take their
pledge.
09:017:019 Now Saul, and they, and
all the men of Israel, were in the
valley of Elah,
fighting with the Philistines.
09:017:020 And David rose up early
in the morning, and left the sheep
with a keeper, and
took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him;
and he came to the
trench, as the host was going forth to the
fight, and shouted for
the battle.
09:017:021 For Israel and the
Philistines had put the battle in array,
army against army.
09:017:022 And David left his
carriage in the hand of the keeper of the
carriage, and ran into
the army, and came and saluted his
brethren.
09:017:023 And as he talked with
them, behold, there came up the
champion, the
Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the
armies of the
Philistines, and spake according to the same
words: and David heard
them.
09:017:024 And all the men of
Israel, when they saw the man, fled from
him, and were sore
afraid.
09:017:025 And the men of Israel
said, Have ye seen this man that is come
up? surely to defy
Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that
the man who killeth
him, the king will enrich him with great
riches, and will give
him his daughter, and make his father's
house free in Israel.
09:017:026 And David spake to the
men that stood by him, saying, What
shall be done to the
man that killeth this Philistine, and
taketh away the
reproach from Israel? for who is this
uncircumcised
Philistine, that he should defy the armies of
the living God?
09:017:027 And the people answered
him after this manner, saying, So
shall it be done to the
man that killeth him.
09:017:028 And Eliab his eldest
brother heard when he spake unto the men;
and Eliab's anger was
kindled against David, and he said, Why
camest thou down
hither? and with whom hast thou left those
few sheep in the
wilderness? I know thy pride, and the
naughtiness of thine
heart; for thou art come down that thou
mightest see the
battle.
09:017:029 And David said, What
have I now done? Is there not a cause?
09:017:030 And he turned from him
toward another, and spake after the
same manner: and the
people answered him again after the
former manner.
09:017:031 And when the words were
heard which David spake, they
rehearsed them before
Saul: and he sent for him.
09:017:032 And David said to Saul,
Let no man's heart fail because of
him; thy servant will
go and fight with this Philistine.
09:017:033 And Saul said to David,
Thou art not able to go against this
Philistine to fight
with him: for thou art but a youth, and he
a man of war from his
youth.
09:017:034 And David said unto
Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep,
and there came a lion,
and a bear, and took a lamb out of the
flock:
09:017:035 And I went out after
him, and smote him, and delivered it out
of his mouth: and when
he arose against me, I caught him by
his beard, and smote
him, and slew him.
09:017:036 Thy servant slew both
the lion and the bear: and this
uncircumcised
Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he
hath defied the armies
of the living God.
09:017:037 David said moreover,
The LORD that delivered me out of the paw
of the lion, and out of
the paw of the bear, he will deliver
me out of the hand of
this Philistine. And Saul said unto
David, Go, and the LORD
be with thee.
09:017:038 And Saul armed David
with his armour, and he put an helmet of
brass upon his head;
also he armed him with a coat of mail.
09:017:039 And David girded his
sword upon his armour, and he assayed to
go; for he had not
proved it. And David said unto Saul, I
cannot go with these;
for I have not proved them. And David
put them off him.
09:017:040 And he took his staff
in his hand, and chose him five smooth
stones out of the
brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag
which he had, even in a
scrip; and his sling was in his hand:
and he drew near to the
Philistine.
09:017:041 And the Philistine came
on and drew near unto David; and the
man that bare the
shield went before him.
09:017:042 And when the Philistine
looked about, and saw David, he
disdained him: for he
was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a
fair countenance.
09:017:043 And the Philistine said
unto David, Am I a dog, that thou
comest to me with
staves? And the Philistine cursed David by
his gods.
09:017:044 And the Philistine said
to David, Come to me, and I will give
thy flesh unto the
fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the
field.
09:017:045 Then said David to the
Philistine, Thou comest to me with a
sword, and with a
spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee
in the name of the LORD
of hosts, the God of the armies of
Israel, whom thou hast
defied.
09:017:046 This day will the LORD
deliver thee into mine hand; and I will
smite thee, and take
thine head from thee; and I will give the
carcases of the host of
the Philistines this day unto the
fowls of the air, and
to the wild beasts of the earth; that
all the earth may know
that there is a God in Israel.
09:017:047 And all this assembly
shall know that the LORD saveth not with
sword and spear: for
the battle is the LORD's, and he will
give you into our
hands.
09:017:048 And it came to pass,
when the Philistine arose, and came, and
drew nigh to meet
David, that David hastened, and ran toward
the army to meet the
Philistine.
09:017:049 And David put his hand
in his bag, and took thence a stone,
and slang it, and smote
the Philistine in his forehead, that
the stone sunk into his
forehead; and he fell upon his face to
the earth.
09:017:050 So David prevailed over
the Philistine with a sling and with a
stone, and smote the
Philistine, and slew him; but there was
no sword in the hand of
David.
09:017:051 Therefore David ran,
and stood upon the Philistine, and took
his sword, and drew it
out of the sheath thereof, and slew
him, and cut off his
head therewith. And when the Philistines
saw their champion was
dead, they fled.
09:017:052 And the men of Israel
and of Judah arose, and shouted, and
pursued the
Philistines, until thou come to the valley, and to
the gates of Ekron. And
the wounded of the Philistines fell
down by the way to
Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto Ekron.
09:017:053 And the children of
Israel returned from chasing after the
Philistines, and they
spoiled their tents.
09:017:054 And David took the head
of the Philistine, and brought it to
Jerusalem; but he put
his armour in his tent.
09:017:055 And when Saul saw David
go forth against the Philistine, he
said unto Abner, the
captain of the host, Abner, whose son is
this youth? And Abner
said, As thy soul liveth, O king, I
cannot tell.
09:017:056 And the king said,
Enquire thou whose son the stripling is.
09:017:057 And as David returned
from the slaughter of the Philistine,
Abner took him, and
brought him before Saul with the head of
the Philistine in his
hand.
09:017:058 And Saul said to him,
Whose son art thou, thou young man? And
David answered, I am
the son of thy servant Jesse the
Bethlehemite.
09:018:001 And it came to pass,
when he had made an end of speaking unto
Saul, that the soul of
Jonathan was knit with the soul of
David, and Jonathan
loved him as his own soul.
09:018:002 And Saul took him that
day, and would let him go no more home
to his father's house.
09:018:003 Then Jonathan and David
made a covenant, because he loved him
as his own soul.
09:018:004 And Jonathan stripped
himself of the robe that was upon him,
and gave it to David,
and his garments, even to his sword, and
to his bow, and to his
girdle.
09:018:005 And David went out
whithersoever Saul sent him, and behaved
himself wisely: and
Saul set him over the men of war, and he
was accepted in the
sight of all the people, and also in the
sight of Saul's
servants.
09:018:006 And it came to pass as
they came, when David was returned from
the slaughter of the
Philistine, that the women came out of
all cities of Israel,
singing and dancing, to meet king Saul,
with tabrets, with joy,
and with instruments of musick.
09:018:007 And the women answered
one another as they played, and said,
Saul hath slain his
thousands, and David his ten thousands.
09:018:008 And Saul was very
wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he
said, They have
ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me
they have ascribed but
thousands: and what can he have more
but the kingdom?
09:018:009 And Saul eyed David
from that day and forward.
09:018:010 And it came to pass on
the morrow, that the evil spirit from
God came upon Saul, and
he prophesied in the midst of the
house: and David played
with his hand, as at other times: and
there was a javelin in
Saul's hand.
09:018:011 And Saul cast the
javelin; for he said, I will smite David
even to the wall with
it. And David avoided out of his
presence twice.
09:018:012 And Saul was afraid of
David, because the LORD was with him,
and was departed from
Saul.
09:018:013 Therefore Saul removed
him from him, and made him his captain
over a thousand; and he
went out and came in before the
people.
09:018:014 And David behaved
himself wisely in all his ways; and the LORD
was with him.
09:018:015 Wherefore when Saul saw
that he behaved himself very wisely,
he was afraid of him.
09:018:016 But all Israel and
Judah loved David, because he went out and
came in before them.
09:018:017 And Saul said to David,
Behold my elder daughter Merab, her
will I give thee to
wife: only be thou valiant for me, and
fight the LORD's
battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be
upon him, but let the
hand of the Philistines be upon him.
09:018:018 And David said unto
Saul, Who am I? and what is my life, or my
father's family in
Israel, that I should be son in law to the
king?
09:018:019 But it came to pass at
the time when Merab Saul's daughter
should have been given
to David, that she was given unto
Adriel the Meholathite
to wife.
09:018:020 And Michal Saul's
daughter loved David: and they told Saul,
and the thing pleased
him.
09:018:021 And Saul said, I will
give him her, that she may be a snare to
him, and that the hand
of the Philistines may be against him.
Wherefore Saul said to
David, Thou shalt this day be my son in
law in the one of the
twain.
09:018:022 And Saul commanded his
servants, saying, Commune with David
secretly, and say,
Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and
all his servants love
thee: now therefore be the king's son in
law.
09:018:023 And Saul's servants
spake those words in the ears of David.
And David said, Seemeth
it to you a light thing to be a king's
son in law, seeing that
I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?
09:018:024 And the servants of
Saul told him, saying, On this manner
spake David.
09:018:025 And Saul said, Thus
shall ye say to David, The king desireth
not any dowry, but an
hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to
be avenged of the
king's enemies. But Saul thought to make
David fall by the hand
of the Philistines.
09:018:026 And when his servants
told David these words, it pleased David
well to be the king's
son in law: and the days were not
expired.
09:018:027 Wherefore David arose
and went, he and his men, and slew of
the Philistines two
hundred men; and David brought their
foreskins, and they
gave them in full tale to the king, that
he might be the king's
son in law. And Saul gave him Michal
his daughter to wife.
09:018:028 And Saul saw and knew
that the LORD was with David, and that
Michal Saul's daughter
loved him.
09:018:029 And Saul was yet the
more afraid of David; and Saul became
David's enemy
continually.
09:018:030 Then the princes of the
Philistines went forth: and it came to
pass, after they went
forth, that David behaved himself more
wisely than all the
servants of Saul; so that his name was
much set by.
09:019:001 And Saul spake to
Jonathan his son, and to all his servants,
that they should kill
David.
09:019:002 But Jonathan Saul's son
delighted much in David: and Jonathan
told David, saying,
Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now
therefore, I pray thee,
take heed to thyself until the
morning, and abide in a
secret place, and hide thyself:
09:019:003 And I will go out and
stand beside my father in the field
where thou art, and I
will commune with my father of thee; and
what I see, that I will
tell thee.
09:019:004 And Jonathan spake good
of David unto Saul his father, and
said unto him, Let not
the king sin against his servant,
against David; because
he hath not sinned against thee, and
because his works have
been to thee-ward very good:
09:019:005 For he did put his life
in his hand, and slew the Philistine,
and the LORD wrought a
great salvation for all Israel: thou
sawest it, and didst
rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin
against innocent blood,
to slay David without a cause?
09:019:006 And Saul hearkened unto
the voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware,
As the LORD liveth, he
shall not be slain.
09:019:007 And Jonathan called
David, and Jonathan shewed him all those
things. And Jonathan
brought David to Saul, and he was in his
presence, as in times
past.
09:019:008 And there was war
again: and David went out, and fought with
the Philistines, and
slew them with a great slaughter; and
they fled from him.
09:019:009 And the evil spirit
from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat in
his house with his
javelin in his hand: and David played with
his hand.
09:019:010 And Saul sought to
smite David even to the wall with the
javelin: but he slipped
away out of Saul's presence, and he
smote the javelin into
the wall: and David fled, and escaped
that night.
09:019:011 Saul also sent
messengers unto David's house, to watch him,
and to slay him in the
morning: and Michal David's wife told
him, saying, If thou
save not thy life to night, to morrow
thou shalt be slain.
09:019:012 So Michal let David
down through a window: and he went, and
fled, and escaped.
09:019:013 And Michal took an
image, and laid it in the bed, and put a
pillow of goats' hair
for his bolster, and covered it with a
cloth.
09:019:014 And when Saul sent
messengers to take David, she said, He is
sick.
09:019:015 And Saul sent the
messengers again to see David, saying, Bring
him up to me in the
bed, that I may slay him.
09:019:016 And when the messengers
were come in, behold, there was an
image in the bed, with
a pillow of goats' hair for his
bolster.
09:019:017 And Saul said unto
Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and
sent away mine enemy,
that he is escaped? And Michal answered
Saul, He said unto me,
Let me go; why should I kill thee?
09:019:018 So David fled, and
escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and
told him all that Saul
had done to him. And he and Samuel went
and dwelt in Naioth.
09:019:019 And it was told Saul,
saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in
Ramah.
09:019:020 And Saul sent
messengers to take David: and when they saw the
company of the prophets
prophesying, and Samuel standing as
appointed over them,
the Spirit of God was upon the messengers
of Saul, and they also
prophesied.
09:019:021 And when it was told
Saul, he sent other messengers, and they
prophesied likewise.
And Saul sent messengers again the third
time, and they
prophesied also.
09:019:022 Then went he also to
Ramah, and came to a great well that is
in Sechu: and he asked
and said, Where are Samuel and David?
And one said, Behold,
they be at Naioth in Ramah.
09:019:023 And he went thither to
Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God
was upon him also, and
he went on, and prophesied, until he
came to Naioth in
Ramah.
09:019:024 And he stripped off his
clothes also, and prophesied before
Samuel in like manner,
and lay down naked all that day and all
that night. Wherefore
they say, Is Saul also among the
prophets?
09:020:001 And David fled from
Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before
Jonathan, What have I
done? what is mine iniquity? and what is
my sin before thy
father, that he seeketh my life?
09:020:002 And he said unto him,
God forbid; thou shalt not die: behold,
my father will do
nothing either great or small, but that he
will shew it me: and
why should my father hide this thing from
me? it is not so.
09:020:003 And David sware
moreover, and said, Thy father certainly
knoweth that I have
found grace in thine eyes; and he saith,
Let not Jonathan know
this, lest he be grieved: but truly as
the LORD liveth, and as
thy soul liveth, there is but a step
between me and death.
09:020:004 Then said Jonathan unto
David, Whatsoever thy soul desireth, I
will even do it for
thee.
09:020:005 And David said unto
Jonathan, Behold, to morrow is the new
moon, and I should not
fail to sit with the king at meat: but
let me go, that I may
hide myself in the field unto the third
day at even.
09:020:006 If thy father at all
miss me, then say, David earnestly asked
leave of me that he
might run to Bethlehem his city: for there
is a yearly sacrifice
there for all the family.
09:020:007 If he say thus, It is
well; thy servant shall have peace: but
if he be very wroth,
then be sure that evil is determined by
him.
09:020:008 Therefore thou shalt
deal kindly with thy servant; for thou
hast brought thy
servant into a covenant of the LORD with
thee: notwithstanding,
if there be in me iniquity, slay me
thyself; for why
shouldest thou bring me to thy father?
09:020:009 And Jonathan said, Far
be it from thee: for if I knew
certainly that evil
were determined by my father to come upon
thee, then would not I
tell it thee?
09:020:010 Then said David to
Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what if thy
father answer thee
roughly?
09:020:011 And Jonathan said unto
David, Come, and let us go out into the
field. And they went
out both of them into the field.
09:020:012 And Jonathan said unto
David, O LORD God of Israel, when I
have sounded my father
about to morrow any time, or the third
day, and, behold, if
there be good toward David, and I then
send not unto thee, and
shew it thee;
09:020:013 The LORD do so and much
more to Jonathan: but if it please my
father to do thee evil,
then I will shew it thee, and send
thee away, that thou
mayest go in peace: and the LORD be with
thee, as he hath been
with my father.
09:020:014 And thou shalt not only
while yet I live shew me the kindness
of the LORD, that I die
not:
09:020:015 But also thou shalt not
cut off thy kindness from my house for
ever: no, not when the
LORD hath cut off the enemies of David
every one from the face
of the earth.
09:020:016 So Jonathan made a
covenant with the house of David, saying,
Let the LORD even
require it at the hand of David's enemies.
09:020:017 And Jonathan caused
David to swear again, because he loved
him: for he loved him
as he loved his own soul.
09:020:018 Then Jonathan said to
David, To morrow is the new moon: and
thou shalt be missed,
because thy seat will be empty.
09:020:019 And when thou hast
stayed three days, then thou shalt go down
quickly, and come to
the place where thou didst hide thyself
when the business was
in hand, and shalt remain by the stone
Ezel.
09:020:020 And I will shoot three
arrows on the side thereof, as though I
shot at a mark.
09:020:021 And, behold, I will
send a lad, saying, Go, find out the
arrows. If I expressly
say unto the lad, Behold, the arrows
are on this side of
thee, take them; then come thou: for there
is peace to thee, and
no hurt; as the LORD liveth.
09:020:022 But if I say thus unto
the young man, Behold, the arrows are
beyond thee; go thy
way: for the LORD hath sent thee away.
09:020:023 And as touching the
matter which thou and I have spoken of,
behold, the LORD be
between thee and me for ever.
09:020:024 So David hid himself in
the field: and when the new moon was
come, the king sat him
down to eat meat.
09:020:025 And the king sat upon
his seat, as at other times, even upon a
seat by the wall: and
Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul's
side, and David's place
was empty.
09:020:026 Nevertheless Saul spake
not any thing that day: for he
thought, Something hath
befallen him, he is not clean; surely
he is not clean.
09:020:027 And it came to pass on
the morrow, which was the second day of
the month, that David's
place was empty: and Saul said unto
Jonathan his son,
Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse to
meat, neither
yesterday, nor to day?
09:020:028 And Jonathan answered
Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me
to go to Bethlehem:
09:020:029 And he said, Let me go,
I pray thee; for our family hath a
sacrifice in the city;
and my brother, he hath commanded me to
be there: and now, if I
have found favour in thine eyes, let
me get away, I pray
thee, and see my brethren. Therefore he
cometh not unto the
king's table.
09:020:030 Then Saul's anger was
kindled against Jonathan, and he said
unto him, Thou son of
the perverse rebellious woman, do not I
know that thou hast
chosen the son of Jesse to thine own
confusion, and unto the
confusion of thy mother's nakedness?
09:020:031 For as long as the son
of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou
shalt not be
established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send
and fetch him unto me,
for he shall surely die.
09:020:032 And Jonathan answered
Saul his father, and said unto him,
Wherefore shall he be
slain? what hath he done?
09:020:033 And Saul cast a javelin
at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan
knew that it was
determined of his father to slay David.
09:020:034 So Jonathan arose from
the table in fierce anger, and did eat
no meat the second day
of the month: for he was grieved for
David, because his
father had done him shame.
09:020:035 And it came to pass in
the morning, that Jonathan went out
into the field at the
time appointed with David, and a little
lad with him.
09:020:036 And he said unto his
lad, Run, find out now the arrows which I
shoot. And as the lad
ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
09:020:037 And when the lad was
come to the place of the arrow which
Jonathan had shot,
Jonathan cried after the lad, and said, Is
not the arrow beyond
thee?
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