1Samuel:11-16
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Then came up Nachash the
Ammonite ,
and encamped against Yabesh
gil
ad :
and all the men of Yabesh said unto Nachash ,
Make a covenant with us ,
and we will serve thee .
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And Nachash the
Ammonite said unto them ,
On this condition will I make it with you ,
that ye all have put out the right eye ,
that I may lay it as a reproach upon all Israel .
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And the elders of Yabesh said unto him ,
Grant us seven days
respite ,
that we may send messengers throughout all the boundary of Israel ;
and then ,
if there be none to save us ,
will we come out to thee .
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And the messengers came to Gib
ah of Saul ,
and spoke the words in the ears of the people ;
and all the people lifted up their voice ,
and wept .
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And ,
behold ,
Saul was coming after the herds out of the field ;
and Saul said ,
What aileth the people that they weep ?
And they told him the words of the men of Yabesh .
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And the spirit of God came suddenly over Saul when he heard these words ,
and his anger was kindled greatly ,
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And he took a yoke of oxen ,
and cut them in pieces ,
and sent them about throughout all the boundary of Israel by the hand of the messengers ,
saying ,
Whosoever goeth not forth after Saul and after Samuel ,
shall have his herds thus treated .
And the dread of the Lord fell on the people ,
and they went out as one man .
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And he numbered them in Bezek ;
and the children of Israel were three hundred thousand ,
and the men of Judah thirty thousand .
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And they said unto the messengers that were come ,
Thus shall ye say unto the men of Yabesh
gil
ad ,
Tomorrow shall ye have help ,
when the sun shineth hot .
And the messengers came and told it to the men of Yabesh ;
and these were glad .
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And the men of Yabesh said ,
Tomorrow will we go out unto you ,
and ye can do unto us in accordance with all that seemeth good in your eyes .
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And it happened on the morrow ,
that Saul put the people in three companies ;
and they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch ,
and they smote the
Ammonites until the heat of the day :
and it came to pass ,
that those that remained were scattered ,
and no two among them were left together .
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And the people said unto Samuel ,
Who is there that saith ,
Shall Saul reign over us ?
give up the men ,
and we will put them to death .
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And Saul said ,
There shall not a man be put to death on this day ;
for today the Lord hath wrought deliverance in Israel .
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And Samuel said to the people ,
Come and let us go to Gilgal ,
and renew there the choice of the king .
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And all the people went to Gilgal ;
and they appointed there Saul as king before the Lord in Gilgal ;
and they sacrificed there sacrifices of peace
offerings before the Lord ;
and Saul with all the men of Israel rejoiced there very greatly .
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And Samuel said unto all Israel ,
Behold ,
I have hearkened unto your voice in all that ye said unto me ,
and I have set a king over you .
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And now ,
behold ,
the king is walking before you ;
and I am old and gray
headed ;
and my sons ,
behold ,
they are with you ;
and I have walked before you from my youth even until this day .
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Behold ,
here am I ;
testify against me in the presence of the Lord ,
and in the presence of his anointed :
Whose ox have I taken ?
or whose ass have I taken ?
or whom have I defrauded ?
whom have I oppressed ?
or from whose hand have I received any ransom so that I withdrew my eyes from him ?
and I will restore it you .
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And they said ,
Thou hast not defrauded us ,
nor hast thou oppressed us ,
and thou hast not taken from any man
s hand the least .
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And he said unto them ,
The Lord is witness against you ,
and his anointed is witness this day ,
that ye have not found in my hand the least :
and they answered ,
He is witness .
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And Samuel said unto the people ,
It is the Lord who did Moses and Aaron ,
and who brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt .
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And now stand up ,
that I may hold judgment with you before the Lord concerning all the benefits of the Lord ,
which he hath done to you and to your fathers .
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When Jacob was come into Egypt ,
then did your fathers cry unto the Lord ,
and the Lord sent Moses and Aaron ,
and they brought forth your fathers out of Egypt ,
and caused them to dwell in this place .
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And when they forgot the Lord their God ,
he sold them into the hand of Sissera ,
the chief of the host of Chazor ,
and into the hand of the Philistines ,
and into the hand of the king of Moab ,
and they made war against them .
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And they cried unto the Lord ,
and said ,
We have sinned ,
because we have forsaken the Lord ,
and have served the Be
alim and the
Ashtaroth ;
and now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies ,
and we will serve thee .
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And the Lord sent Yerubba
al ,
and Bedan ,
and Yiphthach ,
and Samuel ,
and he delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side ,
so that ye dwelt safely .
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But when ye saw that Nachash the king of the children of
Ammon came against you ,
ye said unto me ,
No ;
but a king shall reign over us :
when the Lord your God is your king .
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And now here is the king whom ye have chosen ,
whom ye have asked for !
and ,
behold ,
the Lord hath set over you a king .
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If ye will fear the Lord ,
and serve him ,
and obey his voice ,
and will not rebel against the will of the Lord :
then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the Lord your God .
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But if ye will not hearken to the voice of the Lord ,
and rebel against the will of the Lord :
then will the hand of the Lord be against you ,
as it was against your fathers .
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And now stand up and see this great thing ,
which the Lord is about doing before your eyes .
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Is there not wheat
harvest today ?
I will call unto the Lord ,
and he will send thunders and rain ;
and ye will perceive and see that your wickedness is great ,
which ye have done ,
in the eyes of the Lord ,
to ask for yourselves a king .
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And Samuel called unto the Lord ;
and the Lord sent thunders and rain on that day :
and all the people feared greatly the Lord and Samuel .
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And all the people said unto Samuel ,
Pray in behalf of thy servants unto the Lord thy God ,
that we may not die ;
for we have added unto all our sins yet this evil ,
to ask for ourselves a king .
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And Samuel said unto the people ,
Fear not ;
ye have indeed done all this evil :
yet turn not aside from following the Lord ,
and serve ye the Lord with all your heart ;
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And turn ye not aside ;
for then would ye go after vain things ,
which cannot profit nor deliver ;
because they are vain .
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For the Lord will not forsake his people for the sake of his great name ;
because it hath pleased the Lord to make you a people unto himself .
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Moreover as for me ,
far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray in behalf of you ;
but I will teach you the good and the right way :
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Only fear the Lord ,
and serve him in truth with all your heart ;
for see what great things he hath done with you .
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But if ye will in any wise do wickedly ,
both ye yourselves as also your king shall perish .
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When Saul had reigned one year ,
and two years he reigned over Israel ,
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Saul chose for himself three thousand men out of Israel ;
and there were with Saul two thousand in Michmash and on the mountain of Beth
el ,
and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gib
ah of Benjamin :
and the rest of the people he sent away every man to his tents .
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And Jonathan smote the outpost of the Philistines that was at Geba ,
and the Philistines heard of it .
And Saul blew the cornet throughout all the land ,
saying ,
Let the Hebrews hear it .
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And all Israel heard it ,
saying ,
Saul hath smitten the outpost of the Philistines ,
and the Israelites also have put themselves in ill
favor with the Philistines .
And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal .
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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 encamped in Michmash ,
eastward from Bethaven .
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And when the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait ,
then did the people hide themselves in caves ,
and in thickets ,
and in rocks ,
and in strongholds ,
and in pits .
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And some of the Hebrews passed over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gil
ad .
As for Saul ,
he was still in Gilgal ,
and all the people followed him hastily .
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And he tarried seven days ,
according to the set time that Samuel had appointed ;
but Samuel came not to Gilgal ;
and the people were scattering themselves from him .
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And Saul said ,
Bring hither to me the burnt
offering and the peace
offerings .
And he offered the burnt
offering .
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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 greet him .
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And Samuel said ,
What hast thou done :
And Saul said ,
Because I saw that the people were scattering themselves from me ,
whereas thou camest not at the appointed day ,
and the Philistines are gathering themselves together at Michmash ;
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And I said ,
The Philistines will now come down unto me to Gilgal ,
and I have not yet made supplication unto the Lord :
wherefore I forced myself ,
and offered the burnt
offering .
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And Samuel said to Saul ,
Thou hast done foolishly :
thou hast not kept the commandment of the Lord thy God ,
which he had commanded thee ;
for now would the Lord have established thy government over Israel for ever .
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But now thy government shall not endure :
the Lord hath sought out for himself a man after his own heart ,
and the Lord hath ordained him to be chief over his people ;
because thou hast not kept what the Lord had commanded thee .
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And Samuel arose ,
and went up from Gilgal unto Gib
ah of Benjamin .
And Saul numbered the people that were to be found with him ,
about six hundred men .
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And Saul ,
and Jonathan his son ,
and the people that were to be found with them ,
were lying in Geba
of Benjamin ;
but the Philistines were encamped in Michmash .
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And the troop of freebooters went out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies :
one company turned into the way to
Ophrah ,
unto the land of Shu
al ;
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And another company turned into the way to Beth
choron ;
and the other company turned into the way to the frontier that looketh over the valley of Zebo
im toward the wilderness .
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Now there was no smith to be found throughout all the land of Israel ;
for the Philistines said ,
So that the Hebrews shall not make themselves swords or spears .
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But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines ,
to sharpen every man his plough
share ,
and his coulter ,
and his axe ,
and his mattock .
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And they used a file for the mattocks ,
and for the coulters ,
and for the three
pronged forks ,
and for the axes ,
and to sharpen the goads .
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So it came to pass on 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 they were found with Saul and with Jonathan his son .
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And the outpost of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash .
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Now it happened one day ,
that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bore his armor ,
Come ,
and let us go over to the Philistines
outpost ,
that is on the other side yonder .
But unto his father he told nothing .
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And Saul tarried in the lower part of Gib
ah under the pomegranate tree which is by Migron :
and the people that were with him were about six hundred men .
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And Achiyah ,
the son of Achitub ,
the brother of I
chabod ,
the son of Phinehas ,
the son of
Eli ,
the priest of the Lord in Shiloh ,
wore the ephod .
And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone .
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And between the passes ,
by which Jonathan sought to go over unto the outpost of the Philistines ,
there was a sharp point of rock on the one side ,
and a sharp point of rock on the other side :
and the name of the one was Bozez ,
and the name of the other Seneh .
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The one point rose up abruptly northward opposite Michmash ,
and the other southward opposite Geba .
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And Jonathan said to the young man that bore his armor ,
Come ,
and let us go over unto the outpost of these uncircumcised :
it may be that the Lord will work for us ;
for there is no restraint to the Lord to save by means of many or by means of few .
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And his armor
bearer said unto him ,
Do all that is in thy heart :
turn thee ;
behold ,
I am with thee according to thy heart .
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Then said Jonathan ,
Behold ,
we will pass over unto these men ,
and we will show ourselves unto them .
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If they say thus unto us ,
Stand still until we come to you :
then will we remain standing in our places ,
and will not go up unto them .
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But if they say thus ,
Come up unto us :
then will we go up ;
for the Lord hath delivered them into our hand ;
and this shall be unto us the sign .
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And when both of them showed themselves unto the outpost of the Philistines ,
the Philistines said ,
Behold ,
Hebrews are coming forth out of the holes wherein they have hidden themselves .
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And the men of the outpost addressed Jonathan and his armor
bearer ,
and said ,
Come up to us ,
and we will let you know something .
Then said Jonathan unto his armor
bearer ,
Come up after me ;
for the Lord hath given them up into the hand of Israel .
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And Jonathan then ascended upon his hands and upon his feet ,
and his armor
bearer after him :
and they fell before Jonathan ,
and his armor
bearer was killing after him .
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And that first defeat ,
which Jonathan and his armor
bearer caused ,
was about twenty men ,
within about the half of a field ,
which a yoke of oxen might plough .
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And there arose a terror in the camp ,
in the field ,
and among all the people ;
the outposts ,
and the free
booters ,
they also were terrified ,
and the earth quaked ;
and it became a very great terror .
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And the watchers of Saul in Gib
ah of Benjamin looked ;
and ,
behold ,
the multitude became scattered ,
and ran hither and thither .
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Then said Saul unto the people that were with him ,
Muster now ,
and see who is gone away from us .
And they mustered ,
and ,
behold ,
there was neither Jonathan nor his armor
bearer .
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And Saul said unto Achiyah ,
Bring hither the ark of God ;
for the ark of God was on that day with the children of Israel .
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And it happened ,
while Saul was speaking unto the priest ,
that the confusion which was in the camp of the Philistines went on and increased more and more :
And Saul said unto the priest ,
Withdraw thy hand .
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And Saul and all the people that were with him were called together ,
and they came to the battle ;
and ,
behold ,
the sword of every man was against his fellow ,
the disorder being very great .
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And the Hebrews that were with the Philistines as before that time ,
those namely who had gone up with them ,
were in the camp round about ;
but these also resolved to be with the Israelites that were with Saul and Jonathan .
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And all the men of Israel who had hidden themselves on the mountain of Ephraim ,
heard that the Philistines had fled ;
and they also followed hard after them in the battle .
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So the Lord saved Israel that day :
and the battle passed over unto Beth
aven .
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And the men of Israel were hard urged that day ;
and Saul adjured the people ,
saying ,
Cursed be the man that will eat food until the evening ,
until I have been avenged on my enemies .
And the whole people tasted thus no food .
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And all the land came to a forest ;
and there was honey upon the surface of the field .
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And when the people were come into the forest ,
behold ,
there was a stream of honey ;
but no one put his hand to his mouth ;
for the people feared the oath .
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But Jonathan had not heard his father charging the people with the oath ;
he therefore put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand ,
and dipped it in a honey
comb ,
and carried his hand again to his mouth ;
and his eyes became clear .
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Then commenced one of the people ,
and said ,
Thy father strictly charged the people with an oath ,
saying ,
Cursed be the man that will eat food this day ;
though the people were faint .
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Then said Jonathan ,
My father hath troubled the land :
see ,
I pray you ,
how my eyes become clear ,
because I have tasted a little of this honey .
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How much more ,
if haply the people had eaten freely this day of the spoil of their enemies which they found ?
for would there not have been now a greater defeat among the Philistines ?
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And they smote on that day among the Philistines from Michmash to Ayalon ;
and the people were very faint .
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And the people flew upon the spoil ,
and took sheep ,
and oxen ,
and young steers ,
and slew them on the ground :
and the people did eat upon the blood .
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And they told Saul ,
saying ,
Behold ,
the people are sinning against the Lord ,
in eating upon the blood .
And he said ,
Ye have acted treacherously :
roll unto me this day a great stone .
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And Saul said ,
Disperse yourselves among the people ,
and say unto them ,
Bring near unto me every man his ox ,
and every man his lamb ,
and slaughter here ,
and eat ;
and sin not against the Lord in eating by the blood .
And all the people brought near every man his ox by his hand that night ,
and slaughtered there .
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And Saul built an altar unto the Lord :
the same was the first altar that he built unto the Lord .
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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 in thy eyes .
Then said the priest ,
Let us draw near hither unto God .
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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 on that day .
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And Saul said ,
Draw ye near hither all the chief of the people :
and know and see through what this sin hath happened this day .
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For ,
as the Lord liveth ,
who saveth Israel ,
that if it be in Jonathan my son ,
he shall surely die .
But no one answered him among all the people .
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Then said he unto all Israel ,
Ye shall be 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 in thy eyes .
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And Saul said unto the Lord ,
God of Israel ,
O ,
show forth the perfect truth .
And Jonathan and Saul were seized ;
but the people came forth .
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And Saul said ,
Cast the lot between me and Jonathan my son .
And Jonathan was seized .
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Then said Saul to Jonathan ,
Do tell me what thou hast done .
And Jonathan told him ,
and said ,
I did but taste with the end of the staff that was in my hand a little honey :
lo ,
I am willing to die .
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And Saul said ,
May God do thus now ,
and in future also ;
for thou shalt surely die ,
Jonathan .
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And the people said unto Saul ,
Shall Jonathan die ,
who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel ?
This shall not be :
as the Lord liveth ,
there shall not fall one hair of his head to the ground ;
for with God hath he wrought this day .
So the people rescued Jonathan ,
and he died not .
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Then went Saul up from following the Philistines ;
and the Philistines went to their own place .
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So Saul strengthened himself in the government over Israel ;
and he fought on every side against all his enemies ,
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 caused terror .
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And he gathered an army ,
and he smote the
Amalekites ,
and delivered Israel out of the hands of those that spoiled them .
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Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan ,
and Yishvi ,
and Malkishua :
and the names of his two daughters
the name of the first
born was Merab ,
and the name of the younger Michal .
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And the name of Saul
s wife was Achino
am ,
the daughter of Achima
az :
and the name of the captain of his army was Abner ,
the son of Ner ,
Saul
s uncle .
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And Kish the father of Saul ,
and Ner the father of Abner ,
were each the son of Abiel .
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And the war against the Philistines was violent all the days of Saul :
and when Saul saw any strong man ,
or any valiant man ,
he took him unto himself .
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And Samuel said unto Saul ,
Me did the Lord send to anoint thee as king over his people ,
over Israel ;
and now hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the Lord .
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Thus hath said the Lord of hosts ,
I remember what Amalek did to Israel ,
how he lay in wait for him on the way ,
when he came up from Egypt .
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Now go and smite
Amalek ,
and devote all that they have ,
and spare them not ;
but slay both man and woman ,
infant and suckling ,
ox and lamb ,
camel and ass .
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And Saul ordered the people to assemble ,
and he numbered them in Telaim ,
two hundred thousand men on foot ,
and ten thousand of the men of Judah .
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And Saul came to the city of
Amalek ,
and he fought in the valley .
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And Saul said unto the Kenites ,
Go ,
depart ,
get you down from the midst of the
Amalekites ,
lest I destroy you with them ;
whereas ye acted kindly with all the children of Israel ,
at their coming up out of Egypt .
And the Kenites departed from the midst of the
Amalekites .
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And Saul smote the
Amalekites from Chavilah until thou comest to Shur ,
that is before Egypt .
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And he caught Agag the king of the
Amalekites alive ,
and all the people he devoted to the edge of the sword .
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But Saul together with the people had pity on Agag ,
and on the best of the flocks ,
and of the oxen ,
and of the fatlings ,
and the fat lambs ,
and all that was good ,
and they would not destroy them ;
but all the cattle that was of little value and weak ,
that they destroyed .
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And the word of the Lord came unto Samuel ,
saying ,
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I repent that I have set up Saul as king ;
for he hath turned back from following me ,
and my word hath he not performed :
and it displeased Samuel ,
and he cried unto the Lord all the night .
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And Samuel rose up early to meet Saul in the morning ;
and it was told to Samuel ,
saying ,
Saul came to Carmel ,
and ,
behold ,
he set himself up a monument ,
and then went about ,
and passed on ,
and went down to Gilgal .
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And Samuel came to Saul ;
and Saul said unto him ,
Blessed be thou unto the Lord ,
I have performed the word of the Lord .
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And Samuel said ,
What is then this bleating of the flocks in my ears ,
and the lowing of the oxen which I hear ?
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And Saul said ,
From the
Amalekites have they brought them ;
because the people had pity on the best of the flocks and of the oxen ,
in order to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God ;
and the rest have we destroyed .
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And Samuel said unto Saul ,
Stay ,
and I will tell thee what the Lord said to me this night :
and he said unto him ,
Speak .
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And Samuel said ,
Is it not that ,
however little thou wast in thy own eyes ,
thou art the head of the tribes of Israel ?
and the Lord anointed thee as king over Israel ?
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And the Lord sent thee on a journey ,
and said ,
Go and destroy the sinners ,
the
Amalekites ,
and thou shalt fight against them until they be consumed .
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Wherefore then didst thou not hearken unto the voice of the Lord ,
and didst fly upon the spoil ,
and didst the evil in the eyes of the Lord ?
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And Saul said unto Samuel ,
Yea ,
I have fully hearkened unto the voice of the Lord ;
and I went on the way which the Lord had sent me ;
and I have brought Agag the king of
Amalek ;
and the
Amalekites have I destroyed .
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And the people took of the spoil ,
of the flocks and oxen ,
the chief of the devoted things ,
to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God in Gilgal .
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And Samuel said ,
Hath the Lord as much delight in burnt
offerings and in sacrifices ,
as in obeying the voice of the Lord ?
Behold ,
to obey is better than sacrifice ,
and to attend more than the fat of the rams .
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For the sin of witchcraft is rebellion ,
and idolatry and image
worship ,
stubbornness ;
inasmuch as thou hast despised the word of the Lord ,
he hath also despised thee that thou shalt not be king .
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And Saul said unto Samuel ,
I have sinned ;
for I have transgressed the will of the Lord ,
and thy words ;
because I feared the people ,
and I hearkened to their voice .
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And now ,
I pray thee ,
pardon my sin ,
and return with me ,
that I may prostrate myself to the Lord .
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And Samuel said unto Saul ,
I will not return with thee ;
for thou didst despise the word of the Lord ,
and the Lord hath despised thee ,
that thou shalt not be king over Israel .
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And Samuel turned about to go :
and he laid hold on the corner of his mantle ,
and it was rent .
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And Samuel said unto him ,
The Lord hath rent the kingdom of Israel from off thee this day ,
and hath given it to thy associate ,
who is better than thou .
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And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent ;
for he is not a man ,
that he should repent .
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And he said ,
I have sinned ;
honor me now ,
I pray thee ,
in the presence of the elders of my people ,
and in the presence of Israel ,
and return with me ,
that I may prostrate myself unto the Lord thy God .
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So Samuel returned ,
following Saul ;
and Saul prostrated himself to the Lord .
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And Samuel said ,
Bring ye hither unto me Agag the king of the
Amalekites :
and Agag came unto him cheerfully ;
and Agag said ,
Surely the bitterness of death is past .
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And Samuel said ,
As thy sword did make women childless ,
so shall thy mother be childless among women ;
and Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal .
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Then Samuel went to Ramah ;
and Saul went up to his house at Gib
ah of Saul .
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And Samuel did not see Saul any more until the day of his death ;
because Samuel mourned for Saul ;
and the Lord repented that he had made Saul king over Israel .
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And the Lord said unto Samuel ,
How long wilt thou mourn for Saul ,
seeing I have rejected him so as not to reign over Israel ?
fill thy horn with oil ,
and go ,
I will send thee to Jesse the Beth
lechemite ;
for I have selected among his sons unto myself a king .
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And Samuel said ,
How shall I go ?
if Saul should hear it ,
he would kill me .
And the Lord said ,
Take a heifer with thee ,
and say ,
To sacrifice unto the Lord am I come .
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And invite Jesse to the sacrifice ,
and I will let thee know what thou shalt do ;
and thou shalt anoint unto me the one whom I will say unto thee .
*
And Samuel did that which the Lord had spoken ,
and came to Beth
lechem .
And the elders of the town came hastily to meet him ,
and said ,
Peace to thee at thy coming .
*
And he said ,
Peace :
to sacrifice unto the Lord am I come ;
sanctify yourselves ,
and come with me to the sacrifice .
And he sanctified Jesse and his sons ,
and invited them to the sacrifice .
*
And it came to pass ,
when they came ,
that he saw Eliab ,
and said ,
Surely the Lord
s anointed is before him .
*
But the Lord said unto Samuel ,
Regard not his appearance ,
nor the height of his stature ;
because I have rejected him ;
for not what man looketh on ;
for man looketh on the eyes ,
but the Lord looketh on the heart .
*
Then Jesse called Abinadab ,
and caused him to pass before Samuel .
And he said ,
This one also hath the Lord not chosen .
*
Then Jesse caused Shammah to pass by .
And he said ,
This one also hath the Lord not chosen .
*
And Jesse caused seven of his sons to pass before Samuel :
and Samuel said unto Jesse ,
The Lord hath not made choice of these .
*
And Samuel said unto Jesse ,
Are there not more young men ?
And he said ,
There is yet left behind the youngest ,
and ,
behold ,
he is feeding the flocks .
And Samuel said unto Jesse ,
Send and fetch him ;
for we will not sit down till he have come hither .
*
And he sent ,
and brought him in .
Now he was ruddy ,
having withal handsome eyes ,
and being of a goodly appearance .
And the Lord said ,
Arise ,
anoint him ;
for this is he .
*
Then took Samuel the horn of oil ,
and anointed him from among his brothers ;
and the Spirit of the Lord came suddenly upon David from that day and forward .
And Samuel then rose up ,
and went to Ramah .
*
And the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul ,
and there troubled him an evil spirit from the Lord .
*
And Saul
s servants said unto him ,
Behold now ,
an evil spirit from God troubleth thee .
*
Let our Lord but say ,
and thy servants ,
now before thee ,
will seek out a man ,
who is skilful as a player on the harp ;
and it shall come to pass ,
when the evil spirit from God is upon thee ,
that he shall play with his hand ,
that thou mayest be well .
*
And Saul said unto his servants ,
Select for me ,
I pray you ,
a man that can play well ,
and bring him to me .
*
Then answered one of the servants ,
and said ,
Behold ,
I have seen a son of Jesse the Beth
lechemite ,
who is skilful as a player ,
and a mighty valiant man ,
and a man of war ,
and intelligent in speech ,
and a person of a good form ,
and the Lord is with him .
*
Thereupon Saul sent messengers unto Jesse ,
and said ,
Send me David thy son ,
who is with the flocks .
*
And Jesse took an ass laden with bread ,
and a bottle of wine ,
and a kid ,
and sent them through David his son unto Saul .
*
And David came to Saul ,
and stood before him ;
and he loved him greatly ,
and he became his armor
bearer .
*
And Saul sent to Jesse ,
saying ,
Let David ,
I pray thee ,
stand before me ;
for he hath found favor in my eyes .
*
And it came to pass ,
when the spirit of God was upon Saul ,
that David took the harp ,
and played with his hand ;
so Saul became relieved ,
and he felt well ,
and the evil spirit departed from him .
*
And the Philistines gathered together their camps to battle ,
and they gathered themselves together at Sochoh ,
which belongeth to Judah ;
and they encamped between Sochoh and
Azekah ,
at Ephess
dammim .
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