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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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And Saul and the men of Israel gathered themselves together ,
and encamped in the valley of Elah ,
and put themselves in battle
array opposite to the Philistines .
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And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side ,
and the Israelites stood on a mountain on the other side :
and the valley was between them .
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And there went out the champion out of the camp of the Philistines ,
Goliath of Gath was his name ,
whose height was six cubits and a span .
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And he had a helmet of copper upon his head ,
and he was clothed with a scaly coat of mail ;
and the weight of the coat of mail was five thousand shekels of copper .
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And he had greaves of copper upon his legs ,
and a javelin of copper between his shoulders .
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And the staff of his spear was like a weaver
s beam ;
and the blade of his spear six hundred shekels of iron :
and the shield
bearer was walking before him .
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And he stood and calleth unto the arrays of Israel ,
and said unto them ,
Why will ye come out to put yourselves in battle
array ?
Behold :
I am the Philistine ,
and ye are servants to Saul !
select for yourselves one man ,
and let him come down to me ;
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If he be able to fight with me ,
and he kill me ,
then will we be unto you as servants ;
but if I prevail against him ,
and kill him ,
then shall ye be unto us as servants ,
and ye shall serve us .
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And the Philistine said ,
I have defied the arrays of Israel this day ;
give me a man ,
and let us fight together .
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When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine ,
they were disheartened ,
and became greatly afraid .
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Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth
lechem
judah ,
whose name was Jesse ;
and he had eight sons :
and the man was old in the days of Saul ,
belonging to the persons .
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And the three eldest sons of Jesse were gone following Saul to the battle :
and the names of his three sons that were gone to the battle were Eliab the first
born ,
and the next to him Abinadab ,
and the third Shammah .
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And David was the youngest :
and the three eldest followed Saul .
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But David kept going and returning from Saul to feed his father
s flocks at Beth
lechem .
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And the Philistine drew near morning and evening ,
and presented himself forty days .
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And Jesse said unto David his son ,
Take ,
I pray thee ,
for thy brothers an ephah of this parched corn ,
and these ten loaves ,
and run to the camp to thy brothers ;
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And these ten cheeses shalt thou bring unto the captain of the thousand ,
and inquire of thy brothers how they fare ,
and take away their pledge .
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Now Saul ,
and they ,
and all the men of Israel ,
were in the valley of Elah ,
fighting with the Philistines .
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And David rose up early in the morning ,
and gave up the flocks to a keeper ,
and took ,
and went ,
as Jesse had commanded him ;
and he came to the entrenchment ,
as the host was going forth in battle
array ,
and shouted the battle
cry .
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And the Israelites and the Philistines put themselves in battle
array ,
army against army .
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And David left the articles which he had on him in the hand of the keeper of the baggage ,
and ran into the array ,
and came and asked of his brothers after their welfare .
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And as he was speaking with them ,
behold ,
there came up the champion ,
Goliath the Philistine ,
by name ,
of Gath ,
out of the battle
arrays of the Philistines ,
and spoke in accordance with these same words :
and David heard it .
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And all the men of Israel ,
when they saw the man ,
fled from before him ,
and were greatly afraid .
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And the men of Israel said ,
Have ye seen this man that is coming forth ?
for to defy Israel is he coming forth ;
and it shall be ,
that the man who killeth him ,
him will the king enrich with great riches ,
and his daughter will he give him ,
and his father
s house will he make free in Israel .
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And David said to the men that stood by him ,
thus ,
What shall be done to the man that may smite yon Philistine ,
and take away the reproach from Israel ?
for who is this uncircumcised Philistine ,
that he should defy the arrays of the living God ?
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And the people spoke to him after this manner ,
saying ,
So shall it be done to the man that may smite him .
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And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he was speaking unto the men ;
and Eliab
s anger was kindled against David ,
and he said ,
Why didst thou come down hither ?
and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness ?
I know thy presumption ,
and the wickedness of thy heart ;
for in order to see the battle art thou come down .
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And David said ,
What have I now done ?
It is nothing but a word .
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And he turned from him toward another ,
and spoke after the same manner :
and the people made him again a reply after the former manner .
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And the words which David had spoken were heard ,
and they told them in the presence of Saul ,
who sent for him .
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And David said to Saul ,
Let no man
s heart fail because of him :
thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine .
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And Saul said to David ,
Thou art not able to go unto this Philistine to fight with him ;
for thou art but a lad ,
and he a man of war from his youth .
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And David said unto Saul ,
Thy servant was feeding his father
s flocks ,
and there came a lion ,
and a bear ,
and bore off a lamb out of the drove ;
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And I went out after him ,
and smote him ,
and delivered it out of his mouth :
and when he rose up against me ,
I caught him by his beard ,
and smote him ,
and slew him .
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Both the lion and the bear did thy servant smite :
and this uncircumcised Philistine shall become as one of them ;
because he hath defied the arrays of the living God .
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Moreover David said ,
The Lord who hath delivered me out of the power of the lion ,
and out of the power of the bear ,
will also surely deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine .
And Saul said unto David ,
Go ,
and may the Lord be with thee .
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And Saul clothed David with his garments ,
and he put a helmet of copper upon his head ;
and he clothed him also with a coat of mail .
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And David girded his sword over his garments ,
and he essayed to go ;
for he had not tried it .
And David said unto Saul ,
I cannot walk in these ;
for I have never tried it before .
And David put them off from him .
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And he took his staff in his hand ,
and chose himself five smooth stones out of the brook ,
and put them in the shepherd
s pouch which be had ,
even in a scrip ,
with his sling in his hand ;
and he approached to the Philistine .
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And the Philistine went and drew nearer and nearer unto David ;
and the man that bore the shield went before him .
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And when the Philistine looked about ,
and saw David ,
he disdained him ;
for he was but a lad ,
and ruddy ,
with a fair appearance .
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And the Philistine said unto David ,
Am I a dog ,
that thou comest unto me with sticks ?
And the Philistine cursed David by his gods .
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And the Philistine said to David ,
Come to me ,
and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the heavens ,
and to the beasts of the field .
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Then said David to the Philistine ,
Thou comest unto me with a sword ,
and with a spear ,
and with a javelin ;
but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts ,
the God of the arrays of Israel ,
that thou hast defied .
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This day will the Lord deliver thee into my hand ;
and I will smite thee ,
and remove thy head from thee ;
and I will give the carcasses of the army of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air ,
and to the wild beasts of the earth ;
and all the earth shall know that there is a God for Israel .
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And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not through sword and spear ;
for the battle is the Lord
s ,
and he will give you up into our hand .
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And it came to pass ,
when the Philistine arose ,
and went and drew nigh to meet David ,
that David hastened ,
and ran toward the battle
array to meet the Philistine .
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And David put his hand into the pouch ,
and took thence a stone ,
and slung it ,
and he struck the Philistine on his forehead ,
and the stone sunk into his forehead :
and he fell upon his face to the ground .
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So David prevailed over the Philistine with the sling and with the stone ,
and smote the Philistine ,
and slew him ;
but there was no sword in the hand of David .
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And David ran ,
and stood by the Philistine ,
and took his sword ,
and drew it out of its sheath ,
and slew him ,
and cut off his head therewith .
And when the Philistines saw that their hero was dead ,
they fled .
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And then arose the men of Israel and of Judah ,
and shouted ,
and pursued the Philistines ,
until thou comest to the valley ,
and to the gates of
Ekron .
And the slain of the Philistines fell down by the way to Sha
arayim ,
even as far as Gath ,
and up to
Ekron .
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And the children of Israel returned from hotly pursuing after the Philistines ,
and they spoiled their camps .
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And David took the head of the Philistine ,
and brought it to Jerusalem ;
but his weapons he placed in his tent .
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And when Saul saw David going forth against the Philistine ,
he said unto Abner ,
the captain of the army ,
Abner ,
whose son is this lad ?
And Abner said ,
As thy soul liveth ,
O king ,
I know it not .
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And the king said ,
Ask thou whose son this youth is .
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And as David returned from smiting the Philistine ,
Abner took him ,
and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand .
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And Saul said to him ,
Whose son art thou ,
young man ?
And David answered ,
The son of thy servant Jesse the Beth
lechemite .
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And it came to pass ,
when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul ,
that the soul of Jonathan was knit on the soul of David ;
and Jonathan loved him as his own soul .
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And Saul took him on that day ,
and would not permit him to go home to his father
s house .
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Then Jonathan and David made a covenant ,
because of his loving him as his own soul .
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And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that he had upon him ,
and gave it to David ,
and likewise his garments ,
even to his sword ,
and to his bow ,
and to his girdle .
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And David went out ;
whithersoever Saul used to send him ,
he was successful ;
and Saul set him over the men of war ;
and he was accepted in the eyes of all the people ,
and also in the eyes of the servants of Saul .
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And it came to pass as they came home ,
when David returned from smiting the Philistines ,
that the women came forth out of all the cities of Israel ,
singing and dancing ,
to meet king Saul ,
with tambourines ,
with joy ,
and with triangles .
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And the women that played answered one another ,
and said ,
Saul hath slain his thousands ,
and David his ten thousands .
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And Saul was very wroth ,
and this saying was displeasing in his eyes ;
and he said ,
They have given unto David ten thousands ,
and to me they have given the thousands :
and all that he lacketh now yet is only the kingdom .
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And Saul looked jealous on David from that day and forward .
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And it came to pass on the morrow ,
that an evil spirit from God came suddenly over Saul ,
and he spoke foolish things in the midst of the house :
while David was playing with his hand ,
as on previous days ;
and the spear was in the hand of Saul .
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And Saul cast the spear ;
and he thought ,
I will strike David through even on the wall .
And David turned aside out of his presence twice .
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And Saul was afraid of David ;
because the Lord was with him ,
and from Saul he was departed .
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Therefore Saul removed him from himself ,
and made him his captain over a thousand :
and he went out and came in before the people .
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And David was successful on all his ways ;
and the Lord was with him .
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And when Saul saw that he was very successful ,
he was in dread of him .
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But all Israel and Judah loved David ;
because he went out and came in before them .
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And Saul said to David ,
Behold ,
here is my eldest daughter Merab ,
her will I give to thee for wife :
only be thou unto me a man of valor ,
and fight the Lord
s battles .
And Saul thought ,
Let not my hand be against him ,
but let the hand of the Philistines be against him .
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And David said unto Saul ,
Who am I ?
and what is my life ,
my father
s family in Israel ,
that I should be a son
in
law to the king ?
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But it happened at the time when Merab ,
Saul
s daughter should have been given to David ,
that she was given unto
Adriel the Mecholathite for wife .
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And Michal Saul
s daughter loved David :
and they told it to Saul ,
and the thing was right in his eyes .
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And Saul said ,
I will give her to him ,
that she may become unto him a snare ,
and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him .
Wherefore Saul said to David ,
Through the second shalt thou this day become my son
in
law .
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And Saul commanded his servants ,
Speak to David secretly ,
saying ,
Behold ,
the king hath delight in thee ,
and all his servants love thee ;
and now thou must become the king
s son
in
law .
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And the servants of Saul spoke in the ears of David these words .
And David said ,
Doth it seem so light in your eyes to become the king
s son
in
law ,
seeing that I am a poor man ,
and of light esteem ?
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And the servants of Saul told him ,
saying ,
Words such as these David hath spoken .
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And Saul said ,
Thus shall ye say to David ,
The king desireth not any dowry ,
but a hundred foreskins of the Philistines ,
to be avenged on the king
s enemies .
But Saul thought to cause David to fall by the hand of the Philistines .
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And when his servants told David these words ,
the thing was pleasing in the eyes of David to become the king
s son
in
law :
and the days were not complete ,
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When David arose and went ,
he and his men ,
and smote of the Philistines two hundred men ;
and David brought their foreskins ,
and they counted them out in full to the king ,
that he might become the king
s son
in
law .
And Saul gave him Michal his daughter for wife .
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And Saul saw and understood that the Lord was with David :
and Michal ,
Saul
s daughter ,
loved him .
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And Saul was yet the more afraid of David ;
and Saul was David
s enemy all the time .
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And the princes of the Philistines went forth ;
and it came to pass ,
whenever they went forth ,
that David was more successful than all the servants of Saul ;
so that his name was highly prized .
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And Saul spoke to Jonathan his son ,
and to all his servants ,
that he would kill David .
But Jonathan the son of Saul delighted greatly in David .
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And Jonathan told David ,
saying ,
Saul my father seeketh to kill thee ;
now therefore ,
I pray thee ,
take heed to thyself in the morning ,
and abide in a secret place ,
and hide thyself :
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And I will go out and stand by the side of my father in the field where thou art ,
and I myself will speak of thee to my father ;
and I will see what it is ,
and I will tell thee .
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And Jonathan spoke favorably of David unto Saul his father ,
and said unto him ,
Let not the king sin against his servant ,
against David ;
since he hath not sinned against thee ,
and because his deeds are very good for thee ;
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And he did put his life in his hand ,
and he slew the Philistine ,
and the Lord wrought a great salvation for all Israel ;
thou sawest it ,
and wast rejoiced :
wherefore then wilt thou commit sin on innocent blood ,
by slaying David without a cause ?
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And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan :
and Saul swore ,
As the Lord liveth ,
he shall not be put to death .
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And Jonathan called David ,
and Jonathan told him all these words .
And Jonathan brought David to Saul ,
and he was in his presence ,
as in times past .
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And the war occurred again :
and David went out ,
and fought with the Philistines ,
and smote them with a great defeat ,
and they fled from before him .
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And the evil spirit from the Lord came upon Saul ,
and he was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand ;
and David was playing with his hand .
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And Saul sought to strike David through with the spear even to the wall ;
but he slipped away from before Saul ,
who struck the spear into the wall :
and David fled ,
and escaped that night .
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But Saul sent messengers unto David
s house ,
to watch him ,
and to slay him in the morning ;
and Michal his wife told it to David ,
saying ,
If thou save not thy life this night ,
tomorrow thou wilt be put to death .
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And Michal let David down through the window :
and he went ,
and fled ,
and escaped .
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And Michal took an image ,
and put it in the bed ,
and a pillow of goats
hair she put for its head to rest on ,
and covered it with a cloth .
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And when Saul sent messengers to take David ,
she said ,
He is sick .
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And Saul sent the messengers to see David ,
saying ,
Bring him up to me in the bed ,
that I may put him to death .
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And when the messengers were come in ,
behold ,
there was an image in the bed ,
with a pillow of goats
hair for its head to rest on .
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And Saul said unto Michal ,
Why hast thou thus deceived me ,
and sent away my enemy ,
that he is escaped ?
And Michal said to Saul ,
He said unto me ,
Let me go away :
why should I kill thee ?
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So David fled ,
and escaped ,
and came unto Samuel to Ramah ,
and he told him all that Saul had done to him .
And he and Samuel went and remained in Nayoth .
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And it was told unto Saul ,
saying ,
Behold ,
David is at Nayoth near Ramah .
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And Saul sent messengers to take David ;
and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying ,
and Samuel standing as superintendent over them :
then came upon the messengers of Saul the spirit of God ,
and they also prophesied .
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And when it was told to Saul ,
he sent other messengers ,
and these prophesied likewise .
And Saul sent again messengers the third time ,
and these also prophesied .
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Then went he himself also to Ramah ,
and came as far as the great well that is in Sechu :
and he asked and said ,
Where are Samuel and David ?
And some one said ,
Behold ,
they are at Nayoth near Ramah .
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And he went thither to Nayoth near Ramah :
and there came upon him also the Spirit of God ,
and he went on ,
and prophesied as he went ,
until he came to Nayoth near Ramah .
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And he also stripped off his clothes ,
and he also prophesied himself before Samuel ,
and lay down naked all that day and all that night .
Therefore people are in the habit of saying ,
Is Saul too among the prophets ?
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And David fled from Nayoth near Ramah ,
and came and said before Jonathan ,
What have I done ?
what is my iniquity ?
and what is my sin before thy father ,
that he seeketh my life ?
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And he said unto him ,
God forbid ;
thou shalt not die :
behold ,
my father is not wont to do a great thing or a small thing ,
which he doth not inform me of ;
and why should my father conceal this thing from me ?
it is not so .
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But David swore again ,
and said ,
Thy father well knoweth that I have found grace in thy eyes ;
wherefore he said ,
Jonathan must not know this ,
lest he be grieved :
nevertheless ,
as truly as the Lord liveth ,
and thy soul liveth ,
there was but one step between me and death .
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Then said Jonathan unto David ,
Whatsoever thy soul sayeth will I do for thee .
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And David said unto Jonathan ,
Behold ,
tomorrow is the new
moon ,
and I should as usual sit with the king to eat ;
but let me go ,
that I may hide myself in the field until the third evening .
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If thy father at all miss me ,
then do thou say ,
David asked earnestly leave of me that he might run to Beth
lechem his city ;
for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family .
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If he should say thus ,
It is well :
then shall thy servant have peace ;
but if it be at all displeasing to him ,
then know that the evil is determined on by him .
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And do thou deal kindly with thy servant ;
for into a covenant of the Lord hast thou brought thy servant with thee ;
but if there be in me any iniquity ,
slay me thyself ;
for why shouldst thou bring me to thy father ?
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And Jonathan said ,
Far be it from thee ;
for if I should know for certain that evil were determined on by my father to come upon thee ,
would I not tell it thee ?
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Then said David to Jonathan ,
Who shall tell it me ?
or what ,
if thy father answer thee roughly ?
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And Jonathan said unto David ,
Come ,
let us go out into the field .
And they went out ,
both of them ,
into the field .
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And Jonathan said unto David ,
May the God of Israel if ,
when I have sounded my father about this time tomorrow ,
or of the third day ,
and ,
behold ,
if he be good toward David ,
I do not then send unto thee ,
and inform thee of it .
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May the Lord do so to Jonathan and continue so yet farther ,
that ,
if it please my father thee evil ,
I will inform thee of it ,
and send thee away ,
that thou mayest go in peace ;
and may the Lord be with thee ,
as he hath been with my father .
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And wilt thou not ,
should I be yet alive ,
show me the kindness of the Lord ,
that I may not die ?
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But ,
surely ,
thou wilt not withdraw thy kindness from my house for ever ,
not even when the Lord cutteth off the enemies of David ,
every one ,
from off the face of the earth .
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So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David ,
May the Lord require it at the hand of David
s enemies .
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And Jonathan caused David to swear again ,
by his love for him ;
for he loved him as he loved his own soul .
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Then Jonathan said to David ,
Tomorrow is the new
moon :
and thou wilt be missed ,
because thy seat will be left empty .
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And when thou hast stayed till the third day ,
then shalt thou go down greatly ,
and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself on the work
day ;
and thou shalt remain by the stone Ezel .
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And I will myself shoot three arrows on the side thereof ,
as though I were shooting at a mark .
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And ,
behold ,
I will send the lad ,
saying ,
Go ,
find the arrows ;
if I should now say unto the lad ,
Behold ,
the arrows are on this side of thee :
then take him and come ;
for there is peace to thee ,
and it is nothing ;
as the Lord liveth .
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But if thus I should say unto the young man ,
Behold ,
the arrows are beyond thee :
then go thy way ,
for the Lord hath sent thee off .
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And touching the matter of which we have spoken ,
thou and I ,
behold ,
the Lord is between me and thee for ever .
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So David hid himself in the field :
and when the new
moon was come ,
the king set himself down to the repast to eat .
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And the king sat upon his seat ,
as at other times ,
upon the seat by the wall :
and when Jonathan arose ,
Abner seated himself by the side of Saul ,
and David
s place was left empty .
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Nevertheless Saul spoke not the least on that day ;
for he thought ,
Something hath befallen him ,
he is not clean ;
because he hath not yet purified himself .
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And it came to pass on the morrow ,
the second day of the new
moon ,
that David
s place was left empty ;
and Saul said unto Jonathan his son ,
Wherefore is the son of Jesse not come ,
both yesterday and today ,
to the repast ?
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And Jonathan answered Saul ,
David asked earnestly leave of me to go as far as Beth
lechem .
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And he said ,
Let me go ,
I pray thee ;
for we have a family
sacrifice in the city ,
and my brother himself hath commanded it to me ;
and now ,
if I have found favor in thy eyes ,
let me get away ,
I pray thee ,
that I may see my brothers :
therefore is he not come unto the king
s table .
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And the anger of Saul was kindled against Jonathan ,
and he said unto him ,
Thou son of perverse rebelliousness !
do I not know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thy own shame ,
and to the shame of thy mother
s nakedness ?
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For all the days that the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground ,
thou wilt not have any permanence with thy kingdom :
therefore now send and fetch him unto me ,
for he shall surely die .
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And Jonathan answered Saul his father ,
and said unto him ,
Wherefore shall he be put to death ?
what hath he done ?
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And Saul cast his spear at him to smite him :
and Jonathan understood that it was determined on by his father to put David to death .
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And Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger ,
and did eat no food on the second day of the new
moon ;
for he was grieved for David ;
because his father had made him feel ashamed .
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And it came to pass in the morning ,
that Jonathan went out into the field to the place appointed with David ,
and a little lad was with him .
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And he said unto his lad ,
Run ,
do find out the arrows which I shoot :
and the lad ran ,
and he shot the arrow so as to pass beyond him .
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And when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot ,
Jonathan called after the lad ,
and said ,
Behold ,
the arrow is beyond thee !
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And Jonathan called after the lad ,
Make haste ,
speed ,
stay not :
and Jonathan
s lad gathered up the arrows ,
and came to his master .
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But the lad knew not the least :
only Jonathan and David knew the matter .
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And Jonathan gave his weapons unto the lad who was with him ,
and said unto him ,
Go ,
carry them to the city .
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And as soon as the lad was gone ,
David arose from the south side ,
and fell on his face to the ground ,
and bowed himself three times :
and they kissed one another ,
and wept one with another ,
until David exceeded .
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And Jonathan said to David ,
Go in peace :
what we have sworn ,
both of us ,
in the name of the Lord ,
saying ,
The Lord shall be between me and thee ,
and between my seed and thy seed for ever ,. (
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And he arose and departed ;
and Jonathan went into the city .
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And David departed thence ,
and escaped to the cave
Adullam :
and when his brothers and all his father
s house heard it ,
they went down to him thither .
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And there gathered themselves unto him every one that was in distress ,
and every one that had a creditor ,
and every one that had an embittered spirit ;
and he became a captain over them :
and there were with him about four hundred men .
*
And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab :
and he said unto the king of Moab ,
Let my father and my mother ,
I pray thee ,
go forth with you ,
until I can know what God will do for me .
*
And he conducted them to the presence of the king of Moab :
and they remained with him all the time that David was in the strong
hold .
*
And the prophet Gad said unto David ,
Thou must not remain in the strong
hold :
depart ,
and get thee into the land of Judah .
Then David departed ,
and came into the forest of Chereth .
*
And Saul heard that David was discovered ,
and the men that were with him ,
*
Then said Saul unto his servants that stood about him ,
Hear ,
I pray you ,
men of Benjamin !
will the son of Jesse give ,
indeed ,
to every one of you fields and vineyards ?
will he appoint you all captains of thousands ,
and captains of hundreds ?
*
That ye have conspired ,
all of you ,
against me ,
and there is none that informeth me ,
while my son hath made a covenant with the son of Jesse ,
and there is none of you that is concerned for me ,
or informeth me that my son hath stirred up my servant to lie in wait against me ,
as it is this day ?
*
Then answered Doeg the Edomite ,
who was set over the servants of Saul ,
and said ,
I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob ,
to Achimelech the son of Achitub .
*
And he asked counsel for him of the Lord ,
and he gave him provision ,
and gave him also the sword of Goliath the philistine .
*
Then sent the king to call Achimelech ,
the son of Achitub ,
the priest ,
and all his father
s house ,
the priests that were in Nob :
and they came ,
all of them ,
to the king .
*
And Saul said ,
Hear now ,
thou son of Achitub .
And he said ,
here am I ,
my Lord .
*
And Saul said unto him ,
Why have ye conspired against me ,
thou and the son of Jesse ,
in that thou didst give him bread ,
and a sword ,
and hast asked counsel for him of God ,
that he should rise to lie in wait against me ,
as it is this day !
*
Then answered Achimelech the king ,
and said ,
And who is among all thy servants so trusted as David ,
and the king
s son
in
law ,
and freely admitted to thy private council ,
and is honored in thy house ?
*
Did I this day then begin to ask counsel for him of God ?
far be it from me ;
let not the king impute any thing unto his servant ,
to all the house of my father ;
for thy servant knew not of all this ,
either a little or great thing .
*
And the king said ,
Thou shalt surely die ,
Achimelech ,
thou ,
and all thy father
s house .
*
And the king said unto the runners that stood about him ,
Turn round and slay the priests of the Lord ;
because their hand also is with David ,
and because they knew that he was fleeing ,
and did not disclose it to me .
But the servants of the king would not stretch forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the Lord .
*
And the king said to Doeg ,
Turn thou round ,
and fall upon the priests .
And Doeg the Edomite turned round ,
and he fell upon the priests ,
and slew on that day eighty and five persons that did wear a linen ephod .
*
And Nob ,
the city of the priests ,
he smote with the edge of the sword ,
both men and women ,
children and sucklings ,
and oxen ,
and asses ,
and lambs ,
with the edge of the sword .
*
And there escaped one of the sons of Achimelech the son of Achitub ,
whose name was Ebyathar ,
and he fled after David .
*
And Ebyathar told David that Saul had slain the priests of the Lord .
*
And David said unto Ebyathar ,
I knew on that day ,
because Doeg the Edomite was there ,
that he would surely tell Saul :
I have myself occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father
s house .
*
Remain thou with me ,
fear nothing ;
for he that will seek my life will seek thy life ;
but thou shalt be well guarded with me .
*
Then they told David ,
saying ,
Behold ,
the Philistines are fighting against Ke
ilah ,
and they are plundering the threshing
floors .
*
Thereupon David asked counsel of the Lord ,
saying ,
Shall I go and smite among these Philistines ?
And the Lord said unto David ,
Go and smite among the Philistines ,
and deliver Ke
ilah .
*
And David
s men said unto him ,
Behold ,
here in Judah are we afraid :
how much more then if we should go to Ke
ilah against the battle
arrays of the Philistines ?
*
Then David asked yet again counsel of the Lord .
And the Lord answered him and said ,
Arise ,
Go down to Ke
ilah ;
for I deliver the Philistines into thy hand .
*
So David and his men went to Ke
ilah ;
and he fought with the Philistines ,
and lead away their cattle ,
and smote among them a great slaughter .
So David delivered the inhabitants of Ke
ilah .
*
And it came to pass ,
when Ebyathar the son of Achimelech ,
fled over to David ,
to Ke
ilah ,
that the ephod came down with him .
*
And it was told to Saul that David was come to Ke
ilah .
And Saul said ,
God hath delivered him into my hand ;
for he is shut in ,
by entering into a town that hath gates and bars .
*
And Saul called all the people together to war ,
to go down to Ke
ilah ,
to besiege David and his men .
*
And David understood that Saul secretly devised mischief against him ;
and he said to Ebyathar the priest ,
Bring hither the ephod .
*
Then said David ,
O Lord ,
God of Israel ,
thy servant hath heard for certain that Saul seeketh to come to Ke
ilah ,
to destroy the city for my sake .
*
Will the men of Ke
ilah surrender me into his hand ?
will Saul come down as thy servant hath heard ?
O Lord ,
God of Israel ,
I beseech thee ,
tell thy servant .
And the Lord said ,
He will come down .
*
Then said David ,
Will the men of Ke
ilah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul !
And the Lord said ,
They will surrender .
*
Then arose David and his men ,
about six hundred men ,
and departed out of Ke
ilah ,
and wandered about whithersoever they could go .
And when it was told to Saul that David was escaped from Ke
ilah ,
he forbore to go forth .
*
And David remained in the wilderness in strong
holds ,
and abode on the mountain in the wilderness of Ziph .
And Saul sought him all the time ,
but God delivered him not into his hand .
*
And David saw that Saul was gone forth to seek his life :
and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the forest .
*
And Jonathan ,
the son of Saul ,
arose and went to David into the forest ,
and strengthened his hand in God .
*
And he said unto him ,
Fear not ;
for the hand of Saul my father will not find thee ;
and thou wilt be king over Israel ,
and I will be next unto thee ;
and also Saul my father knoweth this .
*
And they made ,
both of them ,
a covenant before the Lord :
and David remained in the forest ;
but Jonathan went to his house .
*
Then came up the Ziphites unto Saul to Gib
ah ,
saying ,
Behold ,
David is hiding himself with us in the strong
holds in the forest ,
on the hill of Chachilah ,
which is on the right of the desert .
*
And now in accordance with all the longing of thy soul ,
O king ,
to come down ,
come down ;
and our part shall be to surrender him into the king
s hand .
*
And Saul said ,
Blessed be ye of the Lord ;
for ye have pity on me .
*
Go ,
I pray you ,
make yet more preparations ,
and remark and see his place where his foot may be ,
who hath seen him there ;
for I am told that he dealeth with great subtilty .
*
See therefore ,
and remark every one of all the lurking
places where he usually hideth himself ,
and come ye again to me with the certainty ,
and I will go with you ;
and it shall come to pass ,
if he be in the land ,
that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah .
*
And they arose ,
and went to Ziph before Saul ;
but David and his men were in the wilderness of Ma
on ,
in the plain on the right of the desert .
*
And Saul and his men went to make a search .
And they told it to David :
wherefore he came down to the rock ,
and abode in the wilderness of Ma
on .
And when Saul heard this ,
he pursued after David into the wilderness of Ma
on .
*
And Saul went on this side of the mountain ,
and David and his men on that side of the mountain ;
and David made haste to get away from before Saul ;
and Saul and his men were compassing David and his men to seize them .
*
But a messenger came unto Saul ,
saying ,
Haste thee ,
and come ;
for the Philistines have invaded the land .
*
Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing after David ,
and went against the Philistines :
therefore they called that place Sela
hammachlekoth .
*
And David went up from there ,
and dwelt in strong
holds of
En
gedi .
*
And it came to pass ,
when Saul was returned from pursuing the Philistines ,
that it was told to him ,
saying ,
Behold ,
David is in the wilderness of
En
gedi .
*
Then took Saul three thousand chosen men out of all Israel ,
and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats .
*
And he came to the sheepfolds by the way ,
and there was a cave ;
and Saul went in to cover his feet :
and David and his men were sitting in the lower end of the cave .
*
And the men of David said unto him ,
Behold ,
this is the day of which the Lord hath said unto thee ,
Behold ,
I will deliver thy enemy into thy hand ,
that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good in thy eyes .
And David arose ,
and cut off the corner of the robe which Saul wore ,
unperceived .
*
And it came to pass afterward ,
that David
s heart smote him ,
because he had cut off the corner of Saul
s .
*
And he said unto his men ,
Far be it from me for the Lord
s sake ,
that I should do this thing unto my master ,
the Lord
s anointed ,
to stretch forth my hand against him ;
because he is the anointed of the Lord .
*
So David restrained his servants with these words ,
and suffered them not to rise against Saul .
But Saul rose up out of the cave ,
and went on his way .
*
David also arose afterward ,
and went forth out of the cave ,
and called after Saul ,
saying ,
My Lord ,
the king !
And Saul then looked behind him ,
and David bowed his face to the earth ,
and prostrated himself .
*
And David said to Saul ,
Wherefore wilt thou listen to men
s words ,
saying ,
Behold ,
David seeketh thy injury ?
*
Behold ,
this day thy eyes have seen how that the Lord had delivered thee today into my hand in the cave ,
and some one said that I should kill thee :
but my soul felt compassion for thee :
and I said ,
I will not stretch forth my hand against my Lord ;
because he is the anointed of the Lord .
*
And now ,
my father ,
see ,
yea ,
see the corner of thy robe in my hand ;
for in that I cut off the corner of thy robe ,
and killed thee not ,
know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in my hand ,
and that I have not sinned against thee :
yet thou liest in wait for my soul to take it .
*
May the Lord judge between me and thee ,
and may the Lord avenge me on thee ;
but my hand shall not be against thee .
*
As saith the proverb of the ancients ,
From the wicked proceedeth wickedness ;
but my hand shall not be against thee .
*
After whom is the king of Israel gone out ?
after whom art thou pursuing ?
after a dead dog ,
after a single flea .
*
May the Lord therefore be judge ,
and decide between me and thee ,
and see ,
and plead my cause ,
and obtain me justice out of thy hand .
*
And it came to pass ,
When David had finished speaking these words unto Saul ,
that Saul said ,
Is this thy voice ,
my son David ?
And Saul lifted up his voice ,
and wept .
*
And he said to David ,
Thou art more righteous than I ;
for thou hast done for me only what is good ,
whereas I have rewarded thee only with what is evil .
*
And thou hast proved this day ,
that thou hast dealt well with me ;
forasmuch as when the Lord had surrendered me into thy hand ,
thou didst not kill me .
*
For if a man find his enemy ,
will he let him go away on a good road ?
so may the Lord reward thee with good for what thou hast done unto me this day .
*
And now ,
behold ,
I know that thou wilt surely become king ,
and that the kingdom of Israel will stand firmly in thy hand .
*
And now swear unto me by the Lord ,
that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me ,
and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father
s house .
*
And David swore unto Saul ;
and Saul went to his house ;
but David and his men went up into the strong
hold .
*
And Samuel died ;
and all the Israelites assembled themselves together ,
and lamented for him ,
and buried him in his house at Ramah .
And David arose ,
and went down to the wilderness of Paran .
*
And there was a man in Ma
on ,
whose business was in Carmel ;
and the man was very great ,
and he had three thousand sheep ,
and a thousand goats :
and he was ,
while they were shearing his sheep ,
at Carmel .
*
Now the name of the man was Nabal ,
and the name of his wife Abigayil :
and the woman was of good understanding ,
and of a beautiful form ;
but the man was hard
hearted and evil in his deeds ;
and he was of the house of Caleb .
*
And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep .
*
And David sent out ten young men ,
and David said unto the young men ,
Get you up to Carmel ,
and go to Nabal ,
and ask him in my name after his well
being .
*
And ye shall say ,
May it thus be throughout thy life ;
and peace be to thee ,
and peace be to thy house ,
and unto all that thou hast be peace .
*
And now have I heard that thou hast sheep
shearers :
now thy shepherds have been with us ,
we have not injured them ,
neither hath there aught been missing unto them ,
all the time they were at Carmel .
*
Ask thy young men ,
and they will tell it thee .
Therefore let the young men find favor in thy eyes ;
for on a festive day are we come :
give ,
I pray thee ,
whatsoever thy hand is capable of unto thy servants ,
and to thy son ,
to David .
*
And David
s young men came ,
and they spoke to Nabal in accordance with all these words in the name of David ;
and then they ceased .
*
And Nabal answered the servants of David ,
and said ,
Who is David ?
and who is the son of Jesse ?
now
a
days there are many servants that break away every one from his master .
*
Shall I then take my bread ,
and my water ,
and my flesh that I have killed for my sheep
shearers ,
and give it unto men ,
whom I know not whence they are ?
*
And David
s young men turned about on their way ,
and returned ,
and came and told him in accordance with all these words .
*
And David said unto his men ,
Gird ye on ,
every man ,
his sword .
And they girded on ,
every man ,
his sword ;
and David also girded on his sword :
and there went up after David about four hundred men ,
and two hundred abode by the baggage .
*
But one of the young men told Abigayil ,
Nabal
s wife ,
saying ,
Behold ,
David sent messengers out of the wilderness to greet our master ;
but he hath spoken rudely to them .
*
Whereas the men have been very good unto us ;
and we have not been injured ,
neither have we missed any thing ,
all the time that we went about with them ,
while we were in the field :
*
A wall were they around us both by night and by day ,
all the time we were with them ,
feeding the flocks .
*
And now know and consider what thou canst do ;
for evil is determined on against our master ,
and against all his household ;
and he is too greatly a worthless man for me to speak to him .
*
And Abigayil made haste ,
and took two hundred loaves ,
and two bottles of wine ,
and five sheep ready dressed ,
and five measures of parched corn ,
and a hundred clusters of raisins ,
and two hundred cakes of figs ,
and laid them on asses .
*
And she said unto her young men ,
Pass on before me :
behold ,
I come after you .
But to her husband Nabal she told nothing .
*
And it was so ,
as she was riding on the ass ,
and coming down by the covert of the mount ,
that ,
behold ,
David and his men came down toward her ;
and she met them .
*
Now David had said ,
Yea ,
for naught only have I guarded all that belongeth to this fellow in the wilderness ,
so that not the least was missed of all that pertained unto him ;
and he hath requited me evil instead of good .
*
So may God do unto the enemies of David ,
and do so yet farther ,
if I leave of all that pertaineth to him by the morning light ,
as much as a dog .
*
And when Abigayil saw David ,
she hastened ,
and alighted off the ass ,
and fell down before David on her face ,
and bowed herself to the ground .
*
And she fell at his feet ,
and said ,
On me ,
me ,
my lord ,
is the fault :
and let thy hand
maid ,
I pray thee ,
speak in thy hearing ,
and listen to the words of thy hand
maid .
*
Let not my Lord ,
I pray thee ,
turn his heart unto this worthless man ,
unto Nabal ;
for as his name is ,
so is he :
Nabal is his name ,
and meanness is with him ;
but I thy hand
maid did not see the young men of my Lord ,
whom thou didst send .
*
And now ,
my lord ,
as the Eternal liveth ,
and as thy soul liveth ,
it is the Lord who hath withholden thee from coming to blood
guiltiness ,
and from helping thyself with thy own hand ;
and now may like Nabal be thy enemies ,
and those that seek my Lord evil .
*
And now this present which thy hand
maid hath brought unto my Lord ,
let it even be given unto the young men that follow in the train my Lord .
*
Pardon ,
I pray thee ,
the trespass of thy hand
maid ;
for the Lord will certainly make for my lord an enduring house ;
because the battles of the Lord doth my lord fight ,
and evil will not be found in thee all thy days .
*
And though a man is risen up to pursue thee ,
and to seek thy soul :
yet will the soul of my Lord be bound in the bond of life with the Lord thy God ;
and the soul of thy enemies will he hurl away ,
as out of the middle of the sling .
*
And it shall come to pass ,
when the Lord will do to my lord ,
in accordance with all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee ,
and will ordain thee as ruler over Israel ,
*
That this shall not be unto thee as a cause of offense and as a reproach of heart unto my lord ,
both by having shed blood without cause ,
and by my lord having righted himself ;
and when the Lord will do good unto my lord ,
then do thou remember thy hand
maid .
*
And David said to Abigayil ,
Blessed be the Lord ,
the God of Israel ,
who sent thee this day to meet me ;
*
And blessed be thy intelligence ,
and blessed be thou ,
who hast prevented me this day from coming unto blood
guiltiness ,
and from helping myself with my own hand .
*
But truly ,
as the Lord the God of Israel liveth ,
who hath withdrawn me from injuring thee ,
except thou hadst hastened and come to meet me ,
surely there would not have been left unto Nabal by the morning
light so much as a dog .
*
And David took out of her hand that which she had brought him ;
and unto her he said ,
Go up in peace to thy house :
see ,
I have hearkened to thy voice ,
and have respected thy presence .
*
And Abigayil came to Nabal ;
and ,
behold ,
he held a feast in his house ,
like the feast of a king ;
and Nabal
s heart was merry within him ,
and he was exceedingly drunken ;
wherefore she told him not a word ,
either little or great ,
until the morning
light .
*
But it happened in the morning ,
when the wine was gone out of Nabal ,
that his wife told him these things ;
and his heart died within him ,
and he became as a stone .
*
And it came to pass in about ten days thereafter ,
that the Lord struck Nabal ,
and he died .
*
And when David heard that Nabal was dead ,
he said ,
Blessed be the Lord ,
who hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal ,
and hath withheld his servant from evil ;
and the wickedness of Nabal hath the Lord returned upon his own head .
And David sent and applied for Abigayil ,
to take her to himself for wife .
*
And the servants of David came to Abigayil to Carmel ,
and they spoke unto her ,
saying ,
David hath sent us unto thee ,
to take thee to himself for wife .
*
Thereupon she arose ,
and bowed herself with her face to the earth ,
and said ,
Behold ,
let thy hand
maid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord .
*
And Abigayil hastened ,
and arose ,
and rode upon an ass ,
with her five damsels that went in her train ;
and she went after the messengers of David ,
and she became his wife .
*
David also took Achino
am of Yizre
el ;
and both of them became thus his wives .
*
But Saul had given Michal his daughter ,
David
s wife ,
to Palti ,
the son of Layish ,
who was of Gallim .
*
And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gib
ah ,
saying ,
Behold ,
David hideth himself on the hill of Chachilah ,
before the desert .
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