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dby@Numbers:34:20 @ and for the tribe of the children of Simeon, Samuel the son of Ammihud;

dby@1Samuel:1:1 @ And there was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim, 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.

dby@1Samuel:1:2 @ 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.

dby@1Samuel:1:3 @ And this man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to Jehovah of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of Jehovah, were there.

dby@1Samuel:1:4 @ And it came to pass on the day that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and her daughters portions;

dby@1Samuel:1:5 @ but to Hannah he used to give a double portion, for he loved Hannah; but Jehovah had shut up her womb.

dby@1Samuel:1:6 @ And her adversary provoked her much also, to make her fret, because Jehovah had shut up her womb.

dby@1Samuel:1:7 @ And [as] he did so year by year, as often as she went up to the house of Jehovah, she provoked her thus; and she wept and did not eat.

dby@1Samuel:1:8 @ And Elkanah her husband said 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?

dby@1Samuel:1:9 @ And Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk; (now Eli the priest sat upon the seat by the door-post of the temple of Jehovah;)

dby@1Samuel:1:10 @ and she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Jehovah, and wept much.

dby@1Samuel:1:11 @ And she vowed a vow, and said, O Jehovah of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thy handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thy handmaid, but wilt give unto thy handmaid a man child, then I will give him to Jehovah all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.

dby@1Samuel:1:12 @ And it came to pass as she continued praying before Jehovah, that Eli marked her mouth.

dby@1Samuel:1:13 @ Now Hannah spoke in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard; and Eli thought she was drunken.

dby@1Samuel:1:14 @ And Eli said to her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.

dby@1Samuel:1:15 @ 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 Jehovah.

dby@1Samuel:1:16 @ Take not thy handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my grief and provocation have I spoken hitherto.

dby@1Samuel:1:17 @ And Eli answered and said, Go in peace; and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition which thou hast asked of him.

dby@1Samuel:1:18 @ And she said, Let thy bondwoman find grace in thy sight. And the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more [as before].

dby@1Samuel:1:19 @ And they rose up early in the morning and worshipped before Jehovah, and returned and came to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Jehovah remembered her.

dby@1Samuel:1:20 @ And it came to pass when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bore a son, and called his name Samuel, [saying,] Because I have asked him of Jehovah.

dby@1Samuel:1:21 @ And Elkanah her husband, and all his house, went up to sacrifice to Jehovah the yearly sacrifice and his vow.

dby@1Samuel:1:22 @ But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, [I will wait] until the child is weaned; then will I bring him, that he may appear before Jehovah, and there abide for ever.

dby@1Samuel:1:23 @ And Elkanah her husband said to her, Do what is good in thy sight: abide until thou hast weaned him; only, may Jehovah fulfil his word. And the woman abode, and gave her son suck until she weaned him.

dby@1Samuel:1:24 @ And she took him up with her when she had weaned him, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a flask of wine, and brought him to the house of Jehovah to Shiloh; and the boy was young.

dby@1Samuel:1:25 @ And they slaughtered the bullock, and brought the boy to Eli.

dby@1Samuel:1:26 @ And she said, Oh my lord, [as] thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here to pray to Jehovah.

dby@1Samuel:1:27 @ For this boy I prayed; and Jehovah has granted me my petition which I asked of him.

dby@1Samuel:1:28 @ And also I have lent him to Jehovah: all the days that he lives, he is lent to Jehovah. And he worshipped Jehovah there.

dby@1Samuel:2:1 @ And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart exulteth in Jehovah, my horn is lifted up in Jehovah; my mouth is opened wide over mine enemies; for I rejoice in thy salvation.

dby@1Samuel:2:2 @ There is none holy as Jehovah, for there is none beside thee, neither is there any rock like our God.

dby@1Samuel:2:3 @ Do not multiply your words of pride, let not vain-glory come out of your mouth; For Jehovah is a �God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

dby@1Samuel:2:4 @ The bow of the mighty is broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.

dby@1Samuel:2:5 @ They that were full have hired themselves out for bread; and the hungry are [so] no more: Even the barren beareth seven, and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.

dby@1Samuel:2:6 @ Jehovah killeth, and maketh alive; he bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up.

dby@1Samuel:2:7 @ Jehovah maketh poor, and maketh rich, he bringeth low, also he lifteth up:

dby@1Samuel:2:8 @ He raiseth up the poor out of the dust; from the dung-hill he lifteth up the needy, To set [him] among nobles; and he maketh them inherit a throne of glory; For the pillars of the earth are Jehovah's, and he hath set the world upon them.

dby@1Samuel:2:9 @ He keepeth the feet of his saints, but the wicked are silenced in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.

dby@1Samuel:2:10 @ They that strive with Jehovah shall be broken to pieces; in the heavens will he thunder upon them. Jehovah will judge the ends of the earth; and he will give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.

dby@1Samuel:2:11 @ And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the boy ministered to Jehovah in the presence of Eli the priest.

dby@1Samuel:2:12 @ Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not Jehovah.

dby@1Samuel:2:13 @ And the priests' custom with the people was, when any man sacrificed a sacrifice, the priest's servant came, when the flesh was cooked, with a flesh-hook of three prongs in his hand;

dby@1Samuel:2:14 @ and he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or cauldron, or pot; the priest took of it all that the flesh-hook brought up. So they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites that came there.

dby@1Samuel:2:15 @ Even before they burned the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest, and he will not accept sodden flesh of thee, but raw.

dby@1Samuel:2:16 @ If the man said to him, They will immediately burn the fat entire, then take as thy soul desires; he would say [to him], No, but thou shalt give [it] now; and if not, I will take [it] by force.

dby@1Samuel:2:17 @ And the sin of the young men was very great before Jehovah, for men despised the offering of Jehovah.

dby@1Samuel:2:18 @ And Samuel ministered before Jehovah, a boy girded with a linen ephod.

dby@1Samuel:2:19 @ And his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to sacrifice the yearly sacrifice.

dby@1Samuel:2:20 @ And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, Jehovah give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to Jehovah. And they went to their own home.

dby@1Samuel:2:21 @ So Jehovah visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. And the boy Samuel grew before Jehovah.

dby@1Samuel:2:22 @ And Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and that they lay with the women that served at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

dby@1Samuel:2:23 @ And he said to them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil deeds from all this people.

dby@1Samuel:2:24 @ No, my sons, for it is no good report that I hear: ye make Jehovah's people transgress.

dby@1Samuel:2:25 @ If one man sin against another, God will judge him; but if a man sin against Jehovah, who shall intreat for him? But they hearkened not to the voice of their father, for Jehovah was minded to slay them.

dby@1Samuel:2:26 @ And the boy Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with Jehovah and also with men.

dby@1Samuel:2:27 @ And there came a man of God to Eli and said to him, Thus saith Jehovah: Did I plainly reveal myself to the house of thy father when they were in Egypt, in Pharaoh's house,

dby@1Samuel:2:28 @ and choose him out of all the tribes of Israel, to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear the ephod before me? and I gave unto the house of thy father all the offerings by fire of the children of Israel.

dby@1Samuel:2:29 @ Wherefore do ye trample upon my sacrifice and upon mine oblation which I have commanded [in my] habitation? And thou honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the primest of all the oblations of Israel my people.

dby@1Samuel:2:30 @ Wherefore Jehovah the God of Israel saith, I said indeed, Thy house and the house of thy father should walk before me for ever. But now Jehovah saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

dby@1Samuel:2:31 @ Behold, 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 thy house.

dby@1Samuel:2:32 @ And thou shalt see an oppressor [in my] habitation, amidst all the good that shall be done to Israel; and there shall not be an old man in thy house for ever.

dby@1Samuel:2:33 @ And the man of thine [whom] I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to cause thine eyes to fail and to grieve thy soul; and all the increase of thy house shall die in their vigour.

dby@1Samuel:2:34 @ And this shall be the sign to thee, which shall come upon thy two sons, upon Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die, both of them.

dby@1Samuel:2:35 @ And I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, [who] shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind; and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed continually.

dby@1Samuel:2:36 @ And it shall come to pass [that] every one that is left of thy house shall come to crouch to him for a small piece of silver and for a cake of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priestly offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.

dby@1Samuel:3:1 @ And the boy Samuel ministered to Jehovah before Eli. And the word of Jehovah was rare in those days; a vision was not frequent.

dby@1Samuel:3:2 @ And it came to pass at that time, when Eli lay in his place (now his eyes began to grow dim, he could not see),

dby@1Samuel:3:3 @ and the lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel lay in the temple of Jehovah, where the ark of God was,

dby@1Samuel:3:4 @ that Jehovah called to Samuel. And he said, Here am I.

dby@1Samuel:3:5 @ And he ran to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou calledst me. And he said, I did not call: lie down again. And he went and lay down.

dby@1Samuel:3:6 @ And Jehovah called again, Samuel! And Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou calledst me. And he said, I did not call, my son: lie down again.

dby@1Samuel:3:7 @ Now Samuel did not yet know Jehovah, neither had the word of Jehovah yet been revealed to him.

dby@1Samuel:3:8 @ And Jehovah called again the third time, Samuel! And he arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou calledst me. And Eli perceived that Jehovah was calling the boy.

dby@1Samuel:3:9 @ And Eli said to Samuel, Go, lie down; and it shall be, if he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, Jehovah, for thy servant heareth. So Samuel went and lay down in his place.

dby@1Samuel:3:10 @ And Jehovah came, and stood, and called as at the other times, Samuel, Samuel! And Samuel said, Speak, for thy servant heareth.

dby@1Samuel:3:11 @ And Jehovah said to Samuel, Behold, I do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle.

dby@1Samuel:3:12 @ In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house; I will begin and make an end.

dby@1Samuel:3:13 @ For I have declared to him that I will judge his house for ever, for the iniquity which he hath known: because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.

dby@1Samuel:3:14 @ And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be expiated with sacrifice or oblation for ever.

dby@1Samuel:3:15 @ And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of Jehovah. And Samuel feared to declare the vision to Eli.

dby@1Samuel:3:16 @ And Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. And he said, Here am I.

dby@1Samuel:3:17 @ And he said, What is the word that he has spoken to thee? I pray thee, keep it not back from me: God do so to thee, and more also, if thou keep back anything from me of all the word that he spoke to thee.

dby@1Samuel:3:18 @ And Samuel told him all the words, and kept nothing back from him. And he said, It is Jehovah: let him do what is good in his sight.

dby@1Samuel:3:19 @ And Samuel grew, and Jehovah was with him, and let none of his words fall to the ground.

dby@1Samuel:3:20 @ And all Israel, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, knew that Samuel was established a prophet of Jehovah.

dby@1Samuel:3:21 @ And Jehovah appeared again at Shiloh; for Jehovah revealed himself to Samuel at Shiloh by the word of Jehovah.

dby@1Samuel:4:1 @ And what Samuel had said happened to all Israel. And Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and encamped beside Eben-ezer; and the Philistines encamped in Aphek.

dby@1Samuel:4:2 @ And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel; and the battle spread, and Israel was routed before the Philistines; and they slew in battle array in the field about four thousand men.

dby@1Samuel:4:3 @ And the people came into the camp; and the elders of Israel said, Why has Jehovah smitten us to-day before the Philistines? Let us fetch ourselves the ark of the covenant of Jehovah out of Shiloh, that it may come among us, and save us out of the hand of our enemies.

dby@1Samuel:4:4 @ So the people sent to Shiloh, and they brought from thence the ark of the covenant of Jehovah of hosts, who sitteth between the cherubim; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there by the ark of the covenant of God.

dby@1Samuel:4:5 @ And it came to pass when the ark of the covenant of Jehovah came into the camp, that all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth shook.

dby@1Samuel:4:6 @ And the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, and said, What is the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? And they understood that the ark of Jehovah had come into the camp.

dby@1Samuel:4:7 @ And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the camp. And they said, Woe unto us! for there has not been such a thing heretofore.

dby@1Samuel:4:8 @ Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? these are the gods that smote the Egyptians with every plague in the wilderness.

dby@1Samuel:4:9 @ Shew yourselves valiant and be men, ye Philistines, that ye may not have to be servants to the Hebrews, as they have been servants to you: be men, and fight.

dby@1Samuel:4:10 @ And the Philistines fought, and Israel was routed, and they fled every man to his tent; and there was a very great slaughter, and there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.

dby@1Samuel:4:11 @ And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, died.

dby@1Samuel:4:12 @ And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the battle, and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes rent and with earth upon his head.

dby@1Samuel:4:13 @ And when he came, behold, Eli was sitting upon the seat by the way-side watching; for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And the man came to tell it in the city, and all the city cried out.

dby@1Samuel:4:14 @ And Eli heard the noise of the crying, and said, What is the noise of this tumult? And the man came hastily, and told Eli.

dby@1Samuel:4:15 @ Now Eli was ninety-eight years old; and his eyes were set, that he could not see.

dby@1Samuel:4:16 @ And the man said to Eli, I am he that came out of the battle, and I have fled to-day out of the battle. And he said, What has taken place, my son?

dby@1Samuel:4:17 @ And the messenger answered and said, Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has 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.

dby@1Samuel:4:18 @ And it came to pass, when he mentioned the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck broke, and he died; for the man was old, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.

dby@1Samuel:4:19 @ 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.

dby@1Samuel:4:20 @ And as she was dying, the women that stood by her said, Fear not; for thou hast borne a son. But she did not answer, neither did she take it to heart.

dby@1Samuel:4:21 @ 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.

dby@1Samuel:4:22 @ And she said, The glory is departed from Israel, for the ark of God is taken.

dby@1Samuel:5:1 @ And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Eben-ezer to Ashdod.

dby@1Samuel:5:2 @ And the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.

dby@1Samuel:5:3 @ And when they of Ashdod arose early the next day, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of Jehovah. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.

dby@1Samuel:5:4 @ And when they arose early the next morning, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of Jehovah; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the fish-stump was left to him.

dby@1Samuel:5:5 @ Therefore neither the priests of Dagon nor any that come into Dagon's house tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day.

dby@1Samuel:5:6 @ And the hand of Jehovah was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he laid them waste, and smote them with hemorrhoids, -- Ashdod and its borders.

dby@1Samuel:5:7 @ 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 severe upon us, and upon Dagon our god.

dby@1Samuel:5:8 @ And they sent 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 said, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about to Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel about [thither].

dby@1Samuel:5:9 @ And it came to pass that, after they had carried it about, the hand of Jehovah was against the city with very great panic; and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and hemorrhoids broke out upon them.

dby@1Samuel:5:10 @ And they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, when 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 kill us and our people.

dby@1Samuel:5:11 @ And they sent and gathered all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to its own place, that it kill us not, and our people. For there was deadly alarm throughout the city: the hand of God was very heavy there;

dby@1Samuel:5:12 @ and the men that died not were smitten with the hemorrhoids; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.

dby@1Samuel:6:1 @ And the ark of Jehovah was in the country of the Philistines seven months.

dby@1Samuel:6:2 @ And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do with the ark of Jehovah? tell us wherewith we shall send it to its place.

dby@1Samuel:6:3 @ And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; ye must at any rate 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.

dby@1Samuel:6:4 @ Then they said, What is the trespass-offering which we shall return to him? And they said, Five golden hemorrhoids, and five golden mice, the number of the lords of the Philistines; for one plague is upon them all, and upon your lords.

dby@1Samuel:6:5 @ And ye shall make images of your hemorrhoids, and images of your mice that destroy the land, and give glory to the God of Israel: perhaps he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.

dby@1Samuel:6:6 @ And why will ye harden your heart, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their heart? When he had wrought mightily among them, did they not let them go, and they departed?

dby@1Samuel:6:7 @ And now make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there has come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them;

dby@1Samuel:6:8 @ and take the ark of Jehovah, and lay it upon the cart, and the golden jewels, which ye return him as a trespass-offering, put in the coffer by the side thereof; and send it away that it may go.

dby@1Samuel:6:9 @ And see, if it go up by the way of its own border to Beth-shemesh, it is he who has done us this great evil; if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that touched us; it was a chance [that] happened to us.

dby@1Samuel:6:10 @ And the men did so, and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.

dby@1Samuel:6:11 @ And they laid the ark of Jehovah upon the cart, and the coffer with the golden mice and the images of their sores.

dby@1Samuel:6:12 @ And the kine went straight forward on the way to Beth-shemesh; they went by the one high way, lowing as they went; and they turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them as far as the border of Beth-shemesh.

dby@1Samuel:6:13 @ And [they of] Beth-shemesh were reaping the wheat-harvest in the valley; and they lifted up their eyes and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.

dby@1Samuel:6:14 @ And the cart came into the field of Joshua the Beth-shemeshite, and stood there; and a great stone was there. And they clave the wood of the cart, and offered up the kine as a burnt-offering to Jehovah.

dby@1Samuel:6:15 @ And the Levites took down the ark of Jehovah, and the coffer that was with it, in which were the golden jewels, and put them on the great stone; and the men of Beth-shemesh offered up burnt-offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day to Jehovah.

dby@1Samuel:6:16 @ And the five lords of the Philistines saw [it], and returned to Ekron the same day.

dby@1Samuel:6:17 @ And these are the golden sores which the Philistines returned as a trespass-offering to Jehovah: for Ashdod one, for Gazah one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;

dby@1Samuel:6:18 @ and the golden mice, [according to] the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both fortified cities and villages of the peasantry; [and they brought them] as far as the great [stone of] Abel, whereon they set down the ark of Jehovah, [which] is to this day in the field of Joshua the Beth-shemeshite.

dby@1Samuel:6:19 @ And he smote among the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of Jehovah, and smote of the people seventy men; and the people lamented, because Jehovah had smitten the people with a great slaughter.

dby@1Samuel:6:20 @ And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before Jehovah, this holy God? and to whom shall he go up from us?

dby@1Samuel:6:21 @ And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of Jehovah; come down, fetch it up to you.

dby@1Samuel:7:1 @ And the men of Kirjath-jearim came, and fetched up the ark of Jehovah, and brought it into the house of Abinadab on the hill, and hallowed Eleazar his son to keep the ark of Jehovah.

dby@1Samuel:7:2 @ And it came to pass, from the day that the ark abode in Kirjath-jearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years. And all the house of Israel lamented after Jehovah.

dby@1Samuel:7:3 @ And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If ye return to Jehovah with all your heart, put away the strange gods and the Ashtoreths from among you, and apply your hearts unto Jehovah, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.

dby@1Samuel:7:4 @ And the children of Israel put away the Baals and the Ashtoreths and served Jehovah only.

dby@1Samuel:7:5 @ And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray Jehovah for you.

dby@1Samuel:7:6 @ And they gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before Jehovah, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against Jehovah. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.

dby@1Samuel:7:7 @ And the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together at Mizpah; and the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel; and the children of Israel heard [it], and were afraid of the Philistines.

dby@1Samuel:7:8 @ And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to cry to Jehovah our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.

dby@1Samuel:7:9 @ And Samuel took a sucking-lamb, and offered it as a whole burnt-offering to Jehovah; and Samuel cried to Jehovah for Israel, and Jehovah answered him.

dby@1Samuel:7:10 @ And as Samuel was offering up the burnt-offering, the Philistines advanced to battle against Israel. And Jehovah thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were routed before Israel.

dby@1Samuel:7:11 @ And the men of Israel went out of Mizpah, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them, as far as below Beth-car.

dby@1Samuel:7:12 @ And Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, and said, Hitherto Jehovah has helped us.

dby@1Samuel:7:13 @ And the Philistines were subdued, and came no more into the borders of Israel; and the hand of Jehovah was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.

dby@1Samuel:7:14 @ And the cities that the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even to Gath; and their territory did Israel deliver out of the hand of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorite.

dby@1Samuel:7:15 @ And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.

dby@1Samuel:7:16 @ And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpah, and judged Israel in all those places.

dby@1Samuel:7:17 @ And his return was to Ramah; for there was his house, and there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar to Jehovah.

dby@1Samuel:8:1 @ And it came to pass when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.

dby@1Samuel:8:2 @ And the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abijah; they judged in Beer-sheba.

dby@1Samuel:8:3 @ And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.

dby@1Samuel:8:4 @ Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel to Ramah,

dby@1Samuel:8:5 @ and said to him, Behold, thou art become old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now appoint us a king to judge us, like all the nations.

dby@1Samuel:8:6 @ And the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed to Jehovah.

dby@1Samuel:8:7 @ And Jehovah said to 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.

dby@1Samuel:8:8 @ According to all the deeds that they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, in that they have forsaken me and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.

dby@1Samuel:8:9 @ And now hearken unto their voice; only, testify solemnly unto them, and declare unto them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.

dby@1Samuel:8:10 @ And Samuel spoke all the words of Jehovah to the people that asked of him a king.

dby@1Samuel:8:11 @ 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, on his chariot and among his horsemen, and they shall run before his chariots;

dby@1Samuel:8:12 @ and [he will take them] that he may appoint for himself captains over thousands, and captains over fifties, and that they may plough his ground, and reap his harvest, and make his instruments of war and instruments of his chariots.

dby@1Samuel:8:13 @ And he will take your daughters for perfumers, and cooks, and bakers.

dby@1Samuel:8:14 @ And your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, the best, will he take and give to his servants.

dby@1Samuel:8:15 @ And he will take the tenth of your seed and of your vineyards, and give to his chamberlains and to his servants.

dby@1Samuel:8:16 @ And he will take your bondmen, and your bondwomen, and your comeliest young men, and your asses, and use them for his work.

dby@1Samuel:8:17 @ He will take the tenth of your sheep. And ye shall be his servants.

dby@1Samuel:8:18 @ And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king whom ye have chosen; and Jehovah will not answer you in that day.

dby@1Samuel:8:19 @ And the people refused to hearken to the voice of Samuel; and they said, No, but there shall be a king over us,

dby@1Samuel:8:20 @ that we also may be like all the nations; and our king shall judge us, and go out before us, and conduct our wars.

dby@1Samuel:8:21 @ And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he repeated them in the ears of Jehovah.

dby@1Samuel:8:22 @ And Jehovah said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said to the men of Israel, Go ye every man to his city.

dby@1Samuel:9:1 @ And 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, the son of a Benjaminite, a mighty man of wealth.

dby@1Samuel:9:2 @ And he had a son whose name was Saul, choice and comely; and there was not among the children of Israel a comelier person than he; from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.

dby@1Samuel:9:3 @ And the asses of Kish Saul's father were lost; and Kish said to Saul his son, Take, I pray, one of the young men with thee, and arise, go seek the asses.

dby@1Samuel:9:4 @ And he passed through mount Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalishah, but they found [them] not; and they passed through the land of Shaalim, and they were not there; and they passed through the land of Benjamin, and they found [them] not.

dby@1Samuel:9:5 @ They had come to the land of Zuph when Saul said to his servant that was with him, Come and let us return; lest my father give up the asses, and be anxious about us.

dby@1Samuel:9:6 @ And he said to him, Behold now, a man of God is in this city, and the man is held in honour; all that he says comes surely to pass. Let us now go thither: perhaps he will shew us the way that we should go.

dby@1Samuel:9:7 @ And Saul said to his servant, But if we go, what shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and we have no present to give to the man of God: what have we?

dby@1Samuel:9:8 @ And the servant answered Saul again and said, Behold, I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver; that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way.

dby@1Samuel:9:9 @ (In former time in Israel, when a man went to ask counsel of God, he said, Come and let us go to the seer; for he that is now called a Prophet was in former time called a Seer.)

dby@1Samuel:9:10 @ And Saul said to his servant, Well said: come, let us go. So they went to the city where the man of God was.

dby@1Samuel:9:11 @ As they went up the ascent to the city, they met maidens going forth to draw water; and they said to them, Is the seer here?

dby@1Samuel:9:12 @ And they answered them and said, He is; behold, he is before thee: make haste now, for he came to-day to the city; for the people have a sacrifice to-day in the high place.

dby@1Samuel:9:13 @ As soon as ye come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat; for the people eat not until he has come, because he blesses the sacrifice; afterwards they eat that are invited. And now go up; for this very day shall ye find him.

dby@1Samuel:9:14 @ And they went up into the city. As they were coming into the midst of the city, behold, Samuel was coming out towards them, to go up to the high place.

dby@1Samuel:9:15 @ Now Jehovah had apprised Samuel one day before Saul came, saying,

dby@1Samuel:9:16 @ To-morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him prince over my people Israel; and he will save my people out of the hand of the Philistines; for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is come unto me.

dby@1Samuel:9:17 @ And as Samuel saw Saul, Jehovah answered him, Behold the man of whom I spoke to thee! this man shall rule over my people.

dby@1Samuel:9:18 @ And Saul drew near to Samuel in the midst of the gate, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, where the seer's house is.

dby@1Samuel:9:19 @ And Samuel answered Saul and said, I am the seer: go up before me to the high place, and ye shall eat with me to-day; and to-morrow I will let thee go, and will tell thee all that is in thy heart.

dby@1Samuel:9:20 @ And as for the asses that thou didst lose three days ago, set not thy heart on them; for they are found. And on whom is all the desire of Israel [set]? Is it not on thee, and on all thy father's house?

dby@1Samuel:9:21 @ And Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjaminite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel, and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? and why dost thou speak such words to me?

dby@1Samuel:9:22 @ And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the chamber, and gave them a place at the head of them that were invited; and they were about thirty persons.

dby@1Samuel:9:23 @ And Samuel said to the cook, Bring the portion that I gave thee, of which I said to thee, Set it by thee.

dby@1Samuel:9:24 @ And the cook took up the shoulder, and what was on it, and set [it] before Saul. And he said, Behold that which has been reserved! set it before thee, eat; for against the set time has it been kept for thee, since I said, I will invite the people. So Saul ate with Samuel that day.

dby@1Samuel:9:25 @ And they came down from the high place into the city, and he spoke with Saul upon the roof.

dby@1Samuel:9:26 @ And they arose early; and when it was about the dawning of the day, Samuel called to Saul on the roof, saying, Arise, that I may send thee away. And Saul arose, and they went out both of them, he and Samuel, into the street.

dby@1Samuel:9:27 @ As they were going down to the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, Tell the servant to pass on before us (and he passed on), but stand thou still now, that I may cause thee to hear the word of God.

dby@1Samuel:10:1 @ Then Samuel took the vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not because Jehovah has anointed thee prince over his inheritance?

dby@1Samuel:10:2 @ When thou goest from me to-day, thou shalt meet two men by Rachel's sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say to thee, The asses are found which thou wentest to seek, and behold, thy father has dismissed the matter of the asses, and is anxious about you, saying, What shall I do for my son?

dby@1Samuel:10:3 @ And thou shalt go on forward from thence, and shalt come to the oak of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God, to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three cakes of bread, and another carrying a flask of wine.

dby@1Samuel:10:4 @ And they will ask after thy welfare, and give thee two loaves, which thou shalt receive of their hands.

dby@1Samuel:10:5 @ After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where are the outposts of the Philistines; and it shall come to pass, when thou comest thither, into the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with lute and tambour and pipe and harp before them; and they themselves prophesying.

dby@1Samuel:10:6 @ And the Spirit of Jehovah will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man.

dby@1Samuel:10:7 @ And it shall be, when these signs shall come to thee, thou shalt do as thy hand shall find; for God is with thee.

dby@1Samuel:10:8 @ And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and behold, I will come down to thee, to offer up burnt-offerings, [and] to sacrifice sacrifices of peace-offerings: seven days shalt thou wait, until I come to thee and inform thee what thou shalt do.

dby@1Samuel:10:9 @ And it was [so] that when he turned his back to go away from Samuel, God gave him another heart; and all those signs came to pass that day.

dby@1Samuel:10:10 @ 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.

dby@1Samuel:10:11 @ And it came to pass, when all that knew him before saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said one to another, What is this that has happened to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?

dby@1Samuel:10:12 @ And a man of that place answered and said, But who is their father? Therefore it became a proverb, Is Saul also among the prophets?

dby@1Samuel:10:13 @ And when he had ended prophesying, he came to the high place.

dby@1Samuel:10:14 @ And Saul's uncle said to him and to his servant, Whither went ye? And he said, To seek the asses; and when we saw that they were nowhere, we went to Samuel.

dby@1Samuel:10:15 @ And Saul's uncle said, Tell me, I pray thee, what Samuel said to you.

dby@1Samuel:10:16 @ And Saul said to his uncle, He told us for certain that the asses were found. But of the matter of the kingdom, of which Samuel had spoken, he told him not.

dby@1Samuel:10:17 @ And Samuel called the people together to Jehovah to Mizpah.

dby@1Samuel:10:18 @ And he said to the children of Israel, Thus saith Jehovah, the 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 the kingdoms that oppressed you;

dby@1Samuel:10:19 @ but ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saved you out of all your adversities and your troubles, and have said unto him, [Nay,] but a king shalt thou set over us. Now therefore present yourselves before Jehovah by your tribes, and by your thousands.

dby@1Samuel:10:20 @ And Samuel caused all the tribes of Israel to come near, and the tribe of Benjamin was taken.

dby@1Samuel:10:21 @ And he caused the tribe of Benjamin to come near by their families, and the family of Matri was taken; and Saul the son of Kish was taken. And they sought him, but he was not to be found.

dby@1Samuel:10:22 @ Therefore they inquired of Jehovah further, Will the man yet come hither? And Jehovah answered, Behold, he hath hid himself among the baggage.

dby@1Samuel:10:23 @ And they ran and fetched him thence; and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.

dby@1Samuel:10:24 @ And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom Jehovah has chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted and said, May the king live.

dby@1Samuel:10:25 @ And Samuel told the people the right of the kingdom, and wrote it in the book, and laid it before Jehovah. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.

dby@1Samuel:10:26 @ And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and with him went the band, whose hearts God had touched.

dby@1Samuel:10:27 @ But the children of Belial said, How should this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no gifts. But he was as one deaf.

dby@1Samuel:11:1 @ And Nahash the Ammonite came up and encamped against Jabesh-Gilead. And all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee.

dby@1Samuel:11:2 @ And Nahash the Ammonite said to them, On this [condition] will I treat with you, that I thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.

dby@1Samuel:11:3 @ And the elders of Jabesh said to him, Allow us seven days, and we will send messengers into all the districts of Israel; and if there be no man to deliver us, we will come out to thee.

dby@1Samuel:11:4 @ And the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and told these words in the ears of the people. And all the people lifted up their voice and wept.

dby@1Samuel:11:5 @ And behold, Saul came after the oxen from the field; and Saul said, What [aileth] the people that they weep? And they related to him the words of the men of Jabesh.

dby@1Samuel:11:6 @ And the Spirit of God came upon Saul when he heard those words, and his anger was kindled greatly.

dby@1Samuel:11:7 @ And he took a yoke of oxen and cut them in pieces, and sent throughout the territory of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, Whoever comes not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen! And the fear of Jehovah fell on the people, and they came out as one man.

dby@1Samuel:11:8 @ And he numbered them in Bezek, and the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

dby@1Samuel:11:9 @ And they said to the messengers that had come, Thus shall ye say to the men of Jabesh-Gilead: To-morrow ye shall have deliverance when the sun is hot. And the messengers came and informed the men of Jabesh-Gilead; and they were glad.

dby@1Samuel:11:10 @ And the men of Jabesh said, To-morrow we will come out to you, and ye may do with us according to all that is good in your sight.

dby@1Samuel:11:11 @ And it came to pass the next day that Saul set the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch, and smote Ammon until the heat of the day: and it came to pass that they who remained were scattered, and not two of them were left together.

dby@1Samuel:11:12 @ And the people said to Samuel, Who is he that said, Shall Saul reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death.

dby@1Samuel:11:13 @ But Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day; for to-day Jehovah has wrought deliverance in Israel.

dby@1Samuel:11:14 @ And Samuel said to the people, Come and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.

dby@1Samuel:11:15 @ And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before Jehovah in Gilgal; and there they sacrificed peace-offerings before Jehovah. And there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced exceedingly.

dby@1Samuel:12:1 @ And Samuel said to all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened to your voice in all that ye said to me, and have made a king over you.

dby@1Samuel:12:2 @ And now behold, the king walks before you; and I am old and grey-headed; and behold, my sons are with you; and I have walked before you from my youth up to this day.

dby@1Samuel:12:3 @ Here I am: testify against me before Jehovah, and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I injured? or of whose hand have I received any ransom and blinded mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it to you.

dby@1Samuel:12:4 @ And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, and thou hast not injured us, neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand.

dby@1Samuel:12:5 @ And he said to them, Jehovah is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found aught in my hand! And [the people] said, [He is] witness!

dby@1Samuel:12:6 @ And Samuel said to the people, [It is] Jehovah who appointed Moses and Aaron, and who brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.

dby@1Samuel:12:7 @ And now stand still, that I may plead with you before Jehovah of all the righteous acts of Jehovah which he did to you and to your fathers.

dby@1Samuel:12:8 @ When Jacob had come into Egypt, and your fathers cried to Jehovah, then Jehovah sent Moses and Aaron, and they brought your fathers forth out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place.

dby@1Samuel:12:9 @ And they forgot Jehovah their God, and 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.

dby@1Samuel:12:10 @ And they cried to Jehovah and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken Jehovah, and have served the Baals and the Ashtoreths; and now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee.

dby@1Samuel:12:11 @ And Jehovah sent Jerubbaal and Bedan and Jephthah and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies round about, so that ye dwelt in safety.

dby@1Samuel:12:12 @ But when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said to me, Nay, but a king shall reign over us; when Jehovah your God was your king.

dby@1Samuel:12:13 @ And now behold, the king whom ye have chosen, whom ye have asked for! and behold, Jehovah has set a king over you.

dby@1Samuel:12:14 @ If ye fear Jehovah, and serve him, and hearken to his voice, and rebel not against the commandment of Jehovah, then both ye and the king also that reigns over you shall continue following Jehovah your God.

dby@1Samuel:12:15 @ But if ye will not hearken to the voice of Jehovah, and if ye rebel against the commandment of Jehovah, then will the hand of Jehovah be against you, as against your fathers.

dby@1Samuel:12:16 @ Now therefore stand and see this great thing which Jehovah will do before your eyes.

dby@1Samuel:12:17 @ Is it not wheat-harvest to-day? I will call unto Jehovah, and he will send thunder and rain; and ye shall perceive and see that your wickedness is great which ye have done in the sight of Jehovah in asking for yourselves a king.

dby@1Samuel:12:18 @ And Samuel called to Jehovah; and Jehovah sent thunder and rain that day. And all the people greatly feared Jehovah and Samuel.

dby@1Samuel:12:19 @ And all the people said to Samuel, Pray to Jehovah thy God for thy servants, that we die not; for we have added to all our sins the wickedness to ask for ourselves a king.

dby@1Samuel:12:20 @ And Samuel said to the people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness; yet turn not aside from following Jehovah, and serve Jehovah with all your heart;

dby@1Samuel:12:21 @ and turn ye not aside; for [it would be] after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.

dby@1Samuel:12:22 @ For Jehovah will not cast away his people for his great name's sake; because it has pleased Jehovah to make you his people.

dby@1Samuel:12:23 @ Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Jehovah in ceasing to pray for you; and I will teach you the good and right way.

dby@1Samuel:12:24 @ Only, fear Jehovah, and serve him in truth, with all your heart; for see how great things he has done for you.

dby@1Samuel:12:25 @ But if ye do wickedly, ye shall perish, both ye and your king.

dby@1Samuel:13:1 @ Saul was... years old when he became king; and he reigned two years over Israel.

dby@1Samuel:13:2 @ And Saul chose him three thousand men out of Israel: there were with Saul two thousand 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.

dby@1Samuel:13:3 @ And Jonathan smote the outpost of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard [of it]. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.

dby@1Samuel:13:4 @ And all Israel heard say, Saul has smitten the garrison of the Philistines, and Israel also has become odious to the Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal.

dby@1Samuel:13:5 @ And the Philistines were assembled 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 Beth-Aven.

dby@1Samuel:13:6 @ And the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the people were distressed); and the people hid themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in cliffs, and in strongholds, and in pits.

dby@1Samuel:13:7 @ And the Hebrews went over the Jordan into the land of Gad and Gilead. And Saul was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.

dby@1Samuel:13:8 @ And he waited seven days, according to the set time that Samuel [had appointed]; but Samuel did not come to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.

dby@1Samuel:13:9 @ And Saul said, Bring hither to me the burnt-offering and the peace-offerings. And he offered up the burnt-offering.

dby@1Samuel:13:10 @ And it came to pass, as soon as he had ended offering up the burnt-offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might salute him.

dby@1Samuel:13:11 @ And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou didst not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines were assembled at Michmash,

dby@1Samuel:13:12 @ I said, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication to Jehovah; and I forced myself, and offered up the burnt-offering.

dby@1Samuel:13:13 @ And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of Jehovah thy God which he commanded thee; for now would Jehovah have established thy kingdom over Israel for ever.

dby@1Samuel:13:14 @ But now thy kingdom shall not continue: Jehovah has sought him a man after his own heart, and Jehovah has appointed him ruler over his people; for thou hast not kept what Jehovah commanded thee.

dby@1Samuel:13:15 @ And Samuel arose and went up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people that were found with him, about six hundred men.

dby@1Samuel:13:16 @ And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were found with them, abode in Geba of Benjamin; and the Philistines encamped in Michmash.

dby@1Samuel:13:17 @ And the ravagers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned the way of Ophrah, into the land of Shual;

dby@1Samuel:13:18 @ and another company turned the way to Beth-horon; and the other company turned the way to the district that looks over the ravine of Zeboim toward the wilderness.

dby@1Samuel:13:19 @ Now there was no smith found throughout the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears.

dby@1Samuel:13:20 @ And all Israel went down to the Philistines, every man to get his ploughshare, and his hoe, and his axe, and his sickle sharpened,

dby@1Samuel:13:21 @ when the edges of the sickles, and the hoes, and the forks, and the axes were blunted; and to set the goads.

dby@1Samuel:13:22 @ And 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 there was found.

dby@1Samuel:13:23 @ And a garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.

dby@1Samuel:14:1 @ Now it came to pass one day that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man that bore his armour, Come and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison which is on the other side. But he did not tell his father.

dby@1Samuel:14:2 @ And Saul abode at the extreme end of Gibeah under the pomegranate-tree which [was] in Migron; and the people that were with him were about six hundred men.

dby@1Samuel:14:3 @ (And Ahijah the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, Jehovah's priest in Shiloh, wore the ephod.) And the people did not know that Jonathan was gone.

dby@1Samuel:14:4 @ Now between the passes by which Jonathan sought to go over to 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.

dby@1Samuel:14:5 @ The one crag [formed] a pillar on the north opposite to Michmash, and the other on the south opposite to Geba.

dby@1Samuel:14:6 @ And Jonathan said to the young man that bore his armour, Come, and let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised: perhaps Jehovah will work for us; for there is no restraint to Jehovah to save by many or by few.

dby@1Samuel:14:7 @ And his armour-bearer said to him, Do all that is in thy heart; turn thee; behold, I am with thee according to thy heart.

dby@1Samuel:14:8 @ Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over to the men, and we will shew ourselves to them.

dby@1Samuel:14:9 @ If they say thus to us, Stand still until we come to you, then we will stay in our place, and will not go up to them.

dby@1Samuel:14:10 @ And if they say thus, Come up to us, then we will go up; for Jehovah has given them into our hand; and this shall be the sign to us.

dby@1Samuel:14:11 @ And both of them shewed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines; and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves.

dby@1Samuel:14:12 @ And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armour-bearer and said, Come up to us, and we will shew you something. And Jonathan said to his armour-bearer, Come up after me; for Jehovah has delivered them into the hand of Israel.

dby@1Samuel:14:13 @ And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet, and his armour-bearer after him; and they fell before Jonathan; and his armour-bearer slew after him.

dby@1Samuel:14:14 @ And that first slaughter which Jonathan and his armour-bearer wrought was about twenty men, as it were on the half-furrow of an acre of land.

dby@1Samuel:14:15 @ And there was trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people; the garrison, and the ravagers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked; for it was a trembling [from] God.

dby@1Samuel:14:16 @ And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked, and behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on slaying one another.

dby@1Samuel:14:17 @ Then said Saul to the people that were with him, Muster now, and see who is gone from us. And they mustered, and behold, Jonathan and his armour-bearer were not there.

dby@1Samuel:14:18 @ And Saul said to Ahijah, Bring hither the ark of God. For the ark of God was at that time with the children of Israel.

dby@1Samuel:14:19 @ And it came to pass while Saul talked to the priest, that the noise which was in the camp of the Philistines went on and increased; and Saul said to the priest, Withdraw thy hand.

dby@1Samuel:14:20 @ And Saul and all the people that were with him were called together, and they came to the battle; and behold, every man's sword was against his fellow, a very great confusion.

dby@1Samuel:14:21 @ And there were Hebrews with the Philistines before that time, who had gone up with them into the camp round about; and they also [turned] to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.

dby@1Samuel:14:22 @ And all the men of Israel who had hid themselves in mount Ephraim heard that the Philistines fled, and they also followed hard after them in the battle.

dby@1Samuel:14:23 @ And Jehovah saved Israel that day; and the battle passed over beyond Beth-Aven.

dby@1Samuel:14:24 @ But the men of Israel were distressed that day. Now Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth food until evening, and [until] I am avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted food.

dby@1Samuel:14:25 @ And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey on the ground.

dby@1Samuel:14:26 @ And the people had come into the wood, and behold, the honey flowed; but no man put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath.

dby@1Samuel:14:27 @ But Jonathan had not heard when his father adjured the people; and he put forth the end of his staff which was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth, and his eyes became bright.

dby@1Samuel:14:28 @ Then answered one of the people and said, Thy father strictly adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth food this day; and the people are faint.

dby@1Samuel:14:29 @ And Jonathan said, My father has troubled the land: see, I pray you, that mine eyes are bright, because I tasted a little of this honey.

dby@1Samuel:14:30 @ How much more, if the people had eaten freely to-day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for would there not now have been a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?

dby@1Samuel:14:31 @ And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Ajalon; and the people were very faint.

dby@1Samuel:14:32 @ And the people fell on the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slaughtered them on the ground; and the people ate [them] with the blood.

dby@1Samuel:14:33 @ And they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against Jehovah, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have acted perversely: roll me now a great stone.

dby@1Samuel:14:34 @ And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say to them, Bring near to me every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and slaughter them here, and eat; and sin not against Jehovah in eating with the blood. And all the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and slaughtered [them] there.

dby@1Samuel:14:35 @ And Saul built an altar to Jehovah: this was the first altar he built to Jehovah.

dby@1Samuel:14:36 @ And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and plunder them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. And they said, Do whatsoever is good in thy sight. Then said the priest, Let us come near hither to God.

dby@1Samuel:14:37 @ And Saul inquired of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? wilt thou give them into the hand of Israel? But he did not answer him that day.

dby@1Samuel:14:38 @ And Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the heads of the people; and know and see wherein this sin has been this day.

dby@1Samuel:14:39 @ For, [as] Jehovah liveth, who has saved Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall certainly die. And no one answered him among all the people.

dby@1Samuel:14:40 @ Then said he to all Israel, Be ye on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side. And the people said to Saul, Do what is good in thy sight.

dby@1Samuel:14:41 @ And Saul said to Jehovah the God of Israel, Give a perfect [testimony]! And Jonathan and Saul were taken, and the people escaped.

dby@1Samuel:14:42 @ And Saul said, Cast [lots] between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken.

dby@1Samuel:14:43 @ And Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him and said, With the end of the staff which is in my hand I tasted a little honey, [and] behold, I must die!

dby@1Samuel:14:44 @ And Saul said, God do so [to me] and more also; thou shalt certainly die, Jonathan.

dby@1Samuel:14:45 @ And the people said to Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who has wrought this great salvation in Israel? Far be it! [as] Jehovah liveth, there shall not a hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has wrought with God this day. So the people delivered Jonathan, that he died not.

dby@1Samuel:14:46 @ And Saul went up from following the Philistines; and the Philistines went to their own place.

dby@1Samuel:14:47 @ And Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies round about, 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 discomfited [them].

dby@1Samuel:14:48 @ And he did valiantly, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of their spoilers.

dby@1Samuel:14:49 @ And the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Jishvi, and Malchi-shua. And the names of his two daughters: the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal.

dby@1Samuel:14:50 @ 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.

dby@1Samuel:14:51 @ And Kish the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner were sons of Abiel.

dby@1Samuel:14:52 @ And there was sore war against the Philistines all the days of Saul; and when Saul saw any mighty man, or any valiant man, he took him to himself.

dby@1Samuel:15:1 @ And Samuel said to Saul, Jehovah sent me to anoint thee king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken to the voice of the words of Jehovah.

dby@1Samuel:15:2 @ Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: I have considered what Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.

dby@1Samuel:15:3 @ Now go and smite Amalek, and destroy utterly all that they have, and spare them not, but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

dby@1Samuel:15:4 @ And Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

dby@1Samuel:15:5 @ And Saul came to the city of the Amalekites, and set an ambush in the valley.

dby@1Samuel:15:6 @ And Saul said to the Kenites, Go, depart, and go 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. And the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

dby@1Samuel:15:7 @ And Saul smote Amalek from Havilah as thou comest to Shur, which is opposite to Egypt.

dby@1Samuel:15:8 @ And he took Agag the king of Amalek alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

dby@1Samuel:15:9 @ And Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep and oxen, and beasts of the second bearing, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not devote them to destruction; but everything that was mean and weak, that they destroyed utterly.

dby@1Samuel:15:10 @ And the word of Jehovah came to Samuel, saying,

dby@1Samuel:15:11 @ It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned away from following me, and hath not fulfilled my words. And Samuel was much grieved; and he cried to Jehovah all night.

dby@1Samuel:15:12 @ And Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning. And it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set him up a monument, and has turned about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.

dby@1Samuel:15:13 @ And Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, Blessed art thou of Jehovah: I have fulfilled the word of Jehovah.

dby@1Samuel:15:14 @ And Samuel said, What [means] then this bleating of sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of oxen which I hear?

dby@1Samuel:15:15 @ And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites, because the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice to Jehovah thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.

dby@1Samuel:15:16 @ And Samuel said to Saul, Stay, that I may tell thee what Jehovah has said to me this night. And he said to him, Say on.

dby@1Samuel:15:17 @ And Samuel said, Was it not when thou wast little in thine eyes that thou [becamest] the head of the tribes of Israel, and Jehovah anointed thee king over Israel?

dby@1Samuel:15:18 @ And Jehovah sent thee on a way and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.

dby@1Samuel:15:19 @ Why then didst thou not hearken to the voice of Jehovah, but didst fall upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of Jehovah?

dby@1Samuel:15:20 @ And Saul said to Samuel, I have indeed hearkened to the voice of Jehovah, and have gone the way which Jehovah sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

dby@1Samuel:15:21 @ But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the choicest of the devoted things, to sacrifice to Jehovah thy God in Gilgal.

dby@1Samuel:15:22 @ And Samuel said, Has Jehovah delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices, As in hearkening to the voice of Jehovah? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, Attention than the fat of rams.

dby@1Samuel:15:23 @ For rebellion is [as] the sin of divination, And selfwill is [as] iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of Jehovah, He hath also rejected thee from being king.

dby@1Samuel:15:24 @ And Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of Jehovah, and thy words; for I feared the people, and hearkened to their voice.

dby@1Samuel:15:25 @ And now, I pray thee, forgive my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship Jehovah.

dby@1Samuel:15:26 @ And Samuel said to Saul, I will not turn again with thee; for thou hast rejected the word of Jehovah, and Jehovah has rejected thee from being king over Israel.

dby@1Samuel:15:27 @ And as Samuel turned to go away, [Saul] laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.

dby@1Samuel:15:28 @ Then Samuel said to him, Jehovah has rent the kingdom of Israel from thee to-day, and has given it to thy neighbour, who is better than thou.

dby@1Samuel:15:29 @ And also the Hope of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.

dby@1Samuel:15:30 @ And he said, I have sinned; honour me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship Jehovah thy God.

dby@1Samuel:15:31 @ So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped Jehovah.

dby@1Samuel:15:32 @ And Samuel said, Bring ye near to me Agag the king of Amalek. And Agag came to him gaily. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.

dby@1Samuel:15:33 @ And Samuel said, As thy sword has made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless above women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before Jehovah in Gilgal.

dby@1Samuel:15:34 @ And Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.

dby@1Samuel:15:35 @ And Samuel saw Saul no more until the day of his death; for Samuel mourned over Saul; and Jehovah repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.

dby@1Samuel:16:1 @ And Jehovah said to Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thy horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided me a king among his sons.

dby@1Samuel:16:2 @ And Samuel said, How shall I go? if Saul hear [it], he will kill me. And Jehovah said, Take a heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to Jehovah.

dby@1Samuel:16:3 @ And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will tell thee what thou shalt do; and thou shalt anoint unto me him whom I name unto thee.

dby@1Samuel:16:4 @ And Samuel did what Jehovah said, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the city came trembling to meet him, and said, Dost thou come peaceably?

dby@1Samuel:16:5 @ And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice to Jehovah. Hallow yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he hallowed Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.

dby@1Samuel:16:6 @ And it came to pass when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely Jehovah's anointed is before him.

dby@1Samuel:16:7 @ But Jehovah said to Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him; for it is not as man seeth; for man looketh upon the outward appearance, but Jehovah looketh upon the heart.

dby@1Samuel:16:8 @ Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither has Jehovah chosen this one.

dby@1Samuel:16:9 @ Then Jesse made Shammah pass by. And he said, Neither has Jehovah chosen this one.

dby@1Samuel:16:10 @ And Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, Jehovah has not chosen these.

dby@1Samuel:16:11 @ And Samuel said to Jesse, Are these all the young men? And he said, There is yet the youngest remaining, and behold, he is feeding the sheep. And Samuel said to Jesse, Send and fetch him; for we will not sit at table till he come hither.

dby@1Samuel:16:12 @ And he sent and brought him in. And he was ruddy, and besides of a lovely countenance and beautiful appearance. And Jehovah said, Arise, anoint him; for this is he.

dby@1Samuel:16:13 @ And Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren. And the Spirit of Jehovah came upon David from that day forward. And Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.

dby@1Samuel:16:14 @ And the Spirit of Jehovah departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from Jehovah troubled him.

dby@1Samuel:16:15 @ And Saul's servants said to him, Behold now, an evil spirit from God troubles thee.

dby@1Samuel:16:16 @ Let our lord now speak; thy servants are before thee: they shall seek out a man, a skilful player on a 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.

dby@1Samuel:16:17 @ And Saul said to his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.

dby@1Samuel:16:18 @ And one of the young men answered and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skilled in playing, and he is a valiant man and a man of war, and skilled in speech, and of good presence, and Jehovah is with him.

dby@1Samuel:16:19 @ Then Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, Send me David thy son, who is with the sheep.

dby@1Samuel:16:20 @ And Jesse took an ass with bread, and a flask of wine, and a kid, and sent [them] by David his son to Saul.

dby@1Samuel:16:21 @ And David came to Saul, and stood before him; and he loved him greatly; and he became his armour-bearer.

dby@1Samuel:16:22 @ And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he has found favour in my sight.

dby@1Samuel:16:23 @ And it came to pass, when the [evil] spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took the harp, and played with his hand; and Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.

dby@1Samuel:17:1 @ And the Philistines assembled their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Sochoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Sochoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim.

dby@1Samuel:17:2 @ And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and encamped in the valley of terebinths, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.

dby@1Samuel:17:3 @ And the Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side; and the ravine was between them.

dby@1Samuel:17:4 @ And there went out a champion from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.

dby@1Samuel:17:5 @ And he had a helmet of bronze upon his head, and he was clothed with a corselet of scales; and the weight of the corselet was five thousand shekels of bronze.

dby@1Samuel:17:6 @ And he had greaves of bronze upon his legs, and a javelin of bronze between his shoulders.

dby@1Samuel:17:7 @ And the shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron; and the shield-bearer went before him.

dby@1Samuel:17:8 @ And he stood and cried to the ranks of Israel, and said to them, Why are ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I the Philistine, and ye servants of Saul? choose for yourselves a man, and let him come down to me.

dby@1Samuel:17:9 @ If he be able to fight with me, and to smite me, then will we be your servants; but if I overcome and smite him, then shall ye be our servants and serve us.

dby@1Samuel:17:10 @ And the Philistine said, I have defied the ranks of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.

dby@1Samuel:17:11 @ And Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, and they were dismayed and greatly afraid.

dby@1Samuel:17:12 @ Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem-Judah whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons; and the man was old in the days of Saul, advanced [in years] among men.

dby@1Samuel:17:13 @ And the three eldest of the sons of Jesse had gone and followed Saul to the battle; and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and the second to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.

dby@1Samuel:17:14 @ And David was the youngest; and the three eldest had followed Saul.

dby@1Samuel:17:15 @ But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.

dby@1Samuel:17:16 @ And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.

dby@1Samuel:17:17 @ And Jesse said to David his son, Take, I pray, for thy brethren, this ephah of parched [corn] and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to thy brethren;

dby@1Samuel:17:18 @ and carry these ten cheeses to the captain of the thousand, and visit thy brethren to see how they are, and take a pledge of them.

dby@1Samuel:17:19 @ Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel [were] in the valley of terebinths, fighting against the Philistines.

dby@1Samuel:17:20 @ And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took his charge and went, as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to the wagon-defence; and the host which was going forth to the battle-array shouted for the fight.

dby@1Samuel:17:21 @ And Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array, rank against rank.

dby@1Samuel:17:22 @ And David left the things he was carrying in the hand of the keeper of the baggage, and ran into the ranks, and came and saluted his brethren.

dby@1Samuel:17:23 @ And as he talked with them, behold there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the ranks of the Philistines, and spoke according to the same words; and David heard [them].

dby@1Samuel:17:24 @ And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and were greatly afraid.

dby@1Samuel:17:25 @ And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that comes up? for to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who smites him, him will the king enrich with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel.

dby@1Samuel:17:26 @ And David spoke to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that smites this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?

dby@1Samuel:17:27 @ And the people told him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that smites him.

dby@1Samuel:17:28 @ And Eliab, his eldest brother, heard while he spoke to the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why art thou come down? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride and the naughtiness of thy heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.

dby@1Samuel:17:29 @ And David said, What have I now done? Was it not laid upon me?

dby@1Samuel:17:30 @ And he turned from him to another, and spoke after the same manner; and the people answered him again after the former manner.

dby@1Samuel:17:31 @ And the words were heard which David spoke, and they rehearsed them before Saul; and he sent for him.

dby@1Samuel:17:32 @ And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him: thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.

dby@1Samuel:17:33 @ And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.

dby@1Samuel:17:34 @ And David said to Saul, Thy servant fed his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and also a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock.

dby@1Samuel:17:35 @ And I went after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth; and when he arose against me, I seized him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.

dby@1Samuel:17:36 @ Thy servant smote both the lion and the bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God.

dby@1Samuel:17:37 @ And David said, Jehovah who 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 to David, Go, and Jehovah be with thee.

dby@1Samuel:17:38 @ And Saul clothed David with his dress, and put a helmet of bronze upon his head, and clothed him with a corselet.

dby@1Samuel:17:39 @ And David girded his sword upon his dress, and endeavoured to go; for he had not yet tried [it]. And David said to Saul, I cannot go in these; for I have never tried [them]. And David put them off him.

dby@1Samuel:17:40 @ And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in the shepherd's bag that he had, into the pocket; and his sling was in his hand. And he drew near to the Philistine.

dby@1Samuel:17:41 @ And the Philistine came on and approached David; and the man that bore the shield was before him.

dby@1Samuel:17:42 @ And when the Philistine looked about and saw David, he disdained him; for he was a youth, and ruddy, and besides of a beautiful countenance.

dby@1Samuel:17:43 @ And the Philistine said to David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

dby@1Samuel:17:44 @ And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh to the fowls of the heavens and to the beasts of the field.

dby@1Samuel:17:45 @ And David said to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with sword, and with spear, and with javelin; but I come to thee in the name of Jehovah of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.

dby@1Samuel:17:46 @ This day will Jehovah deliver thee up into my hand; and I will smite thee, and take thy head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the camp of the Philistines this day to the fowl of the heavens and to the wild beasts of the earth. And all the earth shall know that Israel has a God;

dby@1Samuel:17:47 @ and all this congregation shall know that Jehovah saves not with sword and spear; for the battle is Jehovah's, and he will give you into our hands.

dby@1Samuel:17:48 @ And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and advanced to meet David, that David hasted, and ran towards the ranks to meet the Philistine.

dby@1Samuel:17:49 @ And David put his hand into the bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, and the stone sank into his forehead; and he fell on his face to the earth.

dby@1Samuel:17:50 @ So David overcame the Philistine with a sling and a stone, and smote the Philistine and killed him; and there was no sword in the hand of David.

dby@1Samuel:17:51 @ And David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of its sheath, and killed him completely, and cut off his head with it. And when the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they fled.

dby@1Samuel:17:52 @ And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until thou comest to the ravine and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down on the way to Shaaraim, even to Gath, and to Ekron.

dby@1Samuel:17:53 @ And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they pillaged their camps.

dby@1Samuel:17:54 @ And David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armour in his tent.

dby@1Samuel:17:55 @ And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this young man? And Abner said, As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.

dby@1Samuel:17:56 @ And the king said, Inquire thou whose son this youth is.

dby@1Samuel:17:57 @ 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.

dby@1Samuel:17:58 @ And Saul said to him, Whose son art thou, young man? And David said, I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Beth-lehemite.

dby@1Samuel:18:1 @ And it came to pass, when he had ended speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

dby@1Samuel:18:2 @ And Saul took him that day, and would not let him return to his father's house.

dby@1Samuel:18:3 @ And Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

dby@1Samuel:18:4 @ And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his dress, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.

dby@1Samuel:18:5 @ And David went forth; whithersoever Saul sent him he prospered; 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.

dby@1Samuel:18:6 @ And it came to pass as they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tambours, with joy, and with triangles.

dby@1Samuel:18:7 @ And the women answered [one another] as they played, and said, Saul hath smitten his thousands, And David his ten thousands.

dby@1Samuel:18:8 @ And Saul was very wroth, and that saying was evil in his sight; and he said, They have ascribed to David ten thousands, but to me they have ascribed the thousands; and [what] is there more for him but the kingdom?

dby@1Samuel:18:9 @ And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.

dby@1Samuel:18:10 @ And it came to pass the next day that an evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house, but David played with his hand, as on other days; and the spear was in Saul's hand.

dby@1Samuel:18:11 @ And Saul cast the spear, and thought, I will smite David and the wall. But David turned away from him twice.

dby@1Samuel:18:12 @ And Saul was afraid of David, because Jehovah was with him, and had departed from Saul.

dby@1Samuel:18:13 @ And Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.

dby@1Samuel:18:14 @ And David prospered in all his ways; and Jehovah was with him.

dby@1Samuel:18:15 @ And Saul saw that he prospered well, and he stood in awe of him.

dby@1Samuel:18:16 @ But all Israel and Judah loved David, for he went out and came in before them.

dby@1Samuel:18:17 @ And Saul said to David, Behold my eldest daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife; only be thou valiant for me, and fight Jehovah's battles. But Saul thought, My hand shall not be upon him, but the hand of the Philistines shall be upon him.

dby@1Samuel:18:18 @ And David said to 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?

dby@1Samuel:18:19 @ And it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul's daughter should have been given to David, that she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as wife.

dby@1Samuel:18:20 @ And Michal Saul's daughter loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing was right in his sight.

dby@1Samuel:18:21 @ And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be upon him. And Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son-in-law a second time.

dby@1Samuel:18:22 @ And Saul commanded his servants, Speak with David secretly, saying, Behold, the king has delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king's son-in-law.

dby@1Samuel:18:23 @ And Saul's servants spoke those words in the ears of David. And David said, Is it a light thing in your eyes to be the king's son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?

dby@1Samuel:18:24 @ And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner did David speak.

dby@1Samuel:18:25 @ And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David: The king does not desire any dowry, but a 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.

dby@1Samuel:18:26 @ And his servants told David these words; and the thing was right in David's sight to be the king's son-in-law. And the days were not expired,

dby@1Samuel:18:27 @ when David arose and went, he and his men, and smote of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they delivered them in full to the king, that he might be the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter as wife.

dby@1Samuel:18:28 @ And Saul saw and knew that Jehovah was with David; and Michal Saul's daughter loved him.

dby@1Samuel:18:29 @ And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul was David's enemy continually.

dby@1Samuel:18:30 @ And the princes of the Philistines went forth; and it came to pass, whenever they went forth, that David succeeded better than all the servants of Saul; and his name was much esteemed.

dby@1Samuel:19:1 @ And Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should slay David.

dby@1Samuel:19:2 @ But Jonathan Saul's son delighted much in David. And Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeks to kill thee; and now, I pray thee, take heed to thyself in the morning, and abide in a secret place and hide thyself;

dby@1Samuel:19:3 @ and I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou art, and will speak of thee with my father: and see what it is, and tell thee.

dby@1Samuel:19:4 @ And Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David, because he has not sinned against thee; for also what he did was very advantageous to thee;

dby@1Samuel:19:5 @ for he put his life in hand, and smote the Philistine, and Jehovah wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou didst see [it], and didst rejoice; why then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, in slaying David without cause?

dby@1Samuel:19:6 @ And Saul hearkened to the voice of Jonathan, and Saul swore, [As] Jehovah liveth, he shall not be put to death!

dby@1Samuel:19:7 @ Then Jonathan called David, and Jonathan declared to him all those things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence as previously.

dby@1Samuel:19:8 @ And there was war again; and David went forth and fought with the Philistines, and smote them with a great slaughter; and they fled before him.

dby@1Samuel:19:9 @ And an evil spirit from Jehovah was upon Saul. And he sat in his house with his spear in his hand; and David played with his hand.

dby@1Samuel:19:10 @ And Saul sought to smite David and the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the spear into the wall. And David fled, and escaped that night.

dby@1Samuel:19:11 @ And Saul sent messengers to 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 wilt be put to death.

dby@1Samuel:19:12 @ And Michal let David down through a window; and he went, and fled and escaped.

dby@1Samuel:19:13 @ And Michal took the image, and laid it in the bed, and put the net of goats' [hair] at its head, and covered it with the coverlet.

dby@1Samuel:19:14 @ And Saul sent messengers to take David, and she said, He is sick.

dby@1Samuel:19:15 @ And Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may put him to death.

dby@1Samuel:19:16 @ And the messengers came in, and behold, the image was in the bed, and the net of goats' [hair] at its head.

dby@1Samuel:19:17 @ Then Saul said to Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal said to Saul, He said to me, Let me go; why should I slay thee?

dby@1Samuel:19:18 @ And 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.

dby@1Samuel:19:19 @ And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth by Ramah.

dby@1Samuel:19:20 @ Then Saul sent messengers to take David; and they saw a company of prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as president over them; and the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.

dby@1Samuel:19:21 @ And it was told Saul, and he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied.

dby@1Samuel:19:22 @ Then went he also to Ramah, and came to the great well that is in Sechu; and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? And one said, Behold, at Naioth by Ramah.

dby@1Samuel:19:23 @ And he went thither to Naioth by Ramah; and the Spirit of God came upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth by Ramah.

dby@1Samuel:19:24 @ And he himself also stripped off his clothes, and prophesied, himself also, before Samuel, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?

dby@1Samuel:20:1 @ And David fled from Naioth by 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 seeks my life?

dby@1Samuel:20:2 @ And he said to him, God forbid; thou shalt not die: behold, my father will do nothing either great or small, and not apprise me; and why should my father hide this thing from me? it is not so.

dby@1Samuel:20:3 @ And David swore again and again, and said, Thy father certainly knows that I have found favour in thy sight: and he has thought, Jonathan shall not know this, lest he be grieved; but truly [as] Jehovah liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.

dby@1Samuel:20:4 @ And Jonathan said to David, What thy soul may say, I will even do it for thee.

dby@1Samuel:20:5 @ And David said to Jonathan, Behold, to-morrow is 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 until the third evening.

dby@1Samuel:20:6 @ If thy father should actually 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.

dby@1Samuel:20:7 @ If he say thus, It is well, -- thy servant shall have peace; but if he be very wroth, be sure that evil is determined by him.

dby@1Samuel:20:8 @ Deal kindly then with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of Jehovah with thee; but if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?

dby@1Samuel:20:9 @ And Jonathan said, Far be it from thee; for, if I knew with certainty that evil were determined by my father to come upon thee, would I not tell it thee?

dby@1Samuel:20:10 @ Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what if thy father answer thee roughly?

dby@1Samuel:20:11 @ And Jonathan said to David, Come and let us go out into the field. And they went out both of them into the field.

dby@1Samuel:20:12 @ And Jonathan said to David, Jehovah, God of Israel, when I sound my father about this time to-morrow, [or] the next day, and behold, there be good toward David, and I then send not to thee, and apprise thee of it,

dby@1Samuel:20:13 @ Jehovah do so and much more to Jonathan. Should it please my father [to do] thee evil, then I will apprise thee of it, and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace; and Jehovah be with thee, as he has been with my father.

dby@1Samuel:20:14 @ And thou shalt not only while yet I live shew me the kindness of Jehovah, that I die not,

dby@1Samuel:20:15 @ but thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house for ever, no, not when Jehovah cuts off the enemies of David, every one from the face of the earth.

dby@1Samuel:20:16 @ And Jonathan made [a covenant] with the house of David, [saying,] Let Jehovah even require [it] at the hand of David's enemies!

dby@1Samuel:20:17 @ And Jonathan caused David to swear again, by the love he had for him, for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

dby@1Samuel:20:18 @ And Jonathan said to him, To-morrow is the new moon; and thou wilt be missed, for thy seat will be empty;

dby@1Samuel:20:19 @ but on the third day thou shalt go down quickly, and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself on the day of the business, and abide by the stone Ezel.

dby@1Samuel:20:20 @ And I will shoot three arrows on the side of it, as though I shot at a mark.

dby@1Samuel:20:21 @ And behold, I will send the lad, [saying,] Go, find the arrows. If I expressly say to the lad, Behold, the arrows are on this side of thee, take them; then come, for there is peace for thee, and it is nothing; [as] Jehovah liveth.

dby@1Samuel:20:22 @ But if I say thus to the youth: Behold, the arrows are beyond thee, -- go thy way; for Jehovah sends thee away.

dby@1Samuel:20:23 @ And as to the matter which thou and I have spoken of, behold, Jehovah is between me and thee for ever.

dby@1Samuel:20:24 @ And David hid himself in the field; and it was the new moon, and the king sat at table to eat.

dby@1Samuel:20:25 @ And the king sat on his seat, as at other times, on the seat by the wall; and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul's side, and David's place was empty.

dby@1Samuel:20:26 @ And Saul said nothing that day; for he thought, Something has befallen [him], that he is not clean: surely he is not clean.

dby@1Samuel:20:27 @ And it came to pass the next day after the new moon, the second [day of the month], as David's place was empty, that Saul said to Jonathan his son, Why has not the son of Jesse come to table, neither yesterday nor to-day?

dby@1Samuel:20:28 @ And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me [to go] to Bethlehem,

dby@1Samuel:20:29 @ and said, Let me go, I pray thee; for we have a family sacrifice in the city; and my brother himself has commanded me [to be there]; and now, if I have found favour in thy sight, let me go away, I pray thee, and see my brethren. He has therefore not come to the king's table.

dby@1Samuel:20:30 @ And Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, Son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own shame and to the shame of thy mother's nakedness?

dby@1Samuel:20:31 @ For as long as the son of Jesse lives upon earth, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. And now send and fetch him to me, for he must die.

dby@1Samuel:20:32 @ And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, Why should he be put to death? what has he done?

dby@1Samuel:20:33 @ Then Saul cast the spear at him to smite him; and Jonathan knew that it was determined by his father to put David to death.

dby@1Samuel:20:34 @ And Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and ate no meat the second day of the new moon; for he was grieved for David, because his father had done him shame.

dby@1Samuel:20:35 @ And it came to pass in the morning that Jonathan went out into the field, to the place agreed on with David, and a little lad with him.

dby@1Samuel:20:36 @ And he said to his lad, Run, find now the arrows which I shoot. The lad ran, and he shot the arrow beyond him.

dby@1Samuel:20:37 @ And when the lad came to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad and said, Is not the arrow away beyond thee?

dby@1Samuel:20:38 @ And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed, haste, stay not! And Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.

dby@1Samuel:20:39 @ And the lad knew nothing: only Jonathan and David knew the matter.

dby@1Samuel:20:40 @ And Jonathan gave his weapons to his lad, and said to him, Go, carry them to the city.

dby@1Samuel:20:41 @ The lad went, and David arose from the side of the south, 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.

dby@1Samuel:20:42 @ And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have both of us sworn in the name of Jehovah, saying, Jehovah be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever! And he arose and departed; and Jonathan went into the city.

dby@1Samuel:21:1 @ And David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest; and Ahimelech trembled at meeting David, and said to him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?

dby@1Samuel:21:2 @ And David said to Ahimelech the priest, The king has commanded me a business, and has said to me, Let no man know anything of the business whereon I send thee, and what I have commanded thee; and I have directed the young men to such and such a place.

dby@1Samuel:21:3 @ And now what is under thy hand? give me five loaves in my hand, or what may be found.

dby@1Samuel:21:4 @ And the priest answered David and said, There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.

dby@1Samuel:21:5 @ And David answered the priest and said to him, Yes indeed, women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the [bread] is in a manner common, and the more so, because to-day [new] is hallowed in the vessels.

dby@1Samuel:21:6 @ And the priest gave him holy [bread]; for there was no bread there but the shew-loaves that were taken from before Jehovah, to put on hot bread in the day when they were taken away.

dby@1Samuel:21:7 @ (Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Jehovah; and his name was Doeg, the Edomite, chief of the shepherds that [belonged] to Saul.)

dby@1Samuel:21:8 @ And David said to Ahimelech, And is there not here under thy hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, for the king's business was urgent.

dby@1Samuel:21:9 @ And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of terebinths, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod; if thou wilt take that, take it; for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that: give it me.

dby@1Samuel:21:10 @ And David arose, and fled that day from before Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.

dby@1Samuel:21:11 @ And the servants of Achish said to him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul has smitten his thousands, and David his ten thousands?

dby@1Samuel:21:12 @ And David took to heart these words, and was much afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

dby@1Samuel:21:13 @ And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scratched on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down on his beard.

dby@1Samuel:21:14 @ And Achish said to his servants, Behold, ye see the man is mad: why did ye bring him to me?

dby@1Samuel:21:15 @ have I lack of madmen, that ye have brought this one to rave in my presence? shall this [man] come into my house?

dby@1Samuel:22:1 @ And David departed thence, and escaped to the cave of Adullam. And his brethren and all his father's house heard [it], and they went down thither to him.

dby@1Samuel:22:2 @ And every one in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one of embittered spirit collected round him; and he became a captain over them; and there were with him about four hundred men.

dby@1Samuel:22:3 @ And David went thence to Mizpeh in Moab, and said to the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth amongst you, till I know what God will do for me.

dby@1Samuel:22:4 @ And he brought them before the king of Moab; and they abode with him all the while that David was in the stronghold.

dby@1Samuel:22:5 @ And the prophet Gad said to David, Abide not in the stronghold; depart, and go into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth.

dby@1Samuel:22:6 @ And Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that were with him. Now Saul was sitting in Gibeah under the tamarisk upon the height, having his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing by him.

dby@1Samuel:22:7 @ Then Saul said to his servants that stood by him, Hear now, ye Benjaminites: will the son of Jesse give every one of you also fields and vineyards? Will he make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds,

dby@1Samuel:22:8 @ that all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that informs me when my son has made [a covenant] with the son of Jesse; and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or informs me that my son has stirred up my servant as a lier-in-wait against me, as at this day?

dby@1Samuel:22:9 @ 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 Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.

dby@1Samuel:22:10 @ And he inquired of Jehovah for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.

dby@1Samuel:22:11 @ Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests that were in Nob; and they came all of them to the king.

dby@1Samuel:22:12 @ And Saul said, Hear now, son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I am, my lord.

dby@1Samuel:22:13 @ And Saul said to him, Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, and a sword, and hast inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me as a lier-in-wait, as at this day?

dby@1Samuel:22:14 @ And Ahimelech answered the king and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and has access to thy secret council, and is honourable in thy house?

dby@1Samuel:22:15 @ Was it to-day that I began to inquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king charge anything to his servant, [nor] to all the house of my father; for thy servant knew nothing of all this, less or more.

dby@1Samuel:22:16 @ And the king said, Thou shalt certainly die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house.

dby@1Samuel:22:17 @ And the king said to the couriers that stood about him, Turn and put the priests of Jehovah to death; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not inform me. But the servants of the king were not willing to put forth their hand to fall on the priests of Jehovah.

dby@1Samuel:22:18 @ And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall on the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and fell on the priests, and put to death that day eighty-five persons who wore the linen ephod.

dby@1Samuel:22:19 @ And Nob, the city of the priests, he smote with the edge of the sword, both men and women, infants and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

dby@1Samuel:22:20 @ And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.

dby@1Samuel:22:21 @ And Abiathar informed David that Saul had slain Jehovah's priests.

dby@1Samuel:22:22 @ And David said to Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would certainly tell Saul: I am accountable for all the lives of thy father's house.

dby@1Samuel:22:23 @ Abide with me, fear not; for he that seeks my life seeks thy life; for with me thou art in safe keeping.

dby@1Samuel:23:1 @ And they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshing-floors.

dby@1Samuel:23:2 @ And David inquired of Jehovah, saying, Shall I go and smite these Philistines? And Jehovah said to David, Go and smite the Philistines, and save Keilah.

dby@1Samuel:23:3 @ But David's men said to him, Behold, we are afraid here in Judah; how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?

dby@1Samuel:23:4 @ And David inquired of Jehovah yet again. And Jehovah answered him and said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will give the Philistines into thy hand.

dby@1Samuel:23:5 @ And David and his men went to Keilah, and fought against the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and smote them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.

dby@1Samuel:23:6 @ And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, he came down with an ephod in his hand.

dby@1Samuel:23:7 @ And it was told Saul that David had come to Keilah. Then Saul said, God has cast him off into my hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a city that has gates and bars.

dby@1Samuel:23:8 @ And Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.

dby@1Samuel:23:9 @ And when David knew that Saul devised mischief against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring the ephod.

dby@1Samuel:23:10 @ Then said David, Jehovah, God of Israel, thy servant hath heard for certain that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.

dby@1Samuel:23:11 @ Will the citizens of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? Jehovah, God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant. And Jehovah said, He will come down.

dby@1Samuel:23:12 @ And David said, Will the citizens of Keilah deliver up me and my men into the hand of Saul? And Jehovah said, They will deliver [thee] up.

dby@1Samuel:23:13 @ Then David and his men, about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that David had escaped from Keilah, and he forbore to go forth.

dby@1Samuel:23:14 @ And David abode in the wilderness in strongholds, and abode in the mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God did not give him into his hand.

dby@1Samuel:23:15 @ And David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life; and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.

dby@1Samuel:23:16 @ And Jonathan Saul's son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.

dby@1Samuel:23:17 @ And he said to him, Fear not; for the hand of Saul my father will not find thee; and thou shalt be king over Israel, and I shall be next to thee; and that also Saul my father knows.

dby@1Samuel:23:18 @ And they two made a covenant before Jehovah; and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.

dby@1Samuel:23:19 @ And the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Does not David hide himself with us in strongholds in the wood, on the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the waste?

dby@1Samuel:23:20 @ And now, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and it will be for us to deliver him up into the king's hand.

dby@1Samuel:23:21 @ And Saul said, Blessed be ye of Jehovah; for ye have compassion upon me.

dby@1Samuel:23:22 @ Go, I pray you, make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his track is, who has seen him there; for it is told me that he deals very subtilly.

dby@1Samuel:23:23 @ And see, and ascertain all the lurking-places where he hides himself, and come ye again to me with sure information, that I may go with you; and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout the thousands of Judah.

dby@1Samuel:23:24 @ And they arose and went to Ziph before Saul; but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of the waste.

dby@1Samuel:23:25 @ And Saul and his men went to seek [him]. And they told David; and he came down from the rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And Saul heard [that], and he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.

dby@1Samuel:23:26 @ And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain; and David made haste to get away from Saul; and Saul and his men sought to surround David and his men to take them.

dby@1Samuel:23:27 @ But there came a messenger to Saul, saying, Haste thee and come; for the Philistines have made a raid against the land.

dby@1Samuel:23:28 @ And Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines; therefore they called that place Sela-hammahlekoth.

dby@1Samuel:23:29 @ And David went up from thence, and abode in the strongholds of Engedi.

dby@1Samuel:24:1 @ And it came to pass when Saul had returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David is in the wilderness of Engedi.

dby@1Samuel:24:2 @ And Saul took three thousand men, chosen out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats.

dby@1Samuel:24:3 @ And he came to the sheepfolds by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet; and David and his men were abiding in the recesses of the cave.

dby@1Samuel:24:4 @ And David's men said to him, Behold the day of which Jehovah said to thee, Behold, I will give thine enemy into thy hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good to thee. And David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe secretly.

dby@1Samuel:24:5 @ And it came to pass afterwards that David's heart smote him, because he had cut off Saul's skirt.

dby@1Samuel:24:6 @ And he said to his men, Jehovah forbid that I should do this thing to my master, Jehovah's anointed, to stretch forth my hand against him, for he is the anointed of Jehovah.

dby@1Samuel:24:7 @ And David checked his men with these words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul. And Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on [his] way.

dby@1Samuel:24:8 @ David also arose afterwards, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king! And when Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth, and did obeisance.

dby@1Samuel:24:9 @ And David said to Saul, Why dost thou listen to words of men, saying, Behold, David seeks thy hurt?

dby@1Samuel:24:10 @ Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that Jehovah had given thee this day into my hand in the cave; and they bade me kill thee; but [mine eye] spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord, for he is the anointed of Jehovah.

dby@1Samuel:24:11 @ And see, my father, yes, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand. For in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in my hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou liest in wait for my life to take it.

dby@1Samuel:24:12 @ Jehovah judge between me and thee, and Jehovah avenge me of thee; but my hand shall not be upon thee.

dby@1Samuel:24:13 @ As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked; but my hand shall not be upon thee.

dby@1Samuel:24:14 @ After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a single flea.

dby@1Samuel:24:15 @ Jehovah therefore shall be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and do me justice [in delivering me] out of thy hand.

dby@1Samuel:24:16 @ And as soon as David had ended speaking these words to Saul, Saul said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And Saul lifted up his voice and wept.

dby@1Samuel:24:17 @ And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I; for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.

dby@1Samuel:24:18 @ And thou hast shewed this day how that thou hast dealt well with me, forasmuch as when Jehovah had delivered me up into thy hand, thou didst not kill me.

dby@1Samuel:24:19 @ For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore Jehovah reward thee good for that thou hast done to me this day.

dby@1Samuel:24:20 @ And now behold, I know that thou shalt certainly be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in thy hand.

dby@1Samuel:24:21 @ Swear now therefore to me by Jehovah, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father's house.

dby@1Samuel:24:22 @ And David swore to Saul. And Saul went home; and David and his men went up to the stronghold.

dby@1Samuel:25:1 @ And Samuel died; and all Israel were gathered together, and lamented him; and they buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

dby@1Samuel:25:2 @ And there was a man at Maon, whose business was at Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats; and he was shearing his sheep at Carmel.

dby@1Samuel:25:3 @ And the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail; and the woman was of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance; but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was a Calebite.

dby@1Samuel:25:4 @ And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.

dby@1Samuel:25:5 @ Then David sent out ten young men; and David said to the young men, Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name.

dby@1Samuel:25:6 @ And thus shall ye say: Long life [to thee]! and peace be to thee, and peace be to thy house, and peace be to all that thou hast!

dby@1Samuel:25:7 @ And now I have heard that thou hast shearers; now thy shepherds who were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there aught missed by them, all the while they were in Carmel.

dby@1Samuel:25:8 @ Ask thy young men, and they will tell thee. Therefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes; for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, what thy hand may find to thy servants, and to thy son David.

dby@1Samuel:25:9 @ And David's young men came, and spoke to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.

dby@1Samuel:25:10 @ And Nabal answered David's servants and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there are many servants now-a-days that break away every man from his master.

dby@1Samuel:25:11 @ And shall I take my bread, and my water, and my flesh which I have killed for my shearers, and give [it] to men whom I know not whence they are?

dby@1Samuel:25:12 @ And David's young men turned their way, and went back, and came and reported to him according to all those words.

dby@1Samuel:25:13 @ And David said to 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.

dby@1Samuel:25:14 @ And one of [Nabal's] young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to bless our master; and he has insulted them.

dby@1Samuel:25:15 @ And the men were very good to us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we anything, as long as we companied with them, when we were in the fields.

dby@1Samuel:25:16 @ They were a wall to us both by night and day, all the while we were with them feeding the sheep.

dby@1Samuel:25:17 @ And now know and consider what thou wilt do, for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household; and he is such a son of Belial, that one cannot speak to him.

dby@1Samuel:25:18 @ And Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two skin-bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched [corn], and a hundred raisin-cakes, and two hundred fig-cakes, and laid them on asses.

dby@1Samuel:25:19 @ And she said to her young men, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

dby@1Samuel:25:20 @ And as she was riding on the ass, and coming down by the covert of the hill, behold, David and his men came down opposite to her; and she met them.

dby@1Samuel:25:21 @ Now David had said, Surely, in vain have I kept all that this [man] had in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that was his; and he has requited me evil for good.

dby@1Samuel:25:22 @ So and more also do God to the enemies of David, if I leave of all that is his by the morning light any male.

dby@1Samuel:25:23 @ And when Abigail saw David, she hasted and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,

dby@1Samuel:25:24 @ and fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, [upon] me let the iniquity be; but let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine ears, and hear the words of thy handmaid.

dby@1Samuel:25:25 @ Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, Nabal; for as his name is, so is he: Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; and I thy handmaid did not see the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.

dby@1Samuel:25:26 @ And now, my lord, [as] Jehovah liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, seeing Jehovah has restrained thee from coming with bloodshed, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

dby@1Samuel:25:27 @ And now this blessing which thy bondmaid has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men that follow my lord.

dby@1Samuel:25:28 @ I pray thee, forgive the transgression of thy handmaid: for Jehovah will certainly make my lord a lasting house; because my lord fights the battles of Jehovah, and evil has not been found in thee all thy days.

dby@1Samuel:25:29 @ And if a man is risen up to pursue thee and to seek thy life, the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living with Jehovah thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out from the hollow of the sling.

dby@1Samuel:25:30 @ And it shall come to pass, when Jehovah shall do to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning thee, and shall appoint thee ruler over Israel,

dby@1Samuel:25:31 @ that this shall be no stumbling-block to thee, nor offence of heart for my lord, either that thou hast shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. And when Jehovah shall deal well with my lord, then remember thy handmaid.

dby@1Samuel:25:32 @ And David said to Abigail, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, who sent thee this day to meet me.

dby@1Samuel:25:33 @ And blessed be thy discernment, and blessed be thou, who hast kept me this day from coming with bloodshed, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.

dby@1Samuel:25:34 @ But indeed, as Jehovah the God of Israel liveth, who has restrained me from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, there had not been left to Nabal by the morning light any male.

dby@1Samuel:25:35 @ So David received of her hand what she had brought him, and said to her, Go up in peace to thy house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.

dby@1Samuel:25:36 @ And Abigail 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, for he was drunken to excess; so she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

dby@1Samuel:25:37 @ And it came to pass 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.

dby@1Samuel:25:38 @ And it came to pass in about ten days that Jehovah smote Nabal, and he died.

dby@1Samuel:25:39 @ And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be Jehovah, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil; but Jehovah has returned Nabal's evil upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her as his wife.

dby@1Samuel:25:40 @ And the servants of David came to Abigail to Carmel, and spoke to her, saying, David has sent us to thee, to take thee as his wife.

dby@1Samuel:25:41 @ And she arose and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thy handmaid be a bondwoman to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.

dby@1Samuel:25:42 @ And Abigail hasted, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that followed her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.

dby@1Samuel:25:43 @ David had also taken Ahinoam of Jizreel; and they became, even both of them, his wives.

dby@1Samuel:25:44 @ But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.

dby@1Samuel:26:1 @ And the Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Does not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, facing the waste?

dby@1Samuel:26:2 @ And Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.

dby@1Samuel:26:3 @ And Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah, which faces the waste, by the way side. And David abode in the wilderness; and when he saw that Saul had come after him into the wilderness,

dby@1Samuel:26:4 @ David sent out spies, and learned that Saul was certainly come.

dby@1Samuel:26:5 @ And David arose and came to the place where Saul had encamped; and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host; and Saul lay within the wagon-defence, and the people were encamped round about him.

dby@1Samuel:26:6 @ And David spake and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.

dby@1Samuel:26:7 @ And David and Abishai came to the people by night, and behold, Saul lay sleeping within the wagon-defence, and his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people lay round about him.

dby@1Samuel:26:8 @ And Abishai said to David, God has delivered thine enemy into thy hand this day; and now let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear, even to the ground once, and I will not do it the second time.

dby@1Samuel:26:9 @ And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not; for who can stretch forth his hand against Jehovah's anointed, and be guiltless?

dby@1Samuel:26:10 @ And David said, [As] Jehovah liveth, Jehovah will surely smite him; either his day shall come to die, or he shall descend into battle and perish.

dby@1Samuel:26:11 @ Jehovah forbid that I should stretch forth my hand against Jehovah's anointed! But now take, I pray thee, the spear that is at his head, and the cruse of water, and let us go.

dby@1Samuel:26:12 @ And David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's head; and they went away, and no man saw [it], and none knew [it], and none awaked, for they were all asleep; for a deep sleep from Jehovah had fallen upon them.

dby@1Samuel:26:13 @ And David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of a hill afar off; a great space [being] between them.

dby@1Samuel:26:14 @ And David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, Answerest thou not, Abner? Then Abner answered and said, Who art thou that criest to the king?

dby@1Samuel:26:15 @ And David said to Abner, Art not thou a man? and who is like to thee in Israel? and why hast thou not guarded thy lord the king? for one of the people came in to destroy the king thy lord.

dby@1Samuel:26:16 @ This thing is not good which thou hast done. As Jehovah liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have not guarded your master, Jehovah's anointed. And now see where the king's spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his head.

dby@1Samuel:26:17 @ And Saul knew David's voice, and said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And David said, It is my voice, my lord, O king.

dby@1Samuel:26:18 @ And he said, Why does my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in my hand?

dby@1Samuel:26:19 @ And now, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If Jehovah have moved thee against me, let him accept an oblation; but if the sons of men, cursed be they before Jehovah; for they have driven me out this day from adhering to the inheritance of Jehovah, saying, Go, serve other gods.

dby@1Samuel:26:20 @ And now, let not my blood fall to the earth far from the face of Jehovah; for the king of Israel is come out to seek a single flea, as when they hunt a partridge on the mountains.

dby@1Samuel:26:21 @ And Saul said, I have sinned: return, my son David; for I will no more do thee harm, because my life was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have acted foolishly, and have erred exceedingly.

dby@1Samuel:26:22 @ And David answered and said, Behold the king's spear, and let one of the young men come over and fetch it.

dby@1Samuel:26:23 @ And Jehovah will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; for Jehovah gave thee into [my] hand this day, and I would not stretch forth my hand against Jehovah's anointed.

dby@1Samuel:26:24 @ And behold, as thy life was highly esteemed this day in mine eyes, so let my life be highly esteemed in the eyes of Jehovah, that he may deliver me out of all distress.

dby@1Samuel:26:25 @ And Saul said to David, Blessed be thou, my son David: thou shalt certainly do [great things], and shalt certainly prevail. And David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.

dby@1Samuel:27:1 @ And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me to seek me any more within all the limits of Israel, and I shall escape out of his hand.

dby@1Samuel:27:2 @ And David arose and passed over, he and the six hundred men that were with him, to Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

dby@1Samuel:27:3 @ And David abode with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household; David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jizreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.

dby@1Samuel:27:4 @ And it was told Saul that David had fled to Gath; and he sought no more for him.

dby@1Samuel:27:5 @ And David said to Achish, If now I have found favour in thine eyes, let them give me a place in some country-town, that I may abide there; for why should thy servant abide in the royal city with thee?

dby@1Samuel:27:6 @ And Achish gave him Ziklag that day; therefore Ziklag belongs to the kings of Judah to this day.

dby@1Samuel:27:7 @ And the time that David abode in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months.

dby@1Samuel:27:8 @ And David and his men went up and made a raid upon the Geshurites, and the Gerzites, and the Amalekites: for those were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, and as far as the land of Egypt.

dby@1Samuel:27:9 @ And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.

dby@1Samuel:27:10 @ So Achish said, Have ye not made a raid to-day? And David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites.

dby@1Samuel:27:11 @ And David left neither man nor woman alive, to bring [them] to Gath, for he said, Lest they should tell of us, saying, So did David. And such was his custom as long as he abode in the country of the Philistines.

dby@1Samuel:27:12 @ And Achish trusted David, saying, He has made himself utterly odious among his people Israel; and he shall be my servant for ever.

dby@1Samuel:28:1 @ And it came to pass in those days that the Philistines gathered together their armies for warfare to fight against Israel. And Achish said to David, Know thou assuredly that thou shalt go out with me to the camp, thou and thy men.

dby@1Samuel:28:2 @ And David said to Achish, Thereby thou shalt know what thy servant can do. And Achish said to David, Therefore will I make thee keeper of my person for ever.

dby@1Samuel:28:3 @ (Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and they had buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away the necromancers and the soothsayers out of the land.)

dby@1Samuel:28:4 @ And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and encamped in Shunem; and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they encamped in Gilboa.

dby@1Samuel:28:5 @ And when Saul saw the camp of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled.

dby@1Samuel:28:6 @ And Saul inquired of Jehovah; but Jehovah did not answer him, either by dreams, or by Urim, or by prophets.

dby@1Samuel:28:7 @ Then said Saul to his servants, Seek me a woman that has a spirit of Python, that I may go to her and inquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman who has a spirit of Python at En-dor.

dby@1Samuel:28:8 @ And Saul disguised himself, and put on other garments, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night; and he said, I pray thee, divine to me by the spirit of Python, and bring me [him] up whom I shall name to thee.

dby@1Samuel:28:9 @ And the woman said to him, Behold, thou knowest what Saul has done, how he has cut off the necromancers and the soothsayers out of the land; and why layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die?

dby@1Samuel:28:10 @ And Saul swore unto her by Jehovah, saying, [As] Jehovah liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing.

dby@1Samuel:28:11 @ Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up to thee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel.

dby@1Samuel:28:12 @ And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice; and the woman spoke to Saul, saying, Why hast thou deceived me? Even thou art Saul.

dby@1Samuel:28:13 @ And the king said to her, Be not afraid; but what didst thou see? And the woman said to Saul, I saw a god ascending out of the earth.

dby@1Samuel:28:14 @ And he said to her, What is his form? And she said, An old man comes up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul knew that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself.

dby@1Samuel:28:15 @ And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul said, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answers me no more, neither by prophets nor by dreams; therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known to me what I shall do.

dby@1Samuel:28:16 @ And Samuel said, Why then dost thou inquire of me, seeing Jehovah is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?

dby@1Samuel:28:17 @ And Jehovah has done for himself as he spoke by me; and Jehovah has rent the kingdom out of thy hand, and given it to thy neighbour, to David.

dby@1Samuel:28:18 @ Because thou didst not hearken to the voice of Jehovah, and didst not execute his fierce anger upon Amalek, therefore has Jehovah done this thing to thee this day.

dby@1Samuel:28:19 @ And Jehovah will also give Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines; and to-morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me; the army of Israel also will Jehovah give into the hand of the Philistines.

dby@1Samuel:28:20 @ And Saul fell straightway his full length on the earth, and was sore afraid because of the words of Samuel; and there was no strength in him, for he had eaten no bread all the day nor all the night.

dby@1Samuel:28:21 @ And the woman came to Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and said to him, Behold, thy bondmaid has hearkened to thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened to thy words which thou spokest to me.

dby@1Samuel:28:22 @ And now, I pray thee, hearken thou also to the voice of thy bondmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength when thou goest on thy way.

dby@1Samuel:28:23 @ But he refused and said, I will not eat. Then his servants, and the woman also, compelled him, and he hearkened to their voice; and he arose from the earth and sat on the bed.

dby@1Samuel:28:24 @ And the woman had a fat calf in the house; and she hasted and killed it, and took flour, and kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread thereof;

dby@1Samuel:28:25 @ and she brought it near before Saul, and before his servants, and they ate. And they rose up and went away that night.

dby@1Samuel:29:1 @ And the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek; and Israel encamped by the spring that is in Jizreel.

dby@1Samuel:29:2 @ And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds and by thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rearward with Achish.

dby@1Samuel:29:3 @ And the princes of the Philistines said, What are these Hebrews? And Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, Is not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me these days, or these years, and I have found nothing in him since the day of his falling away [to me] to this day?

dby@1Samuel:29:4 @ But the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines said to him, Make the man return, that he may go again to his place where thou hast appointed him, that he go not down with us to the battle, that in the battle he be not an adversary to us; for wherewith should this [fellow] reconcile himself to his master? should it not be with the heads of these men?

dby@1Samuel:29:5 @ Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul smote his thousands, and David his ten thousands?

dby@1Samuel:29:6 @ And Achish called David, and said to him, [As] Jehovah liveth, thou art upright, and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the camp is acceptable to me; for I have not found evil in thee since the day of thy coming to me to this day; but thou art not acceptable to the lords.

dby@1Samuel:29:7 @ And now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.

dby@1Samuel:29:8 @ And David said to Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee to this day, that I should not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?

dby@1Samuel:29:9 @ And Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou art acceptable to me, as an angel of God; nevertheless the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle.

dby@1Samuel:29:10 @ And now rise up early in the morning with thy master's servants that are come with thee; and rise ye early in the morning, and when ye have daylight, depart.

dby@1Samuel:29:11 @ And David rose up early, he and his men, to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jizreel.

dby@1Samuel:30:1 @ And it came to pass, when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had made a raid upon the south, and upon Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag and burned it with fire;

dby@1Samuel:30:2 @ and had taken the women captives that were in it; both great and small: they had put none to death, but had carried them off, and went on their way.

dby@1Samuel:30:3 @ And David and his men came to the city, and behold, it was burnt with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters were taken captives.

dby@1Samuel:30:4 @ Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

dby@1Samuel:30:5 @ And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jizreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

dby@1Samuel:30:6 @ And David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him; for the soul of all the people was embittered, every man because of his sons and because of his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Jehovah his God.

dby@1Samuel:30:7 @ And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, Bring near to me, I pray thee, the ephod. And Abiathar brought the ephod near to David.

dby@1Samuel:30:8 @ And David inquired of Jehovah, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he said to him, Pursue; for thou shalt assuredly overtake [them] and shalt certainly recover.

dby@1Samuel:30:9 @ So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and they came to the torrent Besor; and those that were left stayed behind.

dby@1Samuel:30:10 @ And David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were too exhausted to go over the torrent Besor.

dby@1Samuel:30:11 @ And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he ate; and they gave him water to drink,

dby@1Samuel:30:12 @ and gave him a piece of fig-cake and two raisin-cakes, and he ate, and his spirit came again to him; for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, for three days and three nights.

dby@1Samuel:30:13 @ And David said to him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant of an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I fell sick.

dby@1Samuel:30:14 @ We made a raid against the south of the Cherethites, and against what [belongs] to Judah, and against the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.

dby@1Samuel:30:15 @ And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this troop? And he said, Swear to me by God, that thou wilt neither put me to death nor deliver me up into the hand of my master, and I will bring thee down to this troop.

dby@1Samuel:30:16 @ And he brought him down, and behold, they were spread over the whole land, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

dby@1Samuel:30:17 @ And David smote them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day; and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, who rode upon camels, and fled.

dby@1Samuel:30:18 @ And David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken: and David recovered his two wives.

dby@1Samuel:30:19 @ And there was nothing missed by them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil nor anything that they had taken: David brought all back.

dby@1Samuel:30:20 @ And David took all the flocks and the herds, [which] they drove before the other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.

dby@1Samuel:30:21 @ And David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow David, and whom they had left behind at the torrent Besor; and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him; and David drew near to the people and saluted them.

dby@1Samuel:30:22 @ And all the wicked men, and [men] of Belial, of those that had gone with David, answered and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them [aught] of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead [them] away and depart.

dby@1Samuel:30:23 @ Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which Jehovah has given us, who has preserved us, and given the troop that came against us into our hand.

dby@1Samuel:30:24 @ And who will hearken to you in this matter? For as his share is that goes down to the battle, so shall his share be that abides by the baggage: they shall share alike.

dby@1Samuel:30:25 @ And it was [so] from that day forward; and he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day.

dby@1Samuel:30:26 @ And David came to Ziklag, and he sent of the spoil to the elders of Judah, to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of Jehovah:

dby@1Samuel:30:27 @ to those in Bethel, and to those in south Ramoth, and to those in Jattir,

dby@1Samuel:30:28 @ and to those in Aroer, and to those in Siphmoth, and to those in Eshtemoa,

dby@1Samuel:30:29 @ and to those in Rachal, and to those in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to those in the cities of the Kenites,

dby@1Samuel:30:30 @ and to those in Hormah, and to those in Chor-ashan, and to those in Athach,

dby@1Samuel:30:31 @ and to those in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men went about.

dby@1Samuel:31:1 @ And the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on mount Gilboa.

dby@1Samuel:31:2 @ And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines smote Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, Saul's sons.

dby@1Samuel:31:3 @ And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers came up with him; and he was much terrified by the archers.

dby@1Samuel:31:4 @ Then said Saul to his armour-bearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through with it; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armour-bearer would not; for he was much afraid. So Saul took the sword and fell on it.

dby@1Samuel:31:5 @ And when his armour-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise on his sword, and died with him.

dby@1Samuel:31:6 @ So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armour-bearer, and all his men, that same day together.

dby@1Samuel:31:7 @ And when the men of Israel that were on this side of the valley, and [they] that were on this side of the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.

dby@1Samuel:31:8 @ And it came to pass the next day, that the Philistines came to strip the slain, and they found Saul and his three sons fallen on mount Gilboa.

dby@1Samuel:31:9 @ And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent [them] into the land of the Philistines round about, to announce the glad tidings in the houses of their idols, and to the people.

dby@1Samuel:31:10 @ And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth; and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.

dby@1Samuel:31:11 @ And when the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead heard of what the Philistines had done to Saul,

dby@1Samuel:31:12 @ all the valiant men arose and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and came to Jabesh, and burned them there.

dby@1Samuel:31:13 @ And they took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

dby@2Samuel:1:1 @ And it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, that David abode two days in Ziklag.

dby@2Samuel:1:2 @ And it came to pass on the third day, that behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul with his garments rent, and earth upon his head; and as soon as he came to David, he fell to the earth and did obeisance.

dby@2Samuel:1:3 @ And David said to him, Whence comest thou? And he said to him, Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped.

dby@2Samuel:1:4 @ And David said to him, What has taken place? I pray thee, tell me. And he said that the people had fled from the battle, and many of the people also had fallen and died, and that Saul and Jonathan his son were dead also.

dby@2Samuel:1:5 @ And David said to the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?

dby@2Samuel:1:6 @ And the young man that told him said, I happened by chance to be upon mount Gilboa, and behold, Saul leaned on his spear; and behold, the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him.

dby@2Samuel:1:7 @ And he looked behind him, and saw me, and called to me. And I said, Here am I.

dby@2Samuel:1:8 @ And he said to me, Who art thou? And I said to him, I am an Amalekite.

dby@2Samuel:1:9 @ He said to me again, Stand, I pray thee, over me, and slay me; for anguish has seized me; for my life is yet whole in me.

dby@2Samuel:1:10 @ So I stood over him, and put him to death, for I knew that he would not live after his fall; and I took the crown that was upon his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them hither to my lord.

dby@2Samuel:1:11 @ Then David took hold of his garments and rent them; and all the men that were with him [did] likewise.

dby@2Samuel:1:12 @ And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Jehovah, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.

dby@2Samuel:1:13 @ And David said to the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he said, I am the son of an Amalekite stranger.

dby@2Samuel:1:14 @ And David said to him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thy hand to destroy Jehovah's anointed?

dby@2Samuel:1:15 @ Then David called one of the young men and said, Draw near, [and] fall on him. And he smote him that he died.

dby@2Samuel:1:16 @ And David said to him, Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy mouth has testified against thee, saying, I have slain Jehovah's anointed.

dby@2Samuel:1:17 @ And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son;

dby@2Samuel:1:18 @ and he bade them teach the children of Judah [the song of] the bow. Behold, it is written in the book of Jasher: --

dby@2Samuel:1:19 @ The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!

dby@2Samuel:1:20 @ Tell [it] not in Gath, carry not the tidings in the streets of Ashkelon; Lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, Lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.

dby@2Samuel:1:21 @ Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, no rain upon you, nor fields of heave-offerings! For there the shield of the mighty was vilely cast away, The shield of Saul, [as] not anointed with oil.

dby@2Samuel:1:22 @ From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, The bow of Jonathan turned not back, And the sword of Saul returned not empty.

dby@2Samuel:1:23 @ Saul and Jonathan, beloved and pleasant in their lives, Even in their death were not divided; They were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.

dby@2Samuel:1:24 @ Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet with splendour, Who put ornaments of gold upon your apparel.

dby@2Samuel:1:25 @ How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain upon thy high places.

dby@2Samuel:1:26 @ I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant wast thou unto me; Thy love to me was wonderful, passing women's love.

dby@2Samuel:1:27 @ How are the mighty fallen, and the instruments of war perished!

dby@2Samuel:2:1 @ And it came to pass after this that David inquired of Jehovah, saying, Shall I go up into one of the cities of Judah? And Jehovah said to him, Go up. And David said, Whither shall I go up? And he said, Unto Hebron.

dby@2Samuel:2:2 @ So David went up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jizreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

dby@2Samuel:2:3 @ And his men that were with him did David bring up, every man with his household; and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron.

dby@2Samuel:2:4 @ And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, saying, It is the men of Jabesh-Gilead that have buried Saul.

dby@2Samuel:2:5 @ And David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh-Gilead, and said to them, Blessed be ye of Jehovah, that ye have shewn this kindness to your lord, to Saul, and have buried him!

dby@2Samuel:2:6 @ And now Jehovah shew kindness and faithfulness to you; and I also will requite you this good, because ye have done this thing.

dby@2Samuel:2:7 @ And now let your hands be strong, and be ye valiant; for your master Saul is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them.

dby@2Samuel:2:8 @ And Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;

dby@2Samuel:2:9 @ and made him king over Gilead, and over the Asshurites, and over Jizreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.

dby@2Samuel:2:10 @ Ishbosheth Saul's son was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. However, the house of Judah followed David.

dby@2Samuel:2:11 @ And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.

dby@2Samuel:2:12 @ And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.

dby@2Samuel:2:13 @ And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out. And they met together by the pool of Gibeon; and they sat down, these on the one side of the pool, and those on the other side of the pool.

dby@2Samuel:2:14 @ And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men now arise and make sport before us. And Joab said, Let them arise.

dby@2Samuel:2:15 @ And they arose and went over by number, twelve for Benjamin, and for Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.

dby@2Samuel:2:16 @ And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and [thrust] his sword in his fellow's side, and they fell down together. And that place was called Helkath-hazzurim, which is by Gibeon.

dby@2Samuel:2:17 @ And the battle that day was very severe; and Abner and the men of Israel were routed before the servants of David.

dby@2Samuel:2:18 @ And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was swift of foot, as one of the gazelles that are in the field.

dby@2Samuel:2:19 @ And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he turned not to the right hand nor to the left from behind Abner.

dby@2Samuel:2:20 @ Then Abner looked behind him, and said, Art thou Asahel? And he said, I am.

dby@2Samuel:2:21 @ And Abner said to him, Turn thee aside, to thy right hand or to thy left, and lay hold of one of the young men, and take for thyself his armour. But Asahel would not turn aside from following him.

dby@2Samuel:2:22 @ And Abner said again to Asahel, Turn thee aside from following me: why should I smite thee to the ground? how then should I hold up my face to Joab thy brother?

dby@2Samuel:2:23 @ But he refused to turn aside; therefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him in the belly, so that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place. And it came to pass, that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.

dby@2Samuel:2:24 @ And Joab and Abishai pursued after Abner; and the sun went down when they came to the hill of Ammah, which is before Giah on the way to the wilderness of Gibeon.

dby@2Samuel:2:25 @ And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one troop, and stood on the top of a hill.

dby@2Samuel:2:26 @ And Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? and how long shall it be ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?

dby@2Samuel:2:27 @ And Joab said, [As] God liveth, unless thou hadst spoken, surely then in the morning the people had gone up every one from following his brother.

dby@2Samuel:2:28 @ And Joab blew the trumpet, and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither did they fight any more.

dby@2Samuel:2:29 @ And Abner and his men walked all that night through the plain, and passed over the Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and they came to Mahanaim.

dby@2Samuel:2:30 @ And Joab returned from following Abner, and gathered all the people together; and there lacked of David's servants nineteen men, and Asahel.

dby@2Samuel:2:31 @ And the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, three hundred and sixty men, who had died.

dby@2Samuel:2:32 @ And they took up Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre of his father, which was in Bethlehem. And Joab and his men went all night, and they came to Hebron at break of day.

dby@2Samuel:3:1 @ And the war was long between the house of Saul and the house of David; but David became continually stronger, and the house of Saul became continually weaker.

dby@2Samuel:3:2 @ And to David were sons born in Hebron: his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jizreelitess;

dby@2Samuel:3:3 @ and his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maachah, daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;

dby@2Samuel:3:4 @ and the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;

dby@2Samuel:3:5 @ and the sixth, Ithream, of Eglah David's wife. These were born to David in Hebron.

dby@2Samuel:3:6 @ And it came to pass while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, that Abner made himself strong for the house of Saul.

dby@2Samuel:3:7 @ And Saul had a concubine whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. And [Ishbosheth] said to Abner, Why hast thou gone in to my father's concubine?

dby@2Samuel:3:8 @ Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ishbosheth, and said, Am I a dog's head, I who against Judah do shew kindness this day to the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, that thou reproachest me this day with the fault of this woman?

dby@2Samuel:3:9 @ So do God to Abner, and more also, if, as Jehovah has sworn to David, I do not so to him;

dby@2Samuel:3:10 @ to translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beer-sheba!

dby@2Samuel:3:11 @ And he could not answer Abner a word again, because he feared him.

dby@2Samuel:3:12 @ And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, Whose is the land? saying [also], Make thy covenant with me, and behold, my hand shall be with thee, to turn all Israel to thee.

dby@2Samuel:3:13 @ And he said, Well, I will make a covenant with thee; only I require one thing of thee, that is, Thou shalt not see my face, except thou first bring Michal Saul's daughter, when thou comest to see my face.

dby@2Samuel:3:14 @ And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth Saul's son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I espoused to me for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.

dby@2Samuel:3:15 @ And Ishbosheth sent, and took her from [her] husband, from Phaltiel the son of Laish.

dby@2Samuel:3:16 @ And her husband went with her along weeping behind her to Bahurim. Then said Abner to him, Go, return. And he returned.

dby@2Samuel:3:17 @ Now Abner had communicated with the elders of Israel, saying, Ye sought for David aforetime to be king over you;

dby@2Samuel:3:18 @ and now do [it], for Jehovah has spoken of David, saying, By my servant David will I save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.

dby@2Samuel:3:19 @ And Abner also spoke in the ears of Benjamin; and Abner went also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and that seemed good to the whole house of Benjamin.

dby@2Samuel:3:20 @ So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. And David made Abner and the men that were with him a repast.

dby@2Samuel:3:21 @ And Abner said to David, I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with thee, and that thou mayest reign over all that thy heart desires. And David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.

dby@2Samuel:3:22 @ And behold, the servants of David and Joab came from an expedition, and brought in a great spoil with them; but Abner was no longer with David in Hebron, for he had sent him away, and he had gone in peace.

dby@2Samuel:3:23 @ And Joab and all the host that was with him came; and they told Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has sent him away; and he is gone in peace.

dby@2Samuel:3:24 @ Then Joab came to the king, and said, What hast thou done? behold, Abner came to thee; why is it [that] thou hast sent him away, and he is gone?

dby@2Samuel:3:25 @ Thou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive thee, to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to know all that thou doest.

dby@2Samuel:3:26 @ And when Joab was come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, who brought him again from the well of Sirah; but David did not know it.

dby@2Samuel:3:27 @ And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him secretly, and smote him there in the belly, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

dby@2Samuel:3:28 @ And afterwards David heard [it], and he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before Jehovah for ever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner:

dby@2Samuel:3:29 @ let it fall on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that has an issue, or that is a leper, or that leans on a staff, or that falls by the sword, or that lacks bread!

dby@2Samuel:3:30 @ So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

dby@2Samuel:3:31 @ And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your garments, and gird yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David followed the bier.

dby@2Samuel:3:32 @ And they buried Abner in Hebron; and the king lifted up his voice and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.

dby@2Samuel:3:33 @ And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Should Abner die as a fool dieth?

dby@2Samuel:3:34 @ Thy hands were not bound, Nor thy feet put into fetters; As a man falleth before wicked men, Fellest thou! And all the people wept again over him.

dby@2Samuel:3:35 @ And all the people came to cause David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread or aught else till the sun be down!

dby@2Samuel:3:36 @ And all the people remarked it, and it pleased them; as whatever the king did pleased all the people.

dby@2Samuel:3:37 @ And all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to put Abner the son of Ner to death.

dby@2Samuel:3:38 @ And the king said to his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?

dby@2Samuel:3:39 @ And I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too hard for me: Jehovah reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness!

dby@2Samuel:4:1 @ And when Saul's son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were enfeebled, and all Israel was troubled.

dby@2Samuel:4:2 @ And Saul's son had two men, captains of bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin; for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin.

dby@2Samuel:4:3 @ And the Beerothites had fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.

dby@2Samuel:4:4 @ And Jonathan Saul's son had a son that was lame of [his] feet. He was five years old when the news came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jizreel; and his nurse took him up and fled. And it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.

dby@2Samuel:4:5 @ And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went and came in about the heat of the day into the house of Ishbosheth, who was taking his noonday rest.

dby@2Samuel:4:6 @ And they came thither into the midst of the house, [as though] they would fetch wheat; and they smote him in the belly; and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.

dby@2Samuel:4:7 @ They came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him; and they took his head, and went by the way of the plain all night.

dby@2Samuel:4:8 @ And they brought the head of Ishbosheth to David in Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, thine enemy who sought thy life; and Jehovah has given to my lord the king to be avenged this day of Saul and of his seed.

dby@2Samuel:4:9 @ Then David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, [As] Jehovah liveth, who has redeemed my soul out of all distress,

dby@2Samuel:4:10 @ when one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead! and he was in his own sight a messenger of good, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag -- to whom forsooth I should give a reward for his good tidings:

dby@2Samuel:4:11 @ how much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? and should I not now demand his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?

dby@2Samuel:4:12 @ And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged [them] up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.

dby@2Samuel:5:1 @ Then came all the tribes of Israel to David to Hebron, and spoke, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.

dby@2Samuel:5:2 @ Even aforetime, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel; and Jehovah said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be prince over Israel.

dby@2Samuel:5:3 @ And all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Jehovah; and they anointed David king over Israel.

dby@2Samuel:5:4 @ David was thirty years old when he began to reign; he reigned forty years.

dby@2Samuel:5:5 @ In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months; and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.

dby@2Samuel:5:6 @ And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land; and they spoke to David, saying, Thou shalt not come in hither, but the blind and the lame will drive thee back; as much as to say, David will not come in hither.

dby@2Samuel:5:7 @ But David took the stronghold of Zion, which is the city of David.

dby@2Samuel:5:8 @ And David said on that day, Whoever smites the Jebusites and gets up to the watercourse, and the lame and the blind hated of David's soul...! Therefore they say, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.

dby@2Samuel:5:9 @ So David dwelt in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from the Millo and inward.

dby@2Samuel:5:10 @ And David became continually greater; and Jehovah the God of hosts was with him.

dby@2Samuel:5:11 @ And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and timber of cedars, and carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house.

dby@2Samuel:5:12 @ And David perceived that Jehovah had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom because of his people Israel.

dby@2Samuel:5:13 @ And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron; and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.

dby@2Samuel:5:14 @ And these are the names of those that were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,

dby@2Samuel:5:15 @ and Ibhar, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia,

dby@2Samuel:5:16 @ and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet.

dby@2Samuel:5:17 @ And the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, and all the Philistines went up to seek David; and David heard [of it], and went down to the stronghold.

dby@2Samuel:5:18 @ And the Philistines came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

dby@2Samuel:5:19 @ And David inquired of Jehovah, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? wilt thou give them into my hand? And Jehovah said to David, Go up; for I will certainly give the Philistines into thy hand.

dby@2Samuel:5:20 @ And David came to Baal-perazim, and David smote them there; and he said, Jehovah has broken in upon mine enemies before me, as the breaking forth of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baal-perazim.

dby@2Samuel:5:21 @ And they left their images there, and David and his men took them away.

dby@2Samuel:5:22 @ And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

dby@2Samuel:5:23 @ And David inquired of Jehovah; and he said, Thou shalt not go up; turn round behind them and come upon them opposite the mulberry-trees.

dby@2Samuel:5:24 @ And it shall be, when thou hearest a sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry-trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself; for then will Jehovah have gone forth before thee, to smite the army of the Philistines.

dby@2Samuel:5:25 @ And David did so, as Jehovah had commanded him; and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou comest to Gezer.

dby@2Samuel:6:1 @ And David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.

dby@2Samuel:6:2 @ And David arose and went with all the people that were with him from Baale-Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God which is called by the name, the name of Jehovah of hosts who sitteth between the cherubim.

dby@2Samuel:6:3 @ And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was upon the hill; and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart.

dby@2Samuel:6:4 @ And they brought it with the ark of God out of the house of Abinadab which was upon the hill; and Ahio went before the ark.

dby@2Samuel:6:5 @ And David and all the house of Israel played before Jehovah on all manner of [instruments made of] cypress wood, with harps, and with lutes, and with tambours, and with sistra, and with cymbals.

dby@2Samuel:6:6 @ And when they came to Nachon's threshing-floor, Uzzah reached after the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen had stumbled.

dby@2Samuel:6:7 @ And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.

dby@2Samuel:6:8 @ And David was indignant, because Jehovah had made a breach upon Uzzah; and he called that place Perez-Uzzah to this day.

dby@2Samuel:6:9 @ And David was afraid of Jehovah that day, and said, How shall the ark of Jehovah come to me?

dby@2Samuel:6:10 @ So David would not bring the ark of Jehovah home unto himself into the city of David; but David carried it aside into the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.

dby@2Samuel:6:11 @ And the ark of Jehovah remained in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite three months; and Jehovah blessed Obed-Edom and all his household.

dby@2Samuel:6:12 @ And it was told king David, saying, Jehovah has blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and all that is his, because of the ark of God. And David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom into the city of David with joy.

dby@2Samuel:6:13 @ And it was so, that when they that bore the ark of Jehovah had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fatted beast.

dby@2Samuel:6:14 @ And David danced before Jehovah with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.

dby@2Samuel:6:15 @ And David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of Jehovah with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.

dby@2Samuel:6:16 @ And as the ark of Jehovah came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before Jehovah; and she despised him in her heart.

dby@2Samuel:6:17 @ And they brought in the ark of Jehovah, and set it in its place, in the midst of the tent that David had spread for it. And David offered up burnt-offerings and peace-offerings before Jehovah.

dby@2Samuel:6:18 @ And when David had ended offering up the burnt-offerings and the peace-offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Jehovah of hosts.

dby@2Samuel:6:19 @ And he dealt to all the people, to the whole multitude of Israel, both men and women, to every one a cake of bread, and a measure [of wine], and a raisin-cake. And all the people departed every one to his house.

dby@2Samuel:6:20 @ And David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How honourable did the king of Israel make himself to-day, who uncovered himself to-day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the lewd fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!

dby@2Samuel:6:21 @ And David said to Michal, It was before Jehovah, who chose me rather than thy father, and than all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of Jehovah, over Israel; and I played before Jehovah.

dby@2Samuel:6:22 @ And I will make myself yet more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight; and of the handmaids that thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour.

dby@2Samuel:6:23 @ And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.

dby@2Samuel:7:1 @ And it came to pass when the king dwelt in his house, and Jehovah had given him rest round about from all his enemies,

dby@2Samuel:7:2 @ that the king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in a house of cedars, and the ark of God dwells under curtains.

dby@2Samuel:7:3 @ And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thy heart; for Jehovah is with thee.

dby@2Samuel:7:4 @ And it came to pass that night that the word of Jehovah came to Nathan, saying,

dby@2Samuel:7:5 @ Go and say to my servant, to David, Thus saith Jehovah: Wilt thou build me a house for me to dwell in?

dby@2Samuel:7:6 @ For I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but I went about in a tent and in a tabernacle.

dby@2Samuel:7:7 @ In all my going about with all the children of Israel, did I speak a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye me not a house of cedars?

dby@2Samuel:7:8 @ And now, thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: I took thee from the pasture-grounds, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people, over Israel;

dby@2Samuel:7:9 @ and I have been with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee, and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are on the earth.

dby@2Samuel:7:10 @ And I will appoint a place for my people, for Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and be disturbed no more; neither shall the sons of wickedness afflict them any more, as formerly,

dby@2Samuel:7:11 @ and since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. And I have given thee rest from all thine enemies; and Jehovah telleth thee that Jehovah will make thee a house.

dby@2Samuel:7:12 @ When thy days are fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.

dby@2Samuel:7:13 @ It is he who shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever.

dby@2Samuel:7:14 @ I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the sons of men;

dby@2Samuel:7:15 @ but my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before thee.

dby@2Samuel:7:16 @ And thy house and thy kingdom shall be made firm for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.

dby@2Samuel:7:17 @ According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak to David.

dby@2Samuel:7:18 @ And king David went in and sat before Jehovah, and said, Who am I, Lord Jehovah, and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?

dby@2Samuel:7:19 @ And yet this hath been a small thing in thy sight, Lord Jehovah; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, Lord Jehovah?

dby@2Samuel:7:20 @ And what can David say more to thee? for thou, Lord Jehovah, knowest thy servant.

dby@2Samuel:7:21 @ For thy word's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, to make thy servant know [it].

dby@2Samuel:7:22 @ Wherefore thou art great, Jehovah Elohim; for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

dby@2Samuel:7:23 @ And who is like thy people, like Israel, the one nation in the earth that God went to redeem to be a people to himself, and to make himself a name, and to do for them great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thyself from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?

dby@2Samuel:7:24 @ And thou hast established to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever; and thou, Jehovah, art become their God.

dby@2Samuel:7:25 @ And now, Jehovah Elohim, the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house, fulfil it for ever, and do as thou hast said.

dby@2Samuel:7:26 @ And let thy name be magnified for ever, saying, Jehovah of hosts is God over Israel; and let the house of thy servant David be established before thee.

dby@2Samuel:7:27 @ For thou, Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee a house; therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee.

dby@2Samuel:7:28 @ And now, Lord Jehovah, thou art that God, and thy words are true, and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant;

dby@2Samuel:7:29 @ and now let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may be before thee for ever; for thou, Lord Jehovah, hast spoken it; and with thy blessing shall the house of thy servant be blessed for ever.

dby@2Samuel:8:1 @ And after this it came to pass that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them; and David took the power of the capital out of the hand of the Philistines.

dby@2Samuel:8:2 @ And he smote the Moabites, and measured them with a line, making them lie down on the ground; and he measured two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. And the Moabites became David's servants, [and] brought gifts.

dby@2Samuel:8:3 @ And David smote Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his dominion by the river Euphrates.

dby@2Samuel:8:4 @ And David took from him one thousand seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David houghed all the chariot [horses], but reserved of them [for] a hundred chariots.

dby@2Samuel:8:5 @ And the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, and David smote of the Syrians twenty-two thousand men.

dby@2Samuel:8:6 @ And David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, [and] brought gifts. And Jehovah preserved David whithersoever he went.

dby@2Samuel:8:7 @ And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.

dby@2Samuel:8:8 @ And from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much bronze.

dby@2Samuel:8:9 @ And Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the forces of Hadadezer;

dby@2Samuel:8:10 @ and Toi sent Joram his son to king David, to inquire of his welfare, and to congratulate him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and smitten him; for Hadadezer was continually at war with Toi. And he brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of bronze.

dby@2Samuel:8:11 @ Them also king David dedicated to Jehovah, with the silver and the gold that he had dedicated of all the nations that he had subdued:

dby@2Samuel:8:12 @ of the Syrians, and of the Moabites, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of the Amalekites, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

dby@2Samuel:8:13 @ And David made him a name when he returned, after he had smitten the Syrians in the valley of salt, eighteen thousand [men].

dby@2Samuel:8:14 @ And he put garrisons in Edom: throughout Edom did he put garrisons; and all they of Edom became servants to David. And Jehovah preserved David whithersoever he went.

dby@2Samuel:8:15 @ And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgment and justice to all his people.

dby@2Samuel:8:16 @ And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was chronicler;

dby@2Samuel:8:17 @ and Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, were the priests; and Seraiah was scribe;

dby@2Samuel:8:18 @ and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief rulers.

dby@2Samuel:9:1 @ And David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan's sake?

dby@2Samuel:9:2 @ And there was of the house of Saul a servant whose name was Ziba; and they called him to David. And the king said to him, Art thou Ziba? And he said, Thy servant!

dby@2Samuel:9:3 @ And the king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may shew the kindness of God to him? And Ziba said to the king, Jonathan has yet a son, who is lame on [his] feet.

dby@2Samuel:9:4 @ And the king said to him, Where is he? And Ziba said to the king, Behold, he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, in Lodebar.

dby@2Samuel:9:5 @ And king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, from Lodebar.

dby@2Samuel:9:6 @ And Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, and fell on his face and did obeisance. And David said, Mephibosheth. And he said, Behold thy servant!

dby@2Samuel:9:7 @ And David said to him, Fear not; for I will certainly shew thee kindness for Jonathan thy father's sake, and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy father; and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually.

dby@2Samuel:9:8 @ And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?

dby@2Samuel:9:9 @ Then the king called Ziba, Saul's servant, and said to him, I have given to thy master's son all that belonged to Saul and to all his house.

dby@2Samuel:9:10 @ And thou, and thy sons, and thy servants, shall till the land for him, and thou shalt bring in [the fruits], that thy master's son may have food to eat. And Mephibosheth thy master's son shall eat bread at my table continually. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

dby@2Samuel:9:11 @ And Ziba said to the king, According to all that my lord the king has commanded his servant, so will thy servant do. And Mephibosheth [said David] shall eat at my table, as one of the king's sons.

dby@2Samuel:9:12 @ And Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Mica. And all who dwelt in the house of Ziba were servants to Mephibosheth.

dby@2Samuel:9:13 @ So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem; for he did eat continually at the king's table. And he was lame on both his feet.

dby@2Samuel:10:1 @ And it came to pass after this that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his stead.

dby@2Samuel:10:2 @ And David said, I will shew kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father shewed kindness to me. And David sent to comfort him by the hand of his servants for his father. And David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.

dby@2Samuel:10:3 @ And the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, Is it, in thine eyes, to honour thy father that David has sent comforters to thee? Is it not to search the city and to spy it out, and to overthrow it, that David has sent his servants to thee?

dby@2Samuel:10:4 @ And Hanun took David's servants, and had the one half of their beards shaved off, and their raiment cut off in the midst, as far as their buttocks, and sent them away.

dby@2Samuel:10:5 @ And they told [it] to David; and he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, Abide at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.

dby@2Samuel:10:6 @ And the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David; and the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-Rehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and the king of Maacah [with] a thousand men, and the men of Tob twelve thousand men.

dby@2Samuel:10:7 @ And David heard [of it], and he sent Joab, and all the host, the mighty men.

dby@2Samuel:10:8 @ And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entrance of the gate; and the Syrians of Zoba and of Rehob, and the men of Tob and Maacah were by themselves in the field.

dby@2Samuel:10:9 @ And Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind; and he chose out of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians;

dby@2Samuel:10:10 @ and the rest of the people he gave into the hand of Abishai his brother that he might array them against the children of Ammon.

dby@2Samuel:10:11 @ And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me; and if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I will come and help thee.

dby@2Samuel:10:12 @ Be strong, and let us shew ourselves valiant for our people and for the cities of our God; and Jehovah do what is good in his sight.

dby@2Samuel:10:13 @ And Joab drew near, and the people that were with him, unto the battle against the Syrians; and they fled before him.

dby@2Samuel:10:14 @ And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians fled, they fled before Abishai, and entered into the city. And Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.

dby@2Samuel:10:15 @ And when the Syrians saw that they were routed before Israel, they gathered themselves together.

dby@2Samuel:10:16 @ And Hadarezer sent, and drew forth the Syrians that were beyond the river; and they came to Helam; and Shobach the captain of the host of Hadarezer [went] before them.

dby@2Samuel:10:17 @ And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and passed over the Jordan, and came to Helam. And the Syrians set themselves in array against David, and fought with him.

dby@2Samuel:10:18 @ And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians seven hundred [in] chariots, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, who died there.

dby@2Samuel:10:19 @ And all the kings that were servants to Hadarezer saw that they were routed before Israel, and they made peace with Israel, and served them. And the Syrians feared to help the children of Ammon any more.

dby@2Samuel:11:1 @ And it came to pass, at the return of the year, at the time when kings go forth, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they laid waste the [land of the] children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David abode at Jerusalem.

dby@2Samuel:11:2 @ And it came to pass at evening time that David arose from off his couch, and walked upon the roof of the king's house; and from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful;

dby@2Samuel:11:3 @ and David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Urijah the Hittite?

dby@2Samuel:11:4 @ And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her; and she had purified herself from her uncleanness; and she returned to her house.

dby@2Samuel:11:5 @ And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child.

dby@2Samuel:11:6 @ And David sent to Joab [saying], Send me Urijah the Hittite. And Joab sent Urijah to David.

dby@2Samuel:11:7 @ And when Urijah had come to him, David asked how Joab prospered, and how the people prospered, and how the war prospered.

dby@2Samuel:11:8 @ And David said to Urijah, Go down to thy house and wash thy feet. And Urijah departed out of the king's house, and there followed him presents from the king.

dby@2Samuel:11:9 @ And Urijah slept at the entrance of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.

dby@2Samuel:11:10 @ And they had told David saying, Urijah did not go down to his house; and David said to Urijah, Art thou not come from a journey? why didst thou not go down to thy house?

dby@2Samuel:11:11 @ And Urijah said to David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah abide in booths; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields: shall I then go into my house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? [As] thou livest, and [as] thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.

dby@2Samuel:11:12 @ And David said to Urijah, Abide here to-day also, and to-morrow I will let thee depart. And Urijah abode in Jerusalem that day and the morrow.

dby@2Samuel:11:13 @ And David invited him, and he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk. And in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but did not go down to his house.

dby@2Samuel:11:14 @ And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by Urijah.

dby@2Samuel:11:15 @ And he wrote in the letter saying, Set Urijah in the front of the thickest fight, and withdraw from him, that he may be smitten and die.

dby@2Samuel:11:16 @ And it came to pass as Joab watched the city, that he assigned Urijah to a place where he knew that the valiant men were.

dby@2Samuel:11:17 @ And the men of the city went out and fought with Joab; and there fell some of the people, of the servants of David; and Urijah the Hittite died also.

dby@2Samuel:11:18 @ Then Joab sent and told David all the matters of the war;

dby@2Samuel:11:19 @ and charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast ended telling the matters of the war to the king,

dby@2Samuel:11:20 @ and if so be that the king's wrath arise, and he say to thee, Why did ye go so near to the city to fight? did ye not know that they would shoot from the wall?

dby@2Samuel:11:21 @ Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast the upper stone of a handmill from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why did ye go near the wall? -- then say thou, Thy servant Urijah the Hittite is dead also.

dby@2Samuel:11:22 @ And the messenger went; and he came and told David all that Joab had sent him for.

dby@2Samuel:11:23 @ And the messenger said to David, The men prevailed against us, and came out against us into the field, and we were upon them as far as the entrance of the gate.

dby@2Samuel:11:24 @ And the shooters shot from upon the wall against thy servants; and some of the king's servants are dead, and thy servant Urijah the Hittite is dead also.

dby@2Samuel:11:25 @ Then David said to the messenger, Thus shalt thou say to Joab: Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devours one as well as another: make thy battle strong against the city, and overthrow it; -- and encourage him.

dby@2Samuel:11:26 @ And the wife of Urijah heard that Urijah her husband was dead, and she mourned for her husband.

dby@2Samuel:11:27 @ And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of Jehovah.

dby@2Samuel:12:1 @ And Jehovah sent Nathan to David. And he came to him, and said to him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.

dby@2Samuel:12:2 @ The rich had very many flocks and herds;

dby@2Samuel:12:3 @ but the poor man had nothing at all, but one little ewe lamb which he had bought, and was nourishing; and it grew up with him, and together with his children: it ate of his morsel, and drank of his own cup, and slept in his bosom, and was to him as a daughter.

dby@2Samuel:12:4 @ And there came a traveller to the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that had come to him; and he took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that had come to him.

dby@2Samuel:12:5 @ Then David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, As Jehovah liveth, the man that hath done this thing is worthy of death;

dby@2Samuel:12:6 @ and he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.

dby@2Samuel:12:7 @ And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man! Thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel: I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul;

dby@2Samuel:12:8 @ and I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if [that] had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things.

dby@2Samuel:12:9 @ Wherefore hast thou despised the word of Jehovah to do evil in his sight? thou hast smitten Urijah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

dby@2Samuel:12:10 @ Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Urijah the Hittite to be thy wife.

dby@2Samuel:12:11 @ Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.

dby@2Samuel:12:12 @ For thou didst [it] secretly; but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.

dby@2Samuel:12:13 @ And David said to Nathan, I have sinned against Jehovah. And Nathan said to David, Jehovah has also put away thy sin: thou shalt not die.

dby@2Samuel:12:14 @ Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of Jehovah to blaspheme, even the child that is born to thee shall certainly die.

dby@2Samuel:12:15 @ And Nathan departed to his house. And Jehovah smote the child that Urijah's wife bore to David, and it became very sick.

dby@2Samuel:12:16 @ And David besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night on the earth.

dby@2Samuel:12:17 @ And the elders of his house arose, [and went] to him, to raise him up from the earth; but he would not, and he ate no bread with them.

dby@2Samuel:12:18 @ And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead; for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he would not hearken to our voice; and how shall we say to him, The child is dead? he may do some harm.

dby@2Samuel:12:19 @ But David saw that his servants whispered, and David perceived that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.

dby@2Samuel:12:20 @ Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his clothing, and entered into the house of Jehovah and worshipped; then he came to his own house and required them to set bread before him, and he ate.

dby@2Samuel:12:21 @ And his servants said to him, What thing is this which thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child alive; but as soon as the child is dead, thou dost rise and eat bread.

dby@2Samuel:12:22 @ And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I thought, Who knows? [perhaps] Jehovah will be gracious to me, that the child may live.

dby@2Samuel:12:23 @ But now he is dead, why should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.

dby@2Samuel:12:24 @ And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her and lay with her; and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon; and Jehovah loved him.

dby@2Samuel:12:25 @ And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name Jedidiah, for Jehovah's sake.

dby@2Samuel:12:26 @ And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.

dby@2Samuel:12:27 @ And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought against Rabbah, and have taken the city of waters.

dby@2Samuel:12:28 @ And now gather the rest of the people, and encamp against the city and take it: lest I take the city and it be called by my name.

dby@2Samuel:12:29 @ And David gathered all the people, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it and took it.

dby@2Samuel:12:30 @ And he took the crown of their king from off his head, the weight of which was a talent of gold with [the] precious stones; and it was [set] on David's head; and he brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance.

dby@2Samuel:12:31 @ And he brought out the people that were in it, and put them under the saw, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkilns. And so did he to all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

dby@2Samuel:13:1 @ And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David having a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar, Amnon the son of David loved her.

dby@2Samuel:13:2 @ And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and it seemed difficult for Amnon to do the least thing to her.

dby@2Samuel:13:3 @ And Amnon had a friend whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother; and Jonadab was a very shrewd man.

dby@2Samuel:13:4 @ And he said to him, Why dost thou, the king's son, get thinner from morning to morning? Wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said to him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.

dby@2Samuel:13:5 @ And Jonadab said to him, Lay thee down on thy bed and feign thyself sick; and when thy father comes to see thee, say to him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me food, and dress the food in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it from her hand.

dby@2Samuel:13:6 @ So Amnon lay down and feigned himself sick; and the king came to see him, and Amnon said to the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, and make a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand.

dby@2Samuel:13:7 @ And David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go, I pray thee, to thy brother Amnon's house, and dress him food.

dby@2Samuel:13:8 @ And Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he had lain down. And she took flour and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and baked the cakes.

dby@2Samuel:13:9 @ And she took the pan, and poured them out before him; but he refused to eat. And Amnon said, Put every man out from me. And they went out every man from him.

dby@2Samuel:13:10 @ And Amnon said to Tamar, Bring the dish into the chamber, that I may eat of thy hand. And Tamar took the cakes that she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.

dby@2Samuel:13:11 @ And she presented them to him to eat; and he took hold of her, and said to her, Come, lie with me, my sister.

dby@2Samuel:13:12 @ And she said to him, No, my brother, do not humble me; for no such thing is done in Israel: do not this infamy.

dby@2Samuel:13:13 @ And I, whither shall I carry my reproach? and thou wouldest be as one of the infamous in Israel. And now, I pray thee, speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from thee.

dby@2Samuel:13:14 @ But he would not hearken to her voice, and was stronger than she, and humbled her and lay with her.

dby@2Samuel:13:15 @ And Amnon hated her with an exceeding great hatred, for the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, Arise, be gone.

dby@2Samuel:13:16 @ And she said to him, There is no cause for this evil in sending me away, [which] is greater than the other that thou didst to me. But he would not hearken to her.

dby@2Samuel:13:17 @ Then he called his young man that attended upon him, and said, Put now this [woman] out from me, and bolt the door after her.

dby@2Samuel:13:18 @ Now she had a vest of many colours upon her; for so were the king's daughters that were virgins apparelled. And his attendant brought her out, and bolted the door after her.

dby@2Samuel:13:19 @ And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her vest of many colours which was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went away, crying out as she went.

dby@2Samuel:13:20 @ And Absalom her brother said to her, Has Amnon thy brother been with thee? and now, my sister, be still: he is thy brother; take not this thing to heart. And Tamar remained, and [that] desolate, in her brother Absalom's house.

dby@2Samuel:13:21 @ And king David heard of all these things, and he was very angry.

dby@2Samuel:13:22 @ And Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had humbled his sister Tamar.

dby@2Samuel:13:23 @ And it came to pass after two full years, that Absalom had sheepshearers in Baal-Hazor, which is beside Ephraim; and Absalom invited all the king's sons.

dby@2Samuel:13:24 @ And Absalom came to the king, and said, Behold, now, thy servant has sheepshearers; let the king, I pray thee, and his servants go with thy servant.

dby@2Samuel:13:25 @ And the king said to Absalom, No, my son, let us not all go, lest we be burdensome to thee. And he urged him, but he would not go; and he blessed him.

dby@2Samuel:13:26 @ And Absalom said, If not, I pray thee, let my brother Amnon go with us. And the king said to him, Why should he go with thee?

dby@2Samuel:13:27 @ But Absalom pressed him; and he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him.

dby@2Samuel:13:28 @ And Absalom commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, Smite Amnon; then slay him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.

dby@2Samuel:13:29 @ And the servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and they rode each upon his mule and fled.

dby@2Samuel:13:30 @ And it came to pass, while they were in the way, that tidings came to David, saying, Absalom has smitten all the king's sons, and there is not one of them left.

dby@2Samuel:13:31 @ Then the king arose, and rent his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their garments rent.

dby@2Samuel:13:32 @ And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother, answered and said, Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead; for by the appointment of Absalom this has been determined from the day that he humbled his sister Tamar.

dby@2Samuel:13:33 @ And now let not my lord the king take the thing to heart, to say, All the king's sons are dead; for Amnon only is dead.

dby@2Samuel:13:34 @ And Absalom fled. And the young man that watched lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, there came much people from the way behind him, from the hill-side.

dby@2Samuel:13:35 @ And Jonadab said to the king, Behold, the king's sons come: as thy servant said, so it is.

dby@2Samuel:13:36 @ And as soon as he had ended speaking, behold, the king's sons came, and lifted up their voice and wept; and the king also and all his servants wept very bitterly.

dby@2Samuel:13:37 @ And Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And [David] mourned for his son every day.

dby@2Samuel:13:38 @ Now Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.

dby@2Samuel:13:39 @ And king David longed to go forth to Absalom; for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.

dby@2Samuel:14:1 @ And Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom.

dby@2Samuel:14:2 @ And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said to her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on mourning garments, I pray, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that hath a long time mourned for the dead;

dby@2Samuel:14:3 @ and come to the king, and speak after this manner to him. And Joab put the words into her mouth.

dby@2Samuel:14:4 @ And the woman of Tekoah spoke to the king, and she fell on her face to the ground and did obeisance, and said, Save, O king!

dby@2Samuel:14:5 @ And the king said to her, What aileth thee? And she said, I am indeed a widow woman, and my husband is dead.

dby@2Samuel:14:6 @ And thy bondmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other and slew him.

dby@2Samuel:14:7 @ And behold, the whole family is risen against thy bondmaid, and they say, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may put him to death, for the life of his brother whom he killed; and we will destroy the heir also: so they will quench my coal which is left, and will not leave to my husband a name or remnant on the earth.

dby@2Samuel:14:8 @ And the king said to the woman, Go to thy house, and I will give charge concerning thee.

dby@2Samuel:14:9 @ And the woman of Tekoah said to the king, Upon me, my lord, O king, be the iniquity, and upon my father's house; and the king and his throne be guiltless.

dby@2Samuel:14:10 @ And the king said, Whoever speaks to thee, bring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more.

dby@2Samuel:14:11 @ Then she said, I pray thee, let the king remember Jehovah thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they cut off my son. And he said, [As] Jehovah liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.

dby@2Samuel:14:12 @ And the woman said, Let thy bondmaid, I pray thee, speak a word to my lord the king. And he said, Speak.

dby@2Samuel:14:13 @ And the woman said, Why then hast thou thought such a thing against God's people? and the king in saying this thing, is as one guilty, in that the king does not bring back his banished one.

dby@2Samuel:14:14 @ For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; and God has not taken away his life, but devises means that the banished one be not expelled from him.

dby@2Samuel:14:15 @ And now that I am come to speak of this thing to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid; and thy bondmaid said, I will now speak to the king; perhaps the king will perform the request of his handmaid.

dby@2Samuel:14:16 @ For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

dby@2Samuel:14:17 @ And thy bondmaid said, Let the word of my lord the king now be comfortable; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad; and Jehovah thy God will be with thee.

dby@2Samuel:14:18 @ And the king answered and said to the woman, Hide not from me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall ask thee. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.

dby@2Samuel:14:19 @ And the king said, Is the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, [As] thy soul liveth, my lord, O king, there is no turning to the right hand or to the left from aught that my lord the king has spoken; for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words into the mouth of thy bondmaid:

dby@2Samuel:14:20 @ in order to turn the appearance of the thing has thy servant Joab done this thing; but my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all that is in the earth.

dby@2Samuel:14:21 @ And the king said to Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing: so go, bring back the young man Absalom.

dby@2Samuel:14:22 @ And Joab fell to the ground on his face and bowed himself, and blessed the king; and Joab said, To-day thy servant knows that I have found favour in thy sight, my lord, O king, in that the king has fulfilled the request of his servant.

dby@2Samuel:14:23 @ And Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

dby@2Samuel:14:24 @ And the king said, Let him turn to his own house, and let him not see my face. And Absalom withdrew to his own house, and saw not the king's face.

dby@2Samuel:14:25 @ But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.

dby@2Samuel:14:26 @ And when he shaved his head (for it was at every year's end that he shaved it, because it was heavy on him, therefore he shaved it), he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight.

dby@2Samuel:14:27 @ And to Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a beautiful countenance.

dby@2Samuel:14:28 @ So Absalom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem, and did not see the king's face.

dby@2Samuel:14:29 @ Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king; but he would not come to him; and he sent again the second time, but he would not come.

dby@2Samuel:14:30 @ Then he said to his servants, See, Joab's allotment is near mine and he has barley there: go and set it on fire. And Absalom's servants set the allotment on fire.

dby@2Samuel:14:31 @ Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom to [his] house, and said to him, Why have thy servants set my allotment on fire?

dby@2Samuel:14:32 @ And Absalom said to Joab, Behold, I sent to thee, saying, Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say, Why am I come from Geshur? it would have been better for me to be there still. And now let me see the king's face; and if there be iniquity in me, let him slay me.

dby@2Samuel:14:33 @ And Joab came to the king, and told him. And he called Absalom, and he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king; and the king kissed Absalom.

dby@2Samuel:15:1 @ And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared for himself chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him.

dby@2Samuel:15:2 @ And Absalom rose early, and stood beside the way of the gate; and it was so, that when any man who had a controversy had to come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called him, and said, Of what city art thou? And he said, Thy servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.

dby@2Samuel:15:3 @ And Absalom said to him, See, thy matters are good and right; but there is no man to hear thee [appointed] by the king.

dby@2Samuel:15:4 @ And Absalom said, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has any controversy and cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!

dby@2Samuel:15:5 @ And it was so, that when any man came near to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took him, and kissed him.

dby@2Samuel:15:6 @ And in this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment; and Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

dby@2Samuel:15:7 @ And it came to pass at the end of forty years, that Absalom said to the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay in Hebron my vow which I have vowed to Jehovah.

dby@2Samuel:15:8 @ For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode in Geshur in Syria, saying, If Jehovah shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem, then I will serve Jehovah.

dby@2Samuel:15:9 @ And the king said to him, Go in peace. And he rose up and went to Hebron.

dby@2Samuel:15:10 @ And Absalom sent emissaries into all the tribes of Israel, saying, When ye hear the sound of the trumpet, ye shall say, Absalom reigns in Hebron.

dby@2Samuel:15:11 @ And with Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem, that were invited; and they went in their simplicity, and they knew nothing.

dby@2Samuel:15:12 @ And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counsellor, from his city, from Giloh, while he offered the sacrifices. And the conspiracy gathered strength; and the people increased continually with Absalom.

dby@2Samuel:15:13 @ And there came one to David who reported saying, The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.

dby@2Samuel:15:14 @ And David said to all his servants that were with him at Jerusalem, Rise up and let us flee; for we shall not [else] escape from Absalom. Be quick to depart, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.

dby@2Samuel:15:15 @ And the king's servants said to the king, Behold, thy servants [will do] whatever my lord the king shall choose.

dby@2Samuel:15:16 @ And the king went forth, and all his household after him, and the king left ten women, concubines, to keep the house.

dby@2Samuel:15:17 @ And the king went forth, and all the people after him, and stayed at the remote house.

dby@2Samuel:15:18 @ And all his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men that came after him from Gath, passed over before the king.

dby@2Samuel:15:19 @ And the king said to Ittai the Gittite, Why dost thou also go with us? return to thy place, and abide with the king; for thou art a foreigner, and besides, thou hast emigrated to the place where thou [dwellest].

dby@2Samuel:15:20 @ Thou didst come yesterday, and should I this day make thee go up and down with us, seeing I go whither I can? Return and take back thy brethren. Mercy and truth be with thee!

dby@2Samuel:15:21 @ And Ittai answered the king and said, [As] Jehovah liveth, and [as] my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy servant be.

dby@2Samuel:15:22 @ And David said to Ittai, Go and pass over. And Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones that were with him.

dby@2Samuel:15:23 @ And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over; the king also himself passed over the torrent Kidron, and all the people passed over, towards the way of the wilderness.

dby@2Samuel:15:24 @ And behold, Zadok also, and all the Levites with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God; and they set down the ark of God; and Abiathar went up, until all the people had passed completely out of the city.

dby@2Samuel:15:25 @ And the king said to Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city. If I shall find favour in the eyes of Jehovah, he will bring me again, and shew me it, and its habitation.

dby@2Samuel:15:26 @ But if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, [here am] I, let him do to me as seemeth good to him.

dby@2Samuel:15:27 @ And the king said to Zadok the priest, Thou art the seer: return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz thy son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.

dby@2Samuel:15:28 @ See, I will stop in the plains of the desert, until there come word from you to inform me.

dby@2Samuel:15:29 @ And Zadok and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem; and they abode there.

dby@2Samuel:15:30 @ But David went up by the ascent of the Olives, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot; and all the people that was with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.

dby@2Samuel:15:31 @ And one told David saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. Then said David, Jehovah, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.

dby@2Samuel:15:32 @ And it came to pass, when David had come to the summit, where he worshipped God, that behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his head.

dby@2Samuel:15:33 @ And David said to him, If thou passest on with me, thou wilt be a burden to me;

dby@2Samuel:15:34 @ but if thou return to the city, and say to Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king; as I have been thy father's servant hitherto, so now will I be thy servant; then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel.

dby@2Samuel:15:35 @ And hast thou not there with thee Zadok and Abiathar the priests? and it shall be, [that] whatsoever thing thou shalt hear out of the king's house, thou shalt tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.

dby@2Samuel:15:36 @ Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz Zadok's [son], and Jonathan Abiathar's son; and by them ye shall send to me everything that ye shall hear.

dby@2Samuel:15:37 @ And Hushai David's friend came into the city, and Absalom came into Jerusalem.

dby@2Samuel:16:1 @ And when David was a little past the summit, behold, Ziba, Mephibosheth's servant, met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred [loaves] of bread, and a hundred raisin-cakes, and a hundred cakes of summer fruits, and a flask of wine.

dby@2Samuel:16:2 @ And the king said to Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses are for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruits for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as are faint in the wilderness may drink.

dby@2Samuel:16:3 @ And the king said, And where is thy master's son? And Ziba said to the king, Behold, he abides at Jerusalem; for he said, To-day shall the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father.

dby@2Samuel:16:4 @ And the king said to Ziba, Behold, thine are all that pertained to Mephibosheth. And Ziba said, I humbly bow myself: may I find favour in thy sight, my lord, O king.

dby@2Samuel:16:5 @ And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, there came out from thence a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed,

dby@2Samuel:16:6 @ and cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David; and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.

dby@2Samuel:16:7 @ And thus said Shimei as he cursed: Away, away, thou man of blood and man of Belial!

dby@2Samuel:16:8 @ Jehovah has returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and Jehovah has given the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son; and behold, thou art [taken] in thine own evil, for thou art a man of blood.

dby@2Samuel:16:9 @ And Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.

dby@2Samuel:16:10 @ And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? so let him curse, for Jehovah has said to him, Curse David! Who shall then say, Why dost thou so?

dby@2Samuel:16:11 @ And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, who came forth of my bowels, seeks my life: how much more now a Benjaminite? let him alone and let him curse; for Jehovah has bidden him.

dby@2Samuel:16:12 @ It may be that Jehovah will look on mine affliction, and that Jehovah will requite me good for my being cursed this day.

dby@2Samuel:16:13 @ And David and his men went by the way; and Shimei went along on the hill's side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him, and cast dust.

dby@2Samuel:16:14 @ And the king, and all the people that were with him, came weary, and refreshed themselves there.

dby@2Samuel:16:15 @ Now Absalom, and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.

dby@2Samuel:16:16 @ And it came to pass, when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, came to Absalom, that Hushai said to Absalom, Long live the king! Long live the king!

dby@2Samuel:16:17 @ And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why didst thou not go with thy friend?

dby@2Samuel:16:18 @ And Hushai said to Absalom, No; but whom Jehovah, and this people, and all the men of Israel choose, his will I be, and with him will I abide.

dby@2Samuel:16:19 @ And again, whom should I serve? should it not be in the presence of his son? as I have served in thy father's presence, so will I be in thy presence.

dby@2Samuel:16:20 @ And Absalom said to Ahithophel, Give counsel among you what we shall do.

dby@2Samuel:16:21 @ And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to thy father's concubines, whom he has left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art become odious with thy father; and the hands of all that are with thee shall be strong.

dby@2Samuel:16:22 @ So they spread a tent for Absalom upon the roof; and Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.

dby@2Samuel:16:23 @ And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, was as if a man had inquired of the word of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.

dby@2Samuel:17:1 @ And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me, I pray, choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David to-night;

dby@2Samuel:17:2 @ and I will come upon him while he is weary and weak-handed, and will make him afraid; and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only;

dby@2Samuel:17:3 @ and I will bring back all the people to thee. The man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: all the people shall be in peace.

dby@2Samuel:17:4 @ And the saying was right in the eyes of Absalom, and in the eyes of all the elders of Israel.

dby@2Samuel:17:5 @ And Absalom said, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and we will hear also what he says.

dby@2Samuel:17:6 @ And Hushai came to Absalom, and Absalom spoke to him saying, Ahithophel has spoken after this manner: shall we carry out his word? If not, speak thou.

dby@2Samuel:17:7 @ And Hushai said to Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel has given this time is not good.

dby@2Samuel:17:8 @ And Hushai said, Thou knowest thy father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are of exasperated spirit, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field; and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.

dby@2Samuel:17:9 @ Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or some such place; and it will come to pass, when some of them fall at the first, whoever heareth it will say, There has been slaughter among the people that follow Absalom,

dby@2Samuel:17:10 @ and even the valiant man whose heart is as the heart of a lion shall utterly melt; for all Israel knows that thy father is a mighty man, and they that are with him are valiant men.

dby@2Samuel:17:11 @ But I counsel that all Israel be speedily gathered to thee, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.

dby@2Samuel:17:12 @ And we shall come upon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light upon him as the dew falls on the ground; and of him and of all the men that are with him there shall not be left so much as one.

dby@2Samuel:17:13 @ And if he withdraw into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the torrent, until there be not one small stone found there.

dby@2Samuel:17:14 @ And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. And Jehovah had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, in order that Jehovah might bring evil upon Absalom.

dby@2Samuel:17:15 @ And Hushai said to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counselled.

dby@2Samuel:17:16 @ And now send quickly, and tell David saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him.

dby@2Samuel:17:17 @ And Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by En-rogel; and the maid went and told them; and they went and told king David, for they might not be seen to come into the city.

dby@2Samuel:17:18 @ But a lad saw them, and told Absalom. Then they went both of them away quickly, and came to the house of a man at Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down there.

dby@2Samuel:17:19 @ And the woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn on it; and the thing was not known.

dby@2Samuel:17:20 @ And Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house, and said, Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said to them, They have gone over the brook of water. And they sought and could not find [them], and returned to Jerusalem.

dby@2Samuel:17:21 @ And it came to pass after they had departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David; and they said to David, Arise and pass quickly over the water; for thus has Ahithophel counselled against you.

dby@2Samuel:17:22 @ Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they passed over the Jordan; by the morning light there was not one of them missing that had not gone over the Jordan.

dby@2Samuel:17:23 @ And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose and went to his house, to his city, and gave charge to his household, and hanged himself, and he died; and he was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

dby@2Samuel:17:24 @ And David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

dby@2Samuel:17:25 @ And Absalom set Amasa over the host instead of Joab; which Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Jithra the Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab's mother.

dby@2Samuel:17:26 @ And Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead.

dby@2Samuel:17:27 @ And as soon as David came to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,

dby@2Samuel:17:28 @ brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched [corn], and beans, and lentils, and parched [pulse],

dby@2Samuel:17:29 @ and honey, and cream, and sheep, and cheese of kine to David, and to the people that were with him, to eat; for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty in the wilderness.

dby@2Samuel:18:1 @ And David marshalled the people that were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.

dby@2Samuel:18:2 @ And David sent forth the people, a third part under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the people, I will surely go forth with you myself also.

dby@2Samuel:18:3 @ But the people said, Thou shalt not go forth, for if we should in any case flee, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us; for thou art worth ten thousand of us; and now it is better that thou succour us out of the city.

dby@2Samuel:18:4 @ And the king said to them, I will do what is good in your sight. And the king stood by the gate-side, and all the people came out by hundreds and by thousands.

dby@2Samuel:18:5 @ And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, [Deal] gently for my sake with the young man Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom.

dby@2Samuel:18:6 @ And the people went out into the field against Israel; and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.

dby@2Samuel:18:7 @ And the people of Israel were routed before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter there that day: twenty thousand men.

dby@2Samuel:18:8 @ And the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

dby@2Samuel:18:9 @ And Absalom found himself in the presence of David's servants. And Absalom was riding upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of the great terebinth, and his head caught in the terebinth, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.

dby@2Samuel:18:10 @ And a man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in a terebinth.

dby@2Samuel:18:11 @ And Joab said to the man that told him, And behold, thou sawest [him], and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten silver pieces and a girdle.

dby@2Samuel:18:12 @ And the man said to Joab, Though I should receive a thousand silver pieces in my hand, yet would I not put forth my hand against the king's son; for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Take care, whoever it be [of you], of the young man Absalom.

dby@2Samuel:18:13 @ Or I should have acted falsely against mine own life, for there is no matter concealed from the king, and thou wouldest have set thyself against [me].

dby@2Samuel:18:14 @ Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three spears in his hand, and thrust them into Absalom's body, while he was yet alive in the midst of the terebinth.

dby@2Samuel:18:15 @ And ten young men that bore Joab's armour surrounded and smote Absalom, and killed him.

dby@2Samuel:18:16 @ And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab kept back the people.

dby@2Samuel:18:17 @ And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and raised a very great heap of stones upon him. And all Israel fled every one to his tent.

dby@2Samuel:18:18 @ Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a monument, which is in the king's dale; for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance; and he called the monument after his own name; and it is called unto this day, Absalom's memorial.

dby@2Samuel:18:19 @ And Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, Let me run, I pray, and carry the king the news that Jehovah has avenged him of his enemies.

dby@2Samuel:18:20 @ And Joab said to him, Thou shalt not be a bearer of news to-day, but thou shalt carry the news another day; but to-day thou shalt carry no news, because the king's son is dead.

dby@2Samuel:18:21 @ Then said Joab to the Cushite, Go, tell the king what thou hast seen. And the Cushite bowed himself to Joab, and ran.

dby@2Samuel:18:22 @ And Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said yet again to Joab, Come what may, let me, I pray thee, also run after the Cushite. And Joab said, Why wilt thou run, my son, seeing that there is no news suited [to thee]?

dby@2Samuel:18:23 @ -- But, come what may, let me run. And he said to him, Run. And Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and outstripped the Cushite.

dby@2Samuel:18:24 @ And David sat between the two gates; and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate, on to the wall, and lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man running alone.

dby@2Samuel:18:25 @ And the watchman cried, and told the king. And the king said, If he be alone, there is news in his mouth. And he came on and drew near.

dby@2Samuel:18:26 @ And the watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called to the porter and said, Behold a man running alone. And the king said, He also is a bearer of news.

dby@2Samuel:18:27 @ And the watchman said, I see the running of the foremost like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king said, He is a good man; and comes with good news.

dby@2Samuel:18:28 @ And Ahimaaz called and said to the king, Peace! And he fell down to the earth on his face before the king, and said, Blessed be Jehovah thy God, who has delivered up the men that lifted up their hand against my lord the king.

dby@2Samuel:18:29 @ And the king said, Is it well with the young man Absalom? And Ahimaaz said, I saw a great tumult when Joab sent the king's servant, and me thy servant; but I knew not what it was.

dby@2Samuel:18:30 @ And the king said, Turn aside [and] stand here. And he turned aside and stood still.

dby@2Samuel:18:31 @ And behold, the Cushite came; and the Cushite said, Let my lord the king receive good tidings, for Jehovah has avenged thee this day of all them that rose up against thee.

dby@2Samuel:18:32 @ And the king said to the Cushite, Is it well with the young man Absalom? And the Cushite said, The enemies of my lord the king, and all that rise against thee for evil, be as that young man.

dby@2Samuel:18:33 @ And the king was much moved, and went up to the upper chamber of the gate, and wept; and as he went, he said thus: O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died in thy stead, O Absalom, my son, my son!

dby@2Samuel:19:1 @ And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom.

dby@2Samuel:19:2 @ And the victory that day was [turned] into mourning for all the people; for the people heard say that day, The king is grieved for his son.

dby@2Samuel:19:3 @ And the people stole away that day into the city, as people steal away when ashamed of fleeing in battle.

dby@2Samuel:19:4 @ And the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, My son Absalom! Absalom, my son, my son!

dby@2Samuel:19:5 @ And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast put to shame this day the faces of all thy servants who have this day saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives and the lives of thy concubines;

dby@2Samuel:19:6 @ in that thou lovest them that hate thee, and hatest those that love thee. For thou hast declared this day, that neither princes nor servants are anything to thee: for to-day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died to-day, then it would have been right in thine eyes.

dby@2Samuel:19:7 @ But now arise, go forth, and speak consolingly to thy servants; for I swear by Jehovah, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry one with thee this night; and that would be worse to thee than all the evil that has befallen thee from thy youth until now.

dby@2Samuel:19:8 @ Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told all the people, saying, Behold, the king is sitting in the gate. And all the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his tent.

dby@2Samuel:19:9 @ And all the people were at strife throughout the tribes of Israel, saying, The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land because of Absalom.

dby@2Samuel:19:10 @ And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle; and now why are ye silent as to bringing the king back?

dby@2Samuel:19:11 @ And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak to the elders of Judah saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, to his house.

dby@2Samuel:19:12 @ Ye are my brethren, ye are my bone and my flesh; and why will ye be the last to bring back the king?

dby@2Samuel:19:13 @ And say to Amasa, Art thou not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually instead of Joab.

dby@2Samuel:19:14 @ And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah as of one man; and they sent to the king, Return, thou and all thy servants.

dby@2Samuel:19:15 @ And the king returned and came as far as the Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to conduct the king over the Jordan.

dby@2Samuel:19:16 @ And Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, who was of Bahurim, hasted and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.

dby@2Samuel:19:17 @ And there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they forded the Jordan before the king.

dby@2Samuel:19:18 @ And a ferry boat passed to and fro to carry over the king's household, and to do what he thought good. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king as he was [just] crossing over the Jordan.

dby@2Samuel:19:19 @ And he said to the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity to me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to heart.

dby@2Samuel:19:20 @ For thy servant knows that I have sinned; and behold, I am come the first this day of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.

dby@2Samuel:19:21 @ And Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Should not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed Jehovah's anointed?

dby@2Samuel:19:22 @ And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries to me? Should there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I am this day king over Israel?

dby@2Samuel:19:23 @ And the king said to Shimei, Thou shalt not die. And the king swore to him.

dby@2Samuel:19:24 @ And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king. Now he had neither washed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came [again] in peace.

dby@2Samuel:19:25 @ And as soon as Jerusalem came to meet the king, the king said to him, Why didst thou not go with me, Mephibosheth?

dby@2Samuel:19:26 @ And he said, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me; for thy servant said, I will saddle me the ass, and ride thereon, and go with the king; for thy servant is lame.

dby@2Samuel:19:27 @ And he has slandered thy servant to my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God; do therefore what is good in thy sight.

dby@2Samuel:19:28 @ For all my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king; and thou didst set thy servant among them that eat at thine own table. What further right therefore have I? and for what should I cry any more to the king?

dby@2Samuel:19:29 @ And the king said to him, Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the land.

dby@2Samuel:19:30 @ And Mephibosheth said to the king, Let him even take all, since my lord the king is come again in peace to his own house.

dby@2Samuel:19:31 @ And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim, and went over the Jordan with the king, to conduct him over the Jordan.

dby@2Samuel:19:32 @ And Barzillai was very aged, eighty years old; and it was he that had maintained the king while he abode at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.

dby@2Samuel:19:33 @ And the king said to Barzillai, Pass thou over with me, and I will maintain thee with me in Jerusalem.

dby@2Samuel:19:34 @ And Barzillai said to the king, How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

dby@2Samuel:19:35 @ I am this day eighty years old: can I discern between good and bad? can thy servant taste what I eat and what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? and why should thy servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?

dby@2Samuel:19:36 @ Thy servant will go a little way over the Jordan with the king; and why should the king recompense it to me with this reward?

dby@2Samuel:19:37 @ Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham: let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what seems good to thee.

dby@2Samuel:19:38 @ And the king said, Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which seems good to thee; and whatsoever thou shalt require of me, that will I do for thee.

dby@2Samuel:19:39 @ And all the people went over the Jordan; and the king went over; and the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned to his own place.

dby@2Samuel:19:40 @ And the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him; and all the people of Judah conducted the king, and also half the people of Israel.

dby@2Samuel:19:41 @ And behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away, and have brought the king, and his household, and all David's men with him, over the Jordan?

dby@2Samuel:19:42 @ And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to me; and why then are ye angry for this matter? have we eaten anything which came from the king, or has he given us any present?

dby@2Samuel:19:43 @ And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah and said, I have ten parts in the king and I have also more right in David than thou; and why didst thou slight me? and was not my advice the first, to bring back my king? And the words of the men of Judah were harsher than the words of the men of Israel.

dby@2Samuel:20:1 @ And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite; and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, Israel.

dby@2Samuel:20:2 @ Then all the men of Israel went up from after David, following Sheba the son of Bichri. But the men of Judah clave to their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.

dby@2Samuel:20:3 @ And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women, concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in a house of confinement and maintained them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.

dby@2Samuel:20:4 @ And the king said to Amasa, Call me the men of Judah together within three days, and do thou attend here.

dby@2Samuel:20:5 @ So Amasa went to call together [the men of] Judah; but he delayed longer than the set time which he had appointed him.

dby@2Samuel:20:6 @ And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom. Take thou thy lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fortified cities and escape our sight.

dby@2Samuel:20:7 @ And there went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men; and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

dby@2Samuel:20:8 @ When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came before them. And Joab was girded with his coat, his dress, and upon it was the girdle of the sword which was fastened on his loins in its sheath; and as he went forth it fell out.

dby@2Samuel:20:9 @ And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou well, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him.

dby@2Samuel:20:10 @ And Amasa had taken no notice of the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he smote him with it in the belly and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. And Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.

dby@2Samuel:20:11 @ And one of Joab's young men stood by [Amasa] and said, He that favours Joab, and he that is for David, let him follow Joab.

dby@2Samuel:20:12 @ Now Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that every one that came by stood still.

dby@2Samuel:20:13 @ When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri,

dby@2Samuel:20:14 @ who went through all the tribes of Israel to Abel, and to Beth-Maacah, and all the Berim; and they gathered together, and went also after him.

dby@2Samuel:20:15 @ And they came and besieged him in Abel-Beth-Maacah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it was raised in the trench; and all the people that were with Joab sapped the wall, to throw it down.

dby@2Samuel:20:16 @ And a wise woman cried out of the city, Hear, hear: say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with thee.

dby@2Samuel:20:17 @ And he came near to her; and the woman said, Art thou Joab? And he said, I [am he]. And she said to him, Listen to the words of thy handmaid. And he said, I am listening.

dby@2Samuel:20:18 @ And she spoke saying, They were wont to speak in old time saying, Just inquire in Abel; and so they ended.

dby@2Samuel:20:19 @ I am peaceable [and] faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of Jehovah?

dby@2Samuel:20:20 @ And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.

dby@2Samuel:20:21 @ The matter is not so; but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against the king, against David: give up him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said to Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall.

dby@2Samuel:20:22 @ Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast it to Joab. And he blew a trumpet, and they dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.

dby@2Samuel:20:23 @ And Joab was over all the host of Israel; and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites;

dby@2Samuel:20:24 @ and Adoram was over the levy; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;

dby@2Samuel:20:25 @ and Sheva was scribe; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

dby@2Samuel:20:26 @ and Ira also, the Jairite, was David's chief ruler.

dby@2Samuel:21:1 @ And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of Jehovah. And Jehovah said, It is for Saul, and for [his] house of blood, because he slew the Gibeonites.

dby@2Samuel:21:2 @ And the king called the Gibeonites, and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remainder of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn to them; and Saul sought to smite them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah.)

dby@2Samuel:21:3 @ And David said to the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and with what shall I make atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of Jehovah?

dby@2Samuel:21:4 @ And the Gibeonites said to him, As to Saul and his house, it is with us no question of receiving silver or gold, neither is it for us to have any man put to death in Israel. And he said, What ye say will I do for you.

dby@2Samuel:21:5 @ And they said to the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in all the borders of Israel,

dby@2Samuel:21:6 @ let seven men of his sons be given up to us, and we will hang them up to Jehovah in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of Jehovah. And the king said, I will give [them].

dby@2Samuel:21:7 @ But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Jehovah's oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

dby@2Samuel:21:8 @ And the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she had borne to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of [the sister of] Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she had borne to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite;

dby@2Samuel:21:9 @ and he gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the hill before Jehovah. And they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the first days of the harvest, in the beginning of barley harvest.

dby@2Samuel:21:10 @ Then Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water poured on them out of the heavens, and suffered neither the fowl of the heavens to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

dby@2Samuel:21:11 @ And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.

dby@2Samuel:21:12 @ And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-Gilead, who had stolen them from the open place of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, the day the Philistines had smitten Saul in Gilboa;

dby@2Samuel:21:13 @ and he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.

dby@2Samuel:21:14 @ And they buried [them] with the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the sepulchre of Kish his father; and they did all that the king had commanded. And afterwards God was propitious to the land.

dby@2Samuel:21:15 @ And the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought with the Philistines. And David was exhausted.

dby@2Samuel:21:16 @ And Ishbibenob, who was of the children of Raphah -- the weight of his lance was three hundred shekels of bronze, and he was girded with new [armour] -- thought to smite David.

dby@2Samuel:21:17 @ And Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the lamp of Israel.

dby@2Samuel:21:18 @ And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines, at Gob; then Sibbechai the Hushathite smote Saph, who was of the children of Raphah.

dby@2Samuel:21:19 @ And there was again a battle at Gob with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, a Bethlehemite, smote Goliath the Gittite; now the shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam.

dby@2Samuel:21:20 @ And there was again a battle, at Gath; and there was a man [there] of great stature, that had on each hand six fingers, and on each foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to Raphah.

dby@2Samuel:21:21 @ And he defied Israel; but Jonathan the son of Shimea David's brother smote him.

dby@2Samuel:21:22 @ These four were born to Raphah, in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

dby@2Samuel:22:1 @ And David spoke to Jehovah the words of this song in the day that Jehovah had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul.

dby@2Samuel:22:2 @ And he said, Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;

dby@2Samuel:22:3 @ God is my rock, in him will I trust -- My shield, and the horn of my salvation, My high tower, and my refuge, My saviour: thou wilt save me from violence.

dby@2Samuel:22:4 @ I will call upon Jehovah, who is to be praised; So shall I be saved from mine enemies.

dby@2Samuel:22:5 @ For the waves of death encompassed me, Torrents of Belial made me afraid.

dby@2Samuel:22:6 @ The bands of Sheol surrounded me; The cords of death encountered me;

dby@2Samuel:22:7 @ In my distress I called upon Jehovah, And I cried to my God; And he heard my voice out of his temple, And my cry [came] into his ears.

dby@2Samuel:22:8 @ Then the earth shook, and quaked; The foundations of the heavens trembled And shook because he was wroth.

dby@2Samuel:22:9 @ There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, And fire out of his mouth devoured: Coals burned forth from it.

dby@2Samuel:22:10 @ And he bowed the heavens, and came down; And darkness was under his feet.

dby@2Samuel:22:11 @ And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly; And he was seen upon the wings of the wind.

dby@2Samuel:22:12 @ And he made darkness round about him a tent, Gatherings of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

dby@2Samuel:22:13 @ From the brightness before him Burned forth coals of fire.

dby@2Samuel:22:14 @ Jehovah thundered from the heavens, And the Most High uttered his voice.

dby@2Samuel:22:15 @ And he sent arrows, and scattered [mine enemies]; Lightning, and discomfited them.

dby@2Samuel:22:16 @ And the beds of the sea were seen, The foundations of the world were uncovered At the rebuke of Jehovah, At the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

dby@2Samuel:22:17 @ He reached forth from above, he took me, He drew me out of great waters;

dby@2Samuel:22:18 @ He delivered me from my strong enemy, From them that hated me; For they were mightier than I.

dby@2Samuel:22:19 @ They encountered me in the day of my calamity; But Jehovah was my stay.

dby@2Samuel:22:20 @ And he brought me forth into a large place; He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

dby@2Samuel:22:21 @ Jehovah hath rewarded me according to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

dby@2Samuel:22:22 @ For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not wickedly departed from my God.

dby@2Samuel:22:23 @ For all his ordinances were before me, And his statutes, I did not depart from them,

dby@2Samuel:22:24 @ And I was upright before him, And kept myself from mine iniquity.

dby@2Samuel:22:25 @ And Jehovah hath recompensed me according to my righteousness, According to my cleanness in his sight.

dby@2Samuel:22:26 @ With the gracious thou dost shew thyself gracious; With the upright man thou dost shew thyself upright;

dby@2Samuel:22:27 @ With the pure thou dost shew thyself pure; And with the perverse thou dost shew thyself contrary.

dby@2Samuel:22:28 @ And the afflicted people thou dost save; And thine eyes are upon the haughty, [whom] thou bringest down.

dby@2Samuel:22:29 @ For thou art my lamp, Jehovah; And Jehovah enlighteneth my darkness.

dby@2Samuel:22:30 @ For by thee I have run through a troop; By my God have I leaped over a wall.

dby@2Samuel:22:31 @ As for �God, his way is perfect; The word of Jehovah is tried: He is a shield to all that trust in him.

dby@2Samuel:22:32 @ For who is �God, save Jehovah? And who is a rock, save our God?

dby@2Samuel:22:33 @ �God is my strong fortress, And he maketh my way perfectly smooth.

dby@2Samuel:22:34 @ He maketh my feet like hinds' [feet], And setteth me upon my high places.

dby@2Samuel:22:35 @ He teacheth my hands to war, And mine arms bend a bow of brass.

dby@2Samuel:22:36 @ And thou didst give me the shield of thy salvation, And thy condescending gentleness hath made me great.

dby@2Samuel:22:37 @ Thou enlargedst my steps under me; And mine ankles did not slip.

dby@2Samuel:22:38 @ I pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them, And I turned not again till they were consumed.

dby@2Samuel:22:39 @ And I have consumed them and have crushed them, and they rose not again; Yea, they fell under my feet.

dby@2Samuel:22:40 @ And thou girdedst me with strength to battle: Thou didst subdue under me those that rose up against me.

dby@2Samuel:22:41 @ And mine enemies didst thou make to turn their backs unto me, And those that hated me I destroyed.

dby@2Samuel:22:42 @ They looked, and there was none to save -- Unto Jehovah, and he answered them not.

dby@2Samuel:22:43 @ And I did beat them small as the dust of the earth, I trod them as the mire of the streets; I stamped upon them.

dby@2Samuel:22:44 @ And thou hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, Thou hast kept me to be head of the nations: A people I knew not doth serve me:

dby@2Samuel:22:45 @ Strangers come cringing unto me: At the hearing of the ear, they obey me.

dby@2Samuel:22:46 @ Strangers have faded away, And they come trembling forth from their close places.

dby@2Samuel:22:47 @ Jehovah liveth; and blessed be my rock; And exalted be the God, the rock of my salvation,

dby@2Samuel:22:48 @ The �God who hath avenged me, And hath brought the peoples under me.

dby@2Samuel:22:49 @ He brought me forth from mine enemies: Yea, thou hast lifted me up above them that rose up against me; From the man of violence hast thou delivered me.

dby@2Samuel:22:50 @ Therefore will I give thanks to thee, Jehovah, among the nations, And will sing psalms to thy name.

dby@2Samuel:22:51 @ [It is he] who giveth great deliverances to his king, And sheweth loving-kindness to his anointed, To David, and to his seed for evermore.

dby@2Samuel:23:1 @ Now these are the last words of David: David the son of Jesse saith, And the man who was raised up on high, The anointed of the God of Jacob, And the sweet psalmist of Israel saith,

dby@2Samuel:23:2 @ The Spirit of Jehovah spoke by me, And his word was on my tongue.

dby@2Samuel:23:3 @ The God of Israel said, The Rock of Israel spoke to me, The ruler among men shall be just, Ruling in the fear of God;

dby@2Samuel:23:4 @ And [he shall be] as the light or the morning, [like] the rising of the sun, A morning without clouds; [When] from the sunshine, after rain, The green grass springeth from the earth.

dby@2Samuel:23:5 @ Although my house be not so before �God, Yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in every way and sure; For [this is] all my salvation, and every desire, Although he make [it] not to grow.

dby@2Samuel:23:6 @ But [the sons] of Belial [are] all of them as thorns thrust away, Because they cannot be taken with hands;

dby@2Samuel:23:7 @ And the man that will touch them provideth himself with iron and the staff of a spear; And they shall be utterly burned with fire in [their] place.

dby@2Samuel:23:8 @ These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Joseb-Bassebeth, Tachkemonite the chief of the captains: he was Adino the Eznite; he [fought] against eight hundred, slain [by him] at one time.

dby@2Samuel:23:9 @ And after him, Eleazar the son of Dodo the son of an Ahohite: he was one of the three mighty men with David, when they had defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone up.

dby@2Samuel:23:10 @ He arose and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave to the sword; and Jehovah wrought a great deliverance that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil.

dby@2Samuel:23:11 @ And after him, Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite: the Philistines were gathered into a troop, and there was there a plot of ground full of lentils, and the people had fled before the Philistines;

dby@2Samuel:23:12 @ and he stood in the midst of the plot and delivered it, and smote the Philistines, and Jehovah wrought a great deliverance.

dby@2Samuel:23:13 @ And three of the thirty chiefs went down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam, when the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

dby@2Samuel:23:14 @ And David was then in the stronghold; and the Philistines' garrison was then at Bethlehem.

dby@2Samuel:23:15 @ And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me to drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is in the gate!

dby@2Samuel:23:16 @ And the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, which is in the gate, and took it, and brought it to David; however he would not drink of it, but poured it out to Jehovah.

dby@2Samuel:23:17 @ And he said, Be it far from me, Jehovah, that I should do this thing! is it not the blood of the men that went at the risk of their lives? Therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.

dby@2Samuel:23:18 @ And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was the chief of three; and he brandished his spear against three hundred and slew them; and he had a name among the three.

dby@2Samuel:23:19 @ Was he not most honourable of three? and he was their captain; but he did not attain to the [first] three.

dby@2Samuel:23:20 @ And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, son of a valiant man, great in exploits, of Kabzeel: he it was that smote two lions of Moab; and he went down and smote a lion in the midst of a pit on a snowy day.

dby@2Samuel:23:21 @ He also smote the Egyptian, an imposing man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.

dby@2Samuel:23:22 @ These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and he had a name among the three mighty men.

dby@2Samuel:23:23 @ He was honoured above the thirty, but he did not attain to the [first] three. And David set him in his council.

dby@2Samuel:23:24 @ Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

dby@2Samuel:23:25 @ Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,

dby@2Samuel:23:26 @ Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,

dby@2Samuel:23:27 @ Abiezer the Anathothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,

dby@2Samuel:23:28 @ Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,

dby@2Samuel:23:29 @ Heleb the son of Baanah, the Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,

dby@2Samuel:23:30 @ Benaiah a Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,

dby@2Samuel:23:31 @ Abi-albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite,

dby@2Samuel:23:32 @ Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,

dby@2Samuel:23:33 @ Shammah the Ararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Ararite,

dby@2Samuel:23:34 @ Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,

dby@2Samuel:23:35 @ Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,

dby@2Samuel:23:36 @ Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,

dby@2Samuel:23:37 @ Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, the armour-bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,

dby@2Samuel:23:38 @ Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,

dby@2Samuel:23:39 @ Uriah the Hittite: thirty-seven in all.

dby@2Samuel:24:1 @ And again the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them saying, Go, number Israel and Judah.

dby@2Samuel:24:2 @ And the king said to Joab the captain of the host, who was with him, Go, I pray thee, through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, and count the people, that I may know the number of the people.

dby@2Samuel:24:3 @ And Joab said to the king, May Jehovah thy God even add to the people, how many soever they be, a hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see [it]; but why does my lord the king delight in this thing?

dby@2Samuel:24:4 @ But the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the army. And Joab and the captains of the army went out from the presence of the king to count the people of Israel.

dby@2Samuel:24:5 @ And they passed over the Jordan, and encamped in Aroer, on the right side of the city that is in the midst of the ravine of Gad, and toward Jaazer.

dby@2Samuel:24:6 @ And they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim-hodshi; and came to Dan-jaan, and to the environs of Sidon;

dby@2Samuel:24:7 @ and they came to the fortified city of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites and of the Canaanites; and went out to the south of Judah, to Beer-sheba.

dby@2Samuel:24:8 @ And they went through all the land, and came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

dby@2Samuel:24:9 @ And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people to the king; and there were of Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.

dby@2Samuel:24:10 @ And David's heart smote him after he had numbered the people. And David said to Jehovah, I have sinned greatly in what I have done; and now, I beseech thee, Jehovah, put away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.

dby@2Samuel:24:11 @ And when David arose in the morning, the word of Jehovah came to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,

dby@2Samuel:24:12 @ Go and say to David, Thus saith Jehovah: I impose on thee three [things]; choose one of them that I may do it unto thee.

dby@2Samuel:24:13 @ And Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come to thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine adversaries while they pursue thee? or shall there be three days' pestilence in thy land? Now be aware and consider what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.

dby@2Samuel:24:14 @ And David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall, I pray thee, into the hand of Jehovah; for his mercies are great; but let me not fall into the hand of man.

dby@2Samuel:24:15 @ And Jehovah sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the set time; and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men.

dby@2Samuel:24:16 @ And the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it; but Jehovah repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed among the people, It is enough: withdraw now thine hand. And the angel of Jehovah was by the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

dby@2Samuel:24:17 @ And David spoke to Jehovah when he saw the angel that smote among the people, and said, Behold, it is I that have sinned, and it is I that have committed iniquity; but these sheep, what have they done? let thy hand, I pray thee, be on me, and on my father's house!

dby@2Samuel:24:18 @ And Gad came that day to David, and said to him, Go up, rear an altar to Jehovah in the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

dby@2Samuel:24:19 @ And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as Jehovah had commanded.

dby@2Samuel:24:20 @ And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on towards him; and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.

dby@2Samuel:24:21 @ And Araunah said, Why is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshing-floor of thee, to build an altar to Jehovah, that the plague may be stayed from the people.

dby@2Samuel:24:22 @ And Araunah said to David, Let my lord the king take and offer up that which is good in his sight: see, [here are] oxen for the burnt-offering, and the threshing-sledges and implements of the oxen for wood.

dby@2Samuel:24:23 @ All these things, O king, doth Araunah give to the king. And Araunah said to the king, Jehovah thy God accept thee.

dby@2Samuel:24:24 @ And the king said to Araunah, No; but I will in any case buy [them] of thee at a price: neither will I offer up to Jehovah my God burnt-offerings without cost. And David bought the threshing-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

dby@2Samuel:24:25 @ And David built there an altar to Jehovah, and offered up burnt-offerings and peace-offerings. And Jehovah was propitious to the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.

dby@1Chronicles:6:28 @ And the sons of Samuel: the firstborn Vashni and Abijah.

dby@1Chronicles:6:33 @ And these are they that attended, and their sons: Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel,

dby@1Chronicles:7:2 @ And the sons of Tola: Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Samuel, heads of their fathers' houses, of Tola, valiant men of might in their generations; their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred.

dby@1Chronicles:9:22 @ All these chosen to be doorkeepers at the thresholds were two hundred and twelve. These were registered by genealogy according to their villages: David and Samuel the seer had instituted them in their trust.

dby@1Chronicles:11:3 @ And all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Jehovah; and they anointed David king over Israel according to the word of Jehovah through Samuel.

dby@1Chronicles:26:28 @ and all that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah had dedicated: all that was dedicated was under the hand of Shelomith and of his brethren.

dby@1Chronicles:29:29 @ And the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer;

dby@2Chronicles:35:18 @ And there was no passover like to that holden in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel hold such a passover as Josiah held, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

dby@Psalms:99:6 @ Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name: they called unto Jehovah, and he answered them.

dby@Jeremiah:15:1 @ And Jehovah said unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, my soul [would] not [turn] toward this people. Send [them] out of my sight, and let them go forth.

dby@Acts:3:24 @ And indeed all the prophets from Samuel and those in succession after [him], as many as have spoken, have announced also these days.

dby@Acts:13:20 @ And after these things he gave [them] judges till Samuel the prophet, [to the end of] about four hundred and fifty years.

dby@Hebrews:11:32 @ And what more do I say? For the time would fail me telling of Gideon, and Barak, and Samson, and Jephthah, and David and Samuel, and of the prophets:


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