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rsv@Joshua:6:15 @ On the seventh day they rose early at the dawn of day, and marched around the city in the same manner seven times: it was only on that day that they marched around the city seven times.

rsv@Joshua:18:13 @ From there the boundary passes along southward in the direction of Luz, to the shoulder of Luz (the same is Bethel), then the boundary goes down to At'aroth-ad'dar, upon the mountain that lies south of Lower Beth-hor'on.

rsv@Judges:7:9 @ That same night the LORD said to him, "Arise, go down against the camp; for I have given it into your hand.

rsv@Judges:8:8 @ And from there he went up to Penu'el, and spoke to them in the same way; and the men of Penu'el answered him as the men of Succoth had answered.

rsv@Judges:13:24 @ And the woman bore a son, and called his name Samson; and the boy grew, and the LORD blessed him.

rsv@Judges:14:1 @ Samson went down to Timnah, and at Timnah he saw one of the daughters of the Philistines.

rsv@Judges:14:3 @ But his father and mother said to him, "Is there not a woman among the daughters of your kinsmen, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?" But Samson said to his father, "Get her for me; for she pleases me well."

rsv@Judges:14:5 @ Then Samson went down with his father and mother to Timnah, and he came to the vineyards of Timnah. And behold, a young lion roared against him;

rsv@Judges:14:7 @ Then he went down and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well.

rsv@Judges:14:10 @ And his father went down to the woman, and Samson made a feast there; for so the young men used to do.

rsv@Judges:14:12 @ And Samson said to them, "Let me now put a riddle to you; if you can tell me what it is, within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty festal garments;

rsv@Judges:14:15 @ On the fourth day they said to Samson's wife, "Entice your husband to tell us what the riddle is, lest we burn you and your father's house with fire. Have you invited us here to impoverish us?"

rsv@Judges:14:16 @ And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, "You only hate me, you do not love me; you have put a riddle to my countrymen, and you have not told me what it is." And he said to her, "Behold, I have not told my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?"

rsv@Judges:14:20 @ And Samson's wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man.

rsv@Judges:15:1 @ After a while, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife with a kid; and he said, "I will go in to my wife in the chamber." But her father would not allow him to go in.

rsv@Judges:15:3 @ And Samson said to them, "This time I shall be blameless in regard to the Philistines, when I do them mischief."

rsv@Judges:15:4 @ So Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches; and he turned them tail to tail, and put a torch between each pair of tails.

rsv@Judges:15:6 @ Then the Philistines said, "Who has done this?" And they said, "Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion." And the Philistines came up, and burned her and her father with fire.

rsv@Judges:15:7 @ And Samson said to them, "If this is what you do, I swear I will be avenged upon you, and after that I will quit."

rsv@Judges:15:10 @ And the men of Judah said, "Why have you come up against us?" They said, "We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he did to us."

rsv@Judges:15:11 @ Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, "Do you not know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" And he said to them, "As they did to me, so have I done to them."

rsv@Judges:15:12 @ And they said to him, "We have come down to bind you, that we may give you into the hands of the Philistines." And Samson said to them, "Swear to me that you will not fall upon me yourselves."

rsv@Judges:15:16 @ And Samson said, "With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of an ass have I slain a thousand men."

rsv@Judges:16:1 @ Samson went to Gaza, and there he saw a harlot, and he went in to her.

rsv@Judges:16:2 @ The Gazites were told, "Samson has come here," and they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the gate of the city. They kept quiet all night, saying, "Let us wait till the light of the morning; then we will kill him."

rsv@Judges:16:3 @ But Samson lay till midnight, and at midnight he arose and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city and the two posts, and pulled them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that is before Hebron.

rsv@Judges:16:6 @ And Deli'lah said to Samson, "Please tell me wherein your great strength lies, and how you might be bound, that one could subdue you."

rsv@Judges:16:7 @ And Samson said to her, "If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings which have not been dried, then I shall become weak, and be like any other man."

rsv@Judges:16:9 @ Now she had men lying in wait in an inner chamber. And she said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" But he snapped the bowstrings, as a string of tow snaps when it touches the fire. So the secret of his strength was not known.

rsv@Judges:16:10 @ And Deli'lah said to Samson, "Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies; please tell me how you might be bound."

rsv@Judges:16:12 @ So Deli'lah took new ropes and bound him with them, and said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" And the men lying in wait were in an inner chamber. But he snapped the ropes off his arms like a thread.

rsv@Judges:16:13 @ And Deli'lah said to Samson, "Until now you have mocked me, and told me lies; tell me how you might be bound." And he said to her, "If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web and make it tight with the pin, then I shall become weak, and be like any other man."

rsv@Judges:16:14 @ So while he slept, Deli'lah took the seven locks of his head and wove them into the web. And she made them tight with the pin, and said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" But he awoke from his sleep, and pulled away the pin, the loom, and the web.

rsv@Judges:16:20 @ And she said, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" And he awoke from his sleep, and said, "I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free." And he did not know that the LORD had left him.

rsv@Judges:16:23 @ Now the lords of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, "Our god has given Samson our enemy into our hand."

rsv@Judges:16:25 @ And when their hearts were merry, they said, "Call Samson, that he may make sport for us." So they called Samson out of the prison, and he made sport before them. They made him stand between the pillars;

rsv@Judges:16:26 @ and Samson said to the lad who held him by the hand, "Let me feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean against them."

rsv@Judges:16:27 @ Now the house was full of men and women; all the lords of the Philistines were there, and on the roof there were about three thousand men and women, who looked on while Samson made sport.

rsv@Judges:16:28 @ Then Samson called to the LORD and said, "O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be avenged upon the Philistines for one of my two eyes."

rsv@Judges:16:29 @ And Samson grasped the two middle pillars upon which the house rested, and he leaned his weight upon them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other.

rsv@Judges:16:30 @ And Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines." Then he bowed with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords and upon all the people that were in it. So the dead whom he slew at his death were more than those whom he had slain during his life.

rsv@Judges:20:22 @ But the people, the men of Israel, took courage, and again formed the battle line in the same place where they had formed it on the first day.

rsv@1Samuel:1:1 @ There was a certain man of Ramatha'im-zo'phim of the hill country of E'phraim, whose name was Elka'nah the son of Jero'ham, son of Eli'hu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, an E'phraimite.

rsv@1Samuel:1:2 @ He had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Penin'nah. And Penin'nah had children, but Hannah had no children.

rsv@1Samuel:1:3 @ Now this man used to go up year by year from his city to worship and to sacrifice to the LORD of hosts at Shiloh, where the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phin'ehas, were priests of the LORD.

rsv@1Samuel:1:4 @ On the day when Elka'nah sacrificed, he would give portions to Penin'nah his wife and to all her sons and daughters;

rsv@1Samuel:1:5 @ and, although he loved Hannah, he would give Hannah only one portion, because the LORD had closed her womb.

rsv@1Samuel:1:6 @ And her rival used to provoke her sorely, to irritate her, because the LORD had closed her womb.

rsv@1Samuel:1:7 @ So it went on year by year; as often as she went up to the house of the LORD, she used to provoke her. Therefore Hannah wept and would not eat.

rsv@1Samuel:1:8 @ And Elka'nah, her husband, said to her, "Hannah, why do you weep? And why do you not eat? And why is your heart sad? Am I not more to you than ten sons?"

rsv@1Samuel:1:9 @ After they had eaten and drunk in Shiloh, Hannah rose. Now Eli the priest was sitting on the seat beside the doorpost of the temple of the LORD.

rsv@1Samuel:1:10 @ She was deeply distressed and prayed to the LORD, and wept bitterly.

rsv@1Samuel:1:11 @ And she vowed a vow and said, "O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thy maidservant, and remember me, and not forget thy maidservant, but wilt give to thy maidservant a son, then I will give him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall touch his head."

rsv@1Samuel:1:12 @ As she continued praying before the LORD, Eli observed her mouth.

rsv@1Samuel:1:13 @ Hannah was speaking in her heart; only her lips moved, and her voice was not heard; therefore Eli took her to be a drunken woman.

rsv@1Samuel:1:14 @ And Eli said to her, "How long will you be drunken? Put away your wine from you."

rsv@1Samuel:1:15 @ But Hannah answered, "No, my lord, I am a woman sorely troubled; I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have been pouring out my soul before the LORD.

rsv@1Samuel:1:16 @ Do not regard your maidservant as a base woman, for all along I have been speaking out of my great anxiety and vexation."

rsv@1Samuel:1:17 @ Then Eli answered, "Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant your petition which you have made to him."

rsv@1Samuel:1:18 @ And she said, "Let your maidservant find favor in your eyes." Then the woman went her way and ate, and her countenance was no longer sad.

rsv@1Samuel:1:19 @ They rose early in the morning and worshiped before the LORD; then they went back to their house at Ramah. And Elka'nah knew Hannah his wife, and the LORD remembered her;

rsv@1Samuel:1:20 @ and in due time Hannah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Samuel, for she said, "I have asked him of the LORD."

rsv@1Samuel:1:21 @ And the man Elka'nah and all his house went up to offer to the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and to pay his vow.

rsv@1Samuel:1:22 @ But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, "As soon as the child is weaned, I will bring him, that he may appear in the presence of the LORD, and abide there for ever."

rsv@1Samuel:1:23 @ Elka'nah her husband said to her, "Do what seems best to you, wait until you have weaned him; only, may the LORD establish his word." So the woman remained and nursed her son, until she weaned him.

rsv@1Samuel:1:24 @ And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine; and she brought him to the house of the LORD at Shiloh; and the child was young.

rsv@1Samuel:1:25 @ Then they slew the bull, and they brought the child to Eli.

rsv@1Samuel:1:26 @ And she said, "Oh, my lord! As you live, my lord, I am the woman who was standing here in your presence, praying to the LORD.

rsv@1Samuel:1:27 @ For this child I prayed; and the LORD has granted me my petition which I made to him.

rsv@1Samuel:1:28 @ Therefore I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he lives, he is lent to the LORD." And they worshiped the LORD there.

rsv@1Samuel:2:1 @ Hannah also prayed and said, "My heart exults in the LORD; my strength is exalted in the LORD. My mouth derides my enemies, because I rejoice in thy salvation.

rsv@1Samuel:2:2 @ "There is none holy like the LORD, there is none besides thee; there is no rock like our God.

rsv@1Samuel:2:3 @ Talk no more so very proudly, let not arrogance come from your mouth; for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

rsv@1Samuel:2:4 @ The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble gird on strength.

rsv@1Samuel:2:5 @ Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry have ceased to hunger. The barren has borne seven, but she who has many children is forlorn.

rsv@1Samuel:2:6 @ The LORD kills and brings to life; he brings down to Sheol and raises up.

rsv@1Samuel:2:7 @ The LORD makes poor and makes rich; he brings low, he also exalts.

rsv@1Samuel:2:8 @ He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap, to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, and on them he has set the world.

rsv@1Samuel:2:9 @ "He will guard the feet of his faithful ones; but the wicked shall be cut off in darkness; for not by might shall a man prevail.

rsv@1Samuel:2:10 @ The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; against them he will thunder in heaven. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth; he will give strength to his king, and exalt the power of his anointed."

rsv@1Samuel:2:11 @ Then Elka'nah went home to Ramah. And the boy ministered to the LORD, in the presence of Eli the priest.

rsv@1Samuel:2:12 @ Now the sons of Eli were worthless men; they had no regard for the LORD.

rsv@1Samuel:2:13 @ The custom of the priests with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant would come, while the meat was boiling, with a three-pronged fork in his hand,

rsv@1Samuel:2:14 @ and he would thrust it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fork brought up the priest would take for himself. So they did at Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there.

rsv@1Samuel:2:15 @ Moreover, before the fat was burned, the priest's servant would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, "Give meat for the priest to roast; for he will not accept boiled meat from you, but raw."

rsv@1Samuel:2:16 @ And if the man said to him, "Let them burn the fat first, and then take as much as you wish," he would say, "No, you must give it now; and if not, I will take it by force."

rsv@1Samuel:2:17 @ Thus the sin of the young men was very great in the sight of the LORD; for the men treated the offering of the LORD with contempt.

rsv@1Samuel:2:18 @ Samuel was ministering before the LORD, a boy girded with a linen ephod.

rsv@1Samuel:2:19 @ And his mother used to make for him a little robe and take it to him each year, when she went up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

rsv@1Samuel:2:20 @ Then Eli would bless Elka'nah and his wife, and say, "The LORD give you children by this woman for the loan which she lent to the LORD"; so then they would return to their home.

rsv@1Samuel:2:21 @ And the LORD visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. And the boy Samuel grew in the presence of the LORD.

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

rsv@1Samuel:2:23 @ And he said to them, "Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all the people.

rsv@1Samuel:2:24 @ No, my sons; it is no good report that I hear the people of the LORD spreading abroad.

rsv@1Samuel:2:25 @ If a man sins against a man, God will mediate for him; but if a man sins against the LORD, who can intercede for him?" But they would not listen to the voice of their father; for it was the will of the LORD to slay them.

rsv@1Samuel:2:26 @ Now the boy Samuel continued to grow both in stature and in favor with the LORD and with men.

rsv@1Samuel:2:27 @ And there came a man of God to Eli, and said to him, "Thus the LORD has said, `I revealed myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt subject to the house of Pharaoh.

rsv@1Samuel:2:28 @ And I chose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me; and I gave to the house of your father all my offerings by fire from the people of Israel.

rsv@1Samuel:2:29 @ Why then look with greedy eye at my sacrifices and my offerings which I commanded, and honor your sons above me by fattening yourselves upon the choicest parts of every offering of my people Israel?'

rsv@1Samuel:2:30 @ Therefore the LORD the God of Israel declares: `I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me for ever'; but now the LORD declares: `Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

rsv@1Samuel:2:31 @ Behold, the days are coming, when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father's house, so that there will not be an old man in your house.

rsv@1Samuel:2:32 @ Then in distress you will look with envious eye on all the prosperity which shall be bestowed upon Israel; and there shall not be an old man in your house for ever.

rsv@1Samuel:2:33 @ The man of you whom I shall not cut off from my altar shall be spared to weep out his eyes and grieve his heart; and all the increase of your house shall die by the sword of men.

rsv@1Samuel:2:34 @ And this which shall befall your two sons, Hophni and Phin'ehas, shall be the sign to you: both of them shall die on the same day.

rsv@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 go in and out before my anointed for ever.

rsv@1Samuel:2:36 @ And every one who is left in your house shall come to implore him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread, and shall say, "Put me, I pray you, in one of the priest's places, that I may eat a morsel of bread."'"

rsv@1Samuel:3:1 @ Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the LORD under Eli. And the word of the LORD was rare in those days; there was no frequent vision.

rsv@1Samuel:3:2 @ At that time Eli, whose eyesight had begun to grow dim, so that he could not see, was lying down in his own place;

rsv@1Samuel:3:3 @ the lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down within the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was.

rsv@1Samuel:3:4 @ Then the LORD called, "Samuel! Samuel!" and he said, "Here I am!"

rsv@1Samuel:3:5 @ and ran to Eli, and said, "Here I am, for you called me." But he said, "I did not call; lie down again." So he went and lay down.

rsv@1Samuel:3:6 @ And the LORD called again, "Samuel!" And Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, "Here I am, for you called me." But he said, "I did not call, my son; lie down again."

rsv@1Samuel:3:7 @ Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, and the word of the LORD had not yet been revealed to him.

rsv@1Samuel:3:8 @ And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli, and said, "Here I am, for you called me." Then Eli perceived that the LORD was calling the boy.

rsv@1Samuel:3:9 @ Therefore Eli said to Samuel, "Go, lie down; and if he calls you, you shall say, `Speak, LORD, for thy servant hears.'" So Samuel went and lay down in his place.

rsv@1Samuel:3:10 @ And the LORD came and stood forth, calling as at other times, "Samuel! Samuel!" And Samuel said, "Speak, for thy servant hears."

rsv@1Samuel:3:11 @ Then the LORD said to Samuel, "Behold, I am about to do a thing in Israel, at which the two ears of every one that hears it will tingle.

rsv@1Samuel:3:12 @ On that day I will fulfil against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end.

rsv@1Samuel:3:13 @ And I tell him that I am about to punish his house for ever, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them.

rsv@1Samuel:3:14 @ Therefore I swear to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be expiated by sacrifice or offering for ever."

rsv@1Samuel:3:15 @ Samuel lay until morning; then he opened the doors of the house of the LORD. And Samuel was afraid to tell the vision to Eli.

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

rsv@1Samuel:3:17 @ And Eli said, "What was it that he told you? Do not hide it from me. May God do so to you and more also, if you hide anything from me of all that he told you."

rsv@1Samuel:3:18 @ So Samuel told him everything and hid nothing from him. And he said, "It is the LORD; let him do what seems good to him."

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

rsv@1Samuel:3:20 @ And all Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba knew that Samuel was established as a prophet of the LORD.

rsv@1Samuel:3:21 @ And the LORD appeared again at Shiloh, for the LORD revealed himself to Samuel at Shiloh by the word of the LORD.

rsv@1Samuel:4:1 @ And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out to battle against the Philistines; they encamped at Ebene'zer, and the Philistines encamped at Aphek.

rsv@1Samuel:4:2 @ The Philistines drew up in line against Israel, and when the battle spread, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who slew about four thousand men on the field of battle.

rsv@1Samuel:4:3 @ And when the troops came to the camp, the elders of Israel said, "Why has the LORD put us to rout today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD here from Shiloh, that he may come among us and save us from the power of our enemies."

rsv@1Samuel:4:4 @ So the people sent to Shiloh, and brought from there the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, who is enthroned on the cherubim; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phin'ehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.

rsv@1Samuel:4:5 @ When the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the camp, all Israel gave a mighty shout, so that the earth resounded.

rsv@1Samuel:4:6 @ And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shouting, they said, "What does this great shouting in the camp of the Hebrews mean?" And when they learned that the ark of the LORD had come to the camp,

rsv@1Samuel:4:7 @ the Philistines were afraid; for they said, "A god has come into the camp." And they said, "Woe to us! For nothing like this has happened before.

rsv@1Samuel:4:8 @ Woe to us! Who can deliver us from the power of these mighty gods? These are the gods who smote the Egyptians with every sort of plague in the wilderness.

rsv@1Samuel:4:9 @ Take courage, and acquit yourselves like men, O Philistines, lest you become slaves to the Hebrews as they have been to you; acquit yourselves like men and fight."

rsv@1Samuel:4:10 @ So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and they fled, every man to his home; and there was a very great slaughter, for there fell of Israel thirty thousand foot soldiers.

rsv@1Samuel:4:11 @ And the ark of God was captured; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phin'ehas, were slain.

rsv@1Samuel:4:12 @ A man of Benjamin ran from the battle line, and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes rent and with earth upon his head.

rsv@1Samuel:4:13 @ When he arrived, Eli was sitting upon his seat by the road watching, for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city and told the news, all the city cried out.

rsv@1Samuel:4:14 @ When Eli heard the sound of the outcry, he said, "What is this uproar?" Then the man hastened and came and told Eli.

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

rsv@1Samuel:4:16 @ And the man said to Eli, "I am he who has come from the battle; I fled from the battle today." And he said, "How did it go, my son?"

rsv@1Samuel:4:17 @ He who brought the tidings answered and said, "Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has also been a great slaughter among the people; your two sons also, Hophni and Phin'ehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been captured."

rsv@1Samuel:4:18 @ When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell over backward from his seat by the side of the gate; and his neck was broken and he died, for he was an old man, and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.

rsv@1Samuel:4:19 @ Now his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phin'ehas, was with child, about to give birth. And when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was captured, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed and gave birth; for her pains came upon her.

rsv@1Samuel:4:20 @ And about the time of her death the women attending her said to her, "Fear not, for you have borne a son." But she did not answer or give heed.

rsv@1Samuel:4:21 @ And she named the child Ich'abod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel!" because the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

rsv@1Samuel:4:22 @ And she said, "The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been captured."

rsv@1Samuel:5:1 @ When the Philistines captured the ark of God, they carried it from Ebene'zer to Ashdod;

rsv@1Samuel:5:2 @ then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it up beside Dagon.

rsv@1Samuel:5:3 @ And when the people of Ashdod rose early the next day, behold, Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and put him back in his place.

rsv@1Samuel:5:4 @ But when they rose early on the next morning, behold, Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the LORD, and the head of Dagon and both his hands were lying cut off upon the threshold; only the trunk of Dagon was left to him.

rsv@1Samuel:5:5 @ This is why the priests of Dagon and all who enter the house of Dagon do not tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day.

rsv@1Samuel:5:6 @ The hand of the LORD was heavy upon the people of Ashdod, and he terrified and afflicted them with tumors, both Ashdod and its territory.

rsv@1Samuel:5:7 @ And when the men of Ashdod saw how things were, they said, "The ark of the God of Israel must not remain with us; for his hand is heavy upon us and upon Dagon our god."

rsv@1Samuel:5:8 @ So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, "What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?" They answered, "Let the ark of the God of Israel be brought around to Gath." So they brought the ark of the God of Israel there.

rsv@1Samuel:5:9 @ But after they had brought it around, the hand of the LORD was against the city, causing a very great panic, and he afflicted the men of the city, both young and old, so that tumors broke out upon them.

rsv@1Samuel:5:10 @ So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. But when the ark of God came to Ekron, the people of Ekron cried out, "They have brought around to us the ark of the God of Israel to slay us and our people."

rsv@1Samuel:5:11 @ They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, "Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it return to its own place, that it may not slay us and our people." For there was a deathly panic throughout the whole city. The hand of God was very heavy there;

rsv@1Samuel:5:12 @ the men who did not die were stricken with tumors, and the cry of the city went up to heaven.

rsv@1Samuel:6:1 @ The ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months.

rsv@1Samuel:6:2 @ And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners and said, "What shall we do with the ark of the LORD? Tell us with what we shall send it to its place."

rsv@1Samuel:6:3 @ They said, "If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it empty, but by all means return him a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and it will be known to you why his hand does not turn away from you."

rsv@1Samuel:6:4 @ And they said, "What is the guilt offering that we shall return to him?" They answered, "Five golden tumors and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines; for the same plague was upon all of you and upon your lords.

rsv@1Samuel:6:5 @ So you must make images of your tumors and images of your mice that ravage the land, and give glory to the God of Israel; perhaps he will lighten his hand from off you and your gods and your land.

rsv@1Samuel:6:6 @ Why should you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? After he had made sport of them, did not they let the people go, and they departed?

rsv@1Samuel:6:7 @ Now then, take and prepare a new cart and two milch cows upon which there has never come a yoke, and yoke the cows to the cart, but take their calves home, away from them.

rsv@1Samuel:6:8 @ And take the ark of the LORD and place it on the cart, and put in a box at its side the figures of gold, which you are returning to him as a guilt offering. Then send it off, and let it go its way.

rsv@1Samuel:6:9 @ And watch; if it goes up on the way to its own land, to Beth-she'mesh, then it is he who has done us this great harm; but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us, it happened to us by chance."

rsv@1Samuel:6:10 @ The men did so, and took two milch cows and yoked them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home.

rsv@1Samuel:6:11 @ And they put the ark of the LORD on the cart, and the box with the golden mice and the images of their tumors.

rsv@1Samuel:6:12 @ And the cows went straight in the direction of Beth-she'mesh along one highway, lowing as they went; they turned neither to the right nor to the left, and the lords of the Philistines went after them as far as the border of Beth-she'mesh.

rsv@1Samuel:6:13 @ Now the people of Beth-she'mesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley; and when they lifted up their eyes and saw the ark, they rejoiced to see it.

rsv@1Samuel:6:14 @ The cart came into the field of Joshua of Beth-she'mesh, and stopped there. A great stone was there; and they split up the wood of the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the LORD.

rsv@1Samuel:6:15 @ And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD and the box that was beside it, in which were the golden figures, and set them upon the great stone; and the men of Beth-she'mesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices on that day to the LORD.

rsv@1Samuel:6:16 @ And when the five lords of the Philistines saw it, they returned that day to Ekron.

rsv@1Samuel:6:17 @ These are the golden tumors, which the Philistines returned as a guilt offering to the LORD: one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ash'kelon, one for Gath, one for Ekron;

rsv@1Samuel:6:18 @ also the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both fortified cities and unwalled villages. The great stone, beside which they set down the ark of the LORD, is a witness to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth-she'mesh.

rsv@1Samuel:6:19 @ And he slew some of the men of Beth-she'mesh, because they looked into the ark of the LORD; he slew seventy men of them, and the people mourned because the LORD had made a great slaughter among the people.

rsv@1Samuel:6:20 @ Then the men of Beth-she'mesh said, "Who is able to stand before the LORD, this holy God? And to whom shall he go up away from us?"

rsv@1Samuel:6:21 @ So they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kir'iath-je'arim, saying, "The Philistines have returned the ark of the LORD. Come down and take it up to you."

rsv@1Samuel:7:1 @ And the men of Kir'iath-je'arim came and took up the ark of the LORD, and brought it to the house of Abin'adab on the hill; and they consecrated his son, Elea'zar, to have charge of the ark of the LORD.

rsv@1Samuel:7:2 @ From the day that the ark was lodged at Kir'iath-je'arim, a long time passed, some twenty years, and all the house of Israel lamented after the LORD.

rsv@1Samuel:7:3 @ Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, "If you are returning to the LORD with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ash'taroth from among you, and direct your heart to the LORD, and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines."

rsv@1Samuel:7:4 @ So Israel put away the Ba'als and the Ash'taroth, and they served the LORD only.

rsv@1Samuel:7:5 @ Then Samuel said, "Gather all Israel at Mizpah, and I will pray to the LORD for you."

rsv@1Samuel:7:6 @ So they gathered at Mizpah, and drew water and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, "We have sinned against the LORD." And Samuel judged the people of Israel at Mizpah.

rsv@1Samuel:7:7 @ Now when the Philistines heard that the people of Israel had gathered at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the people of Israel heard of it they were afraid of the Philistines.

rsv@1Samuel:7:8 @ And the people of Israel said to Samuel, "Do not cease to cry to the LORD our God for us, that he may save us from the hand of the Philistines."

rsv@1Samuel:7:9 @ So Samuel took a sucking lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the LORD; and Samuel cried to the LORD for Israel, and the LORD answered him.

rsv@1Samuel:7:10 @ As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to attack Israel; but the LORD thundered with a mighty voice that day against the Philistines and threw them into confusion; and they were routed before Israel.

rsv@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.

rsv@1Samuel:7:12 @ Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Jesha'nah, and called its name Ebene'zer; for he said, "Hitherto the LORD has helped us."

rsv@1Samuel:7:13 @ So the Philistines were subdued and did not again enter the territory of Israel. And the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.

rsv@1Samuel:7:14 @ The cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron to Gath; and Israel rescued their territory from the hand of the Philistines. There was peace also between Israel and the Amorites.

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

rsv@1Samuel:7:16 @ And he went on a circuit year by year to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all these places.

rsv@1Samuel:7:17 @ Then he would come back to Ramah, for his home was there, and there also he administered justice to Israel. And he built there an altar to the LORD.

rsv@1Samuel:8:1 @ When Samuel became old, he made his sons judges over Israel.

rsv@1Samuel:8:2 @ The name of his first-born son was Jo'el, and the name of his second, Abi'jah; they were judges in Beer-sheba.

rsv@1Samuel:8:3 @ Yet his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after gain; they took bribes and perverted justice.

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

rsv@1Samuel:8:5 @ and said to him, "Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways; now appoint for us a king to govern us like all the nations."

rsv@1Samuel:8:6 @ But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, "Give us a king to govern us." And Samuel prayed to the LORD.

rsv@1Samuel:8:7 @ And the LORD said to Samuel, "Hearken to the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.

rsv@1Samuel:8:8 @ According to all the deeds which they have done to me, from the day I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are also doing to you.

rsv@1Samuel:8:9 @ Now then, hearken to their voice; only, you shall solemnly warn them, and show them the ways of the king who shall reign over them."

rsv@1Samuel:8:10 @ So Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking a king from him.

rsv@1Samuel:8:11 @ He said, "These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen, and to run before his chariots;

rsv@1Samuel:8:12 @ and he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots.

rsv@1Samuel:8:13 @ He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers.

rsv@1Samuel:8:14 @ He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his servants.

rsv@1Samuel:8:15 @ He will take the tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his servants.

rsv@1Samuel:8:16 @ He will take your menservants and maidservants, and the best of your cattle and your asses, and put them to his work.

rsv@1Samuel:8:17 @ He will take the tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves.

rsv@1Samuel:8:18 @ And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves; but the LORD will not answer you in that day."

rsv@1Samuel:8:19 @ But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, "No! but we will have a king over us,

rsv@1Samuel:8:20 @ that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may govern us and go out before us and fight our battles."

rsv@1Samuel:8:21 @ And when Samuel had heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the ears of the LORD.

rsv@1Samuel:8:22 @ And the LORD said to Samuel, "Hearken to their voice, and make them a king." Samuel then said to the men of Israel, "Go every man to his city."

rsv@1Samuel:9:1 @ There was a man of Benjamin whose name was Kish, the son of Abi'el, son of Zeror, son of Beco'rath, son of Aphi'ah, a Benjaminite, a man of wealth;

rsv@1Samuel:9:2 @ and he had a son whose name was Saul, a handsome young man. There was not a man among the people of Israel more handsome than he; from his shoulders upward he was taller than any of the people.

rsv@1Samuel:9:3 @ Now the asses of Kish, Saul's father, were lost. So Kish said to Saul his son, "Take one of the servants with you, and arise, go and look for the asses."

rsv@1Samuel:9:4 @ And they passed through the hill country of E'phraim and passed through the land of Shal'ishah, but they did not find them. And they passed through the land of Sha'alim, but they were not there. Then they passed through the land of Benjamin, but did not find them.

rsv@1Samuel:9:5 @ When they came to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, "Come, let us go back, lest my father cease to care about the asses and become anxious about us."

rsv@1Samuel:9:6 @ But he said to him, "Behold, there is a man of God in this city, and he is a man that is held in honor; all that he says comes true. Let us go there; perhaps he can tell us about the journey on which we have set out."

rsv@1Samuel:9:7 @ Then Saul said to his servant, "But if we go, what can we bring the man? For the bread in our sacks is gone, and there is no present to bring to the man of God. What have we?"

rsv@1Samuel:9:8 @ The servant answered Saul again, "Here, I have with me the fourth part of a shekel of silver, and I will give it to the man of God, to tell us our way."

rsv@1Samuel:9:9 @ (Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said, "Come, let us go to the seer"; for he who is now called a prophet was formerly called a seer.)

rsv@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.

rsv@1Samuel:9:11 @ As they went up the hill to the city, they met young maidens coming out to draw water, and said to them, "Is the seer here?"

rsv@1Samuel:9:12 @ They answered, "He is; behold, he is just ahead of you. Make haste; he has come just now to the city, because the people have a sacrifice today on the high place.

rsv@1Samuel:9:13 @ As soon as you enter the city, you will find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat; for the people will not eat till he comes, since he must bless the sacrifice; afterward those eat who are invited. Now go up, for you will meet him immediately."

rsv@1Samuel:9:14 @ So they went up to the city. As they were entering the city, they saw Samuel coming out toward them on his way up to the high place.

rsv@1Samuel:9:15 @ Now the day before Saul came, the LORD had revealed to Samuel:

rsv@1Samuel:9:16 @ "Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines; for I have seen the affliction of my people, because their cry has come to me."

rsv@1Samuel:9:17 @ When Samuel saw Saul, the LORD told him, "Here is the man of whom I spoke to you! He it is who shall rule over my people."

rsv@1Samuel:9:18 @ Then Saul approached Samuel in the gate, and said, "Tell me where is the house of the seer?"

rsv@1Samuel:9:19 @ Samuel answered Saul, "I am the seer; go up before me to the high place, for today you shall eat with me, and in the morning I will let you go and will tell you all that is on your mind.

rsv@1Samuel:9:20 @ As for your asses that were lost three days ago, do not set your mind on them, for they have been found. And for whom is all that is desirable in Israel? Is it not for you and for all your father's house?"

rsv@1Samuel:9:21 @ Saul answered, "Am I not a Benjaminite, from the least of the tribes of Israel? And is not my family the humblest of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? Why then have you spoken to me in this way?"

rsv@1Samuel:9:22 @ Then Samuel took Saul and his servant and brought them into the hall and gave them a place at the head of those who had been invited, who were about thirty persons.

rsv@1Samuel:9:23 @ And Samuel said to the cook, "Bring the portion I gave you, of which I said to you, `Put it aside.'"

rsv@1Samuel:9:24 @ So the cook took up the leg and the upper portion and set them before Saul; and Samuel said, "See, what was kept is set before you. Eat; because it was kept for you until the hour appointed, that you might eat with the guests." So Saul ate with Samuel that day.

rsv@1Samuel:9:25 @ And when they came down from the high place into the city, a bed was spread for Saul upon the roof, and he lay down to sleep.

rsv@1Samuel:9:26 @ Then at the break of dawn Samuel called to Saul upon the roof, "Up, that I may send you on your way." So Saul arose, and both he and Samuel went out into the street.

rsv@1Samuel:9:27 @ As they were going down to the outskirts of the city, Samuel said to Saul, "Tell the servant to pass on before us, and when he has passed on stop here yourself for a while, that I may make known to you the word of God."

rsv@1Samuel:10:1 @ Then Samuel took a vial of oil and poured it on his head, and kissed him and said, "Has not the LORD anointed you to be prince over his people Israel? And you shall reign over the people of the LORD and you will save them from the hand of their enemies round about. And this shall be the sign to you that the LORD has anointed you to be prince over his heritage.

rsv@1Samuel:10:2 @ When you depart from me today you will meet two men by Rachel's tomb in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah, and they will say to you, `The asses which you went to seek are found, and now your father has ceased to care about the asses and is anxious about you, saying, "What shall I do about my son?"'

rsv@1Samuel:10:3 @ Then you shall go on from there further and come to the oak of Tabor; three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you there, one carrying three kids, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.

rsv@1Samuel:10:4 @ And they will greet you and give you two loaves of bread, which you shall accept from their hand.

rsv@1Samuel:10:5 @ After that you shall come to Gib'e-ath-elo'him, where there is a garrison of the Philistines; and there, as you come to the city, you will meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place with harp, tambourine, flute, and lyre before them, prophesying.

rsv@1Samuel:10:6 @ Then the spirit of the LORD will come mightily upon you, and you shall prophesy with them and be turned into another man.

rsv@1Samuel:10:7 @ Now when these signs meet you, do whatever your hand finds to do, for God is with you.

rsv@1Samuel:10:8 @ And you shall go down before me to Gilgal; and behold, I am coming to you to offer burnt offerings and to sacrifice peace offerings. Seven days you shall wait, until I come to you and show you what you shall do."

rsv@1Samuel:10:9 @ When he turned his back to leave Samuel, God gave him another heart; and all these signs came to pass that day.

rsv@1Samuel:10:10 @ When they came to Gib'e-ah, behold, a band of prophets met him; and the spirit of God came mightily upon him, and he prophesied among them.

rsv@1Samuel:10:11 @ And when all who knew him before saw how he prophesied with the prophets, the people said to one another, "What has come over the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?"

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

rsv@1Samuel:10:13 @ When he had finished prophesying, he came to the high place.

rsv@1Samuel:10:14 @ Saul's uncle said to him and to his servant, "Where did you go?" And he said, "To seek the asses; and when we saw they were not to be found, we went to Samuel."

rsv@1Samuel:10:15 @ And Saul's uncle said, "Pray, tell me what Samuel said to you."

rsv@1Samuel:10:16 @ And Saul said to his uncle, "He told us plainly that the asses had been found." But about the matter of the kingdom, of which Samuel had spoken, he did not tell him anything.

rsv@1Samuel:10:17 @ Now Samuel called the people together to the LORD at Mizpah;

rsv@1Samuel:10:18 @ and he said to the people of Israel, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, `I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all the kingdoms that were oppressing you.'

rsv@1Samuel:10:19 @ But you have this day rejected your God, who saves you from all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said, `No! but set a king over us.' Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and by your thousands."

rsv@1Samuel:10:20 @ Then Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was taken by lot.

rsv@1Samuel:10:21 @ He brought the tribe of Benjamin near by its families, and the family of the Matrites was taken by lot; finally he brought the family of the Matrites near man by man, and Saul the son of Kish was taken by lot. But when they sought him, he could not be found.

rsv@1Samuel:10:22 @ So they inquired again of the LORD, "Did the man come hither?" and the LORD said, "Behold, he has hidden himself among the baggage."

rsv@1Samuel:10:23 @ Then they ran and fetched him from there; and when he stood among the people, he was taller than any of the people from his shoulders upward.

rsv@1Samuel:10:24 @ And Samuel said to all the people, "Do you see him whom the LORD has chosen? There is none like him among all the people." And all the people shouted, "Long live the king!"

rsv@1Samuel:10:25 @ Then Samuel told the people the rights and duties of the kingship; and he wrote them in a book and laid it up before the LORD. Then Samuel sent all the people away, each one to his home.

rsv@1Samuel:10:26 @ Saul also went to his home at Gib'e-ah, and with him went men of valor whose hearts God had touched.

rsv@1Samuel:10:27 @ But some worthless fellows said, "How can this man save us?" And they despised him, and brought him no present. But he held his peace.

rsv@1Samuel:11:1 @ Then Nahash the Ammonite went up and besieged Ja'besh-gil'ead; and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, "Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you."

rsv@1Samuel:11:2 @ But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, "On this condition I will make a treaty with you, that I gouge out all your right eyes, and thus put disgrace upon all Israel."

rsv@1Samuel:11:3 @ The elders of Jabesh said to him, "Give us seven days respite that we may send messengers through all the territory of Israel. Then, if there is no one to save us, we will give ourselves up to you."

rsv@1Samuel:11:4 @ When the messengers came to Gib'e-ah of Saul, they reported the matter in the ears of the people; and all the people wept aloud.

rsv@1Samuel:11:5 @ Now Saul was coming from the field behind the oxen; and Saul said, "What ails the people, that they are weeping?" So they told him the tidings of the men of Jabesh.

rsv@1Samuel:11:6 @ And the spirit of God came mightily upon Saul when he heard these words, and his anger was greatly kindled.

rsv@1Samuel:11:7 @ He took a yoke of oxen, and cut them in pieces and sent them throughout all the territory of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, "Whoever does not come out after Saul and Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen!" Then the dread of the LORD fell upon the people, and they came out as one man.

rsv@1Samuel:11:8 @ When he mustered them at Bezek, the men of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

rsv@1Samuel:11:9 @ And they said to the messengers who had come, "Thus shall you say to the men of Ja'besh-gil'ead: `Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you shall have deliverance.'" When the messengers came and told the men of Jabesh, they were glad.

rsv@1Samuel:11:10 @ Therefore the men of Jabesh said, "Tomorrow we will give ourselves up to you, and you may do to us whatever seems good to you."

rsv@1Samuel:11:11 @ And on the morrow Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch, and cut down the Ammonites until the heat of the day; and those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.

rsv@1Samuel:11:12 @ Then the people said to Samuel, "Who is it that said, `Shall Saul reign over us?' Bring the men, that we may put them to death."

rsv@1Samuel:11:13 @ But Saul said, "Not a man shall be put to death this day, for today the LORD has wrought deliverance in Israel."

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

rsv@1Samuel:11:15 @ So all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal. There they sacrificed peace offerings before the LORD, and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.

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

rsv@1Samuel:12:2 @ And now, behold, the king walks before you; and I am old and gray, and behold, my sons are with you; and I have walked before you from my youth until this day.

rsv@1Samuel:12:3 @ Here I am; testify against me before the LORD and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose ass have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? Testify against me and I will restore it to you."

rsv@1Samuel:12:4 @ They said, "You have not defrauded us or oppressed us or taken anything from any man's hand."

rsv@1Samuel:12:5 @ And he said to them, "The LORD is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand." And they said, "He is witness."

rsv@1Samuel:12:6 @ And Samuel said to the people, "The LORD is witness, who appointed Moses and Aaron and brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.

rsv@1Samuel:12:7 @ Now therefore stand still, that I may plead with you before the LORD concerning all the saving deeds of the LORD which he performed for you and for your fathers.

rsv@1Samuel:12:8 @ When Jacob went into Egypt and the Egyptians oppressed them, then your fathers cried to the LORD and the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, who brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place.

rsv@1Samuel:12:9 @ But they forgot the LORD their God; and he sold them into the hand of Sis'era, commander of the army of Jabin king of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab; and they fought against them.

rsv@1Samuel:12:10 @ And they cried to the LORD, and said, `We have sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD, and have served the Ba'als and the Ash'taroth; but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee.'

rsv@1Samuel:12:11 @ And the LORD sent Jerubba'al and Barak, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side; and you dwelt in safety.

rsv@1Samuel:12:12 @ And when you saw that Nahash the king of the Ammonites came against you, you said to me, `No, but a king shall reign over us,' when the LORD your God was your king.

rsv@1Samuel:12:13 @ And now behold the king whom you have chosen, for whom you have asked; behold, the LORD has set a king over you.

rsv@1Samuel:12:14 @ If you will fear the LORD and serve him and hearken to his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, and if both you and the king who reigns over you will follow the LORD your God, it will be well;

rsv@1Samuel:12:15 @ but if you will not hearken to the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then the hand of the LORD will be against you and your king.

rsv@1Samuel:12:16 @ Now therefore stand still and see this great thing, which the LORD will do before your eyes.

rsv@1Samuel:12:17 @ Is it not wheat harvest today? I will call upon the LORD, that he may send thunder and rain; and you shall know and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking for yourselves a king."

rsv@1Samuel:12:18 @ So Samuel called upon the LORD, and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day; and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.

rsv@1Samuel:12:19 @ And all the people said to Samuel, "Pray for your servants to the LORD your God, that we may not die; for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for ourselves a king."

rsv@1Samuel:12:20 @ And Samuel said to the people, "Fear not; you have done all this evil, yet do not turn aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart;

rsv@1Samuel:12:21 @ and do not turn aside after vain things which cannot profit or save, for they are vain.

rsv@1Samuel:12:22 @ For the LORD will not cast away his people, for his great name's sake, because it has pleased the LORD to make you a people for himself.

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

rsv@1Samuel:12:24 @ Only fear the LORD, and serve him faithfully with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you.

rsv@1Samuel:12:25 @ But if you still do wickedly, you shall be swept away, both you and your king."

rsv@1Samuel:13:1 @ Saul was... years old when he began to reign; and he reigned... and two years over Israel.

rsv@1Samuel:13:2 @ Saul chose three thousand men of Israel; two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gib'e-ah of Benjamin; the rest of the people he sent home, every man to his tent.

rsv@1Samuel:13:3 @ Jonathan defeated the garrison of the Philistines which was at Geba; and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, "Let the Hebrews hear."

rsv@1Samuel:13:4 @ And all Israel heard it said that Saul had defeated the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel had become odious to the Philistines. And the people were called out to join Saul at Gilgal.

rsv@1Samuel:13:5 @ And the Philistines mustered to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and troops like the sand on the seashore in multitude; they came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth-a'ven.

rsv@1Samuel:13:6 @ When the men of Israel saw that they were in straits (for the people were hard pressed), the people hid themselves in caves and in holes and in rocks and in tombs and in cisterns,

rsv@1Samuel:13:7 @ or crossed the fords of the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. Saul was still at Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.

rsv@1Samuel:13:8 @ He waited seven days, the time appointed by Samuel; but Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the people were scattering from him.

rsv@1Samuel:13:9 @ So Saul said, "Bring the burnt offering here to me, and the peace offerings." And he offered the burnt offering.

rsv@1Samuel:13:10 @ As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him and salute him.

rsv@1Samuel:13:11 @ Samuel said, "What have you done?" And Saul said, "When I saw that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines had mustered at Michmash,

rsv@1Samuel:13:12 @ I said, `Now the Philistines will come down upon me at Gilgal, and I have not entreated the favor of the LORD'; so I forced myself, and offered the burnt offering."

rsv@1Samuel:13:13 @ And Samuel said to Saul, "You have done foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of the LORD your God, which he commanded you; for now the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel for ever.

rsv@1Samuel:13:14 @ But now your kingdom shall not continue; the LORD has sought out a man after his own heart; and the LORD has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you."

rsv@1Samuel:13:15 @ And Samuel arose, and went up from Gilgal to Gib'e-ah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people who were present with him, about six hundred men.

rsv@1Samuel:13:16 @ And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people who were present with them, stayed in Geba of Benjamin; but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.

rsv@1Samuel:13:17 @ And raiders came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies; one company turned toward Ophrah, to the land of Shu'al,

rsv@1Samuel:13:18 @ another company turned toward Beth-hor'on, and another company turned toward the border that looks down upon the valley of Zebo'im toward the wilderness.

rsv@1Samuel:13:19 @ Now there was no smith to be found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, "Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears";

rsv@1Samuel:13:20 @ but every one of the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, or his sickle;

rsv@1Samuel:13:21 @ and the charge was a pim for the plowshares and for the mattocks, and a third of a shekel for sharpening the axes and for setting the goads.

rsv@1Samuel:13:22 @ So on the day of the battle there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people with Saul and Jonathan; but Saul and Jonathan his son had them.

rsv@1Samuel:13:23 @ And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.

rsv@1Samuel:14:1 @ One day Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who bore his armor, "Come, let us go over to the Philistine garrison on yonder side." But he did not tell his father.

rsv@1Samuel:14:2 @ Saul was staying in the outskirts of Gib'e-ah under the pomegranate tree which is at Migron; the people who were with him were about six hundred men,

rsv@1Samuel:14:3 @ and Ahi'jah the son of Ahi'tub, Ich'abod's brother, son of Phin'ehas, son of Eli, the priest of the LORD in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people did not know that Jonathan had gone.

rsv@1Samuel:14:4 @ In the pass, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistine garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side and a rocky crag on the other side; the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.

rsv@1Samuel:14:5 @ The one crag rose on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south in front of Geba.

rsv@1Samuel:14:6 @ And Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, "Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised; it may be that the LORD will work for us; for nothing can hinder the LORD from saving by many or by few."

rsv@1Samuel:14:7 @ And his armor-bearer said to him, "Do all that your mind inclines to; behold, I am with you, as is your mind so is mine."

rsv@1Samuel:14:8 @ Then said Jonathan, "Behold, we will cross over to the men, and we will show ourselves to them.

rsv@1Samuel:14:9 @ If they say to us, `Wait until we come to you,' then we will stand still in our place, and we will not go up to them.

rsv@1Samuel:14:10 @ But if they say, `Come up to us,' then we will go up; for the LORD has given them into our hand. And this shall be the sign to us."

rsv@1Samuel:14:11 @ So both of them showed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines; and the Philistines said, "Look, Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they have hid themselves."

rsv@1Samuel:14:12 @ And the men of the garrison hailed Jonathan and his armor-bearer, and said, "Come up to us, and we will show you a thing." And Jonathan said to his armor-bearer, "Come up after me; for the LORD has given them into the hand of Israel."

rsv@1Samuel:14:13 @ Then Jonathan climbed up on his hands and feet, and his armor-bearer after him. And they fell before Jonathan, and his armor-bearer killed them after him;

rsv@1Samuel:14:14 @ and that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armor-bearer made, was of about twenty men within as it were half a furrow's length in an acre of land.

rsv@1Samuel:14:15 @ And there was a panic in the camp, in the field, and among all the people; the garrison and even the raiders trembled; the earth quaked; and it became a very great panic.

rsv@1Samuel:14:16 @ And the watchmen of Saul in Gib'e-ah of Benjamin looked; and behold, the multitude was surging hither and thither.

rsv@1Samuel:14:17 @ Then Saul said to the people who were with him, "Number and see who has gone from us." And when they had numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armor-bearer were not there.

rsv@1Samuel:14:18 @ And Saul said to Ahi'jah, "Bring hither the ark of God." For the ark of God went at that time with the people of Israel.

rsv@1Samuel:14:19 @ And while Saul was talking to the priest, the tumult in the camp of the Philistines increased more and more; and Saul said to the priest, "Withdraw your hand."

rsv@1Samuel:14:20 @ Then Saul and all the people who were with him rallied and went into the battle; and behold, every man's sword was against his fellow, and there was very great confusion.

rsv@1Samuel:14:21 @ Now the Hebrews who had been with the Philistines before that time and who had gone up with them into the camp, even they also turned to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.

rsv@1Samuel:14:22 @ Likewise, when all the men of Israel who had hid themselves in the hill country of E'phraim heard that the Philistines were fleeing, they too followed hard after them in the battle.

rsv@1Samuel:14:23 @ So the LORD delivered Israel that day; and the battle passed beyond Beth-a'ven.

rsv@1Samuel:14:24 @ And the men of Israel were distressed that day; for Saul laid an oath on the people, saying, "Cursed be the man who eats food until it is evening and I am avenged on my enemies." So none of the people tasted food.

rsv@1Samuel:14:25 @ And all the people came into the forest; and there was honey on the ground.

rsv@1Samuel:14:26 @ And when the people entered the forest, behold, the honey was dropping, but no man put his hand to his mouth; for the people feared the oath.

rsv@1Samuel:14:27 @ But Jonathan had not heard his father charge the people with the oath; so he put forth the tip of the staff that was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes became bright.

rsv@1Samuel:14:28 @ Then one of the people said, "Your father strictly charged the people with an oath, saying, `Cursed be the man who eats food this day.'" And the people were faint.

rsv@1Samuel:14:29 @ Then Jonathan said, "My father has troubled the land; see how my eyes have become bright, because I tasted a little of this honey.

rsv@1Samuel:14:30 @ How much better if the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies which they found; for now the slaughter among the Philistines has not been great."

rsv@1Samuel:14:31 @ They struck down the Philistines that day from Michmash to Ai'jalon. And the people were very faint;

rsv@1Samuel:14:32 @ the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep and oxen and calves, and slew them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.

rsv@1Samuel:14:33 @ Then they told Saul, "Behold, the people are sinning against the LORD, by eating with the blood." And he said, "You have dealt treacherously; roll a great stone to me here."

rsv@1Samuel:14:34 @ And Saul said, "Disperse yourselves among the people, and say to them, `Let every man bring his ox or his sheep, and slay them here, and eat; and do not sin against the LORD by eating with the blood.'" So every one of the people brought his ox with him that night, and slew them there.

rsv@1Samuel:14:35 @ And Saul built an altar to the LORD; it was the first altar that he built to the LORD.

rsv@1Samuel:14:36 @ Then Saul said, "Let us go down after the Philistines by night and despoil them until the morning light; let us not leave a man of them." And they said, "Do whatever seems good to you." But the priest said, "Let us draw near hither to God."

rsv@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.

rsv@1Samuel:14:38 @ And Saul said, "Come hither, all you leaders of the people; and know and see how this sin has arisen today.

rsv@1Samuel:14:39 @ For as the LORD lives who saves Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die." But there was not a man among all the people that answered him.

rsv@1Samuel:14:40 @ Then he said to all Israel, "You shall be on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side." And the people said to Saul, "Do what seems good to you."

rsv@1Samuel:14:41 @ Therefore Saul said, "O LORD God of Israel, why hast thou not answered thy servant this day? If this guilt is in me or in Jonathan my son, O LORD, God of Israel, give Urim; but if this guilt is in thy people Israel, give Thummim." And Jonathan and Saul were taken, but the people escaped.

rsv@1Samuel:14:42 @ Then Saul said, "Cast the lot between me and my son Jonathan." And Jonathan was taken.

rsv@1Samuel:14:43 @ Then Saul said to Jonathan, "Tell me what you have done." And Jonathan told him, "I tasted a little honey with the tip of the staff that was in my hand; here I am, I will die."

rsv@1Samuel:14:44 @ And Saul said, "God do so to me and more also; you shall surely die, Jonathan."

rsv@1Samuel:14:45 @ Then the people said to Saul, "Shall Jonathan die, who has wrought this great victory in Israel? Far from it! As the LORD lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has wrought with God this day." So the people ransomed Jonathan, that he did not die.

rsv@1Samuel:14:46 @ Then Saul went up from pursuing the Philistines; and the Philistines went to their own place.

rsv@1Samuel:14:47 @ When Saul had taken the kingship over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, against the Ammonites, against Edom, against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines; wherever he turned he put them to the worse.

rsv@1Samuel:14:48 @ And he did valiantly, and smote the Amal'ekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of those who plundered them.

rsv@1Samuel:14:49 @ Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Mal'chishu'a; and the names of his two daughters were these: the name of the first-born was Merab, and the name of the younger Michal;

rsv@1Samuel:14:50 @ and the name of Saul's wife was Ahin'o-am the daughter of Ahim'a-az. And the name of the commander of his army was Abner the son of Ner, Saul's uncle;

rsv@1Samuel:14:51 @ Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abi'el.

rsv@1Samuel:14:52 @ There was hard fighting against the Philistines all the days of Saul; and when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he attached him to himself.

rsv@1Samuel:15:1 @ And Samuel said to Saul, "The LORD sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore hearken to the words of the LORD.

rsv@1Samuel:15:2 @ Thus says the LORD of hosts, `I will punish what Am'alek did to Israel in opposing them on the way, when they came up out of Egypt.

rsv@1Samuel:15:3 @ Now go and smite Am'alek, and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.'"

rsv@1Samuel:15:4 @ So Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Tela'im, two hundred thousand men on foot, and ten thousand men of Judah.

rsv@1Samuel:15:5 @ And Saul came to the city of Am'alek, and lay in wait in the valley.

rsv@1Samuel:15:6 @ And Saul said to the Ken'ites, "Go, depart, go down from among the Amal'ekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the people of Israel when they came up out of Egypt." So the Ken'ites departed from among the Amal'ekites.

rsv@1Samuel:15:7 @ And Saul defeated the Amal'ekites, from Hav'ilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt.

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

rsv@1Samuel:15:9 @ But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them; all that was despised and worthless they utterly destroyed.

rsv@1Samuel:15:10 @ The word of the LORD came to Samuel:

rsv@1Samuel:15:11 @ "I repent that I have made Saul king; for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments." And Samuel was angry; and he cried to the LORD all night.

rsv@1Samuel:15:12 @ And Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and it was told Samuel, "Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself and turned, and passed on, and went down to Gilgal."

rsv@1Samuel:15:13 @ And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, "Blessed be you to the LORD; I have performed the commandment of the LORD."

rsv@1Samuel:15:14 @ And Samuel said, "What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?"

rsv@1Samuel:15:15 @ Saul said, "They have brought them from the Amal'ekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice to the LORD your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed."

rsv@1Samuel:15:16 @ Then Samuel said to Saul, "Stop! I will tell you what the LORD said to me this night." And he said to him, "Say on."

rsv@1Samuel:15:17 @ And Samuel said, "Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? The LORD anointed you king over Israel.

rsv@1Samuel:15:18 @ And the LORD sent you on a mission, and said, `Go, utterly destroy the sinners, the Amal'ekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.'

rsv@1Samuel:15:19 @ Why then did you not obey the voice of the LORD? Why did you swoop on the spoil, and do what was evil in the sight of the LORD?"

rsv@1Samuel:15:20 @ And Saul said to Samuel, "I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, I have gone on the mission on which the LORD sent me, I have brought Agag the king of Am'alek, and I have utterly destroyed the Amal'ekites.

rsv@1Samuel:15:21 @ But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the LORD your God in Gilgal."

rsv@1Samuel:15:22 @ And Samuel said, "Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

rsv@1Samuel:15:23 @ For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has also rejected you from being king."

rsv@1Samuel:15:24 @ And Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.

rsv@1Samuel:15:25 @ Now therefore, I pray, pardon my sin, and return with me, that I may worship the LORD."

rsv@1Samuel:15:26 @ And Samuel said to Saul, "I will not return with you; for you have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel."

rsv@1Samuel:15:27 @ As Samuel turned to go away, Saul laid hold upon the skirt of his robe, and it tore.

rsv@1Samuel:15:28 @ And Samuel said to him, "The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.

rsv@1Samuel:15:29 @ And also the Glory of Israel will not lie or repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent."

rsv@1Samuel:15:30 @ Then he said, "I have sinned; yet honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, that I may worship the LORD your God."

rsv@1Samuel:15:31 @ So Samuel turned back after Saul; and Saul worshiped the LORD.

rsv@1Samuel:15:32 @ Then Samuel said, "Bring here to me Agag the king of the Amal'ekites." And Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, "Surely the bitterness of death is past."

rsv@1Samuel:15:33 @ And Samuel said, "As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women." And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.

rsv@1Samuel:15:34 @ Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house in Gib'e-ah of Saul.

rsv@1Samuel:15:35 @ And Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death, but Samuel grieved over Saul. And the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.

rsv@1Samuel:16:1 @ The LORD said to Samuel, "How long will you grieve over Saul, seeing I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons."

rsv@1Samuel:16:2 @ And Samuel said, "How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me." And the LORD said, "Take a heifer with you, and say, `I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.'

rsv@1Samuel:16:3 @ And invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do; and you shall anoint for me him whom I name to you."

rsv@1Samuel:16:4 @ Samuel did what the LORD commanded, and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, "Do you come peaceably?"

rsv@1Samuel:16:5 @ And he said, "Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the LORD; consecrate yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice." And he consecrated Jesse and his sons, and invited them to the sacrifice.

rsv@1Samuel:16:6 @ When they came, he looked on Eli'ab and thought, "Surely the LORD'S anointed is before him."

rsv@1Samuel:16:7 @ But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for the LORD sees not as man sees; man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart."

rsv@1Samuel:16:8 @ Then Jesse called Abin'adab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, "Neither has the LORD chosen this one."

rsv@1Samuel:16:9 @ Then Jesse made Shammah pass by. And he said, "Neither has the LORD chosen this one."

rsv@1Samuel:16:10 @ And Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, "The LORD has not chosen these."

rsv@1Samuel:16:11 @ And Samuel said to Jesse, "Are all your sons here?" And he said, "There remains yet the youngest, but behold, he is keeping the sheep." And Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and fetch him; for we will not sit down till he comes here."

rsv@1Samuel:16:12 @ And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and had beautiful eyes, and was handsome. And the LORD said, "Arise, anoint him; for this is he."

rsv@1Samuel:16:13 @ Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon David from that day forward. And Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.

rsv@1Samuel:16:14 @ Now the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD tormented him.

rsv@1Samuel:16:15 @ And Saul's servants said to him, "Behold now, an evil spirit from God is tormenting you.

rsv@1Samuel:16:16 @ Let our lord now command your servants, who are before you, to seek out a man who is skilful in playing the lyre; and when the evil spirit from God is upon you, he will play it, and you will be well."

rsv@1Samuel:16:17 @ So Saul said to his servants, "Provide for me a man who can play well, and bring him to me."

rsv@1Samuel:16:18 @ One of the young men answered, "Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skilful in playing, a man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a man of good presence; and the LORD is with him."

rsv@1Samuel:16:19 @ Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, "Send me David your son, who is with the sheep."

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

rsv@1Samuel:16:21 @ And David came to Saul, and entered his service. And Saul loved him greatly, and he became his armor-bearer.

rsv@1Samuel:16:22 @ And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, "Let David remain in my service, for he has found favor in my sight."

rsv@1Samuel:16:23 @ And whenever the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, David took the lyre and played it with his hand; so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.

rsv@1Samuel:17:1 @ Now the Philistines gathered their armies for battle; and they were gathered at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Aze'kah, in E'phes-dam'mim.

rsv@1Samuel:17:2 @ And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered, and encamped in the valley of Elah, and drew up in line of battle against the Philistines.

rsv@1Samuel:17:3 @ And the Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side, with a valley between them.

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

rsv@1Samuel:17:5 @ He had a helmet of bronze on his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail, and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze.

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

rsv@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 his shield-bearer went before him.

rsv@1Samuel:17:8 @ He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, "Why have you come out to draw up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.

rsv@1Samuel:17:9 @ If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants; but if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and serve us."

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

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

rsv@1Samuel:17:12 @ Now David was the son of an Eph'rathite of Bethlehem in Judah, named Jesse, who had eight sons. In the days of Saul the man was already old and advanced in years.

rsv@1Samuel:17:13 @ The three eldest sons of Jesse had followed Saul to the battle; and the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eli'ab the first-born, and next to him Abin'adab, and the third Shammah.

rsv@1Samuel:17:14 @ David was the youngest; the three eldest followed Saul,

rsv@1Samuel:17:15 @ but David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.

rsv@1Samuel:17:16 @ For forty days the Philistine came forward and took his stand, morning and evening.

rsv@1Samuel:17:17 @ And Jesse said to David his son, "Take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers;

rsv@1Samuel:17:18 @ also take these ten cheeses to the commander of their thousand. See how your brothers fare, and bring some token from them."

rsv@1Samuel:17:19 @ Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.

rsv@1Samuel:17:20 @ And David rose early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took the provisions, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the encampment as the host was going forth to the battle line, shouting the war cry.

rsv@1Samuel:17:21 @ And Israel and the Philistines drew up for battle, army against army.

rsv@1Samuel:17:22 @ And David left the things in charge of the keeper of the baggage, and ran to the ranks, and went and greeted his brothers.

rsv@1Samuel:17:23 @ As he talked with them, behold, the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, came up out of the ranks of the Philistines, and spoke the same words as before. And David heard him.

rsv@1Samuel:17:24 @ All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were much afraid.

rsv@1Samuel:17:25 @ And the men of Israel said, "Have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel; and the man who kills him, the king will enrich with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel."

rsv@1Samuel:17:26 @ And David said to the men who stood by him, "What shall be done for the man who kills 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?"

rsv@1Samuel:17:27 @ And the people answered him in the same way, "So shall it be done to the man who kills him."

rsv@1Samuel:17:28 @ Now Eli'ab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eli'ab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, "Why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumption, and the evil of your heart; for you have come down to see the battle."

rsv@1Samuel:17:29 @ And David said, "What have I done now? Was it not but a word?"

rsv@1Samuel:17:30 @ And he turned away from him toward another, and spoke in the same way; and the people answered him again as before.

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

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

rsv@1Samuel:17:33 @ And Saul said to David, "You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are but a youth, and he has been a man of war from his youth."

rsv@1Samuel:17:34 @ But David said to Saul, "Your servant used to keep sheep for his father; and when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb from the flock,

rsv@1Samuel:17:35 @ I went after him and smote him and delivered it out of his mouth; and if he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him and killed him.

rsv@1Samuel:17:36 @ Your servant has killed both lions and bears; and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God."

rsv@1Samuel:17:37 @ And David said, "The LORD who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine." And Saul said to David, "Go, and the LORD be with you!"

rsv@1Samuel:17:38 @ Then Saul clothed David with his armor; he put a helmet of bronze on his head, and clothed him with a coat of mail.

rsv@1Samuel:17:39 @ And David girded his sword over his armor, and he tried in vain to go, for he was not used to them. Then David said to Saul, "I cannot go with these; for I am not used to them." And David put them off.

rsv@1Samuel:17:40 @ Then he took his staff in his hand, and chose five smooth stones from the brook, and put them in his shepherd's bag or wallet; his sling was in his hand, and he drew near to the Philistine.

rsv@1Samuel:17:41 @ And the Philistine came on and drew near to David, with his shield-bearer in front of him.

rsv@1Samuel:17:42 @ And when the Philistine looked, and saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth, ruddy and comely in appearance.

rsv@1Samuel:17:43 @ And the Philistine said to David, "Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?" And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

rsv@1Samuel:17:44 @ The Philistine said to David, "Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the field."

rsv@1Samuel:17:45 @ Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin; but I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.

rsv@1Samuel:17:46 @ This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down, and cut off your head; and I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,

rsv@1Samuel:17:47 @ and that all this assembly may know that the LORD saves not with sword and spear; for the battle is the LORD'S and he will give you into our hand."

rsv@1Samuel:17:48 @ When the Philistine arose and came and drew near to meet David, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet the Philistine.

rsv@1Samuel:17:49 @ And David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone, and slung it, and struck the Philistine on his forehead; the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground.

rsv@1Samuel:17:50 @ So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and struck the Philistine, and killed him; there was no sword in the hand of David.

rsv@1Samuel:17:51 @ Then David ran and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath, and killed him, and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.

rsv@1Samuel:17:52 @ And the men of Israel and Judah rose with a shout and pursued the Philistines as far as Gath and the gates of Ekron, so that the wounded Philistines fell on the way from Sha-ara'im as far as Gath and Ekron.

rsv@1Samuel:17:53 @ And the Israelites came back from chasing the Philistines, and they plundered their camp.

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

rsv@1Samuel:17:55 @ When Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the commander of the army, "Abner, whose son is this youth?" And Abner said, "As your soul lives, O king, I cannot tell."

rsv@1Samuel:17:56 @ And the king said, "Inquire whose son the stripling is."

rsv@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.

rsv@1Samuel:17:58 @ And Saul said to him, "Whose son are you, young man?" And David answered, "I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite."

rsv@1Samuel:18:1 @ When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

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

rsv@1Samuel:18:3 @ Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul.

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

rsv@1Samuel:18:5 @ And David went out and was successful wherever Saul sent him; so that Saul set him over the men of war. And this was good in the sight of all the people and also in the sight of Saul's servants.

rsv@1Samuel:18:6 @ As they were coming home, when David returned from slaying the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with timbrels, with songs of joy, and with instruments of music.

rsv@1Samuel:18:7 @ And the women sang to one another as they made merry, "Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands."

rsv@1Samuel:18:8 @ And Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him; he said, "They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed thousands; and what more can he have but the kingdom?"

rsv@1Samuel:18:9 @ And Saul eyed David from that day on.

rsv@1Samuel:18:10 @ And on the morrow an evil spirit from God rushed upon Saul, and he raved within his house, while David was playing the lyre, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand;

rsv@1Samuel:18:11 @ and Saul cast the spear, for he thought, "I will pin David to the wall." But David evaded him twice.

rsv@1Samuel:18:12 @ Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him but had departed from Saul.

rsv@1Samuel:18:13 @ So Saul removed him from his presence, and made him a commander of a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.

rsv@1Samuel:18:14 @ And David had success in all his undertakings; for the LORD was with him.

rsv@1Samuel:18:15 @ And when Saul saw that he had great success, he stood in awe of him.

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

rsv@1Samuel:18:17 @ Then Saul said to David, "Here is my elder daughter Merab; I will give her to you for a wife; only be valiant for me and fight the LORD'S battles." For Saul thought, "Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him."

rsv@1Samuel:18:18 @ And David said to Saul, "Who am I, and who are my kinsfolk, my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?"

rsv@1Samuel:18:19 @ But at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to A'driel the Meho'lathite for a wife.

rsv@1Samuel:18:20 @ Now Saul's daughter Michal loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.

rsv@1Samuel:18:21 @ Saul thought, "Let me give her to him, that she may be a snare for him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him." Therefore Saul said to David a second time, "You shall now be my son-in-law."

rsv@1Samuel:18:22 @ And Saul commanded his servants, "Speak to David in private and say, `Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you; now then become the king's son-in-law.'"

rsv@1Samuel:18:23 @ And Saul's servants spoke those words in the ears of David. And David said, "Does it seem to you a little thing to become the king's son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man and of no repute?"

rsv@1Samuel:18:24 @ And the servants of Saul told him, "Thus and so did David speak."

rsv@1Samuel:18:25 @ Then Saul said, "Thus shall you say to David, `The king desires no marriage present except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, that he may be avenged of the king's enemies.'" Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

rsv@1Samuel:18:26 @ And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law. Before the time had expired,

rsv@1Samuel:18:27 @ David arose and went, along with his men, and killed two hundred of the Philistines; and David brought their foreskins, which were given in full number to the king, that he might become the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him his daughter Michal for a wife.

rsv@1Samuel:18:28 @ But when Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that all Israel loved him,

rsv@1Samuel:18:29 @ Saul was still more afraid of David. So Saul was David's enemy continually.

rsv@1Samuel:18:30 @ Then the princes of the Philistines came out to battle, and as often as they came out David had more success than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was highly esteemed.

rsv@1Samuel:19:1 @ And Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David.

rsv@1Samuel:19:2 @ And Jonathan told David, "Saul my father seeks to kill you; therefore take heed to yourself in the morning, stay in a secret place and hide yourself;

rsv@1Samuel:19:3 @ and I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will speak to my father about you; and if I learn anything I will tell you."

rsv@1Samuel:19:4 @ And Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father, and said to him, "Let not the king sin against his servant David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his deeds have been of good service to you;

rsv@1Samuel:19:5 @ for he took his life in his hand and he slew the Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced; why then will you sin against innocent blood by killing David without cause?"

rsv@1Samuel:19:6 @ And Saul hearkened to the voice of Jonathan; Saul swore, "As the LORD lives, he shall not be put to death."

rsv@1Samuel:19:7 @ And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all these things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence as before.

rsv@1Samuel:19:8 @ And there was war again; and David went out and fought with the Philistines, and made a great slaughter among them, so that they fled before him.

rsv@1Samuel:19:9 @ Then an evil spirit from the LORD came upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand; and David was playing the lyre.

rsv@1Samuel:19:10 @ And Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear; but he eluded Saul, so that he struck the spear into the wall. And David fled, and escaped.

rsv@1Samuel:19:11 @ That night Saul sent messengers to David's house to watch him, that he might kill him in the morning. But Michal, David's wife, told him, "If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed."

rsv@1Samuel:19:12 @ So Michal let David down through the window; and he fled away and escaped.

rsv@1Samuel:19:13 @ Michal took an image and laid it on the bed and put a pillow of goats' hair at its head, and covered it with the clothes.

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

rsv@1Samuel:19:15 @ Then Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, "Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him."

rsv@1Samuel:19:16 @ And when the messengers came in, behold, the image was in the bed, with the pillow of goats' hair at its head.

rsv@1Samuel:19:17 @ Saul said to Michal, "Why have you deceived me thus, and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?" And Michal answered Saul, "He said to me, `Let me go; why should I kill you?'"

rsv@1Samuel:19:18 @ Now David fled and escaped, and he came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt at Nai'oth.

rsv@1Samuel:19:19 @ And it was told Saul, "Behold, David is at Nai'oth in Ramah."

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

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

rsv@1Samuel:19:22 @ Then he himself went to Ramah, and came to the great well that is in Secu; and he asked, "Where are Samuel and David?" And one said, "Behold, they are at Nai'oth in Ramah."

rsv@1Samuel:19:23 @ And he went from there to Nai'oth in Ramah; and the Spirit of God came upon him also, and as he went he prophesied, until he came to Nai'oth in Ramah.

rsv@1Samuel:19:24 @ And he too stripped off his clothes, and he too prophesied before Samuel, and lay naked all that day and all that night. Hence it is said, "Is Saul also among the prophets?"

rsv@1Samuel:20:1 @ Then David fled from Nai'oth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, "What have I done? What is my guilt? And what is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?"

rsv@1Samuel:20:2 @ And he said to him, "Far from it! You shall not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small without disclosing it to me; and why should my father hide this from me? It is not so."

rsv@1Samuel:20:3 @ But David replied, "Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he thinks, `Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved.' But truly, as the LORD lives and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death."

rsv@1Samuel:20:4 @ Then said Jonathan to David, "Whatever you say, I will do for you."

rsv@1Samuel:20:5 @ David said to Jonathan, "Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit at table with the king; but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field till the third day at evening.

rsv@1Samuel:20:6 @ If your father misses me at all, then say, `David earnestly asked leave of me to run to Bethlehem his city; for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.'

rsv@1Samuel:20:7 @ If he says, `Good!' it will be well with your servant; but if he is angry, then know that evil is determined by him.

rsv@1Samuel:20:8 @ Therefore deal kindly with your servant, for you have brought your servant into a sacred covenant with you. But if there is guilt in me, slay me yourself; for why should you bring me to your father?"

rsv@1Samuel:20:9 @ And Jonathan said, "Far be it from you! If I knew that it was determined by my father that evil should come upon you, would I not tell you?"

rsv@1Samuel:20:10 @ Then said David to Jonathan, "Who will tell me if your father answers you roughly?"

rsv@1Samuel:20:11 @ And Jonathan said to David, "Come, let us go out into the field." So they both went out into the field.

rsv@1Samuel:20:12 @ And Jonathan said to David, "The LORD, the God of Israel, be witness! When I have sounded my father, about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if he is well disposed toward David, shall I not then send and disclose it to you?

rsv@1Samuel:20:13 @ But should it please my father to do you harm, the LORD do so to Jonathan, and more also, if I do not disclose it to you, and send you away, that you may go in safety. May the LORD be with you, as he has been with my father.

rsv@1Samuel:20:14 @ If I am still alive, show me the loyal love of the LORD, that I may not die;

rsv@1Samuel:20:15 @ and do not cut off your loyalty from my house for ever. When the LORD cuts off every one of the enemies of David from the face of the earth,

rsv@1Samuel:20:16 @ let not the name of Jonathan be cut off from the house of David. And may the LORD take vengeance on David's enemies."

rsv@1Samuel:20:17 @ And Jonathan made David swear again by his love for him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

rsv@1Samuel:20:18 @ Then Jonathan said to him, "Tomorrow is the new moon; and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty.

rsv@1Samuel:20:19 @ And on the third day you will be greatly missed; then go to the place where you hid yourself when the matter was in hand, and remain beside yonder stone heap.

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

rsv@1Samuel:20:21 @ And behold, I will send the lad, saying, `Go, find the arrows.' If I say to the lad, `Look, the arrows are on this side of you, take them,' then you are to come, for, as the LORD lives, it is safe for you and there is no danger.

rsv@1Samuel:20:22 @ But if I say to the youth, `Look, the arrows are beyond you,' then go; for the LORD has sent you away.

rsv@1Samuel:20:23 @ And as for the matter of which you and I have spoken, behold, the LORD is between you and me for ever."

rsv@1Samuel:20:24 @ So David hid himself in the field; and when the new moon came, the king sat down to eat food.

rsv@1Samuel:20:25 @ The king sat upon his seat, as at other times, upon the seat by the wall; Jonathan sat opposite, and Abner sat by Saul's side, but David's place was empty.

rsv@1Samuel:20:26 @ Yet Saul did not say anything that day; for he thought, "Something has befallen him; he is not clean, surely he is not clean."

rsv@1Samuel:20:27 @ But on the second day, the morrow after the new moon, David's place was empty. And Saul said to Jonathan his son, "Why has not the son of Jesse come to the meal, either yesterday or today?"

rsv@1Samuel:20:28 @ Jonathan answered Saul, "David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem;

rsv@1Samuel:20:29 @ he said, `Let me go; for our family holds a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has commanded me to be there. So now, if I have found favor in your eyes, let me get away, and see my brothers.' For this reason he has not come to the king's table."

rsv@1Samuel:20:30 @ Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, "You son of a perverse, rebellious woman, do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother's nakedness?

rsv@1Samuel:20:31 @ For as long as the son of Jesse lives upon the earth, neither you nor your kingdom shall be established. Therefore send and fetch him to me, for he shall surely die."

rsv@1Samuel:20:32 @ Then Jonathan answered Saul his father, "Why should he be put to death? What has he done?"

rsv@1Samuel:20:33 @ But Saul cast his spear at him to smite him; so Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.

rsv@1Samuel:20:34 @ And Jonathan rose from the table in fierce anger and ate no food the second day of the month, for he was grieved for David, because his father had disgraced him.

rsv@1Samuel:20:35 @ In the morning Jonathan went out into the field to the appointment with David, and with him a little lad.

rsv@1Samuel:20:36 @ And he said to his lad, "Run and find the arrows which I shoot." As the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.

rsv@1Samuel:20:37 @ And when the lad came to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan called after the lad and said, "Is not the arrow beyond you?"

rsv@1Samuel:20:38 @ And Jonathan called after the lad, "Hurry, make haste, stay not." So Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.

rsv@1Samuel:20:39 @ But the lad knew nothing; only Jonathan and David knew the matter.

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

rsv@1Samuel:20:41 @ And as soon as the lad had gone, David rose from beside the stone heap and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed three times; and they kissed one another, and wept with one another, until David recovered himself.

rsv@1Samuel:20:42 @ Then Jonathan said to David, "Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying, `The LORD shall be between me and you, and between my descendants and your descendants, for ever.'" And he rose and departed; and Jonathan went into the city.

rsv@1Samuel:21:1 @ Then came David to Nob to Ahim'elech the priest; and Ahim'elech came to meet David trembling, and said to him, "Why are you alone, and no one with you?"

rsv@1Samuel:21:2 @ And David said to Ahim'elech the priest, "The king has charged me with a matter, and said to me, `Let no one know anything of the matter about which I send you, and with which I have charged you.' I have made an appointment with the young men for such and such a place.

rsv@1Samuel:21:3 @ Now then, what have you at hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever is here."

rsv@1Samuel:21:4 @ And the priest answered David, "I have no common bread at hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women."

rsv@1Samuel:21:5 @ And David answered the priest, "Of a truth women have been kept from us as always when I go on an expedition; the vessels of the young men are holy, even when it is a common journey; how much more today will their vessels be holy?"

rsv@1Samuel:21:6 @ So the priest gave him the holy bread; for there was no bread there but the bread of the Presence, which is removed from before the LORD, to be replaced by hot bread on the day it is taken away.

rsv@1Samuel:21:7 @ Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; his name was Do'eg the E'domite, the chief of Saul's herdsmen.

rsv@1Samuel:21:8 @ And David said to Ahim'elech, "And have you not here a spear or a sword at hand? For I have brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste."

rsv@1Samuel:21:9 @ And the priest said, "The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod; if you will take that, take it, for there is none but that here." And David said, "There is none like that; give it to me."

rsv@1Samuel:21:10 @ And David rose and fled that day from Saul, and went to A'chish the king of Gath.

rsv@1Samuel:21:11 @ And the servants of A'chish said to him, "Is not this David the king of the land? Did they not sing to one another of him in dances, `Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands'?"

rsv@1Samuel:21:12 @ And David took these words to heart, and was much afraid of A'chish the king of Gath.

rsv@1Samuel:21:13 @ So he changed his behavior before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and made marks on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle run down his beard.

rsv@1Samuel:21:14 @ Then said A'chish to his servants, "Lo, you see the man is mad; why then have you brought him to me?

rsv@1Samuel:21:15 @ Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Shall this fellow come into my house?"

rsv@1Samuel:22:1 @ David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam; and when his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him.

rsv@1Samuel:22:2 @ And every one who was in distress, and every one who was in debt, and every one who was discontented, gathered to him; and he became captain over them. And there were with him about four hundred men.

rsv@1Samuel:22:3 @ And David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab; and he said to the king of Moab, "Pray let my father and my mother stay with you, till I know what God will do for me."

rsv@1Samuel:22:4 @ And he left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.

rsv@1Samuel:22:5 @ Then the prophet Gad said to David, "Do not remain in the stronghold; depart, and go into the land of Judah." So David departed, and went into the forest of Hereth.

rsv@1Samuel:22:6 @ Now Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men who were with him. Saul was sitting at Gib'e-ah, under the tamarisk tree on the height, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him.

rsv@1Samuel:22:7 @ And Saul said to his servants who stood about him, "Hear now, you Benjaminites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, will he make you all commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds,

rsv@1Samuel:22:8 @ that all of you have conspired against me? No one discloses to me when my son makes a league with the son of Jesse, none of you is sorry for me or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day."

rsv@1Samuel:22:9 @ Then answered Do'eg the E'domite, who stood by the servants of Saul, "I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahim'elech the son of Ahi'tub,

rsv@1Samuel:22:10 @ and he inquired of the LORD for him, and gave him provisions, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine."

rsv@1Samuel:22:11 @ Then the king sent to summon Ahim'elech the priest, the son of Ahi'tub, and all his father's house, the priests who were at Nob; and all of them came to the king.

rsv@1Samuel:22:12 @ And Saul said, "Hear now, son of Ahi'tub." And he answered, "Here I am, my lord."

rsv@1Samuel:22:13 @ And Saul said to him, "Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, so that he has risen against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?"

rsv@1Samuel:22:14 @ Then Ahim'elech answered the king, "And who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and captain over your bodyguard, and honored in your house?

rsv@1Samuel:22:15 @ Is today the first time that I have inquired of God for him? No! Let not the king impute anything to his servant or to all the house of my father; for your servant has known nothing of all this, much or little."

rsv@1Samuel:22:16 @ And the king said, "You shall surely die, Ahim'elech, you and all your father's house."

rsv@1Samuel:22:17 @ And the king said to the guard who stood about him, "Turn and kill the priests of the LORD; because their hand also is with David, and they knew that he fled, and did not disclose it to me." But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD.

rsv@1Samuel:22:18 @ Then the king said to Do'eg, "You turn and fall upon the priests." And Do'eg the E'domite turned and fell upon the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five persons who wore the linen ephod.

rsv@1Samuel:22:19 @ And Nob, the city of the priests, he put to the sword; both men and women, children and sucklings, oxen, asses and sheep, he put to the sword.

rsv@1Samuel:22:20 @ But one of the sons of Ahim'elech the son of Ahi'tub, named Abi'athar, escaped and fled after David.

rsv@1Samuel:22:21 @ And Abi'athar told David that Saul had killed the priests of the LORD.

rsv@1Samuel:22:22 @ And David said to Abi'athar, "I knew on that day, when Do'eg the E'domite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I have occasioned the death of all the persons of your father's house.

rsv@1Samuel:22:23 @ Stay with me, fear not; for he that seeks my life seeks your life; with me you shall be in safekeeping."

rsv@1Samuel:23:1 @ Now they told David, "Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Kei'lah, and are robbing the threshing floors."

rsv@1Samuel:23:2 @ Therefore David inquired of the LORD, "Shall I go and attack these Philistines?" And the LORD said to David, "Go and attack the Philistines and save Kei'lah."

rsv@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 Kei'lah against the armies of the Philistines?"

rsv@1Samuel:23:4 @ Then David inquired of the LORD again. And the LORD answered him, "Arise, go down to Kei'lah; for I will give the Philistines into your hand."

rsv@1Samuel:23:5 @ And David and his men went to Kei'lah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and made a great slaughter among them. So David delivered the inhabitants of Kei'lah.

rsv@1Samuel:23:6 @ When Abi'athar the son of Ahim'elech fled to David to Kei'lah, he came down with an ephod in his hand.

rsv@1Samuel:23:7 @ Now it was told Saul that David had come to Kei'lah. And Saul said, "God has given him into my hand; for he has shut himself in by entering a town that has gates and bars."

rsv@1Samuel:23:8 @ And Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Kei'lah, to besiege David and his men.

rsv@1Samuel:23:9 @ David knew that Saul was plotting evil against him; and he said to Abi'athar the priest, "Bring the ephod here."

rsv@1Samuel:23:10 @ Then said David, "O LORD, the God of Israel, thy servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Kei'lah, to destroy the city on my account.

rsv@1Samuel:23:11 @ Will the men of Kei'lah surrender me into his hand? Will Saul come down, as thy servant has heard? O LORD, the God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant." And the LORD said, "He will come down."

rsv@1Samuel:23:12 @ Then said David, "Will the men of Kei'lah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul?" And the LORD said, "They will surrender you."

rsv@1Samuel:23:13 @ Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed from Kei'lah, and they went wherever they could go. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Kei'lah, he gave up the expedition.

rsv@1Samuel:23:14 @ And David remained in the strongholds in the wilderness, in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God did not give him into his hand.

rsv@1Samuel:23:15 @ And David was afraid because Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the Wilderness of Ziph at Horesh.

rsv@1Samuel:23:16 @ And Jonathan, Saul's son, rose, and went to David at Horesh, and strengthened his hand in God.

rsv@1Samuel:23:17 @ And he said to him, "Fear not; for the hand of Saul my father shall not find you; you shall be king over Israel, and I shall be next to you; Saul my father also knows this."

rsv@1Samuel:23:18 @ And the two of them made a covenant before the LORD; David remained at Horesh, and Jonathan went home.

rsv@1Samuel:23:19 @ Then the Ziphites went up to Saul at Gib'e-ah, saying, "Does not David hide among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachi'lah, which is south of Jeshi'mon?

rsv@1Samuel:23:20 @ Now come down, O king, according to all your heart's desire to come down; and our part shall be to surrender him into the king's hand."

rsv@1Samuel:23:21 @ And Saul said, "May you be blessed by the LORD; for you have had compassion on me.

rsv@1Samuel:23:22 @ Go, make yet more sure; know and see the place where his haunt is, and who has seen him there; for it is told me that he is very cunning.

rsv@1Samuel:23:23 @ See therefore, and take note of all the lurking places where he hides, and come back to me with sure information. Then I will go with you; and if he is in the land, I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah."

rsv@1Samuel:23:24 @ And they arose, and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the wilderness of Ma'on, in the Arabah to the south of Jeshi'mon.

rsv@1Samuel:23:25 @ And Saul and his men went to seek him. And David was told; therefore he went down to the rock which is in the wilderness of Ma'on. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Ma'on.

rsv@1Samuel:23:26 @ Saul went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men on the other side of the mountain; and David was making haste to get away from Saul, as Saul and his men were closing in upon David and his men to capture them,

rsv@1Samuel:23:27 @ when a messenger came to Saul, saying, "Make haste and come; for the Philistines have made a raid upon the land."

rsv@1Samuel:23:28 @ So Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines; therefore that place was called the Rock of Escape.

rsv@1Samuel:23:29 @ And David went up from there, and dwelt in the strongholds of En-ge'di.

rsv@1Samuel:24:1 @ When Saul returned from following the Philistines, he was told, "Behold, David is in the wilderness of En-ge'di."

rsv@1Samuel:24:2 @ Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men in front of the Wildgoats' Rocks.

rsv@1Samuel:24:3 @ And he came to the sheepfolds by the way, where there was a cave; and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were sitting in the innermost parts of the cave.

rsv@1Samuel:24:4 @ And the men of David said to him, "Here is the day of which the LORD said to you, `Behold, I will give your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.'" Then David arose and stealthily cut off the skirt of Saul's robe.

rsv@1Samuel:24:5 @ And afterward David's heart smote him, because he had cut off Saul's skirt.

rsv@1Samuel:24:6 @ He said to his men, "The LORD forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the LORD'S anointed, to put forth my hand against him, seeing he is the LORD'S anointed."

rsv@1Samuel:24:7 @ So David persuaded his men with these words, and did not permit them to attack Saul. And Saul rose up and left the cave, and went upon his way.

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

rsv@1Samuel:24:9 @ And David said to Saul, "Why do you listen to the words of men who say, `Behold, David seeks your hurt'?

rsv@1Samuel:24:10 @ Lo, this day your eyes have seen how the LORD gave you today into my hand in the cave; and some bade me kill you, but I spared you. I said, `I will not put forth my hand against my lord; for he is the LORD'S anointed.'

rsv@1Samuel:24:11 @ See, my father, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for by the fact that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and did not kill you, you may know and see that there is no wrong or treason in my hands. I have not sinned against you, though you hunt my life to take it.

rsv@1Samuel:24:12 @ May the LORD judge between me and you, may the LORD avenge me upon you; but my hand shall not be against you.

rsv@1Samuel:24:13 @ As the proverb of the ancients says, `Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness'; but my hand shall not be against you.

rsv@1Samuel:24:14 @ After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom do you pursue? After a dead dog! After a flea!

rsv@1Samuel:24:15 @ May the LORD therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see to it, and plead my cause, and deliver me from your hand."

rsv@1Samuel:24:16 @ When David had finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" And Saul lifted up his voice and wept.

rsv@1Samuel:24:17 @ He said to David, "You are more righteous than I; for you have repaid me good, whereas I have repaid you evil.

rsv@1Samuel:24:18 @ And you have declared this day how you have dealt well with me, in that you did not kill me when the LORD put me into your hands.

rsv@1Samuel:24:19 @ For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away safe? So may the LORD reward you with good for what you have done to me this day.

rsv@1Samuel:24:20 @ And now, behold, I know that you shall surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in your hand.

rsv@1Samuel:24:21 @ Swear to me therefore by the LORD that you will not cut off my descendants after me, and that you will not destroy my name out of my father's house."

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

rsv@1Samuel:25:1 @ Now Samuel died; and all Israel assembled and mourned for him, and they buried him in his house at Ramah. Then David rose and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

rsv@1Samuel:25:2 @ And there was a man in Ma'on, whose business was in Carmel. The man was very rich; he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. He was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

rsv@1Samuel:25:3 @ Now the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Ab'igail. The woman was of good understanding and beautiful, but the man was churlish and ill-behaved; he was a Calebite.

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

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

rsv@1Samuel:25:6 @ And thus you shall salute him: `Peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have.

rsv@1Samuel:25:7 @ I hear that you have shearers; now your shepherds have been with us, and we did them no harm, and they missed nothing, all the time they were in Carmel.

rsv@1Samuel:25:8 @ Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore let my young men find favor in your eyes; for we come on a feast day. Pray, give whatever you have at hand to your servants and to your son David.'"

rsv@1Samuel:25:9 @ When David's young men came, they said all this to Nabal in the name of David; and then they waited.

rsv@1Samuel:25:10 @ And Nabal answered David's servants, "Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants nowadays who are breaking away from their masters.

rsv@1Samuel:25:11 @ Shall I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men who come from I do not know where?"

rsv@1Samuel:25:12 @ So David's young men turned away, and came back and told him all this.

rsv@1Samuel:25:13 @ And David said to his men, "Every man gird on his sword!" And every man of them girded on his sword; David also girded on his sword; and about four hundred men went up after David, while two hundred remained with the baggage.

rsv@1Samuel:25:14 @ But one of the young men told Ab'igail, Nabal's wife, "Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed at them.

rsv@1Samuel:25:15 @ Yet the men were very good to us, and we suffered no harm, and we did not miss anything when we were in the fields, as long as we went with them;

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

rsv@1Samuel:25:17 @ Now therefore know this and consider what you should do; for evil is determined against our master and against all his house, and he is so ill-natured that one cannot speak to him."

rsv@1Samuel:25:18 @ Then Ab'igail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two skins of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched grain, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.

rsv@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.

rsv@1Samuel:25:20 @ And as she rode on the ass, and came down under cover of the mountain, behold, David and his men came down toward her; and she met them.

rsv@1Samuel:25:21 @ Now David had said, "Surely in vain have I guarded all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him; and he has returned me evil for good.

rsv@1Samuel:25:22 @ God do so to David and more also, if by morning I leave so much as one male of all who belong to him."

rsv@1Samuel:25:23 @ When Ab'igail saw David, she made haste, and alighted from the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed to the ground.

rsv@1Samuel:25:24 @ She fell at his feet and said, "Upon me alone, my lord, be the guilt; pray let your handmaid speak in your ears, and hear the words of your handmaid.

rsv@1Samuel:25:25 @ Let not my lord regard this ill-natured fellow, Nabal; for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; but I your handmaid did not see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.

rsv@1Samuel:25:26 @ Now then, my lord, as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, seeing the LORD has restrained you from bloodguilt, and from taking vengeance with your own hand, now then let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be as Nabal.

rsv@1Samuel:25:27 @ And now let this present which your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord.

rsv@1Samuel:25:28 @ Pray forgive the trespass of your handmaid; for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord is fighting the battles of the LORD; and evil shall not be found in you so long as you live.

rsv@1Samuel:25:29 @ If men rise up to pursue you and to seek your life, the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living in the care of the LORD your God; and the lives of your enemies he shall sling out as from the hollow of a sling.

rsv@1Samuel:25:30 @ And when the LORD has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you prince over Israel,

rsv@1Samuel:25:31 @ my lord shall have no cause of grief, or pangs of conscience, for having shed blood without cause or for my lord taking vengeance himself. And when the LORD has dealt well with my lord, then remember your handmaid."

rsv@1Samuel:25:32 @ And David said to Ab'igail, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me!

rsv@1Samuel:25:33 @ Blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodguilt and from avenging myself with my own hand!

rsv@1Samuel:25:34 @ For as surely as the LORD the God of Israel lives, who has restrained me from hurting you, unless you had made haste and come to meet me, truly by morning there had not been left to Nabal so much as one male."

rsv@1Samuel:25:35 @ Then David received from her hand what she had brought him; and he said to her, "Go up in peace to your house; see, I have hearkened to your voice, and I have granted your petition."

rsv@1Samuel:25:36 @ And Ab'igail came to Nabal; and, lo, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; so she told him nothing at all until the morning light.

rsv@1Samuel:25:37 @ And in the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.

rsv@1Samuel:25:38 @ And about ten days later the LORD smote Nabal; and he died.

rsv@1Samuel:25:39 @ When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, "Blessed be the LORD who has avenged the insult I received at the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil; the LORD has returned the evil-doing of Nabal upon his own head." Then David sent and wooed Ab'igail, to make her his wife.

rsv@1Samuel:25:40 @ And when the servants of David came to Ab'igail at Carmel, they said to her, "David has sent us to you to take you to him as his wife."

rsv@1Samuel:25:41 @ And she rose and bowed with her face to the ground, and said, "Behold, your handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord."

rsv@1Samuel:25:42 @ And Ab'igail made haste and rose and mounted on an ass, and her five maidens attended her; she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.

rsv@1Samuel:25:43 @ David also took Ahin'o-am of Jezreel; and both of them became his wives.

rsv@1Samuel:25:44 @ Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Palti the son of La'ish, who was of Gallim.

rsv@1Samuel:26:1 @ Then the Ziphites came to Saul at Gib'e-ah, saying, "Is not David hiding himself on the hill of Hachi'lah, which is on the east of Jeshi'mon?"

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

rsv@1Samuel:26:3 @ And Saul encamped on the hill of Hachi'lah, which is beside the road on the east of Jeshi'mon. But David remained in the wilderness; and when he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness,

rsv@1Samuel:26:4 @ David sent out spies, and learned of a certainty that Saul had come.

rsv@1Samuel:26:5 @ Then David rose and came to the place where Saul had encamped; and David saw the place where Saul lay, with Abner the son of Ner, the commander of his army; Saul was lying within the encampment, while the army was encamped around him.

rsv@1Samuel:26:6 @ Then David said to Ahim'elech the Hittite, and to Jo'ab's brother Abi'shai the son of Zeru'iah, "Who will go down with me into the camp to Saul?" And Abi'shai said, "I will go down with you."

rsv@1Samuel:26:7 @ So David and Abi'shai went to the army by night; and there lay Saul sleeping within the encampment, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the army lay around him.

rsv@1Samuel:26:8 @ Then said Abi'shai to David, "God has given your enemy into your hand this day; now therefore let me pin him to the earth with one stroke of the spear, and I will not strike him twice."

rsv@1Samuel:26:9 @ But David said to Abi'shai, "Do not destroy him; for who can put forth his hand against the LORD'S anointed, and be guiltless?"

rsv@1Samuel:26:10 @ And David said, "As the LORD lives, the LORD will smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.

rsv@1Samuel:26:11 @ The LORD forbid that I should put forth my hand against the LORD'S anointed; but take now the spear that is at his head, and the jar of water, and let us go."

rsv@1Samuel:26:12 @ So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul's head; and they went away. No man saw it, or knew it, nor did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen upon them.

rsv@1Samuel:26:13 @ Then David went over to the other side, and stood afar off on the top of the mountain, with a great space between them;

rsv@1Samuel:26:14 @ and David called to the army, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, "Will you not answer, Abner?" Then Abner answered, "Who are you that calls to the king?"

rsv@1Samuel:26:15 @ And David said to Abner, "Are you not a man? Who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not kept watch over your lord the king? For one of the people came in to destroy the king your lord.

rsv@1Samuel:26:16 @ This thing that you have done is not good. As the LORD lives, you deserve to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, the LORD'S anointed. And now see where the king's spear is, and the jar of water that was at his head."

rsv@1Samuel:26:17 @ Saul recognized David's voice, and said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" And David said, "It is my voice, my lord, O king."

rsv@1Samuel:26:18 @ And he said, "Why does my lord pursue after his servant? For what have I done? What guilt is on my hands?

rsv@1Samuel:26:19 @ Now therefore let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is the LORD who has stirred you up against me, may he accept an offering; but if it is men, may they be cursed before the LORD, for they have driven me out this day that I should have no share in the heritage of the LORD, saying, `Go, serve other gods.'

rsv@1Samuel:26:20 @ Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of the LORD; for the king of Israel has come out to seek my life, like one who hunts a partridge in the mountains."

rsv@1Samuel:26:21 @ Then Saul said, "I have done wrong; return, my son David, for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes this day; behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly."

rsv@1Samuel:26:22 @ And David made answer, "Here is the spear, O king! Let one of the young men come over and fetch it.

rsv@1Samuel:26:23 @ The LORD rewards every man for his righteousness and his faithfulness; for the LORD gave you into my hand today, and I would not put forth my hand against the LORD'S anointed.

rsv@1Samuel:26:24 @ Behold, as your life was precious this day in my sight, so may my life be precious in the sight of the LORD, and may he deliver me out of all tribulation."

rsv@1Samuel:26:25 @ Then Saul said to David, "Blessed be you, my son David! You will do many things and will succeed in them." So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place.

rsv@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 escape to the land of the Philistines; then Saul will despair of seeking me any longer within the borders of Israel, and I shall escape out of his hand."

rsv@1Samuel:27:2 @ So David arose and went over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to A'chish the son of Ma'och, king of Gath.

rsv@1Samuel:27:3 @ And David dwelt with A'chish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, and David with his two wives, Ahin'o-am of Jezreel, and Ab'igail of Carmel, Nabal's widow.

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

rsv@1Samuel:27:5 @ Then David said to A'chish, "If I have found favor in your eyes, let a place be given me in one of the country towns, that I may dwell there; for why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?"

rsv@1Samuel:27:6 @ So that day A'chish gave him Ziklag; therefore Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah to this day.

rsv@1Samuel:27:7 @ And the number of the days that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months.

rsv@1Samuel:27:8 @ Now David and his men went up, and made raids upon the Gesh'urites, the Gir'zites, and the Amal'ekites; for these were the inhabitants of the land from of old, as far as Shur, to the land of Egypt.

rsv@1Samuel:27:9 @ And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, but took away the sheep, the oxen, the asses, the camels, and the garments, and came back to A'chish.

rsv@1Samuel:27:10 @ When A'chish asked, "Against whom have you made a raid today?" David would say, "Against the Negeb of Judah," or "Against the Negeb of the Jerah'meelites," or, "Against the Negeb of the Ken'ites."

rsv@1Samuel:27:11 @ And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring tidings to Gath, thinking, "Lest they should tell about us, and say, `So David has done.'" Such was his custom all the while he dwelt in the country of the Philistines.

rsv@1Samuel:27:12 @ And A'chish trusted David, thinking, "He has made himself utterly abhorred by his people Israel; therefore he shall be my servant always."

rsv@1Samuel:28:1 @ In those days the Philistines gathered their forces for war, to fight against Israel. And A'chish said to David, "Understand that you and your men are to go out with me in the army."

rsv@1Samuel:28:2 @ David said to A'chish, "Very well, you shall know what your servant can do." And A'chish said to David, "Very well, I will make you my bodyguard for life."

rsv@1Samuel:28:3 @ Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had put the mediums and the wizards out of the land.

rsv@1Samuel:28:4 @ The Philistines assembled, and came and encamped at Shunem; and Saul gathered all Israel, and they encamped at Gilbo'a.

rsv@1Samuel:28:5 @ When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly.

rsv@1Samuel:28:6 @ And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD did not answer him, either by dreams, or by Urim, or by prophets.

rsv@1Samuel:28:7 @ Then Saul said to his servants, "Seek out for me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her." And his servants said to him, "Behold, there is a medium at Endor."

rsv@1Samuel:28:8 @ So Saul disguised himself and put on other garments, and went, he and two men with him; and they came to the woman by night. And he said, "Divine for me by a spirit, and bring up for me whomever I shall name to you."

rsv@1Samuel:28:9 @ The woman said to him, "Surely you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off the mediums and the wizards from the land. Why then are you laying a snare for my life to bring about my death?"

rsv@1Samuel:28:10 @ But Saul swore to her by the LORD, "As the LORD lives, no punishment shall come upon you for this thing."

rsv@1Samuel:28:11 @ Then the woman said, "Whom shall I bring up for you?" He said, "Bring up Samuel for me."

rsv@1Samuel:28:12 @ When the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice; and the woman said to Saul, "Why have you deceived me? You are Saul."

rsv@1Samuel:28:13 @ The king said to her, "Have no fear; what do you see?" And the woman said to Saul, "I see a god coming up out of the earth."

rsv@1Samuel:28:14 @ He said to her, "What is his appearance?" And she said, "An old man is coming up; and he is wrapped in a robe." And Saul knew that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground, and did obeisance.

rsv@1Samuel:28:15 @ Then Samuel said to Saul, "Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?" Saul answered, "I am in great distress; for the Philistines are warring against me, and God has turned away from me and answers me no more, either by prophets or by dreams; therefore I have summoned you to tell me what I shall do."

rsv@1Samuel:28:16 @ And Samuel said, "Why then do you ask me, since the LORD has turned from you and become your enemy?

rsv@1Samuel:28:17 @ The LORD has done to you as he spoke by me; for the LORD has torn the kingdom out of your hand, and given it to your neighbor, David.

rsv@1Samuel:28:18 @ Because you did not obey the voice of the LORD, and did not carry out his fierce wrath against Am'alek, therefore the LORD has done this thing to you this day.

rsv@1Samuel:28:19 @ Moreover the LORD will give Israel also with you into the hand of the Philistines; and tomorrow you and your sons shall be with me; the LORD will give the army of Israel also into the hand of the Philistines."

rsv@1Samuel:28:20 @ Then Saul fell at once full length upon the ground, filled with fear because of the words of Samuel; and there was no strength in him, for he had eaten nothing all day and all night.

rsv@1Samuel:28:21 @ And the woman came to Saul, and when she saw that he was terrified, she said to him, "Behold, your handmaid has hearkened to you; I have taken my life in my hand, and have hearkened to what you have said to me.

rsv@1Samuel:28:22 @ Now therefore, you also hearken to your handmaid; let me set a morsel of bread before you; and eat, that you may have strength when you go on your way."

rsv@1Samuel:28:23 @ He refused, and said, "I will not eat." But his servants, together with the woman, urged him; and he hearkened to their words. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed.

rsv@1Samuel:28:24 @ Now the woman had a fatted calf in the house, and she quickly killed it, and she took flour, and kneaded it and baked unleavened bread of it,

rsv@1Samuel:28:25 @ and she put it before Saul and his servants; and they ate. Then they rose and went away that night.

rsv@1Samuel:29:1 @ Now the Philistines gathered all their forces at Aphek; and the Israelites were encamped by the fountain which is in Jezreel.

rsv@1Samuel:29:2 @ As the lords of the Philistines were passing on by hundreds and by thousands, and David and his men were passing on in the rear with A'chish,

rsv@1Samuel:29:3 @ the commanders of the Philistines said, "What are these Hebrews doing here?" And A'chish said to the commanders of the Philistines, "Is not this David, the servant of Saul, king of Israel, who has been with me now for days and years, and since he deserted to me I have found no fault in him to this day."

rsv@1Samuel:29:4 @ But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with him; and the commanders of the Philistines said to him, "Send the man back, that he may return to the place to which you have assigned him; he shall not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us. For how could this fellow reconcile himself to his lord? Would it not be with the heads of the men here?

rsv@1Samuel:29:5 @ Is not this David, of whom they sing to one another in dances, `Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands'?"

rsv@1Samuel:29:6 @ Then A'chish called David and said to him, "As the LORD lives, you have been honest, and to me it seems right that you should march out and in with me in the campaign; for I have found nothing wrong in you from the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless the lords do not approve of you.

rsv@1Samuel:29:7 @ So go back now; and go peaceably, that you may not displease the lords of the Philistines."

rsv@1Samuel:29:8 @ And David said to A'chish, "But what have I done? What have you found in your servant from the day I entered your service until now, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?"

rsv@1Samuel:29:9 @ And A'chish made answer to David, "I know that you are as blameless in my sight as an angel of God; nevertheless the commanders of the Philistines have said, `He shall not go up with us to the battle.'

rsv@1Samuel:29:10 @ Now then rise early in the morning with the servants of your lord who came with you; and start early in the morning, and depart as soon as you have light."

rsv@1Samuel:29:11 @ So David set out with his men early in the morning, to return to the land of the Philistines. But the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

rsv@1Samuel:30:1 @ Now when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, the Amal'ekites had made a raid upon the Negeb and upon Ziklag. They had overcome Ziklag, and burned it with fire,

rsv@1Samuel:30:2 @ and taken captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great; they killed no one, but carried them off, and went their way.

rsv@1Samuel:30:3 @ And when David and his men came to the city, they found it burned with fire, and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.

rsv@1Samuel:30:4 @ Then David and the people who were with him raised their voices and wept, until they had no more strength to weep.

rsv@1Samuel:30:5 @ David's two wives also had been taken captive, Ahin'o-am of Jezreel, and Ab'igail the widow of Nabal of Carmel.

rsv@1Samuel:30:6 @ And David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because all the people were bitter in soul, each for his sons and daughters. But David strengthened himself in the LORD his God.

rsv@1Samuel:30:7 @ And David said to Abi'athar the priest, the son of Ahim'elech, "Bring me the ephod." So Abi'athar brought the ephod to David.

rsv@1Samuel:30:8 @ And David inquired of the LORD, "Shall I pursue after this band? Shall I overtake them?" He answered him, "Pursue; for you shall surely overtake and shall surely rescue."

rsv@1Samuel:30:9 @ So David set out, and the six hundred men who were with him, and they came to the brook Besor, where those stayed who were left behind.

rsv@1Samuel:30:10 @ But David went on with the pursuit, he and four hundred men; two hundred stayed behind, who were too exhausted to cross the brook Besor.

rsv@1Samuel:30:11 @ They found an Egyptian in the open country, and brought him to David; and they gave him bread and he ate, they gave him water to drink,

rsv@1Samuel:30:12 @ and they gave him a piece of a cake of figs and two clusters of raisins. And when he had eaten, his spirit revived; for he had not eaten bread or drunk water for three days and three nights.

rsv@1Samuel:30:13 @ And David said to him, "To whom do you belong? And where are you from?" He said, "I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amal'ekite; and my master left me behind because I fell sick three days ago.

rsv@1Samuel:30:14 @ We had made a raid upon the Negeb of the Cher'ethites and upon that which belongs to Judah and upon the Negeb of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire."

rsv@1Samuel:30:15 @ And David said to him, "Will you take me down to this band?" And he said, "Swear to me by God, that you will not kill me, or deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will take you down to this band."

rsv@1Samuel:30:16 @ And when he had taken him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the land, eating and drinking and dancing, because of all the great spoil they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.

rsv@1Samuel:30:17 @ And David smote them from twilight until the evening of the next day; and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men, who mounted camels and fled.

rsv@1Samuel:30:18 @ David recovered all that the Amal'ekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives.

rsv@1Samuel:30:19 @ Nothing was missing, whether small or great, sons or daughters, spoil or anything that had been taken; David brought back all.

rsv@1Samuel:30:20 @ David also captured all the flocks and herds; and the people drove those cattle before him, and said, "This is David's spoil."

rsv@1Samuel:30:21 @ Then David came to the two hundred men, who had been too exhausted to follow David, and who had been left at the brook Besor; and they went out to meet David and to meet the people who were with him; and when David drew near to the people he saluted them.

rsv@1Samuel:30:22 @ Then all the wicked and base fellows among the men who had gone with David said, "Because they did not go with us, we will not give them any of the spoil which we have recovered, except that each man may lead away his wife and children, and depart."

rsv@1Samuel:30:23 @ But David said, "You shall not do so, my brothers, with what the LORD has given us; he has preserved us and given into our hand the band that came against us.

rsv@1Samuel:30:24 @ Who would listen to you in this matter? For as his share is who goes down into the battle, so shall his share be who stays by the baggage; they shall share alike."

rsv@1Samuel:30:25 @ And from that day forward he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day.

rsv@1Samuel:30:26 @ When David came to Ziklag, he sent part of the spoil to his friends, the elders of Judah, saying, "Here is a present for you from the spoil of the enemies of the LORD";

rsv@1Samuel:30:27 @ it was for those in Bethel, in Ramoth of the Negeb, in Jattir,

rsv@1Samuel:30:28 @ in Aro'er, in Siphmoth, in Eshtemo'a,

rsv@1Samuel:30:29 @ in Racal, in the cities of the Jerah'meelites, in the cities of the Ken'ites,

rsv@1Samuel:30:30 @ in Hormah, in Borash'an, in A'thach,

rsv@1Samuel:30:31 @ in Hebron, for all the places where David and his men had roamed.

rsv@1Samuel:31:1 @ Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines, and fell slain on Mount Gilbo'a.

rsv@1Samuel:31:2 @ And the Philistines overtook Saul and his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan and Abin'adab and Mal'chishu'a, the sons of Saul.

rsv@1Samuel:31:3 @ The battle pressed hard upon Saul, and the archers found him; and he was badly wounded by the archers.

rsv@1Samuel:31:4 @ Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, "Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and make sport of me." But his armor-bearer would not; for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword, and fell upon it.

rsv@1Samuel:31:5 @ And when his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell upon his sword, and died with him.

rsv@1Samuel:31:6 @ Thus Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor-bearer, and all his men, on the same day together.

rsv@1Samuel:31:7 @ And when the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley and those beyond the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook their cities and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.

rsv@1Samuel:31:8 @ On the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilbo'a.

rsv@1Samuel:31:9 @ And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines, to carry the good news to their idols and to the people.

rsv@1Samuel:31:10 @ They put his armor in the temple of Ash'taroth; and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.

rsv@1Samuel:31:11 @ But when the inhabitants of Ja'besh-gil'ead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,

rsv@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 they came to Jabesh and burnt them there.

rsv@1Samuel:31:13 @ And they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

rsv@2Samuel:1:1 @ After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amal'ekites, David remained two days in Ziklag;

rsv@2Samuel:1:2 @ and on the third day, behold, a man came from Saul's camp, with his clothes rent and earth upon his head. And when he came to David, he fell to the ground and did obeisance.

rsv@2Samuel:1:3 @ David said to him, "Where do you come from?" And he said to him, "I have escaped from the camp of Israel."

rsv@2Samuel:1:4 @ And David said to him, "How did it go? Tell me." And he answered, "The people have fled from the battle, and many of the people also have fallen and are dead; and Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead."

rsv@2Samuel:1:5 @ Then David said to the young man who told him, "How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?"

rsv@2Samuel:1:6 @ And the young man who told him said, "By chance I happened to be on Mount Gilbo'a; and there was Saul leaning upon his spear; and lo, the chariots and the horsemen were close upon him.

rsv@2Samuel:1:7 @ And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called to me. And I answered, `Here I am.'

rsv@2Samuel:1:8 @ And he said to me, `Who are you?' I answered him, `I am an Amal'ekite.'

rsv@2Samuel:1:9 @ And he said to me, `Stand beside me and slay me; for anguish has seized me, and yet my life still lingers.'

rsv@2Samuel:1:10 @ So I stood beside him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after he had fallen; and I took the crown which was on his head and the armlet which was on his arm, and I have brought them here to my lord."

rsv@2Samuel:1:11 @ Then David took hold of his clothes, and rent them; and so did all the men who were with him;

rsv@2Samuel:1:12 @ and they mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son and for the people of the LORD and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.

rsv@2Samuel:1:13 @ And David said to the young man who told him, "Where do you come from?" And he answered, "I am the son of a sojourner, an Amal'ekite."

rsv@2Samuel:1:14 @ David said to him, "How is it you were not afraid to put forth your hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?"

rsv@2Samuel:1:15 @ Then David called one of the young men and said, "Go, fall upon him." And he smote him so that he died.

rsv@2Samuel:1:16 @ And David said to him, "Your blood be upon your head; for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, `I have slain the LORD'S anointed.'"

rsv@2Samuel:1:17 @ And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and Jonathan his son,

rsv@2Samuel:1:18 @ and he said it should be taught to the people of Judah; behold, it is written in the Book of Jashar. He said:

rsv@2Samuel:1:19 @ "Thy glory, O Israel, is slain upon thy high places! How are the mighty fallen!

rsv@2Samuel:1:20 @ Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Ash'kelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.

rsv@2Samuel:1:21 @ "Ye mountains of Gilbo'a, let there be no dew or rain upon you, nor upsurging of the deep! For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.

rsv@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.

rsv@2Samuel:1:23 @ "Saul and Jonathan, beloved and lovely! In life and in death they were not divided; they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.

rsv@2Samuel:1:24 @ "Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you daintily in scarlet, who put ornaments of gold upon your apparel.

rsv@2Samuel:1:25 @ "How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! "Jonathan lies slain upon thy high places.

rsv@2Samuel:1:26 @ I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant have you been to me; your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

rsv@2Samuel:1:27 @ "How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!"

rsv@2Samuel:2:1 @ After this David inquired of the LORD, "Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?" And the LORD said to him, "Go up." David said, "To which shall I go up?" And he said, "To Hebron."

rsv@2Samuel:2:2 @ So David went up there, and his two wives also, Ahin'o-am of Jezreel, and Ab'igail the widow of Nabal of Carmel.

rsv@2Samuel:2:3 @ And David brought up his men who were with him, every one with his household; and they dwelt in the towns of Hebron.

rsv@2Samuel:2:4 @ And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. When they told David, "It was the men of Ja'besh-gil'ead who buried Saul,"

rsv@2Samuel:2:5 @ David sent messengers to the men of Ja'besh-gil'ead, and said to them, "May you be blessed by the LORD, because you showed this loyalty to Saul your lord, and buried him!

rsv@2Samuel:2:6 @ Now may the LORD show steadfast love and faithfulness to you! And I will do good to you because you have done this thing.

rsv@2Samuel:2:7 @ Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant; for Saul your lord is dead, and the house of Judah has anointed me king over them."

rsv@2Samuel:2:8 @ Now Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul's army, had taken Ish-bo'sheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahana'im;

rsv@2Samuel:2:9 @ and he made him king over Gilead and the Ash'urites and Jezreel and E'phraim and Benjamin and all Israel.

rsv@2Samuel:2:10 @ Ish-bo'sheth, Saul's son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.

rsv@2Samuel:2:11 @ And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.

rsv@2Samuel:2:12 @ Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ish-bo'sheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahana'im to Gibeon.

rsv@2Samuel:2:13 @ And Jo'ab the son of Zeru'iah, and the servants of David, went out and met them at the pool of Gibeon; and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.

rsv@2Samuel:2:14 @ And Abner said to Jo'ab, "Let the young men arise and play before us." And Jo'ab said, "Let them arise."

rsv@2Samuel:2:15 @ Then they arose and passed over by number, twelve for Benjamin and Ish-bo'sheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.

rsv@2Samuel:2:16 @ And each caught his opponent by the head, and thrust his sword in his opponent's side; so they fell down together. Therefore that place was called Hel'kath-hazzu'rim, which is at Gibeon.

rsv@2Samuel:2:17 @ And the battle was very fierce that day; and Abner and the men of Israel were beaten before the servants of David.

rsv@2Samuel:2:18 @ And the three sons of Zeru'iah were there, Jo'ab, Abi'shai, and As'ahel. Now As'ahel was as swift of foot as a wild gazelle;

rsv@2Samuel:2:19 @ and As'ahel pursued Abner, and as he went he turned neither to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.

rsv@2Samuel:2:20 @ Then Abner looked behind him and said, "Is it you, As'ahel?" And he answered, "It is I."

rsv@2Samuel:2:21 @ Abner said to him, "Turn aside to your right hand or to your left, and seize one of the young men, and take his spoil." But As'ahel would not turn aside from following him.

rsv@2Samuel:2:22 @ And Abner said again to As'ahel, "Turn aside from following me; why should I smite you to the ground? How then could I lift up my face to your brother Jo'ab?"

rsv@2Samuel:2:23 @ But he refused to turn aside; therefore Abner smote him in the belly with the butt of his spear, so that the spear came out at his back; and he fell there, and died where he was. And all who came to the place where As'ahel had fallen and died, stood still.

rsv@2Samuel:2:24 @ But Jo'ab and Abi'shai pursued Abner; and as the sun was going down they came to the hill of Ammah, which lies before Gi'ah on the way to the wilderness of Gibeon.

rsv@2Samuel:2:25 @ And the Benjaminites gathered themselves together behind Abner, and became one band, and took their stand on the top of a hill.

rsv@2Samuel:2:26 @ Then Abner called to Jo'ab, "Shall the sword devour for ever? Do you not know that the end will be bitter? How long will it be before you bid your people turn from the pursuit of their brethren?"

rsv@2Samuel:2:27 @ And Jo'ab said, "As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely the men would have given up the pursuit of their brethren in the morning."

rsv@2Samuel:2:28 @ So Jo'ab blew the trumpet; and all the men stopped, and pursued Israel no more, nor did they fight any more.

rsv@2Samuel:2:29 @ And Abner and his men went all that night through the Arabah; they crossed the Jordan, and marching the whole forenoon they came to Mahana'im.

rsv@2Samuel:2:30 @ Jo'ab returned from the pursuit of Abner; and when he had gathered all the people together, there were missing of David's servants nineteen men besides As'ahel.

rsv@2Samuel:2:31 @ But the servants of David had slain of Benjamin three hundred and sixty of Abner's men.

rsv@2Samuel:2:32 @ And they took up As'ahel, and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was at Bethlehem. And Jo'ab and his men marched all night, and the day broke upon them at Hebron.

rsv@2Samuel:3:1 @ There was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David; and David grew stronger and stronger, while the house of Saul became weaker and weaker.

rsv@2Samuel:3:2 @ And sons were born to David at Hebron: his first-born was Amnon, of Ahin'o-am of Jezreel;

rsv@2Samuel:3:3 @ and his second, Chil'e-ab, of Ab'igail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; and the third, Ab'salom the son of Ma'acah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;

rsv@2Samuel:3:4 @ and the fourth, Adoni'jah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephati'ah the son of Abi'tal;

rsv@2Samuel:3:5 @ and the sixth, Ith're-am, of Eglah, David's wife. These were born to David in Hebron.

rsv@2Samuel:3:6 @ While there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, Abner was making himself strong in the house of Saul.

rsv@2Samuel:3:7 @ Now Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Ai'ah; and Ish-bo'sheth said to Abner, "Why have you gone in to my father's concubine?"

rsv@2Samuel:3:8 @ Then Abner was very angry over the words of Ish-bo'sheth, and said, "Am I a dog's head of Judah? This day I keep showing loyalty to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not given you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me today with a fault concerning a woman.

rsv@2Samuel:3:9 @ God do so to Abner, and more also, if I do not accomplish for David what the LORD has sworn to him,

rsv@2Samuel:3:10 @ to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul, and set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan to Beer-sheba."

rsv@2Samuel:3:11 @ And Ish-bo'sheth could not answer Abner another word, because he feared him.

rsv@2Samuel:3:12 @ And Abner sent messengers to David at Hebron, saying, "To whom does the land belong? Make your covenant with me, and behold, my hand shall be with you to bring over all Israel to you."

rsv@2Samuel:3:13 @ And he said, "Good; I will make a covenant with you; but one thing I require of you; that is, you shall not see my face, unless you first bring Michal, Saul's daughter, when you come to see my face."

rsv@2Samuel:3:14 @ Then David sent messengers to Ish-bo'sheth Saul's son, saying, "Give me my wife Michal, whom I betrothed at the price of a hundred foreskins of the Philistines."

rsv@2Samuel:3:15 @ And Ish-bo'sheth sent, and took her from her husband Pal'ti-el the son of La'ish.

rsv@2Samuel:3:16 @ But her husband went with her, weeping after her all the way to Bahu'rim. Then Abner said to him, "Go, return"; and he returned.

rsv@2Samuel:3:17 @ And Abner conferred with the elders of Israel, saying, "For some time past you have been seeking David as king over you.

rsv@2Samuel:3:18 @ Now then bring it about; for the LORD has promised David, saying, `By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel from the hand of the Philistines, and from the hand of all their enemies.'"

rsv@2Samuel:3:19 @ Abner also spoke to Benjamin; and then Abner went to tell David at Hebron all that Israel and the whole house of Benjamin thought good to do.

rsv@2Samuel:3:20 @ When Abner came with twenty men to David at Hebron, David made a feast for Abner and the men who were with him.

rsv@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 you, and that you may reign over all that your heart desires." So David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.

rsv@2Samuel:3:22 @ Just then the servants of David arrived with Jo'ab from a raid, bringing much spoil with them. But Abner was not with David at Hebron, for he had sent him away, and he had gone in peace.

rsv@2Samuel:3:23 @ When Jo'ab and all the army that was with him came, it was told Jo'ab, "Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has let him go, and he has gone in peace."

rsv@2Samuel:3:24 @ Then Jo'ab went to the king and said, "What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you; why is it that you have sent him away, so that he is gone?

rsv@2Samuel:3:25 @ You know that Abner the son of Ner came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you are doing."

rsv@2Samuel:3:26 @ When Jo'ab came out from David's presence, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the cistern of Sirah; but David did not know about it.

rsv@2Samuel:3:27 @ And when Abner returned to Hebron, Jo'ab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him privately, and there he smote him in the belly, so that he died, for the blood of As'ahel his brother.

rsv@2Samuel:3:28 @ Afterward, when David heard of it, he said, "I and my kingdom are for ever guiltless before the LORD for the blood of Abner the son of Ner.

rsv@2Samuel:3:29 @ May it fall upon the head of Jo'ab, and upon all his father's house; and may the house of Jo'ab never be without one who has a discharge, or who is leprous, or who holds a spindle, or who is slain by the sword, or who lacks bread!"

rsv@2Samuel:3:30 @ So Jo'ab and Abi'shai his brother slew Abner, because he had killed their brother As'ahel in the battle at Gibeon.

rsv@2Samuel:3:31 @ Then David said to Jo'ab and to all the people who were with him, "Rend your clothes, and gird on sackcloth, and mourn before Abner." And King David followed the bier.

rsv@2Samuel:3:32 @ They buried Abner at Hebron; and the king lifted up his voice and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.

rsv@2Samuel:3:33 @ And the king lamented for Abner, saying, "Should Abner die as a fool dies?

rsv@2Samuel:3:34 @ Your hands were not bound, your feet were not fettered; as one falls before the wicked you have fallen." And all the people wept again over him.

rsv@2Samuel:3:35 @ Then all the people came to persuade David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, "God do so to me and more also, if I taste bread or anything else till the sun goes down!"

rsv@2Samuel:3:36 @ And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; as everything that the king did pleased all the people.

rsv@2Samuel:3:37 @ So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it had not been the king's will to slay Abner the son of Ner.

rsv@2Samuel:3:38 @ And the king said to his servants, "Do you not know that a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?

rsv@2Samuel:3:39 @ And I am this day weak, though anointed king; these men the sons of Zeru'iah are too hard for me. The LORD requite the evildoer according to his wickedness!"

rsv@2Samuel:4:1 @ When Ish-bo'sheth, Saul's son, heard that Abner had died at Hebron, his courage failed, and all Israel was dismayed.

rsv@2Samuel:4:2 @ Now Saul's son had two men who were captains of raiding bands; the name of the one was Ba'anah, and the name of the other Rechab, sons of Rimmon a man of Benjamin from Be-er'oth (for Be-er'oth also is reckoned to Benjamin;

rsv@2Samuel:4:3 @ the Be-er'othites fled to Gitta'im, and have been sojourners there to this day).

rsv@2Samuel:4:4 @ Jonathan, the son of Saul, had a son who was crippled in his feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel; and his nurse took him up, and fled; and, as she fled in her haste, he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephib'osheth.

rsv@2Samuel:4:5 @ Now the sons of Rimmon the Be-er'othite, Rechab and Ba'anah, set out, and about the heat of the day they came to the house of Ish-bo'sheth, as he was taking his noonday rest.

rsv@2Samuel:4:6 @ And behold, the doorkeeper of the house had been cleaning wheat, but she grew drowsy and slept; so Rechab and Ba'anah his brother slipped in.

rsv@2Samuel:4:7 @ When they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him. They took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night,

rsv@2Samuel:4:8 @ and brought the head of Ish-bo'sheth to David at Hebron. And they said to the king, "Here is the head of Ish-bo'sheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life; the LORD has avenged my lord the king this day on Saul and on his offspring."

rsv@2Samuel:4:9 @ But David answered Rechab and Ba'anah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Be-er'othite, "As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life out of every adversity,

rsv@2Samuel:4:10 @ when one told me, `Behold, Saul is dead,' and thought he was bringing good news, I seized him and slew him at Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.

rsv@2Samuel:4:11 @ How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous man in his own house upon his bed, shall I not now require his blood at your hand, and destroy you from the earth?"

rsv@2Samuel:4:12 @ And David commanded his young men, and they killed them, and cut off their hands and feet, and hanged them beside the pool at Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bo'sheth, and buried it in the tomb of Abner at Hebron.

rsv@2Samuel:5:1 @ Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron, and said, "Behold, we are your bone and flesh.

rsv@2Samuel:5:2 @ In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you that led out and brought in Israel; and the LORD said to you, `You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.'"

rsv@2Samuel:5:3 @ So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the LORD, and they anointed David king over Israel.

rsv@2Samuel:5:4 @ David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.

rsv@2Samuel:5:5 @ At Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months; and at Jerusalem he reigned over all Israel and Judah thirty-three years.

rsv@2Samuel:5:6 @ And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jeb'usites, the inhabitants of the land, who said to David, "You will not come in here, but the blind and the lame will ward you off"--thinking, "David cannot come in here."

rsv@2Samuel:5:7 @ Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David.

rsv@2Samuel:5:8 @ And David said on that day, "Whoever would smite the Jeb'usites, let him get up the water shaft to attack the lame and the blind, who are hated by David's soul." Therefore it is said, "The blind and the lame shall not come into the house."

rsv@2Samuel:5:9 @ And David dwelt in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. And David built the city round about from the Millo inward.

rsv@2Samuel:5:10 @ And David became greater and greater, for the LORD, the God of hosts, was with him.

rsv@2Samuel:5:11 @ And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, also carpenters and masons who built David a house.

rsv@2Samuel:5:12 @ And David perceived that the LORD had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel.

rsv@2Samuel:5:13 @ And David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron; and more sons and daughters were born to David.

rsv@2Samuel:5:14 @ And these are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem: Sham'mu-a, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,

rsv@2Samuel:5:15 @ Ibhar, Eli'shu-a, Nepheg, Japhi'a,

rsv@2Samuel:5:16 @ Eli'shama, Eli'ada, and Eliph'elet.

rsv@2Samuel:5:17 @ When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, all the Philistines went up in search of David; but David heard of it and went down to the stronghold.

rsv@2Samuel:5:18 @ Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the valley of Reph'aim.

rsv@2Samuel:5:19 @ And David inquired of the LORD, "Shall I go up against the Philistines? Wilt thou give them into my hand?" And the LORD said to David, "Go up; for I will certainly give the Philistines into your hand."

rsv@2Samuel:5:20 @ And David came to Ba'al-pera'zim, and David defeated them there; and he said, "The LORD has broken through my enemies before me, like a bursting flood." Therefore the name of that place is called Ba'al-pera'zim.

rsv@2Samuel:5:21 @ And the Philistines left their idols there, and David and his men carried them away.

rsv@2Samuel:5:22 @ And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread out in the valley of Reph'aim.

rsv@2Samuel:5:23 @ And when David inquired of the LORD, he said, "You shall not go up; go around to their rear, and come upon them opposite the balsam trees.

rsv@2Samuel:5:24 @ And when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then bestir yourself; for then the LORD has gone out before you to smite the army of the Philistines."

rsv@2Samuel:5:25 @ And David did as the LORD commanded him, and smote the Philistines from Geba to Gezer.

rsv@2Samuel:6:1 @ David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.

rsv@2Samuel:6:2 @ And David arose and went with all the people who were with him from Ba'ale-judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the name of the LORD of hosts who sits enthroned on the cherubim.

rsv@2Samuel:6:3 @ And they carried the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abin'adab which was on the hill; and Uzzah and Ahi'o, the sons of Abin'adab, were driving the new cart

rsv@2Samuel:6:4 @ with the ark of God; and Ahi'o went before the ark.

rsv@2Samuel:6:5 @ And David and all the house of Israel were making merry before the LORD with all their might, with songs and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals.

rsv@2Samuel:6:6 @ And when they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah put out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled.

rsv@2Samuel:6:7 @ And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there because he put forth his hand to the ark; and he died there beside the ark of God.

rsv@2Samuel:6:8 @ And David was angry because the LORD had broken forth upon Uzzah; and that place is called Pe'rez-uz'zah, to this day.

rsv@2Samuel:6:9 @ And David was afraid of the LORD that day; and he said, "How can the ark of the LORD come to me?"

rsv@2Samuel:6:10 @ So David was not willing to take the ark of the LORD into the city of David; but David took it aside to the house of O'bed-e'dom the Gittite.

rsv@2Samuel:6:11 @ And the ark of the LORD remained in the house of O'bed-e'dom the Gittite three months; and the LORD blessed O'bed-e'dom and all his household.

rsv@2Samuel:6:12 @ And it was told King David, "The LORD has blessed the household of O'bed-e'dom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God." So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of O'bed-e'dom to the city of David with rejoicing;

rsv@2Samuel:6:13 @ and when those who bore the ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fatling.

rsv@2Samuel:6:14 @ And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.

rsv@2Samuel:6:15 @ So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the horn.

rsv@2Samuel:6:16 @ As the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window, and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.

rsv@2Samuel:6:17 @ And they brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in its place, inside the tent which David had pitched for it; and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.

rsv@2Samuel:6:18 @ And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of hosts,

rsv@2Samuel:6:19 @ and distributed among all the people, the whole multitude of Israel, both men and women, to each a cake of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins. Then all the people departed, each to his house.

rsv@2Samuel:6:20 @ And David returned to bless his household. But Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, "How the king of Israel honored himself today, uncovering himself today before the eyes of his servants' maids, as one of the vulgar fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!"

rsv@2Samuel:6:21 @ And David said to Michal, "It was before the LORD, who chose me above your father, and above all his house, to appoint me as prince over Israel, the people of the LORD--and I will make merry before the LORD.

rsv@2Samuel:6:22 @ I will make myself yet more contemptible than this, and I will be abased in your eyes; but by the maids of whom you have spoken, by them I shall be held in honor."

rsv@2Samuel:6:23 @ And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.

rsv@2Samuel:7:1 @ Now when the king dwelt in his house, and the LORD had given him rest from all his enemies round about,

rsv@2Samuel:7:2 @ the king said to Nathan the prophet, "See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent."

rsv@2Samuel:7:3 @ And Nathan said to the king, "Go, do all that is in your heart; for the LORD is with you."

rsv@2Samuel:7:4 @ But that same night the word of the LORD came to Nathan,

rsv@2Samuel:7:5 @ "Go and tell my servant David, `Thus says the LORD: Would you build me a house to dwell in?

rsv@2Samuel:7:6 @ I have not dwelt in a house since the day I brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I have been moving about in a tent for my dwelling.

rsv@2Samuel:7:7 @ In all places where I have moved with all the people of Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, saying, "Why have you not built me a house of cedar?"'

rsv@2Samuel:7:8 @ Now therefore thus you shall say to my servant David, `Thus says the LORD of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel;

rsv@2Samuel:7:9 @ and I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of the earth.

rsv@2Samuel:7:10 @ And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be disturbed no more; and violent men shall afflict them no more, as formerly,

rsv@2Samuel:7:11 @ from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel; and I will give you rest from all your enemies. Moreover the LORD declares to you that the LORD will make you a house.

rsv@2Samuel:7:12 @ When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come forth from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.

rsv@2Samuel:7:13 @ He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever.

rsv@2Samuel:7:14 @ I will be his father, and he shall be my son. When he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men;

rsv@2Samuel:7:15 @ but I will not take my steadfast love from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you.

rsv@2Samuel:7:16 @ And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure for ever before me; your throne shall be established for ever.'"

rsv@2Samuel:7:17 @ In accordance with all these words, and in accordance with all this vision, Nathan spoke to David.

rsv@2Samuel:7:18 @ Then King David went in and sat before the LORD, and said, "Who am I, O Lord GOD, and what is my house, that thou hast brought me thus far?

rsv@2Samuel:7:19 @ And yet this was a small thing in thy eyes, O Lord GOD; thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast shown me future generations, O Lord GOD!

rsv@2Samuel:7:20 @ And what more can David say to thee? For thou knowest thy servant, O Lord GOD!

rsv@2Samuel:7:21 @ Because of thy promise, and according to thy own heart, thou hast wrought all this greatness, to make thy servant know it.

rsv@2Samuel:7:22 @ Therefore thou art great, O LORD God; for there is none like thee, and there is no God besides thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

rsv@2Samuel:7:23 @ What other nation on earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name, and doing for them great and terrible things, by driving out before his people a nation and its gods?

rsv@2Samuel:7:24 @ And thou didst establish for thyself thy people Israel to be thy people for ever; and thou, O LORD, didst become their God.

rsv@2Samuel:7:25 @ And now, O LORD God, confirm for ever the word which thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house, and do as thou hast spoken;

rsv@2Samuel:7:26 @ and thy name will be magnified for ever, saying, `The LORD of hosts is God over Israel,' and the house of thy servant David will be established before thee.

rsv@2Samuel:7:27 @ For thou, O LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, hast made this revelation to thy servant, saying, `I will build you a house'; therefore thy servant has found courage to pray this prayer to thee.

rsv@2Samuel:7:28 @ And now, O Lord GOD, thou art God, and thy words are true, and thou hast promised this good thing to thy servant;

rsv@2Samuel:7:29 @ now therefore may it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee; for thou, O Lord GOD, hast spoken, and with thy blessing shall the house of thy servant be blessed for ever."

rsv@2Samuel:8:1 @ After this David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and David took Meth'eg-am'mah out of the hand of the Philistines.

rsv@2Samuel:8:2 @ And he defeated Moab, and measured them with a line, making them lie down on the ground; two lines he measured to be put to death, and one full line to be spared. And the Moabites became servants to David and brought tribute.

rsv@2Samuel:8:3 @ David also defeated Hadade'zer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to restore his power at the river Euphra'tes.

rsv@2Samuel:8:4 @ And David took from him a thousand and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand foot soldiers; and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but left enough for a hundred chariots.

rsv@2Samuel:8:5 @ And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadade'zer king of Zobah, David slew twenty-two thousand men of the Syrians.

rsv@2Samuel:8:6 @ Then David put garrisons in Aram of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David and brought tribute. And the LORD gave victory to David wherever he went.

rsv@2Samuel:8:7 @ And David took the shields of gold which were carried by the servants of Hadade'zer, and brought them to Jerusalem.

rsv@2Samuel:8:8 @ And from Betah and from Bero'thai, cities of Hadade'zer, King David took very much bronze.

rsv@2Samuel:8:9 @ When To'i king of Hamath heard that David had defeated the whole army of Hadade'zer,

rsv@2Samuel:8:10 @ To'i sent his son Joram to King David, to greet him, and to congratulate him because he had fought against Hadade'zer and defeated him; for Hadade'zer had often been at war with To'i. And Joram brought with him articles of silver, of gold, and of bronze;

rsv@2Samuel:8:11 @ these also King David dedicated to the LORD, together with the silver and gold which he dedicated from all the nations he subdued,

rsv@2Samuel:8:12 @ from Edom, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines, Am'alek, and from the spoil of Hadade'zer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

rsv@2Samuel:8:13 @ And David won a name for himself. When he returned, he slew eighteen thousand E'domites in the Valley of Salt.

rsv@2Samuel:8:14 @ And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom he put garrisons, and all the E'domites became David's servants. And the LORD gave victory to David wherever he went.

rsv@2Samuel:8:15 @ So David reigned over all Israel; and David administered justice and equity to all his people.

rsv@2Samuel:8:16 @ And Jo'ab the son of Zeru'iah was over the army; and Jehosh'aphat the son of Ahi'lud was recorder;

rsv@2Samuel:8:17 @ and Zadok the son of Ahi'tub and Ahim'elech the son of Abi'athar were priests; and Serai'ah was secretary;

rsv@2Samuel:8:18 @ and Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada was over the Cher'ethites and the Pel'ethites; and David's sons were priests.

rsv@2Samuel:9:1 @ And David said, "Is there still any one left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?"

rsv@2Samuel:9:2 @ Now there was a servant of the house of Saul whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David; and the king said to him, "Are you Ziba?" And he said, "Your servant is he."

rsv@2Samuel:9:3 @ And the king said, "Is there not still some one of the house of Saul, that I may show the kindness of God to him?" Ziba said to the king, "There is still a son of Jonathan; he is crippled in his feet."

rsv@2Samuel:9:4 @ The king said to him, "Where is he?" And Ziba said to the king, "He is in the house of Machir the son of Am'miel, at Lo-debar."

rsv@2Samuel:9:5 @ Then King David sent and brought him from the house of Machir the son of Am'miel, at Lo-debar.

rsv@2Samuel:9:6 @ And Mephib'osheth the son of Jonathan, son of Saul, came to David, and fell on his face and did obeisance. And David said, "Mephib'osheth!" And he answered, "Behold, your servant."

rsv@2Samuel:9:7 @ And David said to him, "Do not fear; for I will show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan, and I will restore to you all the land of Saul your father; and you shall eat at my table always."

rsv@2Samuel:9:8 @ And he did obeisance, and said, "What is your servant, that you should look upon a dead dog such as I?"

rsv@2Samuel:9:9 @ Then the king called Ziba, Saul's servant, and said to him, "All that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master's son.

rsv@2Samuel:9:10 @ And you and your sons and your servants shall till the land for him, and shall bring in the produce, that your master's son may have bread to eat; but Mephib'osheth your master's son shall always eat at my table." Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

rsv@2Samuel:9:11 @ Then Ziba said to the king, "According to all that my lord the king commands his servant, so will your servant do." So Mephib'osheth ate at David's table, like one of the king's sons.

rsv@2Samuel:9:12 @ And Mephib'osheth had a young son, whose name was Mica. And all who dwelt in Ziba's house became Mephib'osheth's servants.

rsv@2Samuel:9:13 @ So Mephib'osheth dwelt in Jerusalem; for he ate always at the king's table. Now he was lame in both his feet.

rsv@2Samuel:10:1 @ After this the king of the Ammonites died, and Hanun his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Samuel:10:2 @ And David said, "I will deal loyally with Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father dealt loyally with me." So David sent by his servants to console him concerning his father. And David's servants came into the land of the Ammonites.

rsv@2Samuel:10:3 @ But the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun their lord, "Do you think, because David has sent comforters to you, that he is honoring your father? Has not David sent his servants to you to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?"

rsv@2Samuel:10:4 @ So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off half the beard of each, and cut off their garments in the middle, at their hips, and sent them away.

rsv@2Samuel:10:5 @ When it was told David, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, "Remain at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return."

rsv@2Samuel:10:6 @ When the Ammonites saw that they had become odious to David, the Ammonites sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-re'hob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand foot soldiers, and the king of Ma'acah with a thousand men, and the men of Tob, twelve thousand men.

rsv@2Samuel:10:7 @ And when David heard of it, he sent Jo'ab and all the host of the mighty men.

rsv@2Samuel:10:8 @ And the Ammonites came out and drew up in battle array at the entrance of the gate; and the Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob, and the men of Tob and Ma'acah, were by themselves in the open country.

rsv@2Samuel:10:9 @ When Jo'ab saw that the battle was set against him both in front and in the rear, he chose some of the picked men of Israel, and arrayed them against the Syrians;

rsv@2Samuel:10:10 @ the rest of his men he put in the charge of Abi'shai his brother, and he arrayed them against the Ammonites.

rsv@2Samuel:10:11 @ And he said, "If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come and help you.

rsv@2Samuel:10:12 @ Be of good courage, and let us play the man for our people, and for the cities of our God; and may the LORD do what seems good to him."

rsv@2Samuel:10:13 @ So Jo'ab and the people who were with him drew near to battle against the Syrians; and they fled before him.

rsv@2Samuel:10:14 @ And when the Ammonites saw that the Syrians fled, they likewise fled before Abi'shai, and entered the city. Then Jo'ab returned from fighting against the Ammonites, and came to Jerusalem.

rsv@2Samuel:10:15 @ But when the Syrians saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they gathered themselves together.

rsv@2Samuel:10:16 @ And Hadade'zer sent, and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the Euphra'tes; and they came to Helam, with Shobach the commander of the army of Hadade'zer at their head.

rsv@2Samuel:10:17 @ And when it was told David, he gathered all Israel together, and crossed the Jordan, and came to Helam. And the Syrians arrayed themselves against David, and fought with him.

rsv@2Samuel:10:18 @ And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians the men of seven hundred chariots, and forty thousand horsemen, and wounded Shobach the commander of their army, so that he died there.

rsv@2Samuel:10:19 @ And when all the kings who were servants of Hadade'zer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel, and became subject to them. So the Syrians feared to help the Ammonites any more.

rsv@2Samuel:11:1 @ In the spring of the year, the time when kings go forth to battle, David sent Jo'ab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they ravaged the Ammonites, and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.

rsv@2Samuel:11:2 @ It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking upon the roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.

rsv@2Samuel:11:3 @ And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, "Is not this Bathshe'ba, the daughter of Eli'am, the wife of Uri'ah the Hittite?"

rsv@2Samuel:11:4 @ So David sent messengers, and took her; and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house.

rsv@2Samuel:11:5 @ And the woman conceived; and she sent and told David, "I am with child."

rsv@2Samuel:11:6 @ So David sent word to Jo'ab, "Send me Uri'ah the Hittite." And Jo'ab sent Uri'ah to David.

rsv@2Samuel:11:7 @ When Uri'ah came to him, David asked how Jo'ab was doing, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.

rsv@2Samuel:11:8 @ Then David said to Uri'ah, "Go down to your house, and wash your feet." And Uri'ah went out of the king's house, and there followed him a present from the king.

rsv@2Samuel:11:9 @ But Uri'ah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.

rsv@2Samuel:11:10 @ When they told David, "Uri'ah did not go down to his house," David said to Uri'ah, "Have you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?"

rsv@2Samuel:11:11 @ Uri'ah said to David, "The ark and Israel and Judah dwell in booths; and my lord Jo'ab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field; shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing."

rsv@2Samuel:11:12 @ Then David said to Uri'ah, "Remain here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart." So Uri'ah remained in Jerusalem that day, and the next.

rsv@2Samuel:11:13 @ And David invited him, and he ate in his presence and drank, so that he made him drunk; and in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.

rsv@2Samuel:11:14 @ In the morning David wrote a letter to Jo'ab, and sent it by the hand of Uri'ah.

rsv@2Samuel:11:15 @ In the letter he wrote, "Set Uri'ah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, that he may be struck down, and die."

rsv@2Samuel:11:16 @ And as Jo'ab was besieging the city, he assigned Uri'ah to the place where he knew there were valiant men.

rsv@2Samuel:11:17 @ And the men of the city came out and fought with Jo'ab; and some of the servants of David among the people fell. Uri'ah the Hittite was slain also.

rsv@2Samuel:11:18 @ Then Jo'ab sent and told David all the news about the fighting;

rsv@2Samuel:11:19 @ and he instructed the messenger, "When you have finished telling all the news about the fighting to the king,

rsv@2Samuel:11:20 @ then, if the king's anger rises, and if he says to you, `Why did you go so near the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall?

rsv@2Samuel:11:21 @ Who killed Abim'elech the son of Jerub'besheth? Did not a woman cast an upper millstone upon him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?' then you shall say, `Your servant Uri'ah the Hittite is dead also.'"

rsv@2Samuel:11:22 @ So the messenger went, and came and told David all that Jo'ab had sent him to tell.

rsv@2Samuel:11:23 @ The messenger said to David, "The men gained an advantage over us, and came out against us in the field; but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate.

rsv@2Samuel:11:24 @ Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall; some of the king's servants are dead; and your servant Uri'ah the Hittite is dead also."

rsv@2Samuel:11:25 @ David said to the messenger, "Thus shall you say to Jo'ab, `Do not let this matter trouble you, for the sword devours now one and now another; strengthen your attack upon the city, and overthrow it.' And encourage him."

rsv@2Samuel:11:26 @ When the wife of Uri'ah heard that Uri'ah her husband was dead, she made lamentation for her husband.

rsv@2Samuel:11:27 @ And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.

rsv@2Samuel:12:1 @ And the LORD sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, "There were two men in a certain city, the one rich and the other poor.

rsv@2Samuel:12:2 @ The rich man had very many flocks and herds;

rsv@2Samuel:12:3 @ but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought. And he brought it up, and it grew up with him and with his children; it used to eat of his morsel, and drink from his cup, and lie in his bosom, and it was like a daughter to him.

rsv@2Samuel:12:4 @ Now there came a traveler to the rich man, and he was unwilling to take one of his own flock or herd to prepare for the wayfarer who had come to him, but he took the poor man's lamb, and prepared it for the man who had come to him."

rsv@2Samuel:12:5 @ Then David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, "As the LORD lives, the man who has done this deserves to die;

rsv@2Samuel:12:6 @ and he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity."

rsv@2Samuel:12:7 @ Nathan said to David, "You are the man. Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, `I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul;

rsv@2Samuel:12:8 @ and I gave you your master's house, and your master's wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if this were too little, I would add to you as much more.

rsv@2Samuel:12:9 @ Why have you despised the word of the LORD, to do what is evil in his sight? You have smitten Uri'ah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.

rsv@2Samuel:12:10 @ Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me, and have taken the wife of Uri'ah the Hittite to be your wife.'

rsv@2Samuel:12:11 @ Thus says the LORD, `Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

rsv@2Samuel:12:12 @ For you did it secretly; but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.'"

rsv@2Samuel:12:13 @ David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the LORD." And Nathan said to David, "The LORD also has put away your sin; you shall not die.

rsv@2Samuel:12:14 @ Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the LORD, the child that is born to you shall die."

rsv@2Samuel:12:15 @ Then Nathan went to his house. And the LORD struck the child that Uri'ah's wife bore to David, and it became sick.

rsv@2Samuel:12:16 @ David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in and lay all night upon the ground.

rsv@2Samuel:12:17 @ And the elders of his house stood beside him, to raise him from the ground; but he would not, nor did he eat food with them.

rsv@2Samuel:12:18 @ On the seventh day 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 did not listen to us; how then can we say to him the child is dead? He may do himself some harm."

rsv@2Samuel:12:19 @ But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, "Is the child dead?" They said, "He is dead."

rsv@2Samuel:12:20 @ Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his clothes; and he went into the house of the LORD, and worshiped; he then went to his own house; and when he asked, they set food before him, and he ate.

rsv@2Samuel:12:21 @ Then his servants said to him, "What is this thing that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while it was alive; but when the child died, you arose and ate food."

rsv@2Samuel:12:22 @ He said, "While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, `Who knows whether the LORD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?'

rsv@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."

rsv@2Samuel:12:24 @ Then David comforted his wife, Bathshe'ba, and went in to her, and lay with her; and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. And the LORD loved him,

rsv@2Samuel:12:25 @ and sent a message by Nathan the prophet; so he called his name Jedidi'ah, because of the LORD.

rsv@2Samuel:12:26 @ Now Jo'ab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites, and took the royal city.

rsv@2Samuel:12:27 @ And Jo'ab sent messengers to David, and said, "I have fought against Rabbah; moreover, I have taken the city of waters.

rsv@2Samuel:12:28 @ Now, then, gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it; lest I take the city, and it be called by my name."

rsv@2Samuel:12:29 @ So David gathered all the people together and went to Rabbah, and fought against it and took it.

rsv@2Samuel:12:30 @ And he took the crown of their king from his head; the weight of it was a talent of gold, and in it was a precious stone; and it was placed on David's head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city, a very great amount.

rsv@2Samuel:12:31 @ And he brought forth the people who were in it, and set them to labor with saws and iron picks and iron axes, and made them toil at the brickkilns; and thus he did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

rsv@2Samuel:13:1 @ Now Ab'salom, David's son, had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and after a time Amnon, David's son, loved her.

rsv@2Samuel:13:2 @ And Amnon was so tormented that he made himself ill because of his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin, and it seemed impossible to Amnon to do anything to her.

rsv@2Samuel:13:3 @ But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jon'adab, the son of Shim'e-ah, David's brother; and Jon'adab was a very crafty man.

rsv@2Samuel:13:4 @ And he said to him, "O son of the king, why are you so haggard morning after morning? Will you not tell me?" Amnon said to him, "I love Tamar, my brother Ab'salom's sister."

rsv@2Samuel:13:5 @ Jon'adab said to him, "Lie down on your bed, and pretend to be ill; and when your father comes to see you, say to him, `Let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and prepare the food in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it from her hand.'"

rsv@2Samuel:13:6 @ So Amnon lay down, and pretended to be ill; and when the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, "Pray let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand."

rsv@2Samuel:13:7 @ Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, "Go to your brother Amnon's house, and prepare food for him."

rsv@2Samuel:13:8 @ So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house, where he was lying down. And she took dough, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and baked the cakes.

rsv@2Samuel:13:9 @ And she took the pan and emptied it out before him, but he refused to eat. And Amnon said, "Send out every one from me." So every one went out from him.

rsv@2Samuel:13:10 @ Then Amnon said to Tamar, "Bring the food into the chamber, that I may eat from your hand." And Tamar took the cakes she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.

rsv@2Samuel:13:11 @ But when she brought them near him to eat, he took hold of her, and said to her, "Come, lie with me, my sister."

rsv@2Samuel:13:12 @ She answered him, "No, my brother, do not force me; for such a thing is not done in Israel; do not do this wanton folly.

rsv@2Samuel:13:13 @ As for me, where could I carry my shame? And as for you, you would be as one of the wanton fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray you, speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from you."

rsv@2Samuel:13:14 @ But he would not listen to her; and being stronger than she, he forced her, and lay with her.

rsv@2Samuel:13:15 @ Then Amnon hated her with very great hatred; so that 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."

rsv@2Samuel:13:16 @ But she said to him, "No, my brother; for this wrong in sending me away is greater than the other which you did to me." But he would not listen to her.

rsv@2Samuel:13:17 @ He called the young man who served him and said, "Put this woman out of my presence, and bolt the door after her."

rsv@2Samuel:13:18 @ Now she was wearing a long robe with sleeves; for thus were the virgin daughters of the king clad of old. So his servant put her out, and bolted the door after her.

rsv@2Samuel:13:19 @ And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent the long robe which she wore; and she laid her hand on her head, and went away, crying aloud as she went.

rsv@2Samuel:13:20 @ And her brother Ab'salom said to her, "Has Amnon your brother been with you? Now hold your peace, my sister; he is your brother; do not take this to heart." So Tamar dwelt, a desolate woman, in her brother Ab'salom's house.

rsv@2Samuel:13:21 @ When King David heard of all these things, he was very angry.

rsv@2Samuel:13:22 @ But Ab'salom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad; for Ab'salom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.

rsv@2Samuel:13:23 @ After two full years Ab'salom had sheepshearers at Ba'al-ha'zor, which is near E'phraim, and Ab'salom invited all the king's sons.

rsv@2Samuel:13:24 @ And Ab'salom came to the king, and said, "Behold, your servant has sheepshearers; pray let the king and his servants go with your servant."

rsv@2Samuel:13:25 @ But the king said to Ab'salom, "No, my son, let us not all go, lest we be burdensome to you." He pressed him, but he would not go but gave him his blessing.

rsv@2Samuel:13:26 @ Then Ab'salom said, "If not, pray let my brother Amnon go with us." And the king said to him, "Why should he go with you?"

rsv@2Samuel:13:27 @ But Ab'salom pressed him until he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him.

rsv@2Samuel:13:28 @ Then Ab'salom commanded his servants, "Mark when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, `Strike Amnon,' then kill him. Fear not; have I not commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant."

rsv@2Samuel:13:29 @ So the servants of Ab'salom did to Amnon as Ab'salom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and each mounted his mule and fled.

rsv@2Samuel:13:30 @ While they were on the way, tidings came to David, "Ab'salom has slain all the king's sons, and not one of them is left."

rsv@2Samuel:13:31 @ Then the king arose, and rent his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants who were standing by rent their garments.

rsv@2Samuel:13:32 @ But Jon'adab the son of Shim'e-ah, David's brother, said, "Let not my lord suppose that they have killed all the young men the king's sons, for Amnon alone is dead, for by the command of Ab'salom this has been determined from the day he forced his sister Tamar.

rsv@2Samuel:13:33 @ Now therefore let not my lord the king so take it to heart as to suppose that all the king's sons are dead; for Amnon alone is dead."

rsv@2Samuel:13:34 @ But Ab'salom fled. And the young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, many people were coming from the Horona'im road by the side of the mountain.

rsv@2Samuel:13:35 @ And Jon'adab said to the king, "Behold, the king's sons have come; as your servant said, so it has come about."

rsv@2Samuel:13:36 @ And as soon as he had finished 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.

rsv@2Samuel:13:37 @ But Ab'salom fled, and went to Talmai the son of Ammi'hud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son day after day.

rsv@2Samuel:13:38 @ So Ab'salom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.

rsv@2Samuel:13:39 @ And the spirit of the king longed to go forth to Ab'salom; for he was comforted about Amnon, seeing he was dead.

rsv@2Samuel:14:1 @ Now Jo'ab the son of Zeru'iah perceived that the king's heart went out to Ab'salom.

rsv@2Samuel:14:2 @ And Jo'ab sent to Teko'a, and fetched from there a wise woman, and said to her, "Pretend to be a mourner, and put on mourning garments; do not anoint yourself with oil, but behave like a woman who has been mourning many days for the dead;

rsv@2Samuel:14:3 @ and go to the king, and speak thus to him." So Jo'ab put the words in her mouth.

rsv@2Samuel:14:4 @ When the woman of Teko'a came to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, "Help, O king."

rsv@2Samuel:14:5 @ And the king said to her, "What is your trouble?" She answered, "Alas, I am a widow; my husband is dead.

rsv@2Samuel:14:6 @ And your handmaid had two sons, and they quarreled with one another in the field; there was no one to part them, and one struck the other and killed him.

rsv@2Samuel:14:7 @ And now the whole family has risen against your handmaid, and they say, `Give up the man who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he slew'; and so they would destroy the heir also. Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant upon the face of the earth."

rsv@2Samuel:14:8 @ Then the king said to the woman, "Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you."

rsv@2Samuel:14:9 @ And the woman of Teko'a said to the king, "On me be the guilt, my lord the king, and on my father's house; let the king and his throne be guiltless."

rsv@2Samuel:14:10 @ The king said, "If any one says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall never touch you again."

rsv@2Samuel:14:11 @ Then she said, "Pray let the king invoke the LORD your God, that the avenger of blood slay no more, and my son be not destroyed." He said, "As the LORD lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground."

rsv@2Samuel:14:12 @ Then the woman said, "Pray let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king." He said, "Speak."

rsv@2Samuel:14:13 @ And the woman said, "Why then have you planned such a thing against the people of God? For in giving this decision the king convicts himself, inasmuch as the king does not bring his banished one home again.

rsv@2Samuel:14:14 @ We must all die, we are like water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; but God will not take away the life of him who devises means not to keep his banished one an outcast.

rsv@2Samuel:14:15 @ Now I have come to say this to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid; and your handmaid thought, `I will speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.

rsv@2Samuel:14:16 @ For the king will hear, and deliver his servant from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together from the heritage of God.'

rsv@2Samuel:14:17 @ And your handmaid thought, `The word of my lord the king will set me at rest'; for my lord the king is like the angel of God to discern good and evil. The LORD your God be with you!"

rsv@2Samuel:14:18 @ Then the king answered the woman, "Do not hide from me anything I ask you." And the woman said, "Let my lord the king speak."

rsv@2Samuel:14:19 @ The king said, "Is the hand of Jo'ab with you in all this?" The woman answered and said, "As surely as you live, my lord the king, one cannot turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has said. It was your servant Jo'ab who bade me; it was he who put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid.

rsv@2Samuel:14:20 @ In order to change the course of affairs your servant Jo'ab did this. But my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God to know all things that are on the earth."

rsv@2Samuel:14:21 @ Then the king said to Jo'ab, "Behold now, I grant this; go, bring back the young man Ab'salom."

rsv@2Samuel:14:22 @ And Jo'ab fell on his face to the ground, and did obeisance, and blessed the king; and Jo'ab said, "Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord the king, in that the king has granted the request of his servant."

rsv@2Samuel:14:23 @ So Jo'ab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Ab'salom to Jerusalem.

rsv@2Samuel:14:24 @ And the king said, "Let him dwell apart in his own house; he is not to come into my presence." So Ab'salom dwelt apart in his own house, and did not come into the king's presence.

rsv@2Samuel:14:25 @ Now in all Israel there was no one so much to be praised for his beauty as Ab'salom; from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.

rsv@2Samuel:14:26 @ And when he cut the hair of his head (for at the end of every year he used to cut it; when it was heavy on him, he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head, two hundred shekels by the king's weight.

rsv@2Samuel:14:27 @ There were born to Ab'salom three sons, and one daughter whose name was Tamar; she was a beautiful woman.

rsv@2Samuel:14:28 @ So Ab'salom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem, without coming into the king's presence.

rsv@2Samuel:14:29 @ Then Ab'salom sent for Jo'ab, to send him to the king; but Jo'ab would not come to him. And he sent a second time, but Jo'ab would not come.

rsv@2Samuel:14:30 @ Then he said to his servants, "See, Jo'ab's field is next to mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire." So Ab'salom's servants set the field on fire.

rsv@2Samuel:14:31 @ Then Jo'ab arose and went to Ab'salom at his house, and said to him, "Why have your servants set my field on fire?"

rsv@2Samuel:14:32 @ Ab'salom answered Jo'ab, "Behold, I sent word to you, `Come here, that I may send you to the king, to ask, "Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still." Now therefore let me go into the presence of the king; and if there is guilt in me, let him kill me.'"

rsv@2Samuel:14:33 @ Then Jo'ab went to the king, and told him; and he summoned Ab'salom. So he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king; and the king kissed Ab'salom.

rsv@2Samuel:15:1 @ After this Ab'salom got himself a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him.

rsv@2Samuel:15:2 @ And Ab'salom used to rise early and stand beside the way of the gate; and when any man had a suit to come before the king for judgment, Ab'salom would call to him, and say, "From what city are you?" And when he said, "Your servant is of such and such a tribe in Israel,"

rsv@2Samuel:15:3 @ Ab'salom would say to him, "See, your claims are good and right; but there is no man deputed by the king to hear you."

rsv@2Samuel:15:4 @ Ab'salom said moreover, "Oh that I were judge in the land! Then every man with a suit or cause might come to me, and I would give him justice."

rsv@2Samuel:15:5 @ And whenever a man came near to do obeisance to him, he would put out his hand, and take hold of him, and kiss him.

rsv@2Samuel:15:6 @ Thus Ab'salom did to all of Israel who came to the king for judgment; so Ab'salom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

rsv@2Samuel:15:7 @ And at the end of four years Ab'salom said to the king, "Pray let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to the LORD, in Hebron.

rsv@2Samuel:15:8 @ For your servant vowed a vow while I dwelt at Geshur in Aram, saying, `If the LORD will indeed bring me back to Jerusalem, then I will offer worship to the LORD.'"

rsv@2Samuel:15:9 @ The king said to him, "Go in peace." So he arose, and went to Hebron.

rsv@2Samuel:15:10 @ But Ab'salom sent secret messengers throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then say, `Ab'salom is king at Hebron!'"

rsv@2Samuel:15:11 @ With Ab'salom went two hundred men from Jerusalem who were invited guests, and they went in their simplicity, and knew nothing.

rsv@2Samuel:15:12 @ And while Ab'salom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for Ahith'ophel the Gi'lonite, David's counselor, from his city Giloh. And the conspiracy grew strong, and the people with Ab'salom kept increasing.

rsv@2Samuel:15:13 @ And a messenger came to David, saying, "The hearts of the men of Israel have gone after Ab'salom."

rsv@2Samuel:15:14 @ Then David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, "Arise, and let us flee; or else there will be no escape for us from Ab'salom; go in haste, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword."

rsv@2Samuel:15:15 @ And the king's servants said to the king, "Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king decides."

rsv@2Samuel:15:16 @ So the king went forth, and all his household after him. And the king left ten concubines to keep the house.

rsv@2Samuel:15:17 @ And the king went forth, and all the people after him; and they halted at the last house.

rsv@2Samuel:15:18 @ And all his servants passed by him; and all the Cher'ethites, and all the Pel'ethites, and all the six hundred Gittites who had followed him from Gath, passed on before the king.

rsv@2Samuel:15:19 @ Then the king said to It'tai the Gittite, "Why do you also go with us? Go back, and stay with the king; for you are a foreigner, and also an exile from your home.

rsv@2Samuel:15:20 @ You came only yesterday, and shall I today make you wander about with us, seeing I go I know not where? Go back, and take your brethren with you; and may the LORD show steadfast love and faithfulness to you."

rsv@2Samuel:15:21 @ But It'tai answered the king, "As the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, there also will your servant be."

rsv@2Samuel:15:22 @ And David said to It'tai, "Go then, pass on." So It'tai the Gittite passed on, with all his men and all the little ones who were with him.

rsv@2Samuel:15:23 @ And all the country wept aloud as all the people passed by, and the king crossed the brook Kidron, and all the people passed on toward the wilderness.

rsv@2Samuel:15:24 @ And Abi'athar came up, and lo, Zadok came also, with all the Levites, bearing the ark of the covenant of God; and they set down the ark of God, until the people had all passed out of the city.

rsv@2Samuel:15:25 @ Then the king said to Zadok, "Carry the ark of God back into the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the LORD, he will bring me back and let me see both it and his habitation;

rsv@2Samuel:15:26 @ but if he says, `I have no pleasure in you,' behold, here I am, let him do to me what seems good to him."

rsv@2Samuel:15:27 @ The king also said to Zadok the priest, "Look, go back to the city in peace, you and Abi'athar, with your two sons, Ahim'a-az your son, and Jonathan the son of Abi'athar.

rsv@2Samuel:15:28 @ See, I will wait at the fords of the wilderness, until word comes from you to inform me."

rsv@2Samuel:15:29 @ So Zadok and Abi'athar carried the ark of God back to Jerusalem; and they remained there.

rsv@2Samuel:15:30 @ But David went up the ascent of the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went, barefoot and with his head covered; and all the people who were with him covered their heads, and they went up, weeping as they went.

rsv@2Samuel:15:31 @ And it was told David, "Ahith'ophel is among the conspirators with Ab'salom." And David said, "O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahith'ophel into foolishness."

rsv@2Samuel:15:32 @ When David came to the summit, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat rent and earth upon his head.

rsv@2Samuel:15:33 @ David said to him, "If you go on with me, you will be a burden to me.

rsv@2Samuel:15:34 @ But if you return to the city, and say to Ab'salom, `I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father's servant in time past, so now I will be your servant,' then you will defeat for me the counsel of Ahith'ophel.

rsv@2Samuel:15:35 @ Are not Zadok and Abi'athar the priests with you there? So whatever you hear from the king's house, tell it to Zadok and Abi'athar the priests.

rsv@2Samuel:15:36 @ Behold, their two sons are with them there, Ahim'a-az, Zadok's son, and Jonathan, Abi'athar's son; and by them you shall send to me everything you hear."

rsv@2Samuel:15:37 @ So Hushai, David's friend, came into the city, just as Ab'salom was entering Jerusalem.

rsv@2Samuel:16:1 @ When David had passed a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephib'osheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, bearing two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred bunches of raisins, a hundred of summer fruits, and a skin of wine.

rsv@2Samuel:16:2 @ And the king said to Ziba, "Why have you brought these?" Ziba answered, "The asses are for the king's household to ride on, the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat, and the wine for those who faint in the wilderness to drink."

rsv@2Samuel:16:3 @ And the king said, "And where is your master's son?" Ziba said to the king, "Behold, he remains in Jerusalem; for he said, `Today the house of Israel will give me back the kingdom of my father.'"

rsv@2Samuel:16:4 @ Then the king said to Ziba, "Behold, all that belonged to Mephib'osheth is now yours." And Ziba said, "I do obeisance; let me ever find favor in your sight, my lord the king."

rsv@2Samuel:16:5 @ When King David came to Bahu'rim, there came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shim'e-i, the son of Gera; and as he came he cursed continually.

rsv@2Samuel:16:6 @ And he threw 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.

rsv@2Samuel:16:7 @ And Shim'e-i said as he cursed, "Begone, begone, you man of blood, you worthless fellow!

rsv@2Samuel:16:8 @ The LORD has avenged upon you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned; and the LORD has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Ab'salom. See, your ruin is on you; for you are a man of blood."

rsv@2Samuel:16:9 @ Then Abi'shai the son of Zeru'iah said to the king, "Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and take off his head."

rsv@2Samuel:16:10 @ But the king said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeru'iah? If he is cursing because the LORD has said to him, `Curse David,' who then shall say, `Why have you done so?'"

rsv@2Samuel:16:11 @ And David said to Abi'shai and to all his servants, "Behold, my own son seeks my life; how much more now may this Benjaminite! Let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD has bidden him.

rsv@2Samuel:16:12 @ It may be that the LORD will look upon my affliction, and that the LORD will repay me with good for this cursing of me today."

rsv@2Samuel:16:13 @ So David and his men went on the road, while Shim'e-i went along on the hillside opposite him and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him and flung dust.

rsv@2Samuel:16:14 @ And the king, and all the people who were with him, arrived weary at the Jordan; and there he refreshed himself.

rsv@2Samuel:16:15 @ Now Ab'salom and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahith'ophel with him.

rsv@2Samuel:16:16 @ And when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, came to Ab'salom, Hushai said to Ab'salom, "Long live the king! Long live the king!"

rsv@2Samuel:16:17 @ And Ab'salom said to Hushai, "Is this your loyalty to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?"

rsv@2Samuel:16:18 @ And Hushai said to Ab'salom, "No; for whom the LORD and this people and all the men of Israel have chosen, his I will be, and with him I will remain.

rsv@2Samuel:16:19 @ And again, whom should I serve? Should it not be his son? As I have served your father, so I will serve you."

rsv@2Samuel:16:20 @ Then Ab'salom said to Ahith'ophel, "Give your counsel; what shall we do?"

rsv@2Samuel:16:21 @ Ahith'ophel said to Ab'salom, "Go in to your father's concubines, whom he has left to keep the house; and all Israel will hear that you have made yourself odious to your father, and the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened."

rsv@2Samuel:16:22 @ So they pitched a tent for Ab'salom upon the roof; and Ab'salom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.

rsv@2Samuel:16:23 @ Now in those days the counsel which Ahith'ophel gave was as if one consulted the oracle of God; so was all the counsel of Ahith'ophel esteemed, both by David and by Ab'salom.

rsv@2Samuel:17:1 @ Moreover Ahith'ophel said to Ab'salom, "Let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will set out and pursue David tonight.

rsv@2Samuel:17:2 @ I will come upon him while he is weary and discouraged, and throw him into a panic; and all the people who are with him will flee. I will strike down the king only,

rsv@2Samuel:17:3 @ and I will bring all the people back to you as a bride comes home to her husband. You seek the life of only one man, and all the people will be at peace."

rsv@2Samuel:17:4 @ And the advice pleased Ab'salom and all the elders of Israel.

rsv@2Samuel:17:5 @ Then Ab'salom said, "Call Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear what he has to say."

rsv@2Samuel:17:6 @ And when Hushai came to Ab'salom, Ab'salom said to him, "Thus has Ahith'ophel spoken; shall we do as he advises? If not, you speak."

rsv@2Samuel:17:7 @ Then Hushai said to Ab'salom, "This time the counsel which Ahith'ophel has given is not good."

rsv@2Samuel:17:8 @ Hushai said moreover, "You know that your father and his men are mighty men, and that they are enraged, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Besides, your father is expert in war; he will not spend the night with the people.

rsv@2Samuel:17:9 @ Behold, even now he has hidden himself in one of the pits, or in some other place. And when some of the people fall at the first attack, whoever hears it will say, `There has been a slaughter among the people who follow Ab'salom.'

rsv@2Samuel:17:10 @ Then even the valiant man, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, will utterly melt with fear; for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and that those who are with him are valiant men.

rsv@2Samuel:17:11 @ But my counsel is that all Israel be gathered to you, from Dan to Beer-sheba, as the sand by the sea for multitude, and that you go to battle in person.

rsv@2Samuel:17:12 @ So we shall come upon him in some place where he is to be found, and we shall light upon him as the dew falls on the ground; and of him and all the men with him not one will be left.

rsv@2Samuel:17:13 @ If he withdraws into a city, then all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we shall drag it into the valley, until not even a pebble is to be found there."

rsv@2Samuel:17:14 @ And Ab'salom and all the men of Israel said, "The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahith'ophel." For the LORD had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahith'ophel, so that the LORD might bring evil upon Ab'salom.

rsv@2Samuel:17:15 @ Then Hushai said to Zadok and Abi'athar the priests, "Thus and so did Ahith'ophel counsel Ab'salom and the elders of Israel; and thus and so have I counseled.

rsv@2Samuel:17:16 @ Now therefore send quickly and tell David, `Do not lodge tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king and all the people who are with him be swallowed up.'"

rsv@2Samuel:17:17 @ Now Jonathan and Ahim'a-az were waiting at En-ro'gel; a maidservant used to go and tell them, and they would go and tell King David; for they must not be seen entering the city.

rsv@2Samuel:17:18 @ But a lad saw them, and told Ab'salom; so both of them went away quickly, and came to the house of a man at Bahu'rim, who had a well in his courtyard; and they went down into it.

rsv@2Samuel:17:19 @ And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and scattered grain upon it; and nothing was known of it.

rsv@2Samuel:17:20 @ When Ab'salom's servants came to the woman at the house, they said, "Where are Ahim'a-az and Jonathan?" And the woman said to them, "They have gone over the brook of water." And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.

rsv@2Samuel:17:21 @ After they had gone, the men came up out of the well, and went and told King David. They said to David, "Arise, and go quickly over the water; for thus and so has Ahith'ophel counseled against you."

rsv@2Samuel:17:22 @ Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they crossed the Jordan; by daybreak not one was left who had not crossed the Jordan.

rsv@2Samuel:17:23 @ When Ahith'ophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and went off home to his own city. And he set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.

rsv@2Samuel:17:24 @ Then David came to Mahana'im. And Ab'salom crossed the Jordan with all the men of Israel.

rsv@2Samuel:17:25 @ Now Ab'salom had set Ama'sa over the army instead of Jo'ab. Ama'sa was the son of a man named Ithra the Ish'maelite, who had married Ab'igal the daughter of Nahash, sister of Zeru'iah, Jo'ab's mother.

rsv@2Samuel:17:26 @ And Israel and Ab'salom encamped in the land of Gilead.

rsv@2Samuel:17:27 @ When David came to Mahana'im, Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the Ammonites, and Machir the son of Am'miel from Lo-debar, and Barzil'lai the Gileadite from Ro'gelim,

rsv@2Samuel:17:28 @ brought beds, basins, and earthen vessels, wheat, barley, meal, parched grain, beans and lentils,

rsv@2Samuel:17:29 @ honey and curds and sheep and cheese from the herd, for David and the people with him to eat; for they said, "The people are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness."

rsv@2Samuel:18:1 @ Then David mustered the men who were with him, and set over them commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds.

rsv@2Samuel:18:2 @ And David sent forth the army, one third under the command of Jo'ab, one third under the command of Abi'shai the son of Zeru'iah, Jo'ab's brother, and one third under the command of It'tai the Gittite. And the king said to the men, "I myself will also go out with you."

rsv@2Samuel:18:3 @ But the men said, "You shall not go out. For if we flee, they will not care about us. If half of us die, they will not care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us; therefore it is better that you send us help from the city."

rsv@2Samuel:18:4 @ The king said to them, "Whatever seems best to you I will do." So the king stood at the side of the gate, while all the army marched out by hundreds and by thousands.

rsv@2Samuel:18:5 @ And the king ordered Jo'ab and Abi'shai and It'tai, "Deal gently for my sake with the young man Ab'salom." And all the people heard when the king gave orders to all the commanders about Ab'salom.

rsv@2Samuel:18:6 @ So the army went out into the field against Israel; and the battle was fought in the forest of E'phraim.

rsv@2Samuel:18:7 @ And the men of Israel were defeated there by the servants of David, and the slaughter there was great on that day, twenty thousand men.

rsv@2Samuel:18:8 @ The battle spread over the face of all the country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword.

rsv@2Samuel:18:9 @ And Ab'salom chanced to meet the servants of David. Ab'salom was riding upon his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak, and his head caught fast in the oak, and he was left hanging between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him went on.

rsv@2Samuel:18:10 @ And a certain man saw it, and told Jo'ab, "Behold, I saw Ab'salom hanging in an oak."

rsv@2Samuel:18:11 @ Jo'ab said to the man who told him, "What, you saw him! Why then did you not strike him there to the ground? I would have been glad to give you ten pieces of silver and a girdle."

rsv@2Samuel:18:12 @ But the man said to Jo'ab, "Even if I felt in my hand the weight of a thousand pieces of silver, I would not put forth my hand against the king's son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abi'shai and It'tai, `For my sake protect the young man Ab'salom.'

rsv@2Samuel:18:13 @ On the other hand, if I had dealt treacherously against his life (and there is nothing hidden from the king), then you yourself would have stood aloof."

rsv@2Samuel:18:14 @ Jo'ab said, "I will not waste time like this with you." And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them into the heart of Ab'salom, while he was still alive in the oak.

rsv@2Samuel:18:15 @ And ten young men, Jo'ab's armor-bearers, surrounded Ab'salom and struck him, and killed him.

rsv@2Samuel:18:16 @ Then Jo'ab blew the trumpet, and the troops came back from pursuing Israel; for Jo'ab restrained them.

rsv@2Samuel:18:17 @ And they took Ab'salom, and threw him into a great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones; and all Israel fled every one to his own home.

rsv@2Samuel:18:18 @ Now Ab'salom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself the pillar which is in the King's Valley, for he said, "I have no son to keep my name in remembrance"; he called the pillar after his own name, and it is called Ab'salom's monument to this day.

rsv@2Samuel:18:19 @ Then said Ahi'ma-az the son of Zadok, "Let me run, and carry tidings to the king that the LORD has delivered him from the power of his enemies."

rsv@2Samuel:18:20 @ And Jo'ab said to him, "You are not to carry tidings today; you may carry tidings another day, but today you shall carry no tidings, because the king's son is dead."

rsv@2Samuel:18:21 @ Then Jo'ab said to the Cushite, "Go, tell the king what you have seen." The Cushite bowed before Jo'ab, and ran.

rsv@2Samuel:18:22 @ Then Ahi'ma-az the son of Zadok said again to Jo'ab, "Come what may, let me also run after the Cushite." And Jo'ab said, "Why will you run, my son, seeing that you will have no reward for the tidings?"

rsv@2Samuel:18:23 @ "Come what may," he said, "I will run." So he said to him, "Run." Then Ahi'ma-az ran by the way of the plain, and outran the Cushite.

rsv@2Samuel:18:24 @ Now David was sitting between the two gates; and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate by the wall, and when he lifted up his eyes and looked, he saw a man running alone.

rsv@2Samuel:18:25 @ And the watchman called out and told the king. And the king said, "If he is alone, there are tidings in his mouth." And he came apace, and drew near.

rsv@2Samuel:18:26 @ And the watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called to the gate and said, "See, another man running alone!" The king said, "He also brings tidings."

rsv@2Samuel:18:27 @ And the watchman said, "I think the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahi'ma-az the son of Zadok." And the king said, "He is a good man, and comes with good tidings."

rsv@2Samuel:18:28 @ Then Ahi'ma-az cried out to the king, "All is well." And he bowed before the king with his face to the earth, and said, "Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delivered up the men who raised their hand against my lord the king."

rsv@2Samuel:18:29 @ And the king said, "Is it well with the young man Ab'salom?" Ahi'ma-az answered, "When Jo'ab sent your servant, I saw a great tumult, but I do not know what it was."

rsv@2Samuel:18:30 @ And the king said, "Turn aside, and stand here." So he turned aside, and stood still.

rsv@2Samuel:18:31 @ And behold, the Cushite came; and the Cushite said, "Good tidings for my lord the king! For the LORD has delivered you this day from the power of all who rose up against you."

rsv@2Samuel:18:32 @ The king said to the Cushite, "Is it well with the young man Ab'salom?" And the Cushite answered, "May the enemies of my lord the king, and all who rise up against you for evil, be like that young man."

rsv@2Samuel:18:33 @ And the king was deeply moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept; and as he went, he said, "O my son Ab'salom, my son, my son Ab'salom! Would I had died instead of you, O Ab'salom, my son, my son!"

rsv@2Samuel:19:1 @ It was told Jo'ab, "Behold, the king is weeping and mourning for Ab'salom."

rsv@2Samuel:19:2 @ So the victory that day was turned into mourning for all the people; for the people heard that day, "The king is grieving for his son."

rsv@2Samuel:19:3 @ And the people stole into the city that day as people steal in who are ashamed when they flee in battle.

rsv@2Samuel:19:4 @ The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, "O my son Ab'salom, O Ab'salom, my son, my son!"

rsv@2Samuel:19:5 @ Then Jo'ab came into the house to the king, and said, "You have today covered with shame the faces of all your servants, who have this day saved your life, and the lives of your sons and your daughters, and the lives of your wives and your concubines,

rsv@2Samuel:19:6 @ because you love those who hate you and hate those who love you. For you have made it clear today that commanders and servants are nothing to you; for today I perceive that if Ab'salom were alive and all of us were dead today, then you would be pleased.

rsv@2Samuel:19:7 @ Now therefore arise, go out and speak kindly to your servants; for I swear by the LORD, if you do not go, not a man will stay with you this night; and this will be worse for you than all the evil that has come upon you from your youth until now."

rsv@2Samuel:19:8 @ Then the king arose, and took his seat in the gate. And the people were all told, "Behold, the king is sitting in the gate"; and all the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his own home.

rsv@2Samuel:19:9 @ And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "The king delivered us from the hand of our enemies, and saved us from the hand of the Philistines; and now he has fled out of the land from Ab'salom.

rsv@2Samuel:19:10 @ But Ab'salom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why do you say nothing about bringing the king back?"

rsv@2Samuel:19:11 @ And King David sent this message to Zadok and Abi'athar the priests, "Say to the elders of Judah, `Why should you be the last to bring the king back to his house, when the word of all Israel has come to the king?

rsv@2Samuel:19:12 @ You are my kinsmen, you are my bone and my flesh; why then should you be the last to bring back the king?'

rsv@2Samuel:19:13 @ And say to Ama'sa, `Are you not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you are not commander of my army henceforth in place of Jo'ab.'"

rsv@2Samuel:19:14 @ And he swayed the heart of all the men of Judah as one man; so that they sent word to the king, "Return, both you and all your servants."

rsv@2Samuel:19:15 @ So the king came back to the Jordan; and Judah came to Gilgal to meet the king and to bring the king over the Jordan.

rsv@2Samuel:19:16 @ And Shim'e-i the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, from Bahu'rim, made haste to come down with the men of Judah to meet King David;

rsv@2Samuel:19:17 @ and with him were a thousand men from Benjamin. And Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, with his fifteen sons and his twenty servants, rushed down to the Jordan before the king,

rsv@2Samuel:19:18 @ and they crossed the ford to bring over the king's household, and to do his pleasure. And Shim'e-i the son of Gera fell down before the king, as he was about to cross the Jordan,

rsv@2Samuel:19:19 @ and said to the king, "Let not my lord hold me guilty or remember how your servant did wrong on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem; let not the king bear it in mind.

rsv@2Samuel:19:20 @ For your servant knows that I have sinned; therefore, behold, I have come this day, the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king."

rsv@2Samuel:19:21 @ Abi'shai the son of Zeru'iah answered, "Shall not Shim'e-i be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD'S anointed?"

rsv@2Samuel:19:22 @ But David said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeru'iah, that you should this day be as an adversary to me? Shall any one be put to death in Israel this day? For do I not know that I am this day king over Israel?"

rsv@2Samuel:19:23 @ And the king said to Shim'e-i, "You shall not die." And the king gave him his oath.

rsv@2Samuel:19:24 @ And Mephib'osheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; he had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came back in safety.

rsv@2Samuel:19:25 @ And when he came from Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, "Why did you not go with me, Mephib'osheth?"

rsv@2Samuel:19:26 @ He answered, "My lord, O king, my servant deceived me; for your servant said to him, `Saddle an ass for me, that I may ride upon it and go with the king.' For your servant is lame.

rsv@2Samuel:19:27 @ He has slandered your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is like the angel of God; do therefore what seems good to you.

rsv@2Samuel:19:28 @ For all my father's house were but men doomed to death before my lord the king; but you set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right have I, then, to cry to the king?"

rsv@2Samuel:19:29 @ And the king said to him, "Why speak any more of your affairs? I have decided: you and Ziba shall divide the land."

rsv@2Samuel:19:30 @ And Mephib'osheth said to the king, "Oh, let him take it all, since my lord the king has come safely home."

rsv@2Samuel:19:31 @ Now Barzil'lai the Gileadite had come down from Ro'gelim; and he went on with the king to the Jordan, to escort him over the Jordan.

rsv@2Samuel:19:32 @ Barzil'lai was a very aged man, eighty years old; and he had provided the king with food while he stayed at Mahana'im; for he was a very wealthy man.

rsv@2Samuel:19:33 @ And the king said to Barzil'lai, "Come over with me, and I will provide for you with me in Jerusalem."

rsv@2Samuel:19:34 @ But Barzil'lai said to the king, "How many years have I still to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

rsv@2Samuel:19:35 @ I am this day eighty years old; can I discern what is pleasant and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or what he drinks? Can I still listen to the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?

rsv@2Samuel:19:36 @ Your servant will go a little way over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king recompense me with such a reward?

rsv@2Samuel:19:37 @ Pray let your servant return, that I may die in my own city, near the grave of my father and my mother. But here is your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do for him whatever seems good to you."

rsv@2Samuel:19:38 @ And the king answered, "Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do for him whatever seems good to you; and all that you desire of me I will do for you."

rsv@2Samuel:19:39 @ Then all the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over; and the king kissed Barzil'lai and blessed him, and he returned to his own home.

rsv@2Samuel:19:40 @ The king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him; all the people of Judah, and also half the people of Israel, brought the king on his way.

rsv@2Samuel:19:41 @ Then all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, "Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king and his household over the Jordan, and all David's men with him?"

rsv@2Samuel:19:42 @ All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, "Because the king is near of kin to us. Why then are you angry over this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king's expense? Or has he given us any gift?"

rsv@2Samuel:19:43 @ And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, "We have ten shares in the king, and in David also we have more than you. Why then did you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of bringing back our king?" But the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

rsv@2Samuel:20:1 @ Now there happened to be there a worthless fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite; and he blew the trumpet, and said, "We have no portion in David, and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; every man to his tents, O Israel!"

rsv@2Samuel:20:2 @ So all the men of Israel withdrew from David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah followed their king steadfastly from the Jordan to Jerusalem.

rsv@2Samuel:20:3 @ And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten concubines whom he had left to care for the house, and put them in a house under guard, and provided for them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up until the day of their death, living as if in widowhood.

rsv@2Samuel:20:4 @ Then the king said to Ama'sa, "Call the men of Judah together to me within three days, and be here yourself."

rsv@2Samuel:20:5 @ So Ama'sa went to summon Judah; but he delayed beyond the set time which had been appointed him.

rsv@2Samuel:20:6 @ And David said to Abi'shai, "Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Ab'salom; take your lord's servants and pursue him, lest he get himself fortified cities, and cause us trouble."

rsv@2Samuel:20:7 @ And there went out after Abi'shai, Jo'ab and the Cher'ethites and the Pel'ethites, and all the mighty men; they went out from Jerusalem to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.

rsv@2Samuel:20:8 @ When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Ama'sa came to meet them. Now Jo'ab was wearing a soldier's garment, and over it was a girdle with a sword in its sheath fastened upon his loins, and as he went forward it fell out.

rsv@2Samuel:20:9 @ And Jo'ab said to Ama'sa, "Is it well with you, my brother?" And Jo'ab took Ama'sa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.

rsv@2Samuel:20:10 @ But Ama'sa did not observe the sword which was in Jo'ab's hand; so Jo'ab struck him with it in the body, and shed his bowels to the ground, without striking a second blow; and he died. Then Jo'ab and Abi'shai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.

rsv@2Samuel:20:11 @ And one of Jo'ab's men took his stand by Ama'sa, and said, "Whoever favors Jo'ab, and whoever is for David, let him follow Jo'ab."

rsv@2Samuel:20:12 @ And Ama'sa lay wallowing in his blood in the highway. And any one who came by, seeing him, stopped; and when the man saw that all the people stopped, he carried Ama'sa out of the highway into the field, and threw a garment over him.

rsv@2Samuel:20:13 @ When he was taken out of the highway, all the people went on after Jo'ab to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.

rsv@2Samuel:20:14 @ And Sheba passed through all the tribes of Israel to Abel of Beth-ma'acah; and all the Bichrites assembled, and followed him in.

rsv@2Samuel:20:15 @ And all the men who were with Jo'ab came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-ma'acah; they cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and they were battering the wall, to throw it down.

rsv@2Samuel:20:16 @ Then a wise woman called from the city, "Hear! Hear! Tell Jo'ab, `Come here, that I may speak to you.'"

rsv@2Samuel:20:17 @ And he came near her; and the woman said, "Are you Jo'ab?" He answered, "I am." Then she said to him, "Listen to the words of your maidservant." And he answered, "I am listening."

rsv@2Samuel:20:18 @ Then she said, "They were wont to say in old time, `Let them but ask counsel at Abel'; and so they settled a matter.

rsv@2Samuel:20:19 @ I am one of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel; you seek to destroy a city which is a mother in Israel; why will you swallow up the heritage of the LORD?"

rsv@2Samuel:20:20 @ Jo'ab answered, "Far be it from me, far be it, that I should swallow up or destroy!

rsv@2Samuel:20:21 @ That is not true. But a man of the hill country of E'phraim, called Sheba the son of Bichri, has lifted up his hand against King David; give up him alone, and I will withdraw from the city." And the woman said to Jo'ab, "Behold, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall."

rsv@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 threw it out to Jo'ab. So he blew the trumpet, and they dispersed from the city, every man to his home. And Jo'ab returned to Jerusalem to the king.

rsv@2Samuel:20:23 @ Now Jo'ab was in command of all the army of Israel; and Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada was in command of the Cher'ethites and the Pel'ethites;

rsv@2Samuel:20:24 @ and Ador'am was in charge of the forced labor; and Jehosh'aphat the son of Ahi'lud was the recorder;

rsv@2Samuel:20:25 @ and Sheva was secretary; and Zadok and Abi'athar were priests;

rsv@2Samuel:20:26 @ and Ira the Ja'irite was also David's priest.

rsv@2Samuel:21:1 @ Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, "There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gib'eonites to death."

rsv@2Samuel:21:2 @ So the king called the Gib'eonites. Now the Gib'eonites were not of the people of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; although the people of Israel had sworn to spare them, Saul had sought to slay them in his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.

rsv@2Samuel:21:3 @ And David said to the Gib'eonites, "What shall I do for you? And how shall I make expiation, that you may bless the heritage of the LORD?"

rsv@2Samuel:21:4 @ The Gib'eonites said to him, "It is not a matter of silver or gold between us and Saul or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel." And he said, "What do you say that I shall do for you?"

rsv@2Samuel:21:5 @ They said to the king, "The man who consumed us and planned to destroy us, so that we should have no place in all the territory of Israel,

rsv@2Samuel:21:6 @ let seven of his sons be given to us, so that we may hang them up before the LORD at Gibeon on the mountain of the LORD." And the king said, "I will give them."

rsv@2Samuel:21:7 @ But the king spared Mephib'osheth, the son of Saul's son Jonathan, because of the oath of the LORD which was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

rsv@2Samuel:21:8 @ The king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Ai'ah, whom she bore to Saul, Armo'ni and Mephib'osheth; and the five sons of Merab the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to A'dri-el the son of Barzil'lai the Meho'lathite;

rsv@2Samuel:21:9 @ and he gave them into the hands of the Gib'eonites, and they hanged them on the mountain before the LORD, and the seven of them perished together. They were put to death in the first days of harvest, at the beginning of barley harvest.

rsv@2Samuel:21:10 @ Then Rizpah the daughter of Ai'ah took sackcloth, and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until rain fell upon them from the heavens; and she did not allow the birds of the air to come upon them by day, or the beasts of the field by night.

rsv@2Samuel:21:11 @ When David was told what Rizpah the daughter of Ai'ah, the concubine of Saul, had done,

rsv@2Samuel:21:12 @ David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan from the men of Ja'besh-gil'ead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, on the day the Philistines killed Saul on Gilbo'a;

rsv@2Samuel:21:13 @ and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan; and they gathered the bones of those who were hanged.

rsv@2Samuel:21:14 @ And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father; and they did all that the king commanded. And after that God heeded supplications for the land.

rsv@2Samuel:21:15 @ The Philistines had war again with Israel, and David went down together with his servants, and they fought against the Philistines; and David grew weary.

rsv@2Samuel:21:16 @ And Ish'bi-be'nob, one of the descendants of the giants, whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of bronze, and who was girded with a new sword, thought to kill David.

rsv@2Samuel:21:17 @ But Abi'shai the son of Zeru'iah came to his aid, and attacked the Philistine and killed him. Then David's men adjured him, "You shall no more go out with us to battle, lest you quench the lamp of Israel."

rsv@2Samuel:21:18 @ After this there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; then Sib'becai the Hu'shathite slew Saph, who was one of the descendants of the giants.

rsv@2Samuel:21:19 @ And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elha'nan the son of Ja'areor'egim, the Bethlehemite, slew Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

rsv@2Samuel:21:20 @ And there was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on each hand, and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number; and he also was descended from the giants.

rsv@2Samuel:21:21 @ And when he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of Shim'e-i, David's brother, slew him.

rsv@2Samuel:21:22 @ These four were descended from the giants in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.

rsv@2Samuel:22:1 @ And David spoke to the LORD the words of this song on the day when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul.

rsv@2Samuel:22:2 @ He said, "The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer,

rsv@2Samuel:22:3 @ my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and my refuge, my savior; thou savest me from violence.

rsv@2Samuel:22:4 @ I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.

rsv@2Samuel:22:5 @ "For the waves of death encompassed me, the torrents of perdition assailed me;

rsv@2Samuel:22:6 @ the cords of Sheol entangled me, the snares of death confronted me.

rsv@2Samuel:22:7 @ "In my distress I called upon the LORD; to my God I called. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry came to his ears.

rsv@2Samuel:22:8 @ "Then the earth reeled and rocked; the foundations of the heavens trembled and quaked, because he was angry.

rsv@2Samuel:22:9 @ Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth; glowing coals flamed forth from him.

rsv@2Samuel:22:10 @ He bowed the heavens, and came down; thick darkness was under his feet.

rsv@2Samuel:22:11 @ He rode on a cherub, and flew; he was seen upon the wings of the wind.

rsv@2Samuel:22:12 @ He made darkness around him his canopy, thick clouds, a gathering of water.

rsv@2Samuel:22:13 @ Out of the brightness before him coals of fire flamed forth.

rsv@2Samuel:22:14 @ The LORD thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered his voice.

rsv@2Samuel:22:15 @ And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and routed them.

rsv@2Samuel:22:16 @ Then the channels of the sea were seen, the foundations of the world were laid bare, at the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

rsv@2Samuel:22:17 @ "He reached from on high, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.

rsv@2Samuel:22:18 @ He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.

rsv@2Samuel:22:19 @ They came upon me in the day of my calamity; but the LORD was my stay.

rsv@2Samuel:22:20 @ He brought me forth into a broad place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

rsv@2Samuel:22:21 @ "The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me.

rsv@2Samuel:22:22 @ For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

rsv@2Samuel:22:23 @ For all his ordinances were before me, and from his statutes I did not turn aside.

rsv@2Samuel:22:24 @ I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from guilt.

rsv@2Samuel:22:25 @ Therefore the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in his sight.

rsv@2Samuel:22:26 @ "With the loyal thou dost show thyself loyal; with the blameless man thou dost show thyself blameless;

rsv@2Samuel:22:27 @ with the pure thou dost show thyself pure, and with the crooked thou dost show thyself perverse.

rsv@2Samuel:22:28 @ Thou dost deliver a humble people, but thy eyes are upon the haughty to bring them down.

rsv@2Samuel:22:29 @ Yea, thou art my lamp, O LORD, and my God lightens my darkness.

rsv@2Samuel:22:30 @ Yea, by thee I can crush a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall.

rsv@2Samuel:22:31 @ This God--his way is perfect; the promise of the LORD proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

rsv@2Samuel:22:32 @ "For who is God, but the LORD? And who is a rock, except our God?

rsv@2Samuel:22:33 @ This God is my strong refuge, and has made my way safe.

rsv@2Samuel:22:34 @ He made my feet like hinds' feet, and set me secure on the heights.

rsv@2Samuel:22:35 @ He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

rsv@2Samuel:22:36 @ Thou hast given me the shield of thy salvation, and thy help made me great.

rsv@2Samuel:22:37 @ Thou didst give a wide place for my steps under me, and my feet did not slip;

rsv@2Samuel:22:38 @ I pursued my enemies and destroyed them, and did not turn back until they were consumed.

rsv@2Samuel:22:39 @ I consumed them; I thrust them through, so that they did not rise; they fell under my feet.

rsv@2Samuel:22:40 @ For thou didst gird me with strength for the battle; thou didst make my assailants sink under me.

rsv@2Samuel:22:41 @ Thou didst make my enemies turn their backs to me, those who hated me, and I destroyed them.

rsv@2Samuel:22:42 @ They looked, but there was none to save; they cried to the LORD, but he did not answer them.

rsv@2Samuel:22:43 @ I beat them fine as the dust of the earth, I crushed them and stamped them down like the mire of the streets.

rsv@2Samuel:22:44 @ "Thou didst deliver me from strife with the peoples; thou didst keep me as the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.

rsv@2Samuel:22:45 @ Foreigners came cringing to me; as soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me.

rsv@2Samuel:22:46 @ Foreigners lost heart, and came trembling out of their fastnesses.

rsv@2Samuel:22:47 @ "The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock, and exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation,

rsv@2Samuel:22:48 @ the God who gave me vengeance and brought down peoples under me,

rsv@2Samuel:22:49 @ who brought me out from my enemies; thou didst exalt me above my adversaries, thou didst deliver me from men of violence.

rsv@2Samuel:22:50 @ "For this I will extol thee, O LORD, among the nations, and sing praises to thy name.

rsv@2Samuel:22:51 @ Great triumphs he gives to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David, and his descendants for ever."

rsv@2Samuel:23:1 @ Now these are the last words of David: The oracle of David, the son of Jesse, the oracle of the man who was raised on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel:

rsv@2Samuel:23:2 @ "The Spirit of the LORD speaks by me, his word is upon my tongue.

rsv@2Samuel:23:3 @ The God of Israel has spoken, the Rock of Israel has said to me: When one rules justly over men, ruling in the fear of God,

rsv@2Samuel:23:4 @ he dawns on them like the morning light, like the sun shining forth upon a cloudless morning, like rain that makes grass to sprout from the earth.

rsv@2Samuel:23:5 @ Yea, does not my house stand so with God? For he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and secure. For will he not cause to prosper all my help and my desire?

rsv@2Samuel:23:6 @ But godless men are all like thorns that are thrown away; for they cannot be taken with the hand;

rsv@2Samuel:23:7 @ but the man who touches them arms himself with iron and the shaft of a spear, and they are utterly consumed with fire."

rsv@2Samuel:23:8 @ These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb-basshe'beth a Tah-che'monite; he was chief of the three; he wielded his spear against eight hundred whom he slew at one time.

rsv@2Samuel:23:9 @ And next to him among the three mighty men was Elea'zar the son of Dodo, son of Aho'hi. He was with David when they defied the Philistines who were gathered there for battle, and the men of Israel withdrew.

rsv@2Samuel:23:10 @ He rose and struck down the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand cleaved to the sword; and the LORD wrought a great victory that day; and the men returned after him only to strip the slain.

rsv@2Samuel:23:11 @ And next to him was Shammah, the son of Agee the Har'arite. The Philistines gathered together at Lehi, where there was a plot of ground full of lentils; and the men fled from the Philistines.

rsv@2Samuel:23:12 @ But he took his stand in the midst of the plot, and defended it, and slew the Philistines; and the LORD wrought a great victory.

rsv@2Samuel:23:13 @ And three of the thirty chief men went down, and came about harvest time to David at the cave of Adullam, when a band of Philistines was encamped in the valley of Reph'aim.

rsv@2Samuel:23:14 @ David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines was then at Bethlehem.

rsv@2Samuel:23:15 @ And David said longingly, "O that some one would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem which is by the gate!"

rsv@2Samuel:23:16 @ Then the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem which was by the gate, and took and brought it to David. But he would not drink of it; he poured it out to the LORD,

rsv@2Samuel:23:17 @ and said, "Far be it from me, O LORD, that I should do this. Shall I drink the blood of the men who went at the risk of their lives?" Therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.

rsv@2Samuel:23:18 @ Now Abi'shai, the brother of Jo'ab, the son of Zeru'iah, was chief of the thirty. And he wielded his spear against three hundred men and slew them, and won a name beside the three.

rsv@2Samuel:23:19 @ He was the most renowned of the thirty, and became their commander; but he did not attain to the three.

rsv@2Samuel:23:20 @ And Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada was a valiant man of Kabzeel, a doer of great deeds; he smote two ariels of Moab. He also went down and slew a lion in a pit on a day when snow had fallen.

rsv@2Samuel:23:21 @ And he slew an Egyptian, a handsome man. The Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but Benai'ah went down to him with a staff, and snatched the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.

rsv@2Samuel:23:22 @ These things did Benai'ah the son of Jehoi'ada, and won a name beside the three mighty men.

rsv@2Samuel:23:23 @ He was renowned among the thirty, but he did not attain to the three. And David set him over his bodyguard.

rsv@2Samuel:23:24 @ As'ahel the brother of Jo'ab was one of the thirty; Elha'nan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

rsv@2Samuel:23:25 @ Shammah of Harod, Eli'ka of Harod,

rsv@2Samuel:23:26 @ Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh of Teko'a,

rsv@2Samuel:23:27 @ Abi-e'zer, of An'athoth, Mebun'nai the Hu'shathite,

rsv@2Samuel:23:28 @ Zalmon the Aho'hite, Ma'harai of Netoph'ah,

rsv@2Samuel:23:29 @ Heleb the son of Ba'anah of Netoph'ah, It'tai the son of Ri'bai of Gib'e-ah of the Benjaminites,

rsv@2Samuel:23:30 @ Benai'ah of Pira'thon, Hid'dai of the brooks of Ga'ash,

rsv@2Samuel:23:31 @ Abi-al'bon the Ar'bathite, Az'maveth of Bahu'rim,

rsv@2Samuel:23:32 @ Eli'ahba of Sha-al'bon, the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,

rsv@2Samuel:23:33 @ Shammah the Har'arite, Ahi'am the son of Sharar the Har'arite,

rsv@2Samuel:23:34 @ Eliph'elet the son of Ahas'bai of Ma'acah, Eli'am the son of Ahith'ophel of Gilo,

rsv@2Samuel:23:35 @ Hezro of Carmel, Pa'arai the Arbite,

rsv@2Samuel:23:36 @ Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,

rsv@2Samuel:23:37 @ Zelek the Ammonite, Na'harai of Be-er'oth, the armor-bearer of Jo'ab the son of Zeru'iah,

rsv@2Samuel:23:38 @ Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,

rsv@2Samuel:23:39 @ Uri'ah the Hittite: thirty-seven in all.

rsv@2Samuel:24:1 @ Again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, "Go, number Israel and Judah."

rsv@2Samuel:24:2 @ So the king said to Jo'ab and the commanders of the army, who were with him, "Go through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beer-sheba, and number the people, that I may know the number of the people."

rsv@2Samuel:24:3 @ But Jo'ab said to the king, "May the LORD your God add to the people a hundred times as many as they are, while the eyes of my lord the king still see it; but why does my lord the king delight in this thing?"

rsv@2Samuel:24:4 @ But the king's word prevailed against Jo'ab and the commanders of the army. So Jo'ab and the commanders of the army went out from the presence of the king to number the people of Israel.

rsv@2Samuel:24:5 @ They crossed the Jordan, and began from Aro'er, and from the city that is in the middle of the valley, toward Gad and on to Jazer.

rsv@2Samuel:24:6 @ Then they came to Gilead, and to Kadesh in the land of the Hittites; and they came to Dan, and from Dan they went around to Sidon,

rsv@2Samuel:24:7 @ and came to the fortress of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and Canaanites; and they went out to the Negeb of Judah at Beer-sheba.

rsv@2Samuel:24:8 @ So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

rsv@2Samuel:24:9 @ And Jo'ab gave the sum of the numbering of the people to the king: in Israel there were eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand.

rsv@2Samuel:24:10 @ But David's heart smote him after he had numbered the people. And David said to the LORD, "I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O LORD, I pray thee, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly."

rsv@2Samuel:24:11 @ And when David arose in the morning, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,

rsv@2Samuel:24:12 @ "Go and say to David, `Thus says the LORD, Three things I offer you; choose one of them, that I may do it to you."

rsv@2Samuel:24:13 @ So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, "Shall three years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days' pestilence in your land? Now consider, and decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me."

rsv@2Samuel:24:14 @ Then David said to Gad, "I am in great distress; let us fall into the hand of the LORD, for his mercy is great; but let me not fall into the hand of man."

rsv@2Samuel:24:15 @ So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning until the appointed time; and there died of the people from Dan to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men.

rsv@2Samuel:24:16 @ And when the angel stretched forth his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented of the evil, and said to the angel who was working destruction among the people, "It is enough; now stay your hand." And the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Arau'nah the Jeb'usite.

rsv@2Samuel:24:17 @ Then David spoke to the LORD when he saw the angel who was smiting the people, and said, "Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Let thy hand, I pray thee, be against me and against my father's house."

rsv@2Samuel:24:18 @ And Gad came that day to David, and said to him, "Go up, rear an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Arau'nah the Jeb'usite."

rsv@2Samuel:24:19 @ So David went up at Gad's word, as the LORD commanded.

rsv@2Samuel:24:20 @ And when Arau'nah looked down, he saw the king and his servants coming on toward him; and Arau'nah went forth, and did obeisance to the king with his face to the ground.

rsv@2Samuel:24:21 @ And Arau'nah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?" David said, "To buy the threshing floor of you, in order to build an altar to the LORD, that the plague may be averted from the people."

rsv@2Samuel:24:22 @ Then Arau'nah said to David, "Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him; here are the oxen for the burnt offering, and the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.

rsv@2Samuel:24:23 @ All this, O king, Arau'nah gives to the king." And Arau'nah said to the king, "The LORD your God accept you."

rsv@2Samuel:24:24 @ But the king said to Arau'nah, "No, but I will buy it of you for a price; I will not offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God which cost me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

rsv@2Samuel:24:25 @ And David built there an altar to the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD heeded supplications for the land, and the plague was averted from Israel.

rsv@1Kings:3:17 @ The one woman said, "Oh, my lord, this woman and I dwell in the same house; and I gave birth to a child while she was in the house.

rsv@1Kings:6:25 @ The other cherub also measured ten cubits; both cherubim had the same measure and the same form.

rsv@1Kings:7:15 @ He cast two pillars of bronze. Eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured its circumference; it was hollow, and its thickness was four fingers; the second pillar was the same.

rsv@1Kings:7:18 @ Likewise he made pomegranates; in two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the capital that was upon the top of the pillar; and he did the same with the other capital.

rsv@1Kings:7:37 @ After this manner he made the ten stands; all of them were cast alike, of the same measure and the same form.

rsv@1Kings:8:64 @ The same day the king consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD; for there he offered the burnt offering and the cereal offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before the LORD was too small to receive the burnt offering and the cereal offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings.

rsv@1Kings:13:3 @ And he gave a sign the same day, saying, "This is the sign that the LORD has spoken: `Behold, the altar shall be torn down, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out.'"

rsv@1Kings:13:32 @ For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Sama'ria, shall surely come to pass."

rsv@1Kings:16:24 @ He bought the hill of Sama'ria from Shemer for two talents of silver; and he fortified the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, Sama'ria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.

rsv@1Kings:16:28 @ And Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Sama'ria; and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@1Kings:16:29 @ In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri began to reign over Israel, and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Sama'ria twenty-two years.

rsv@1Kings:16:32 @ He erected an altar for Ba'al in the house of Ba'al, which he built in Sama'ria.

rsv@1Kings:18:2 @ So Eli'jah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Sama'ria.

rsv@1Kings:20:1 @ Ben-ha'dad the king of Syria gathered all his army together; thirty-two kings were with him, and horses and chariots; and he went up and besieged Sama'ria, and fought against it.

rsv@1Kings:20:10 @ Ben-ha'dad sent to him and said, "The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Sama'ria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people who follow me."

rsv@1Kings:20:17 @ The servants of the governors of the districts went out first. And Ben-ha'dad sent out scouts, and they reported to him, "Men are coming out from Sama'ria."

rsv@1Kings:20:34 @ And Ben-ha'dad said to him, "The cities which my father took from your father I will restore; and you may establish bazaars for yourself in Damascus, as my father did in Sama'ria." And Ahab said, "I will let you go on these terms." So he made a covenant with him and let him go.

rsv@1Kings:20:43 @ And the king of Israel went to his house resentful and sullen, and came to Sama'ria.

rsv@1Kings:21:1 @ Now Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard in Jezreel, beside the palace of Ahab king of Sama'ria.

rsv@1Kings:21:18 @ "Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in Sama'ria; behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone to take possession.

rsv@1Kings:22:10 @ Now the king of Israel and Jehosh'aphat the king of Judah were sitting on their thrones, arrayed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Sama'ria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.

rsv@1Kings:22:37 @ So the king died, and was brought to Sama'ria; and they buried the king in Sama'ria.

rsv@1Kings:22:38 @ And they washed the chariot by the pool of Sama'ria, and the dogs licked up his blood, and the harlots washed themselves in it, according to the word of the LORD which he had spoken.

rsv@1Kings:22:51 @ Ahazi'ah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Sama'ria in the seventeenth year of Jehosh'aphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel.

rsv@2Kings:1:2 @ Now Ahazi'ah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber in Sama'ria, and lay sick; so he sent messengers, telling them, "Go, inquire of Ba'al-ze'bub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this sickness."

rsv@2Kings:1:3 @ But the angel of the LORD said to Eli'jah the Tishbite, "Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Sama'ria, and say to them, `Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Ba'al-ze'bub, the god of Ekron?'

rsv@2Kings:2:25 @ From there he went on to Mount Carmel, and thence he returned to Sama'ria.

rsv@2Kings:3:1 @ In the eighteenth year of Jehosh'aphat king of Judah, Jeho'ram the son of Ahab became king over Israel in Sama'ria, and he reigned twelve years.

rsv@2Kings:3:6 @ So King Jeho'ram marched out of Sama'ria at that time and mustered all Israel.

rsv@2Kings:5:3 @ She said to her mistress, "Would that my lord were with the prophet who is in Sama'ria! He would cure him of his leprosy."

rsv@2Kings:6:19 @ And Eli'sha said to them, "This is not the way, and this is not the city; follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek." And he led them to Sama'ria.

rsv@2Kings:6:20 @ As soon as they entered Sama'ria, Eli'sha said, "O LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see." So the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and lo, they were in the midst of Sama'ria.

rsv@2Kings:6:24 @ Afterward Ben-ha'dad king of Syria mustered his entire army, and went up, and besieged Sama'ria.

rsv@2Kings:6:25 @ And there was a great famine in Sama'ria, as they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five shekels of silver.

rsv@2Kings:7:1 @ But Eli'sha said, "Hear the word of the LORD: thus says the LORD, Tomorrow about this time a measure of fine meal shall be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, at the gate of Sama'ria."

rsv@2Kings:7:18 @ For when the man of God had said to the king, "Two measures of barley shall be sold for a shekel, and a measure of fine meal for a shekel, about this time tomorrow in the gate of Sama'ria,"

rsv@2Kings:8:22 @ So Edom revolted from the rule of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.

rsv@2Kings:10:1 @ Now Ahab had seventy sons in Sama'ria. So Jehu wrote letters, and sent them to Sama'ria, to the rulers of the city, to the elders, and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab, saying,

rsv@2Kings:10:12 @ Then he set out and went to Sama'ria. On the way, when he was at Beth-eked of the Shepherds,

rsv@2Kings:10:17 @ And when he came to Sama'ria, he slew all that remained to Ahab in Sama'ria, till he had wiped them out, according to the word of the LORD which he spoke to Eli'jah.

rsv@2Kings:10:35 @ So Jehu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Sama'ria. And Jeho'ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Kings:10:36 @ The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Sama'ria was twenty-eight years.

rsv@2Kings:13:1 @ In the twenty-third year of Jo'ash the son of Ahazi'ah, king of Judah, Jeho'ahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Sama'ria, and he reigned seventeen years.

rsv@2Kings:13:6 @ Nevertheless they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jerobo'am, which he made Israel to sin, but walked in them; and the Ashe'rah also remained in Sama'ria.)

rsv@2Kings:13:9 @ So Jeho'ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Sama'ria; and Jo'ash his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Kings:13:10 @ In the thirty-seventh year of Jo'ash king of Judah Jeho'ash the son of Jeho'ahaz began to reign over Israel in Sama'ria, and he reigned sixteen years.

rsv@2Kings:13:13 @ So Jo'ash slept with his fathers, and Jerobo'am sat upon his throne; and Jo'ash was buried in Sama'ria with the kings of Israel.

rsv@2Kings:14:14 @ And he seized all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king's house, also hostages, and he returned to Sama'ria.

rsv@2Kings:14:16 @ And Jeho'ash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Sama'ria with the kings of Israel; and Jerobo'am his son reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Kings:14:23 @ In the fifteenth year of Amazi'ah the son of Jo'ash, king of Judah, Jerobo'am the son of Jo'ash, king of Israel, began to reign in Sama'ria, and he reigned forty-one years.

rsv@2Kings:15:8 @ In the thirty-eighth year of Azari'ah king of Judah Zechari'ah the son of Jerobo'am reigned over Israel in Sama'ria six months.

rsv@2Kings:15:13 @ Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Uzzi'ah king of Judah, and he reigned one month in Sama'ria.

rsv@2Kings:15:14 @ Then Men'ahem the son of Gadi came up from Tirzah and came to Sama'ria, and he struck down Shallum the son of Jabesh in Sama'ria and slew him, and reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Kings:15:17 @ In the thirty-ninth year of Azari'ah king of Judah Men'ahem the son of Gadi began to reign over Israel, and he reigned ten years in Sama'ria.

rsv@2Kings:15:23 @ In the fiftieth year of Azari'ah king of Judah Pekahi'ah the son of Men'ahem began to reign over Israel in Sama'ria, and he reigned two years.

rsv@2Kings:15:25 @ And Pekah the son of Remali'ah, his captain, conspired against him with fifty men of the Gileadites, and slew him in Sama'ria, in the citadel of the king's house; he slew him, and reigned in his stead.

rsv@2Kings:15:27 @ In the fifty-second year of Azari'ah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remali'ah began to reign over Israel in Sama'ria, and reigned twenty years.

rsv@2Kings:17:1 @ In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah Hoshe'a the son of Elah began to reign in Sama'ria over Israel, and he reigned nine years.

rsv@2Kings:17:5 @ Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land and came to Sama'ria, and for three years he besieged it.

rsv@2Kings:17:6 @ In the ninth year of Hoshe'a the king of Assyria captured Sama'ria, and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

rsv@2Kings:17:24 @ And the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sephar-va'im, and placed them in the cities of Sama'ria instead of the people of Israel; and they took possession of Sama'ria, and dwelt in its cities.

rsv@2Kings:17:26 @ So the king of Assyria was told, "The nations which you have carried away and placed in the cities of Sama'ria do not know the law of the god of the land; therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they are killing them, because they do not know the law of the god of the land."

rsv@2Kings:17:28 @ So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Sama'ria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.

rsv@2Kings:17:29 @ But every nation still made gods of its own, and put them in the shrines of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in the cities in which they dwelt;

rsv@2Kings:18:9 @ In the fourth year of King Hezeki'ah, which was the seventh year of Hoshe'a son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmane'ser king of Assyria came up against Sama'ria and besieged it

rsv@2Kings:18:10 @ and at the end of three years he took it. In the sixth year of Hezeki'ah, which was the ninth year of Hoshe'a king of Israel, Sama'ria was taken.

rsv@2Kings:18:34 @ Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharva'im, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Sama'ria out of my hand?

rsv@2Kings:19:29 @ "And this shall be the sign for you: this year you shall eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs of the same; then in the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.

rsv@2Kings:19:33 @ By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, says the LORD.

rsv@2Kings:21:13 @ And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Sama'ria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab; and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.

rsv@2Kings:23:18 @ And he said, "Let him be; let no man move his bones." So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Sama'ria.

rsv@2Kings:23:19 @ And all the shrines also of the high places that were in the cities of Sama'ria, which kings of Israel had made, provoking the LORD to anger, Josi'ah removed; he did to them according to all that he had done at Bethel.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:29 @ These are their genealogies: the first-born of Ish'mael, Neba'ioth; and Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

rsv@1Chronicles:1:47 @ When Hadad died, Samlah of Masre'kah reigned in his stead.

rsv@1Chronicles:1:48 @ When Samlah died, Sha'ul of Reho'both on the Euphra'tes reigned in his stead.

rsv@1Chronicles:4:25 @ Shallum was his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:28 @ The sons of Samuel: Jo'el his first-born, the second Abi'jah.

rsv@1Chronicles:6:33 @ These are the men who served and their sons. Of the sons of the Ko'hathites: Heman the singer the son of Jo'el, son of Samuel,

rsv@1Chronicles:7:2 @ The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephai'ah, Je'ri-el, Jah'mai, Ibsam, and Shem'uel, heads of their fathers' houses, namely of Tola, mighty warriors of their generations, their number in the days of David being twenty-two thousand six hundred.

rsv@1Chronicles:9:22 @ All these, who were chosen as gatekeepers at the thresholds, were two hundred and twelve. They were enrolled by genealogies in their villages. David and Samuel the seer established them in their office of trust.

rsv@1Chronicles:11:3 @ So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the LORD, and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD by Samuel.

rsv@1Chronicles:14:14 @ And when David again inquired of God, God said to him, "You shall not go up after them; go around and come upon them opposite the balsam trees.

rsv@1Chronicles:14:15 @ And when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then go out to battle; for God has gone out before you to smite the army of the Philistines."

rsv@1Chronicles:17:3 @ But that same night the word of the LORD came to Nathan,

rsv@1Chronicles:26:28 @ Also all that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Jo'ab the son of Zeru'iah had dedicated--all dedicated gifts were in the care of Shelo'moth and his brethren.

rsv@1Chronicles:29:29 @ Now the acts of King David, from first to last, are written in the Chronicles of Samuel the seer, and in the Chronicles of Nathan the prophet, and in the Chronicles of Gad the seer,

rsv@2Chronicles:16:10 @ Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the stocks, in prison, for he was in a rage with him because of this. And Asa inflicted cruelties upon some of the people at the same time.

rsv@2Chronicles:18:2 @ After some years he went down to Ahab in Sama'ria. And Ahab killed an abundance of sheep and oxen for him and for the people who were with him, and induced him to go up against Ramoth-gilead.

rsv@2Chronicles:18:9 @ Now the king of Israel and Jehosh'aphat the king of Judah were sitting on their thrones, arrayed in their robes; and they were sitting at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Sama'ria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.

rsv@2Chronicles:22:9 @ He searched for Ahazi'ah, and he was captured while hiding in Sama'ria, and he was brought to Jehu and put to death. They buried him, for they said, "He is the grandson of Jehosh'aphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart." And the house of Ahazi'ah had no one able to rule the kingdom.

rsv@2Chronicles:25:13 @ But the men of the army whom Amazi'ah sent back, not letting them go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Sama'ria to Beth-hor'on, and killed three thousand people in them, and took much spoil.

rsv@2Chronicles:25:24 @ And he seized all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God, and O'bed-e'dom with them; he seized also the treasuries of the king's house, and hostages, and he returned to Sama'ria.

rsv@2Chronicles:27:5 @ He fought with the king of the Ammonites and prevailed against them. And the Ammonites gave him that year a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand cors of wheat and ten thousand of barley. The Ammonites paid him the same amount in the second and the third years.

rsv@2Chronicles:28:8 @ The men of Israel took captive two hundred thousand of their kinsfolk, women, sons, and daughters; they also took much spoil from them and brought the spoil to Sama'ria.

rsv@2Chronicles:28:9 @ But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out to meet the army that came to Sama'ria, and said to them, "Behold, because the LORD, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he gave them into your hand, but you have slain them in a rage which has reached up to heaven.

rsv@2Chronicles:28:15 @ And the men who have been mentioned by name rose and took the captives, and with the spoil they clothed all that were naked among them; they clothed them, gave them sandals, provided them with food and drink, and anointed them; and carrying all the feeble among them on asses, they brought them to their kinsfolk at Jericho, the city of palm trees. Then they returned to Sama'ria.

rsv@2Chronicles:28:22 @ In the time of his distress he became yet more faithless to the LORD--this same King Ahaz.

rsv@2Chronicles:32:12 @ Has not this same Hezeki'ah taken away his high places and his altars and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, "Before one altar you shall worship, and upon it you shall burn your sacrifices"?

rsv@2Chronicles:32:30 @ This same Hezeki'ah closed the upper outlet of the waters of Gihon and directed them down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezeki'ah prospered in all his works.

rsv@2Chronicles:35:18 @ No passover like it had been kept in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet; none of the kings of Israel had kept such a passover as was kept by Josi'ah, and the priests and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

rsv@Ezra:4:10 @ and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnap'par deported and settled in the cities of Sama'ria and in the rest of the province Beyond the River, and now

rsv@Ezra:4:17 @ The king sent an answer: "To Rehum the commander and Shim'shai the scribe and the rest of their associates who live in Sama'ria and in the rest of the province Beyond the River, greeting. And now

rsv@Ezra:5:3 @ At the same time Tat'tenai the governor of the province Beyond the River and She'thar-boz'enai and their associates came to them and spoke to them thus, "Who gave you a decree to build this house and to finish this structure?"

rsv@Nehemiah:4:2 @ And he said in the presence of his brethren and of the army of Sama'ria, "What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore things? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?"

rsv@Nehemiah:6:4 @ And they sent to me four times in this way and I answered them in the same manner.

rsv@Nehemiah:6:5 @ In the same way Sanbal'lat for the fifth time sent his servant to me with an open letter in his hand.

rsv@Esther:9:1 @ Now in the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's command and edict were about to be executed, on the very day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to get the mastery over them, but which had been changed to a day when the Jews should get the mastery over their foes,

rsv@Esther:9:21 @ enjoining them that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and also the fifteenth day of the same, year by year,

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