rsv 1Samuel:17-25
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.![[pBiblx2]](/img/pbiblx2_logo3.png){kind=logo}