1Samuel:28-31

mkjv@1Samuel:28:1 @ And in those days it happened that the Philistines gathered their armies for war, to fight with Israel. And Achish said to David, You surely know that you shall go with me to battle, you and your men.

mkjv@1Samuel:28:2 @ And David said to Achish, Surely you shall know what your servant can do. And Achish said to David, And I will make you keeper of my head forever.

mkjv@1Samuel:28:3 @ And Samuel was dead, and all Israel had mourned him and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away the mediums and the spirit-knowers out of the land.

mkjv@1Samuel:28:4 @ And the Philistines gathered themselves and came and pitched in Shunem. And Saul gathered all Israel and they pitched in Gilboa.

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

mkjv@1Samuel:28:6 @ And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD did not answer him, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.

mkjv@1Samuel:28:7 @ And Saul said to his servants, Seek me a woman who is] a medium, so that I may go to her and inquire of her. And his servant said to him, Behold, [there is] a woman who is] a medium, at Endor.

mkjv@1Samuel:28:8 @ And Saul disguised himself and put on other clothing. And he went. And two men went with him. And they came to the woman by night. And he said, Please divine for me [calling up the dead], and bring me up the man whom I shall name to you.

mkjv@1Samuel:28:9 @ And the woman said to him, Behold, you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off mediums, and the spirit-knowers, out of the land. Why then do you lay a snare for my life, to cause me to die?

mkjv@1Samuel:28:10 @ And Saul swore to her by the LORD, saying, [As] the LORD lives, there shall no punishment happen to you for this thing.

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

mkjv@1Samuel:28:12 @ And the woman saw Samuel, and cried with a loud voice. And the woman spoke to Saul, saying, Why have you deceived me? For you [are] Saul!

mkjv@1Samuel:28:13 @ And the king said to her, Do not be afraid. For what did you see? And the woman said to Saul, I saw gods coming up out of the earth.

mkjv@1Samuel:28:14 @ And he said to her, What [is] his form? And she said, An old man comes up, and he is covered with a cloak. And Saul saw that it was Samuel, and [he] bowed [his] face to the ground, and prostrated himself.

mkjv@1Samuel:28:15 @ And Samuel said to Saul, Why have you disturbed me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am grievously distressed, for the Philistines are warring against me. And God has left me and does not answer me any more, neither by prophets nor by dreams. And I have called you so that you may make known to me what I should do.

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

mkjv@1Samuel:28:17 @ And the LORD has done for Himself as He spoke by me. For the LORD has torn the kingdom out of your hand and [is] giving it to your neighbor, to David.

mkjv@1Samuel:28:18 @ Because you did not obey the voice of the LORD, nor execute his fierce wrath on Amalek, therefore the LORD has done this thing to you now.

mkjv@1Samuel:28:19 @ And, the LORD will also deliver Israel with you into the hand of the Philistines. And tomorrow you and your sons [shall be] with me. The LORD also shall deliver the army of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.

mkjv@1Samuel:28:20 @ And Saul immediately fell headlong on the earth, and was sorely afraid because of the words of Samuel. And there was no strength in him, for he had eaten no bread all day nor all night.

mkjv@1Samuel:28:21 @ And the woman came to Saul and saw that he was sorely troubled, and said to him, Behold, your handmaid has obeyed your voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have listened to your words which you spoke to me.

mkjv@1Samuel:28:22 @ And now please listen also to the voice of your handmaid, and let me set a bit of bread before you and eat, so that you may have strength when you go on your way.

mkjv@1Samuel:28:23 @ But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, forced him, and the woman also. And he listened to their voices and arose from the earth and sat on the bed.

mkjv@1Samuel:28:24 @ And the woman had a fat calf in the house. And she hurried and killed it, and took flour and kneaded [it], and baked unleavened [bread] with it.

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

mkjv@1Samuel:29:1 @ And the Philistines gathered all their armies to Aphek. And the Israelites pitched by a fountain in Jezreel.

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

mkjv@1Samuel:29:3 @ And the rulers of the Philistines said, What [are] these Hebrews [doing]? And Achish said to the rulers of the Philistines, Is this not David the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me [these] days, or these] years. And I have not found anything [evil] in him from the day he fell away until today?

mkjv@1Samuel:29:4 @ And the rulers of the Philistines were angry with him. And the Philistine rulers said to him, Send the man back, and he shall return to his place where you have appointed him. And he shall not go down with us to battle, and shall not become an enemy to us in battle. For with what should he reconcile himself to his master? [Should it] not [be] with the heads of these men?

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

mkjv@1Samuel:29:6 @ And Achish called David and said to him, Surely, [as] the LORD lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my sight. For I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me until today. But you are not good in the eyes of the lords.

mkjv@1Samuel:29:7 @ And return now, and go in peace so that you do not displease the lords of the Philistines.

mkjv@1Samuel:29:8 @ And David said to Achish, But what have I done? And what have you found in your servant so long as I have been with you to this day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king?

mkjv@1Samuel:29:9 @ And Achish answered and said to David, I know that you [are] good in my sight, like an angel of God. But the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle.

mkjv@1Samuel:29:10 @ And now, rise up early in the morning with your master's servants who have come with you. And as soon as you have light, depart.

mkjv@1Samuel:29:11 @ And David and his men rose up early to leave in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up [to] Jezreel.

mkjv@1Samuel:30:1 @ And it happened when David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had invaded the south and Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag, and burned it with fire.

mkjv@1Samuel:30:2 @ And they had seized the women in it. They did not kill any, either small or great, but carried them away and went on their way.

mkjv@1Samuel:30:3 @ And David and his men came to the city, and behold, [it was] burned with fire, and their wives and their sons and their daughters had been taken captives.

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

mkjv@1Samuel:30:5 @ And David's two wives had been seized, Ahinoam of Jezreel, and Abigail, the [former] wife of Nabal of Carmel.

mkjv@1Samuel:30:6 @ And it greatly distressed David, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, each one for his sons and for his daughters. But David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.

mkjv@1Samuel:30:7 @ And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, Please bring the ephod here to me. And Abiathar brought the ephod there to David.

mkjv@1Samuel:30:8 @ And David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go after this troop? Shall I overtake them? And He answered him, Go! For you shall surely overtake and will without fail recover all.

mkjv@1Samuel:30:9 @ So David went, he and the six hundred men that [were] with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those who were left behind stayed.

mkjv@1Samuel:30:10 @ But David pursued, he and four hundred men. For two hundred stayed behind, who were too exhausted to go over the brook Besor.

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

mkjv@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 came again to him. For he had eaten no bread nor drunk water for three days and three nights.

mkjv@1Samuel:30:13 @ And David said to him, Whose [are] you? And where do you come from? And he said, I am an Egyptian youth, servant to an Amalekite. And my master left me because three days ago I fell sick.

mkjv@1Samuel:30:14 @ We raided the south of the Cherethites, and on that [belonging] to Judah, and on the south of Caleb. And we burned Ziklag with fire.

mkjv@1Samuel:30:15 @ And David said to him, Can you bring me down to this company? And he said, Swear to me by God that you will neither kill me nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this company.

mkjv@1Samuel:30:16 @ And when he had brought him down, behold, [they were] spread abroad on all the earth, eating and drinking and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines and out of the land of Judah.

mkjv@1Samuel:30:17 @ And David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. And not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled.

mkjv@1Samuel:30:18 @ And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away. And David rescued his two wives.

mkjv@1Samuel:30:19 @ And nothing was lacking to them, from the small to the great, even to sons and daughters, and from the spoil, even to all that they had taken to themselves. David recovered all.

mkjv@1Samuel:30:20 @ And David took all the flock, and the herd. They drove on before those cattle. And they said, This [is] David's spoil.

mkjv@1Samuel:30:21 @ And David came to the two hundred who were too exhausted to follow David, whom they had made also to stay at the brook Besor. And they went out to meet David, and to meet the people with him. And David came up to the people, and greeted them.

mkjv@1Samuel:30:22 @ And every evil and worthless man of the men who went with David answered and said, Because they did not go with us, we will not give them from a thing the spoil that we have seized, except to every man his wife and his sons. Let them take them, and go.

mkjv@1Samuel:30:23 @ And David said, My brothers, you shall not do so with that which the LORD has given us. For He has protected us, and has delivered into our hand the company that came against us.

mkjv@1Samuel:30:24 @ For who will listen to you in this matter? But as his part [is] that goes down to the battle, so [shall be] his part that stays by the stuff. They shall divide alike.

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

mkjv@1Samuel:30:26 @ And David came to Ziklag, and sent some of the spoil to the elders of Judah, to his friends, saying, Behold, a present for you from the spoil of the enemies of the LORD;

mkjv@1Samuel:30:27 @ to the ones in Bethel, and to the ones in Ramoth of the south, and to the ones in Jattir,

mkjv@1Samuel:30:28 @ and to the ones in Aroer, and to the ones in Siphmoth, and to the ones in Eshtemoa,

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

mkjv@1Samuel:30:30 @ and to the ones in Hormah, and to the ones in Chorashan, and to the ones in Athach,

mkjv@1Samuel:30:31 @ and to the ones in Hebron, and to all the places where David had gone up and down, he and his men.

mkjv@1Samuel:31:1 @ And the Philistines fought against Israel. And the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down wounded in Mount Gilboa.

mkjv@1Samuel:31:2 @ And the Philistines followed Saul and his sons. And the Philistines killed Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchishua, Saul's sons.

mkjv@1Samuel:31:3 @ And the battle went hard against Saul. And the archers hit him, and he was sorely wounded by the archers.

mkjv@1Samuel:31:4 @ And Saul said to his armor-bearer, Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised ones come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armor-bearer would not, for he was very much afraid. So Saul took a sword and fell on it.

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

mkjv@1Samuel:31:6 @ And Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor-bearer, and all his men, that same day together.

mkjv@1Samuel:31:7 @ And the men of Israel beyond the valley, and who [were] on the other side Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled and that Saul and his sons had died. And they abandoned the cities and fled. And the Philistines came and lived in them.

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

mkjv@1Samuel:31:9 @ And they cut off his head and stripped off his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines all around, to publish [it] in the house of their idols and [among] the people.

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

mkjv@1Samuel:31:11 @ And when they heard about it, the people of Jabesh-gilead, what the Philistines had done to Saul,

mkjv@1Samuel:31:12 @ then all the brave men arose, and they traveled all night. And [they] took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and came to Jabesh, and burned them there.

mkjv@1Samuel:31:13 @ And they took their bones and buried [them] under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh. And [they] fasted seven days.

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