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+<book name='1 Samuel' permalink='1-samuel' id='9'>
+  <chapter no='1'>
+    <verse no='1'>Now there was a certain man of Ramathaimzophim, of mount  Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of  Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite:</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and  the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah  had no children.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and  to sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli,  Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, were there.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to  Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved  Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her  fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house  of the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest  thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I  better to thee than ten sons?</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after  they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the  temple of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD,  and wept sore.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt  indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and  not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man  child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and  there shall no razor come upon his head.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And it came to pass, as she continued praying before the  LORD, that Eli marked her mouth.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but  her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put  away thy wine from thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a  sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have  poured out my soul before the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out  of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of  Israel grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And she said, Let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight. So  the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more  sad.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before  the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah  knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about  after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name  Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer  unto the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, I  will not go up until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him,  that he may appear before the LORD, and there abide for ever.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what seemeth thee  good; tarry until thou have weaned him; only the LORD establish his  word. So the woman abode, and gave her son suck until she weaned him.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with  three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and  brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was  young.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And they slew a bullock, and brought the child to Eli.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And she said, Oh my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am  the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my  petition which I asked of him:</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he  liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he worshipped the LORD there.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='2'>
+    <verse no='1'>And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD,  mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine  enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside  thee: neither is there any rock like our God.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come  out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him  actions are weighed.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that  stumbled are girded with strength.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and  they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and  she that hath many children is waxed feeble.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the  grave, and bringeth up.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and  lifteth up.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the  beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them  inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the  LORD's, and he hath set the world upon them.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be  silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out  of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of  the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn  of his anointed.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did  minister unto the LORD before Eli the priest.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the  LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And the priest's custom with the people was, that, when any  man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was  in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand;</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or  pot; all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So  they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Also before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came,  and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the  priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And if any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the  fat presently, and then take as much as thy soul desireth; then he  would answer him, Nay; but thou shalt give it me now: and if not, I  will take it by force.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the  LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded  with a linen ephod.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it  to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer  the yearly sacrifice.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD  give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the LORD.  And they went unto their own home.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare  three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the  LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto  all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door  of the tabernacle of the congregation.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of  your evil dealings by all this people.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make  the LORD's people to transgress.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him:  but if a man sin against the LORD, who shall intreat for him?  Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father,  because the LORD would slay them.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with  the LORD, and also with men.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him,  Thus saith the LORD, Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father,  when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh's house?</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be  my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod  before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the  offerings made by fire of the children of Israel?</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering,  which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above  me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of  Israel my people?</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed that  thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever:  but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I  will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and  the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in  thine house.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the  wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man  in thine house for ever.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine  altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and  all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>And this shall be a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy  two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of  them.</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do  according to that which is in mine heart and in my mind: and I will  build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed for  ever.</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in  thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a  morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the  priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='3'>
+    <verse no='1'>And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before Eli.  And the word of the LORD was precious in those days; there was no open  vision.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in  his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, that he could not see;</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD,  where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep;</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>That the LORD called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And he ran unto Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou calledst  me. And he said, I called not; lie down again. And he went and lay  down.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And the LORD called yet again, Samuel. And Samuel arose and  went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And he  answered, I called not, my son; lie down again.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, neither was the word  of the LORD yet revealed unto him.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. And he  arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And  Eli perceived that the LORD had called the child.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall  be, if he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, LORD; for thy servant  heareth. So Samuel went and lay down in his place.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And the LORD came, and stood, and called as at other times,  Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak; for thy servant heareth.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And the LORD said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in  Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall  tingle.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I  have spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an  end.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for  the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile,  and he restrained them not.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the  iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering  for ever.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of  the house of the LORD. And Samuel feared to shew Eli the vision.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. And he  answered, Here am I.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And he said, What is the thing that the LORD hath said unto  thee? I pray thee hide it not from me: God do so to thee, and more  also, if thou hide any thing from me of all the things that he said  unto thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him.  And he said, It is the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and did let none  of his words fall to the ground.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And all Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel  was established to be a prophet of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And the LORD appeared again in Shiloh: for the LORD revealed  himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='4'>
+    <verse no='1'>And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went  out against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside Ebenezer: and  the Philistines pitched in Aphek.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel:  and when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the Philistines:  and they slew of the army in the field about four thousand men.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of  Israel said, Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us to day before the  Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of  Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of  the hand of our enemies.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from  thence the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth  between the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas,  were there with the ark of the covenant of God.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And when the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the  camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang  again.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they  said, What meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp of the  Hebrews? And they understood that the ark of the LORD was come into the  camp.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come  into the camp. And they said, Woe unto us! for there hath not been such  a thing heretofore.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these  mighty Gods? these are the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the  plagues in the wilderness.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Be strong and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines,  that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you:  quit yourselves like men, and fight.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they  fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for  there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli,  Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to  Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his  head.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon a seat by the wayside  watching: for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man  came into the city, and told it, all the city cried out.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What  meaneth the noise of this tumult? And the man came in hastily, and told  Eli.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were  dim, that he could not see.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And the man said unto Eli, I am he that came out of the  army, and I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is there  done, my son?</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before  the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the  people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the  ark of God is taken.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God,  that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and  his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he  had judged Israel forty years.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And his daughter in law, Phinehas' wife, was with child,  near to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of  God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead,  she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And about the time of her death the women that stood by her  said unto her, Fear not; for thou hast born a son. But she answered  not, neither did she regard it.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is  departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of  her father in law and her husband.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark  of God is taken.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='5'>
+    <verse no='1'>And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from  Ebenezer unto Ashdod.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it  into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold,  Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD.  And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold,  Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the  LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut  off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come  into Dagon's house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this  day.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and  he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the  coasts thereof.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said,  The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is  sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the  Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the  God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be  carried about unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel  about thither.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the  hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great destruction:  and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they had  emerods in their secret parts.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to  pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out,  saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to  slay us and our people.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the  Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let  it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for  there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God  was very heavy there.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and  the cry of the city went up to heaven.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='6'>
+    <verse no='1'>And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the  Philistines seven months.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners,  saying, What shall we do to the ark of the LORD? tell us wherewith we  shall send it to his place.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel,  send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then  ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not  removed from you.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we  shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five  golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines:  for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images  of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of  Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from  off your gods, and from off your land.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians  and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully  among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on  which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring  their calves home from them:</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And take the ark of the LORD, and lay it upon the cart; and  put the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a trespass offering, in  a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to  Bethshemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we  shall know that it is not his hand that smote us: it was a chance that  happened to us.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them  to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the  coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And the kine took the straight way to the way of  Bethshemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and  turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the  Philistines went after them unto the border of Bethshemesh.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And they of Bethshemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in  the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and  rejoiced to see it.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Bethshemite,  and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they clave the wood  of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD, and the  coffer that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them  on the great stone: and the men of Bethshemesh offered burnt offerings  and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they  returned to Ekron the same day.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And these are the golden emerods which the Philistines  returned for a trespass offering unto the LORD; for Ashdod one, for  Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And the golden mice, according to the number of all the  cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced  cities, and of country villages, even unto the great stone of Abel,  whereon they set down the ark of the LORD: which stone remaineth unto  this day in the field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked  into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand  and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD  had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And the men of Bethshemesh said, Who is able to stand before  this holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us?</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of  Kirjathjearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of  the LORD; come ye down, and fetch it up to you.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='7'>
+    <verse no='1'>And the men of Kirjathjearim came, and fetched up the ark of  the LORD, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and  sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjathjearim,  that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of  Israel lamented after the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye  do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange  gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the  LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of  the Philistines.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and  Ashtaroth, and served the LORD only.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will  pray for you unto the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And they gathered together to Mizpeh, 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 children of  Israel in Mizpeh.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel  were gathered together to Mizpeh, the lords of the Philistines went up  against Israel. And when the children of Israel heard it, they were  afraid of the Philistines.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to cry  unto the LORD our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of  the Philistines.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt  offering wholly unto the LORD: and Samuel cried unto the LORD for  Israel; and the LORD heard him.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the  Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the LORD thundered  with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited  them; and they were smitten before Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the  Philistines, and smote them, until they came under Bethcar.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and  Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the  LORD helped us.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more into  the coast of Israel: and the hand of the LORD was against the  Philistines all the days of Samuel.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel  were restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the coasts  thereof did Israel deliver out of the hands of the Philistines. And  there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and  Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And his return was to Ramah; for there was his house; and  there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the LORD.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='8'>
+    <verse no='1'>And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his  sons judges over Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his  second, Abiah: they were judges in Beersheba.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after  lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together,  and came to Samuel unto Ramah,</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk  not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a  king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the  people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee,  but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>According to all the works which they have done since the  day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith  they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto  thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest  solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall  reign over them.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people  that asked of him a king.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall  reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself,  for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his  chariots.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and  captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap  his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his  chariots.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and  to be cooks, and to be bakers.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your  oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your  vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants,  and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his  servants.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which  ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel;  and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king  may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he  rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and  make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every  man unto his city.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='9'>
+    <verse no='1'>Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the  son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of  Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man,  and a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier  person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of  the people.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And the asses of Kish Saul's father were lost. And Kish said  to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go  seek the asses.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And he passed through mount Ephraim, and passed through the  land of Shalisha, but they found them not: then they passed through the  land of Shalim, and there they were not: and he passed through the land  of the Benjamites, but they found them not.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And when they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to  his servant that was with him, Come, and let us return; lest my father  leave caring for the asses, and take thought for us.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And he said unto him, Behold now, there is in this city a  man of God, and he is an honourable man; all that he saith cometh  surely to pass: now let us go thither; peradventure he can shew us our  way that we should go.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if we go, what  shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and  there is not a present to bring to the man of God: what have we?</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I  have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I  give to the man of God, to tell us our way.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>(Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God,  thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now  called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go.  So they went unto the city where the man of God was.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And as they went up the hill to the city, they found young  maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here?</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, he is  before you: make haste now, for he came to day to the city; for there  is a sacrifice of the people to day in the high place:</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>As soon as ye be come into the city, ye shall straightway  find him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people will  not eat until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; and  afterwards they eat that be bidden. Now therefore get you up; for about  this time ye shall find him.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And they went up into the city: and when they were come into  the city, behold, Samuel came out against them, for to go up to the  high place.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Now the LORD had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul  came, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>To morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the  land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be captain over my  people Israel, that he may save my people out of the hand of the  Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is  come unto me.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And when Samuel saw Saul, the LORD said unto him, Behold the  man whom I spake to thee of! this same shall reign over my people.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said, Tell  me, I pray thee, where the seer's house is.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the seer: go up  before me unto the high place; for ye shall eat with me to day, and to  morrow I will let thee go, and will tell thee all that is in thine  heart.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set  not thy mind on them; for they are found. And on whom is all the desire  of Israel? Is it not on thee, and on all thy father's house?</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the  smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the  families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to  me?</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into  the parlour, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that  were bidden, which were about thirty persons.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And Samuel said unto the cook, Bring the portion which I  gave thee, of which I said unto thee, Set it by thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And the cook took up the shoulder, and that which was upon  it, and set it before Saul. And Samuel said, Behold that which is left!  set it before thee, and eat: for unto this time hath it been kept for  thee since I said, I have invited the people. So Saul did eat with  Samuel that day.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And when they were come down from the high place into the  city, Samuel communed with Saul upon the top of the house.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And they arose early: and it came to pass about the spring  of the day, that Samuel called Saul to the top of the house, saying,  Up, that I may send thee away. And Saul arose, and they went out both  of them, he and Samuel, abroad.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And as they were going down to the end of the city, Samuel  said to Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us, (and he passed on),  but stand thou still a while, that I may shew thee the word of God.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='10'>
+    <verse no='1'>Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head,  and kissed him, and said, Is it not because the LORD hath anointed thee  to be captain over his inheritance?</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>When thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find  two men by Rachel's sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and  they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are  found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and  sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt  come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going  up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying  three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And they will salute thee, and give thee two loaves of  bread; which thou shalt receive of their hands.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the  garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art  come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets  coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a  pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy:</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And the Spirit of the LORD will come upon thee, and thou  shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee, that  thou do as occasion serve thee; for God is with thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I  will come down unto thee, to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice  sacrifices of peace offerings: seven days shalt thou tarry, till I come  to thee, and shew thee what thou shalt do.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And it was so, that when he had turned his back to go from  Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs came to pass  that day.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And when they came thither to the hill, behold, a company of  prophets met him; and the Spirit of God came upon him, and he  prophesied among them.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw  that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said  one to another, What is this that is come unto the son of Kish? Is Saul  also among the prophets?</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And one of the same place answered and said, But who is  their father? Therefore it became a proverb, Is Saul also among the  prophets?</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the  high place.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And Saul's uncle said unto him and to his servant, Whither  went ye? And he said, To seek the asses: and when we saw that they were  no where, we came to Samuel.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And Saul's uncle said, Tell me, I pray thee, what Samuel  said unto you.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And Saul said unto his uncle, He told us plainly that the  asses were found. But of the matter of the kingdom, whereof Samuel  spake, he told him not.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And Samuel called the people together unto the LORD to  Mizpeh;</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the LORD  God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out  of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, and  of them that oppressed you:</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saved  you out of all your adversities and your tribulations; and ye have said  unto him, Nay, but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves  before the LORD by your tribes, and by your thousands.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And when Samuel had caused all the tribes of Israel to come  near, the tribe of Benjamin was taken.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>When he had caused the tribe of Benjamin to come near by  their families, the family of Matri was taken, and Saul the son of Kish  was taken: and when they sought him, he could not be found.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Therefore they enquired of the LORD further, if the man  should yet come thither. And the LORD answered, Behold he hath hid  himself among the stuff.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And they ran and fetched him thence: and when he stood among  the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and  upward.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the LORD  hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? And all  the people shouted, and said, God save the king.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and  wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all  the people away, every man to his house.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a  band of men, whose hearts God had touched.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us?  And they despised him, and brought no presents. But he held his peace.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='11'>
+    <verse no='1'>Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against  Jabeshgilead: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a  covenant with us, and we will serve thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition  will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right  eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days'  respite, that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel: and  then, if there be no man to save us, we will come out to thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and told the  tidings in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their  voices, and wept.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And, behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field; and  Saul said, What aileth the people that they weep? And they told him the  tidings of the men of Jabesh.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And the Spirit of God came upon Saul when he heard those  tidings, and his anger was kindled greatly.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and  sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of  messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after  Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD  fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel  were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And they said unto the messengers that came, Thus shall ye  say unto the men of Jabeshgilead, To morrow, by that time the sun be  hot, ye shall have help. And the messengers came and shewed it to the  men of Jabesh; and they were glad.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Therefore the men of Jabesh said, To morrow we will come out  unto you, and ye shall do with us all that seemeth good unto you.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in  three companies; and they came into the midst of the host in the  morning watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it  came to pass, that they which remained were scattered, so that two of  them were not left together.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And the people said unto Samuel, Who is he that said, Shall  Saul reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this  day: for to day the LORD hath wrought salvation in Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to  Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul  king before the LORD in Gilgal; and there they sacrificed sacrifices of  peace offerings before the LORD; and there Saul and all the men of  Israel rejoiced greatly.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='12'>
+    <verse no='1'>And Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened  unto your voice in all that ye said unto me, and have made a king over  you.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old  and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked  before you from my childhood unto this day.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Behold, here I am: witness 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 of whose hand have  I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore  it you.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us,  neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And he said unto them, The LORD is witness against you, and  his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found ought in my  hand. And they answered, He is witness.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And Samuel said unto the people, It is the LORD that  advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the  land of Egypt.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before  the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and  to your fathers.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried unto  the LORD, then the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, which brought forth your  fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And when they forgat the LORD their God, he sold them into  the hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of  the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought  against them.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And they cried unto the LORD, and said, We have sinned,  because we have forsaken the LORD, and have served Baalim and  Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we  will serve thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and  Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every  side, and ye dwelled safe.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of  Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, Nay; but a king shall reign  over us: when the LORD your God was your king.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen, and whom  ye have desired! and, behold, the LORD hath set a king over you.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>If ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice,  and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall both ye  and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the LORD  your God:</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel  against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be  against you, as it was against your fathers.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which the LORD  will do before your eyes.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD,  and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that  your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD,  in asking you a king.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>So Samuel called unto the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder  and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the LORD and  Samuel.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants  unto the LORD thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto all our  sins this evil, to ask us a king.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all  this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but serve  the LORD with all your heart;</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain  things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great  name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the  LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the  right way:</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your  heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed,  both ye and your king.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='13'>
+    <verse no='1'>Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years  over Israel,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two  thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand  were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he  sent every man to his tent.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that was  in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet  throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten a garrison of  the Philistines, and that Israel also was had in abomination with the  Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight  with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and  people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they  came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Bethaven.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for  the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in  caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And some of the Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of Gad  and Gilead. As for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people  followed him trembling.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that  Samuel had appointed: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people  were scattered from him.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And Saul said, Bring hither a burnt offering to me, and  peace offerings. And he offered the burnt offering.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end of  offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to  meet him, that he might salute him.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because  I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not  within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves  together at Michmash;</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me  to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the LORD: I forced  myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast  not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee:  for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for  ever.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought  him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be  captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD  commanded thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And Samuel arose, and gat him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of  Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people that were present with him,  about six hundred men.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were  present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines  encamped in Michmash.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in  three companies: one company turned unto the way that leadeth to  Ophrah, unto the land of Shual:</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And another company turned the way to Bethhoron: and another  company turned to the way of the border that looketh to the valley of  Zeboim toward the wilderness.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of  Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or  spears:</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to  sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his  mattock.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters,  and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was  neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that  were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son  was there found.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage  of Michmash.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='14'>
+    <verse no='1'>Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of  Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go  over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on the other side. But he  told not his father.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a  pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people that were with him  were about six hundred men;</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of  Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD's priest in Shiloh, wearing an  ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to go  over unto the Philistines' garrison, there was a sharp rock on the one  side, and a sharp rock on the other side: and the name of the one was  Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>The forefront of the one was situate northward over against  Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour,  Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it  may be that the LORD will work for us: for there is no restraint to the  LORD to save by many or by few.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And his armourbearer said unto him, Do all that is in thine  heart: turn thee; behold, I am with thee according to thy heart.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over unto these  men, and we will discover ourselves unto them.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>If they say thus unto us, Tarry until we come to you; then  we will stand still in our place, and will not go up unto them.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>But if they say thus, Come up unto us; then we will go up:  for the LORD hath delivered them into our hand: and this shall be a  sign unto us.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And both of them discovered themselves unto the garrison of  the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come  forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his  armourbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will shew you a thing.  And Jonathan said unto his armourbearer, Come up after me: for the LORD  hath delivered them into the hand of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet,  and his armourbearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his  armourbearer slew after him.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his  armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre  of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among  all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled, and  the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and,  behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down one  another.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Then said Saul unto the people that were with him, Number  now, and see who is gone from us. And when they had numbered, behold,  Jonathan and his armourbearer were not there.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And Saul said unto Ahiah, Bring hither the ark of God. For  the ark of God was at that time with the children of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And it came to pass, while Saul talked unto the priest, that  the noise that was in the host of the Philistines went on and  increased: and Saul said unto the priest, Withdraw thine hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And Saul and all the people that were with him assembled  themselves, and they came to the battle: and, behold, every man's sword  was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Moreover the Hebrews that were with the Philistines before  that time, which went up with them into the camp from the country round  about, even they also turned to be with the Israelites that were with  Saul and Jonathan.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Likewise all the men of Israel which had hid themselves in  mount Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they  also followed hard after them in the battle.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>So the LORD saved Israel that day: and the battle passed  over unto Bethaven.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had  adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food  until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the  people tasted any food.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey  upon the ground.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the  honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people  feared the oath.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people  with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in  his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth;  and his eyes were enlightened.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father  straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man  that eateth any food this day. And the people were faint.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I  pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a  little of this honey.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day  of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been  now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to  Aijalon: and the people were very faint.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and  oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat  them with the blood.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against  the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have  transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say  unto them, Bring me hither every man his ox, and every man his sheep,  and slay them here, and eat; and sin not against the LORD in eating  with the blood. And all the people brought every man his ox with him  that night, and slew them there.</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>And Saul built an altar unto the LORD: the same was the  first altar that he built unto the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by  night, and spoil them until the morning light, and let us not leave a  man of them. And they said, Do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee. Then  said the priest, Let us draw near hither unto God.</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the  Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he  answered him not that day.</verse>
+    <verse no='38'>And Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the chief of the  people: and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day.</verse>
+    <verse no='39'>For, as the LORD liveth, which saveth 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='40'>Then said he unto all Israel, Be ye on one side, and I and  Jonathan my son will be on the other side. And the people said unto  Saul, Do what seemeth good unto thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='41'>Therefore Saul said unto the LORD God of Israel, Give a  perfect lot. And Saul and Jonathan were taken: but the people escaped.</verse>
+    <verse no='42'>And Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And  Jonathan was taken.</verse>
+    <verse no='43'>Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And  Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the  end of the rod that was in mine hand, and, lo, I must die.</verse>
+    <verse no='44'>And Saul answered, God do so and more also: for thou shalt  surely die, Jonathan.</verse>
+    <verse no='45'>And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath  wrought this great salvation in Israel? God forbid: as the LORD liveth,  there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath  wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died  not.</verse>
+    <verse no='46'>Then Saul went up from following the Philistines: and the  Philistines went to their own place.</verse>
+    <verse no='47'>So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all  his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of  Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against  the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he vexed them.</verse>
+    <verse no='48'>And he gathered an host, and smote the Amalekites, and  delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them.</verse>
+    <verse no='49'>Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishui, and  Melchishua: and the names of his two daughters were these; the name of  the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal:</verse>
+    <verse no='50'>And the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam, the daughter of  Ahimaaz: and the name of the captain of his host was Abner, the son of  Ner, Saul's uncle.</verse>
+    <verse no='51'>And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner  was the son of Abiel.</verse>
+    <verse no='52'>And there was sore war against the Philistines all the days  of Saul: and when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he took  him unto him.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='15'>
+    <verse no='1'>Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint thee  to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou  unto the voice of the words of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek  did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up  from Egypt.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they  have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and  suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in  Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the  valley.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down  from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed  kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt.  So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest  to Shur, that is over against Egypt.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and  utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.</verse>
+    <verse no='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: but every thing that  was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he  is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my  commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all  night.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it  was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him  up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be  thou of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the  sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites:  for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to  sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly  destroyed.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what  the LORD hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And Samuel said, When thou wast little in thine own sight,  wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD  anointed thee king over Israel?</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and  utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them  until they be consumed.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD,  but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of  the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have  brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the  Amalekites.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief  of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice  unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And Samuel said, Hath 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness  is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the  LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have  transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words: because I  feared the people, and obeyed their voice.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again  with me, that I may worship the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for  thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected  thee from being king over Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the  skirt of his mantle, and it rent.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And Samuel said unto him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom of  Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine,  that is better than thou.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for  he is not a man, that he should repent.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>Then he said, I have sinned: yet honour me now, I pray thee,  before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with  me, that I may worship the LORD thy God.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped the  LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the  Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely  the bitterness of death is past.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>And Samuel said, As the sword hath made women childless, so  shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in  pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to  Gibeah of Saul.</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his  death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that  he had made Saul king over Israel.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='16'>
+    <verse no='1'>And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for  Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine  horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for  I have provided me a king among his sons.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill  me. And the LORD said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to  sacrifice to the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will shew thee what  thou shalt do: and thou shalt anoint unto me him whom I name unto thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And Samuel did that which the LORD spake, and came to  Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said,  Comest thou peaceably?</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice unto the  LORD: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he  sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on  Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD's anointed is before him.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance,  or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the  LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance,  but the LORD looketh on the heart.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel.  And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither  hath the LORD chosen this.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Again, Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel.  And Samuel said unto Jesse, The LORD hath not chosen these.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And  he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the  sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not  sit down till he come hither.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and  withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the LORD  said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the  midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from  that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil  spirit from the LORD troubled him.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And Saul's servants said unto him, Behold now, an evil  spirit from God troubleth thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Let our lord now command thy servants, which are before  thee, to seek out a man, who is a cunning player on an harp: and it  shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he  shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that  can play well, and bring him to me.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have  seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a  mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a  comely person, and the LORD is with him.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me  David thy son, which is with the sheep.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of  wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved  him greatly; and he became his armourbearer.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee,  stand before me; for he hath found favour in my sight.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon  Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was  refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='17'>
+    <verse no='1'>Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to  battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to  Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and  pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the  Philistines.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and  Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley  between them.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And there went out a champion out of the camp of the  Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a  span.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was  armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand  shekels of brass.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of  brass between his shoulders.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his  spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a  shield went before him.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said  unto them, Why are ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a  Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let  him come down to me.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we  be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then  shall ye be our servants, and serve us.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this  day; give me a man, that we may fight together.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the  Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehemjudah,  whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men  for an old man in the days of Saul.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And the three eldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to  the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle  were Eliab the firstborn, and next unto him Abinadab, and the third  Shammah.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And David was the youngest: and the three eldest followed  Saul.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's  sheep at Bethlehem.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and  presented himself forty days.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren  an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the  camp of thy brethren;</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their  thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the  valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep  with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he  came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and  shouted for the battle.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array,  army against army.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the  carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the  champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of  the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard  them.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from  him, and were sore afraid.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is  come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the  man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and  will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What  shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away  the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine,  that he should defy the armies of the living God?</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So  shall it be done to the man that killeth him.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the  men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why  camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep  in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine  heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And he turned from him toward another, and spake after the  same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>And when the words were heard which David spake, they  rehearsed them before Saul: and he sent for him.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of  him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this  Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man of  war from his youth.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's  sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the  flock:</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it  out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his  beard, and smote him, and slew him.</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this  uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied  the armies of the living God.</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the  paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out  of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the  LORD be with thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='38'>And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet  of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail.</verse>
+    <verse no='39'>And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed  to go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go  with these; for I have not proved them. And David put them off him.</verse>
+    <verse no='40'>And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth  stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had,  even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the  Philistine.</verse>
+    <verse no='41'>And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the  man that bare the shield went before him.</verse>
+    <verse no='42'>And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he  disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair  countenance.</verse>
+    <verse no='43'>And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou  comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.</verse>
+    <verse no='44'>And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will  give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the  field.</verse>
+    <verse no='45'>Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a  sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the  name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou  hast defied.</verse>
+    <verse no='46'>This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I  will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the  carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the  air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know  that there is a God in Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='47'>And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not  with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD's, and he will give  you into our hands.</verse>
+    <verse no='48'>And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came,  and drew nigh to meet David, that David hastened, and ran toward the  army to meet the Philistine.</verse>
+    <verse no='49'>And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone,  and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone  sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.</verse>
+    <verse no='50'>So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with  a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword  in the hand of David.</verse>
+    <verse no='51'>Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took  his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut  off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion was  dead, they fled.</verse>
+    <verse no='52'>And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and  pursued the Philistines, until thou come to the valley, and to the  gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way  to Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto Ekron.</verse>
+    <verse no='53'>And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the  Philistines, and they spoiled their tents.</verse>
+    <verse no='54'>And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to  Jerusalem; but he put his armour in his tent.</verse>
+    <verse no='55'>And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he  said unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this  youth? And Abner said, As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.</verse>
+    <verse no='56'>And the king said, Enquire thou whose son the stripling is.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='58'>And Saul said to him, Whose son art thou, thou young man?  And David answered, I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='18'>
+    <verse no='1'>And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking  unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David,  and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more  home to his father's house.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved  him as his own soul.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him,  and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his  bow, and to his girdle.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him, and behaved  himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was  accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of  Saul's servants.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned  from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all  cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets,  with joy, and with instruments of musick.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And the women answered one another as they played, and said,  Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and  he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they  have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from  God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and  David played with his hand, as at other times: and there was a javelin  in Saul's hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David  even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him,  and was departed from Saul.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his  captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the  LORD was with him.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Wherefore when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely,  he was afraid of him.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out  and came in before them.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her  will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the  LORD's battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let  the hand of the Philistines be upon him.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And David said unto Saul, Who am I? and what is my life, or  my father's family in Israel, that I should be son in law to the king?</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul's daughter  should have been given to David, that she was given unto Adriel the  Meholathite to wife.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul,  and the thing pleased him.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare  to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.  Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in  the one of the twain.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David  secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his  servants love thee: now therefore be the king's son in law.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David.  And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king's son in  law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner  spake David.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth  not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be  avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by  the hand of the Philistines.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And when his servants told David these words, it pleased  David well to be the king's son in law: and the days were not expired.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of  the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and  they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's  son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that  Michal Saul's daughter loved him.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became  David's enemy continually.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it came  to pass, after they went forth, that David behaved himself more wisely  than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much set by.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='19'>
+    <verse no='1'>And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants,  that they should kill David.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>But Jonathan Saul's son delighted much in David: and  Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now  therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and  abide in a secret place, and hide thyself:</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field  where thou art, and I will commune with my father of thee; and what I  see, that I will tell thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and  said unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David;  because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works have  been to thee-ward very good:</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the  Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou  sawest it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against  innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul  sware, As the LORD liveth, he shall not be slain.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan shewed him all those  things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence,  as in times past.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with  the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled  from him.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And the evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat  in his house with his javelin in his hand: and David played with his  hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the  javelin: but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the  javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him,  and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him,  saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be  slain.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and  fled, and escaped.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a  pillow of goats' hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is  sick.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying,  Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an  image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and  sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He  said unto me, Let me go; why should I kill thee?</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and  told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and  dwelt in Naioth.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in  Ramah.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw  the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as  appointed over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul,  and they also prophesied.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And when it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and  they prophesied likewise. And Saul sent messengers again the third  time, and they prophesied also.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Then went he also to Ramah, and came to a great well that is  in Sechu: and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? And one  said, Behold, they be at Naioth in Ramah.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And he went thither to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of  God was upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to  Naioth in Ramah.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before  Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that  night. Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='20'>
+    <verse no='1'>And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said  before Jonathan, What have I done? what is mine iniquity? and what is  my sin before thy father, that he seeketh my life?</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And he said unto him, God forbid; thou shalt not die:  behold, my father will do nothing either great or small, but that he  will shew it me: and why should my father hide this thing from me? it  is not so.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly  knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not  Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as the LORD liveth,  and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Then said Jonathan unto David, Whatsoever thy soul desireth,  I will even do it for thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to morrow is the new  moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me  go, that I may hide myself in the field unto the third day at even.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly  asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city: for there is  a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>If he say thus, It is well; thy servant shall have peace:  but if he be very wroth, then be sure that evil is determined by him.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou  hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the LORD with thee:  notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why  shouldest thou bring me to thy father?</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And Jonathan said, Far be it from thee: for if I knew  certainly that evil were determined by my father to come upon thee,  then would not I tell it thee?</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what if  thy father answer thee roughly?</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And Jonathan said unto David, Come, and let us go out into  the field. And they went out both of them into the field.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And Jonathan said unto David, O LORD God of Israel, when I  have sounded my father about to morrow any time, or the third day, and,  behold, if there be good toward David, and I then send not unto thee,  and shew it thee;</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>The LORD do so and much more to Jonathan: but if it please  my father to do thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send thee  away, that thou mayest go in peace: and the LORD be with thee, as he  hath been with my father.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And thou shalt not only while yet I live shew me the  kindness of the LORD, that I die not:</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>But also thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house  for ever: no, not when the LORD hath cut off the enemies of David every  one from the face of the earth.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying,  Let the LORD even require it at the hand of David's enemies.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved  him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Then Jonathan said to David, To morrow is the new moon: and  thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And when thou hast stayed three days, then thou shalt go  down quickly, and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself when  the business was in hand, and shalt remain by the stone Ezel.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And I will shoot three arrows on the side thereof, as though  I shot at a mark.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And, behold, I will send a lad, saying, Go, find out the  arrows. If I expressly say unto the lad, Behold, the arrows are on this  side of thee, take them; then come thou: for there is peace to thee,  and no hurt; as the LORD liveth.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>But if I say thus unto the young man, Behold, the arrows are  beyond thee; go thy way: for the LORD hath sent thee away.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And as touching the matter which thou and I have spoken of,  behold, the LORD be between thee and me for ever.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was  come, the king sat him down to eat meat.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, even upon  a seat by the wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul's side,  and David's place was empty.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he  thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not clean; surely he is not  clean.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And it came to pass on the morrow, which was the second day  of the month, that David's place was empty: and Saul said unto Jonathan  his son, Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse to meat, neither  yesterday, nor to day?</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of  me to go to Bethlehem:</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>And he said, Let me go, I pray thee; for our family hath a  sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he hath commanded me to be  there: and now, if I have found favour in thine eyes, let me get away,  I pray thee, and see my brethren. Therefore he cometh not unto the  king's table.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said  unto him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that  thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the  confusion of thy mother's nakedness?</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou  shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch  him unto me, for he shall surely die.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him,  Wherefore shall he be slain? what hath he done?</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby  Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay David.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and did  eat no meat the second day of the month: for he was grieved for David,  because his father had done him shame.</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>And it came to pass in the morning, that Jonathan went out  into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little lad with  him.</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>And he said unto his lad, Run, find out now the arrows which  I shoot. And as the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>And when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which  Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, and said, Is not the  arrow beyond thee?</verse>
+    <verse no='38'>And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed, haste, stay  not. And Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.</verse>
+    <verse no='39'>But the lad knew not any thing: only Jonathan and David knew  the matter.</verse>
+    <verse no='40'>And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad, and said unto  him, Go, carry them to the city.</verse>
+    <verse no='41'>And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of a place  toward the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself  three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another,  until David exceeded.</verse>
+    <verse no='42'>And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we  have sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying, The LORD be  between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever. And he  arose and departed: and Jonathan went into the city.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='21'>
+    <verse no='1'>Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and  Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why  art thou alone, and no man with thee?</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath  commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any  thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded  thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Now therefore what is under thine hand? give me five loaves  of bread in mine hand, or what there is present.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common  bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men  have kept themselves at least from women.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth  women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out,  and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner  common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no  bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the LORD, to  put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that  day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the  chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under  thine hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my  weapons with me, because the king's business required haste.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine,  whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in  a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is  no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give  it me.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went  to Achish the king of Gath.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David  the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in  dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten  thousands?</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore  afraid of Achish the king of Gath.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned  himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and  let his spittle fall down upon his beard.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is  mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me?</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to  play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='22'>
+    <verse no='1'>David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave  Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it,  they went down thither to him.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And every one that was in distress, and every one that was  in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto  him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about  four hundred men.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said unto  the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth,  and be with you, till I know what God will do for me.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt  with him all the while that David was in the hold.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold;  depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and  came into the forest of Hareth.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>When Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that  were with him, (now Saul abode in Gibeah under a tree in Ramah, having  his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him;)</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Then Saul said unto his servants that stood about him, Hear  now, ye Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields  and vineyards, and make you all captains of thousands, and captains of  hundreds;</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>That all of you have conspired against me, and there is none  that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse,  and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto me that  my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at  this day?</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the  servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to  Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And he enquired of the LORD for him, and gave him victuals,  and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of  Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests that were in Nob: and  they came all of them to the king.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And he  answered, Here I am, my lord.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And Saul said unto him, Why have ye conspired against me,  thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, and a  sword, and hast enquired of God for him, that he should rise against  me, to lie in wait, as at this day?</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so  faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king's son in  law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Did I then begin to enquire of God for him? be it far from  me: let not the king impute any thing unto his servant, nor to all the  house of my father: for thy servant knew nothing of all this, less or  more.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou,  and all thy father's house.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him,  Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD: because their hand also is with  David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me.  But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall  upon the priests of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the  priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and  slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen  ephod.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of  the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and  asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named  Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And Abiathar shewed David that Saul had slain the LORD's  priests.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And David said unto Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg  the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have  occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father's house.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that seeketh my life  seeketh thy life: but with me thou shalt be in safeguard.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='23'>
+    <verse no='1'>Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight  against Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Therefore David enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go and  smite these Philistines? And the LORD said unto David, Go, and smite  the Philistines, and save Keilah.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And David's men said unto him, Behold, we be afraid here in  Judah: how much more then if we come to Keilah against the armies of  the Philistines?</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Then David enquired of the LORD yet again. And the LORD  answered him and said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the  Philistines into thine hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>So David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the  Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and smote them with a great  slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled  to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And Saul  said, God hath delivered him into mine hand; for he is shut in, by  entering into a town that hath gates and bars.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And Saul called all the people together to war, to go down  to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against  him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Then said David, O LORD God of Israel, thy servant hath  certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the  city for my sake.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will  Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? O LORD God of Israel, I  beseech thee, tell thy servant. And the LORD said, He will come down.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my  men into the hand of Saul? And the LORD said, They will deliver thee  up.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Then David and his men, which were about six hundred, arose  and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And  it was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he forbare to  go forth.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and  remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him  every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and  David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And Jonathan Saul's son arose, and went to David into the  wood, and strengthened his hand in God.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And he said unto him, Fear not: for the hand of Saul my  father shall not find thee; and thou shalt be king over Israel, and I  shall be next unto thee; and that also Saul my father knoweth.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And they two made a covenant before the LORD: and David  abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth  not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill  of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire  of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him into the  king's hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And Saul said, Blessed be ye of the LORD; for ye have  compassion on me.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place  where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there: for it is told me that  he dealeth very subtilly.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places  where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty,  and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the  land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and  his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of  Jeshimon.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David;  wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of  Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the  wilderness of Maon.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and  his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away  for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men  round about to take them.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste thee,  and come; for the Philistines have invaded the land.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went  against the Philistines: therefore they called that place  Selahammahlekoth.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>And David went up from thence, and dwelt in strong holds at  Engedi.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='24'>
+    <verse no='1'>And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following  the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David is in the  wilderness of Engedi.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel,  and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave;  and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in  the sides of the cave.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of which  the LORD said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine  hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then  David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart smote him,  because he had cut off Saul's skirt.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And he said unto his men, The LORD forbid that I should do  this thing unto my master, the LORD's anointed, to stretch forth mine  hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>So David stayed his servants with these words, and suffered  them not to rise against Saul. But Saul rose up out of the cave, and  went on his way.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and  cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind  him, David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed himself.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's words,  saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had  delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill  thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine  hand against my lord; for he is the LORD's anointed.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in  my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee  not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in  mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul  to take it.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>The LORD judge between me and thee, and the LORD avenge me  of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth  from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost  thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>The LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee,  and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And it came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking  these words unto Saul, that Saul said, Is this thy voice, my son David?  And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I: for  thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And thou hast shewed this day how that thou hast dealt well  with me: forasmuch as when the LORD had delivered me into thine hand,  thou killedst me not.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away?  wherefore the LORD reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me  this day.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And now, behold, I know well that thou shalt surely be king,  and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in thine hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Swear now therefore unto me by the LORD, that thou wilt not  cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of  my father's house.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home; but David and  his men gat them up unto the hold.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='25'>
+    <verse no='1'>And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered  together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And  David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in  Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep,  and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife  Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful  countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he  was of the house of Caleb.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his  sheep.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And David sent out ten young men, and David said unto the  young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my  name:</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And thus shall ye say to him that liveth in prosperity,  Peace be both to thee, and peace be to thine house, and peace be unto  all that thou hast.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy  shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought  missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Ask thy young men, and they will shew thee. Wherefore let  the young men find favour in thine eyes: for we come in a good day:  give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants,  and to thy son David.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And when David's young men came, they spake to Nabal  according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David?  and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that  break away every man from his master.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that  I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not  whence they be?</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>So David's young men turned their way, and went again, and  came and told him all those sayings.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword.  And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his  sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two  hundred abode by the stuff.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying,  Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our  master; and he railed on them.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt,  neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with them,  when we were in the fields:</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the  while we were with them keeping the sheep.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil  is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he  is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and  two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of  parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes  of figs, and laid them on asses.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I  come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And it was so, as she rode on the ass, that she came down by  the covert on the hill, and, behold, David and his men came down  against her; and she met them.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this  fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that  pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I  leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth  against the wall.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the  ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the  ground,</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me  let this iniquity be: and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in  thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial,  even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly  is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord,  whom thou didst send.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul  liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood,  and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies,  and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto  my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the  LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth  the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy  days.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but  the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD  thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as  out of the middle of a sling.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And it shall come to pass, when the LORD shall have done to  my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee,  and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel;</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart  unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my  lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with  my lord, then remember thine handmaid.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of  Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me:</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast  kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself  with mine own hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel liveth, which  hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come  to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning  light any that pisseth against the wall.</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>So David received of her hand that which she had brought  him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to thine house; see, I have  hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in  his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within  him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or  more, until the morning light.</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone  out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart  died within him, and he became as a stone.</verse>
+    <verse no='38'>And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD  smote Nabal, that he died.</verse>
+    <verse no='39'>And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed  be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand  of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath  returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and  communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.</verse>
+    <verse no='40'>And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to  Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to take  thee to him to wife.</verse>
+    <verse no='41'>And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth,  and said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of  the servants of my lord.</verse>
+    <verse no='42'>And Abigail hasted, and arose and rode upon an ass, with  five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the  messengers of David, and became his wife.</verse>
+    <verse no='43'>David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both  of them his wives.</verse>
+    <verse no='44'>But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to  Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='26'>
+    <verse no='1'>And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not  David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon?</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph,  having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in  the wilderness of Ziph.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah, which is before  Jeshimon, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw  that Saul came after him into the wilderness.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was  come in very deed.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had  pitched: and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son  of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the  people pitched round about him.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and  to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go  down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with  thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and,  behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the  ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy  into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee,  with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the  second time.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can  stretch forth his hand against the LORD's anointed, and be guiltless?</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>David said furthermore, As the LORD liveth, the LORD shall  smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into  battle, and perish.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>The LORD forbid that I should stretch forth mine hand  against the LORD's anointed: but, I pray thee, take thou now the spear  that is at his bolster, and the cruse of water, and let us go.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's  bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it,  neither awaked: for they were all asleep; because a deep sleep from the  LORD was fallen upon them.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top  of an hill afar off; a great space being between them:</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner,  saying, Answerest thou not, Abner? Then Abner answered and said, Who  art thou that criest to the king?</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And David said to Abner, Art not thou a valiant man? and who  is like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast thou not kept thy lord  the king? for there came one of the people in to destroy the king thy  lord.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>This thing is not good that thou hast done. As the LORD  liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master, the  LORD's anointed. And now see where the king's spear is, and the cruse  of water that was at his bolster.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And Saul knew David's voice, and said, Is this thy voice, my  son David? And David said, It is my voice, my lord, O king.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his  servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the  words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let  him accept an offering: but if they be the children of men, cursed be  they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding  in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the  face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as  when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I  will no more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in thine eyes  this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And David answered and said, Behold the king's spear! and  let one of the young men come over and fetch it.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>The LORD render to every man his righteousness and his  faithfulness; for the LORD delivered thee into my hand to day, but I  would not stretch forth mine hand against the LORD's anointed.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And, behold, as thy life was much set by this day in mine  eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the LORD, and let  him deliver me out of all tribulation.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Then Saul said to David, Blessed be thou, my son David: thou  shalt both do great things, and also shalt still prevail. So David went  on his way, and Saul returned to his place.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='27'>
+    <verse no='1'>And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by  the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should  speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall  despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I  escape out of his hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And David arose, and he passed over with the six hundred men  that were with him unto Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every  man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the  Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he  sought no more again for him.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace in  thine eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that  I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city  with thee?</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Ziklag  pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this day.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And the time that David dwelt in the country of the  Philistines was a full year and four months.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites,  and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old the  inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of  Egypt.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman  alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the  camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And Achish said, Whither have ye made a road to day? And  David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the  Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring  tidings to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on us, saying, So did  David, and so will be his manner all the while he dwelleth in the  country of the Philistines.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his people  Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant for ever.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='28'>
+    <verse no='1'>And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines  gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. And  Achish said unto David, Know thou assuredly, that thou shalt go out  with me to battle, thou and thy men.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And David said to Achish, Surely thou shalt know what thy  servant can do. And Achish said to David, Therefore will I make thee  keeper of mine head for ever.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and  buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those  that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came  and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they  pitched in Gilboa.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was  afraid, and his heart greatly trembled.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And when Saul enquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him  not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath  a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and enquire of her. And his  servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar  spirit at Endor.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he  went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he  said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me  him up, whom I shall name unto thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou knowest what Saul  hath done, how he hath cut off those that have familiar spirits, and  the wizards, out of the land: wherefore then layest thou a snare for my  life, to cause me to die?</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And Saul sware to her by the LORD, saying, As the LORD  liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he  said, Bring me up Samuel.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice:  and the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why hast thou deceived me? for  thou art Saul.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest  thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the  earth.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An  old man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived  that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and  bowed himself.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to  bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the  Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and  answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I  have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing  the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And the LORD hath done to him, as he spake by me: for the  LORD hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and given it to thy  neighbour, even to David:</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD, nor  executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done  this thing unto thee this day.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Moreover the LORD will also deliver Israel with thee into  the hand of the Philistines: and to morrow shalt thou and thy sons be  with me: the LORD also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand  of the Philistines.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was  sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength  in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he was sore  troubled, and said unto him, Behold, thine handmaid hath obeyed thy  voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened unto thy  words which thou spakest unto me.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice  of thine handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and  eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants,  together with the woman, compelled him; and he hearkened unto their  voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And the woman had a fat calf in the house; and she hasted,  and killed it, and took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened  bread thereof:</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And she brought it before Saul, and before his servants; and  they did eat. Then they rose up, and went away that night.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='29'>
+    <verse no='1'>Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to  Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which is in Jezreel.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and  by thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rereward with  Achish.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Then said the princes of the Philistines, What do these  Hebrews here? And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines, Is  not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, which hath been  with me these days, or these years, and I have found no fault in him  since he fell unto me unto this day?</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and  the princes of the Philistines said unto him, Make this fellow return,  that he may go again to his place which thou hast appointed him, and  let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he be an  adversary to us: for wherewith should he reconcile himself unto his  master? should it not be with the heads of these men?</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in  dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Then Achish called David, and said unto him, Surely, as the  LORD liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out and thy coming  in with me in the host is good in my sight: for I have not found evil  in thee since the day of thy coming unto me unto this day: nevertheless  the lords favour thee not.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease  not the lords of the Philistines.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what  hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee unto  this day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the  king?</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou art  good in my sight, as an angel of God: notwithstanding the princes of  the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Wherefore now rise up early in the morning with thy master's  servants that are come with thee: and as soon as ye be up early in the  morning, and have light, depart.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>So David and his men rose up early to depart in the morning,  to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up  to Jezreel.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='30'>
+    <verse no='1'>And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to  Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and  Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they  slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on  their way.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was  burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters,  were taken captives.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their  voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the  Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of  stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man  for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the  LORD his God.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I  pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the  ephod to David.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And David enquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after  this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for  thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with  him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind  stayed.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred  abode behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the brook  Besor.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to  David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink  water;</verse>
+    <verse no='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 any water, three days and  three nights.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence  art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an  Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>We made an invasion upon the south of the Cherethites, and  upon the coast which belongeth to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb;  and we burned Ziklag with fire.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this  company? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill  me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee  down to this company.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread  abroad upon 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening  of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred  young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried  away: and David rescued his two wives.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor  great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any thing that  they had taken to them: David recovered all.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they  drave before those other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint  that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at  the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the  people that were with him: and when David came near to the people, he  saluted them.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Then answered all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those  that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will  not give them ought of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every  man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away, and  depart.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that  which the LORD hath given us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the  company that came against us into our hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>For who will hearken unto you in this matter? but as his  part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that  tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a  statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the  elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you  of the spoil of the enemies of the LORD;</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>To them which were in Bethel, and to them which were in  south Ramoth, and to them which were in Jattir,</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And to them which were in Aroer, and to them which were in  Siphmoth, and to them which were in Eshtemoa,</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>And to them which were in Rachal, and to them which were in  the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to them which were in the cities  of the Kenites,</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And to them which were in Hormah, and to them which were in  Chorashan, and to them which were in Athach,</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>And to them which were in Hebron, and to all the places  where David himself and his men were wont to haunt.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='31'>
+    <verse no='1'>Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of  Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount  Gilboa.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his  sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Melchishua,  Saul's sons.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit  him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and  thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust  me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was  sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell  likewise upon his sword, and died with him.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and  all his men, that same day together.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And when the men of Israel that were on the other side of  the valley, and they that were on the other side Jordan, saw that the  men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook  the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came  to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in  mount Gilboa.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and  sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the  house of their idols, and among the people.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they  fastened his body to the wall of Bethshan.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And when the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead heard of that which  the Philistines had done to Saul;</verse>
+    <verse no='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 Bethshan, and  came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at  Jabesh, and fasted seven days.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+</book>