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+<crossway-bible translation="English Standard Version" revision="2006-10-26" xmlns="http://www.crosswaybibles.org" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="schema/crossway.bibles.xsd"> 
+<book title="1 Samuel" num="9">
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09001001"/>
+  <chapter num="1">
+    <heading>The Birth of Samuel</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">There was a certain man of <crossref let="a" cid="c09001001.1"/>Ramathaim-zophim of <crossref let="b" cid="c09001001.2"/>the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Elkanah the son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, <crossref let="c" cid="c09001001.3"/>an Ephrathite.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09001002"/>
+    <verse num="2">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>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09001003"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="3">Now this man used to go up <crossref let="d" cid="c09001003.1"/>year by year from his city <crossref let="e" cid="c09001003.2"/>to worship and to sacrifice to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts <crossref let="f" cid="c09001003.3"/>at Shiloh, where the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09001004"/>
+    <verse num="4">On the day when Elkanah sacrificed, <crossref let="g" cid="c09001004.1"/>he would give portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and daughters.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09001005"/>
+    <verse num="5">But to Hannah he gave a double portion, because he loved her, though the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had closed her womb.<note nid="n09001005.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09001006"/>
+    <verse num="6">And her rival used to provoke her grievously to irritate her, because the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had closed her womb.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09001007"/>
+    <verse num="7">So it went on year by year. As often as she went up to the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, she used to provoke her. Therefore Hannah wept and would not eat.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09001008"/>
+    <verse num="8">And Elkanah, her husband, said to her, <q class="begin-double" qid="09001008.1" from="09001008.1" to="09001008.2"/>Hannah, why do you weep? And why do you not eat? And why is your heart sad? <crossref let="h" cid="c09001008.1"/>Am I not more to you than ten sons?<q class="end-double" qid="09001008.2" from="09001008.1" to="09001008.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09001009"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="9">After they had eaten and drunk in Shiloh, Hannah rose. Now Eli the priest was sitting on the seat beside the doorpost of <crossref let="i" cid="c09001009.1"/>the temple of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09001010"/>
+    <verse num="10">She was <crossref let="j" cid="c09001010.1"/>deeply distressed and prayed to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and wept bitterly.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09001011"/>
+    <verse num="11">And she <crossref let="k" cid="c09001011.1"/>vowed a vow and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09001011.1" from="09001011.1" to="09001011.2"/>O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts, if you will indeed <crossref let="l" cid="c09001011.2"/>look on the affliction of your servant and <crossref let="m" cid="c09001011.3"/>remember me and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a son, then I will give him to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> all the days of his life, <crossref let="n" cid="c09001011.4"/>and no razor shall touch his head.<q class="end-double" qid="09001011.2" from="09001011.1" to="09001011.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09001012"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="12">As she continued praying before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, Eli observed her mouth.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09001013"/>
+    <verse num="13">Hannah was speaking in her heart; only her lips moved, and her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli took her to be a drunken woman.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09001014"/>
+    <verse num="14">And Eli said to her, <q class="begin-double" qid="09001014.1" from="09001014.1" to="09001014.2"/>How long will you go on being drunk? Put your wine away from you.<q class="end-double" qid="09001014.2" from="09001014.1" to="09001014.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09001015"/>
+    <verse num="15">But Hannah answered, <q class="begin-double" qid="09001015.1" from="09001015.1" to="09001016.1"/>No, my lord, I am a woman troubled in spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but <crossref let="o" cid="c09001015.1"/>I have been pouring out my soul before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09001016"/>
+    <verse num="16">Do not regard your servant as <crossref let="p" cid="c09001016.1"/>a worthless woman, for all along I have been speaking out of my great anxiety and vexation.<q class="end-double" qid="09001016.1" from="09001015.1" to="09001016.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09001017"/>
+    <verse num="17">Then Eli answered, <crossref let="q" cid="c09001017.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09001017.1" from="09001017.1" to="09001017.2"/>Go in peace, and the God of Israel <crossref let="r" cid="c09001017.2"/>grant your petition that you have made to him.<q class="end-double" qid="09001017.2" from="09001017.1" to="09001017.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09001018"/>
+    <verse num="18">And she said, <crossref let="s" cid="c09001018.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09001018.1" from="09001018.1" to="09001018.2"/>Let your servant find favor in your eyes.<q class="end-double" qid="09001018.2" from="09001018.1" to="09001018.2"/> Then the woman <crossref let="t" cid="c09001018.2"/>went her way and ate, and her face was no longer sad.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09001019"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="19">They rose early in the morning and worshiped before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>; then they went back to their house at <crossref let="u" cid="c09001019.1"/>Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> <crossref let="v" cid="c09001019.2"/>remembered her.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09001020"/>
+    <verse num="20">And in due time Hannah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Samuel, for she said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09001020.1" from="09001020.1" to="09001020.2"/>I have asked for him from the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.<q class="end-double" qid="09001020.2" from="09001020.1" to="09001020.2"/><note nid="n09001020.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09001021"/>
+    <heading>Samuel Given to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span></heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="21">The man Elkanah and all his house <crossref let="w" cid="c09001021.1"/>went up to offer to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> the yearly sacrifice and to pay his vow.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09001022"/>
+    <verse num="22">But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, <q class="begin-double" qid="09001022.1" from="09001022.1" to="09001022.2"/>As soon as the child is weaned, I will bring him, so that he may appear in the presence of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> <crossref let="x" cid="c09001022.1"/>and dwell there forever.<q class="end-double" qid="09001022.2" from="09001022.1" to="09001022.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09001023"/>
+    <verse num="23"><crossref let="y" cid="c09001023.1"/>Elkanah her husband said to her, <q class="begin-double" qid="09001023.1" from="09001023.1" to="09001023.2"/>Do what seems best to you; wait until you have weaned him; <crossref let="z" cid="c09001023.2"/>only, may the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> establish his word.<q class="end-double" qid="09001023.2" from="09001023.1" to="09001023.2"/> So the woman remained and nursed her son until she weaned him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09001024"/>
+    <verse num="24">And when she had weaned him, <crossref let="a" cid="c09001024.1"/>she took him up with her, along with a three-year-old bull,<note nid="n09001024.1"/> an ephah<note nid="n09001024.2"/> of flour, and a skin of wine, and she brought him to <crossref let="b" cid="c09001024.2"/>the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> at Shiloh. And the child was young.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09001025"/>
+    <verse num="25">Then they slaughtered the bull, and they brought the child to Eli.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09001026"/>
+    <verse num="26">And she said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09001026.1" from="09001026.1" to="09001028.1"/>Oh, my lord! <crossref let="c" cid="c09001026.1"/>As you live, my lord, I am the woman who was standing here in your presence, praying to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09001027"/>
+    <verse num="27">For this child I prayed, <crossref let="d" cid="c09001027.1"/>and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has granted me my petition that I made to him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09001028"/>
+    <verse num="28">Therefore I have lent him to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. As long as he lives, he is lent to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.<q class="end-double" qid="09001028.1" from="09001026.1" to="09001028.1"/>
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-paragraph/><crossref let="e" cid="c09001028.1"/>And he worshiped the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> there.
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09002001"/>
+  <chapter num="2">
+    <heading>Hannah&apos;s Prayer</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">And Hannah prayed and said,
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-block-indent/>
+      <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="f" cid="c09002001.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09002001.1" from="09002001.1" to="09002010.1"/>My heart exults in the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="g" cid="c09002001.2"/>my horn is exalted in the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/>My mouth derides my enemies,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>because <crossref let="h" cid="c09002001.3"/>I rejoice in your salvation.<end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09002002"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+    <verse num="2">
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="i" cid="c09002002.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="09002002.1" from="09002001.1" to="09002010.1"/>There is none holy like the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>:<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>for there is none besides you;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>there is <crossref let="j" cid="c09002002.2"/>no rock like our God.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09002003"/>
+    <verse num="3">
+        <begin-line/>Talk no more so very proudly,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>let not arrogance come from your mouth;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/>for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> is a God of knowledge,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and by him actions are weighed.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09002004"/>
+    <verse num="4">
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="k" cid="c09002004.1"/>The bows of the mighty are broken,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>but the feeble bind on strength.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09002005"/>
+    <verse num="5">
+        <begin-line/>Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>but those who were hungry have ceased to hunger.<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="l" cid="c09002005.1"/>The barren has borne seven,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="m" cid="c09002005.2"/>but she who has many children is forlorn.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09002006"/>
+    <verse num="6">
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="n" cid="c09002006.1"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> kills and brings to life;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>he brings down to Sheol and raises up.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09002007"/>
+    <verse num="7">
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="o" cid="c09002007.1"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> makes poor and makes rich;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="p" cid="c09002007.2"/>he brings low and he exalts.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09002008"/>
+    <verse num="8">
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="q" cid="c09002008.1"/>He raises up the poor from the dust;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>he lifts the needy from the ash heap<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="r" cid="c09002008.2"/>to make them sit with princes<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and inherit a seat of honor.<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="s" cid="c09002008.3"/>For the pillars of the earth are the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>&apos;s,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and on them he has set the world.<end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09002009"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+    <verse num="9">
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="t" cid="c09002009.1"/><q class="continue-double" qid="09002009.1" from="09002001.1" to="09002010.1"/>He will guard the feet of his faithful ones,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>but the wicked shall be cut off in darkness,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>for not by might shall a man prevail.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09002010"/>
+    <verse num="10">
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="u" cid="c09002010.1"/>The adversaries of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> shall be broken to pieces;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="v" cid="c09002010.2"/>against them he will thunder in heaven.<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="w" cid="c09002010.3"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will judge the ends of the earth;<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>he will give strength to his king<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="x" cid="c09002010.4"/>and exalt the horn of his anointed.<q class="end-double" qid="09002010.1" from="09002001.1" to="09002010.1"/><end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <end-block-indent/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09002011"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="11">Then Elkanah went home <crossref let="y" cid="c09002011.1"/>to Ramah. <crossref let="z" cid="c09002011.2"/>And the boy<note nid="n09002011.1"/> was ministering to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> in the presence of Eli the priest.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09002012"/>
+    <heading>Eli&apos;s Worthless Sons</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="12">Now the sons of Eli were <crossref let="a" cid="c09002012.1"/>worthless men. <crossref let="b" cid="c09002012.2"/>They did not know the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09002013"/>
+    <verse num="13">The custom of the priests with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice, the priest&apos;s servant would come, while the meat was boiling, with a three-pronged fork in his hand,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09002014"/>
+    <verse num="14">and he would thrust it into the pan or kettle or cauldron or pot. All that the fork brought up the priest would take for himself. This is what they did at Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09002015"/>
+    <verse num="15">Moreover, <crossref let="c" cid="c09002015.1"/>before the fat was burned, the priest&apos;s servant would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, <q class="begin-double" qid="09002015.1" from="09002015.1" to="09002015.2"/>Give meat for the priest to roast, for he will not accept boiled meat from you but only raw.<q class="end-double" qid="09002015.2" from="09002015.1" to="09002015.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09002016"/>
+    <verse num="16">And if the man said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="09002016.1" from="09002016.1" to="09002016.2"/>Let them burn the fat first, and then take as much as you wish,<q class="end-double" qid="09002016.2" from="09002016.1" to="09002016.2"/> he would say, <q class="begin-double" qid="09002016.3" from="09002016.3" to="09002016.4"/>No, you must give it now, and if not, I will take it by force.<q class="end-double" qid="09002016.4" from="09002016.3" to="09002016.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09002017"/>
+    <verse num="17">Thus the sin of the young men was very great <crossref let="d" cid="c09002017.1"/>in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <crossref let="e" cid="c09002017.2"/>for the men treated the offering of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> with contempt.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09002018"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="18"><crossref let="f" cid="c09002018.1"/>Samuel was ministering before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, a boy <crossref let="g" cid="c09002018.2"/>clothed with a linen ephod.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09002019"/>
+    <verse num="19">And his mother used to make for him a little robe and take it to him each year <crossref let="h" cid="c09002019.1"/>when she went up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09002020"/>
+    <verse num="20">Then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and say, <q class="begin-double" qid="09002020.1" from="09002020.1" to="09002020.2"/>May the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> give you children by this woman <crossref let="i" cid="c09002020.1"/>for the petition she asked of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.<q class="end-double" qid="09002020.2" from="09002020.1" to="09002020.2"/> So then they would return to their home.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09002021"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="21"><crossref let="j" cid="c09002021.1"/>Indeed the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. <crossref let="k" cid="c09002021.2"/>And the boy Samuel grew in the presence of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09002022"/>
+    <heading>Eli Rebukes His Sons</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="22">Now Eli was very old, and he kept hearing all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they lay with the women who <crossref let="l" cid="c09002022.1"/>were serving at the entrance to the tent of meeting.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09002023"/>
+    <verse num="23">And he said to them, <q class="begin-double" qid="09002023.1" from="09002023.1" to="09002025.1"/>Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all these people.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09002024"/>
+    <verse num="24">No, my sons; it is no good report that I hear the people of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> spreading abroad.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09002025"/>
+    <verse num="25">If someone sins against a man, God will mediate for him, but if someone sins against the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, who can intercede for him?<q class="end-double" qid="09002025.1" from="09002023.1" to="09002025.1"/> But they would not listen to the voice of their father, <crossref let="m" cid="c09002025.1"/>for it was the will of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> to put them to death.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09002026"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="26">Now the boy Samuel <crossref let="n" cid="c09002026.1"/>continued to grow both in stature and in favor with the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and also with man.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09002027"/>
+    <heading>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> Rejects Eli&apos;s Household</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="27">And there came <crossref let="o" cid="c09002027.1"/>a man of God to Eli and said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="09002027.1" from="09002027.1" to="09002036.4"/>Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <crossref let="p" cid="c09002027.2"/><q class="begin-single" qid="09002027.2" from="09002027.2" to="09002029.1"/>Did I indeed reveal myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt subject to the house of Pharaoh?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09002028"/>
+    <verse num="28"><crossref let="q" cid="c09002028.1"/>Did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, <crossref let="r" cid="c09002028.2"/>to wear an ephod before me? <crossref let="s" cid="c09002028.3"/>I gave to the house of your father all my offerings by fire from the people of Israel.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09002029"/>
+    <verse num="29">Why then do you <crossref let="t" cid="c09002029.1"/>scorn<note nid="n09002029.1"/> my sacrifices and my offerings that I commanded for my dwelling, and honor your sons above me by fattening yourselves on the choicest parts of every offering of my people Israel?<q class="end-single" qid="09002029.1" from="09002027.2" to="09002029.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09002030"/>
+    <verse num="30">Therefore the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, declares: <crossref let="v" cid="c09002030.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="09002030.1" from="09002030.1" to="09002030.2"/>I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,<q class="end-single" qid="09002030.2" from="09002030.1" to="09002030.2"/> <crossref let="w" cid="c09002030.2"/>but now the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> declares: <q class="begin-single" qid="09002030.3" from="09002030.3" to="09002036.3"/>Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09002031"/>
+    <verse num="31">Behold, <crossref let="x" cid="c09002031.1"/>the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father&apos;s house, so that there will not be an old man in your house.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09002032"/>
+    <verse num="32">Then <crossref let="y" cid="c09002032.1"/>in distress you will look with envious eye on all the prosperity that shall be bestowed on Israel, <crossref let="z" cid="c09002032.2"/>and there shall not be an old man in your house forever.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09002033"/>
+    <verse num="33">The only one of you whom I shall not cut off from my altar shall be spared to weep his<note nid="n09002033.1"/> eyes out to grieve his heart, and all the descendants<note nid="n09002033.2"/> of your house shall die by the sword of men.<note nid="n09002033.3"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09002034"/>
+    <verse num="34"><crossref let="a" cid="c09002034.1"/>And this that shall come upon your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, shall be the sign to you: both of them shall die <crossref let="b" cid="c09002034.2"/>on the same day.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09002035"/>
+    <verse num="35"><crossref let="c" cid="c09002035.1"/>And I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, who shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind. <crossref let="d" cid="c09002035.2"/>And I will build him a sure house, and he shall go in and out before <crossref let="e" cid="c09002035.3"/>my anointed forever.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09002036"/>
+    <verse num="36">And everyone who is left in your house shall come to implore him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread and shall say, <q class="begin-inner-double" qid="09002036.1" from="09002036.1" to="09002036.2"/>Please put me in one of the priests&apos; places, that I may eat a morsel of bread.<q class="end-inner-double" qid="09002036.2" from="09002036.1" to="09002036.2"/><q class="end-single" qid="09002036.3" from="09002030.3" to="09002036.3"/><q class="end-double" qid="09002036.4" from="09002027.1" to="09002036.4"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09003001"/>
+  <chapter num="3">
+    <heading>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> Calls Samuel</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1"><crossref let="f" cid="c09003001.1"/>Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> in the presence of Eli. <crossref let="g" cid="c09003001.2"/>And the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was rare in those days; there was no frequent vision.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09003002"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="2">At that time Eli, <crossref let="h" cid="c09003002.1"/>whose eyesight had begun to grow dim so that he could not see, was lying down in his own place.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09003003"/>
+    <verse num="3"><crossref let="i" cid="c09003003.1"/>The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down <crossref let="j" cid="c09003003.2"/>in the temple of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, where the ark of God was.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09003004"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="4">Then the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> called Samuel, and he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09003004.1" from="09003004.1" to="09003004.2"/>Here I am!<q class="end-double" qid="09003004.2" from="09003004.1" to="09003004.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09003005"/>
+    <verse num="5">and ran to Eli and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09003005.1" from="09003005.1" to="09003005.2"/>Here I am, for you called me.<q class="end-double" qid="09003005.2" from="09003005.1" to="09003005.2"/> But he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09003005.3" from="09003005.3" to="09003005.4"/>I did not call; lie down again.<q class="end-double" qid="09003005.4" from="09003005.3" to="09003005.4"/> So he went and lay down.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09003006"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="6">And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> called again, <q class="begin-double" qid="09003006.1" from="09003006.1" to="09003006.2"/>Samuel!<q class="end-double" qid="09003006.2" from="09003006.1" to="09003006.2"/> and Samuel arose and went to Eli and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09003006.3" from="09003006.3" to="09003006.4"/>Here I am, for you called me.<q class="end-double" qid="09003006.4" from="09003006.3" to="09003006.4"/> But he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09003006.5" from="09003006.5" to="09003006.6"/>I did not call, my son; lie down again.<q class="end-double" qid="09003006.6" from="09003006.5" to="09003006.6"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09003007"/>
+    <verse num="7">Now Samuel did not yet know the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had not yet been revealed to him.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09003008"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="8">And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09003008.1" from="09003008.1" to="09003008.2"/>Here I am, for you called me.<q class="end-double" qid="09003008.2" from="09003008.1" to="09003008.2"/> Then Eli perceived that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was calling the boy.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09003009"/>
+    <verse num="9">Therefore Eli said to Samuel, <q class="begin-double" qid="09003009.1" from="09003009.1" to="09003009.4"/>Go, lie down, and if he calls you, you shall say, <q class="begin-single" qid="09003009.2" from="09003009.2" to="09003009.3"/>Speak, <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, for your servant hears.<q class="end-single" qid="09003009.3" from="09003009.2" to="09003009.3"/><q class="end-double" qid="09003009.4" from="09003009.1" to="09003009.4"/> So Samuel went and lay down in his place.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09003010"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="10">And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> came and stood, calling as at other times, <q class="begin-double" qid="09003010.1" from="09003010.1" to="09003010.2"/>Samuel! Samuel!<q class="end-double" qid="09003010.2" from="09003010.1" to="09003010.2"/> And Samuel said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09003010.3" from="09003010.3" to="09003010.4"/>Speak, for your servant hears.<q class="end-double" qid="09003010.4" from="09003010.3" to="09003010.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09003011"/>
+    <verse num="11">Then the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to Samuel, <q class="begin-double" qid="09003011.1" from="09003011.1" to="09003014.1"/>Behold, I am about to do a thing in Israel <crossref let="k" cid="c09003011.1"/>at which the two ears of everyone who hears it will tingle.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09003012"/>
+    <verse num="12">On that day I will fulfill against Eli <crossref let="l" cid="c09003012.1"/>all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09003013"/>
+    <verse num="13"><crossref let="l" cid="c09003013.1"/>And I declare to him that I am about to punish his house forever, for the iniquity that he knew, <crossref let="m" cid="c09003013.2"/>because his sons were blaspheming God,<note nid="n09003013.1"/> <crossref let="n" cid="c09003013.3"/>and he did not restrain them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09003014"/>
+    <verse num="14">Therefore I swear to the house of Eli <crossref let="o" cid="c09003014.1"/>that the iniquity of Eli&apos;s house shall not be atoned for by sacrifice or offering forever.<q class="end-double" qid="09003014.1" from="09003011.1" to="09003014.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09003015"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="15">Samuel lay until morning; then he opened the doors of the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. And Samuel was afraid to tell the vision to Eli.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09003016"/>
+    <verse num="16">But Eli called Samuel and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09003016.1" from="09003016.1" to="09003016.2"/>Samuel, my son.<q class="end-double" qid="09003016.2" from="09003016.1" to="09003016.2"/> And he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09003016.3" from="09003016.3" to="09003016.4"/>Here I am.<q class="end-double" qid="09003016.4" from="09003016.3" to="09003016.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09003017"/>
+    <verse num="17">And Eli said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09003017.1" from="09003017.1" to="09003017.2"/>What was it that he told you? Do not hide it from me. <crossref let="p" cid="c09003017.1"/>May God do so to you and more also if you hide anything from me of all that he told you.<q class="end-double" qid="09003017.2" from="09003017.1" to="09003017.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09003018"/>
+    <verse num="18">So Samuel told him everything and hid nothing from him. And he said, <crossref let="q" cid="c09003018.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09003018.1" from="09003018.1" to="09003018.2"/>It is the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. Let him do what seems good to him.<q class="end-double" qid="09003018.2" from="09003018.1" to="09003018.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09003019"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="19"><crossref let="r" cid="c09003019.1"/>And Samuel grew, and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was with him <crossref let="s" cid="c09003019.2"/>and let none of his words fall to the ground.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09003020"/>
+    <verse num="20">And all Israel <crossref let="t" cid="c09003020.1"/>from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established as a prophet of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09003021"/>
+    <verse num="21">And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> appeared again at Shiloh, for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> revealed himself to Samuel <crossref let="u" cid="c09003021.1"/>at Shiloh <crossref let="v" cid="c09003021.2"/>by the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09004001"/>
+  <chapter num="4">
+    <heading>The Philistines Capture the Ark</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">And the word of Samuel came to all Israel.
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-paragraph/>Now Israel went out to battle against the Philistines. They encamped at <crossref let="w" cid="c09004001.1"/>Ebenezer, and the Philistines encamped at <crossref let="x" cid="c09004001.2"/>Aphek.
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09004002"/>
+    <verse num="2">The Philistines drew up in line against Israel, and when the battle spread, Israel was defeated before the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men on the field of battle.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09004003"/>
+    <verse num="3">And when the people came to the camp, the elders of Israel said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09004003.1" from="09004003.1" to="09004003.2"/>Why has the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> defeated us today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> here <crossref let="y" cid="c09004003.1"/>from Shiloh, that it<note nid="n09004003.1"/> may come among us and save us from the power of our enemies.<q class="end-double" qid="09004003.2" from="09004003.1" to="09004003.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09004004"/>
+    <verse num="4">So the people sent to Shiloh and brought from there the ark of the covenant of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts, <crossref let="z" cid="c09004004.1"/>who is enthroned on the cherubim. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09004005"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="5">As soon as the ark of the covenant of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> came into the camp, all Israel <crossref let="a" cid="c09004005.1"/>gave a mighty shout, so that the earth resounded.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09004006"/>
+    <verse num="6">And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shouting, they said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09004006.1" from="09004006.1" to="09004006.2"/>What does this great shouting in the camp of the Hebrews mean?<q class="end-double" qid="09004006.2" from="09004006.1" to="09004006.2"/> And when they learned that the ark of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had come to the camp,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09004007"/>
+    <verse num="7">the Philistines were afraid, for they said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09004007.1" from="09004007.1" to="09004007.2"/>A god has come into the camp.<q class="end-double" qid="09004007.2" from="09004007.1" to="09004007.2"/> And they said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09004007.3" from="09004007.3" to="09004009.1"/>Woe to us! For nothing like this has happened before.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09004008"/>
+    <verse num="8">Woe to us! Who can deliver us from the power of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with every sort of plague in the wilderness.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09004009"/>
+    <verse num="9"><crossref let="b" cid="c09004009.1"/>Take courage, and be men, O Philistines, lest you become slaves to the Hebrews <crossref let="c" cid="c09004009.2"/>as they have been to you; be men and fight.<q class="end-double" qid="09004009.1" from="09004007.3" to="09004009.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09004010"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="10">So the Philistines fought, <crossref let="d" cid="c09004010.1"/>and Israel was defeated, <crossref let="e" cid="c09004010.2"/>and they fled, every man to his home. And there was a very great slaughter, for thirty thousand foot soldiers of Israel fell.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09004011"/>
+    <verse num="11"><crossref let="f" cid="c09004011.1"/>And the ark of God was captured, <crossref let="g" cid="c09004011.2"/>and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, died.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09004012"/>
+    <heading>The Death of Eli</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="12">A man of Benjamin ran from the battle line and came to Shiloh the same day, <crossref let="h" cid="c09004012.1"/>with his clothes torn and with dirt on his head.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09004013"/>
+    <verse num="13">When he arrived, <crossref let="i" cid="c09004013.1"/>Eli was sitting on his seat by the road watching, for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city and told the news, all the city cried out.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09004014"/>
+    <verse num="14">When Eli heard the sound of the outcry, he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09004014.1" from="09004014.1" to="09004014.2"/>What is this uproar?<q class="end-double" qid="09004014.2" from="09004014.1" to="09004014.2"/> Then the man hurried and came and told Eli.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09004015"/>
+    <verse num="15">Now Eli was ninety-eight years old <crossref let="j" cid="c09004015.1"/>and his eyes were set so that he could not see.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09004016"/>
+    <verse num="16">And the man said to Eli, <q class="begin-double" qid="09004016.1" from="09004016.1" to="09004016.2"/>I am he who has come from the battle; I fled from the battle today.<q class="end-double" qid="09004016.2" from="09004016.1" to="09004016.2"/> And he said, <crossref let="k" cid="c09004016.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09004016.3" from="09004016.3" to="09004016.4"/>How did it go, my son?<q class="end-double" qid="09004016.4" from="09004016.3" to="09004016.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09004017"/>
+    <verse num="17">He who brought the news answered and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09004017.1" from="09004017.1" to="09004017.2"/>Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has also been a great defeat among the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been captured.<q class="end-double" qid="09004017.2" from="09004017.1" to="09004017.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09004018"/>
+    <verse num="18">As soon as he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell over backward <crossref let="l" cid="c09004018.1"/>from his seat by the side of the gate, and his neck was broken and he died, for the man was old and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09004019"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="19">Now his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant, about to give birth. And when she heard the news that the ark of God was captured, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed and gave birth, for her pains came upon her.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09004020"/>
+    <verse num="20">And about the time of her death the women attending her said to her, <crossref let="m" cid="c09004020.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09004020.1" from="09004020.1" to="09004020.2"/>Do not be afraid, for you have borne a son.<q class="end-double" qid="09004020.2" from="09004020.1" to="09004020.2"/> But she did not answer or pay attention.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09004021"/>
+    <verse num="21">And she named the child <crossref let="n" cid="c09004021.1"/>Ichabod, saying, <crossref let="o" cid="c09004021.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09004021.1" from="09004021.1" to="09004021.2"/>The glory has departed<note nid="n09004021.1"/> from Israel!<q class="end-double" qid="09004021.2" from="09004021.1" to="09004021.2"/> because <crossref let="p" cid="c09004021.3"/>the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09004022"/>
+    <verse num="22">And she said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09004022.1" from="09004022.1" to="09004022.2"/>The glory has departed from Israel, <crossref let="p" cid="c09004022.1"/>for the ark of God has been captured.<q class="end-double" qid="09004022.2" from="09004022.1" to="09004022.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09005001"/>
+  <chapter num="5">
+    <heading>The Philistines and the Ark</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">When the Philistines captured the ark of God, they brought it from <crossref let="q" cid="c09005001.1"/>Ebenezer to <crossref let="r" cid="c09005001.2"/>Ashdod.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09005002"/>
+    <verse num="2">Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it up beside <crossref let="s" cid="c09005002.1"/>Dagon.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09005003"/>
+    <verse num="3">And when the people of Ashdod rose early the next day, behold, <crossref let="t" cid="c09005003.1"/>Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. So they took Dagon and put him back in his place.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09005004"/>
+    <verse num="4">But when they rose early on the next morning, behold, Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <crossref let="u" cid="c09005004.1"/>and the head of Dagon and both his hands were lying cut off on the threshold. Only the trunk of Dagon was left to him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09005005"/>
+    <verse num="5">This is why the priests of Dagon and all who enter the house of Dagon <crossref let="v" cid="c09005005.1"/>do not tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09005006"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="6"><crossref let="w" cid="c09005006.1"/>The hand of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was heavy against the people of Ashdod, and he terrified and afflicted them with <crossref let="x" cid="c09005006.2"/>tumors, both Ashdod and its territory.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09005007"/>
+    <verse num="7">And when the men of Ashdod saw how things were, they said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09005007.1" from="09005007.1" to="09005007.2"/>The ark of the God of Israel must not remain with us, for his hand is hard against us and against Dagon our god.<q class="end-double" qid="09005007.2" from="09005007.1" to="09005007.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09005008"/>
+    <verse num="8">So they sent and gathered together all <crossref let="y" cid="c09005008.1"/>the lords of the Philistines and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09005008.1" from="09005008.1" to="09005008.2"/>What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?<q class="end-double" qid="09005008.2" from="09005008.1" to="09005008.2"/> They answered, <q class="begin-double" qid="09005008.3" from="09005008.3" to="09005008.4"/>Let the ark of the God of Israel be brought around to Gath.<q class="end-double" qid="09005008.4" from="09005008.3" to="09005008.4"/> So they brought the ark of the God of Israel there.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09005009"/>
+    <verse num="9">But after they had brought it around, <crossref let="z" cid="c09005009.1"/>the hand of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was against the city, causing a very great panic, and he afflicted the men of the city, both young and old, so that <crossref let="x" cid="c09005009.2"/>tumors broke out on them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09005010"/>
+    <verse num="10">So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. But as soon as the ark of God came to Ekron, the people of Ekron cried out, <q class="begin-double" qid="09005010.1" from="09005010.1" to="09005010.2"/>They have brought around to us the ark of the God of Israel to kill us and our people.<q class="end-double" qid="09005010.2" from="09005010.1" to="09005010.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09005011"/>
+    <verse num="11"><crossref let="y" cid="c09005011.1"/>They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09005011.1" from="09005011.1" to="09005011.2"/>Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it return to its own place, that it may not kill us and our people.<q class="end-double" qid="09005011.2" from="09005011.1" to="09005011.2"/> For there was a deathly panic throughout the whole city. <crossref let="w" cid="c09005011.2"/>The hand of God was very heavy there.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09005012"/>
+    <verse num="12">The men who did not die were struck with <crossref let="x" cid="c09005012.1"/>tumors, and the cry of the city went up to heaven.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09006001"/>
+  <chapter num="6">
+    <heading>The Ark Returned to Israel</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">The ark of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was in the country of the Philistines seven months.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09006002"/>
+    <verse num="2">And the Philistines called for the priests and <crossref let="a" cid="c09006002.1"/>the diviners and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09006002.1" from="09006002.1" to="09006002.2"/>What shall we do with the ark of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>? Tell us with what we shall send it to its place.<q class="end-double" qid="09006002.2" from="09006002.1" to="09006002.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09006003"/>
+    <verse num="3">They said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09006003.1" from="09006003.1" to="09006003.2"/>If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it empty, but by all means return him <crossref let="b" cid="c09006003.1"/>a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and it will be known to you why <crossref let="c" cid="c09006003.2"/>his hand does not turn away from you.<q class="end-double" qid="09006003.2" from="09006003.1" to="09006003.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09006004"/>
+    <verse num="4">And they said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09006004.1" from="09006004.1" to="09006004.2"/>What is the guilt offering that we shall return to him?<q class="end-double" qid="09006004.2" from="09006004.1" to="09006004.2"/> They answered, <q class="begin-double" qid="09006004.3" from="09006004.3" to="09006009.1"/>Five golden <crossref let="d" cid="c09006004.1"/>tumors and five golden mice, <crossref let="e" cid="c09006004.2"/>according to the number of the lords of the Philistines, for the same plague was on all of you and on your lords.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09006005"/>
+    <verse num="5">So you must make images of your <crossref let="d" cid="c09006005.1"/>tumors and images of your mice that ravage the land, <crossref let="f" cid="c09006005.2"/>and give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps <crossref let="g" cid="c09006005.3"/>he will lighten his hand from off you <crossref let="h" cid="c09006005.4"/>and your gods and your land.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09006006"/>
+    <verse num="6">Why should you harden your hearts as <crossref let="i" cid="c09006006.1"/>the Egyptians and <crossref let="j" cid="c09006006.2"/>Pharaoh hardened their hearts? After he had dealt severely with them, <crossref let="k" cid="c09006006.3"/>did they not send the people away, and they departed?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09006007"/>
+    <verse num="7">Now then, take and prepare <crossref let="l" cid="c09006007.1"/>a new cart and two milk cows <crossref let="m" cid="c09006007.2"/>on which there has never come a yoke, and yoke the cows to the cart, but take their calves home, away from them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09006008"/>
+    <verse num="8">And take the ark of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and place it on the cart and put in a box at its side <crossref let="n" cid="c09006008.1"/>the figures of gold, which you are returning to him as <crossref let="b" cid="c09006008.2"/>a guilt offering. Then send it off and let it go its way</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09006009"/>
+    <verse num="9">and watch. If it goes up on the way to its own land, to <crossref let="o" cid="c09006009.1"/>Beth-shemesh, then it is he who has done us this great harm, but if not, then we shall know that it is not <crossref let="p" cid="c09006009.2"/>his hand that struck us; it happened to us by coincidence.<q class="end-double" qid="09006009.1" from="09006004.3" to="09006009.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09006010"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="10">The men did so, and took two milk cows and yoked them to the cart and shut up their calves at home.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09006011"/>
+    <verse num="11">And they put the ark of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> on the cart and the box with the golden mice and the images of their tumors.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09006012"/>
+    <verse num="12">And the cows went straight in the direction of <crossref let="q" cid="c09006012.1"/>Beth-shemesh along <crossref let="r" cid="c09006012.2"/>one highway, lowing as they went. They turned neither to the right nor to the left, and the lords of the Philistines went after them as far as the border of <crossref let="q" cid="c09006012.3"/>Beth-shemesh.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09006013"/>
+    <verse num="13">Now the people of <crossref let="q" cid="c09006013.1"/>Beth-shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley. And when they lifted up their eyes and saw the ark, they rejoiced to see it.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09006014"/>
+    <verse num="14">The cart came into the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh and stopped there. <crossref let="s" cid="c09006014.1"/>A great stone was there. And they split up the wood of the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09006015"/>
+    <verse num="15">And the Levites took down the ark of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and the box that was beside it, in which were the golden figures, and set them upon <crossref let="s" cid="c09006015.1"/>the great stone. And the men of <crossref let="q" cid="c09006015.2"/>Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices on that day to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09006016"/>
+    <verse num="16">And when <crossref let="t" cid="c09006016.1"/>the five lords of the Philistines saw it, they returned that day to Ekron.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09006017"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="17">These are the golden tumors that the Philistines returned as a <crossref let="u" cid="c09006017.1"/>guilt offering to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>: one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, one for Ekron,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09006018"/>
+    <verse num="18">and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, <crossref let="v" cid="c09006018.1"/>both fortified cities and unwalled villages. <crossref let="w" cid="c09006018.2"/>The great stone beside which they set down the ark of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> is a witness to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09006019"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="19"><crossref let="x" cid="c09006019.1"/>And he struck some of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they looked upon the ark of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. He struck seventy men of them,<note nid="n09006019.1"/> and the people mourned because the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had struck the people with a great blow.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09006020"/>
+    <verse num="20">Then the men of Beth-shemesh said, <crossref let="y" cid="c09006020.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09006020.1" from="09006020.1" to="09006020.2"/>Who is able to stand before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, this holy God? And to whom shall he go up away from us?<q class="end-double" qid="09006020.2" from="09006020.1" to="09006020.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09006021"/>
+    <verse num="21">So they sent messengers to the inhabitants of <crossref let="z" cid="c09006021.1"/>Kiriath-jearim, saying, <q class="begin-double" qid="09006021.1" from="09006021.1" to="09006021.2"/>The Philistines have returned the ark of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. Come down and take it up to you.<q class="end-double" qid="09006021.2" from="09006021.1" to="09006021.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09007001"/>
+  <chapter num="7">
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">And the men of Kiriath-jearim came and took up the ark of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and brought it to the house of <crossref let="a" cid="c09007001.1"/>Abinadab on the hill. And they consecrated his son Eleazar to have charge of the ark of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09007002"/>
+    <verse num="2">From the day that the ark was lodged at Kiriath-jearim, a long time passed, some twenty years, and all the house of Israel lamented after the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09007003"/>
+    <heading>Samuel Judges Israel</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="3">And Samuel said to all the house of Israel, <crossref let="b" cid="c09007003.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09007003.1" from="09007003.1" to="09007003.2"/>If you are returning to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> with all your heart, then <crossref let="c" cid="c09007003.2"/>put away the foreign gods and the <crossref let="d" cid="c09007003.3"/>Ashtaroth from among you and <crossref let="e" cid="c09007003.4"/>direct your heart to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> <crossref let="f" cid="c09007003.5"/>and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.<q class="end-double" qid="09007003.2" from="09007003.1" to="09007003.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09007004"/>
+    <verse num="4">So the people of Israel put away the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and they served the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> only.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09007005"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="5">Then Samuel said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09007005.1" from="09007005.1" to="09007005.2"/>Gather all Israel at <crossref let="g" cid="c09007005.1"/>Mizpah, and I will pray to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> for you.<q class="end-double" qid="09007005.2" from="09007005.1" to="09007005.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09007006"/>
+    <verse num="6">So they gathered at <crossref let="g" cid="c09007006.1"/>Mizpah <crossref let="h" cid="c09007006.2"/>and drew water and poured it out before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> <crossref let="i" cid="c09007006.3"/>and fasted on that day and said there, <crossref let="j" cid="c09007006.4"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09007006.1" from="09007006.1" to="09007006.2"/>We have sinned against the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.<q class="end-double" qid="09007006.2" from="09007006.1" to="09007006.2"/> And Samuel judged the people of Israel at Mizpah.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09007007"/>
+    <verse num="7">Now when the Philistines heard that the people of Israel had gathered at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the people of Israel heard of it, they were afraid of the Philistines.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09007008"/>
+    <verse num="8">And the people of Israel said to Samuel, <q class="begin-double" qid="09007008.1" from="09007008.1" to="09007008.2"/>Do not cease to cry out to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God for us, that he may save us from the hand of the Philistines.<q class="end-double" qid="09007008.2" from="09007008.1" to="09007008.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09007009"/>
+    <verse num="9">So Samuel took a nursing lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. And <crossref let="k" cid="c09007009.1"/>Samuel cried out to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> for Israel, and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> answered him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09007010"/>
+    <verse num="10">As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to attack Israel. <crossref let="l" cid="c09007010.1"/>But the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> thundered with a mighty sound that day against the Philistines and threw them into confusion, and they were defeated before Israel.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09007011"/>
+    <verse num="11">And the men of Israel went out from Mizpah and pursued the Philistines and struck them, as far as below Beth-car.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09007012"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="12">Then Samuel <crossref let="m" cid="c09007012.1"/>took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen<note nid="n09007012.1"/> and called its name Ebenezer;<note nid="n09007012.2"/> for he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09007012.1" from="09007012.1" to="09007012.2"/>Till now the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has helped us.<q class="end-double" qid="09007012.2" from="09007012.1" to="09007012.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09007013"/>
+    <verse num="13"><crossref let="n" cid="c09007013.1"/>So the Philistines were subdued and did not again enter the territory of Israel. And the hand of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09007014"/>
+    <verse num="14">The cities that the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron to Gath, and Israel delivered their territory from the hand of the Philistines. There was peace also between Israel and the Amorites.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09007015"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="15"><crossref let="o" cid="c09007015.1"/>Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09007016"/>
+    <verse num="16">And he went on a circuit year by year to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah. And he judged Israel in all these places.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09007017"/>
+    <verse num="17">Then he would return to <crossref let="p" cid="c09007017.1"/>Ramah, for his home was there, and there also he judged Israel. <crossref let="q" cid="c09007017.2"/>And he built there an altar to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09008001"/>
+  <chapter num="8">
+    <heading>Israel Demands a King</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">When Samuel became old, <crossref let="r" cid="c09008001.1"/>he made his sons judges over Israel.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09008002"/>
+    <verse num="2">The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second, Abijah; they were judges in Beersheba.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09008003"/>
+    <verse num="3">Yet his sons did not walk in his ways <crossref let="s" cid="c09008003.1"/>but turned aside after gain. <crossref let="t" cid="c09008003.2"/>They took bribes and perverted justice.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09008004"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="4">Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at <crossref let="p" cid="c09008004.1"/>Ramah</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09008005"/>
+    <verse num="5">and said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="09008005.1" from="09008005.1" to="09008005.2"/>Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways. <crossref let="u" cid="c09008005.1"/>Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations.<q class="end-double" qid="09008005.2" from="09008005.1" to="09008005.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09008006"/>
+    <verse num="6">But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09008006.1" from="09008006.1" to="09008006.2"/>Give us a king to judge us.<q class="end-double" qid="09008006.2" from="09008006.1" to="09008006.2"/> And Samuel prayed to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09008007"/>
+    <verse num="7">And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to Samuel, <q class="begin-double" qid="09008007.1" from="09008007.1" to="09008009.1"/>Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, <crossref let="v" cid="c09008007.1"/>for they have not rejected you, <crossref let="w" cid="c09008007.2"/>but they have rejected me from being king over them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09008008"/>
+    <verse num="8">According to all the deeds that they have done, from the day I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are also doing to you.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09008009"/>
+    <verse num="9">Now then, obey their voice; only you shall solemnly warn them <crossref let="x" cid="c09008009.1"/>and show them the ways of the king who shall reign over them.<q class="end-double" qid="09008009.1" from="09008007.1" to="09008009.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09008010"/>
+    <heading>Samuel&apos;s Warning Against Kings</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="10">So Samuel told all the words of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> to the people who were asking for a king from him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09008011"/>
+    <verse num="11">He said, <crossref let="y" cid="c09008011.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09008011.1" from="09008011.1" to="09008018.1"/>These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: <crossref let="z" cid="c09008011.2"/>he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09008012"/>
+    <verse num="12">And he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some <crossref let="a" cid="c09008012.1"/>to plow his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09008013"/>
+    <verse num="13">He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09008014"/>
+    <verse num="14"><crossref let="b" cid="c09008014.1"/>He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his servants.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09008015"/>
+    <verse num="15">He will take the tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his servants.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09008016"/>
+    <verse num="16">He will take your male servants and female servants and the best of your young men<note nid="n09008016.1"/> and your donkeys, and put them to his work.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09008017"/>
+    <verse num="17">He will take the tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09008018"/>
+    <verse num="18">And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, <crossref let="c" cid="c09008018.1"/>but the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will not answer you in that day.<q class="end-double" qid="09008018.1" from="09008011.1" to="09008018.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09008019"/>
+    <heading>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> Grants Israel&apos;s Request</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="19">But the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel. And they said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09008019.1" from="09008019.1" to="09008020.1"/>No! But there shall be a king over us,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09008020"/>
+    <verse num="20"><crossref let="d" cid="c09008020.1"/>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.<q class="end-double" qid="09008020.1" from="09008019.1" to="09008020.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09008021"/>
+    <verse num="21">And when Samuel had heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the ears of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09008022"/>
+    <verse num="22">And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to Samuel, <crossref let="e" cid="c09008022.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09008022.1" from="09008022.1" to="09008022.2"/>Obey their voice and make them a king.<q class="end-double" qid="09008022.2" from="09008022.1" to="09008022.2"/> Samuel then said to the men of Israel, <q class="begin-double" qid="09008022.3" from="09008022.3" to="09008022.4"/>Go every man to his city.<q class="end-double" qid="09008022.4" from="09008022.3" to="09008022.4"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09009001"/>
+  <chapter num="9">
+    <heading>Saul Chosen to Be King</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">There was a man of Benjamin whose name was <crossref let="f" cid="c09009001.1"/>Kish, the son of Abiel, son of Zeror, son of Becorath, son of Aphiah, a Benjaminite, a man of wealth.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09009002"/>
+    <verse num="2">And he had a son whose name was Saul, <crossref let="g" cid="c09009002.1"/>a handsome young man. There was not a man among the people of Israel more handsome than he. <crossref let="h" cid="c09009002.2"/>From his shoulders upward he was taller than any of the people.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09009003"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="3">Now the donkeys of Kish, Saul&apos;s father, were lost. So Kish said to Saul his son, <q class="begin-double" qid="09009003.1" from="09009003.1" to="09009003.2"/>Take one of the young men with you, and arise, go and look for the donkeys.<q class="end-double" qid="09009003.2" from="09009003.1" to="09009003.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09009004"/>
+    <verse num="4">And he passed through <crossref let="i" cid="c09009004.1"/>the hill country of Ephraim and passed through the land of <crossref let="j" cid="c09009004.2"/>Shalishah, but they did not find them. And they passed through the land of Shaalim, but they were not there. Then they passed through the land of Benjamin, but did not find them.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09009005"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="5">When they came to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant<note nid="n09009005.1"/> who was with him, <q class="begin-double" qid="09009005.1" from="09009005.1" to="09009005.2"/>Come, let us go back, <crossref let="k" cid="c09009005.1"/>lest my father cease to care about the donkeys and become anxious about us.<q class="end-double" qid="09009005.2" from="09009005.1" to="09009005.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09009006"/>
+    <verse num="6">But he said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="09009006.1" from="09009006.1" to="09009006.2"/>Behold, there is <crossref let="l" cid="c09009006.1"/>a man of God in this city, and he is a man who is held in honor; <crossref let="m" cid="c09009006.2"/>all that he says comes true. So now let us go there. Perhaps he can tell us the way we should go.<q class="end-double" qid="09009006.2" from="09009006.1" to="09009006.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09009007"/>
+    <verse num="7">Then Saul said to his servant, <q class="begin-double" qid="09009007.1" from="09009007.1" to="09009007.2"/>But if we go, <crossref let="n" cid="c09009007.1"/>what can we bring the man? For the bread in our sacks is gone, and there is no present to bring to the man of God. What do we have?<q class="end-double" qid="09009007.2" from="09009007.1" to="09009007.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09009008"/>
+    <verse num="8">The servant answered Saul again, <q class="begin-double" qid="09009008.1" from="09009008.1" to="09009008.2"/>Here, I have with me a quarter of a shekel<note nid="n09009008.1"/> of silver, and I will give it to the man of God to tell us our way.<q class="end-double" qid="09009008.2" from="09009008.1" to="09009008.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09009009"/>
+    <verse num="9">(Formerly in Israel, when a man <crossref let="o" cid="c09009009.1"/>went to inquire of God, he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09009009.1" from="09009009.1" to="09009009.2"/>Come, let us go to the seer,<q class="end-double" qid="09009009.2" from="09009009.1" to="09009009.2"/> for today&apos;s <q class="begin-double" qid="09009009.3" from="09009009.3" to="09009009.4"/>prophet<q class="end-double" qid="09009009.4" from="09009009.3" to="09009009.4"/> was formerly called a seer.)</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09009010"/>
+    <verse num="10">And Saul said to his servant, <q class="begin-double" qid="09009010.1" from="09009010.1" to="09009010.2"/>Well said; come, let us go.<q class="end-double" qid="09009010.2" from="09009010.1" to="09009010.2"/> So they went to the city where the man of God was.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09009011"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="11">As they went up the hill to the city, <crossref let="p" cid="c09009011.1"/>they met young women coming out to draw water and said to them, <q class="begin-double" qid="09009011.1" from="09009011.1" to="09009011.2"/>Is the seer here?<q class="end-double" qid="09009011.2" from="09009011.1" to="09009011.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09009012"/>
+    <verse num="12">They answered, <q class="begin-double" qid="09009012.1" from="09009012.1" to="09009013.1"/>He is; behold, he is just ahead of you. Hurry. He has come just now to the city, because the people <crossref let="q" cid="c09009012.1"/>have a sacrifice today on <crossref let="r" cid="c09009012.2"/>the high place.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09009013"/>
+    <verse num="13">As soon as you enter the city you will find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat. For the people will not eat till he comes, since he must bless the sacrifice; afterward those who are invited will eat. Now go up, for you will meet him immediately.<q class="end-double" qid="09009013.1" from="09009012.1" to="09009013.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09009014"/>
+    <verse num="14">So they went up to the city. As they were entering the city, they saw Samuel coming out toward them on his way up to the high place.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09009015"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="15">Now the day before Saul came, <crossref let="s" cid="c09009015.1"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had <crossref let="t" cid="c09009015.2"/>revealed to Samuel:</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09009016"/>
+    <verse num="16"><q class="begin-double" qid="09009016.1" from="09009016.1" to="09009016.2"/>Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, <crossref let="u" cid="c09009016.1"/>and you shall anoint him to be prince<note nid="n09009016.1"/> over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines. <crossref let="v" cid="c09009016.2"/>For I have seen<note nid="n09009016.2"/> my people, because their cry has come to me.<q class="end-double" qid="09009016.2" from="09009016.1" to="09009016.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09009017"/>
+    <verse num="17">When Samuel saw Saul, the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> told him, <crossref let="w" cid="c09009017.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09009017.1" from="09009017.1" to="09009017.2"/>Here is the man of whom I spoke to you! He it is who shall restrain my people.<q class="end-double" qid="09009017.2" from="09009017.1" to="09009017.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09009018"/>
+    <verse num="18">Then Saul approached Samuel in the gate and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09009018.1" from="09009018.1" to="09009018.2"/>Tell me where is the house of the seer?<q class="end-double" qid="09009018.2" from="09009018.1" to="09009018.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09009019"/>
+    <verse num="19">Samuel answered Saul, <q class="begin-double" qid="09009019.1" from="09009019.1" to="09009020.1"/>I am the seer. Go up before me to the high place, for today you shall eat with me, and in the morning I will let you go and will tell you all that is on your mind.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09009020"/>
+    <verse num="20"><crossref let="x" cid="c09009020.1"/>As for your donkeys that were lost three days ago, do not set your mind on them, for they have been found. And for whom is all that is desirable in Israel? Is it not for you and for all your father&apos;s house?<q class="end-double" qid="09009020.1" from="09009019.1" to="09009020.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09009021"/>
+    <verse num="21">Saul answered, <q class="begin-double" qid="09009021.1" from="09009021.1" to="09009021.2"/>Am I not a Benjaminite, <crossref let="y" cid="c09009021.1"/>from the least of the tribes of Israel? <crossref let="z" cid="c09009021.2"/>And is not my clan the humblest of all the clans of the tribe of Benjamin? Why then have you spoken to me in this way?<q class="end-double" qid="09009021.2" from="09009021.1" to="09009021.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09009022"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="22">Then Samuel took Saul and his young man and brought them into the hall and gave them a place at the head of those who had been invited, who were about thirty persons.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09009023"/>
+    <verse num="23">And Samuel said to the cook, <q class="begin-double" qid="09009023.1" from="09009023.1" to="09009023.4"/>Bring the portion I gave you, of which I said to you, <q class="begin-single" qid="09009023.2" from="09009023.2" to="09009023.3"/>Put it aside.<q class="end-single" qid="09009023.3" from="09009023.2" to="09009023.3"/><q class="end-double" qid="09009023.4" from="09009023.1" to="09009023.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09009024"/>
+    <verse num="24">So the cook took up <crossref let="a" cid="c09009024.1"/>the leg and what was on it and set them before Saul. And Samuel said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09009024.1" from="09009024.1" to="09009024.2"/>See, what was kept is set before you. Eat, because it was kept for you until the hour appointed, that you might eat with the guests.<q class="end-double" qid="09009024.2" from="09009024.1" to="09009024.2"/><note nid="n09009024.1"/>
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-paragraph/>So Saul ate with Samuel that day.
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09009025"/>
+    <verse num="25">And when they came down from the high place into the city, a bed was spread for Saul <crossref let="b" cid="c09009025.1"/>on the roof, and he lay down to sleep.<note nid="n09009025.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09009026"/>
+    <verse num="26">Then at the break of dawn<note nid="n09009026.1"/> Samuel called to Saul on the roof, <q class="begin-double" qid="09009026.1" from="09009026.1" to="09009026.2"/>Up, that I may send you on your way.<q class="end-double" qid="09009026.2" from="09009026.1" to="09009026.2"/> So Saul arose, and both he and Samuel went out into the street.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09009027"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="27">As they were going down to the outskirts of the city, Samuel said to Saul, <q class="begin-double" qid="09009027.1" from="09009027.1" to="09009027.2"/>Tell the servant to pass on before us, and when he has passed on, stop here yourself for a while, that I may make known to you the word of God.<q class="end-double" qid="09009027.2" from="09009027.1" to="09009027.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09010001"/>
+  <chapter num="10">
+    <heading>Saul Anointed King</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1"><crossref let="c" cid="c09010001.1"/>Then Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it on his head <crossref let="d" cid="c09010001.2"/>and kissed him and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09010001.1" from="09010001.1" to="09010008.1"/>Has not the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> anointed you to be prince<note nid="n09010001.1"/> over <crossref let="e" cid="c09010001.3"/>his people Israel? And you shall reign over the people of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and you will save them from the hand of their surrounding enemies. And this shall be the sign to you that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has anointed you to be prince<note nid="n09010001.2"/> over his heritage.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09010002"/>
+    <verse num="2">When you depart from me today, you will meet two men by <crossref let="f" cid="c09010002.1"/>Rachel&apos;s tomb in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah, and they will say to you, <crossref let="g" cid="c09010002.2"/><q class="begin-single" qid="09010002.1" from="09010002.1" to="09010002.4"/>The donkeys that you went to seek are found, and now <crossref let="h" cid="c09010002.3"/>your father has ceased to care about the donkeys and is anxious about you, saying, <q class="begin-inner-double" qid="09010002.2" from="09010002.2" to="09010002.3"/>What shall I do about my son?<q class="end-inner-double" qid="09010002.3" from="09010002.2" to="09010002.3"/><q class="end-single" qid="09010002.4" from="09010002.1" to="09010002.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09010003"/>
+    <verse num="3">Then you shall go on from there farther and come to the <crossref let="i" cid="c09010003.1"/>oak of Tabor. Three men <crossref let="j" cid="c09010003.2"/>going up <crossref let="k" cid="c09010003.3"/>to God at Bethel will meet you there, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09010004"/>
+    <verse num="4">And they will greet you and give you two loaves of bread, which you shall accept from their hand.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09010005"/>
+    <verse num="5">After that you shall come to <crossref let="l" cid="c09010005.1"/>Gibeath-elohim,<note nid="n09010005.1"/> <crossref let="m" cid="c09010005.2"/>where there is a garrison of the Philistines. And there, as soon as you come to the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down <crossref let="n" cid="c09010005.3"/>from the high place with harp, tambourine, flute, and lyre before them, prophesying.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09010006"/>
+    <verse num="6"><crossref let="o" cid="c09010006.1"/>Then the Spirit of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will rush upon you, <crossref let="p" cid="c09010006.2"/>and you will prophesy with them and be turned into another man.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09010007"/>
+    <verse num="7">Now when <crossref let="q" cid="c09010007.1"/>these signs meet you, do what your hand finds to do, <crossref let="r" cid="c09010007.2"/>for God is with you.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09010008"/>
+    <verse num="8">Then go down before me <crossref let="s" cid="c09010008.1"/>to Gilgal. And behold, I am coming down to you to offer burnt offerings and <crossref let="t" cid="c09010008.2"/>to sacrifice peace offerings. <crossref let="u" cid="c09010008.3"/>Seven days you shall wait, until I come to you and show you what you shall do.<q class="end-double" qid="09010008.1" from="09010001.1" to="09010008.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09010009"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="9">When he turned his back to leave Samuel, God gave him another heart. And all these signs came to pass that day.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09010010"/>
+    <verse num="10">When they came to <crossref let="v" cid="c09010010.1"/>Gibeah,<note nid="n09010010.1"/> behold, a group of prophets met him, <crossref let="o" cid="c09010010.2"/>and the Spirit of God rushed upon him, and he prophesied among them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09010011"/>
+    <verse num="11">And when all who knew him previously saw how he prophesied with the prophets, the people said to one another, <q class="begin-double" qid="09010011.1" from="09010011.1" to="09010011.2"/>What has come over the son of Kish? <crossref let="w" cid="c09010011.1"/>Is Saul also among the prophets?<q class="end-double" qid="09010011.2" from="09010011.1" to="09010011.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09010012"/>
+    <verse num="12">And a man of the place answered, <crossref let="x" cid="c09010012.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09010012.1" from="09010012.1" to="09010012.2"/>And who is their father?<q class="end-double" qid="09010012.2" from="09010012.1" to="09010012.2"/> Therefore it became a proverb, <crossref let="w" cid="c09010012.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09010012.3" from="09010012.3" to="09010012.4"/>Is Saul also among the prophets?<q class="end-double" qid="09010012.4" from="09010012.3" to="09010012.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09010013"/>
+    <verse num="13">When he had finished prophesying, he came to the high place.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09010014"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="14"><crossref let="y" cid="c09010014.1"/>Saul&apos;s uncle said to him and to his servant, <q class="begin-double" qid="09010014.1" from="09010014.1" to="09010014.2"/>Where did you go?<q class="end-double" qid="09010014.2" from="09010014.1" to="09010014.2"/> And he said, <crossref let="z" cid="c09010014.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09010014.3" from="09010014.3" to="09010014.4"/>To seek the donkeys. And when we saw they were not to be found, we went to Samuel.<q class="end-double" qid="09010014.4" from="09010014.3" to="09010014.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09010015"/>
+    <verse num="15">And Saul&apos;s uncle said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09010015.1" from="09010015.1" to="09010015.2"/>Please tell me what Samuel said to you.<q class="end-double" qid="09010015.2" from="09010015.1" to="09010015.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09010016"/>
+    <verse num="16">And Saul said to his uncle, <crossref let="a" cid="c09010016.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09010016.1" from="09010016.1" to="09010016.2"/>He told us plainly that the donkeys had been found.<q class="end-double" qid="09010016.2" from="09010016.1" to="09010016.2"/> But about the matter of the kingdom, of which Samuel had spoken, he did not tell him anything.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09010017"/>
+    <heading>Saul Proclaimed King</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="17">Now Samuel called the people together <crossref let="b" cid="c09010017.1"/>to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> <crossref let="c" cid="c09010017.2"/>at Mizpah.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09010018"/>
+    <verse num="18">And he said to the people of Israel, <crossref let="d" cid="c09010018.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09010018.1" from="09010018.1" to="09010019.3"/>Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, <q class="begin-single" qid="09010018.2" from="09010018.2" to="09010018.3"/>I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all the kingdoms that were oppressing you.<q class="end-single" qid="09010018.3" from="09010018.2" to="09010018.3"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09010019"/>
+    <verse num="19"><crossref let="e" cid="c09010019.1"/>But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your calamities and your distresses, and you have said to him, <q class="begin-single" qid="09010019.1" from="09010019.1" to="09010019.2"/>Set a king over us.<q class="end-single" qid="09010019.2" from="09010019.1" to="09010019.2"/> Now therefore <crossref let="f" cid="c09010019.2"/>present yourselves before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> by your tribes and by your thousands.<q class="end-double" qid="09010019.3" from="09010018.1" to="09010019.3"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09010020"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="20">Then Samuel <crossref let="g" cid="c09010020.1"/>brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was taken by lot.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09010021"/>
+    <verse num="21">He brought the tribe of Benjamin near by its clans, and the clan of the Matrites was taken by lot;<note nid="n09010021.1"/> and Saul the son of Kish was taken by lot. But when they sought him, he could not be found.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09010022"/>
+    <verse num="22"><crossref let="h" cid="c09010022.1"/>So they inquired again of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <q class="begin-double" qid="09010022.1" from="09010022.1" to="09010022.2"/>Is there a man still to come?<q class="end-double" qid="09010022.2" from="09010022.1" to="09010022.2"/> and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09010022.3" from="09010022.3" to="09010022.4"/>Behold, he has hidden himself among the baggage.<q class="end-double" qid="09010022.4" from="09010022.3" to="09010022.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09010023"/>
+    <verse num="23">Then they ran and took him from there. And when he stood among the people, <crossref let="i" cid="c09010023.1"/>he was taller than any of the people from his shoulders upward.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09010024"/>
+    <verse num="24">And Samuel said to all the people, <q class="begin-double" qid="09010024.1" from="09010024.1" to="09010024.2"/>Do you see him <crossref let="j" cid="c09010024.1"/>whom the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has chosen? There is none like him among all the people.<q class="end-double" qid="09010024.2" from="09010024.1" to="09010024.2"/> And all the people shouted, <crossref let="k" cid="c09010024.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09010024.3" from="09010024.3" to="09010024.4"/>Long live the king!<q class="end-double" qid="09010024.4" from="09010024.3" to="09010024.4"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09010025"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="25">Then Samuel told the people <crossref let="l" cid="c09010025.1"/>the rights and duties of the kingship, and he wrote them in a book and laid it up before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. Then Samuel sent all the people away, each one to his home.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09010026"/>
+    <verse num="26">Saul also went to his home <crossref let="m" cid="c09010026.1"/>at Gibeah, and with him went men of valor whose hearts God had touched.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09010027"/>
+    <verse num="27">But some <crossref let="n" cid="c09010027.1"/>worthless fellows said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09010027.1" from="09010027.1" to="09010027.2"/>How can this man save us?<q class="end-double" qid="09010027.2" from="09010027.1" to="09010027.2"/> And they despised him and brought him no present. But he held his peace.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09011001"/>
+  <chapter num="11">
+    <heading>Saul Defeats the Ammonites</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1"><crossref let="o" cid="c09011001.1"/>Then Nahash the Ammonite went up and besieged <crossref let="p" cid="c09011001.2"/>Jabesh-gilead, and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, <crossref let="q" cid="c09011001.3"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09011001.1" from="09011001.1" to="09011001.2"/>Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.<q class="end-double" qid="09011001.2" from="09011001.1" to="09011001.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09011002"/>
+    <verse num="2">But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, <q class="begin-double" qid="09011002.1" from="09011002.1" to="09011002.2"/>On this condition I will make a treaty with you, <crossref let="r" cid="c09011002.1"/>that I gouge out all your right eyes, and thus <crossref let="s" cid="c09011002.2"/>bring disgrace on all Israel.<q class="end-double" qid="09011002.2" from="09011002.1" to="09011002.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09011003"/>
+    <verse num="3">The elders of Jabesh said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="09011003.1" from="09011003.1" to="09011003.2"/>Give us seven days&apos; respite that we may send messengers through all the territory of Israel. Then, if there is no one to save us, we will give ourselves up to you.<q class="end-double" qid="09011003.2" from="09011003.1" to="09011003.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09011004"/>
+    <verse num="4">When the messengers came to <crossref let="t" cid="c09011004.1"/>Gibeah of Saul, they reported the matter in the ears of the people, <crossref let="u" cid="c09011004.2"/>and all the people wept aloud.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09011005"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="5">Now, behold, Saul was coming from the field behind the oxen. And Saul said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09011005.1" from="09011005.1" to="09011005.2"/>What is wrong with the people, that they are weeping?<q class="end-double" qid="09011005.2" from="09011005.1" to="09011005.2"/> So they told him the news of the men of Jabesh.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09011006"/>
+    <verse num="6"><crossref let="v" cid="c09011006.1"/>And the Spirit of God rushed upon Saul when he heard these words, and his anger was greatly kindled.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09011007"/>
+    <verse num="7">He took a yoke of oxen <crossref let="w" cid="c09011007.1"/>and cut them in pieces and sent them throughout all the territory of Israel by the hand of the messengers, saying, <crossref let="x" cid="c09011007.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09011007.1" from="09011007.1" to="09011007.2"/>Whoever does not come out after Saul and Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen!<q class="end-double" qid="09011007.2" from="09011007.1" to="09011007.2"/> Then the dread of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> fell upon the people, and they came out <crossref let="y" cid="c09011007.3"/>as one man.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09011008"/>
+    <verse num="8">When he mustered them at <crossref let="z" cid="c09011008.1"/>Bezek, <crossref let="a" cid="c09011008.2"/>the people of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09011009"/>
+    <verse num="9">And they said to the messengers who had come, <q class="begin-double" qid="09011009.1" from="09011009.1" to="09011009.4"/>Thus shall you say to the men of Jabesh-gilead: <q class="begin-single" qid="09011009.2" from="09011009.2" to="09011009.3"/>Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you shall have <crossref let="b" cid="c09011009.1"/>salvation.<q class="end-single" qid="09011009.3" from="09011009.2" to="09011009.3"/><q class="end-double" qid="09011009.4" from="09011009.1" to="09011009.4"/> When the messengers came and told the men of Jabesh, they were glad.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09011010"/>
+    <verse num="10">Therefore the men of Jabesh said, <crossref let="c" cid="c09011010.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09011010.1" from="09011010.1" to="09011010.2"/>Tomorrow we will give ourselves up to you, and you may do to us whatever seems good to you.<q class="end-double" qid="09011010.2" from="09011010.1" to="09011010.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09011011"/>
+    <verse num="11"><crossref let="d" cid="c09011011.1"/>And the next day Saul put the people <crossref let="e" cid="c09011011.2"/>in three companies. And they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch and struck down the Ammonites until the heat of the day. And those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09011012"/>
+    <heading>The Kingdom Is Renewed</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="12">Then the people said to Samuel, <crossref let="f" cid="c09011012.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09011012.1" from="09011012.1" to="09011012.4"/>Who is it that said, <q class="begin-single" qid="09011012.2" from="09011012.2" to="09011012.3"/>Shall Saul reign over us?<q class="end-single" qid="09011012.3" from="09011012.2" to="09011012.3"/> <crossref let="g" cid="c09011012.2"/>Bring the men, that we may put them to death.<q class="end-double" qid="09011012.4" from="09011012.1" to="09011012.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09011013"/>
+    <verse num="13">But Saul said, <crossref let="h" cid="c09011013.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09011013.1" from="09011013.1" to="09011013.2"/>Not a man shall be put to death this day, for today <crossref let="i" cid="c09011013.2"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has worked <crossref let="j" cid="c09011013.3"/>salvation in Israel.<q class="end-double" qid="09011013.2" from="09011013.1" to="09011013.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09011014"/>
+    <verse num="14">Then Samuel said to the people, <q class="begin-double" qid="09011014.1" from="09011014.1" to="09011014.2"/>Come, let us go to Gilgal and there renew the kingdom.<q class="end-double" qid="09011014.2" from="09011014.1" to="09011014.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09011015"/>
+    <verse num="15">So all the people went to <crossref let="k" cid="c09011015.1"/>Gilgal, and there they made Saul king <crossref let="l" cid="c09011015.2"/>before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> in Gilgal. There <crossref let="m" cid="c09011015.3"/>they sacrificed peace offerings before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09012001"/>
+  <chapter num="12">
+    <heading>Samuel&apos;s Farewell Address</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">And Samuel said to all Israel, <q class="begin-double" qid="09012001.1" from="09012001.1" to="09012003.1"/>Behold, I have obeyed <crossref let="n" cid="c09012001.1"/>your voice in all that you have said to me <crossref let="o" cid="c09012001.2"/>and have made a king over you.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09012002"/>
+    <verse num="2">And now, behold, the king <crossref let="p" cid="c09012002.1"/>walks before you, <crossref let="q" cid="c09012002.2"/>and I am old and gray; and behold, my sons are with you. I have walked before you from my youth until this day.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09012003"/>
+    <verse num="3">Here I am; testify against me before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and before <crossref let="r" cid="c09012003.1"/>his anointed. <crossref let="s" cid="c09012003.2"/>Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? Testify against me<note nid="n09012003.1"/> and I will restore it to you.<q class="end-double" qid="09012003.1" from="09012001.1" to="09012003.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09012004"/>
+    <verse num="4">They said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09012004.1" from="09012004.1" to="09012004.2"/>You have not defrauded us or oppressed us or taken anything from any man&apos;s hand.<q class="end-double" qid="09012004.2" from="09012004.1" to="09012004.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09012005"/>
+    <verse num="5">And he said to them, <q class="begin-double" qid="09012005.1" from="09012005.1" to="09012005.2"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> is witness against you, and <crossref let="r" cid="c09012005.1"/>his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything <crossref let="t" cid="c09012005.2"/>in my hand.<q class="end-double" qid="09012005.2" from="09012005.1" to="09012005.2"/> And they said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09012005.3" from="09012005.3" to="09012005.4"/>He is witness.<q class="end-double" qid="09012005.4" from="09012005.3" to="09012005.4"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09012006"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="6">And Samuel said to the people, <crossref let="u" cid="c09012006.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09012006.1" from="09012006.1" to="09012017.1"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> is witness,<note nid="n09012006.1"/> who appointed Moses and Aaron and brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09012007"/>
+    <verse num="7">Now therefore stand still that I may plead with you before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> concerning all the righteous deeds of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> that he performed for you and for your fathers.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09012008"/>
+    <verse num="8"><crossref let="v" cid="c09012008.1"/>When Jacob went into Egypt, and the Egyptians oppressed them,<note nid="n09012008.1"/> <crossref let="w" cid="c09012008.2"/>then your fathers cried out to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and <crossref let="x" cid="c09012008.3"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> sent Moses and Aaron, <crossref let="y" cid="c09012008.4"/>who brought your fathers out of Egypt and made them dwell in this place.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09012009"/>
+    <verse num="9">But <crossref let="z" cid="c09012009.1"/>they forgot the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> their God. <crossref let="a" cid="c09012009.2"/>And he sold them into the hand of Sisera, commander of the army of Hazor,<note nid="n09012009.1"/> <crossref let="b" cid="c09012009.3"/>and into the hand of the Philistines, <crossref let="c" cid="c09012009.4"/>and into the hand of the king of Moab. And they fought against them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09012010"/>
+    <verse num="10"><crossref let="d" cid="c09012010.1"/>And they cried out to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and said, <q class="begin-single" qid="09012010.1" from="09012010.1" to="09012010.2"/>We have sinned, because we have forsaken the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> <crossref let="e" cid="c09012010.2"/>and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth. But now <crossref let="f" cid="c09012010.3"/>deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, that we may serve you.<q class="end-single" qid="09012010.2" from="09012010.1" to="09012010.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09012011"/>
+    <verse num="11">And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> sent <crossref let="g" cid="c09012011.1"/>Jerubbaal <crossref let="h" cid="c09012011.2"/>and Barak<note nid="n09012011.1"/> <crossref let="i" cid="c09012011.3"/>and Jephthah and <crossref let="j" cid="c09012011.4"/>Samuel and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and you lived in safety.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09012012"/>
+    <verse num="12">And when you saw that <crossref let="k" cid="c09012012.1"/>Nahash the king of the Ammonites came against you, <crossref let="l" cid="c09012012.2"/>you said to me, <q class="begin-single" qid="09012012.1" from="09012012.1" to="09012012.2"/>No, but a king shall reign over us,<q class="end-single" qid="09012012.2" from="09012012.1" to="09012012.2"/> <crossref let="m" cid="c09012012.3"/>when the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God was your king.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09012013"/>
+    <verse num="13">And now <crossref let="n" cid="c09012013.1"/>behold the king whom you have chosen, for whom you have asked; behold, <crossref let="o" cid="c09012013.2"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has set a king over you.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09012014"/>
+    <verse num="14">If you will <crossref let="p" cid="c09012014.1"/>fear the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and serve him and obey his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and if both you and the king who reigns over you will follow the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, it will be well.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09012015"/>
+    <verse num="15">But <crossref let="q" cid="c09012015.1"/>if you will not obey the voice of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, but rebel against the commandment of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, then <crossref let="r" cid="c09012015.2"/>the hand of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will be against you and <crossref let="s" cid="c09012015.3"/>your king.<note nid="n09012015.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09012016"/>
+    <verse num="16">Now therefore <crossref let="t" cid="c09012016.1"/>stand still and see this great thing that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will do before your eyes.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09012017"/>
+    <verse num="17"><crossref let="u" cid="c09012017.1"/>Is it not wheat harvest today? <crossref let="v" cid="c09012017.2"/>I will call upon the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, that he may send thunder and rain. And you shall know and see that <crossref let="w" cid="c09012017.3"/>your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, in asking for yourselves a king.<q class="end-double" qid="09012017.1" from="09012006.1" to="09012017.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09012018"/>
+    <verse num="18">So Samuel called upon the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> sent thunder and rain that day, <crossref let="x" cid="c09012018.1"/>and all the people greatly feared the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and Samuel.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09012019"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="19">And all the people said to Samuel, <crossref let="y" cid="c09012019.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09012019.1" from="09012019.1" to="09012019.2"/>Pray for your servants to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, that we may not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for ourselves a king.<q class="end-double" qid="09012019.2" from="09012019.1" to="09012019.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09012020"/>
+    <verse num="20">And Samuel said to the people, <q class="begin-double" qid="09012020.1" from="09012020.1" to="09012025.1"/>Do not be afraid; you have done all this evil. Yet <crossref let="z" cid="c09012020.1"/>do not turn aside from following the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, but serve the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> with all your heart.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09012021"/>
+    <verse num="21">And <crossref let="z" cid="c09012021.1"/>do not turn aside after <crossref let="a" cid="c09012021.2"/>empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09012022"/>
+    <verse num="22"><crossref let="b" cid="c09012022.1"/>For the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will not forsake his people, <crossref let="c" cid="c09012022.2"/>for his great name&apos;s sake, because <crossref let="d" cid="c09012022.3"/>it has pleased the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> to make you a people for himself.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09012023"/>
+    <verse num="23">Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> by ceasing <crossref let="e" cid="c09012023.1"/>to pray for you, <crossref let="f" cid="c09012023.2"/>and I will instruct you in the good and the right way.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09012024"/>
+    <verse num="24"><crossref let="g" cid="c09012024.1"/>Only fear the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and serve him faithfully with all your heart. For consider <crossref let="h" cid="c09012024.2"/>what great things he has done for you.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09012025"/>
+    <verse num="25">But if you still do wickedly, <crossref let="i" cid="c09012025.1"/>you shall be swept away, <crossref let="j" cid="c09012025.2"/>both you and your king.<q class="end-double" qid="09012025.1" from="09012020.1" to="09012025.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09013001"/>
+  <chapter num="13">
+    <heading>Saul Fights the Philistines</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">Saul lived for one year and then became king, and when he had reigned for two years over Israel,<note nid="n09013001.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09013002"/>
+    <verse num="2">Saul chose three thousand men of Israel. Two thousand were with Saul in <crossref let="k" cid="c09013002.1"/>Michmash and the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in <crossref let="l" cid="c09013002.2"/>Gibeah of Benjamin. The rest of the people he sent home, every man to his tent.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09013003"/>
+    <verse num="3">Jonathan defeated <crossref let="m" cid="c09013003.1"/>the garrison of the Philistines that was <crossref let="n" cid="c09013003.2"/>at Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul <crossref let="o" cid="c09013003.3"/>blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, <q class="begin-double" qid="09013003.1" from="09013003.1" to="09013003.2"/>Let the Hebrews hear.<q class="end-double" qid="09013003.2" from="09013003.1" to="09013003.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09013004"/>
+    <verse num="4">And all Israel heard it said that Saul had defeated the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel had become a stench to the Philistines. And the people were called out to join Saul at Gilgal.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09013005"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="5">And the Philistines mustered to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen and troops <crossref let="p" cid="c09013005.1"/>like the sand on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of <crossref let="q" cid="c09013005.2"/>Beth-aven.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09013006"/>
+    <verse num="6">When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were hard pressed), the people hid themselves <crossref let="r" cid="c09013006.1"/>in caves and in holes and in rocks and in tombs and in cisterns,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09013007"/>
+    <verse num="7">and some Hebrews crossed the fords of the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. Saul was still at Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09013008"/>
+    <heading>Saul&apos;s Unlawful Sacrifice</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="8"><crossref let="s" cid="c09013008.1"/>He waited seven days, the time appointed by Samuel. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the people were scattering from him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09013009"/>
+    <verse num="9">So Saul said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09013009.1" from="09013009.1" to="09013009.2"/>Bring the burnt offering here to me, and the peace offerings.<q class="end-double" qid="09013009.2" from="09013009.1" to="09013009.2"/> And he offered the burnt offering.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09013010"/>
+    <verse num="10">As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came. And Saul went out to meet him and greet him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09013011"/>
+    <verse num="11">Samuel said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09013011.1" from="09013011.1" to="09013011.2"/>What have you done?<q class="end-double" qid="09013011.2" from="09013011.1" to="09013011.2"/> And Saul said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09013011.3" from="09013011.3" to="09013012.3"/>When I saw that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines had mustered at Michmash,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09013012"/>
+    <verse num="12">I said, <q class="begin-single" qid="09013012.1" from="09013012.1" to="09013012.2"/>Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not sought the favor of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.<q class="end-single" qid="09013012.2" from="09013012.1" to="09013012.2"/> So I forced myself, and offered the burnt offering.<q class="end-double" qid="09013012.3" from="09013011.3" to="09013012.3"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09013013"/>
+    <verse num="13">And Samuel said to Saul, <crossref let="t" cid="c09013013.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09013013.1" from="09013013.1" to="09013014.1"/>You have done foolishly. <crossref let="u" cid="c09013013.2"/>You have not kept the command of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, with which he commanded you. For then the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09013014"/>
+    <verse num="14">But now <crossref let="v" cid="c09013014.1"/>your kingdom shall not continue. The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has sought out a man <crossref let="w" cid="c09013014.2"/>after his own heart, and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has commanded him to be prince<note nid="n09013014.1"/> over his people, because you have not kept what the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> commanded you.<q class="end-double" qid="09013014.1" from="09013013.1" to="09013014.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09013015"/>
+    <verse num="15">And Samuel arose and went up from Gilgal. The rest of the people went up after Saul to meet the army; they went up from Gilgal<note nid="n09013015.1"/> to <crossref let="x" cid="c09013015.1"/>Gibeah of Benjamin.
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-paragraph/>And Saul numbered the people who were present with him, <crossref let="y" cid="c09013015.2"/>about six hundred men.
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09013016"/>
+    <verse num="16">And Saul and Jonathan his son and the people who were present with them stayed in <crossref let="z" cid="c09013016.1"/>Geba of Benjamin, but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09013017"/>
+    <verse num="17">And <crossref let="a" cid="c09013017.1"/>raiders came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies. One company turned toward Ophrah, to the land of Shual;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09013018"/>
+    <verse num="18">another company turned toward <crossref let="b" cid="c09013018.1"/>Beth-horon; and another company turned toward the border that looks down on the Valley of <crossref let="c" cid="c09013018.2"/>Zeboim toward the wilderness.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09013019"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="19"><crossref let="d" cid="c09013019.1"/>Now there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09013019.1" from="09013019.1" to="09013019.2"/>Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears.<q class="end-double" qid="09013019.2" from="09013019.1" to="09013019.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09013020"/>
+    <verse num="20">But every one of the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, or his sickle,<note nid="n09013020.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09013021"/>
+    <verse num="21">and the charge was two-thirds of a shekel<note nid="n09013021.1"/> for the plowshares and for the mattocks, and a third of a shekel<note nid="n09013021.2"/> for sharpening the axes and for setting the goads.<note nid="n09013021.3"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09013022"/>
+    <verse num="22">So on the day of the battle <crossref let="e" cid="c09013022.1"/>there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people with Saul and Jonathan, but Saul and Jonathan his son had them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09013023"/>
+    <verse num="23">And <crossref let="f" cid="c09013023.1"/>the garrison of the Philistines went out to the <crossref let="g" cid="c09013023.2"/>pass of <crossref let="h" cid="c09013023.3"/>Michmash.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014001"/>
+  <chapter num="14">
+    <heading>Jonathan Defeats the Philistines</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">One day Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who carried his armor, <q class="begin-double" qid="09014001.1" from="09014001.1" to="09014001.2"/>Come, let us go over to the Philistine garrison on the other side.<q class="end-double" qid="09014001.2" from="09014001.1" to="09014001.2"/> But he did not tell his father.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014002"/>
+    <verse num="2">Saul was staying in the outskirts of Gibeah in the pomegranate cave<note nid="n09014002.1"/> at <crossref let="h" cid="c09014002.1"/>Migron. The people who were with him were about <crossref let="i" cid="c09014002.2"/>six hundred men,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014003"/>
+    <verse num="3">including <crossref let="j" cid="c09014003.1"/>Ahijah the son of Ahitub, <crossref let="k" cid="c09014003.2"/>Ichabod&apos;s brother, son of Phinehas, son of Eli, the priest of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> <crossref let="l" cid="c09014003.3"/>in Shiloh, <crossref let="m" cid="c09014003.4"/>wearing an ephod. And the people did not know that Jonathan had gone.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014004"/>
+    <verse num="4">Within <crossref let="n" cid="c09014004.1"/>the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistine garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side and a rocky crag on the other side. The name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014005"/>
+    <verse num="5">The one crag rose on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south in front of <crossref let="o" cid="c09014005.1"/>Geba.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014006"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="6">Jonathan said to the young man who carried his armor, <q class="begin-double" qid="09014006.1" from="09014006.1" to="09014006.2"/>Come, let us go over to the garrison of these <crossref let="p" cid="c09014006.1"/>uncircumcised. It may be that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will work for us, <crossref let="q" cid="c09014006.2"/>for nothing can hinder the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> from saving by many or by few.<q class="end-double" qid="09014006.2" from="09014006.1" to="09014006.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014007"/>
+    <verse num="7">And his armor-bearer said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="09014007.1" from="09014007.1" to="09014007.2"/>Do all that is in your heart. Do as you wish.<note nid="n09014007.1"/> Behold, I am with you heart and soul.<q class="end-double" qid="09014007.2" from="09014007.1" to="09014007.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014008"/>
+    <verse num="8">Then Jonathan said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09014008.1" from="09014008.1" to="09014010.3"/>Behold, we will cross over to the men, and we will show ourselves to them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014009"/>
+    <verse num="9">If they say to us, <q class="begin-single" qid="09014009.1" from="09014009.1" to="09014009.2"/>Wait until we come to you,<q class="end-single" qid="09014009.2" from="09014009.1" to="09014009.2"/> then we will stand still in our place, and we will not go up to them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014010"/>
+    <verse num="10">But if they say, <q class="begin-single" qid="09014010.1" from="09014010.1" to="09014010.2"/>Come up to us,<q class="end-single" qid="09014010.2" from="09014010.1" to="09014010.2"/> then we will go up, for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has given them into our hand. And this shall be the sign to us.<q class="end-double" qid="09014010.3" from="09014008.1" to="09014010.3"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014011"/>
+    <verse num="11">So both of them showed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines. And the Philistines said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09014011.1" from="09014011.1" to="09014011.2"/>Look, Hebrews are coming <crossref let="r" cid="c09014011.1"/>out of the holes where they have hidden themselves.<q class="end-double" qid="09014011.2" from="09014011.1" to="09014011.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014012"/>
+    <verse num="12">And the men of the garrison hailed Jonathan and his armor-bearer and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09014012.1" from="09014012.1" to="09014012.2"/>Come up to us, and we will show you a thing.<q class="end-double" qid="09014012.2" from="09014012.1" to="09014012.2"/> And Jonathan said to his armor-bearer, <q class="begin-double" qid="09014012.3" from="09014012.3" to="09014012.4"/>Come up after me, for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has given them into the hand of Israel.<q class="end-double" qid="09014012.4" from="09014012.3" to="09014012.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014013"/>
+    <verse num="13">Then Jonathan climbed up on his hands and feet, and his armor-bearer after him. And they fell before Jonathan, and his armor-bearer killed them after him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014014"/>
+    <verse num="14">And that first strike, which Jonathan and his armor-bearer made, killed about twenty men within as it were half a furrow&apos;s length in an acre<note nid="n09014014.1"/> of land.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014015"/>
+    <verse num="15">And there was a panic in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. The garrison and even <crossref let="s" cid="c09014015.1"/>the raiders trembled, the earth quaked, and it became a very great panic.<note nid="n09014015.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014016"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="16">And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked, and behold, the multitude <crossref let="t" cid="c09014016.1"/>was dispersing here and there.<note nid="n09014016.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014017"/>
+    <verse num="17">Then Saul said to the people who were with him, <q class="begin-double" qid="09014017.1" from="09014017.1" to="09014017.2"/>Count and see who has gone from us.<q class="end-double" qid="09014017.2" from="09014017.1" to="09014017.2"/> And when they had counted, behold, Jonathan and his armor-bearer were not there.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014018"/>
+    <verse num="18">So Saul said to Ahijah, <q class="begin-double" qid="09014018.1" from="09014018.1" to="09014018.2"/>Bring the ark of God here.<q class="end-double" qid="09014018.2" from="09014018.1" to="09014018.2"/> For the ark of God went at that time with the people<note nid="n09014018.1"/> of Israel.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014019"/>
+    <verse num="19">Now <crossref let="u" cid="c09014019.1"/>while Saul was talking to the priest, the tumult in the camp of the Philistines increased more and more. So Saul said to the priest, <q class="begin-double" qid="09014019.1" from="09014019.1" to="09014019.2"/>Withdraw your hand.<q class="end-double" qid="09014019.2" from="09014019.1" to="09014019.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014020"/>
+    <verse num="20">Then Saul and all the people who were with him rallied and went into the battle. And behold, <crossref let="v" cid="c09014020.1"/>every Philistine&apos;s sword was against his fellow, and there was very great confusion.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014021"/>
+    <verse num="21">Now the Hebrews who had been with the Philistines before that time and who had gone up with them into the camp, <crossref let="w" cid="c09014021.1"/>even they also turned to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014022"/>
+    <verse num="22">Likewise, when all the men of Israel <crossref let="x" cid="c09014022.1"/>who had hidden themselves <crossref let="y" cid="c09014022.2"/>in the hill country of Ephraim heard that the Philistines were fleeing, they too followed hard after them in the battle.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014023"/>
+    <verse num="23"><crossref let="z" cid="c09014023.1"/>So the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> saved Israel that day. And the battle passed beyond <crossref let="a" cid="c09014023.2"/>Beth-aven.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014024"/>
+    <heading>Saul&apos;s Rash Vow</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="24">And the men of Israel had been hard pressed that day, <crossref let="b" cid="c09014024.1"/>so Saul had laid an oath on the people, saying, <q class="begin-double" qid="09014024.1" from="09014024.1" to="09014024.2"/>Cursed be the man who eats food until it is evening and I am avenged on my enemies.<q class="end-double" qid="09014024.2" from="09014024.1" to="09014024.2"/> So none of the people had tasted food.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014025"/>
+    <verse num="25">Now when all the people<note nid="n09014025.1"/> came to the forest, behold, there was honey on the ground.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014026"/>
+    <verse num="26">And when the people entered the forest, behold, the honey was dropping, but no one put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014027"/>
+    <verse num="27">But Jonathan had not heard his father charge the people with the oath, <crossref let="c" cid="c09014027.1"/>so he put out the tip of the staff that was in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb and put his hand to his mouth, and his eyes became bright.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014028"/>
+    <verse num="28">Then one of the people said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09014028.1" from="09014028.1" to="09014028.4"/>Your father strictly charged the people with an oath, saying, <q class="begin-single" qid="09014028.2" from="09014028.2" to="09014028.3"/>Cursed be the man who eats food this day.<q class="end-single" qid="09014028.3" from="09014028.2" to="09014028.3"/><q class="end-double" qid="09014028.4" from="09014028.1" to="09014028.4"/> And the people were <crossref let="d" cid="c09014028.1"/>faint.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014029"/>
+    <verse num="29">Then Jonathan said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09014029.1" from="09014029.1" to="09014030.1"/>My father has troubled the land. See how my eyes have become bright because I tasted a little of this honey.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014030"/>
+    <verse num="30">How much better if the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies that they found. For now the defeat among the Philistines has not been great.<q class="end-double" qid="09014030.1" from="09014029.1" to="09014030.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014031"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="31">They struck down the Philistines that day from <crossref let="e" cid="c09014031.1"/>Michmash to <crossref let="f" cid="c09014031.2"/>Aijalon. And the people were very <crossref let="d" cid="c09014031.3"/>faint.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014032"/>
+    <verse num="32">The people <crossref let="g" cid="c09014032.1"/>pounced on the spoil and took sheep and oxen and calves and slaughtered them on the ground. And the people ate them <crossref let="h" cid="c09014032.2"/>with the blood.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014033"/>
+    <verse num="33">Then they told Saul, <q class="begin-double" qid="09014033.1" from="09014033.1" to="09014033.2"/>Behold, the people are sinning against the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> by eating <crossref let="h" cid="c09014033.1"/>with the blood.<q class="end-double" qid="09014033.2" from="09014033.1" to="09014033.2"/> And he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09014033.3" from="09014033.3" to="09014033.4"/>You have dealt treacherously; roll a great stone to me here.<q class="end-double" qid="09014033.4" from="09014033.3" to="09014033.4"/><note nid="n09014033.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014034"/>
+    <verse num="34">And Saul said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09014034.1" from="09014034.1" to="09014034.4"/>Disperse yourselves among the people and say to them, <q class="begin-single" qid="09014034.2" from="09014034.2" to="09014034.3"/>Let every man bring his ox or his sheep and slaughter them here and eat, and do not sin against the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> by eating with the blood.<q class="end-single" qid="09014034.3" from="09014034.2" to="09014034.3"/><q class="end-double" qid="09014034.4" from="09014034.1" to="09014034.4"/> So every one of the people brought his ox with him that night and they slaughtered them there.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014035"/>
+    <verse num="35">And Saul <crossref let="i" cid="c09014035.1"/>built an altar to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>; it was the first altar that he built to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014036"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="36">Then Saul said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09014036.1" from="09014036.1" to="09014036.2"/>Let us go down after the Philistines by night and plunder them until the morning light; let us not leave a man of them.<q class="end-double" qid="09014036.2" from="09014036.1" to="09014036.2"/> And they said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09014036.3" from="09014036.3" to="09014036.4"/>Do whatever seems good to you.<q class="end-double" qid="09014036.4" from="09014036.3" to="09014036.4"/> But <crossref let="j" cid="c09014036.1"/>the priest said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09014036.5" from="09014036.5" to="09014036.6"/>Let us draw near to God here.<q class="end-double" qid="09014036.6" from="09014036.5" to="09014036.6"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014037"/>
+    <verse num="37">And Saul inquired of God, <q class="begin-double" qid="09014037.1" from="09014037.1" to="09014037.2"/>Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will you give them into the hand of Israel?<q class="end-double" qid="09014037.2" from="09014037.1" to="09014037.2"/> <crossref let="k" cid="c09014037.1"/>But he did not answer him that day.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014038"/>
+    <verse num="38">And Saul said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09014038.1" from="09014038.1" to="09014039.1"/>Come here, all you leaders of the people, and know and see how this sin has arisen today.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014039"/>
+    <verse num="39">For <crossref let="l" cid="c09014039.1"/>as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> lives who saves Israel, <crossref let="m" cid="c09014039.2"/>though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die.<q class="end-double" qid="09014039.1" from="09014038.1" to="09014039.1"/> But there was not a man among all the people who answered him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014040"/>
+    <verse num="40">Then he said to all Israel, <q class="begin-double" qid="09014040.1" from="09014040.1" to="09014040.2"/>You shall be on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side.<q class="end-double" qid="09014040.2" from="09014040.1" to="09014040.2"/> And the people said to Saul, <q class="begin-double" qid="09014040.3" from="09014040.3" to="09014040.4"/>Do what seems good to you.<q class="end-double" qid="09014040.4" from="09014040.3" to="09014040.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014041"/>
+    <verse num="41">Therefore Saul said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09014041.1" from="09014041.1" to="09014041.2"/>O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> God of Israel, why have you not answered your servant this day? If this guilt is in me or in Jonathan my son, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, God of Israel, give Urim. But if this guilt is in your people Israel, give Thummim.<q class="end-double" qid="09014041.2" from="09014041.1" to="09014041.2"/><note nid="n09014041.1"/> <crossref let="n" cid="c09014041.1"/>And Jonathan and Saul were taken, but the people escaped.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014042"/>
+    <verse num="42">Then Saul said, <crossref let="n" cid="c09014042.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09014042.1" from="09014042.1" to="09014042.2"/>Cast the lot between me and my son Jonathan.<q class="end-double" qid="09014042.2" from="09014042.1" to="09014042.2"/> And Jonathan was taken.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014043"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="43">Then Saul said to Jonathan, <crossref let="o" cid="c09014043.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09014043.1" from="09014043.1" to="09014043.2"/>Tell me what you have done.<q class="end-double" qid="09014043.2" from="09014043.1" to="09014043.2"/> And Jonathan told him, <crossref let="p" cid="c09014043.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09014043.3" from="09014043.3" to="09014043.4"/>I tasted a little honey with the tip of the staff that was in my hand. Here I am; I will die.<q class="end-double" qid="09014043.4" from="09014043.3" to="09014043.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014044"/>
+    <verse num="44">And Saul said, <crossref let="q" cid="c09014044.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09014044.1" from="09014044.1" to="09014044.2"/>God do so to me and more also; <crossref let="r" cid="c09014044.2"/>you shall surely die, Jonathan.<q class="end-double" qid="09014044.2" from="09014044.1" to="09014044.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014045"/>
+    <verse num="45">Then the people said to Saul, <q class="begin-double" qid="09014045.1" from="09014045.1" to="09014045.2"/>Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! <crossref let="l" cid="c09014045.1"/>As the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> lives, <crossref let="s" cid="c09014045.2"/>there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground, for he has worked with God this day.<q class="end-double" qid="09014045.2" from="09014045.1" to="09014045.2"/> So the people ransomed Jonathan, so that he did not die.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014046"/>
+    <verse num="46">Then Saul went up from pursuing the Philistines, and the Philistines went to their own place.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014047"/>
+    <heading>Saul Fights Israel&apos;s Enemies</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="47">When Saul had taken the kingship over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, <crossref let="t" cid="c09014047.1"/>against the Ammonites, against Edom, against the kings of <crossref let="u" cid="c09014047.2"/>Zobah, and against the Philistines. Wherever he turned he routed them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014048"/>
+    <verse num="48">And he did valiantly <crossref let="v" cid="c09014048.1"/>and struck the Amalekites and delivered Israel out of the hands of those who plundered them.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014049"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="49"><crossref let="w" cid="c09014049.1"/>Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchi-shua. And the names of his two daughters were these: the name of the firstborn was <crossref let="x" cid="c09014049.2"/>Merab, and the name of the younger Michal.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014050"/>
+    <verse num="50">And the name of Saul&apos;s wife was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz. <crossref let="y" cid="c09014050.1"/>And the name of the commander of his army was Abner the son of Ner, <crossref let="z" cid="c09014050.2"/>Saul&apos;s uncle.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014051"/>
+    <verse num="51"><crossref let="a" cid="c09014051.1"/>Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner was the son of <crossref let="a" cid="c09014051.2"/>Abiel.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09014052"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="52">There was hard fighting against the Philistines all the days of Saul. And when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, <crossref let="b" cid="c09014052.1"/>he attached him to himself.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09015001"/>
+  <chapter num="15">
+    <heading>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> Rejects Saul</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">And Samuel said to Saul, <crossref let="c" cid="c09015001.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09015001.1" from="09015001.1" to="09015003.2"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore listen to the words of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09015002"/>
+    <verse num="2">Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts, <q class="begin-single" qid="09015002.1" from="09015002.1" to="09015003.1"/>I have noted what Amalek did to Israel <crossref let="d" cid="c09015002.1"/>in opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09015003"/>
+    <verse num="3">Now go and strike Amalek and <crossref let="e" cid="c09015003.1"/>devote to destruction<note nid="n09015003.1"/> all that they have. Do not spare them, <crossref let="f" cid="c09015003.2"/>but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.<q class="end-single" qid="09015003.1" from="09015002.1" to="09015003.1"/><q class="end-double" qid="09015003.2" from="09015001.1" to="09015003.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09015004"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="4">So Saul summoned the people and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand men on foot, and ten thousand men of Judah.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09015005"/>
+    <verse num="5">And Saul came to the city of Amalek and lay in wait in the valley.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09015006"/>
+    <verse num="6">Then Saul said to <crossref let="g" cid="c09015006.1"/>the Kenites, <q class="begin-double" qid="09015006.1" from="09015006.1" to="09015006.2"/>Go, depart; go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them. <crossref let="h" cid="c09015006.2"/>For you showed kindness to all the people of Israel when they came up out of Egypt.<q class="end-double" qid="09015006.2" from="09015006.1" to="09015006.2"/> So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09015007"/>
+    <verse num="7"><crossref let="i" cid="c09015007.1"/>And Saul defeated the Amalekites from <crossref let="j" cid="c09015007.2"/>Havilah as far as <crossref let="k" cid="c09015007.3"/>Shur, which is east of Egypt.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09015008"/>
+    <verse num="8">And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive <crossref let="l" cid="c09015008.1"/>and devoted to destruction all the people with the edge of the sword.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09015009"/>
+    <verse num="9"><crossref let="m" cid="c09015009.1"/>But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fattened calves<note nid="n09015009.1"/> and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them. All that was despised and worthless they devoted to destruction.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09015010"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="10">The word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> came to Samuel:</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09015011"/>
+    <verse num="11"><crossref let="n" cid="c09015011.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09015011.1" from="09015011.1" to="09015011.2"/>I regret<note nid="n09015011.1"/> that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and <crossref let="o" cid="c09015011.2"/>has not performed my commandments.<q class="end-double" qid="09015011.2" from="09015011.1" to="09015011.2"/> And Samuel was angry, and he cried to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> all night.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09015012"/>
+    <verse num="12">And Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning. And it was told Samuel, <q class="begin-double" qid="09015012.1" from="09015012.1" to="09015012.2"/>Saul came to <crossref let="p" cid="c09015012.1"/>Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself and turned and passed on and went down to Gilgal.<q class="end-double" qid="09015012.2" from="09015012.1" to="09015012.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09015013"/>
+    <verse num="13">And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, <crossref let="q" cid="c09015013.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09015013.1" from="09015013.1" to="09015013.2"/>Blessed be you to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. I have performed the commandment of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.<q class="end-double" qid="09015013.2" from="09015013.1" to="09015013.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09015014"/>
+    <verse num="14">And Samuel said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09015014.1" from="09015014.1" to="09015014.2"/>What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears and the lowing of the oxen that I hear?<q class="end-double" qid="09015014.2" from="09015014.1" to="09015014.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09015015"/>
+    <verse num="15">Saul said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09015015.1" from="09015015.1" to="09015015.2"/>They have brought them from the Amalekites, <crossref let="r" cid="c09015015.1"/>for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen to sacrifice to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God, and the rest we have devoted to destruction.<q class="end-double" qid="09015015.2" from="09015015.1" to="09015015.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09015016"/>
+    <verse num="16">Then Samuel said to Saul, <q class="begin-double" qid="09015016.1" from="09015016.1" to="09015016.2"/>Stop! I will tell you what the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to me this night.<q class="end-double" qid="09015016.2" from="09015016.1" to="09015016.2"/> And he said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="09015016.3" from="09015016.3" to="09015016.4"/>Speak.<q class="end-double" qid="09015016.4" from="09015016.3" to="09015016.4"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09015017"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="17">And Samuel said, <crossref let="s" cid="c09015017.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09015017.1" from="09015017.1" to="09015019.1"/>Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> anointed you king over Israel.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09015018"/>
+    <verse num="18">And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> sent you on a mission and said, <q class="begin-single" qid="09015018.1" from="09015018.1" to="09015018.2"/>Go, devote to destruction the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.<q class="end-single" qid="09015018.2" from="09015018.1" to="09015018.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09015019"/>
+    <verse num="19">Why then did you not obey the voice of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>? <crossref let="t" cid="c09015019.1"/>Why did you pounce on the spoil and do what was evil in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>?<q class="end-double" qid="09015019.1" from="09015017.1" to="09015019.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09015020"/>
+    <verse num="20">And Saul said to Samuel, <crossref let="u" cid="c09015020.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09015020.1" from="09015020.1" to="09015021.1"/>I have obeyed the voice of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. I have gone on the mission on which the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> sent me. I have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and I have devoted the Amalekites to destruction.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09015021"/>
+    <verse num="21"><crossref let="v" cid="c09015021.1"/>But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God in Gilgal.<q class="end-double" qid="09015021.1" from="09015020.1" to="09015021.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09015022"/>
+    <verse num="22">And Samuel said,
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-block-indent/>
+      <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="w" cid="c09015022.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09015022.1" from="09015022.1" to="09015023.1"/>Has the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>as in obeying the voice of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>?<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/>Behold, <crossref let="x" cid="c09015022.2"/>to obey is better than sacrifice,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and to listen than the fat of rams.<end-line class="br"/>
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09015023"/>
+    <verse num="23">
+        <begin-line/>For rebellion is as the sin of divination,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and presumption is as iniquity and <crossref let="y" cid="c09015023.1"/>idolatry.<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line/>Because <crossref let="z" cid="c09015023.2"/>you have rejected the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/><crossref let="a" cid="c09015023.3"/>he has also rejected you from being king.<q class="end-double" qid="09015023.1" from="09015022.1" to="09015023.1"/><end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <end-block-indent/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09015024"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="24">Saul said to Samuel, <crossref let="b" cid="c09015024.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09015024.1" from="09015024.1" to="09015025.1"/>I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09015025"/>
+    <verse num="25">Now therefore, please pardon my sin and <crossref let="c" cid="c09015025.1"/>return with me that I may bow before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.<q class="end-double" qid="09015025.1" from="09015024.1" to="09015025.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09015026"/>
+    <verse num="26">And Samuel said to Saul, <q class="begin-double" qid="09015026.1" from="09015026.1" to="09015026.2"/>I will not return with you. <crossref let="d" cid="c09015026.1"/>For you have rejected the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <crossref let="e" cid="c09015026.2"/>and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has rejected you from being king over Israel.<q class="end-double" qid="09015026.2" from="09015026.1" to="09015026.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09015027"/>
+    <verse num="27"><crossref let="f" cid="c09015027.1"/>As Samuel turned to go away, Saul seized the skirt of his robe, and it tore.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09015028"/>
+    <verse num="28">And Samuel said to him, <crossref let="g" cid="c09015028.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09015028.1" from="09015028.1" to="09015029.1"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09015029"/>
+    <verse num="29">And also the Glory of Israel <crossref let="h" cid="c09015029.1"/>will not lie or have regret, for he is not a man, that he should have regret.<q class="end-double" qid="09015029.1" from="09015028.1" to="09015029.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09015030"/>
+    <verse num="30">Then he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09015030.1" from="09015030.1" to="09015030.2"/>I have sinned; yet <crossref let="i" cid="c09015030.1"/>honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, <crossref let="j" cid="c09015030.2"/>and return with me, that I may bow before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God.<q class="end-double" qid="09015030.2" from="09015030.1" to="09015030.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09015031"/>
+    <verse num="31">So Samuel turned back after Saul, and Saul bowed before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09015032"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="32">Then Samuel said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09015032.1" from="09015032.1" to="09015032.2"/>Bring here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites.<q class="end-double" qid="09015032.2" from="09015032.1" to="09015032.2"/> And Agag came to him cheerfully.<note nid="n09015032.1"/> Agag said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09015032.3" from="09015032.3" to="09015032.4"/>Surely the bitterness of death is past.<q class="end-double" qid="09015032.4" from="09015032.3" to="09015032.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09015033"/>
+    <verse num="33">And Samuel said, <crossref let="k" cid="c09015033.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09015033.1" from="09015033.1" to="09015033.2"/>As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women.<q class="end-double" qid="09015033.2" from="09015033.1" to="09015033.2"/> And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> <crossref let="l" cid="c09015033.2"/>in Gilgal.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09015034"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="34">Then Samuel went <crossref let="m" cid="c09015034.1"/>to Ramah, and Saul went up to his house in <crossref let="n" cid="c09015034.2"/>Gibeah of Saul.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09015035"/>
+    <verse num="35"><crossref let="o" cid="c09015035.1"/>And Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death, <crossref let="p" cid="c09015035.2"/>but Samuel grieved over Saul. <crossref let="q" cid="c09015035.3"/>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09016001"/>
+  <chapter num="16">
+    <heading>David Anointed King</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to Samuel, <crossref let="r" cid="c09016001.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09016001.1" from="09016001.1" to="09016001.2"/>How long will you grieve over Saul, since <crossref let="s" cid="c09016001.2"/>I have rejected him from being king over Israel? <crossref let="t" cid="c09016001.3"/>Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, <crossref let="u" cid="c09016001.4"/>for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.<q class="end-double" qid="09016001.2" from="09016001.1" to="09016001.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09016002"/>
+    <verse num="2">And Samuel said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09016002.1" from="09016002.1" to="09016002.2"/>How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me.<q class="end-double" qid="09016002.2" from="09016002.1" to="09016002.2"/> And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09016002.3" from="09016002.3" to="09016003.1"/>Take a heifer with you and say, <crossref let="v" cid="c09016002.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="09016002.4" from="09016002.4" to="09016002.5"/>I have come to sacrifice to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.<q class="end-single" qid="09016002.5" from="09016002.4" to="09016002.5"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09016003"/>
+    <verse num="3">And invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do. <crossref let="w" cid="c09016003.1"/>And you shall anoint for me him whom I declare to you.<q class="end-double" qid="09016003.1" from="09016002.3" to="09016003.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09016004"/>
+    <verse num="4">Samuel did what the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> commanded and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city <crossref let="x" cid="c09016004.1"/>came to meet him trembling and said, <crossref let="y" cid="c09016004.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09016004.1" from="09016004.1" to="09016004.2"/>Do you come peaceably?<q class="end-double" qid="09016004.2" from="09016004.1" to="09016004.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09016005"/>
+    <verse num="5">And he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09016005.1" from="09016005.1" to="09016005.2"/>Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. <crossref let="z" cid="c09016005.1"/>Consecrate yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.<q class="end-double" qid="09016005.2" from="09016005.1" to="09016005.2"/> And he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09016006"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="6">When they came, he looked on <crossref let="a" cid="c09016006.1"/>Eliab and thought, <q class="begin-double" qid="09016006.1" from="09016006.1" to="09016006.2"/>Surely the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>&apos;s anointed is before him.<q class="end-double" qid="09016006.2" from="09016006.1" to="09016006.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09016007"/>
+    <verse num="7">But the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to Samuel, <crossref let="b" cid="c09016007.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09016007.1" from="09016007.1" to="09016007.2"/>Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, <crossref let="c" cid="c09016007.2"/>but the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> looks on the heart.<q class="end-double" qid="09016007.2" from="09016007.1" to="09016007.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09016008"/>
+    <verse num="8">Then Jesse called <crossref let="d" cid="c09016008.1"/>Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09016008.1" from="09016008.1" to="09016008.2"/>Neither has the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> chosen this one.<q class="end-double" qid="09016008.2" from="09016008.1" to="09016008.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09016009"/>
+    <verse num="9">Then Jesse made <crossref let="d" cid="c09016009.1"/>Shammah pass by. And he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09016009.1" from="09016009.1" to="09016009.2"/>Neither has the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> chosen this one.<q class="end-double" qid="09016009.2" from="09016009.1" to="09016009.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09016010"/>
+    <verse num="10">And Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, <q class="begin-double" qid="09016010.1" from="09016010.1" to="09016010.2"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has not chosen these.<q class="end-double" qid="09016010.2" from="09016010.1" to="09016010.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09016011"/>
+    <verse num="11">Then Samuel said to Jesse, <q class="begin-double" qid="09016011.1" from="09016011.1" to="09016011.2"/>Are all your sons here?<q class="end-double" qid="09016011.2" from="09016011.1" to="09016011.2"/> And he said, <crossref let="e" cid="c09016011.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09016011.3" from="09016011.3" to="09016011.4"/>There remains yet the youngest,<note nid="n09016011.1"/> but behold, he is keeping the sheep.<q class="end-double" qid="09016011.4" from="09016011.3" to="09016011.4"/> And Samuel said to Jesse, <crossref let="f" cid="c09016011.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09016011.5" from="09016011.5" to="09016011.6"/>Send and get him, for we will not sit down till he comes here.<q class="end-double" qid="09016011.6" from="09016011.5" to="09016011.6"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09016012"/>
+    <verse num="12">And he sent and brought him in. Now he was <crossref let="g" cid="c09016012.1"/>ruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome. And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said, <crossref let="h" cid="c09016012.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09016012.1" from="09016012.1" to="09016012.2"/>Arise, anoint him, for this is he.<q class="end-double" qid="09016012.2" from="09016012.1" to="09016012.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09016013"/>
+    <verse num="13">Then Samuel took <crossref let="i" cid="c09016013.1"/>the horn of oil <crossref let="j" cid="c09016013.2"/>and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. <crossref let="k" cid="c09016013.3"/>And the Spirit of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> rushed upon David from that day forward. And Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09016014"/>
+    <heading>David in Saul&apos;s Service</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="14"><crossref let="l" cid="c09016014.1"/>Now the Spirit of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> departed from Saul, <crossref let="m" cid="c09016014.2"/>and a harmful spirit from the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> tormented him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09016015"/>
+    <verse num="15">And Saul&apos;s servants said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="09016015.1" from="09016015.1" to="09016016.1"/>Behold now, a harmful spirit from God is tormenting you.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09016016"/>
+    <verse num="16">Let our lord now command your servants <crossref let="n" cid="c09016016.1"/>who are before you to seek out a man who is skillful in playing the lyre, and when the harmful spirit from God is upon you, he will <crossref let="o" cid="c09016016.2"/>play it, and you will be well.<q class="end-double" qid="09016016.1" from="09016015.1" to="09016016.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09016017"/>
+    <verse num="17">So Saul said to his servants, <q class="begin-double" qid="09016017.1" from="09016017.1" to="09016017.2"/>Provide for me a man who can play well and bring him to me.<q class="end-double" qid="09016017.2" from="09016017.1" to="09016017.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09016018"/>
+    <verse num="18">One of the young men answered, <q class="begin-double" qid="09016018.1" from="09016018.1" to="09016018.2"/>Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, <crossref let="p" cid="c09016018.1"/>a man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a man of good presence, <crossref let="q" cid="c09016018.2"/>and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> is with him.<q class="end-double" qid="09016018.2" from="09016018.1" to="09016018.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09016019"/>
+    <verse num="19">Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09016019.1" from="09016019.1" to="09016019.2"/>Send me David your son, <crossref let="r" cid="c09016019.1"/>who is with the sheep.<q class="end-double" qid="09016019.2" from="09016019.1" to="09016019.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09016020"/>
+    <verse num="20"><crossref let="s" cid="c09016020.1"/>And Jesse took a donkey laden with bread and a skin of wine and a young goat and sent them by David his son to Saul.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09016021"/>
+    <verse num="21">And David came to Saul <crossref let="t" cid="c09016021.1"/>and entered his service. And Saul loved him greatly, and he became his armor-bearer.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09016022"/>
+    <verse num="22">And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, <q class="begin-double" qid="09016022.1" from="09016022.1" to="09016022.2"/>Let David remain in my service, for he has found favor in my sight.<q class="end-double" qid="09016022.2" from="09016022.1" to="09016022.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09016023"/>
+    <verse num="23">And <crossref let="u" cid="c09016023.1"/>whenever the harmful spirit from God was upon Saul, David took the lyre <crossref let="o" cid="c09016023.2"/>and played it with his hand. So Saul was refreshed and was well, and the harmful spirit departed from him.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017001"/>
+  <chapter num="17">
+    <heading>David and Goliath</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">Now the Philistines <crossref let="v" cid="c09017001.1"/>gathered their armies for battle. And they were gathered at <crossref let="w" cid="c09017001.2"/>Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and <crossref let="x" cid="c09017001.3"/>Azekah, in <crossref let="y" cid="c09017001.4"/>Ephes-dammim.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017002"/>
+    <verse num="2">And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered, and encamped in <crossref let="z" cid="c09017002.1"/>the Valley of Elah, and drew up in line of battle against the Philistines.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017003"/>
+    <verse num="3">And the Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side, with a valley between them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017004"/>
+    <verse num="4">And there came out from the camp of the Philistines a champion named <crossref let="a" cid="c09017004.1"/>Goliath of <crossref let="b" cid="c09017004.2"/>Gath, whose height was six<note nid="n09017004.1"/> cubits<note nid="n09017004.2"/> and a span.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017005"/>
+    <verse num="5">He had a helmet of bronze on his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail, and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels<note nid="n09017005.1"/> of bronze.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017006"/>
+    <verse num="6">And he had bronze armor on his legs, and a <crossref let="c" cid="c09017006.1"/>javelin of bronze slung between his shoulders.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017007"/>
+    <verse num="7">The shaft of his spear was like a weaver&apos;s beam, and his spear&apos;s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron. <crossref let="d" cid="c09017007.1"/>And his shield-bearer went before him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017008"/>
+    <verse num="8">He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, <q class="begin-double" qid="09017008.1" from="09017008.1" to="09017009.1"/>Why have you come out to draw up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and <crossref let="e" cid="c09017008.1"/>are you not servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017009"/>
+    <verse num="9">If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants <crossref let="f" cid="c09017009.1"/>and serve us.<q class="end-double" qid="09017009.1" from="09017008.1" to="09017009.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017010"/>
+    <verse num="10">And the Philistine said, <crossref let="g" cid="c09017010.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09017010.1" from="09017010.1" to="09017010.2"/>I defy the ranks of Israel this day. Give me a man, that we may fight together.<q class="end-double" qid="09017010.2" from="09017010.1" to="09017010.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017011"/>
+    <verse num="11">When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017012"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="12">Now David was <crossref let="h" cid="c09017012.1"/>the son of an <crossref let="i" cid="c09017012.2"/>Ephrathite of Bethlehem in Judah, <crossref let="j" cid="c09017012.3"/>named Jesse, <crossref let="k" cid="c09017012.4"/>who had eight sons. In the days of Saul the man was already old and advanced in years.<note nid="n09017012.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017013"/>
+    <verse num="13">The three oldest sons of Jesse had followed Saul to the battle. And <crossref let="l" cid="c09017013.1"/>the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017014"/>
+    <verse num="14"><crossref let="m" cid="c09017014.1"/>David was the youngest. The three eldest followed Saul,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017015"/>
+    <verse num="15">but David went back and forth from Saul <crossref let="n" cid="c09017015.1"/>to feed his father&apos;s sheep at Bethlehem.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017016"/>
+    <verse num="16">For forty days the Philistine came forward and took his stand, morning and evening.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017017"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="17">And Jesse said to David his son, <q class="begin-double" qid="09017017.1" from="09017017.1" to="09017018.1"/>Take for your brothers an ephah<note nid="n09017017.1"/> of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017018"/>
+    <verse num="18"><crossref let="o" cid="c09017018.1"/>Also take these ten cheeses to the commander of their thousand. <crossref let="p" cid="c09017018.2"/>See if your brothers are well, and bring some token from them.<q class="end-double" qid="09017018.1" from="09017017.1" to="09017018.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017019"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="19">Now Saul and they and all the men of Israel were in the Valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017020"/>
+    <verse num="20">And David rose early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper and took the provisions and went, as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to <crossref let="q" cid="c09017020.1"/>the encampment as the host was going out to the battle line, shouting the war cry.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017021"/>
+    <verse num="21">And Israel and the Philistines drew up for battle, army against army.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017022"/>
+    <verse num="22">And David left the <crossref let="r" cid="c09017022.1"/>things in charge of the keeper of the <crossref let="r" cid="c09017022.2"/>baggage and ran to the ranks and went and greeted his brothers.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017023"/>
+    <verse num="23">As he talked with them, behold, <crossref let="s" cid="c09017023.1"/>the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, came up out of the ranks of the Philistines and spoke <crossref let="t" cid="c09017023.2"/>the same words as before. And David heard him.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017024"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="24">All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and were much afraid.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017025"/>
+    <verse num="25">And the men of Israel said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09017025.1" from="09017025.1" to="09017025.2"/>Have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to <crossref let="u" cid="c09017025.1"/>defy Israel. And the king will enrich the man who kills him with great riches <crossref let="v" cid="c09017025.2"/>and will give him his daughter and make his father&apos;s house free in Israel.<q class="end-double" qid="09017025.2" from="09017025.1" to="09017025.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017026"/>
+    <verse num="26">And David said to the men who stood by him, <q class="begin-double" qid="09017026.1" from="09017026.1" to="09017026.2"/>What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away <crossref let="w" cid="c09017026.1"/>the reproach from Israel? For who is this <crossref let="x" cid="c09017026.2"/>uncircumcised Philistine, that he should <crossref let="u" cid="c09017026.3"/>defy the armies of <crossref let="y" cid="c09017026.4"/>the living God?<q class="end-double" qid="09017026.2" from="09017026.1" to="09017026.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017027"/>
+    <verse num="27">And the people answered him in the same way, <crossref let="z" cid="c09017027.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09017027.1" from="09017027.1" to="09017027.2"/>So shall it be done to the man who kills him.<q class="end-double" qid="09017027.2" from="09017027.1" to="09017027.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017028"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="28">Now Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men. And Eliab&apos;s anger was kindled against David, and he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09017028.1" from="09017028.1" to="09017028.2"/>Why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumption and the evil of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle.<q class="end-double" qid="09017028.2" from="09017028.1" to="09017028.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017029"/>
+    <verse num="29">And David said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09017029.1" from="09017029.1" to="09017029.2"/>What have I done now? Was it not but a word?<q class="end-double" qid="09017029.2" from="09017029.1" to="09017029.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017030"/>
+    <verse num="30">And he turned away from him toward another, and spoke <crossref let="b" cid="c09017030.1"/>in the same way, and the people answered him again as before.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017031"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="31">When the words that David spoke were heard, they repeated them before Saul, and he sent for him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017032"/>
+    <verse num="32">And David said to Saul, <crossref let="c" cid="c09017032.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09017032.1" from="09017032.1" to="09017032.2"/>Let no man&apos;s heart fail because of him. <crossref let="d" cid="c09017032.2"/>Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.<q class="end-double" qid="09017032.2" from="09017032.1" to="09017032.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017033"/>
+    <verse num="33">And Saul said to David, <q class="begin-double" qid="09017033.1" from="09017033.1" to="09017033.2"/>You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him, for you are but a youth, and he has been a man of war from his youth.<q class="end-double" qid="09017033.2" from="09017033.1" to="09017033.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017034"/>
+    <verse num="34">But David said to Saul, <q class="begin-double" qid="09017034.1" from="09017034.1" to="09017036.1"/>Your servant used to keep sheep for his father. And when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb from the flock,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017035"/>
+    <verse num="35">I went after him and struck him and delivered it out of his mouth. And if he arose against me, I caught him by his beard and struck him and killed him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017036"/>
+    <verse num="36">Your servant has struck down both lions and bears, and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, <crossref let="e" cid="c09017036.1"/>for he has defied the armies of the living God.<q class="end-double" qid="09017036.1" from="09017034.1" to="09017036.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017037"/>
+    <verse num="37">And David said, <crossref let="f" cid="c09017037.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09017037.1" from="09017037.1" to="09017037.2"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.<q class="end-double" qid="09017037.2" from="09017037.1" to="09017037.2"/> And Saul said to David, <q class="begin-double" qid="09017037.3" from="09017037.3" to="09017037.4"/>Go, <crossref let="g" cid="c09017037.2"/>and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> be with you!<q class="end-double" qid="09017037.4" from="09017037.3" to="09017037.4"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017038"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="38">Then Saul clothed David with his armor. He put a helmet of bronze on his head and clothed him with a coat of mail,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017039"/>
+    <verse num="39">and David strapped his sword over his armor. And he tried in vain to go, for he had not tested them. Then David said to Saul, <q class="begin-double" qid="09017039.1" from="09017039.1" to="09017039.2"/>I cannot go with these, for I have not tested them.<q class="end-double" qid="09017039.2" from="09017039.1" to="09017039.2"/> So David put them off.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017040"/>
+    <verse num="40">Then he took his staff in his hand and chose five smooth stones from the brook and put them in his shepherd&apos;s pouch. His sling was in his hand, and he approached the Philistine.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017041"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="41">And the Philistine moved forward and came near to David, <crossref let="h" cid="c09017041.1"/>with his shield-bearer in front of him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017042"/>
+    <verse num="42">And when the Philistine looked and saw David, he disdained him, for he was but a youth, <crossref let="i" cid="c09017042.1"/>ruddy and handsome in appearance.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017043"/>
+    <verse num="43">And the Philistine said to David, <q class="begin-double" qid="09017043.1" from="09017043.1" to="09017043.2"/>Am I <crossref let="j" cid="c09017043.1"/>a dog, that you come to me with sticks?<q class="end-double" qid="09017043.2" from="09017043.1" to="09017043.2"/> And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017044"/>
+    <verse num="44">The Philistine said to David, <q class="begin-double" qid="09017044.1" from="09017044.1" to="09017044.2"/>Come to me, and I will give your flesh <crossref let="k" cid="c09017044.1"/>to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the field.<q class="end-double" qid="09017044.2" from="09017044.1" to="09017044.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017045"/>
+    <verse num="45">Then David said to the Philistine, <q class="begin-double" qid="09017045.1" from="09017045.1" to="09017047.1"/>You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with <crossref let="l" cid="c09017045.1"/>a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, <crossref let="e" cid="c09017045.2"/>whom you have defied.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017046"/>
+    <verse num="46">This day the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head. <crossref let="m" cid="c09017046.1"/>And I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day <crossref let="n" cid="c09017046.2"/>to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth, <crossref let="o" cid="c09017046.3"/>that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017047"/>
+    <verse num="47">and that all this assembly may know that <crossref let="p" cid="c09017047.1"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> saves not with sword and spear. <crossref let="q" cid="c09017047.2"/>For the battle is the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>&apos;s, and he will give you into our hand.<q class="end-double" qid="09017047.1" from="09017045.1" to="09017047.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017048"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="48">When the Philistine arose and came and drew near to meet David, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet the Philistine.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017049"/>
+    <verse num="49">And David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone and slung it and struck the Philistine on his forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017050"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="50">So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him. There was no sword in the hand of David.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017051"/>
+    <verse num="51">Then David ran and stood over the Philistine <crossref let="r" cid="c09017051.1"/>and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, <crossref let="s" cid="c09017051.2"/>they fled.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017052"/>
+    <verse num="52">And the men of Israel and Judah rose with a shout and pursued the Philistines as far as Gath<note nid="n09017052.1"/> and the gates of <crossref let="t" cid="c09017052.1"/>Ekron, so that the wounded Philistines fell on the way from <crossref let="u" cid="c09017052.2"/>Shaaraim as far as <crossref let="v" cid="c09017052.3"/>Gath and Ekron.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017053"/>
+    <verse num="53">And the people of Israel came back from chasing the Philistines, and they plundered their camp.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017054"/>
+    <verse num="54">And David took <crossref let="w" cid="c09017054.1"/>the head of the Philistine <crossref let="x" cid="c09017054.2"/>and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his armor in his tent.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017055"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="55">As soon as Saul saw David go out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, <crossref let="y" cid="c09017055.1"/>the commander of the army, <q class="begin-double" qid="09017055.1" from="09017055.1" to="09017055.2"/>Abner, <crossref let="z" cid="c09017055.2"/>whose son is this youth?<q class="end-double" qid="09017055.2" from="09017055.1" to="09017055.2"/> And Abner said, <crossref let="a" cid="c09017055.3"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09017055.3" from="09017055.3" to="09017055.4"/>As your soul lives, O king, I do not know.<q class="end-double" qid="09017055.4" from="09017055.3" to="09017055.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017056"/>
+    <verse num="56">And the king said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09017056.1" from="09017056.1" to="09017056.2"/>Inquire whose son the boy is.<q class="end-double" qid="09017056.2" from="09017056.1" to="09017056.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017057"/>
+    <verse num="57">And as soon as David returned from the striking down of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul <crossref let="b" cid="c09017057.1"/>with the head of the Philistine in his hand.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09017058"/>
+    <verse num="58">And Saul said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="09017058.1" from="09017058.1" to="09017058.2"/>Whose son are you, young man?<q class="end-double" qid="09017058.2" from="09017058.1" to="09017058.2"/> And David answered, <crossref let="c" cid="c09017058.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09017058.3" from="09017058.3" to="09017058.4"/>I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.<q class="end-double" qid="09017058.4" from="09017058.3" to="09017058.4"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09018001"/>
+  <chapter num="18">
+    <heading>David and Jonathan&apos;s Friendship</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan <crossref let="d" cid="c09018001.1"/>loved him as his own soul.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09018002"/>
+    <verse num="2">And Saul took him that day <crossref let="e" cid="c09018002.1"/>and would not let him return to his father&apos;s house.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09018003"/>
+    <verse num="3">Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because <crossref let="d" cid="c09018003.1"/>he loved him as his own soul.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09018004"/>
+    <verse num="4">And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David, and his armor, and even his sword and his bow and his belt.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09018005"/>
+    <verse num="5">And David went out <crossref let="f" cid="c09018005.1"/>and was successful wherever Saul sent him, so that Saul set him over the men of war. And this was good in the sight of all the people and also in the sight of Saul&apos;s servants.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09018006"/>
+    <heading>Saul&apos;s Jealousy of David</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="6">As they were coming home, when David returned from striking down the Philistine, <crossref let="g" cid="c09018006.1"/>the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with songs of joy, and with musical instruments.<note nid="n09018006.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09018007"/>
+    <verse num="7">And the women <crossref let="h" cid="c09018007.1"/>sang to one another as they celebrated,
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-block-indent/>
+      <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="i" cid="c09018007.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09018007.1" from="09018007.1" to="09018007.2"/>Saul has struck down his thousands,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and David his ten thousands.<q class="end-double" qid="09018007.2" from="09018007.1" to="09018007.2"/><end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <end-block-indent/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09018008"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="same-paragraph"/>
+    <verse num="8">And Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09018008.1" from="09018008.1" to="09018008.2"/>They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed thousands, and what more can he have but <crossref let="j" cid="c09018008.1"/>the kingdom?<q class="end-double" qid="09018008.2" from="09018008.1" to="09018008.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09018009"/>
+    <verse num="9">And Saul eyed David from that day on.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09018010"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="10">The next day <crossref let="k" cid="c09018010.1"/>a harmful spirit from God rushed upon Saul, and <crossref let="l" cid="c09018010.2"/>he raved within his house while David was <crossref let="m" cid="c09018010.3"/>playing the lyre, as he did day by day. <crossref let="n" cid="c09018010.4"/>Saul had his spear in his hand.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09018011"/>
+    <verse num="11">And Saul <crossref let="o" cid="c09018011.1"/>hurled the spear, for he thought, <q class="begin-double" qid="09018011.1" from="09018011.1" to="09018011.2"/>I will pin David to the wall.<q class="end-double" qid="09018011.2" from="09018011.1" to="09018011.2"/> But David evaded him twice.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09018012"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="12"><crossref let="p" cid="c09018012.1"/>Saul was afraid of David because <crossref let="q" cid="c09018012.2"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was with him <crossref let="r" cid="c09018012.3"/>but had departed from Saul.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09018013"/>
+    <verse num="13">So Saul removed him from his presence and made him a commander of a thousand. <crossref let="s" cid="c09018013.1"/>And he went out and came in before the people.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09018014"/>
+    <verse num="14">And David <crossref let="t" cid="c09018014.1"/>had success in all his undertakings, <crossref let="q" cid="c09018014.2"/>for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was with him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09018015"/>
+    <verse num="15">And when Saul saw that <crossref let="t" cid="c09018015.1"/>he had great success, he stood in fearful awe of him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09018016"/>
+    <verse num="16"><crossref let="u" cid="c09018016.1"/>But all Israel and Judah loved David, for he went out and came in before them.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09018017"/>
+    <heading>David Marries Michal</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="17">Then Saul said to David, <q class="begin-double" qid="09018017.1" from="09018017.1" to="09018017.2"/>Here is <crossref let="v" cid="c09018017.1"/>my elder daughter Merab. <crossref let="w" cid="c09018017.2"/>I will give her to you for a wife. Only be valiant for me <crossref let="x" cid="c09018017.3"/>and fight the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>&apos;s battles.<q class="end-double" qid="09018017.2" from="09018017.1" to="09018017.2"/> For Saul thought, <q class="begin-double" qid="09018017.3" from="09018017.3" to="09018017.4"/>Let not my hand be against him, <crossref let="y" cid="c09018017.4"/>but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.<q class="end-double" qid="09018017.4" from="09018017.3" to="09018017.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09018018"/>
+    <verse num="18">And David said to Saul, <crossref let="z" cid="c09018018.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09018018.1" from="09018018.1" to="09018018.2"/>Who am I, and who are my relatives, my father&apos;s clan in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?<q class="end-double" qid="09018018.2" from="09018018.1" to="09018018.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09018019"/>
+    <verse num="19">But at the time when Merab, Saul&apos;s daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to <crossref let="a" cid="c09018019.1"/>Adriel the <crossref let="b" cid="c09018019.2"/>Meholathite for a wife.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09018020"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="20">Now <crossref let="v" cid="c09018020.1"/>Saul&apos;s daughter Michal <crossref let="c" cid="c09018020.2"/>loved David. And they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09018021"/>
+    <verse num="21">Saul thought, <q class="begin-double" qid="09018021.1" from="09018021.1" to="09018021.2"/>Let me give her to him, that she may <crossref let="d" cid="c09018021.1"/>be a snare for him <crossref let="e" cid="c09018021.2"/>and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.<q class="end-double" qid="09018021.2" from="09018021.1" to="09018021.2"/> Therefore Saul said to David a second time,<note nid="n09018021.1"/> <crossref let="f" cid="c09018021.3"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09018021.3" from="09018021.3" to="09018021.4"/>You shall now be my son-in-law.<q class="end-double" qid="09018021.4" from="09018021.3" to="09018021.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09018022"/>
+    <verse num="22">And Saul commanded his servants, <q class="begin-double" qid="09018022.1" from="09018022.1" to="09018022.4"/>Speak to David in private and say, <q class="begin-single" qid="09018022.2" from="09018022.2" to="09018022.3"/>Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now then become the king&apos;s son-in-law.<q class="end-single" qid="09018022.3" from="09018022.2" to="09018022.3"/><q class="end-double" qid="09018022.4" from="09018022.1" to="09018022.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09018023"/>
+    <verse num="23">And Saul&apos;s servants spoke those words in the ears of David. And David said, <crossref let="g" cid="c09018023.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09018023.1" from="09018023.1" to="09018023.2"/>Does it seem to you a little thing to become the king&apos;s son-in-law, since I am a poor man and have no reputation?<q class="end-double" qid="09018023.2" from="09018023.1" to="09018023.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09018024"/>
+    <verse num="24">And the servants of Saul told him, <q class="begin-double" qid="09018024.1" from="09018024.1" to="09018024.2"/>Thus and so did David speak.<q class="end-double" qid="09018024.2" from="09018024.1" to="09018024.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09018025"/>
+    <verse num="25">Then Saul said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09018025.1" from="09018025.1" to="09018025.4"/>Thus shall you say to David, <q class="begin-single" qid="09018025.2" from="09018025.2" to="09018025.3"/>The king desires no <crossref let="h" cid="c09018025.1"/>bride-price except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, <crossref let="i" cid="c09018025.2"/>that he may be avenged of the king&apos;s enemies.<q class="end-single" qid="09018025.3" from="09018025.2" to="09018025.3"/><q class="end-double" qid="09018025.4" from="09018025.1" to="09018025.4"/> <crossref let="j" cid="c09018025.3"/>Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09018026"/>
+    <verse num="26">And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king&apos;s son-in-law. <crossref let="k" cid="c09018026.1"/>Before the time had expired,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09018027"/>
+    <verse num="27">David arose and went, <crossref let="l" cid="c09018027.1"/>along with his men, and killed two hundred of the Philistines. <crossref let="m" cid="c09018027.2"/>And David brought their foreskins, which were given in full number to the king, that he might become the king&apos;s son-in-law. And Saul gave him his daughter Michal for a wife.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09018028"/>
+    <verse num="28">But when Saul saw and knew that <crossref let="n" cid="c09018028.1"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was with David, <crossref let="o" cid="c09018028.2"/>and that Michal, Saul&apos;s daughter, loved him,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09018029"/>
+    <verse num="29">Saul was even more afraid of David. So Saul was David&apos;s enemy continually.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09018030"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="30"><crossref let="p" cid="c09018030.1"/>Then the commanders of the Philistines came out to battle, and as often as they came out <crossref let="q" cid="c09018030.2"/>David had more success than all the servants of Saul, so that his name was highly esteemed.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09019001"/>
+  <chapter num="19">
+    <heading>Saul Tries to Kill David</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">And Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants, that they should kill David. <crossref let="r" cid="c09019001.1"/>But Jonathan, Saul&apos;s son, delighted much in David.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09019002"/>
+    <verse num="2">And Jonathan told David, <q class="begin-double" qid="09019002.1" from="09019002.1" to="09019003.1"/>Saul my father seeks to kill you. Therefore be on your guard in the morning. Stay in a secret place and hide yourself.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09019003"/>
+    <verse num="3">And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will speak to my father about you. And if I learn anything I will tell you.<q class="end-double" qid="09019003.1" from="09019002.1" to="09019003.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09019004"/>
+    <verse num="4">And Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father and said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="09019004.1" from="09019004.1" to="09019005.1"/>Let not the king <crossref let="s" cid="c09019004.1"/>sin against his servant David, because he has not sinned against you, and because his deeds have brought good to you.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09019005"/>
+    <verse num="5">For <crossref let="t" cid="c09019005.1"/>he took his life in his hand <crossref let="u" cid="c09019005.2"/>and he struck down the Philistine, <crossref let="v" cid="c09019005.3"/>and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> worked a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against <crossref let="w" cid="c09019005.4"/>innocent blood by killing David without cause?<q class="end-double" qid="09019005.1" from="09019004.1" to="09019005.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09019006"/>
+    <verse num="6">And Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan. Saul swore, <crossref let="x" cid="c09019006.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09019006.1" from="09019006.1" to="09019006.2"/>As the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> lives, he shall not be put to death.<q class="end-double" qid="09019006.2" from="09019006.1" to="09019006.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09019007"/>
+    <verse num="7">And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan reported to him all these things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence <crossref let="y" cid="c09019007.1"/>as before.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09019008"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="8">And there was war again. And David went out and fought with the Philistines and struck them with a great blow, so that they fled before him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09019009"/>
+    <verse num="9"><crossref let="z" cid="c09019009.1"/>Then a harmful spirit from the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> came upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand. <crossref let="a" cid="c09019009.2"/>And David was playing the lyre.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09019010"/>
+    <verse num="10"><crossref let="b" cid="c09019010.1"/>And Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he eluded Saul, so that he struck the spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09019011"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="11"><crossref let="c" cid="c09019011.1"/>Saul sent messengers to David&apos;s house to watch him, that he might kill him in the morning. But Michal, David&apos;s wife, told him, <q class="begin-double" qid="09019011.1" from="09019011.1" to="09019011.2"/>If you do not escape with your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.<q class="end-double" qid="09019011.2" from="09019011.1" to="09019011.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09019012"/>
+    <verse num="12"><crossref let="d" cid="c09019012.1"/>So Michal let David down through the window, and he fled away and escaped.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09019013"/>
+    <verse num="13">Michal took <crossref let="e" cid="c09019013.1"/>an image<note nid="n09019013.1"/> and laid it on the bed and put a pillow of goats&apos; hair at its head and covered it with the clothes.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09019014"/>
+    <verse num="14">And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09019014.1" from="09019014.1" to="09019014.2"/>He is sick.<q class="end-double" qid="09019014.2" from="09019014.1" to="09019014.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09019015"/>
+    <verse num="15">Then Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, <q class="begin-double" qid="09019015.1" from="09019015.1" to="09019015.2"/>Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.<q class="end-double" qid="09019015.2" from="09019015.1" to="09019015.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09019016"/>
+    <verse num="16">And when the messengers came in, behold, <crossref let="e" cid="c09019016.1"/>the image was in the bed, with the pillow of goats&apos; hair at its head.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09019017"/>
+    <verse num="17">Saul said to Michal, <q class="begin-double" qid="09019017.1" from="09019017.1" to="09019017.2"/>Why have you deceived me thus and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?<q class="end-double" qid="09019017.2" from="09019017.1" to="09019017.2"/> And Michal answered Saul, <q class="begin-double" qid="09019017.3" from="09019017.3" to="09019017.6"/>He said to me, <q class="begin-single" qid="09019017.4" from="09019017.4" to="09019017.5"/>Let me go. <crossref let="f" cid="c09019017.1"/>Why should I kill you?<q class="end-single" qid="09019017.5" from="09019017.4" to="09019017.5"/><q class="end-double" qid="09019017.6" from="09019017.3" to="09019017.6"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09019018"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="18">Now David fled and escaped, and he came to Samuel at <crossref let="g" cid="c09019018.1"/>Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and lived at Naioth.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09019019"/>
+    <verse num="19">And it was told Saul, <q class="begin-double" qid="09019019.1" from="09019019.1" to="09019019.2"/>Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.<q class="end-double" qid="09019019.2" from="09019019.1" to="09019019.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09019020"/>
+    <verse num="20">Then Saul sent messengers to take David, and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, <crossref let="h" cid="c09019020.1"/>the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, <crossref let="i" cid="c09019020.2"/>and they also prophesied.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09019021"/>
+    <verse num="21">When it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, <crossref let="i" cid="c09019021.1"/>and they also prophesied. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, <crossref let="i" cid="c09019021.2"/>and they also prophesied.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09019022"/>
+    <verse num="22">Then he himself went to Ramah and came to the great well that is in Secu. And he asked, <q class="begin-double" qid="09019022.1" from="09019022.1" to="09019022.2"/>Where are Samuel and David?<q class="end-double" qid="09019022.2" from="09019022.1" to="09019022.2"/> And one said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09019022.3" from="09019022.3" to="09019022.4"/>Behold, they are at Naioth in <crossref let="g" cid="c09019022.1"/>Ramah.<q class="end-double" qid="09019022.4" from="09019022.3" to="09019022.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09019023"/>
+    <verse num="23">And he went there to Naioth in Ramah. <crossref let="j" cid="c09019023.1"/>And the Spirit of God came upon him also, and as he went he prophesied until he came to Naioth in Ramah.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09019024"/>
+    <verse num="24"><crossref let="k" cid="c09019024.1"/>And he too stripped off his clothes, and he too prophesied before Samuel and lay naked all that day and all that night. Thus it is said, <crossref let="l" cid="c09019024.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09019024.1" from="09019024.1" to="09019024.2"/>Is Saul also among the prophets?<q class="end-double" qid="09019024.2" from="09019024.1" to="09019024.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020001"/>
+  <chapter num="20">
+    <heading>Jonathan Warns David</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">Then David fled from Naioth <crossref let="m" cid="c09020001.1"/>in Ramah and came and said before Jonathan, <q class="begin-double" qid="09020001.1" from="09020001.1" to="09020001.2"/>What have I done? What is my guilt? And what is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?<q class="end-double" qid="09020001.2" from="09020001.1" to="09020001.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020002"/>
+    <verse num="2">And he said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="09020002.1" from="09020002.1" to="09020002.2"/>Far from it! You shall not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small without disclosing it to me. And why should my father hide this from me? It is not so.<q class="end-double" qid="09020002.2" from="09020002.1" to="09020002.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020003"/>
+    <verse num="3">But David vowed again, saying, <q class="begin-double" qid="09020003.1" from="09020003.1" to="09020003.4"/>Your father knows well that <crossref let="n" cid="c09020003.1"/>I have found favor in your eyes, and he thinks, <q class="begin-single" qid="09020003.2" from="09020003.2" to="09020003.3"/>Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved.<q class="end-single" qid="09020003.3" from="09020003.2" to="09020003.3"/> But truly, <crossref let="o" cid="c09020003.2"/>as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> lives and <crossref let="p" cid="c09020003.3"/>as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.<q class="end-double" qid="09020003.4" from="09020003.1" to="09020003.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020004"/>
+    <verse num="4">Then Jonathan said to David, <q class="begin-double" qid="09020004.1" from="09020004.1" to="09020004.2"/>Whatever you say, I will do for you.<q class="end-double" qid="09020004.2" from="09020004.1" to="09020004.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020005"/>
+    <verse num="5">David said to Jonathan, <q class="begin-double" qid="09020005.1" from="09020005.1" to="09020008.1"/>Behold, tomorrow is <crossref let="q" cid="c09020005.1"/>the new moon, and I should not fail to sit at table with the king. But let me go, <crossref let="r" cid="c09020005.2"/>that I may hide myself in the field till the third day at evening.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020006"/>
+    <verse num="6"><crossref let="s" cid="c09020006.1"/>If your father misses me at all, then say, <q class="begin-single" qid="09020006.1" from="09020006.1" to="09020006.2"/>David earnestly asked leave of me to run <crossref let="t" cid="c09020006.2"/>to Bethlehem his city, for there is a yearly <crossref let="u" cid="c09020006.3"/>sacrifice there for all the clan.<q class="end-single" qid="09020006.2" from="09020006.1" to="09020006.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020007"/>
+    <verse num="7">If he says, <q class="begin-single" qid="09020007.1" from="09020007.1" to="09020007.2"/>Good!<q class="end-single" qid="09020007.2" from="09020007.1" to="09020007.2"/> it will be well with your servant, but if he is angry, then know that <crossref let="v" cid="c09020007.1"/>harm is determined by him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020008"/>
+    <verse num="8">Therefore deal kindly with your servant, <crossref let="w" cid="c09020008.1"/>for you have brought your servant into a covenant of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> with you. <crossref let="x" cid="c09020008.2"/>But if there is guilt in me, kill me yourself, for why should you bring me to your father?<q class="end-double" qid="09020008.1" from="09020005.1" to="09020008.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020009"/>
+    <verse num="9">And Jonathan said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09020009.1" from="09020009.1" to="09020009.2"/>Far be it from you! If I knew that <crossref let="v" cid="c09020009.1"/>it was determined by my father that harm should come to you, would I not tell you?<q class="end-double" qid="09020009.2" from="09020009.1" to="09020009.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020010"/>
+    <verse num="10">Then David said to Jonathan, <q class="begin-double" qid="09020010.1" from="09020010.1" to="09020010.2"/>Who will tell me if your father answers you roughly?<q class="end-double" qid="09020010.2" from="09020010.1" to="09020010.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020011"/>
+    <verse num="11">And Jonathan said to David, <q class="begin-double" qid="09020011.1" from="09020011.1" to="09020011.2"/>Come, let us go out into the field.<q class="end-double" qid="09020011.2" from="09020011.1" to="09020011.2"/> So they both went out into the field.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020012"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="12">And Jonathan said to David, <q class="begin-double" qid="09020012.1" from="09020012.1" to="09020015.1"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, be witness!<note nid="n09020012.1"/> When I have sounded out my father, about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if he is well disposed toward David, shall I not then send and disclose it to you?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020013"/>
+    <verse num="13">But should it please my father to do you harm, <crossref let="y" cid="c09020013.1"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> do so to Jonathan and more also if I do not disclose it to you and send you away, that you may go in safety. <crossref let="z" cid="c09020013.2"/>May the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> be with you, as he has been with my father.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020014"/>
+    <verse num="14">If I am still alive, show me the steadfast love of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, that I may not die;</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020015"/>
+    <verse num="15"><crossref let="a" cid="c09020015.1"/>and do not cut off<note nid="n09020015.1"/> your steadfast love from my house forever, when the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> cuts off every one of the enemies of David from the face of the earth.<q class="end-double" qid="09020015.1" from="09020012.1" to="09020015.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020016"/>
+    <verse num="16">And Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, <crossref let="b" cid="c09020016.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09020016.1" from="09020016.1" to="09020016.2"/>May<note nid="n09020016.1"/> the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> take vengeance on David&apos;s enemies.<q class="end-double" qid="09020016.2" from="09020016.1" to="09020016.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020017"/>
+    <verse num="17">And Jonathan made David swear again by his love for him, <crossref let="c" cid="c09020017.1"/>for he loved him as he loved his own soul.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020018"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="18">Then Jonathan said to him, <crossref let="d" cid="c09020018.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09020018.1" from="09020018.1" to="09020023.1"/>Tomorrow is the new moon, and <crossref let="e" cid="c09020018.2"/>you will be missed, because <crossref let="f" cid="c09020018.3"/>your seat will be empty.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020019"/>
+    <verse num="19">On the third day go down quickly to the place where you hid yourself when the matter was in hand, and remain beside the stone heap.<note nid="n09020019.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020020"/>
+    <verse num="20">And I will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as though I shot at a mark.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020021"/>
+    <verse num="21">And behold, I will send the boy, saying, <q class="begin-single" qid="09020021.1" from="09020021.1" to="09020021.2"/>Go, find the arrows.<q class="end-single" qid="09020021.2" from="09020021.1" to="09020021.2"/> If I say to the boy, <q class="begin-single" qid="09020021.3" from="09020021.3" to="09020021.4"/>Look, the arrows are on this side of you, take them,<q class="end-single" qid="09020021.4" from="09020021.3" to="09020021.4"/> then you are to come, for, <crossref let="g" cid="c09020021.1"/>as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> lives, it is safe for you and there is no danger.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020022"/>
+    <verse num="22">But if I say to the youth, <crossref let="h" cid="c09020022.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="09020022.1" from="09020022.1" to="09020022.2"/>Look, the arrows are beyond you,<q class="end-single" qid="09020022.2" from="09020022.1" to="09020022.2"/> then go, for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has sent you away.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020023"/>
+    <verse num="23"><crossref let="i" cid="c09020023.1"/>And as for the matter of which you and I have spoken, behold, <crossref let="j" cid="c09020023.2"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> is between you and me forever.<q class="end-double" qid="09020023.1" from="09020018.1" to="09020023.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020024"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="24">So David hid himself in the field. And when the new moon came, the king sat down to eat food.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020025"/>
+    <verse num="25">The king sat on his seat, as at other times, on the seat by the wall. Jonathan sat opposite,<note nid="n09020025.1"/> and Abner sat by Saul&apos;s side, <crossref let="k" cid="c09020025.1"/>but David&apos;s place was empty.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020026"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="26">Yet Saul did not say anything that day, for he thought, <q class="begin-double" qid="09020026.1" from="09020026.1" to="09020026.2"/>Something has happened to him. <crossref let="l" cid="c09020026.1"/>He is not clean; surely he is not clean.<q class="end-double" qid="09020026.2" from="09020026.1" to="09020026.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020027"/>
+    <verse num="27">But on <crossref let="m" cid="c09020027.1"/>the second day, the day after the new moon, <crossref let="k" cid="c09020027.2"/>David&apos;s place was empty. And Saul said to Jonathan his son, <q class="begin-double" qid="09020027.1" from="09020027.1" to="09020027.2"/>Why has not the son of Jesse come to the meal, either yesterday or today?<q class="end-double" qid="09020027.2" from="09020027.1" to="09020027.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020028"/>
+    <verse num="28">Jonathan answered Saul, <crossref let="n" cid="c09020028.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09020028.1" from="09020028.1" to="09020029.3"/>David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020029"/>
+    <verse num="29">He said, <q class="begin-single" qid="09020029.1" from="09020029.1" to="09020029.2"/>Let me go, for our clan holds a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has commanded me to be there. So now, if I have found favor in your eyes, let me get away and see my brothers.<q class="end-single" qid="09020029.2" from="09020029.1" to="09020029.2"/> For this reason he has not come to the king&apos;s table.<q class="end-double" qid="09020029.3" from="09020028.1" to="09020029.3"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020030"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="30">Then Saul&apos;s anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="09020030.1" from="09020030.1" to="09020031.1"/>You son of a perverse, rebellious woman, do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother&apos;s nakedness?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020031"/>
+    <verse num="31">For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, neither you nor your kingdom shall be established. Therefore send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die.<q class="end-double" qid="09020031.1" from="09020030.1" to="09020031.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020032"/>
+    <verse num="32">Then Jonathan answered Saul his father, <crossref let="o" cid="c09020032.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09020032.1" from="09020032.1" to="09020032.2"/>Why should he be put to death? What has he done?<q class="end-double" qid="09020032.2" from="09020032.1" to="09020032.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020033"/>
+    <verse num="33"><crossref let="p" cid="c09020033.1"/>But Saul hurled his spear at him to strike him. So Jonathan knew <crossref let="q" cid="c09020033.2"/>that his father was determined to put David to death.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020034"/>
+    <verse num="34">And Jonathan rose from the table in fierce anger and ate no food the second day of the month, for he was grieved for David, because his father had disgraced him.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020035"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="35">In the morning Jonathan went out into the field to the appointment with David, and with him a little boy.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020036"/>
+    <verse num="36">And he said to his boy, <q class="begin-double" qid="09020036.1" from="09020036.1" to="09020036.2"/>Run and find the arrows that I shoot.<q class="end-double" qid="09020036.2" from="09020036.1" to="09020036.2"/> As the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020037"/>
+    <verse num="37">And when the boy came to the place of the arrow that Jonathan had shot, Jonathan called after the boy and said, <crossref let="r" cid="c09020037.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09020037.1" from="09020037.1" to="09020037.2"/>Is not the arrow beyond you?<q class="end-double" qid="09020037.2" from="09020037.1" to="09020037.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020038"/>
+    <verse num="38">And Jonathan called after the boy, <q class="begin-double" qid="09020038.1" from="09020038.1" to="09020038.2"/>Hurry! Be quick! Do not stay!<q class="end-double" qid="09020038.2" from="09020038.1" to="09020038.2"/> So Jonathan&apos;s boy gathered up the arrows and came to his master.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020039"/>
+    <verse num="39">But the boy knew nothing. Only Jonathan and David knew the matter.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020040"/>
+    <verse num="40">And Jonathan gave his weapons to his boy and said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="09020040.1" from="09020040.1" to="09020040.2"/>Go and carry them to the city.<q class="end-double" qid="09020040.2" from="09020040.1" to="09020040.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020041"/>
+    <verse num="41">And as soon as the boy had gone, David rose from beside the stone heap<note nid="n09020041.1"/> and fell on his face to the ground and bowed three times. And they kissed one another and wept with one another, David weeping the most.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09020042"/>
+    <verse num="42">Then Jonathan said to David, <crossref let="s" cid="c09020042.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09020042.1" from="09020042.1" to="09020042.4"/>Go in peace, because we have sworn both of us in the name of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, saying, <crossref let="t" cid="c09020042.2"/><q class="begin-single" qid="09020042.2" from="09020042.2" to="09020042.3"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> shall be between me and you, <crossref let="u" cid="c09020042.3"/>and between my offspring and your offspring, forever.<q class="end-single" qid="09020042.3" from="09020042.2" to="09020042.3"/><q class="end-double" qid="09020042.4" from="09020042.1" to="09020042.4"/> And he rose and departed, and Jonathan went into the city.<note nid="n09020042.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09021001"/>
+  <chapter num="21">
+    <heading>David and the Holy Bread</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1"><note nid="n09021001.1"/> Then David came to <crossref let="v" cid="c09021001.1"/>Nob, to <crossref let="w" cid="c09021001.2"/>Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech <crossref let="x" cid="c09021001.3"/>came to meet David, trembling, and said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="09021001.1" from="09021001.1" to="09021001.2"/>Why are you alone, and no one with you?<q class="end-double" qid="09021001.2" from="09021001.1" to="09021001.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09021002"/>
+    <verse num="2">And David said to Ahimelech the priest, <q class="begin-double" qid="09021002.1" from="09021002.1" to="09021003.1"/>The king has charged me with a matter and said to me, <q class="begin-single" qid="09021002.2" from="09021002.2" to="09021002.3"/>Let no one know anything of the matter about which I send you, and with which I have charged you.<q class="end-single" qid="09021002.3" from="09021002.2" to="09021002.3"/> I have made an appointment with the young men for such and such a place.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09021003"/>
+    <verse num="3">Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever is here.<q class="end-double" qid="09021003.1" from="09021002.1" to="09021003.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09021004"/>
+    <verse num="4">And the priest answered David, <q class="begin-double" qid="09021004.1" from="09021004.1" to="09021004.2"/>I have no common bread on hand, but there is <crossref let="y" cid="c09021004.1"/>holy bread&emdash;<crossref let="z" cid="c09021004.2"/>if the young men have kept themselves from women.<q class="end-double" qid="09021004.2" from="09021004.1" to="09021004.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09021005"/>
+    <verse num="5">And David answered the priest, <q class="begin-double" qid="09021005.1" from="09021005.1" to="09021005.2"/>Truly women have been kept from us as always when I go on an expedition. The vessels of the young men are holy even when it is an ordinary journey. How much more today will their vessels be holy?<q class="end-double" qid="09021005.2" from="09021005.1" to="09021005.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09021006"/>
+    <verse num="6">So the priest gave him <crossref let="y" cid="c09021006.1"/>the holy bread, for there was no bread there but the bread of the Presence, <crossref let="a" cid="c09021006.2"/>which is removed from before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, to be replaced by hot bread on the day it is taken away.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09021007"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="7">Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. His name was <crossref let="b" cid="c09021007.1"/>Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul&apos;s herdsmen.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09021008"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="8">Then David said to Ahimelech, <q class="begin-double" qid="09021008.1" from="09021008.1" to="09021008.2"/>Then have you not here a spear or a sword at hand? For I have brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king&apos;s business required haste.<q class="end-double" qid="09021008.2" from="09021008.1" to="09021008.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09021009"/>
+    <verse num="9">And the priest said, <crossref let="c" cid="c09021009.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09021009.1" from="09021009.1" to="09021009.2"/>The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck down in <crossref let="d" cid="c09021009.2"/>the Valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you will take that, take it, for there is none but that here.<q class="end-double" qid="09021009.2" from="09021009.1" to="09021009.2"/> And David said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09021009.3" from="09021009.3" to="09021009.4"/>There is none like that; give it to me.<q class="end-double" qid="09021009.4" from="09021009.3" to="09021009.4"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09021010"/>
+    <heading>David Flees to Gath</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="10">And David rose and fled that day from Saul and went to <crossref let="e" cid="c09021010.1"/>Achish the king of Gath.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09021011"/>
+    <verse num="11">And the servants of Achish said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="09021011.1" from="09021011.1" to="09021011.4"/>Is not this David the king of the land? <crossref let="f" cid="c09021011.1"/>Did they not sing to one another of him in dances,
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-block-indent/>
+      <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+        <begin-line/><q class="begin-single" qid="09021011.2" from="09021011.2" to="09021011.3"/>Saul has struck down his thousands,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and David his ten thousands<q class="end-single" qid="09021011.3" from="09021011.2" to="09021011.3"/>?<q class="end-double" qid="09021011.4" from="09021011.1" to="09021011.4"/><end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <end-block-indent/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09021012"/>
+    <begin-paragraph class="same-paragraph"/>
+    <verse num="12">And David <crossref let="g" cid="c09021012.1"/>took these words to heart and was much afraid of Achish the king of Gath.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09021013"/>
+    <verse num="13">So he changed his behavior before them and pretended to be insane in their hands and made marks on the doors of the gate and let his spittle run down his beard.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09021014"/>
+    <verse num="14">Then Achish said to his servants, <q class="begin-double" qid="09021014.1" from="09021014.1" to="09021015.1"/>Behold, you see the man is mad. Why then have you brought him to me?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09021015"/>
+    <verse num="15">Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to behave as a madman in my presence? Shall this fellow come into my house?<q class="end-double" qid="09021015.1" from="09021014.1" to="09021015.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09022001"/>
+  <chapter num="22">
+    <heading>David at the Cave of Adullam</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">David departed from there and escaped to <crossref let="h" cid="c09022001.1"/>the cave of <crossref let="i" cid="c09022001.2"/>Adullam. And when his brothers and all his father&apos;s house heard it, they went down there to him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09022002"/>
+    <verse num="2"><crossref let="j" cid="c09022002.1"/>And everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul,<note nid="n09022002.1"/> gathered to him. And he became commander over them. And there were with him <crossref let="k" cid="c09022002.2"/>about four hundred men.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09022003"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="3">And David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab. And he said to the king of Moab, <q class="begin-double" qid="09022003.1" from="09022003.1" to="09022003.2"/>Please let my father and my mother stay<note nid="n09022003.1"/> with you, till I know what God will do for me.<q class="end-double" qid="09022003.2" from="09022003.1" to="09022003.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09022004"/>
+    <verse num="4">And he left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09022005"/>
+    <verse num="5">Then the prophet <crossref let="l" cid="c09022005.1"/>Gad said to David, <q class="begin-double" qid="09022005.1" from="09022005.1" to="09022005.2"/>Do not remain in the stronghold; depart, and go into the land of Judah.<q class="end-double" qid="09022005.2" from="09022005.1" to="09022005.2"/> So David departed and went into the forest of Hereth.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09022006"/>
+    <heading>Saul Kills the Priests at Nob</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="6">Now Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men who were with him. Saul was sitting at Gibeah under <crossref let="m" cid="c09022006.1"/>the tamarisk tree on the height with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09022007"/>
+    <verse num="7">And Saul said to his servants who stood about him, <q class="begin-double" qid="09022007.1" from="09022007.1" to="09022008.1"/>Hear now, people of Benjamin; will the son of Jesse <crossref let="n" cid="c09022007.1"/>give every one of you fields and vineyards, will he make you all commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09022008"/>
+    <verse num="8">that all of you have conspired against me? No one discloses to me <crossref let="o" cid="c09022008.1"/>when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse. None of you <crossref let="p" cid="c09022008.2"/>is sorry for me or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, <crossref let="q" cid="c09022008.3"/>to lie in wait, as at this day.<q class="end-double" qid="09022008.1" from="09022007.1" to="09022008.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09022009"/>
+    <verse num="9">Then answered <crossref let="r" cid="c09022009.1"/>Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, <q class="begin-double" qid="09022009.1" from="09022009.1" to="09022010.1"/>I saw the son of Jesse <crossref let="s" cid="c09022009.2"/>coming to Nob, to <crossref let="t" cid="c09022009.3"/>Ahimelech the son of Ahitub,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09022010"/>
+    <verse num="10"><crossref let="u" cid="c09022010.1"/>and he inquired of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> for him and <crossref let="v" cid="c09022010.2"/>gave him provisions and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.<q class="end-double" qid="09022010.1" from="09022009.1" to="09022010.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09022011"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="11">Then the king sent to summon Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father&apos;s house, the priests who were at Nob, and all of them came to the king.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09022012"/>
+    <verse num="12">And Saul said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09022012.1" from="09022012.1" to="09022012.2"/>Hear now, son of Ahitub.<q class="end-double" qid="09022012.2" from="09022012.1" to="09022012.2"/> And he answered, <q class="begin-double" qid="09022012.3" from="09022012.3" to="09022012.4"/>Here I am, my lord.<q class="end-double" qid="09022012.4" from="09022012.3" to="09022012.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09022013"/>
+    <verse num="13">And Saul said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="09022013.1" from="09022013.1" to="09022013.2"/>Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread and a sword and <crossref let="u" cid="c09022013.1"/>have inquired of God for him, so that he has risen against me, <crossref let="w" cid="c09022013.2"/>to lie in wait, as at this day?<q class="end-double" qid="09022013.2" from="09022013.1" to="09022013.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09022014"/>
+    <verse num="14">Then Ahimelech answered the king, <q class="begin-double" qid="09022014.1" from="09022014.1" to="09022015.1"/>And who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king&apos;s son-in-law, and captain over<note nid="n09022014.1"/> your bodyguard, and honored in your house?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09022015"/>
+    <verse num="15">Is today the first time <crossref let="u" cid="c09022015.1"/>that I have inquired of God for him? No! Let not the king impute anything to his servant or to all the house of my father, for your servant has known nothing of all this, <crossref let="x" cid="c09022015.2"/>much or little.<q class="end-double" qid="09022015.1" from="09022014.1" to="09022015.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09022016"/>
+    <verse num="16">And the king said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09022016.1" from="09022016.1" to="09022016.2"/>You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father&apos;s house.<q class="end-double" qid="09022016.2" from="09022016.1" to="09022016.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09022017"/>
+    <verse num="17">And the king said to <crossref let="y" cid="c09022017.1"/>the guard who stood about him, <q class="begin-double" qid="09022017.1" from="09022017.1" to="09022017.2"/>Turn and kill the priests of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, because their hand also is with David, and they knew that he fled and did not disclose it to me.<q class="end-double" qid="09022017.2" from="09022017.1" to="09022017.2"/> But the servants of the king would not put out their hand to strike the priests of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09022018"/>
+    <verse num="18">Then the king said to Doeg, <q class="begin-double" qid="09022018.1" from="09022018.1" to="09022018.2"/>You turn and strike the priests.<q class="end-double" qid="09022018.2" from="09022018.1" to="09022018.2"/> And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests, <crossref let="z" cid="c09022018.1"/>and he killed on that day eighty-five persons who wore the linen ephod.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09022019"/>
+    <verse num="19">And Nob, the city of the priests, he put to the sword; <crossref let="a" cid="c09022019.1"/>both man and woman, child and infant, ox, donkey and sheep, he put to the sword.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09022020"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="20">But one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named <crossref let="b" cid="c09022020.1"/>Abiathar, escaped and fled after David.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09022021"/>
+    <verse num="21">And Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the priests of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09022022"/>
+    <verse num="22">And David said to Abiathar, <q class="begin-double" qid="09022022.1" from="09022022.1" to="09022023.1"/>I knew on that day, <crossref let="c" cid="c09022022.1"/>when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I have occasioned the death of all the persons of your father&apos;s house.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09022023"/>
+    <verse num="23"><crossref let="d" cid="c09022023.1"/>Stay with me; do not be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your life. With me you shall be in safekeeping.<q class="end-double" qid="09022023.1" from="09022022.1" to="09022023.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09023001"/>
+  <chapter num="23">
+    <heading>David Saves the City of Keilah</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">Now they told David, <q class="begin-double" qid="09023001.1" from="09023001.1" to="09023001.2"/>Behold, the Philistines are fighting against <crossref let="e" cid="c09023001.1"/>Keilah and are robbing the threshing floors.<q class="end-double" qid="09023001.2" from="09023001.1" to="09023001.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09023002"/>
+    <verse num="2">Therefore David <crossref let="f" cid="c09023002.1"/>inquired of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <q class="begin-double" qid="09023002.1" from="09023002.1" to="09023002.2"/>Shall I go and attack these Philistines?<q class="end-double" qid="09023002.2" from="09023002.1" to="09023002.2"/> And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to David, <q class="begin-double" qid="09023002.3" from="09023002.3" to="09023002.4"/>Go and attack the Philistines and save Keilah.<q class="end-double" qid="09023002.4" from="09023002.3" to="09023002.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09023003"/>
+    <verse num="3">But David&apos;s men said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="09023003.1" from="09023003.1" to="09023003.2"/>Behold, we are afraid here in Judah; how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?<q class="end-double" qid="09023003.2" from="09023003.1" to="09023003.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09023004"/>
+    <verse num="4">Then David <crossref let="f" cid="c09023004.1"/>inquired of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> again. And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> answered him, <q class="begin-double" qid="09023004.1" from="09023004.1" to="09023004.2"/>Arise, go down to Keilah, <crossref let="g" cid="c09023004.2"/>for I will give the Philistines into your hand.<q class="end-double" qid="09023004.2" from="09023004.1" to="09023004.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09023005"/>
+    <verse num="5">And David and his men went to Keilah and fought with the Philistines and brought away their livestock and struck them with a great blow. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09023006"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="6"><crossref let="h" cid="c09023006.1"/>When Abiathar the son of Ahimelech had fled to David to Keilah, he had come down with an ephod in his hand.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09023007"/>
+    <verse num="7">Now it was told Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09023007.1" from="09023007.1" to="09023007.2"/>God has given him into my hand, for he has shut himself in by entering a town that has gates and bars.<q class="end-double" qid="09023007.2" from="09023007.1" to="09023007.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09023008"/>
+    <verse num="8">And Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09023009"/>
+    <verse num="9">David knew that Saul was plotting harm against him. And he said to Abiathar the priest, <crossref let="i" cid="c09023009.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09023009.1" from="09023009.1" to="09023009.2"/>Bring the ephod here.<q class="end-double" qid="09023009.2" from="09023009.1" to="09023009.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09023010"/>
+    <verse num="10">Then David said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09023010.1" from="09023010.1" to="09023011.1"/>O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city on my account.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09023011"/>
+    <verse num="11">Will the men of Keilah surrender me into his hand? Will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, please tell your servant.<q class="end-double" qid="09023011.1" from="09023010.1" to="09023011.1"/> And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09023011.2" from="09023011.2" to="09023011.3"/>He will come down.<q class="end-double" qid="09023011.3" from="09023011.2" to="09023011.3"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09023012"/>
+    <verse num="12">Then David said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09023012.1" from="09023012.1" to="09023012.2"/>Will the men of Keilah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul?<q class="end-double" qid="09023012.2" from="09023012.1" to="09023012.2"/> And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said, <crossref let="j" cid="c09023012.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09023012.3" from="09023012.3" to="09023012.4"/>They will surrender you.<q class="end-double" qid="09023012.4" from="09023012.3" to="09023012.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09023013"/>
+    <verse num="13">Then David and his men, <crossref let="k" cid="c09023013.1"/>who were about six hundred, arose and departed from Keilah, and they went <crossref let="l" cid="c09023013.2"/>wherever they could go. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he gave up the expedition.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09023014"/>
+    <verse num="14">And David remained in the strongholds in the wilderness, in the hill country <crossref let="m" cid="c09023014.1"/>of the wilderness of <crossref let="n" cid="c09023014.2"/>Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God did not give him into his hand.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09023015"/>
+    <heading>Saul Pursues David</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="15">David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the wilderness of Ziph at Horesh.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09023016"/>
+    <verse num="16">And Jonathan, Saul&apos;s son, rose and went to David at Horesh, and strengthened his hand in God.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09023017"/>
+    <verse num="17">And he said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="09023017.1" from="09023017.1" to="09023017.2"/>Do not fear, for the hand of Saul my father shall not find you. You shall be king over Israel, and I shall be next to you. <crossref let="o" cid="c09023017.1"/>Saul my father also knows this.<q class="end-double" qid="09023017.2" from="09023017.1" to="09023017.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09023018"/>
+    <verse num="18"><crossref let="p" cid="c09023018.1"/>And the two of them made a covenant before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. David remained at Horesh, and Jonathan went home.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09023019"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="19"><crossref let="q" cid="c09023019.1"/>Then the Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah, saying, <q class="begin-double" qid="09023019.1" from="09023019.1" to="09023020.1"/>Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah, which is south of <crossref let="r" cid="c09023019.2"/>Jeshimon?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09023020"/>
+    <verse num="20">Now come down, O king, according to all your heart&apos;s desire to come down, <crossref let="s" cid="c09023020.1"/>and our part shall be to surrender him into the king&apos;s hand.<q class="end-double" qid="09023020.1" from="09023019.1" to="09023020.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09023021"/>
+    <verse num="21">And Saul said, <crossref let="t" cid="c09023021.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09023021.1" from="09023021.1" to="09023023.1"/>May you be blessed by the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <crossref let="u" cid="c09023021.2"/>for you have had compassion on me.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09023022"/>
+    <verse num="22">Go, make yet more sure. Know and see the place where his foot is, and who has seen him there, for it is told me that he is very cunning.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09023023"/>
+    <verse num="23">See therefore and take note of all the lurking places where he hides, and come back to me with sure information. Then I will go with you. And if he is in the land, I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.<q class="end-double" qid="09023023.1" from="09023021.1" to="09023023.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09023024"/>
+    <verse num="24">And they arose and went to Ziph ahead of Saul.
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-paragraph/>Now David and his men were <crossref let="v" cid="c09023024.1"/>in the wilderness of Maon, <crossref let="w" cid="c09023024.2"/>in the Arabah to the south of <crossref let="r" cid="c09023024.3"/>Jeshimon.
+    </verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09023025"/>
+    <verse num="25">And Saul and his men went to seek him. And David was told, so he went down to the rock and lived in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09023026"/>
+    <verse num="26">Saul went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men on the other side of the mountain. And David was hurrying to get away from Saul. As Saul and his men were closing in on David and his men to capture them,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09023027"/>
+    <verse num="27">a messenger came to Saul, saying, <q class="begin-double" qid="09023027.1" from="09023027.1" to="09023027.2"/>Hurry and come, for the Philistines have made a raid against the land.<q class="end-double" qid="09023027.2" from="09023027.1" to="09023027.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09023028"/>
+    <verse num="28">So Saul returned from pursuing after David and went against the Philistines. Therefore that place was called the Rock of Escape.<note nid="n09023028.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09023029"/>
+    <verse num="29"><note nid="n09023029.1"/> And David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of <crossref let="x" cid="c09023029.1"/>Engedi.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09024001"/>
+  <chapter num="24">
+    <heading>David Spares Saul&apos;s Life</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1"><note nid="n09024001.1"/> <crossref let="y" cid="c09024001.1"/>When Saul returned from following the Philistines, he was told, <q class="begin-double" qid="09024001.1" from="09024001.1" to="09024001.2"/>Behold, David is in the wilderness of Engedi.<q class="end-double" qid="09024001.2" from="09024001.1" to="09024001.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09024002"/>
+    <verse num="2">Then Saul took <crossref let="z" cid="c09024002.1"/>three thousand chosen men out of all Israel and went to seek David and his men in front of the Wildgoats&apos; Rocks.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09024003"/>
+    <verse num="3">And he came to the sheepfolds by the way, where there was a cave, and Saul went in <crossref let="a" cid="c09024003.1"/>to relieve himself.<note nid="n09024003.1"/> Now David and his men were sitting in the innermost parts <crossref let="b" cid="c09024003.2"/>of the cave.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09024004"/>
+    <verse num="4">And the men of David said to him, <crossref let="c" cid="c09024004.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09024004.1" from="09024004.1" to="09024004.4"/>Here is the day of which the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to you, <q class="begin-single" qid="09024004.2" from="09024004.2" to="09024004.3"/>Behold, I will give your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.<q class="end-single" qid="09024004.3" from="09024004.2" to="09024004.3"/><q class="end-double" qid="09024004.4" from="09024004.1" to="09024004.4"/> Then David arose and stealthily cut off a corner of Saul&apos;s robe.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09024005"/>
+    <verse num="5">And afterward <crossref let="d" cid="c09024005.1"/>David&apos;s heart struck him, because he had cut off a corner of Saul&apos;s robe.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09024006"/>
+    <verse num="6">He said to his men, <crossref let="e" cid="c09024006.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09024006.1" from="09024006.1" to="09024006.2"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>&apos;s anointed, to put out my hand against him, seeing he is <crossref let="f" cid="c09024006.2"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>&apos;s anointed.<q class="end-double" qid="09024006.2" from="09024006.1" to="09024006.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09024007"/>
+    <verse num="7">So David persuaded his men with these words <crossref let="g" cid="c09024007.1"/>and did not permit them to attack Saul. And Saul rose up and left the cave and went on his way.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09024008"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="8">Afterward David also arose and went out of the cave, and called after Saul, <q class="begin-double" qid="09024008.1" from="09024008.1" to="09024008.2"/>My lord the king!<q class="end-double" qid="09024008.2" from="09024008.1" to="09024008.2"/> And when Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth and paid homage.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09024009"/>
+    <verse num="9">And David said to Saul, <q class="begin-double" qid="09024009.1" from="09024009.1" to="09024015.1"/>Why do you listen to the words of men who say, <q class="begin-single" qid="09024009.2" from="09024009.2" to="09024009.3"/>Behold, David seeks your harm<q class="end-single" qid="09024009.3" from="09024009.2" to="09024009.3"/>?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09024010"/>
+    <verse num="10">Behold, this day your eyes have seen how the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> gave you today into my hand in the cave. <crossref let="h" cid="c09024010.1"/>And some told me to kill you, but I spared you.<note nid="n09024010.1"/> I said, <q class="begin-single" qid="09024010.1" from="09024010.1" to="09024010.2"/>I will not put out my hand against my lord, <crossref let="f" cid="c09024010.2"/>for he is the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>&apos;s anointed.<q class="end-single" qid="09024010.2" from="09024010.1" to="09024010.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09024011"/>
+    <verse num="11">See, my father, see the corner of your robe in my hand. For by the fact that I cut off the corner of your robe and did not kill you, you may know and see that <crossref let="i" cid="c09024011.1"/>there is no wrong or treason in my hands. I have not sinned against you, though <crossref let="j" cid="c09024011.2"/>you hunt my life to take it.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09024012"/>
+    <verse num="12"><crossref let="k" cid="c09024012.1"/>May the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> judge between me and you, may the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> avenge me against you, but my hand shall not be against you.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09024013"/>
+    <verse num="13">As the proverb of the ancients says, <q class="begin-single" qid="09024013.1" from="09024013.1" to="09024013.2"/>Out of the wicked comes wickedness.<q class="end-single" qid="09024013.2" from="09024013.1" to="09024013.2"/> But my hand shall not be against you.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09024014"/>
+    <verse num="14">After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom do you pursue? <crossref let="l" cid="c09024014.1"/>After a dead dog! <crossref let="m" cid="c09024014.2"/>After a flea!</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09024015"/>
+    <verse num="15"><crossref let="k" cid="c09024015.1"/>May the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> therefore be judge and give sentence between me and you, and see to it and <crossref let="n" cid="c09024015.2"/>plead my cause and deliver me from your hand.<q class="end-double" qid="09024015.1" from="09024009.1" to="09024015.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09024016"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="16">As soon as David had finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul said, <crossref let="o" cid="c09024016.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09024016.1" from="09024016.1" to="09024016.2"/>Is this your voice, my son David?<q class="end-double" qid="09024016.2" from="09024016.1" to="09024016.2"/> And Saul lifted up his voice and wept.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09024017"/>
+    <verse num="17">He said to David, <q class="begin-double" qid="09024017.1" from="09024017.1" to="09024021.1"/>You are more righteous than I, <crossref let="p" cid="c09024017.1"/>for you have repaid me good, whereas I have repaid you evil.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09024018"/>
+    <verse num="18">And you have declared this day how you have dealt well with me, in that you did not kill me when the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> put me into your hands.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09024019"/>
+    <verse num="19">For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away safe? So may the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> reward you with good for what you have done to me this day.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09024020"/>
+    <verse num="20">And now, behold, <crossref let="q" cid="c09024020.1"/>I know that you shall surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in your hand.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09024021"/>
+    <verse num="21"><crossref let="r" cid="c09024021.1"/>Swear to me therefore by the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> that you will not cut off my offspring after me, and <crossref let="s" cid="c09024021.2"/>that you will not destroy my name out of my father&apos;s house.<q class="end-double" qid="09024021.1" from="09024017.1" to="09024021.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09024022"/>
+    <verse num="22">And David swore this to Saul. Then Saul went home, but David and his men went up <crossref let="t" cid="c09024022.1"/>to the stronghold.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025001"/>
+  <chapter num="25">
+    <heading>The Death of Samuel</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1"><crossref let="u" cid="c09025001.1"/>Now Samuel died. And all Israel assembled <crossref let="v" cid="c09025001.2"/>and mourned for him, and they buried him <crossref let="w" cid="c09025001.3"/>in his house at <crossref let="x" cid="c09025001.4"/>Ramah.
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <heading>David and Abigail</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+                   Then David rose and went down to <crossref let="y" cid="c09025001.5"/>the wilderness of Paran.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025002"/>
+    <verse num="2">And there was a man in <crossref let="z" cid="c09025002.1"/>Maon whose business was in <crossref let="a" cid="c09025002.2"/>Carmel. The man was very rich; he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. <crossref let="b" cid="c09025002.3"/>He was shearing his sheep in Carmel.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025003"/>
+    <verse num="3">Now the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail. The woman was discerning and beautiful, but the man was harsh and badly behaved; <crossref let="c" cid="c09025003.1"/>he was a Calebite.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025004"/>
+    <verse num="4">David heard in the wilderness that Nabal <crossref let="b" cid="c09025004.1"/>was shearing his sheep.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025005"/>
+    <verse num="5">So David sent ten young men. And David said to the young men, <q class="begin-double" qid="09025005.1" from="09025005.1" to="09025008.2"/>Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal and greet him in my name.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025006"/>
+    <verse num="6">And thus you shall greet him: <crossref let="d" cid="c09025006.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="09025006.1" from="09025006.1" to="09025008.1"/>Peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025007"/>
+    <verse num="7">I hear that you have shearers. Now your shepherds have been with us, and we did them no harm, <crossref let="e" cid="c09025007.1"/>and they missed nothing all the time they were in Carmel.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025008"/>
+    <verse num="8">Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore let my young men find favor in your eyes, for we come <crossref let="f" cid="c09025008.1"/>on a feast day. Please give whatever you have at hand to your servants and to your son David.<q class="end-single" qid="09025008.1" from="09025006.1" to="09025008.1"/><q class="end-double" qid="09025008.2" from="09025005.1" to="09025008.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025009"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="9">When David&apos;s young men came, they said all this to Nabal in the name of David, and then they waited.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025010"/>
+    <verse num="10">And Nabal answered David&apos;s servants, <crossref let="g" cid="c09025010.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09025010.1" from="09025010.1" to="09025011.1"/>Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? <crossref let="h" cid="c09025010.2"/>There are many servants these days who are breaking away from their masters.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025011"/>
+    <verse num="11">Shall I take <crossref let="i" cid="c09025011.1"/>my bread and my water and my meat that I have killed for my shearers and give it to <crossref let="j" cid="c09025011.2"/>men who come from I do not know where?<q class="end-double" qid="09025011.1" from="09025010.1" to="09025011.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025012"/>
+    <verse num="12">So David&apos;s young men turned away and came back and told him all this.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025013"/>
+    <verse num="13">And David said to his men, <q class="begin-double" qid="09025013.1" from="09025013.1" to="09025013.2"/>Every man strap on his sword!<q class="end-double" qid="09025013.2" from="09025013.1" to="09025013.2"/> And every man of them strapped on his sword. David also strapped on his sword. And <crossref let="k" cid="c09025013.1"/>about four hundred men went up after David, <crossref let="k" cid="c09025013.2"/>while two hundred <crossref let="l" cid="c09025013.3"/>remained with the baggage.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025014"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="14">But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal&apos;s wife, <q class="begin-double" qid="09025014.1" from="09025014.1" to="09025017.1"/>Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to greet our master, and he railed at them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025015"/>
+    <verse num="15">Yet the men were very good to us, and we suffered no harm, <crossref let="n" cid="c09025015.1"/>and we did not miss anything when we were in the fields, as long as we went with them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025016"/>
+    <verse num="16">They were <crossref let="o" cid="c09025016.1"/>a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025017"/>
+    <verse num="17">Now therefore know this and consider what you should do, <crossref let="p" cid="c09025017.1"/>for harm is determined against our master and against all his house, and he is such <crossref let="q" cid="c09025017.2"/>a worthless man that one cannot speak to him.<q class="end-double" qid="09025017.1" from="09025014.1" to="09025017.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025018"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="18">Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves and two skins of wine and five sheep already prepared and five seahs<note nid="n09025018.1"/> of parched grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025019"/>
+    <verse num="19">And she said to her young men, <q class="begin-double" qid="09025019.1" from="09025019.1" to="09025019.2"/>Go on before me; behold, I come after you.<q class="end-double" qid="09025019.2" from="09025019.1" to="09025019.2"/> But she did not tell her husband Nabal.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025020"/>
+    <verse num="20">And as she rode on the donkey and came down under cover of the mountain, behold, David and his men came down toward her, and she met them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025021"/>
+    <verse num="21">Now David had said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09025021.1" from="09025021.1" to="09025022.1"/>Surely in vain have I guarded all that this fellow has in the wilderness, <crossref let="r" cid="c09025021.1"/>so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him, and he has <crossref let="s" cid="c09025021.2"/>returned me evil for good.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025022"/>
+    <verse num="22"><crossref let="t" cid="c09025022.1"/>God do so to the enemies of David<note nid="n09025022.1"/> and more also, if by morning I leave so much as one male of all who belong to him.<q class="end-double" qid="09025022.1" from="09025021.1" to="09025022.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025023"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="23">When Abigail saw David, she hurried <crossref let="u" cid="c09025023.1"/>and got down from the donkey <crossref let="v" cid="c09025023.2"/>and fell before David on her face and bowed to the ground.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025024"/>
+    <verse num="24">She fell at his feet and said, <crossref let="w" cid="c09025024.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09025024.1" from="09025024.1" to="09025031.1"/>On me alone, my lord, be the guilt. Please let your servant speak in your ears, and hear the words of your servant.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025025"/>
+    <verse num="25">Let not my lord regard <crossref let="q" cid="c09025025.1"/>this worthless fellow, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal<note nid="n09025025.1"/> is his name, and folly is with him. But I your servant did not see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025026"/>
+    <verse num="26">Now then, my lord, <crossref let="x" cid="c09025026.1"/>as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> lives, and as your soul lives, because <crossref let="y" cid="c09025026.2"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has restrained you from bloodguilt and from <crossref let="z" cid="c09025026.3"/>saving with your own hand, now then <crossref let="a" cid="c09025026.4"/>let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be as Nabal.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025027"/>
+    <verse num="27">And now let this <crossref let="b" cid="c09025027.1"/>present that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025028"/>
+    <verse num="28">Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will certainly make my lord <crossref let="c" cid="c09025028.1"/>a sure house, because my lord <crossref let="d" cid="c09025028.2"/>is fighting the battles of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and evil shall not be found in you so long as you live.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025029"/>
+    <verse num="29">If men rise up to pursue you and to seek your life, the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living in the care of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God. And the lives of your enemies <crossref let="e" cid="c09025029.1"/>he shall sling out as from the hollow of a sling.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025030"/>
+    <verse num="30">And when the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you and has appointed you prince<note nid="n09025030.1"/> over Israel,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025031"/>
+    <verse num="31">my lord shall have no cause of grief or pangs of conscience for having shed blood without cause or for my lord <crossref let="z" cid="c09025031.1"/>working salvation himself. And when the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has dealt well with my lord, then remember your servant.<q class="end-double" qid="09025031.1" from="09025024.1" to="09025031.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025032"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="32">And David said to Abigail, <crossref let="f" cid="c09025032.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09025032.1" from="09025032.1" to="09025034.1"/>Blessed be the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me!</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025033"/>
+    <verse num="33">Blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, <crossref let="y" cid="c09025033.1"/>who have kept me this day from bloodguilt <crossref let="z" cid="c09025033.2"/>and from working salvation with my own hand!</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025034"/>
+    <verse num="34">For as surely <crossref let="g" cid="c09025034.1"/>as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, lives, <crossref let="y" cid="c09025034.2"/>who has restrained me from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, truly by morning there had not been left to Nabal so much as one male.<q class="end-double" qid="09025034.1" from="09025032.1" to="09025034.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025035"/>
+    <verse num="35">Then David received from her hand what she had brought him. And he said to her, <crossref let="h" cid="c09025035.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09025035.1" from="09025035.1" to="09025035.2"/>Go up in peace to your house. See, I have obeyed your voice, and I have granted your petition.<q class="end-double" qid="09025035.2" from="09025035.1" to="09025035.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025036"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="36">And Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, <crossref let="i" cid="c09025036.1"/>he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal&apos;s heart <crossref let="j" cid="c09025036.2"/>was merry within him, for he was very drunk. So she told him nothing <crossref let="k" cid="c09025036.3"/>at all until the morning light.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025037"/>
+    <verse num="37">In the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025038"/>
+    <verse num="38">And about ten days later <crossref let="l" cid="c09025038.1"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> struck Nabal, and he died.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025039"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="39">When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, <crossref let="f" cid="c09025039.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09025039.1" from="09025039.1" to="09025039.2"/>Blessed be the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> who has <crossref let="m" cid="c09025039.2"/>avenged the insult I received at the hand of Nabal, <crossref let="n" cid="c09025039.3"/>and has kept back his servant from wrongdoing. <crossref let="o" cid="c09025039.4"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has returned the evil of Nabal on his own head.<q class="end-double" qid="09025039.2" from="09025039.1" to="09025039.2"/> Then David sent and <crossref let="p" cid="c09025039.5"/>spoke to Abigail, to take her as his wife.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025040"/>
+    <verse num="40">When the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, they said to her, <q class="begin-double" qid="09025040.1" from="09025040.1" to="09025040.2"/>David has sent us to you to take you to him as his wife.<q class="end-double" qid="09025040.2" from="09025040.1" to="09025040.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025041"/>
+    <verse num="41">And she rose <crossref let="q" cid="c09025041.1"/>and bowed with her face to the ground and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09025041.1" from="09025041.1" to="09025041.2"/>Behold, your handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.<q class="end-double" qid="09025041.2" from="09025041.1" to="09025041.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025042"/>
+    <verse num="42">And Abigail hurried and rose and mounted a donkey, and her five young women attended her. She followed the messengers of David and became his wife.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025043"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="43">David also took Ahinoam of <crossref let="r" cid="c09025043.1"/>Jezreel, <crossref let="s" cid="c09025043.2"/>and both of them became his wives.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09025044"/>
+    <verse num="44">Saul had given Michal his daughter, David&apos;s wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09026001"/>
+  <chapter num="26">
+    <heading>David Spares Saul Again</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1"><crossref let="t" cid="c09026001.1"/>Then the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah, saying, <q class="begin-double" qid="09026001.1" from="09026001.1" to="09026001.2"/>Is not David hiding himself on the hill of Hachilah, which is on the east of Jeshimon?<q class="end-double" qid="09026001.2" from="09026001.1" to="09026001.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09026002"/>
+    <verse num="2">So Saul arose and went down to <crossref let="u" cid="c09026002.1"/>the wilderness of Ziph with <crossref let="v" cid="c09026002.2"/>three thousand chosen men of Israel to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09026003"/>
+    <verse num="3">And Saul encamped on the hill of Hachilah, which is beside the road on the east of Jeshimon. But David remained in the wilderness. When he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09026004"/>
+    <verse num="4">David sent out spies and learned that Saul had indeed come.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09026005"/>
+    <verse num="5">Then David rose and came to the place where Saul had encamped. And David saw the place where Saul lay, with <crossref let="w" cid="c09026005.1"/>Abner the son of Ner, the commander of his army. Saul was lying within <crossref let="x" cid="c09026005.2"/>the encampment, while the army was encamped around him.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09026006"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="6">Then David said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Joab&apos;s brother <crossref let="y" cid="c09026006.1"/>Abishai the son of Zeruiah, <crossref let="z" cid="c09026006.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09026006.1" from="09026006.1" to="09026006.2"/>Who will go down with me into the camp to Saul?<q class="end-double" qid="09026006.2" from="09026006.1" to="09026006.2"/> And Abishai said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09026006.3" from="09026006.3" to="09026006.4"/>I will go down with you.<q class="end-double" qid="09026006.4" from="09026006.3" to="09026006.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09026007"/>
+    <verse num="7">So David and Abishai went to the army by night. And there lay Saul sleeping within <crossref let="x" cid="c09026007.1"/>the encampment, with his spear stuck in the ground <crossref let="a" cid="c09026007.2"/>at his head, and Abner and the army lay around him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09026008"/>
+    <verse num="8">Then Abishai said to David, <crossref let="b" cid="c09026008.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09026008.1" from="09026008.1" to="09026008.2"/>God has given your enemy into your hand this day. Now please let me pin him to the earth with one stroke of the spear, and I will not strike him twice.<q class="end-double" qid="09026008.2" from="09026008.1" to="09026008.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09026009"/>
+    <verse num="9">But David said to Abishai, <q class="begin-double" qid="09026009.1" from="09026009.1" to="09026009.2"/>Do not destroy him, for who can put out his hand <crossref let="c" cid="c09026009.1"/>against the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>&apos;s anointed and be guiltless?<q class="end-double" qid="09026009.2" from="09026009.1" to="09026009.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09026010"/>
+    <verse num="10">And David said, <crossref let="d" cid="c09026010.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09026010.1" from="09026010.1" to="09026011.1"/>As the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> lives, <crossref let="e" cid="c09026010.2"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will strike him, or <crossref let="f" cid="c09026010.3"/>his day will come to die, <crossref let="g" cid="c09026010.4"/>or he will go down into battle and perish.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09026011"/>
+    <verse num="11"><crossref let="h" cid="c09026011.1"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> forbid that I should put out my hand against the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>&apos;s anointed. But take now the spear that is <crossref let="i" cid="c09026011.2"/>at his head and the jar of water, and let us go.<q class="end-double" qid="09026011.1" from="09026010.1" to="09026011.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09026012"/>
+    <verse num="12">So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul&apos;s head, and they went away. No man saw it or knew it, nor did any awake, for they were all asleep, because <crossref let="j" cid="c09026012.1"/>a deep sleep from the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had fallen upon them.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09026013"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="13">Then David went over to the other side and stood far off on the top of the hill, with a great space between them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09026014"/>
+    <verse num="14">And David called to the army, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, <q class="begin-double" qid="09026014.1" from="09026014.1" to="09026014.2"/>Will you not answer, Abner?<q class="end-double" qid="09026014.2" from="09026014.1" to="09026014.2"/> Then Abner answered, <q class="begin-double" qid="09026014.3" from="09026014.3" to="09026014.4"/>Who are you who calls to the king?<q class="end-double" qid="09026014.4" from="09026014.3" to="09026014.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09026015"/>
+    <verse num="15">And David said to Abner, <q class="begin-double" qid="09026015.1" from="09026015.1" to="09026016.1"/>Are you not a man? Who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not kept watch over your lord the king? For one of the people came in to destroy the king your lord.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09026016"/>
+    <verse num="16">This thing that you have done is not good. <crossref let="k" cid="c09026016.1"/>As the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> lives, you deserve to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>&apos;s anointed. And now see where the king&apos;s spear is and the jar of water that was <crossref let="l" cid="c09026016.2"/>at his head.<q class="end-double" qid="09026016.1" from="09026015.1" to="09026016.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09026017"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="17">Saul recognized David&apos;s voice and said, <crossref let="m" cid="c09026017.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09026017.1" from="09026017.1" to="09026017.2"/>Is this your voice, my son David?<q class="end-double" qid="09026017.2" from="09026017.1" to="09026017.2"/> And David said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09026017.3" from="09026017.3" to="09026017.4"/>It is my voice, my lord, O king.<q class="end-double" qid="09026017.4" from="09026017.3" to="09026017.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09026018"/>
+    <verse num="18">And he said, <crossref let="n" cid="c09026018.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09026018.1" from="09026018.1" to="09026020.1"/>Why does my lord pursue after his servant? For what have I done? What evil is on my hands?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09026019"/>
+    <verse num="19">Now therefore let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> who has stirred you up against me, may he accept an offering, but if it is men, may they be cursed before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <crossref let="o" cid="c09026019.1"/>for they have driven me out this day that I should have no share in <crossref let="p" cid="c09026019.2"/>the heritage of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, saying, <q class="begin-single" qid="09026019.1" from="09026019.1" to="09026019.2"/>Go, serve other gods.<q class="end-single" qid="09026019.2" from="09026019.1" to="09026019.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09026020"/>
+    <verse num="20">Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, for the king of Israel has come out to seek <crossref let="q" cid="c09026020.1"/>a single flea like one who hunts a partridge in the mountains.<q class="end-double" qid="09026020.1" from="09026018.1" to="09026020.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09026021"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="21">Then Saul said, <crossref let="r" cid="c09026021.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09026021.1" from="09026021.1" to="09026021.2"/>I have sinned. Return, my son David, for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes this day. Behold, I have acted foolishly, and have made a great mistake.<q class="end-double" qid="09026021.2" from="09026021.1" to="09026021.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09026022"/>
+    <verse num="22">And David answered and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09026022.1" from="09026022.1" to="09026024.1"/>Here is the spear, O king! Let one of the young men come over and take it.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09026023"/>
+    <verse num="23"><crossref let="s" cid="c09026023.1"/>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> rewards every man for his righteousness and his faithfulness, for the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> gave you into my hand today, and I would not put out my hand against the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>&apos;s anointed.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09026024"/>
+    <verse num="24">Behold, as your life was precious this day in my sight, so may my life be precious in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and may he deliver me out of all tribulation.<q class="end-double" qid="09026024.1" from="09026022.1" to="09026024.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09026025"/>
+    <verse num="25">Then Saul said to David, <q class="begin-double" qid="09026025.1" from="09026025.1" to="09026025.2"/>Blessed be you, my son David! You will do many things and will <crossref let="t" cid="c09026025.1"/>succeed in them.<q class="end-double" qid="09026025.2" from="09026025.1" to="09026025.2"/> So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09027001"/>
+  <chapter num="27">
+    <heading>David Flees to the Philistines</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">Then David said in his heart, <q class="begin-double" qid="09027001.1" from="09027001.1" to="09027001.2"/>Now I shall perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will despair of seeking me any longer within the borders of Israel, and I shall escape out of his hand.<q class="end-double" qid="09027001.2" from="09027001.1" to="09027001.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09027002"/>
+    <verse num="2">So David arose and went over, he and <crossref let="u" cid="c09027002.1"/>the six hundred men who were with him, <crossref let="v" cid="c09027002.2"/>to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09027003"/>
+    <verse num="3">And David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, and David with <crossref let="w" cid="c09027003.1"/>his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel, and Abigail of Carmel, Nabal&apos;s widow.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09027004"/>
+    <verse num="4">And when it was told Saul that David had fled to Gath, he no longer sought him.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09027005"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="5">Then David said to Achish, <q class="begin-double" qid="09027005.1" from="09027005.1" to="09027005.2"/>If <crossref let="x" cid="c09027005.1"/>I have found favor in your eyes, let a place be given me in one of the country towns, that I may dwell there. For why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?<q class="end-double" qid="09027005.2" from="09027005.1" to="09027005.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09027006"/>
+    <verse num="6">So that day Achish gave him <crossref let="y" cid="c09027006.1"/>Ziklag. Therefore Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah to this day.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09027007"/>
+    <verse num="7"><crossref let="z" cid="c09027007.1"/>And the number of the days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09027008"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="8">Now David <crossref let="a" cid="c09027008.1"/>and his men went up and made raids against <crossref let="b" cid="c09027008.2"/>the Geshurites, <crossref let="c" cid="c09027008.3"/>the Girzites, and <crossref let="d" cid="c09027008.4"/>the Amalekites, for these were the inhabitants of the land from of old, <crossref let="e" cid="c09027008.5"/>as far as Shur, to the land of Egypt.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09027009"/>
+    <verse num="9">And David would strike the land and would leave neither man nor woman alive, but would take away the sheep, the oxen, the donkeys, the camels, and the garments, and come back to Achish.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09027010"/>
+    <verse num="10">When Achish asked, <q class="begin-double" qid="09027010.1" from="09027010.1" to="09027010.2"/>Where have you <crossref let="f" cid="c09027010.1"/>made a raid today?<q class="end-double" qid="09027010.2" from="09027010.1" to="09027010.2"/> David would say, <q class="begin-double" qid="09027010.3" from="09027010.3" to="09027010.4"/>Against the Negeb of Judah,<q class="end-double" qid="09027010.4" from="09027010.3" to="09027010.4"/> or, <q class="begin-double" qid="09027010.5" from="09027010.5" to="09027010.6"/>Against the Negeb of <crossref let="g" cid="c09027010.2"/>the Jerahmeelites,<q class="end-double" qid="09027010.6" from="09027010.5" to="09027010.6"/> or, <q class="begin-double" qid="09027010.7" from="09027010.7" to="09027010.8"/>Against the Negeb of <crossref let="h" cid="c09027010.3"/>the Kenites.<q class="end-double" qid="09027010.8" from="09027010.7" to="09027010.8"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09027011"/>
+    <verse num="11">And David would leave neither man nor woman alive to bring news to Gath, thinking, <q class="begin-double" qid="09027011.1" from="09027011.1" to="09027011.4"/>lest they should tell about us and say, <q class="begin-single" qid="09027011.2" from="09027011.2" to="09027011.3"/>So David has done.<q class="end-single" qid="09027011.3" from="09027011.2" to="09027011.3"/><q class="end-double" qid="09027011.4" from="09027011.1" to="09027011.4"/> Such was his custom all the while he lived in the country of the Philistines.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09027012"/>
+    <verse num="12">And Achish trusted David, thinking, <q class="begin-double" qid="09027012.1" from="09027012.1" to="09027012.2"/>He has made himself an utter stench to his people Israel; therefore he shall always be my servant.<q class="end-double" qid="09027012.2" from="09027012.1" to="09027012.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09028001"/>
+  <chapter num="28">
+    <heading>Saul and the Medium of En-dor</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">In those days <crossref let="i" cid="c09028001.1"/>the Philistines gathered their forces for war, to fight against Israel. And Achish said to David, <q class="begin-double" qid="09028001.1" from="09028001.1" to="09028001.2"/>Understand that you and your men are to go out with me in the army.<q class="end-double" qid="09028001.2" from="09028001.1" to="09028001.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09028002"/>
+    <verse num="2">David said to Achish, <q class="begin-double" qid="09028002.1" from="09028002.1" to="09028002.2"/>Very well, you shall know what your servant can do.<q class="end-double" qid="09028002.2" from="09028002.1" to="09028002.2"/> And Achish said to David, <q class="begin-double" qid="09028002.3" from="09028002.3" to="09028002.4"/>Very well, I will make you my bodyguard for life.<q class="end-double" qid="09028002.4" from="09028002.3" to="09028002.4"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09028003"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="3">Now <crossref let="j" cid="c09028003.1"/>Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him <crossref let="k" cid="c09028003.2"/>in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had put <crossref let="l" cid="c09028003.3"/>the mediums and the necromancers out of the land.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09028004"/>
+    <verse num="4">The Philistines assembled and came and encamped <crossref let="m" cid="c09028004.1"/>at Shunem. And Saul gathered all Israel, and they encamped <crossref let="n" cid="c09028004.2"/>at Gilboa.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09028005"/>
+    <verse num="5">When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09028006"/>
+    <verse num="6">And when Saul inquired of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <crossref let="o" cid="c09028006.1"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> did not answer him, either <crossref let="p" cid="c09028006.2"/>by dreams, or <crossref let="q" cid="c09028006.3"/>by Urim, or by prophets.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09028007"/>
+    <verse num="7">Then Saul said to his servants, <crossref let="r" cid="c09028007.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09028007.1" from="09028007.1" to="09028007.2"/>Seek out for me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her.<q class="end-double" qid="09028007.2" from="09028007.1" to="09028007.2"/> And his servants said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="09028007.3" from="09028007.3" to="09028007.4"/>Behold, there is a medium at <crossref let="s" cid="c09028007.2"/>En-dor.<q class="end-double" qid="09028007.4" from="09028007.3" to="09028007.4"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09028008"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="8">So Saul <crossref let="t" cid="c09028008.1"/>disguised himself and put on other garments and went, he and two men with him. And they came to the woman by night. And he said, <crossref let="u" cid="c09028008.2"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09028008.1" from="09028008.1" to="09028008.2"/>Divine for me by a spirit and bring up for me whomever I shall name to you.<q class="end-double" qid="09028008.2" from="09028008.1" to="09028008.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09028009"/>
+    <verse num="9">The woman said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="09028009.1" from="09028009.1" to="09028009.2"/>Surely you know what Saul has done, <crossref let="l" cid="c09028009.1"/>how he has cut off the mediums and the necromancers from the land. Why then are you laying a trap for my life to bring about my death?<q class="end-double" qid="09028009.2" from="09028009.1" to="09028009.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09028010"/>
+    <verse num="10">But Saul swore to her by the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <crossref let="v" cid="c09028010.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09028010.1" from="09028010.1" to="09028010.2"/>As the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> lives, no punishment shall come upon you for this thing.<q class="end-double" qid="09028010.2" from="09028010.1" to="09028010.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09028011"/>
+    <verse num="11">Then the woman said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09028011.1" from="09028011.1" to="09028011.2"/>Whom shall I bring up for you?<q class="end-double" qid="09028011.2" from="09028011.1" to="09028011.2"/> He said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09028011.3" from="09028011.3" to="09028011.4"/>Bring up Samuel for me.<q class="end-double" qid="09028011.4" from="09028011.3" to="09028011.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09028012"/>
+    <verse num="12">When the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice. And the woman said to Saul, <q class="begin-double" qid="09028012.1" from="09028012.1" to="09028012.2"/>Why have you deceived me? You are Saul.<q class="end-double" qid="09028012.2" from="09028012.1" to="09028012.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09028013"/>
+    <verse num="13">The king said to her, <q class="begin-double" qid="09028013.1" from="09028013.1" to="09028013.2"/>Do not be afraid. What do you see?<q class="end-double" qid="09028013.2" from="09028013.1" to="09028013.2"/> And the woman said to Saul, <q class="begin-double" qid="09028013.3" from="09028013.3" to="09028013.4"/>I see a god coming up out of the earth.<q class="end-double" qid="09028013.4" from="09028013.3" to="09028013.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09028014"/>
+    <verse num="14">He said to her, <q class="begin-double" qid="09028014.1" from="09028014.1" to="09028014.2"/>What is his appearance?<q class="end-double" qid="09028014.2" from="09028014.1" to="09028014.2"/> And she said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09028014.3" from="09028014.3" to="09028014.4"/>An old man is coming up, and he is wrapped <crossref let="w" cid="c09028014.1"/>in a robe.<q class="end-double" qid="09028014.4" from="09028014.3" to="09028014.4"/> And Saul knew that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground and paid homage.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09028015"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="15">Then Samuel said to Saul, <q class="begin-double" qid="09028015.1" from="09028015.1" to="09028015.2"/>Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?<q class="end-double" qid="09028015.2" from="09028015.1" to="09028015.2"/> Saul answered, <q class="begin-double" qid="09028015.3" from="09028015.3" to="09028015.4"/>I am in great distress, for the Philistines are warring against me, and <crossref let="x" cid="c09028015.1"/>God has turned away from me and <crossref let="y" cid="c09028015.2"/>answers me no more, either by prophets or by dreams. Therefore I have summoned you to tell me what I shall do.<q class="end-double" qid="09028015.4" from="09028015.3" to="09028015.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09028016"/>
+    <verse num="16">And Samuel said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09028016.1" from="09028016.1" to="09028019.1"/>Why then do you ask me, since the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has turned from you and become your enemy?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09028017"/>
+    <verse num="17">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has done to you as he spoke by me, for <crossref let="z" cid="c09028017.1"/>the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has torn the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbor, David.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09028018"/>
+    <verse num="18"><crossref let="a" cid="c09028018.1"/>Because you did not obey the voice of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and did not carry out his fierce wrath against Amalek, therefore the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has done this thing to you this day.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09028019"/>
+    <verse num="19">Moreover, the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will give Israel also with you into the hand of the Philistines, and tomorrow you <crossref let="b" cid="c09028019.1"/>and your sons shall be with me. The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will give the army of Israel also into the hand of the Philistines.<q class="end-double" qid="09028019.1" from="09028016.1" to="09028019.1"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09028020"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="20">Then Saul fell at once full length on the ground, filled with fear because of the words of Samuel. And there was no strength in him, for he had eaten nothing all day and all night.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09028021"/>
+    <verse num="21">And the woman came to Saul, and when she saw that he was terrified, she said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="09028021.1" from="09028021.1" to="09028022.1"/>Behold, your servant has obeyed you. <crossref let="c" cid="c09028021.1"/>I have taken my life in my hand and have listened to what you have said to me.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09028022"/>
+    <verse num="22">Now therefore, you also obey your servant. Let me set a morsel of bread before you; and eat, that you may have strength when you go on your way.<q class="end-double" qid="09028022.1" from="09028021.1" to="09028022.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09028023"/>
+    <verse num="23">He refused and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09028023.1" from="09028023.1" to="09028023.2"/>I will not eat.<q class="end-double" qid="09028023.2" from="09028023.1" to="09028023.2"/> But his servants, together with the woman, urged him, and he listened to their words. So he arose from the earth and sat on the bed.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09028024"/>
+    <verse num="24">Now the woman had a fattened calf in the house, and she quickly killed it, and she took flour and kneaded it and baked unleavened bread of it,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09028025"/>
+    <verse num="25">and she put it before Saul and his servants, and they ate. Then they rose and went away that night.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09029001"/>
+  <chapter num="29">
+    <heading>The Philistines Reject David</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1"><crossref let="d" cid="c09029001.1"/>Now the Philistines had gathered all their forces at <crossref let="e" cid="c09029001.2"/>Aphek. And the Israelites were encamped by <crossref let="f" cid="c09029001.3"/>the spring that is in <crossref let="g" cid="c09029001.4"/>Jezreel.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09029002"/>
+    <verse num="2">As <crossref let="h" cid="c09029002.1"/>the lords of the Philistines were passing on by hundreds and by thousands, and David and his men were passing on in the rear <crossref let="i" cid="c09029002.2"/>with Achish,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09029003"/>
+    <verse num="3">the commanders of the Philistines said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09029003.1" from="09029003.1" to="09029003.2"/>What are these Hebrews doing here?<q class="end-double" qid="09029003.2" from="09029003.1" to="09029003.2"/> And Achish said to the commanders of the Philistines, <q class="begin-double" qid="09029003.3" from="09029003.3" to="09029003.4"/>Is this not David, the servant of Saul, king of Israel, who has been with me <crossref let="j" cid="c09029003.1"/>now for days and years, and since he deserted to me <crossref let="k" cid="c09029003.2"/>I have found no fault in him to this day.<q class="end-double" qid="09029003.4" from="09029003.3" to="09029003.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09029004"/>
+    <verse num="4">But <crossref let="h" cid="c09029004.1"/>the commanders of the Philistines were angry with him. And the commanders of the Philistines said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="09029004.1" from="09029004.1" to="09029005.3"/>Send the man back, that he may return <crossref let="l" cid="c09029004.2"/>to the place to which you have assigned him. He shall not go down with us to battle, <crossref let="m" cid="c09029004.3"/>lest in the battle he become an adversary to us. For how could this fellow reconcile himself to his lord? Would it not be with the heads of the men here?</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09029005"/>
+    <verse num="5">Is not this David, of whom they sing to one another in dances,
+      <end-paragraph/>
+      <begin-block-indent/>
+      <begin-paragraph class="line-group"/>
+        <begin-line/><crossref let="n" cid="c09029005.1"/><q class="begin-single" qid="09029005.1" from="09029005.1" to="09029005.2"/>Saul has struck down his thousands,<end-line class="br"/>
+        <begin-line class="indent"/>and David his ten thousands<q class="end-single" qid="09029005.2" from="09029005.1" to="09029005.2"/>?<q class="end-double" qid="09029005.3" from="09029004.1" to="09029005.3"/><end-line/>
+    </verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <end-block-indent/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09029006"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="6">Then Achish called David and said to him, <crossref let="o" cid="c09029006.1"/><q class="begin-double" qid="09029006.1" from="09029006.1" to="09029007.1"/>As the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> lives, you have been honest, and to me it seems right that <crossref let="p" cid="c09029006.2"/>you should march out and in with me in the campaign. For I have found nothing wrong in you from the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords do not approve of you.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09029007"/>
+    <verse num="7">So go back now; and go peaceably, that you may not displease the lords of the Philistines.<q class="end-double" qid="09029007.1" from="09029006.1" to="09029007.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09029008"/>
+    <verse num="8">And David said to Achish, <q class="begin-double" qid="09029008.1" from="09029008.1" to="09029008.2"/>But what have I done? What have you found in your servant from the day I entered your service until now, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?<q class="end-double" qid="09029008.2" from="09029008.1" to="09029008.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09029009"/>
+    <verse num="9">And Achish answered David and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09029009.1" from="09029009.1" to="09029010.1"/>I know that you are as blameless in my sight <crossref let="q" cid="c09029009.1"/>as an angel of God. Nevertheless, <crossref let="r" cid="c09029009.2"/>the commanders of the Philistines have said, <q class="begin-single" qid="09029009.2" from="09029009.2" to="09029009.3"/>He shall not go up with us to the battle.<q class="end-single" qid="09029009.3" from="09029009.2" to="09029009.3"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09029010"/>
+    <verse num="10">Now then rise early in the morning <crossref let="s" cid="c09029010.1"/>with the servants of your lord who came with you, and start early in the morning, and depart as soon as you have light.<q class="end-double" qid="09029010.1" from="09029009.1" to="09029010.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09029011"/>
+    <verse num="11">So David set out with his men early in the morning to return to the land of the Philistines. But the Philistines went up to <crossref let="t" cid="c09029011.1"/>Jezreel.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09030001"/>
+  <chapter num="30">
+    <heading>David&apos;s Wives Are Captured</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1">Now when David and his men came to <crossref let="u" cid="c09030001.1"/>Ziklag on the third day, <crossref let="v" cid="c09030001.2"/>the Amalekites had <crossref let="w" cid="c09030001.3"/>made a raid against the Negeb and against Ziklag. They had overcome Ziklag and burned it with fire</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09030002"/>
+    <verse num="2">and taken captive the women and all<note nid="n09030002.1"/> who were in it, both small and great. They killed no one, but carried them off and went their way.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09030003"/>
+    <verse num="3">And when David and his men came to the city, they found it burned with fire, and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09030004"/>
+    <verse num="4">Then David and the people who were with him raised their voices and wept until they had no more strength to weep.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09030005"/>
+    <verse num="5">David&apos;s <crossref let="x" cid="c09030005.1"/>two wives also had been taken captive, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09030006"/>
+    <verse num="6">And David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke <crossref let="y" cid="c09030006.1"/>of stoning him, because all the people were bitter in soul,<note nid="n09030006.1"/> each for his sons and daughters. But David strengthened himself in the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> his God.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09030007"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="7"><crossref let="z" cid="c09030007.1"/>And David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, <q class="begin-double" qid="09030007.1" from="09030007.1" to="09030007.2"/>Bring me the ephod.<q class="end-double" qid="09030007.2" from="09030007.1" to="09030007.2"/> So Abiathar brought the ephod to David.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09030008"/>
+    <verse num="8"><crossref let="a" cid="c09030008.1"/>And David inquired of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <q class="begin-double" qid="09030008.1" from="09030008.1" to="09030008.2"/>Shall I pursue after this <crossref let="b" cid="c09030008.2"/>band? Shall I overtake them?<q class="end-double" qid="09030008.2" from="09030008.1" to="09030008.2"/> He answered him, <q class="begin-double" qid="09030008.3" from="09030008.3" to="09030008.4"/>Pursue, for you shall surely overtake <crossref let="c" cid="c09030008.3"/>and shall surely rescue.<q class="end-double" qid="09030008.4" from="09030008.3" to="09030008.4"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09030009"/>
+    <verse num="9">So David set out, and <crossref let="d" cid="c09030009.1"/>the six hundred men who were with him, and they came to the brook Besor, where those who were left behind stayed.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09030010"/>
+    <verse num="10">But David pursued, he and four hundred men. <crossref let="e" cid="c09030010.1"/>Two hundred stayed behind, who were too exhausted to cross the brook Besor.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09030011"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="11">They found an Egyptian in the open country and brought him to David. And they gave him bread and he ate. They gave him water to drink,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09030012"/>
+    <verse num="12">and they gave him a piece of a cake of figs and two clusters of raisins. And when he had eaten, <crossref let="f" cid="c09030012.1"/>his spirit revived, for he had not eaten bread or drunk water for three days and three nights.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09030013"/>
+    <verse num="13">And David said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="09030013.1" from="09030013.1" to="09030013.2"/>To whom do you belong? And where are you from?<q class="end-double" qid="09030013.2" from="09030013.1" to="09030013.2"/> He said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09030013.3" from="09030013.3" to="09030014.1"/>I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite, and my master left me behind because I fell sick three days ago.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09030014"/>
+    <verse num="14"><crossref let="g" cid="c09030014.1"/>We had made a raid against the Negeb of <crossref let="h" cid="c09030014.2"/>the Cherethites and against that which belongs to Judah and against the Negeb of Caleb, and we burned Ziklag with fire.<q class="end-double" qid="09030014.1" from="09030013.3" to="09030014.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09030015"/>
+    <verse num="15">And David said to him, <q class="begin-double" qid="09030015.1" from="09030015.1" to="09030015.2"/>Will you take me down to this band?<q class="end-double" qid="09030015.2" from="09030015.1" to="09030015.2"/> And he said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09030015.3" from="09030015.3" to="09030015.4"/>Swear to me by God that you will not kill me or deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will take you down to this <crossref let="i" cid="c09030015.1"/>band.<q class="end-double" qid="09030015.4" from="09030015.3" to="09030015.4"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09030016"/>
+    <heading>David Defeats the Amalekites</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="16">And when he had taken him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the land, eating and drinking and dancing, because of all the great spoil they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09030017"/>
+    <verse num="17">And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day, and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men, who mounted camels and fled.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09030018"/>
+    <verse num="18"><crossref let="j" cid="c09030018.1"/>David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and David rescued his two wives.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09030019"/>
+    <verse num="19">Nothing was missing, whether small or great, sons or daughters, spoil or anything that had been taken. <crossref let="j" cid="c09030019.1"/>David brought back all.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09030020"/>
+    <verse num="20">David also captured all the flocks and herds, and the people drove the livestock before him,<note nid="n09030020.1"/> and said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09030020.1" from="09030020.1" to="09030020.2"/>This is David&apos;s spoil.<q class="end-double" qid="09030020.2" from="09030020.1" to="09030020.2"/></verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09030021"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="21">Then David came to <crossref let="k" cid="c09030021.1"/>the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow David, and who had been left <crossref let="k" cid="c09030021.2"/>at the brook Besor. And they went out to meet David and to meet the people who were with him. And when David came near to the people he greeted them.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09030022"/>
+    <verse num="22">Then all the wicked and worthless fellows among the men who had gone with David said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09030022.1" from="09030022.1" to="09030022.2"/>Because they did not go with us, we will not give them any of the spoil that we have recovered, except that each man may lead away his wife and children, and depart.<q class="end-double" qid="09030022.2" from="09030022.1" to="09030022.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09030023"/>
+    <verse num="23">But David said, <q class="begin-double" qid="09030023.1" from="09030023.1" to="09030024.1"/>You shall not do so, my brothers, with what the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has given us. He has preserved us and given into our hand the band that came against us.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09030024"/>
+    <verse num="24">Who would listen to you in this matter? <crossref let="l" cid="c09030024.1"/>For as his share is who goes down into the battle, so shall his share be who stays by the baggage. They shall share alike.<q class="end-double" qid="09030024.1" from="09030023.1" to="09030024.1"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09030025"/>
+    <verse num="25">And he made it a statute and a rule for Israel from that day forward to this day.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09030026"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="26">When David came to Ziklag, he sent part of the spoil to his friends, the elders of Judah, saying, <q class="begin-double" qid="09030026.1" from="09030026.1" to="09030026.2"/>Here is a present for you from the spoil of the enemies of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.<q class="end-double" qid="09030026.2" from="09030026.1" to="09030026.2"/></verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09030027"/>
+    <verse num="27">It was for those in <crossref let="m" cid="c09030027.1"/>Bethel, in Ramoth of the Negeb, in <crossref let="n" cid="c09030027.2"/>Jattir,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09030028"/>
+    <verse num="28">in <crossref let="o" cid="c09030028.1"/>Aroer, in Siphmoth, in <crossref let="p" cid="c09030028.2"/>Eshtemoa,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09030029"/>
+    <verse num="29">in Racal, in the cities of <crossref let="q" cid="c09030029.1"/>the Jerahmeelites, in the cities of <crossref let="r" cid="c09030029.2"/>the Kenites,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09030030"/>
+    <verse num="30">in <crossref let="s" cid="c09030030.1"/>Hormah, in Bor-ashan, in Athach,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09030031"/>
+    <verse num="31">in <crossref let="t" cid="c09030031.1"/>Hebron, for all the places where David and his men had roamed.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+  <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09031001"/>
+  <chapter num="31">
+    <heading>The Death of Saul</heading>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="1"><crossref let="u" cid="c09031001.1"/>Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines and fell slain <crossref let="v" cid="c09031001.2"/>on Mount Gilboa.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09031002"/>
+    <verse num="2">And the Philistines overtook Saul and his sons, and the Philistines struck down <crossref let="w" cid="c09031002.1"/>Jonathan and <crossref let="x" cid="c09031002.2"/>Abinadab and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09031003"/>
+    <verse num="3"><crossref let="y" cid="c09031003.1"/>The battle pressed hard against Saul, and the archers found him, and he was badly wounded by the archers.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09031004"/>
+    <verse num="4"><crossref let="z" cid="c09031004.1"/>Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, <q class="begin-double" qid="09031004.1" from="09031004.1" to="09031004.2"/>Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these <crossref let="a" cid="c09031004.2"/>uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and mistreat me.<q class="end-double" qid="09031004.2" from="09031004.1" to="09031004.2"/> But his armor-bearer would not, <crossref let="b" cid="c09031004.3"/>for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword <crossref let="c" cid="c09031004.4"/>and fell upon it.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09031005"/>
+    <verse num="5">And when his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell upon his sword and died with him.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09031006"/>
+    <verse num="6">Thus Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor-bearer, and all his men, on the same day together.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09031007"/>
+    <verse num="7">And when the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley and those beyond the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities and fled. And the Philistines came and lived in them.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09031008"/>
+    <begin-paragraph/>
+    <verse num="8">The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09031009"/>
+    <verse num="9">So they cut off his head and stripped off his armor and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines, <crossref let="d" cid="c09031009.1"/>to carry the good news <crossref let="e" cid="c09031009.2"/>to the house of their idols and to the people.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09031010"/>
+    <verse num="10"><crossref let="f" cid="c09031010.1"/>They put his armor in the temple of <crossref let="g" cid="c09031010.2"/>Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of <crossref let="h" cid="c09031010.3"/>Beth-shan.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09031011"/>
+    <verse num="11"><crossref let="i" cid="c09031011.1"/>But when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09031012"/>
+    <verse num="12"><crossref let="j" cid="c09031012.1"/>all the valiant men arose and went all night and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and they came to Jabesh <crossref let="k" cid="c09031012.2"/>and burned them there.</verse>
+    <marker class="begin-verse" mid="v09031013"/>
+    <verse num="13">And they took their bones <crossref let="l" cid="c09031013.1"/>and buried them under <crossref let="m" cid="c09031013.2"/>the tamarisk tree in Jabesh and <crossref let="n" cid="c09031013.3"/>fasted seven days.</verse>
+    <end-paragraph/>
+  </chapter>
+</book>
+</crossway-bible>