The First Book Of Samuel

1 Samuel 1:1 Now there was a certain man of Ramathaimzophim, of mount
Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the
son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite:

1 Samuel 1:2 And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the
name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no
children.

1 Samuel 1:3 And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to
sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni
and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, were there.

1 Samuel 1:4 And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah
his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:

1 Samuel 1:5 But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah:
but the LORD had shut up her womb.

1 Samuel 1:6 And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret,
because the LORD had shut up her womb.

1 Samuel 1:7 And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of
the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.

1 Samuel 1:8 Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou?
and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee
than ten sons?

1 Samuel 1:9 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after
they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of
the LORD.

1 Samuel 1:10 And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD,
and wept sore.

1 Samuel 1:11 And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt
indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not
forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I
will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no razor
come upon his head.

1 Samuel 1:12 And it came to pass, as she continued praying before the LORD,
that Eli marked her mouth.

1 Samuel 1:13 Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but
her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.

1 Samuel 1:14 And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away
thy wine from thee.

1 Samuel 1:15 And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a
sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured
out my soul before the LORD.

1 Samuel 1:16 Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of
the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.

1 Samuel 1:17 Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel
grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him.

1 Samuel 1:18 And she said, Let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight. So
the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad.

1 Samuel 1:19 And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before
the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew
Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.

1 Samuel 1:20 Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after
Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying,
Because I have asked him of the LORD.

1 Samuel 1:21 And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto
the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.

1 Samuel 1:22 But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, I will
not go up until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may
appear before the LORD, and there abide for ever.

1 Samuel 1:23 And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what seemeth thee
good; tarry until thou have weaned him; only the LORD establish his word. So
the woman abode, and gave her son suck until she weaned him.

1 Samuel 1:24 And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with
three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him
unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young.

1 Samuel 1:25 And they slew a bullock, and brought the child to Eli.

1 Samuel 1:26 And she said, Oh my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am
the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the LORD.

1 Samuel 1:27 For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my
petition which I asked of him:

1 Samuel 1:28 Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he
liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he worshipped the LORD there.

1 Samuel 2:1 And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD,
mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies;
because I rejoice in thy salvation.

1 Samuel 2:2 There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee:
neither is there any rock like our God.

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

1 Samuel 2:4 The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled
are girded with strength.

1 Samuel 2:5 They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and
they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that
hath many children is waxed feeble.

1 Samuel 2:6 The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the
grave, and bringeth up.

1 Samuel 2:7 The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and
lifteth up.

1 Samuel 2:8 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the
beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit
the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and he hath
set the world upon them.

1 Samuel 2:9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be
silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.

1 Samuel 2:10 The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of
heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth;
and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.

1 Samuel 2:11 And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did
minister unto the LORD before Eli the priest.

1 Samuel 2:12 Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the
LORD.

1 Samuel 2:13 And the priests' custom with the people was, that, when any
man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in
seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand;

1 Samuel 2:14 And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot;
all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in
Shiloh, unto all the Israelites that came thither.

1 Samuel 2:15 Also before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and
said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he
will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.

1 Samuel 2:16 And if any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the
fat presently, and then take as much as thy soul desireth; then he would
answer him, Nay; but thou shalt give it me now: and if not, I will take it by
force.

1 Samuel 2:17 Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the
LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD.

1 Samuel 2:18 But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded
with a linen ephod.

1 Samuel 2:19 Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to
him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly
sacrifice.

1 Samuel 2:20 And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD give
thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the LORD. And they went
unto their own home.

1 Samuel 2:21 And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare
three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD.

1 Samuel 2:22 Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all
Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation.

1 Samuel 2:23 And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of
your evil dealings by all this people.

1 Samuel 2:24 Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make
the Lord's people to transgress.

1 Samuel 2:25 If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but
if a man sin against the LORD, who shall entreat for him? Notwithstanding they
hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the LORD would slay
them.

1 Samuel 2:26 And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the
LORD, and also with men.

1 Samuel 2:27 And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus
saith the LORD, Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father, when they
were in Egypt in Pharaoh's house?

1 Samuel 2:28 And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my
priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me?
and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of
the children of Israel?

1 Samuel 2:29 Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which
I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make
yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?

1 Samuel 2:30 Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy
house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now
the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and
they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

1 Samuel 2:31 Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the
arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house.

1 Samuel 2:32 And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth
which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house
for ever.

1 Samuel 2:33 And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine
altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the
increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age.

1 Samuel 2:34 And this shall be a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy
two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them.

1 Samuel 2:35 And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do
according to that which is in mine heart and in my mind: and I will build him
a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever.

1 Samuel 2:36 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in
thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of
bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices,
that I may eat a piece of bread.

1 Samuel 3:1 And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before Eli. And
the word of the LORD was precious in those days; there was no open vision.

1 Samuel 3:2 And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in his
place, and his eyes began to wax dim, that he could not see;

1 Samuel 3:3 And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD,
where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep;

1 Samuel 3:4 That the LORD called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I.

1 Samuel 3:5 And he ran unto Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou calledst me.
And he said, I called not; lie down again. And he went and lay down.

1 Samuel 3:6 And the LORD called yet again, Samuel. And Samuel arose and
went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And he answered, I
called not, my son; lie down again.

1 Samuel 3:7 Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, neither was the word of
the LORD yet revealed unto him.

1 Samuel 3:8 And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. And he arose
and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And Eli
perceived that the LORD had called the child.

1 Samuel 3:9 Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be,
if he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, LORD; for thy servant heareth. So
Samuel went and lay down in his place.

1 Samuel 3:10 And the LORD came, and stood, and called as at other times,
Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak; for thy servant heareth.

1 Samuel 3:11 And the LORD said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in
Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle.

1 Samuel 3:12 In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have
spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end.

1 Samuel 3:13 For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for
the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he
restrained them not.

1 Samuel 3:14 And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the
iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for
ever.

1 Samuel 3:15 And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the
house of the LORD. And Samuel feared to show Eli the vision.

1 Samuel 3:16 Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. And he
answered, Here am I.

1 Samuel 3:17 And he said, What is the thing that the LORD hath said unto
thee? I pray thee hide it not from me: God do so to thee, and more also, if
thou hide any thing from me of all the things that he said unto thee.

1 Samuel 3:18 And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And
he said, It is the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good.

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

1 Samuel 3:20 And all Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was
established to be a prophet of the LORD.

1 Samuel 3:21 And the LORD appeared again in Shiloh: for the LORD revealed
himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD.

1 Samuel 4:1 And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out
against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside Ebenezer: and the
Philistines pitched in Aphek.

1 Samuel 4:2 And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and
when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the Philistines: and they
slew of the army in the field about four thousand men.

1 Samuel 4:3 And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of
Israel said, Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us to day before the Philistines?
Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of Shiloh unto us, that,
when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies.

1 Samuel 4:4 So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence
the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth between the
cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the
ark of the covenant of God.

1 Samuel 4:5 And when the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the
camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again.

1 Samuel 4:6 And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they
said, What meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews?
And they understood that the ark of the LORD was come into the camp.

1 Samuel 4:7 And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come
into the camp. And they said, Woe unto us! for there hath not been such a
thing heretofore.

1 Samuel 4:8 Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these
mighty Gods? these are the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues
in the wilderness.

1 Samuel 4:9 Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that
ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves
like men, and fight.

1 Samuel 4:10 And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they
fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there
fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.

1 Samuel 4:11 And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni
and Phinehas, were slain.

1 Samuel 4:12 And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to
Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head.

1 Samuel 4:13 And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon a seat by the wayside
watching: for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came
into the city, and told it, all the city cried out.

1 Samuel 4:14 And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What
meaneth the noise of this tumult? And the man came in hastily, and told Eli.

1 Samuel 4:15 Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim,
that he could not see.

1 Samuel 4:16 And the man said unto Eli, I am he that came out of the army,
and I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is there done, my son?

1 Samuel 4:17 And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the
Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and
thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.

1 Samuel 4:18 And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God,
that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck
brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel
forty years.

1 Samuel 4:19 And his daughter in law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near
to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken,
and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and
travailed; for her pains came upon her.

1 Samuel 4:20 And about the time of her death the women that stood by her
said unto her, Fear not; for thou hast borne a son. But she answered not,
neither did she regard it.

1 Samuel 4:21 And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed
from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in
law and her husband.

1 Samuel 4:22 And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark
of God is taken.

1 Samuel 5:1 And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from
Ebenezer unto Ashdod.

1 Samuel 5:2 When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into
the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.

1 Samuel 5:3 And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold,
Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD. And
they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.

1 Samuel 5:4 And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon
was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD; and the
head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold;
only the stump of Dagon was left to him.

1 Samuel 5:5 Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into
Dagon's house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day.

1 Samuel 5:6 But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he
destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts
thereof.

1 Samuel 5:7 And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The
ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore upon
us, and upon Dagon our god.

1 Samuel 5:8 They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the
Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of
Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about
unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel about thither.

1 Samuel 5:9 And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand
of the LORD was against the city with a very great destruction: and he smote
the men of the city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their
secret parts.

1 Samuel 5:10 Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to
pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying,
They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our
people.

1 Samuel 5:11 So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the
Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go
again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a
deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy
there.

1 Samuel 5:12 And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and
the cry of the city went up to heaven.

1 Samuel 6:1 And the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines
seven months.

1 Samuel 6:2 And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners,
saying, What shall we do to the ark of the LORD? tell us wherewith we shall
send it to his place.

1 Samuel 6:3 And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel,
send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then ye
shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from
you.

1 Samuel 6:4 Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we
shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice,
according to the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague was on
you all, and on your lords.

1 Samuel 6:5 Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of
your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel:
peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods,
and from off your land.

1 Samuel 6:6 Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and
Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did
they not let the people go, and they departed?

1 Samuel 6:7 Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on
which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their
calves home from them:

1 Samuel 6:8 And take the ark of the LORD, and lay it upon the cart; and put
the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer
by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.

1 Samuel 6:9 And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to
Bethshemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall
know that it is not his hand that smote us: it was a chance that happened to
us.

1 Samuel 6:10 And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to
the cart, and shut up their calves at home:

1 Samuel 6:11 And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the
coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.

1 Samuel 6:12 And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh,
and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the
right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them
unto the border of Bethshemesh.

1 Samuel 6:13 And they of Bethshemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in
the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to
see it.

1 Samuel 6:14 And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Bethshemite, and
stood there, where there was a great stone: and they clave the wood of the
cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the LORD.

1 Samuel 6:15 And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD, and the coffer
that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great
stone: and the men of Bethshemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed
sacrifices the same day unto the LORD.

1 Samuel 6:16 And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they
returned to Ekron the same day.

1 Samuel 6:17 And these are the golden emerods which the Philistines
returned for a trespass offering unto the LORD; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one,
for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;

1 Samuel 6:18 And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities
of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities, and of
country villages, even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they set down the
ark of the LORD: which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua,
the Bethshemite.

1 Samuel 6:19 And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked
into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and
threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten
many of the people with a great slaughter.

1 Samuel 6:20 And the men of Bethshemesh said, Who is able to stand before
this holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us?

1 Samuel 6:21 And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjathjearim,
saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of the LORD; come ye down,
and fetch it up to you.

1 Samuel 7:1 And the men of Kirjathjearim came, and fetched up the ark of
the LORD, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and
sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the LORD.

1 Samuel 7:2 And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjathjearim, that
the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel
lamented after the LORD.

1 Samuel 7:3 And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do
return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and
Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him
only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.

1 Samuel 7:4 Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth,
and served the LORD only.

1 Samuel 7:5 And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray
for you unto the LORD.

1 Samuel 7:6 And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and
poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have
sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh.

1 Samuel 7:7 And when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were
gathered together to Mizpeh, the lords of the Philistines went up against
Israel. And when the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the
Philistines.

1 Samuel 7:8 And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to cry
unto the LORD our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the
Philistines.

1 Samuel 7:9 And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt
offering wholly unto the LORD: and Samuel cried unto the LORD for Israel; and
the LORD heard him.

1 Samuel 7:10 And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the
Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the LORD thundered with a
great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they
were smitten before Israel.

1 Samuel 7:11 And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the
Philistines, and smote them, until they came under Bethcar.

1 Samuel 7:12 Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen,
and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.

1 Samuel 7:13 So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more into
the coast of Israel: and the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all
the days of Samuel.

1 Samuel 7:14 And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel
were restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the coasts thereof did
Israel deliver out of the hands of the Philistines. And there was peace
between Israel and the Amorites.

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

1 Samuel 7:16 And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and
Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.

1 Samuel 7:17 And his return was to Ramah; for there was his house; and
there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the LORD.

1 Samuel 8:1 And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons
judges over Israel.

1 Samuel 8:2 Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his
second, Abiah: they were judges in Beersheba.

1 Samuel 8:3 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after
lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

1 Samuel 8:4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and
came to Samuel unto Ramah,

1 Samuel 8:5 And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not
in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.

1 Samuel 8:6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king
to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.

1 Samuel 8:7 And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the
people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but
they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.

1 Samuel 8:8 According to all the works which they have done since the day
that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have
forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.

1 Samuel 8:9 Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest
solemnly unto them, and show them the manner of the king that shall reign over
them.

1 Samuel 8:10 And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that
asked of him a king.

1 Samuel 8:11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall
reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his
chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.

1 Samuel 8:12 And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains
over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest,
and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.

1 Samuel 8:13 And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to
be cooks, and to be bakers.

1 Samuel 8:14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your
oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.

1 Samuel 8:15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your
vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.

1 Samuel 8:16 And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and
your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.

1 Samuel 8:17 He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his
servants.

1 Samuel 8:18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye
shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.

1 Samuel 8:19 Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel;
and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;

1 Samuel 8:20 That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king
may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.

1 Samuel 8:21 And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed
them in the ears of the LORD.

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

1 Samuel 9:1 Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son
of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a
Benjamite, a mighty man of power.

1 Samuel 9:2 And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and
a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person
than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.

1 Samuel 9:3 And the asses of Kish Saul's father were lost. And Kish said to
Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go seek the
asses.

1 Samuel 9:4 And he passed through mount Ephraim, and passed through the
land of Shalisha, but they found them not: then they passed through the land
of Shalim, and there they were not: and he passed through the land of the
Benjamites, but they found them not.

1 Samuel 9:5 And when they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his
servant that was with him, Come, and let us return; lest my father leave caring
for the asses, and take thought for us.

1 Samuel 9:6 And he said unto him, Behold now, there is in this city a man
of God, and he is an honourable man; all that he saith cometh surely to pass:
now let us go thither; peradventure he can show us our way that we should go.

1 Samuel 9:7 Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if we go, what
shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and there is
not a present to bring to the man of God: what have we?

1 Samuel 9:8 And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have
here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give to the
man of God, to tell us our way.

1 Samuel 9:9 (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus
he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a Prophet
was beforetime called a Seer.)

1 Samuel 9:10 Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So
they went unto the city where the man of God was.

1 Samuel 9:11 And as they went up the hill to the city, they found young
maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here?

1 Samuel 9:12 And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, he is before
you: make haste now, for he came to day to the city; for there is a sacrifice
of the people to day in the high place:

1 Samuel 9:13 As soon as ye be come into the city, ye shall straightway find
him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people will not eat
until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; and afterwards they eat
that be bidden. Now therefore get you up; for about this time ye shall find
him.

1 Samuel 9:14 And they went up into the city: and when they were come into
the city, behold, Samuel came out against them, for to go up to the high
place.

1 Samuel 9:15 Now the LORD had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul
came, saying,

1 Samuel 9:16 To morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the
land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be captain over my people
Israel, that he may save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I
have looked upon my people, because their cry is come unto me.

1 Samuel 9:17 And when Samuel saw Saul, the LORD said unto him, Behold the
man whom I spake to thee of! this same shall reign over my people.

1 Samuel 9:18 Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said, Tell me,
I pray thee, where the seer's house is.

1 Samuel 9:19 And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the seer: go up
before me unto the high place; for ye shall eat with me to day, and to morrow
I will let thee go, and will tell thee all that is in thine heart.

1 Samuel 9:20 And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not
thy mind on them; for they are found. And on whom is all the desire of Israel?
Is it not on thee, and on all thy father's house?

1 Samuel 9:21 And Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the
smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families
of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to me?

1 Samuel 9:22 And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into
the parlour, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were
bidden, which were about thirty persons.

1 Samuel 9:23 And Samuel said unto the cook, Bring the portion which I gave
thee, of which I said unto thee, Set it by thee.

1 Samuel 9:24 And the cook took up the shoulder, and that which was upon it,
and set it before Saul. And Samuel said, Behold that which is left! set it
before thee, and eat: for unto this time hath it been kept for thee since I
said, I have invited the people. So Saul did eat with Samuel that day.

1 Samuel 9:25 And when they were come down from the high place into the
city, Samuel communed with Saul upon the top of the house.

1 Samuel 9:26 And they arose early: and it came to pass about the spring of
the day, that Samuel called Saul to the top of the house, saying, Up, that I
may send thee away. And Saul arose, and they went out both of them, he and
Samuel, abroad.

1 Samuel 9:27 And as they were going down to the end of the city, Samuel
said to Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us, (and he passed on,) but stand
thou still a while, that I may show thee the word of God.

1 Samuel 10:1 Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head,
and kissed him, and said, Is it not because the LORD hath anointed thee to be
captain over his inheritance?

1 Samuel 10:2 When thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find
two men by Rachel's sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they
will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo,
thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying,
What shall I do for my son?

1 Samuel 10:3 Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come
to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to
Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread,
and another carrying a bottle of wine:

1 Samuel 10:4 And they will salute thee, and give thee two loaves of bread;
which thou shalt receive of their hands.

1 Samuel 10:5 After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the
garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come
thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down
from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp,
before them; and they shall prophesy:

1 Samuel 10:6 And the spirit of the LORD will come upon thee, and thou shalt
prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man.

1 Samuel 10:7 And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee, that thou
do as occasion serve thee; for God is with thee.

1 Samuel 10:8 And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I
will come down unto thee, to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice
sacrifices of peace offerings: seven days shalt thou tarry, till I come to
thee, and show thee what thou shalt do.

1 Samuel 10:9 And it was so, that when he had turned his back to go from
Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs came to pass that day.

1 Samuel 10:10 And when they came thither to the hill, behold, a company of
prophets met him; and the spirit of God came upon him, and he prophesied among
them.

1 Samuel 10:11 And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw
that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said one to
another, What is this that is come unto the son of Kish? Is Saul also among
the prophets?

1 Samuel 10:12 And one of the same place answered and said, But who is their
father? Therefore it became a proverb, Is Saul also among the prophets?

1 Samuel 10:13 And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the
high place.

1 Samuel 10:14 And Saul's uncle said unto him and to his servant, Whither
went ye? And he said, To seek the asses: and when we saw that they were no
where, we came to Samuel.

1 Samuel 10:15 And Saul's uncle said, Tell me, I pray thee, what Samuel said
unto you.

1 Samuel 10:16 And Saul said unto his uncle, He told us plainly that the
asses were found. But of the matter of the kingdom, whereof Samuel spake, he
told him not.

1 Samuel 10:17 And Samuel called the people together unto the LORD to
Mizpeh;

1 Samuel 10:18 And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the LORD God
of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand
of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, and of them that
oppressed you:

1 Samuel 10:19 And ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saved you
out of all your adversities and your tribulations; and ye have said unto him,
Nay, but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD
by your tribes, and by your thousands.

1 Samuel 10:20 And when Samuel had caused all the tribes of Israel to come
near, the tribe of Benjamin was taken.

1 Samuel 10:21 When he had caused the tribe of Benjamin to come near by
their families, the family of Matri was taken, and Saul the son of Kish was
taken: and when they sought him, he could not be found.

1 Samuel 10:22 Therefore they inquired of the LORD further, if the man
should yet come thither. And the LORD answered, Behold, he hath hid himself
among the stuff.

1 Samuel 10:23 And they ran and fetched him thence: and when he stood among
the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and
upward.

1 Samuel 10:24 And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the LORD
hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? And all the
people shouted, and said, God save the king.

1 Samuel 10:25 Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and
wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the
people away, every man to his house.

1 Samuel 10:26 And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a
band of men, whose hearts God had touched.

1 Samuel 10:27 But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us?
And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace.

1 Samuel 11:1 Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against
Jabeshgilead: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a covenant with
us, and we will serve thee.

1 Samuel 11:2 And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will
I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay
it for a reproach upon all Israel.

1 Samuel 11:3 And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days'
respite, that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel: and then,
if there be no man to save us, we will come out to thee.

1 Samuel 11:4 Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and told the
tidings in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voices,
and wept.

1 Samuel 11:5 And, behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field; and
Saul said, What aileth the people that they weep? And they told him the
tidings of the men of Jabesh.

1 Samuel 11:6 And the spirit of God came upon Saul when he heard those
tidings, and his anger was kindled greatly.

1 Samuel 11:7 And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent
them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying,
Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done
unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out
with one consent.

1 Samuel 11:8 And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel
were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

1 Samuel 11:9 And they said unto the messengers that came, Thus shall ye say
unto the men of Jabeshgilead, To morrow, by that time the sun be hot, ye shall
have help. And the messengers came and showed it to the men of Jabesh; and
they were glad.

1 Samuel 11:10 Therefore the men of Jabesh said, To morrow we will come out
unto you, and ye shall do with us all that seemeth good unto you.

1 Samuel 11:11 And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in
three companies; and they came into the midst of the host in the morning
watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it came to pass,
that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left
together.

1 Samuel 11:12 And the people said unto Samuel, Who is he that said, Shall
Saul reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death.

1 Samuel 11:13 And Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this
day: for to day the LORD hath wrought salvation in Israel.

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

1 Samuel 11:15 And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul
king before the LORD in Gilgal; and there they sacrificed sacrifices of peace
offerings before the LORD; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced
greatly.

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

1 Samuel 12:2 And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and
grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you
from my childhood unto this day.

1 Samuel 12:3 Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and
before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom
have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any
bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.

1 Samuel 12:4 And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us,
neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand.

1 Samuel 12:5 And he said unto them, The LORD is witness against you, and
his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found ought in my hand. And
they answered, He is witness.

1 Samuel 12:6 And Samuel said unto the people, It is the LORD that advanced
Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.

1 Samuel 12:7 Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before
the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to
your fathers.

1 Samuel 12:8 When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried unto
the LORD, then the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, which brought forth your fathers
out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place.

1 Samuel 12:9 And when they forgat the LORD their God, he sold them into the
hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the
Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against
them.

1 Samuel 12:10 And they cried unto the LORD, and said, We have sinned,
because we have forsaken the LORD, and have served Baalim and Ashtaroth: but
now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee.

1 Samuel 12:11 And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and
Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and
ye dwelled safe.

1 Samuel 12:12 And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon
came against you, ye said unto me, Nay; but a king shall reign over us: when
the LORD your God was your king.

1 Samuel 12:13 Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen, and whom
ye have desired! and, behold, the LORD hath set a king over you.

1 Samuel 12:14 If ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice,
and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall both ye and also
the king that reigneth over you continue following the LORD your God:

1 Samuel 12:15 But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel
against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be
against you, as it was against your fathers.

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

1 Samuel 12:17 Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD,
and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your
wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking
you a king.

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

1 Samuel 12:19 And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants
unto the LORD thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins
this evil, to ask us a king.

1 Samuel 12:20 And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all
this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but serve the
LORD with all your heart;

1 Samuel 12:21 And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things
, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.

1 Samuel 12:22 For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's
sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.

1 Samuel 12:23 Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the
LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right
way:

1 Samuel 12:24 Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your
heart; for consider how great things he hath done for you.

1 Samuel 12:25 But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both
ye and your king.

1 Samuel 13:1 Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over
Israel,

1 Samuel 13:2 Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two
thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were
with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every
man to his tent.

1 Samuel 13:3 And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that was in
Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout
all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.

1 Samuel 13:4 And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten a garrison of
the Philistines, and that Israel also was had in abomination with the
Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal.

1 Samuel 13:5 And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with
Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the
sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in
Michmash, eastward from Bethaven.

1 Samuel 13:6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for
the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and
in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.

1 Samuel 13:7 And some of the Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of Gad
and Gilead. As for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him
trembling.

1 Samuel 13:8 And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that
Samuel had appointed: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were
scattered from him.

1 Samuel 13:9 And Saul said, Bring hither a burnt offering to me, and peace
offerings. And he offered the burnt offering.

1 Samuel 13:10 And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end of
offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet
him, that he might salute him.

1 Samuel 13:11 And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because
I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within
the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at
Michmash;

1 Samuel 13:12 Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me
to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the LORD: I forced myself
therefore, and offered a burnt offering.

1 Samuel 13:13 And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast
not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for now
would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.

1 Samuel 13:14 But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought
him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be captain
over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD commanded
thee.

1 Samuel 13:15 And Samuel arose, and gat him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of
Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people that were present with him, about six
hundred men.

1 Samuel 13:16 And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were
present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped
in Michmash.

1 Samuel 13:17 And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in
three companies: one company turned unto the way that leadeth to Ophrah, unto
the land of Shual:

1 Samuel 13:18 And another company turned the way to Bethhoron: and another
company turned to the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim
toward the wilderness.

1 Samuel 13:19 Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of
Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:

1 Samuel 13:20 But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to
sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his ax, and his mattock.

1 Samuel 13:21 Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters,
and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.

1 Samuel 13:22 So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was
neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with
Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.

1 Samuel 13:23 And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage
of Michmash.

1 Samuel 14:1 Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul
said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over to the
Philistines' garrison, that is on the other side. But he told not his father.

1 Samuel 14:2 And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a
pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people that were with him were
about six hundred men;

1 Samuel 14:3 And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of
Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD'S priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And
the people knew not that Jonathan was gone.

1 Samuel 14:4 And between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to go over
unto the Philistines' garrison, there was a sharp rock on the one side, and a
sharp rock on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name
of the other Seneh.

1 Samuel 14:5 The forefront of the one was situate northward over against
Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah.

1 Samuel 14:6 And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come,
and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that
the LORD will work for us: for there is no restraint to the LORD to save by
many or by few.

1 Samuel 14:7 And his armourbearer said unto him, Do all that is in thine
heart: turn thee; behold, I am with thee according to thy heart.

1 Samuel 14:8 Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over unto these men,
and we will discover ourselves unto them.

1 Samuel 14:9 If they say thus unto us, Tarry until we come to you; then we
will stand still in our place, and will not go up unto them.

1 Samuel 14:10 But if they say thus, Come up unto us; then we will go up:
for the LORD hath delivered them into our hand: and this shall be a sign unto
us.

1 Samuel 14:11 And both of them discovered themselves unto the garrison of
the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out
of the holes where they had hid themselves.

1 Samuel 14:12 And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his
armourbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will show you a thing. And
Jonathan said unto his armourbearer, Come up after me: for the LORD hath
delivered them into the hand of Israel.

1 Samuel 14:13 And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet, and
his armourbearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his
armourbearer slew after him.

1 Samuel 14:14 And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer
made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a
yoke of oxen might plow.

1 Samuel 14:15 And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among
all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the
earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling.

1 Samuel 14:16 And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and,
behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down one another.

1 Samuel 14:17 Then said Saul unto the people that were with him, Number
now, and see who is gone from us. And when they had numbered, behold, Jonathan
and his armourbearer were not there.

1 Samuel 14:18 And Saul said unto Ahiah, Bring hither the ark of God. For
the ark of God was at that time with the children of Israel.

1 Samuel 14:19 And it came to pass, while Saul talked unto the priest, that
the noise that was in the host of the Philistines went on and increased: and
Saul said unto the priest, Withdraw thine hand.

1 Samuel 14:20 And Saul and all the people that were with him assembled
themselves, and they came to the battle: and, behold, every man's sword was
against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture.

1 Samuel 14:21 Moreover the Hebrews that were with the Philistines before
that time, which went up with them into the camp from the country round about,
even they also turned to be with the Israelites that were with Saul and
Jonathan.

1 Samuel 14:22 Likewise all the men of Israel which had hid themselves in
mount Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also
followed hard after them in the battle.

1 Samuel 14:23 So the LORD saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over
unto Bethaven.

1 Samuel 14:24 And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had
adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food until
evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted
any food.

1 Samuel 14:25 And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey
upon the ground.

1 Samuel 14:26 And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the
honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the
oath.

1 Samuel 14:27 But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people
with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand,
and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes
were enlightened.

1 Samuel 14:28 Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father
straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that
eateth any food this day. And the people were faint.

1 Samuel 14:29 Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I
pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of
this honey.

1 Samuel 14:30 How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of
the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much
greater slaughter among the Philistines?

1 Samuel 14:31 And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to
Aijalon: and the people were very faint.

1 Samuel 14:32 And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen,
and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the
blood.

1 Samuel 14:33 Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against
the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have transgressed:
roll a great stone unto me this day.

1 Samuel 14:34 And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say
unto them, Bring me hither every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and slay
them here, and eat; and sin not against the LORD in eating with the blood. And
all the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and slew them
there.

1 Samuel 14:35 And Saul built an altar unto the LORD: the same was the first
altar that he built unto the LORD.

1 Samuel 14:36 And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night,
and spoil them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them.
And they said, Do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee. Then said the priest, Let
us draw near hither unto God.

1 Samuel 14:37 And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the
Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he answered
him not that day.

1 Samuel 14:38 And Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the chief of the
people: and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day.

1 Samuel 14:39 For, as the LORD liveth, which saveth Israel, though it be in
Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among all the
people that answered him.

1 Samuel 14:40 Then said he unto all Israel, Be ye on one side, and I and
Jonathan my son will be on the other side. And the people said unto Saul, Do
what seemeth good unto thee.

1 Samuel 14:41 Therefore Saul said unto the LORD God of Israel, Give a
perfect lot. And Saul and Jonathan were taken: but the people escaped.

1 Samuel 14:42 And Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And
Jonathan was taken.

1 Samuel 14:43 Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And
Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of
the rod that was in mine hand, and, lo, I must die.

1 Samuel 14:44 And Saul answered, God do so and more also: for thou shalt
surely die, Jonathan.

1 Samuel 14:45 And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath
wrought this great salvation in Israel? God forbid: as the LORD liveth, there
shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with
God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.

1 Samuel 14:46 Then Saul went up from following the Philistines: and the
Philistines went to their own place.

1 Samuel 14:47 So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all
his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon,
and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines:
and whithersoever he turned himself, he vexed them.

1 Samuel 14:48 And he gathered an host, and smote the Amalekites, and
delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them.

1 Samuel 14:49 Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishui, and
Melchishua: and the names of his two daughters were these; the name of the
firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal:

1 Samuel 14:50 And the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam, the daughter of
Ahimaaz: and the name of the captain of his host was Abner, the son of Ner,
Saul's uncle.

1 Samuel 14:51 And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner
was the son of Abiel.

1 Samuel 14:52 And there was sore war against the Philistines all the days
of Saul: and when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he took him
unto him.

1 Samuel 15:1 Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint thee to
be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the
voice of the words of the LORD.

1 Samuel 15:2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did
to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.

1 Samuel 15:3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they
have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox
and sheep, camel and ass.

1 Samuel 15:4 And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in
Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

1 Samuel 15:5 And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the
valley.

1 Samuel 15:6 And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from
among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye showed kindness to
all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites
departed from among the Amalekites.

1 Samuel 15:7 And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest
to Shur, that is over against Egypt.

1 Samuel 15:8 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly
destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

1 Samuel 15:9 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the
sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was
good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and
refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

1 Samuel 15:10 Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying,

1 Samuel 15:11 It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is
turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it
grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.

1 Samuel 15:12 And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it
was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a
place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.

1 Samuel 15:13 And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be
thou of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD.

1 Samuel 15:14 And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep
in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

1 Samuel 15:15 And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites:
for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto
the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.

1 Samuel 15:16 Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what
the LORD hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on.

1 Samuel 15:17 And Samuel said, When thou wast little in thine own sight,
wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed
thee king over Israel?

1 Samuel 15:18 And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly
destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be
consumed.

1 Samuel 15:19 Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but
didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?

1 Samuel 15:20 And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of
the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag
the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

1 Samuel 15:21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief
of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the
LORD thy God in Gilgal.

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

1 Samuel 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness
is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD,
he hath also rejected thee from being king.

1 Samuel 15:24 And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have
transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words: because I feared the
people, and obeyed their voice.

1 Samuel 15:25 Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again
with me, that I may worship the LORD.

1 Samuel 15:26 And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for
thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected thee from
being king over Israel.

1 Samuel 15:27 And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the
skirt of his mantle, and it rent.

1 Samuel 15:28 And Samuel said unto him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom of
Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine, that is
better than thou.

1 Samuel 15:29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for
he is not a man, that he should repent.

1 Samuel 15:30 Then he said, I have sinned: yet honour me now, I pray thee,
before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me,
that I may worship the LORD thy God.

1 Samuel 15:31 So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped the
LORD.

1 Samuel 15:32 Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the
Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the
bitterness of death is past.

1 Samuel 15:33 And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so
shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces
before the LORD in Gilgal.

1 Samuel 15:34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to
Gibeah of Saul.

1 Samuel 15:35 And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his
death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had
made Saul king over Israel.

1 Samuel 16:1 And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for
Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn
with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have
provided me a king among his sons.

1 Samuel 16:2 And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill
me. And the LORD said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to
sacrifice to the LORD.

1 Samuel 16:3 And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show thee what
thou shalt do: and thou shalt anoint unto me him whom I name unto thee.

1 Samuel 16:4 And Samuel did that which the LORD spake, and came to
Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, Comest
thou peaceably?

1 Samuel 16:5 And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice unto the LORD:
sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified
Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.

1 Samuel 16:6 And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on
Eliab, and said, Surely the Lord's anointed is before him.

1 Samuel 16:7 But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or
on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth
not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD
looketh on the heart.

1 Samuel 16:8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel.
And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this.

1 Samuel 16:9 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither hath
the LORD chosen this.

1 Samuel 16:10 Again, Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel.
And Samuel said unto Jesse, The LORD hath not chosen these.

1 Samuel 16:11 And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he
said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. And
Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he
come hither.

1 Samuel 16:12 And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal
of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the LORD said, Arise,
anoint him: for this is he.

1 Samuel 16:13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the
midst of his brethren: and the spirit of the LORD came upon David from that
day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.

1 Samuel 16:14 But the spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil
spirit from the LORD troubled him.

1 Samuel 16:15 And Saul's servants said unto him, Behold now, an evil spirit
from God troubleth thee.

1 Samuel 16:16 Let our lord now command thy servants, which are before thee,
to seek out a man, who is a cunning player on an harp: and it shall come to
pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play with his
hand, and thou shalt be well.

1 Samuel 16:17 And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that
can play well, and bring him to me.

1 Samuel 16:18 Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have
seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty
valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person,
and the LORD is with him.

1 Samuel 16:19 Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me
David thy son, which is with the sheep.

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

1 Samuel 16:21 And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved
him greatly; and he became his armourbearer.

1 Samuel 16:22 And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand
before me; for he hath found favour in my sight.

1 Samuel 16:23 And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon
Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was
refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.

1 Samuel 17:1 Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle,
and were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched
between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim.

1 Samuel 17:2 And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and
pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the
Philistines.

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

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

1 Samuel 17:5 And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed
with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of
brass.

1 Samuel 17:6 And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of
brass between his shoulders.

1 Samuel 17:7 And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his
spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield
went before him.

1 Samuel 17:8 And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said
unto them, Why are ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a
Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him
come down to me.

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

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

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

1 Samuel 17:12 Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehemjudah,
whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an
old man in the days of Saul.

1 Samuel 17:13 And the three eldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to
the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were Eliab
the firstborn, and next unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.

1 Samuel 17:14 And David was the youngest: and the three eldest followed
Saul.

1 Samuel 17:15 But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's
sheep at Bethlehem.

1 Samuel 17:16 And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and
presented himself forty days.

1 Samuel 17:17 And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren
an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to
thy brethren;

1 Samuel 17:18 And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their
thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.

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

1 Samuel 17:20 And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep
with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to
the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the
battle.

1 Samuel 17:21 For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array,
army against army.

1 Samuel 17:22 And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the
carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.

1 Samuel 17:23 And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the
champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the
Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard them.

1 Samuel 17:24 And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from
him, and were sore afraid.

1 Samuel 17:25 And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is
come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man
who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him
his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel.

1 Samuel 17:26 And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What
shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the
reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should
defy the armies of the living God?

1 Samuel 17:27 And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So
shall it be done to the man that killeth him.

1 Samuel 17:28 And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the
men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou
down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I
know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down
that thou mightest see the battle.

1 Samuel 17:29 And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?

1 Samuel 17:30 And he turned from him toward another, and spake after the
same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner.

1 Samuel 17:31 And when the words were heard which David spake, they
rehearsed them before Saul: and he sent for him.

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

1 Samuel 17:33 And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this
Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war
from his youth.

1 Samuel 17:34 And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's
sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:

1 Samuel 17:35 And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out
of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and
smote him, and slew him.

1 Samuel 17:36 Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this
uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the
armies of the living God.

1 Samuel 17:37 David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the
paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the
hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the LORD be with
thee.

1 Samuel 17:38 And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of
brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail.

1 Samuel 17:39 And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to
go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with
these; for I have not proved them. And David put them off him.

1 Samuel 17:40 And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth
stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had, even
in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.

1 Samuel 17:41 And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the
man that bare the shield went before him.

1 Samuel 17:42 And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he
disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance.

1 Samuel 17:43 And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou
comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

1 Samuel 17:44 And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give
thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.

1 Samuel 17:45 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a
sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of
the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.

1 Samuel 17:46 This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I
will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases
of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the
wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in
Israel.

1 Samuel 17:47 And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not
with sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into
our hands.

1 Samuel 17:48 And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and
drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted, and ran toward the army to meet
the Philistine.

1 Samuel 17:49 And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone,
and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk
into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.

1 Samuel 17:50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with
a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the
hand of David.

1 Samuel 17:51 Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took
his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off
his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they
fled.

1 Samuel 17:52 And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and
pursued the Philistines, until thou come to the valley, and to the gates of
Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim,
even unto Gath, and unto Ekron.

1 Samuel 17:53 And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the
Philistines, and they spoiled their tents.

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

1 Samuel 17:55 And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he
said unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this youth? And
Abner said, As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.

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

1 Samuel 17:57 And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine,
Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in
his hand.

1 Samuel 17:58 And Saul said to him, Whose son art thou, thou young man? And
David answered, I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.

1 Samuel 18:1 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto
Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan
loved him as his own soul.

1 Samuel 18:2 And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home
to his father's house.

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

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

1 Samuel 18:5 And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him, and behaved
himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in
the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants.

1 Samuel 18:6 And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from
the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of
Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and
with instruments of music.

1 Samuel 18:7 And the women answered one another as they played, and said,
Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.

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

1 Samuel 18:9 And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.

1 Samuel 18:10 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from
God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David
played with his hand, as at other times: and there was a javelin in Saul's
hand.

1 Samuel 18:11 And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David
even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice.

1 Samuel 18:12 And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him,
and was departed from Saul.

1 Samuel 18:13 Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain
over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.

1 Samuel 18:14 And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the
LORD was with him.

1 Samuel 18:15 Wherefore when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely,
he was afraid of him.

1 Samuel 18:16 But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out and
came in before them.

1 Samuel 18:17 And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her
will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD'S
battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the
Philistines be upon him.

1 Samuel 18:18 And David said unto Saul, Who am I? and what is my life, or
my father's family in Israel, that I should be son in law to the king?

1 Samuel 18:19 But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul's daughter
should have been given to David, that she was given unto Adriel the
Meholathite to wife.

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

1 Samuel 18:21 And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare
to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore
Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in the one of the
twain.

1 Samuel 18:22 And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David
secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants
love thee: now therefore be the king's son in law.

1 Samuel 18:23 And Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David.
And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king's son in law,
seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?

1 Samuel 18:24 And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner
spake David.

1 Samuel 18:25 And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth
not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of
the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the
Philistines.

1 Samuel 18:26 And when his servants told David these words, it pleased
David well to be the king's son in law: and the days were not expired.

1 Samuel 18:27 Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of
the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they
gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law.
And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.

1 Samuel 18:28 And Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that
Michal Saul's daughter loved him.

1 Samuel 18:29 And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became
David's enemy continually.

1 Samuel 18:30 Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it came
to pass, after they went forth, that David behaved himself more wisely than
all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much set by.

1 Samuel 19:1 And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants,
that they should kill David.

1 Samuel 19:2 But Jonathan Saul's son delighted much in David: and Jonathan
told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray
thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret place, and
hide thyself:

1 Samuel 19:3 And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field
where thou art, and I will commune with my father of thee; and what I see,
that I will tell thee.

1 Samuel 19:4 And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and
said unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David;
because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works have been to
thee-ward very good:

1 Samuel 19:5 For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine,
and the LORD wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest it, and
didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay
David without a cause?

1 Samuel 19:6 And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware,
As the LORD liveth, he shall not be slain.

1 Samuel 19:7 And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those
things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as in
times past.

1 Samuel 19:8 And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with
the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled from him.

1 Samuel 19:9 And the evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat in
his house with his javelin in his hand: and David played with his hand.

1 Samuel 19:10 And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the
javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin
into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.

1 Samuel 19:11 Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him,
and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If
thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.

1 Samuel 19:12 So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and
fled, and escaped.

1 Samuel 19:13 And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a
pillow of goats' hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth.

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

1 Samuel 19:15 And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying,
Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.

1 Samuel 19:16 And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an
image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster.

1 Samuel 19:17 And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and
sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said
unto me, Let me go; why should I kill thee?

1 Samuel 19:18 So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and
told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in
Naioth.

1 Samuel 19:19 And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in
Ramah.

1 Samuel 19:20 And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the
company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as appointed over
them, the spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and they also
prophesied.

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

1 Samuel 19:22 Then went he also to Ramah, and came to a great well that is
in Sechu: and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? And one said,
Behold, they be at Naioth in Ramah.

1 Samuel 19:23 And he went thither to Naioth in Ramah: and the spirit of God
was upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in
Ramah.

1 Samuel 19:24 And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before
Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that night.
Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?

1 Samuel 20:1 And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before
Jonathan, What have I done? what is mine iniquity? and what is my sin before
thy father, that he seeketh my life?

1 Samuel 20:2 And he said unto him, God forbid; thou shalt not die: behold,
my father will do nothing either great or small, but that he will show it me:
and why should my father hide this thing from me? it is not so.

1 Samuel 20:3 And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly
knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan
know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul
liveth, there is but a step between me and death.

1 Samuel 20:4 Then said Jonathan unto David, Whatsoever thy soul desireth, I
will even do it for thee.

1 Samuel 20:5 And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to morrow is the new
moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that
I may hide myself in the field unto the third day at even.

1 Samuel 20:6 If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked
leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city: for there is a yearly
sacrifice there for all the family.

1 Samuel 20:7 If he say thus, It is well; thy servant shall have peace: but
if he be very wroth, then be sure that evil is determined by him.

1 Samuel 20:8 Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou
hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the LORD with thee:
notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why
shouldest thou bring me to thy father?

1 Samuel 20:9 And Jonathan said, Far be it from thee: for if I knew
certainly that evil were determined by my father to come upon thee, then would
not I tell it thee?

1 Samuel 20:10 Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what if
thy father answer thee roughly?

1 Samuel 20:11 And Jonathan said unto David, Come, and let us go out into
the field. And they went out both of them into the field.

1 Samuel 20:12 And Jonathan said unto David, O LORD God of Israel, when I
have sounded my father about to morrow any time, or the third day, and,
behold, if there be good toward David, and I then send not unto thee, and show
it thee;

1 Samuel 20:13 The LORD do so and much more to Jonathan: but if it please my
father to do thee evil, then I will show it thee, and send thee away, that
thou mayest go in peace: and the LORD be with thee, as he hath been with my
father.

1 Samuel 20:14 And thou shalt not only while yet I live show me the kindness
of the LORD, that I die not:

1 Samuel 20:15 But also thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house
for ever: no, not when the LORD hath cut off the enemies of David every one
from the face of the earth.

1 Samuel 20:16 So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying,
Let the LORD even require it at the hand of David's enemies.

1 Samuel 20:17 And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved
him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

1 Samuel 20:18 Then Jonathan said to David, To morrow is the new moon: and
thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty.

1 Samuel 20:19 And when thou hast stayed three days, then thou shalt go down
quickly, and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself when the business
was in hand, and shalt remain by the stone Ezel.

1 Samuel 20:20 And I will shoot three arrows on the side thereof, as though
I shot at a mark.

1 Samuel 20:21 And, behold, I will send a lad, saying, Go, find out the
arrows. If I expressly say unto the lad, Behold, the arrows are on this side
of thee, take them; then come thou: for there is peace to thee, and no hurt; as
the LORD liveth.

1 Samuel 20:22 But if I say thus unto the young man, Behold, the arrows are
beyond thee; go thy way: for the LORD hath sent thee away.

1 Samuel 20:23 And as touching the matter which thou and I have spoken of,
behold, the LORD be between thee and me for ever.

1 Samuel 20:24 So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was
come, the king sat him down to eat meat.

1 Samuel 20:25 And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, even upon
a seat by the wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul's side, and
David's place was empty.

1 Samuel 20:26 Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he
thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not clean; surely he is not clean.

1 Samuel 20:27 And it came to pass on the morrow, which was the second day
of the month, that David's place was empty: and Saul said unto Jonathan his
son, Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse to meat, neither yesterday, nor to
day?

1 Samuel 20:28 And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me
to go to Bethlehem:

1 Samuel 20:29 And he said, Let me go, I pray thee; for our family hath a
sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he hath commanded me to be there: and
now, if I have found favour in thine eyes, let me get away, I pray thee, and
see my brethren. Therefore he cometh not unto the king's table.

1 Samuel 20:30 Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said
unto him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou
hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the confusion of
thy mother's nakedness?

1 Samuel 20:31 For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou
shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him
unto me, for he shall surely die.

1 Samuel 20:32 And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him,
Wherefore shall he be slain? what hath he done?

1 Samuel 20:33 And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan
knew that it was determined of his father to slay David.

1 Samuel 20:34 So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and did eat
no meat the second day of the month: for he was grieved for David, because his
father had done him shame.

1 Samuel 20:35 And it came to pass in the morning, that Jonathan went out
into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little lad with him.

1 Samuel 20:36 And he said unto his lad, Run, find out now the arrows which
I shoot. And as the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.

1 Samuel 20:37 And when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which
Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, and said, Is not the arrow
beyond thee?

1 Samuel 20:38 And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed, haste,