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thee; and that also Saul my father) knoweth.

He spareth Saul. CHAP. XXIV.

18 And they two made a covenant AND it came to pass, when Saul was

nefore the LORD: and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his

House.

19 Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himse fwith us in strong holds in the wood, in the bill of Hachilahi, | which is on the south of Jeshimon ? 20 Now therefore, O king,come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him into the king's band. 21 And Saul said, Blessed be ye of the LORD; for ye have compassion on

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23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking-places where he hid eth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.

24 And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of Jeshimon.

returned from following the Phi istines, that it was told him, saying, Bebold, David is in the wilderness of En-gedi.

2 Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seck David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats.

3 And he came to the sheep-cotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave.

4 And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of which the Lord said unto thee, Behold 1 will deliver thine enemy into thy band, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe pr.vily, 5 And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart smote him, because he had cut ofl' Saul's skirt.

6 And he said unto his men, The Lono forbid that I should do this thing unto my master, the Lond's anointed, to stretch forth my hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the Lond. 7 So David stayed his servants with these words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul. But Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way, 8 David also arose afterward, and 25 Saul also and his men went to went out of the cave and cried after seek him. And they told David: Saul, saying, My lord the king. And wherefore he came down into a rock, when Saul looked behind him, David and abode in the wilderness of Maon, stooped with his face to the earth, and And when Saul heard that, he pur-bowed himself. sued after David in the wilderness of Maon.

26 And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain; and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take them.

27 But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste thee, and come for the Philistines have invaded the Jand,

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28 Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing after David,and went against the Philistines: therefore they called that place Sela-hammah-lekoth.

And David went up from thence, and dwel: in strong holds at En-gedi.

9 ¶ And David said to Saul, Where fore bearest thou men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt ? 10 Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the Lord hath delivered thee to-day into my hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee; but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord; for he is the Lono's anointed.

11 Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in my hand, and I have not sinned Jagainst thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.

12 The Lono judge between me and

Samuel dieth.

CHAP. XXV.

Nabal's hurlishness. thee, and the Loan avenge me of thee:gail; and she was a woman of good but my hand shall not be upon thee. 13 As saith the proverb cf the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but my hand shall not be upon thee.

14 After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea? 15 The Lond therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thy hand.

understanding, and of a beautiful cour. tenance: but the man was churlıb and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.

4 T And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep. 5 And David sent out ten young men. and David said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Na bal, and greet him him in my name: 6 And thus shall ye say to him that liveth in prosperity, Peace be both to 16 And it came to pass, when Da-thee, and peace be thy house, and vid had made an end of speaking these peace be unto all that thou hast words unto Saul, that Saul said, Is 7 And now I have heard that thon this thy voice, my son Dayid? And hast shearers: now thy shepherds Saul lifted up his voice, and wept. which were with us, we hurt them 17 And he said to David, Thou art not, neither was there aught missing more righteous than 1: for thou hast unto them, all the while they were in rewarded me good, whercas I have Carmel. rewarded thee evil.

8 Ask thy young men, and they will 18 And thou hast showed this day show thee. Wherefore let the young how that thou hast dealt well with men find favour in thine eyes: for we me: forasmuch as when the LORD had come in a good day: give, I pray thee, delivered me into thy hand, thou kill-whatsoever cometh to thy hand unto edst me not.

19 For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the Lono reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this day.

thy servants, and to thy son David.
9 And when David's young men
came, they spake to Nabal according
to all those words in the name of Da
vid, and ccased.

10 T And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and

20 And now, behold, I know well that thou shalt surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be estab-who is the son of Jesse? there be inany lished in thy hand.

servants now-a-days that break away every man from his master.

21 Swear now therefore unto me by the LORD, that thou wilt mot cut off 11 Shall I then take my bread, and may seed after me, and that thou wilt my water, and my flesh that I have not destroy my name out of my fa-killed for my shearers, and give it unto ther's house. men whom I know not whence they be?

22 And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his men gat them up unto the hold.

CHAP. XXV.

12 So David's young men turned their way, and went again, and came año told him all those sayings.

13 And David said unto his men, Gird

AND Samuel died; and all the Is-ve on every man his sword. And they raelites were gathered together, girded on every man his sword; and and lamented him, and buried him in David also girded on his sword: and his house at Ramah. And David arose, there went up after David about four and went down to the wilderness of|hundred men'; and two hundred abode Paran. by the stuff.

2 And there was a man in Maon, 14 T But one of the young men told whose possessions were in Carmel Abagail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, and the man was very great, and he David sent messengers out of the wil had three thousand sheep, and a thou-derness to salute our master; and he and goats: and he was shearing his railed on them. sheep in Carmel.

15 But the men were very good unto 3 Now the name of the man was us,and we were not hurt, neither miss. Nabal; and the name of his wife Abi-led we any thing, as long as we were

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1. SAMUEL. conversant with them, when we were in the fields:

16 They were a wall unto us,both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

17 Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against a.f his household; for he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him.

She pacifies Davíð 27 And now this blessing, which thy handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord.

28 I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thy handmaid: for the Lond will certainly make my lord a sure house; because mylord fighteth the battles of the Lond, and evil bath not been found in thee all thy days.

29 Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, 18 T Then Abigail made haste, and and to seek thy soul: but the soul of took two hundred loaves,and two bot-my lord shall be bound in the bundle tles of wine,and five sheep ready dress-of life with the LonD thy God; and ed, and live measures of parched corn, the souls of thine enemies, them shall and a hundred clusters of raisins, and he sling out, as out of the middle of a two hundred cakes of figs, and laid sling.

them on assés.

19. And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.

20. And it was so, as she rode on the ass, that she came down by the covert of the hill, and, behold, David and his men came down against her; and she

met thein.

21 (Now David had said, Surely in vam have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him; and he hath requited me evil for good.

22 So and more also do God unto the "nemies of David, if 1 leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.)

23 And when Abigail saw David,she hasted, and lighted off the ass,and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,

24 And fell at his feet,and said Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be; and let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thy handmaid.

25 Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I, thy handmaid, saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.

26 Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, Now let thine enemies, and they that sech evil to my lord, be as Nabal

30 And it shall come to pass, when the Lond shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel; 31 That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless,or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the Lono shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thy handmaid. 32 T And David said to Abigail,Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me: 33 And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which has kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself wit. mine own band.

34 For in very deed, as the Lond God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal, by the morning light, any that pisseth against the wall.

35 So David received of her hand that which she had brought him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to thy house: see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person. 36 T And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold,be held a feast in his house like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

37 But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Naba!, and his wife had told him these things,

David Andeth

CHAP XXVI.

Said asleep. that his heart died within him, and] 6 Then answered David,and said ty he became as a stone. Abimelech the Hittite, and to Abisliau, 38 And it came to pass about ten day's the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, after, that the LORD smote Nabal, saying, Who will go down with me to that he died. Saul to the camp? And Abishai said,

39 ¶ And when David heard that Na-I will go down with thee. bal was dead, he said, Blessed be the 7 So David and Abishai came to the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of people by night; and,behold, Saul lay iny reproach from the hand of Nabal, sleeping within the trench, and his and hath kept his servant from evil: spear stuck in the ground at bisbolster; for the Lond hath returned the wick but Abner and the people lay round edness of Nabal upon his own bead.jabout him.

And David sent and communed with 8 Then said Abishai to David, God Abigail, to take her to him to wife. hath delivered thine enemy into thy 40 And when the servants of David|hand this day: now therefore let me were come to Abigail to Carmel, they smite him, I pray thee, with the spear spake unto her,saying, Lavid seut us even to the earth at once, and I will unto thee, to take thee to am to wife, not smile him the second time.

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41 And she arose, and bowed herself 9 And David said to Abishai,Destroy ou her face to the earth, and said,Be-him not: for who can stretch forth his bold, let thy handinaid be a servant to hand against the Lord's anointed,and wash the feet of the servants of my be guiltless?

lord.

42 And Abigail hasted, and arose,and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David,and became his wife.

43 David also took Ahinoam of Jez reel; and they were also both of them his wives.

44 But Saul had given Michal bis daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallium. CHAP. XXVI.

AND the Ziphites caine unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth_not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon?

2 Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziplı, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with hun, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.

3 And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon, by the way: but David abode in the wilderness; and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness. 4 David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come in very deed.

5 And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched; and David beheld the place where Saul ky, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round about him.

10 David said furthermore, As the LORD liveth, the LORD shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle,and perish.

11 The LORD forbid that I should stretch forth my hand against the Lord's anointed; but, I pray thee, take thou now the spear that is at his bolster, and the cruse of water, and let us go.

12 So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's bolster; and they gat them away, and ao mau saw it, nor knew it, either awaked: for they were all asleep; because a deep sleep from the Lond was fallen upon them.

13 T Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of a hill afar off, a great space being be tween them:

14 And David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, Anawerest thou not, Abner? Then Abner answered and said, Who art thou that criest to the king?

15 And David said to Abner, Art not thou a valiant man? and who is like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast thou not kept thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in to destroy the king thy lord.

16 This thing is not good that thou hast done. As the Lord liveth ye are worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master,the LORD's anointed. And now see where the king's spear

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17 And Saul knew David's voice,and said, Is this thy voice, my son David ? And David said, It is my voice, my lord, O king.

18 And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in my hand?

He fleeth to Gath,
2 And David arose, and he passed
over with the six hundred men that
were with him unto Achish, the sou
of Maoch, king of Gath.

3 And David dwelt with Achish at
Gath, he and his men, every man with
his household, even David with his
two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess,
and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's
wife.

4 And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath; and he sought no; more again for him.

19 Now therefore, I pray thee, let my
lord the king hear the words of his
servant. If the Lono bave stirred thee
up against me, let him accept an offer-| 5 ¶ And David said unto Achish,If I
ing: but if they be the children of men, have now found grace in thine eyes,
cursed be they before the LORD; for let them give me a place in some town
they have driven me out this day from in the country, that I may dwell there:
abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, for why should thy servant dwell in
saying, Go, serve other gods.
the royal city with thee?

6 Then Achish gave him Ziklag that
day; wherefore Ziklag pertaineth unto
the kings of Judali unto this day.

the country of the Philistines was o
full year and four months.

20 Now therefore, let not my blood
fall to the earth before the face of the
Lond; for the king of Israel is come
out to seek a flea, as when one doth 7 And the time that David dwelt in
bunt a patridge in the mountains.
21 Then said Saul, I have sinned:
return, my son David; for I will no
ore do thee harm, because my soul
was precious in thine eyes this day:
behold, I have played the fool, and
have erred exceedingly.

22 And David answered and said, Behold the king's spear! and let one of the young men come over and fetch it.

8 T And David and his men went up.
and invaded the Geshurites, and the
Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for
those nations were of old the inhabit-
ants of the land, as thou goest to Shur,
even unto the land of Egypt.
9 And David smote the land, and left
neither man nor woman alive, and
took away the sheep, and the oxen,
and the asses, and the camels, and the
apparel, aud returned, and came to

23 The LonD render to every man
his righteousness and his faithfulness:
for the LORD delivered thee into my Achish.
hand to-day, but I would not stretch 10 And Achish said, Whither have ye
forth my hand against the LORD's
anointed.

24 And, behold, as thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the Loan, and let him deliver me out of all tribulation.

25 Then Saul said to David, Blessed be thou, my son David; thou shalt both do great things, and also shalt still prevail. So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place. CHAP. XXVII.

AND David said in his heart, I shall

now perish one day by the band of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into

made a road to-day ? And David said,
Against the south of Judah,and against
the south of the Jerahmeelites, and
against the south of the Kenites.
11 And David saved neither man nc E
woman alive to bring tidings to Gath,
saying, Lest they should tell on us,say
ing, So did David, and so will be his
manner all the while he dwelleth in
the country of the Philistines.

12 And Achish believed David, say
ing, He hath made his people Isra
utterly to abhor him; therefore be

shall be my servant for ever.

CHAP. XXVIII.

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shall despair of me, to seek me any armies together for warfare, to fight.
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