1 Samuel 9 - 31
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There was a man of Benjamin whose name was f Kish, the son of Abiel, son of Zeror, son of Becorath, son of Aphiah, a Benjaminite, a man of wealth.
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And he had a son whose name was Saul, g a handsome young man. There was not a man among the people of Israel more handsome than he. h From his shoulders upward he was taller than any of the people.
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Now the donkeys of Kish, Saul's father, were lost. So Kish said to Saul his son, "Take one of the young men with you, and arise, go and look for the donkeys."
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And he passed through i the hill country of Ephraim and passed through the land of j Shalishah, but they did not find them. And they passed through the land of Shaalim, but they were not there. Then they passed through the land of Benjamin, but did not find them.
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When they came to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, "Come, let us go back, k lest my father cease to care about the donkeys and become anxious about us."
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But he said to him, "Behold, there is l a man of God in this city, and he is a man who is held in honor; m all that he says comes true. So now let us go there. Perhaps he can tell us the way we should go."
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Then Saul said to his servant, "But if we go, n what can we bring the man? For the bread in our sacks is gone, and there is no present to bring to the man of God. What do we have?"
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The servant answered Saul again, "Here, I have with me a quarter of a shekel of silver, and I will give it to the man of God to tell us our way."
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(Formerly in Israel, when a man o went to inquire of God, he said, "Come, let us go to the seer," for today's "prophet" was formerly called a seer.)
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And Saul said to his servant, "Well said; come, let us go." So they went to the city where the man of God was.
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As they went up the hill to the city, p they met young women coming out to draw water and said to them, "Is the seer here?"
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They answered, "He is; behold, he is just ahead of you. Hurry. He has come just now to the city, because the people q have a sacrifice today on r the high place.
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As soon as you enter the city you will find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat. For the people will not eat till he comes, since he must bless the sacrifice; afterward those who are invited will eat. Now go up, for you will meet him immediately."
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So they went up to the city. As they were entering the city, they saw Samuel coming out toward them on his way up to the high place.
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Now the day before Saul came, s the Lord had t revealed to Samuel:
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"Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, u and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines. v For I have seen my people, because their cry has come to me."
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When Samuel saw Saul, the Lord told him, w "Here is the man of whom I spoke to you! He it is who shall restrain my people."
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Then Saul approached Samuel in the gate and said, "Tell me where is the house of the seer?"
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Samuel answered Saul, "I am the seer. Go up before me to the high place, for today you shall eat with me, and in the morning I will let you go and will tell you all that is on your mind.
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x As for your donkeys that were lost three days ago, do not set your mind on them, for they have been found. And for whom is all that is desirable in Israel? Is it not for you and for all your father's house?"
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Saul answered, "Am I not a Benjaminite, y from the least of the tribes of Israel? z And is not my clan the humblest of all the clans of the tribe of Benjamin? Why then have you spoken to me in this way?"
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Then Samuel took Saul and his young man and brought them into the hall and gave them a place at the head of those who had been invited, who were about thirty persons.
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And Samuel said to the cook, "Bring the portion I gave you, of which I said to you, 'Put it aside.'"
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So the cook took up a the leg and what was on it and set them before Saul. And Samuel said, "See, what was kept is set before you. Eat, because it was kept for you until the hour appointed, that you might eat with the guests." So Saul ate with Samuel that day.
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And when they came down from the high place into the city, a bed was spread for Saul b on the roof, and he lay down to sleep.
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Then at the break of dawn Samuel called to Saul on the roof, "Up, that I may send you on your way." So Saul arose, and both he and Samuel went out into the street.
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As they were going down to the outskirts of the city, Samuel said to Saul, "Tell the servant to pass on before us, and when he has passed on, stop here yourself for a while, that I may make known to you the word of God."
1 Samuel 10
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c Then Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it on his head d and kissed him and said, "Has not the Lord anointed you to be prince over e his people Israel? And you shall reign over the people of the Lord and you will save them from the hand of their surrounding enemies. And this shall be the sign to you that the Lord has anointed you to be prince over his heritage.
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When you depart from me today, you will meet two men by f Rachel's tomb in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah, and they will say to you, g 'The donkeys that you went to seek are found, and now h your father has ceased to care about the donkeys and is anxious about you, saying, "What shall I do about my son?"'
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Then you shall go on from there farther and come to the i oak of Tabor. Three men j going up k to God at Bethel will meet you there, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.
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And they will greet you and give you two loaves of bread, which you shall accept from their hand.
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After that you shall come to l Gibeath-elohim, m where there is a garrison of the Philistines. And there, as soon as you come to the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down n from the high place with harp, tambourine, flute, and lyre before them, prophesying.
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o Then the Spirit of the Lord will rush upon you, p and you will prophesy with them and be turned into another man.
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Now when q these signs meet you, do what your hand finds to do, r for God is with you.
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Then go down before me s to Gilgal. And behold, I am coming to you to offer burnt offerings and t to sacrifice peace offerings. u Seven days you shall wait, until I come to you and show you what you shall do."
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When he turned his back to leave Samuel, God gave him another heart. And all these signs came to pass that day.
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When they came to v Gibeah, behold, a group of prophets met him, o and the Spirit of God rushed upon him, and he prophesied among them.
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And when all who knew him previously saw how he prophesied with the prophets, the people said to one another, "What has come over the son of Kish? w Is Saul also among the prophets?"
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And a man of the place answered, x "And who is their father?" Therefore it became a proverb, w "Is Saul also among the prophets?"
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When he had finished prophesying, he came to the high place.
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y Saul's uncle said to him and to his servant, "Where did you go?" And he said, z "To seek the donkeys. And when we saw they were not to be found, we went to Samuel."
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And Saul's uncle said, "Please tell me what Samuel said to you."
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And Saul said to his uncle, a "He told us plainly that the donkeys had been found." But about the matter of the kingdom, of which Samuel had spoken, he did not tell him anything.
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Now Samuel called the people together b to the Lord c at Mizpah.
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And he said to the people of Israel, d "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, 'I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all the kingdoms that were oppressing you.'
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e But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your calamities and your distresses, and you have said to him, 'Set a king over us.' Now therefore f present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes and by your thousands."
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Then Samuel g brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was taken by lot.
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He brought the tribe of Benjamin near by its clans, and the clan of the Matrites was taken by lot; and Saul the son of Kish was taken by lot. But when they sought him, he could not be found.
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h So they inquired again of the Lord, "Is there a man still to come?" and the Lord said, "Behold, he has hidden himself among the baggage."
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Then they ran and took him from there. And when he stood among the people, i he was taller than any of the people from his shoulders upward.
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And Samuel said to all the people, "Do you see him j whom the Lord has chosen? There is none like him among all the people." And all the people shouted, k "Long live the king!"
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Then Samuel told the people l the rights and duties of the kingship, and he wrote them in a book and laid it up before the Lord. Then Samuel sent all the people away, each one to his home.
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Saul also went to his home m at Gibeah, and with him went men of valor whose hearts God had touched.
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But some n worthless fellows said, "How can this man save us?" And they despised him and brought him no present. But he held his peace.
1 Samuel 11
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o Then Nahash the Ammonite went up and besieged p Jabesh-gilead, and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, q "Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you."
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But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, "On this condition I will make a treaty with you, r that I gouge out all your right eyes, and thus s bring disgrace on all Israel."
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The elders of Jabesh said to him, "Give us seven days' respite that we may send messengers through all the territory of Israel. Then, if there is no one to save us, we will give ourselves up to you."
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When the messengers came to t Gibeah of Saul, they reported the matter in the ears of the people, u and all the people wept aloud.
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Now, behold, Saul was coming from the field behind the oxen. And Saul said, "What is wrong with the people, that they are weeping?" So they told him the news of the men of Jabesh.
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v And the Spirit of God rushed upon Saul when he heard these words, and his anger was greatly kindled.
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He took a yoke of oxen w and cut them in pieces and sent them throughout all the territory of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, x "Whoever does not come out after Saul and Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen!" Then the dread of the Lord fell upon the people, and they came out y as one man.
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When he mustered them at z Bezek, a the people of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
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And they said to the messengers who had come, "Thus shall you say to the men of Jabesh-gilead: 'Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you shall have b deliverance.'" When the messengers came and told the men of Jabesh, they were glad.
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Therefore the men of Jabesh said, c "Tomorrow we will give ourselves up to you, and you may do to us whatever seems good to you."
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d And the next day Saul put the people e in three companies. And they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch and struck down the Ammonites until the heat of the day. And those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.
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Then the people said to Samuel, f "Who is it that said, 'Shall Saul reign over us?' g Bring the men, that we may put them to death."
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But Saul said, h "Not a man shall be put to death this day, for today i the Lord has worked j salvation in Israel."
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Then Samuel said to the people, "Come, let us go to Gilgal and there renew the kingdom."
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So all the people went to k Gilgal, and there they made Saul king l before the Lord in Gilgal. There m they sacrificed peace offerings before the Lord, and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.
1 Samuel 12
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And Samuel said to all Israel, "Behold, I have obeyed n your voice in all that you have said to me o and have made a king over you.
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And now, behold, the king p walks before you, q and I am old and gray; and behold, my sons are with you. I have walked before you from my youth until this day.
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Here I am; testify against me before the Lord and before r his anointed. s Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? Testify against me and I will restore it to you."
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They said, "You have not defrauded us or oppressed us or taken anything from any man's hand."
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And he said to them, "The Lord is witness against you, and r his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything t in my hand." And they said, "He is witness."
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And Samuel said to the people, u "The Lord is witness, who appointed Moses and Aaron and brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
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Now therefore stand still that I may plead with you before the Lord concerning all the righteous deeds of the Lord that he performed for you and for your fathers.
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v When Jacob went into Egypt, and the Egyptians oppressed them, w then your fathers cried out to the Lord and x the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, y who brought your fathers out of Egypt and made them dwell in this place.
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But z they forgot the Lord their God. a And he sold them into the hand of Sisera, commander of the army of Hazor, b and into the hand of the Philistines, c and into the hand of the king of Moab. And they fought against them.
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d And they cried out to the Lord and said, 'We have sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord e and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth. But now f deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, that we may serve you.'
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And the Lord sent g Jerubbaal h and Barak i and Jephthah and j Samuel and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and you lived in safety.
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And when you saw that k Nahash the king of the Ammonites came against you, l you said to me, 'No, but a king shall reign over us,' m when the Lord your God was your king.
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And now n behold the king whom you have chosen, for whom you have asked; behold, o the Lord has set a king over you.
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If you will p fear the Lord and serve him and obey his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the Lord, and if both you and the king who reigns over you will follow the Lord your God, it will be well.
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But q if you will not obey the voice of the Lord, but rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then r the hand of the Lord will be against you and s your king.
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Now therefore t stand still and see this great thing that the Lord will do before your eyes.
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u Is it not wheat harvest today? v I will call upon the Lord, that he may send thunder and rain. And you shall know and see that w your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the Lord, in asking for yourselves a king."
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So Samuel called upon the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day, x and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.
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And all the people said to Samuel, y "Pray for your servants to the Lord your God, that we may not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for ourselves a king."
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And Samuel said to the people, "Do not be afraid; you have done all this evil. Yet z do not turn aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart.
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And z do not turn aside after a empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty.
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b For the Lord will not forsake his people, c for his great name's sake, because d it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself.
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Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing e to pray for you, f and I will instruct you in the good and the right way.
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g Only fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart. For consider h what great things he has done for you.
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But if you still do wickedly, i you shall be swept away, j both you and your king."
1 Samuel 13
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Saul was... years old when he began to reign, and he reigned... and two years over Israel.
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Saul chose three thousand men of Israel. Two thousand were with Saul in k Michmash and the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in l Gibeah of Benjamin. The rest of the people he sent home, every man to his tent.
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Jonathan defeated m the garrison of the Philistines that was n at Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul o blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, "Let the Hebrews hear."
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And all Israel heard it said that Saul had defeated the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel had become a stench to the Philistines. And the people were called out to join Saul at Gilgal.
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And the Philistines mustered to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen and troops p like the sand on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of q Beth-aven.
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When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were hard pressed), the people hid themselves r in caves and in holes and in rocks and in tombs and in cisterns,
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and some Hebrews crossed the fords of the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. Saul was still at Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.
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s He waited seven days, the time appointed by Samuel. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the people were scattering from him.
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So Saul said, "Bring the burnt offering here to me, and the peace offerings." And he offered the burnt offering.
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As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came. And Saul went out to meet him and greet him.
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Samuel said, "What have you done?" And Saul said, "When I saw that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines had mustered at Michmash,
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I said, 'Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not sought the favor of the Lord.' So I forced myself, and offered the burnt offering."
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And Samuel said to Saul, t "You have done foolishly. u You have not kept the command of the Lord your God, with which he commanded you. For then the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.
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But now v your kingdom shall not continue. The Lord has sought out a man w after his own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you."
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And Samuel arose and went up from Gilgal. The rest of the people went up after Saul to meet the army; they went up from Gilgal to x Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people who were present with him, y about six hundred men.
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And Saul and Jonathan his son and the people who were present with them stayed in z Geba of Benjamin, but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.
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And a raiders came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies. One company turned toward Ophrah, to the land of Shual;
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another company turned toward b Beth-horon; and another company turned toward the border that looks down on the Valley of c Zeboim toward the wilderness.
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d Now there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, "Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears."
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But every one of the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, or his sickle,
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and the charge was two-thirds of a shekel for the plowshares and for the mattocks, and a third of a shekel for sharpening the axes and for setting the goads.
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So on the day of the battle e there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people with Saul and Jonathan, but Saul and Jonathan his son had them.
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And f the garrison of the Philistines went out to the g pass of h Michmash.
1 Samuel 14
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One day Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who carried his armor, "Come, let us go over to the Philistine garrison on the other side." But he did not tell his father.
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Saul was staying in the outskirts of Gibeah in the pomegranate cave at h Migron. The people who were with him were about i six hundred men,
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including j Ahijah the son of Ahitub, k Ichabod's brother, son of Phinehas, son of Eli, the priest of the Lord l in Shiloh, m wearing an ephod. And the people did not know that Jonathan had gone.
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Within n the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistine garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side and a rocky crag on the other side. The name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.
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The one crag rose on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south in front of o Geba.
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Jonathan said to the young man who carried his armor, "Come, let us go over to the garrison of these p uncircumcised. It may be that the Lord will work for us, q for nothing can hinder the Lord from saving by many or by few."
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And his armor-bearer said to him, "Do all that is in your heart. Do as you wish. Behold, I am with you heart and soul."
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Then Jonathan said, "Behold, we will cross over to the men, and we will show ourselves to them.
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If they say to us, 'Wait until we come to you,' then we will stand still in our place, and we will not go up to them.
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But if they say, 'Come up to us,' then we will go up, for the Lord has given them into our hand. And this shall be the sign to us."
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So both of them showed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines. And the Philistines said, "Look, Hebrews are coming r out of the holes where they have hidden themselves."
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And the men of the garrison hailed Jonathan and his armor-bearer and said, "Come up to us, and we will show you a thing." And Jonathan said to his armor-bearer, "Come up after me, for the Lord has given them into the hand of Israel."
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Then Jonathan climbed up on his hands and feet, and his armor-bearer after him. And they fell before Jonathan, and his armor-bearer killed them after him.
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And that first strike, which Jonathan and his armor-bearer made, killed about twenty men within as it were half a furrow's length in an acre of land.
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And there was a panic in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. The garrison and even s the raiders trembled, the earth quaked, and it became a very great panic.
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And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked, and behold, the multitude t was dispersing here and there.
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Then Saul said to the people who were with him, "Count and see who has gone from us." And when they had counted, behold, Jonathan and his armor-bearer were not there.
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So Saul said to Ahijah, "Bring the ark of God here." For the ark of God went at that time with the people of Israel.
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Now u while Saul was talking to the priest, the tumult in the camp of the Philistines increased more and more. So Saul said to the priest, "Withdraw your hand."
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Then Saul and all the people who were with him rallied and went into the battle. And behold, v every Philistine's sword was against his fellow, and there was very great confusion.
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Now the Hebrews who had been with the Philistines before that time and who had gone up with them into the camp, w even they also turned to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.
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Likewise, when all the men of Israel x who had hidden themselves y in the hill country of Ephraim heard that the Philistines were fleeing, they too followed hard after them in the battle.
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z So the Lord saved Israel that day. And the battle passed beyond a Beth-aven.
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And the men of Israel had been hard pressed that day, b so Saul had laid an oath on the people, saying, "Cursed be the man who eats food until it is evening and I am avenged on my enemies." So none of the people had tasted food.
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Now when all the people came to the forest, behold, there was honey on the ground.
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And when the people entered the forest, behold, the honey was dropping, but no one put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath.
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But Jonathan had not heard his father charge the people with the oath, c so he put out the tip of the staff that was in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb and put his hand to his mouth, and his eyes became bright.
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Then one of the people said, "Your father strictly charged the people with an oath, saying, 'Cursed be the man who eats food this day.'" And the people were d faint.
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Then Jonathan said, "My father has troubled the land. See how my eyes have become bright because I tasted a little of this honey.
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How much better if the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies that they found. For now the defeat among the Philistines has not been great."
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They struck down the Philistines that day from e Michmash to f Aijalon. And the people were very d faint.
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The people g pounced on the spoil and took sheep and oxen and calves and slaughtered them on the ground. And the people ate them h with the blood.
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Then they told Saul, "Behold, the people are sinning against the Lord by eating h with the blood." And he said, "You have dealt treacherously; roll a great stone to me here."
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And Saul said, "Disperse yourselves among the people and say to them, 'Let every man bring his ox or his sheep and slaughter them here and eat, and do not sin against the Lord by eating with the blood.'" So every one of the people brought his ox with him that night and they slaughtered them there.
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And Saul i built an altar to the Lord; it was the first altar that he built to the Lord.
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Then Saul said, "Let us go down after the Philistines by night and plunder them until the morning light; let us not leave a man of them." And they said, "Do whatever seems good to you." But j the priest said, "Let us draw near to God here."
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And Saul inquired of God, "Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will you give them into the hand of Israel?" k But he did not answer him that day.
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And Saul said, "Come here, all you leaders of the people, and know and see how this sin has arisen today.
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For l as the Lord lives who saves Israel, m though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die." But there was not a man among all the people who answered him.
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Then he said to all Israel, "You shall be on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side." And the people said to Saul, "Do what seems good to you."
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Therefore Saul said, "O Lord God of Israel, why have you not answered your servant this day? If this guilt is in me or in Jonathan my son, O Lord, God of Israel, give Urim. But if this guilt is in your people Israel, give Thummim." n And Jonathan and Saul were taken, but the people escaped.
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Then Saul said, n "Cast the lot between me and my son Jonathan." And Jonathan was taken.
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Then Saul said to Jonathan, o "Tell me what you have done." And Jonathan told him, p "I tasted a little honey with the tip of the staff that was in my hand. Here I am; I will die."
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And Saul said, q "God do so to me and more also; r you shall surely die, Jonathan."
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Then the people said to Saul, "Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! l As the Lord lives, s there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground, for he has worked with God this day." So the people ransomed Jonathan, so that he did not die.
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Then Saul went up from pursuing the Philistines, and the Philistines went to their own place.
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When Saul had taken the kingship over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, t against the Ammonites, against Edom, against the kings of u Zobah, and against the Philistines. Wherever he turned he routed them.
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And he did valiantly v and struck the Amalekites and delivered Israel out of the hands of those who plundered them.
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w Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchi-shua. And the names of his two daughters were these: the name of the firstborn was x Merab, and the name of the younger Michal.
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And the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz. y And the name of the commander of his army was Abner the son of Ner, z Saul's uncle.
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a Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner was the son of a Abiel.
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There was hard fighting against the Philistines all the days of Saul. And when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, b he attached him to himself.
1 Samuel 15
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And Samuel said to Saul, c "The Lord sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore listen to the words of the Lord.
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Thus says the Lord of hosts, 'I have noted what Amalek did to Israel d in opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt.
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Now go and strike Amalek and e devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, f but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.'"
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So Saul summoned the people and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand men on foot, and ten thousand men of Judah.
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And Saul came to the city of Amalek and lay in wait in the valley.
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Then Saul said to g the Kenites, "Go, depart; go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them. h For you showed kindness to all the people of Israel when they came up out of Egypt." So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
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i And Saul defeated the Amalekites from j Havilah as far as k Shur, which is east of Egypt.
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And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive l and devoted to destruction all the people with the edge of the sword.
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m But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fattened calves and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them. All that was despised and worthless they devoted to destruction.
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The word of the Lord came to Samuel:
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n "I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and o has not performed my commandments." And Samuel was angry, and he cried to the Lord all night.
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And Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning. And it was told Samuel, "Saul came to p Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself and turned and passed on and went down to Gilgal."
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And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, q "Blessed be you to the Lord. I have performed the commandment of the Lord."
14
And Samuel said, "What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears and the lowing of the oxen that I hear?"
15
Saul said, "They have brought them from the Amalekites, r for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen to sacrifice to the Lord your God, and the rest we have devoted to destruction."
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Then Samuel said to Saul, "Stop! I will tell you what the Lord said to me this night." And he said to him, "Speak."
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And Samuel said, s "Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? The Lord anointed you king over Israel.
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And the Lord sent you on a mission and said, 'Go, devote to destruction the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.'
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Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord? t Why did you pounce on the spoil and do what was evil in the sight of the Lord?"
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And Saul said to Samuel, u "I have obeyed the voice of the Lord. I have gone on the mission on which the Lord sent me. I have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and I have devoted the Amalekites to destruction.
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v But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal."
22
And Samuel said,
w "Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
as in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Behold, x to obey is better than sacrifice,
and to listen than the fat of rams.
23
For rebellion is as the sin of divination,
and presumption is as iniquity and y idolatry.
Because z you have rejected the word of the Lord,
a he has also rejected you from being king."
24
Saul said to Samuel, b "I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.
25
Now therefore, please pardon my sin and c return with me that I may worship the Lord."
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And Samuel said to Saul, "I will not return with you. d For you have rejected the word of the Lord, e and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel."
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f As Samuel turned to go away, Saul seized the skirt of his robe, and it tore.
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And Samuel said to him, g "The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.
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And also the Glory of Israel h will not lie or have regret, for he is not a man, that he should have regret."
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Then he said, "I have sinned; yet i honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, j and return with me, that I may bow before the Lord your God."
31
So Samuel turned back after Saul, and Saul bowed before the Lord.
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Then Samuel said, "Bring here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites." And Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, "Surely the bitterness of death is past."
33
And Samuel said, k "As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women." And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the Lord l in Gilgal.
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Then Samuel went m to Ramah, and Saul went up to his house in n Gibeah of Saul.
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o And Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death, p but Samuel grieved over Saul. q And the Lord regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel.
1 Samuel 16
1
The Lord said to Samuel, r "How long will you grieve over Saul, since s I have rejected him from being king over Israel? t Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, u for I have provided for myself a king among his sons."
2
And Samuel said, "How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me." And the Lord said, "Take a heifer with you and say, v 'I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.'
3
And invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do. w And you shall anoint for me him whom I declare to you."
4
Samuel did what the Lord commanded and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city x came to meet him trembling and said, y "Do you come peaceably?"
5
And he said, "Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. z Consecrate yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice." And he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.
6
When they came, he looked on a Eliab and thought, "Surely the Lord's anointed is before him."
7
But the Lord said to Samuel, b "Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, c but the Lord looks on the heart."
8
Then Jesse called d Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, "Neither has the Lord chosen this one."
9
Then Jesse made d Shammah pass by. And he said, "Neither has the Lord chosen this one."
10
And Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, "The Lord has not chosen these."
11
Then Samuel said to Jesse, "Are all your sons here?" And he said, e "There remains yet the youngest, but behold, he is keeping the sheep." And Samuel said to Jesse, f "Send and get him, for we will not sit down till he comes here."
12
And he sent and brought him in. Now he was g ruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome. And the Lord said, h "Arise, anoint him, for this is he."
13
Then Samuel took i the horn of oil j and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. k And the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon David from that day forward. And Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.
14
l Now the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, m and a harmful spirit from the Lord tormented him.
15
And Saul's servants said to him, "Behold now, a harmful spirit from God is tormenting you.
16
Let our lord now command your servants n who are before you to seek out a man who is skillful in playing the lyre, and when the harmful spirit from God is upon you, he will o play it, and you will be well."
17
So Saul said to his servants, "Provide for me a man who can play well and bring him to me."
18
One of the young men answered, "Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, p a man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a man of good presence, q and the Lord is with him."
19
Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, "Send me David your son, r who is with the sheep."
20
s And Jesse took a donkey laden with bread and a skin of wine and a young goat and sent them by David his son to Saul.
21
And David came to Saul t and entered his service. And Saul loved him greatly, and he became his armor-bearer.
22
And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, "Let David remain in my service, for he has found favor in my sight."
23
And u whenever the harmful spirit from God was upon Saul, David took the lyre o and played it with his hand. So Saul was refreshed and was well, and the harmful spirit departed from him.
1 Samuel 17
1
Now the Philistines v gathered their armies for battle. And they were gathered at w Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and x Azekah, in y Ephes-dammim.
2
And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered, and encamped in z the Valley of Elah, and drew up in line of battle against the Philistines.
3
And the Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side, with a valley between them.
4
And there came out from the camp of the Philistines a champion named a Goliath of b Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
5
He had a helmet of bronze on his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail, and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze.
6
And he had bronze armor on his legs, and a c javelin of bronze slung between his shoulders.
7
The shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam, and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron. d And his shield-bearer went before him.
8
He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, "Why have you come out to draw up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and e are you not servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.
9
If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants f and serve us."
10
And the Philistine said, g "I defy the ranks of Israel this day. Give me a man, that we may fight together."
11
When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.
12
Now David was h the son of an i Ephrathite of Bethlehem in Judah, j named Jesse, k who had eight sons. In the days of Saul the man was already old and advanced in years.
13
The three oldest sons of Jesse had followed Saul to the battle. And l the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
14
m David was the youngest. The three eldest followed Saul,
15
but David went back and forth from Saul n to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.
16
For forty days the Philistine came forward and took his stand, morning and evening.
17
And Jesse said to David his son, "Take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers.
18
o Also take these ten cheeses to the commander of their thousand. p See if your brothers are well, and bring some token from them."
19
Now Saul and they and all the men of Israel were in the Valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
20
And David rose early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper and took the provisions and went, as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to q the encampment as the host was going out to the battle line, shouting the war cry.
21
And Israel and the Philistines drew up for battle, army against army.
22
And David left the r things in charge of the keeper of the r baggage and ran to the ranks and went and greeted his brothers.
23
As he talked with them, behold, s the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, came up out of the ranks of the Philistines and spoke t the same words as before. And David heard him.
24
All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and were much afraid.
25
And the men of Israel said, "Have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to u defy Israel. And the king will enrich the man who kills him with great riches v and will give him his daughter and make his father's house free in Israel."
26
And David said to the men who stood by him, "What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away w the reproach from Israel? For who is this x uncircumcised Philistine, that he should u defy the armies of y the living God?"
27
And the people answered him in the same way, z "So shall it be done to the man who kills him."
28
Now Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men. And Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, "Why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumption and the evil of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle."
29
And David said, "What have I done now? Was it not but a word?"
30
And he turned away from him toward another, and spoke b in the same way, and the people answered him again as before.
31
When the words that David spoke were heard, they repeated them before Saul, and he sent for him.
32
And David said to Saul, c "Let no man's heart fail because of him. d Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine."
33
And Saul said to David, "You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him, for you are but a youth, and he has been a man of war from his youth."
34
But David said to Saul, "Your servant used to keep sheep for his father. And when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb from the flock,
35
I went after him and struck him and delivered it out of his mouth. And if he arose against me, I caught him by his beard and struck him and killed him.
36
Your servant has struck down both lions and bears, and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, e for he has defied the armies of the living God."
37
And David said, f "The Lord who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine." And Saul said to David, "Go, g and the Lord be with you!"
38
Then Saul clothed David with his armor. He put a helmet of bronze on his head and clothed him with a coat of mail,
39
and David strapped his sword over his armor. And he tried in vain to go, for he had not tested them. Then David said to Saul, "I cannot go with these, for I have not tested them." So David put them off.
40
Then he took his staff in his hand and chose five smooth stones from the brook and put them in his shepherd's pouch. His sling was in his hand, and he approached the Philistine.
41
And the Philistine moved forward and came near to David, h with his shield-bearer in front of him.
42
And when the Philistine looked and saw David, he disdained him, for he was but a youth, i ruddy and handsome in appearance.
43
And the Philistine said to David, "Am I j a dog, that you come to me with sticks?" And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
44
The Philistine said to David, "Come to me, and I will give your flesh k to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the field."
45
Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with l a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, e whom you have defied.
46
This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head. m And I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day n to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth, o that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,
47
and that all this assembly may know that p the Lord saves not with sword and spear. q For the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hand."
48
When the Philistine arose and came and drew near to meet David, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet the Philistine.
49
And David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone and slung it and struck the Philistine on his forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground.
50
So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him. There was no sword in the hand of David.
51
Then David ran and stood over the Philistine r and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, s they fled.
52
And the men of Israel and Judah rose with a shout and pursued the Philistines as far as Gath and the gates of t Ekron, so that the wounded Philistines fell on the way from u Shaaraim as far as v Gath and Ekron.
53
And the people of Israel came back from chasing the Philistines, and they plundered their camp.
54
And David took w the head of the Philistine x and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his armor in his tent.
55
As soon as Saul saw David go out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, y the commander of the army, "Abner, z whose son is this youth?" And Abner said, a "As your soul lives, O king, I do not know."
56
And the king said, "Inquire whose son the boy is."
57
And as soon as David returned from the striking down of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul b with the head of the Philistine in his hand.
58
And Saul said to him, "Whose son are you, young man?" And David answered, c "I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite."
1 Samuel 18
1
As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan d loved him as his own soul.
2
And Saul took him that day e and would not let him return to his father's house.
3
Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because d he loved him as his own soul.
4
And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David, and his armor, and even his sword and his bow and his belt.
5
And David went out f and was successful wherever Saul sent him, so that Saul set him over the men of war. And this was good in the sight of all the people and also in the sight of Saul's servants.
6
As they were coming home, when David returned from striking down the Philistine, g the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with songs of joy, and with musical instruments.
7
And the women h sang to one another as they celebrated,
i "Saul has struck down his thousands,
and David his ten thousands."
8
And Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said, "They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed thousands, and what more can he have but j the kingdom?"
9
And Saul eyed David from that day on.
10
The next day k a harmful spirit from God rushed upon Saul, and l he raved within his house while David was m playing the lyre, as he did day by day. n Saul had his spear in his hand.
11
And Saul o hurled the spear, for he thought, "I will pin David to the wall." But David evaded him twice.
12
p Saul was afraid of David because q the Lord was with him r but had departed from Saul.
13
So Saul removed him from his presence and made him a commander of a thousand. s And he went out and came in before the people.
14
And David t had success in all his undertakings, q for the Lord was with him.
15
And when Saul saw that t he had great success, he stood in fearful awe of him.
16
u But all Israel and Judah loved David, for he went out and came in before them.
17
Then Saul said to David, "Here is v my elder daughter Merab. w I will give her to you for a wife. Only be valiant for me x and fight the Lord's battles." For Saul thought, "Let not my hand be against him, y but let the hand of the Philistines be against him."
18
And David said to Saul, z "Who am I, and who are my relatives, my father's clan in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?"
19
But at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to a Adriel the b Meholathite for a wife.
20
Now v Saul's daughter Michal c loved David. And they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
21
Saul thought, "Let me give her to him, that she may d be a snare for him e and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him." Therefore Saul said to David a second time, f "You shall now be my son-in-law."
22
And Saul commanded his servants, "Speak to David in private and say, 'Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now then become the king's son-in-law.'"
23
And Saul's servants spoke those words in the ears of David. And David said, g "Does it seem to you a little thing to become the king's son-in-law, since I am a poor man and have no reputation?"
24
And the servants of Saul told him, "Thus and so did David speak."
25
Then Saul said, "Thus shall you say to David, 'The king desires no h bride-price except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, i that he may be avenged of the king's enemies.'" j Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
26
And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law. k Before the time had expired,
27
David arose and went, l along with his men, and killed two hundred of the Philistines. m And David brought their foreskins, which were given in full number to the king, that he might become the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him his daughter Michal for a wife.
28
But when Saul saw and knew that n the Lord was with David, o and that Michal, Saul's daughter, loved him,
29
Saul was even more afraid of David. So Saul was David's enemy continually.
30
p Then the princes of the Philistines came out to battle, and as often as they came out q David had more success than all the servants of Saul, so that his name was highly esteemed.
1 Samuel 19
1
And Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants, that they should kill David. r But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David.
2
And Jonathan told David, "Saul my father seeks to kill you. Therefore be on your guard in the morning. Stay in a secret place and hide yourself.
3
And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will speak to my father about you. And if I learn anything I will tell you."
4
And Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father and said to him, "Let not the king s sin against his servant David, because he has not sinned against you, and because his deeds have brought good to you.
5
For t he took his life in his hand u and he struck down the Philistine, v and the Lord worked a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against w innocent blood by killing David without cause?"
6
And Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan. Saul swore, x "As the Lord lives, he shall not be put to death."
7
And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan reported to him all these things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence y as before.
8
And there was war again. And David went out and fought with the Philistines and struck them with a great blow, so that they fled before him.
9
z Then a harmful spirit from the Lord came upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand. a And David was playing the lyre.
10
b And Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he eluded Saul, so that he struck the spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.
11
c Saul sent messengers to David's house to watch him, that he might kill him in the morning. But Michal, David's wife, told him, "If you do not escape with your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed."
12
d So Michal let David down through the window, and he fled away and escaped.
13
Michal took e an image and laid it on the bed and put a pillow of goats' hair at its head and covered it with the clothes.
14
And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, "He is sick."
15
Then Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, "Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him."
16
And when the messengers came in, behold, e the image was in the bed, with the pillow of goats' hair at its head.
17
Saul said to Michal, "Why have you deceived me thus and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?" And Michal answered Saul, "He said to me, 'Let me go. f Why should I kill you?'"
18
Now David fled and escaped, and he came to Samuel at g Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and lived at Naioth.
19
And it was told Saul, "Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah."
20
Then Saul sent messengers to take David, and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, h the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, i and they also prophesied.
21
When it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, i and they also prophesied. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, i and they also prophesied.
22
Then he himself went to Ramah and came to the great well that is in Secu. And he asked, "Where are Samuel and David?" And one said, "Behold, they are at Naioth in g Ramah."
23
And he went there to Naioth in Ramah. j And the Spirit of God came upon him also, and as he went he prophesied until he came to Naioth in Ramah.
24
k And he too stripped off his clothes, and he too prophesied before Samuel and lay naked all that day and all that night. Thus it is said, l "Is Saul also among the prophets?"
1 Samuel 20
1
Then David fled from Naioth m in Ramah and came and said before Jonathan, "What have I done? What is my guilt? And what is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?"
2
And he said to him, "Far from it! You shall not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small without disclosing it to me. And why should my father hide this from me? It is not so."
3
But David vowed again, saying, "Your father knows well that n I have found favor in your eyes, and he thinks, 'Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved.' But truly, o as the Lord lives and p as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death."
4
Then Jonathan said to David, "Whatever you say, I will do for you."
5
David said to Jonathan, "Behold, tomorrow is q the new moon, and I should not fail to sit at table with the king. But let me go, r that I may hide myself in the field till the third day at evening.
6
s If your father misses me at all, then say, 'David earnestly asked leave of me to run t to Bethlehem his city, for there is a yearly u sacrifice there for all the clan.'
7
If he says, 'Good!' it will be well with your servant, but if he is angry, then know that v harm is determined by him.
8
Therefore deal kindly with your servant, w for you have brought your servant into a covenant of the Lord with you. x But if there is guilt in me, kill me yourself, for why should you bring me to your father?"
9
And Jonathan said, "Far be it from you! If I knew that v it was determined by my father that harm should come to you, would I not tell you?"
10
Then David said to Jonathan, "Who will tell me if your father answers you roughly?"
11
And Jonathan said to David, "Come, let us go out into the field." So they both went out into the field.
12
And Jonathan said to David, "The Lord, the God of Israel, be witness! When I have sounded out my father, about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if he is well disposed toward David, shall I not then send and disclose it to you?
13
But should it please my father to do you harm, y the Lord do so to Jonathan and more also if I do not disclose it to you and send you away, that you may go in safety. z May the Lord be with you, as he has been with my father.
14
If I am still alive, show me the steadfast love of the Lord, that I may not die;
15
a and do not cut off your steadfast love from my house forever, when the Lord cuts off every one of the enemies of David from the face of the earth."
16
And Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, b "May the Lord take vengeance on David's enemies."
17
And Jonathan made David swear again by his love for him, c for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
18
Then Jonathan said to him, d "Tomorrow is the new moon, and e you will be missed, because f your seat will be empty.
19
On the third day go down quickly to the place where you hid yourself when the matter was in hand, and remain beside the stone heap.
20
And I will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as though I shot at a mark.
21
And behold, I will send the young man, saying, 'Go, find the arrows.' If I say to the young man, 'Look, the arrows are on this side of you, take them,' then you are to come, for, g as the Lord lives, it is safe for you and there is no danger.
22
But if I say to the youth, h 'Look, the arrows are beyond you,' then go, for the Lord has sent you away.
23
i And as for the matter of which you and I have spoken, behold, j the Lord is between you and me forever."
24
So David hid himself in the field. And when the new moon came, the king sat down to eat food.
25
The king sat on his seat, as at other times, on the seat by the wall. Jonathan sat opposite, and Abner sat by Saul's side, k but David's place was empty.
26
Yet Saul did not say anything that day, for he thought, "Something has happened to him. l He is not clean; surely he is not clean."
27
But on m the second day, the day after the new moon, k David's place was empty. And Saul said to Jonathan his son, "Why has not the son of Jesse come to the meal, either yesterday or today?"
28
Jonathan answered Saul, n "David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem.
29
He said, 'Let me go, for our clan holds a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has commanded me to be there. So now, if I have found favor in your eyes, let me get away and see my brothers.' For this reason he has not come to the king's table."
30
Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, "You son of a perverse, rebellious woman, do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother's nakedness?
31
For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, neither you nor your kingdom shall be established. Therefore send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die."
32
Then Jonathan answered Saul his father, o "Why should he be put to death? What has he done?"
33
p But Saul hurled his spear at him to strike him. So Jonathan knew q that his father was determined to put David to death.
34
And Jonathan rose from the table in fierce anger and ate no food the second day of the month, for he was grieved for David, because his father had disgraced him.
35
In the morning Jonathan went out into the field to the appointment with David, and with him a little boy.
36
And he said to his boy, "Run and find the arrows that I shoot." As the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
37
And when the boy came to the place of the arrow that Jonathan had shot, Jonathan called after the boy and said, r "Is not the arrow beyond you?"
38
And Jonathan called after the boy, "Hurry! Be quick! Do not stay!" So Jonathan's boy gathered up the arrows and came to his master.
39
But the boy knew nothing. Only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
40
And Jonathan gave his weapons to his boy and said to him, "Go and carry them to the city."
41
And as soon as the boy had gone, David rose from beside the stone heap and fell on his face to the ground and bowed three times. And they kissed one another and wept with one another, David weeping the most.
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Then Jonathan said to David, s "Go in peace, because we have sworn both of us in the name of the Lord, saying, t 'The Lord shall be between me and you, u and between my offspring and your offspring, forever.'" And he rose and departed, and Jonathan went into the city.
1 Samuel 21
1
Then David came to v Nob to w Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech x came to meet David trembling and said to him, "Why are you alone, and no one with you?"
2
And David said to Ahimelech the priest, "The king has charged me with a matter and said to me, 'Let no one know anything of the matter about which I send you, and with which I have charged you.' I have made an appointment with the young men for such and such a place.
3
Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever is here."
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And the priest answered David, "I have no common bread on hand, but there is y holy bread - z if the young men have kept themselves from women."
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And David answered the priest, "Truly women have been kept from us as always when I go on an expedition. The vessels of the young men are holy even when it is an ordinary journey. How much more today will their vessels be holy?"
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So the priest gave him y the holy bread, for there was no bread there but the bread of the Presence, a which is removed from before the Lord, to be replaced by hot bread on the day it is taken away.
7
Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the Lord. His name was b Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul's herdsmen.
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Then David said to Ahimelech, "Then have you not here a spear or a sword at hand? For I have brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste."
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And the priest said, c "The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck down in d the Valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you will take that, take it, for there is none but that here." And David said, "There is none like that; give it to me."
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And David rose and fled that day from Saul and went to e Achish the king of Gath.
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And the servants of Achish said to him, "Is not this David the king of the land? f Did they not sing to one another of him in dances,
'Saul has struck down his thousands,
and David his ten thousands'?"
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And David g took these words to heart and was much afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
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So he changed his behavior before them and pretended to be insane in their hands and made marks on the doors of the gate and let his spittle run down his beard.
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Then Achish said to his servants, "Behold, you see the man is mad. Why then have you brought him to me?
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Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to behave as a madman in my presence? Shall this fellow come into my house?"
1 Samuel 22
1
David departed from there and escaped to h the cave of i Adullam. And when his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him.
2
j And everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul, gathered to him. And he became captain over them. And there were with him k about four hundred men.
3
And David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab. And he said to the king of Moab, "Please let my father and my mother stay with you, till I know what God will do for me."
4
And he left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.
5
Then the prophet l Gad said to David, "Do not remain in the stronghold; depart, and go into the land of Judah." So David departed and went into the forest of Hereth.
6
Now Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men who were with him. Saul was sitting at Gibeah under m the tamarisk tree on the height with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him.
7
And Saul said to his servants who stood about him, "Hear now, people of Benjamin; will the son of Jesse n give every one of you fields and vineyards, will he make you all commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds,
8
that all of you have conspired against me? No one discloses to me o when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse. None of you p is sorry for me or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, q to lie in wait, as at this day."
9
Then answered r Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, "I saw the son of Jesse s coming to Nob, to t Ahimelech the son of Ahitub,
10
u and he inquired of the Lord for him and v gave him provisions and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine."
11
Then the king sent to summon Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests who were at Nob, and all of them came to the king.
12
And Saul said, "Hear now, son of Ahitub." And he answered, "Here I am, my lord."
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And Saul said to him, "Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread and a sword and u have inquired of God for him, so that he has risen against me, w to lie in wait, as at this day?"
14
Then Ahimelech answered the king, "And who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and captain over your bodyguard, and honored in your house?
15
Is today the first time u that I have inquired of God for him? No! Let not the king impute anything to his servant or to all the house of my father, for your servant has known nothing of all this, x much or little."
16
And the king said, "You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father's house."
17
And the king said to y the guard who stood about him, "Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, because their hand also is with David, and they knew that he fled and did not disclose it to me." But the servants of the king would not put out their hand to strike the priests of the Lord.
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Then the king said to Doeg, "You turn and strike the priests." And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests, z and he killed on that day eighty-five persons who wore the linen ephod.
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And Nob, the city of the priests, he put to the sword; a both man and woman, child and infant, ox, donkey and sheep, he put to the sword.
20
But one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named b Abiathar, escaped and fled after David.
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And Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the priests of the Lord.
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And David said to Abiathar, "I knew on that day, c when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I have occasioned the death of all the persons of your father's house.
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d Stay with me; do not be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your life. With me you shall be in safekeeping."
1 Samuel 23
1
Now they told David, "Behold, the Philistines are fighting against e Keilah and are robbing the threshing floors."
2
Therefore David f inquired of the Lord, "Shall I go and attack these Philistines?" And the Lord said to David, "Go and attack the Philistines and save Keilah."
3
But David's men said to him, "Behold, we are afraid here in Judah; how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?"
4
Then David f inquired of the Lord again. And the Lord answered him, "Arise, go down to Keilah, g for I will give the Philistines into your hand."
5
And David and his men went to Keilah and fought with the Philistines and brought away their livestock and struck them with a great blow. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
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h When Abiathar the son of Ahimelech had fled to David to Keilah, he had come down with an ephod in his hand.
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Now it was told Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, "God has given him into my hand, for he has shut himself in by entering a town that has gates and bars."
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And Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
9
David knew that Saul was plotting harm against him. And he said to Abiathar the priest, i "Bring the ephod here."
10
Then said David, "O Lord, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city on my account.
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Will the men of Keilah surrender me into his hand? Will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? O Lord, the God of Israel, please tell your servant." And the Lord said, "He will come down."
12
Then David said, "Will the men of Keilah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul?" And the Lord said, j "They will surrender you."
13
Then David and his men, k who were about six hundred, arose and departed from Keilah, and they went l wherever they could go. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he gave up the expedition.
14
And David remained in the strongholds in the wilderness, in the hill country m of the wilderness of n Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God did not give him into his hand.
15
David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the wilderness of Ziph at Horesh.
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And Jonathan, Saul's son, rose and went to David at Horesh, and strengthened his hand in God.
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And he said to him, "Do not fear, for the hand of Saul my father shall not find you. You shall be king over Israel, and I shall be next to you. o Saul my father also knows this."
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p And the two of them made a covenant before the Lord. David remained at Horesh, and Jonathan went home.
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q Then the Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah, saying, "Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah, which is south of r Jeshimon?
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Now come down, O king, according to all your heart's desire to come down, s and our part shall be to surrender him into the king's hand."
21
And Saul said, t "May you be blessed by the Lord, u for you have had compassion on me.
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Go, make yet more sure. Know and see the place where his foot is, and who has seen him there, for it is told me that he is very cunning.
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See therefore and take note of all the lurking places where he hides, and come back to me with sure information. Then I will go with you. And if he is in the land, I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah."
24
And they arose and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were v in the wilderness of Maon, w in the Arabah to the south of r Jeshimon.
25
And Saul and his men went to seek him. And David was told, so he went down to the rock and lived in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.
26
Saul went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men on the other side of the mountain. And David was hurrying to get away from Saul. As Saul and his men were closing in on David and his men to capture them,
27
a messenger came to Saul, saying, "Hurry and come, for the Philistines have made a raid against the land."
28
So Saul returned from pursuing after David and went against the Philistines. Therefore that place was called the Rock of Escape.
29
And David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of x Engedi.
1 Samuel 24
1
y When Saul returned from following the Philistines, he was told, "Behold, David is in the wilderness of Engedi."
2
Then Saul took z three thousand chosen men out of all Israel and went to seek David and his men in front of the Wildgoats' Rocks.
3
And he came to the sheepfolds by the way, where there was a cave, and Saul went in a to relieve himself. Now David and his men were sitting in the innermost parts b of the cave.
4
And the men of David said to him, c "Here is the day of which the Lord said to you, 'Behold, I will give your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.'" Then David arose and stealthily cut off a corner of Saul's robe.
5
And afterward d David's heart struck him, because he had cut off a corner of Saul's robe.
6
He said to his men, e "The Lord forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the Lord's anointed, to put out my hand against him, seeing he is f the Lord's anointed."
7
So David persuaded his men with these words g and did not permit them to attack Saul. And Saul rose up and left the cave and went on his way.
8
Afterward David also arose and went out of the cave, and called after Saul, "My lord the king!" And when Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth and paid homage.
9
And David said to Saul, "Why do you listen to the words of men who say, 'Behold, David seeks your harm'?
10
Behold, this day your eyes have seen how the Lord gave you today into my hand in the cave. h And some told me to kill you, but I spared you. I said, 'I will not put out my hand against my lord, f for he is the Lord's anointed.'
11
See, my father, see the corner of your robe in my hand. For by the fact that I cut off the corner of your robe and did not kill you, you may know and see that i there is no wrong or treason in my hands. I have not sinned against you, though j you hunt my life to take it.
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k May the Lord judge between me and you, may the Lord avenge me against you, but my hand shall not be against you.
13
As the proverb of the ancients says, 'Out of the wicked comes wickedness.' But my hand shall not be against you.
14
After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom do you pursue? l After a dead dog! m After a flea!
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k May the Lord therefore be judge and give sentence between me and you, and see to it and n plead my cause and deliver me from your hand."
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As soon as David had finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul said, o "Is this your voice, my son David?" And Saul lifted up his voice and wept.
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He said to David, "You are more righteous than I, p for you have repaid me good, whereas I have repaid you evil.
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And you have declared this day how you have dealt well with me, in that you did not kill me when the Lord put me into your hands.
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For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away safe? So may the Lord reward you with good for what you have done to me this day.
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And now, behold, q I know that you shall surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in your hand.
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r Swear to me therefore by the Lord that you will not cut off my offspring after me, and s that you will not destroy my name out of my father's house."
22
And David swore this to Saul. Then Saul went home, but David and his men went up t to the stronghold.
1 Samuel 25
1
u Now Samuel died. And all Israel assembled v and mourned for him, and they buried him w in his house at x Ramah. Then David rose and went down to y the wilderness of Paran.
2
And there was a man in z Maon whose business was in a Carmel. The man was very rich; he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. b He was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
3
Now the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail. The woman was discerning and beautiful, but the man was harsh and badly behaved; c he was a Calebite.
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David heard in the wilderness that Nabal b was shearing his sheep.
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So David sent ten young men. And David said to the young men, "Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal and greet him in my name.
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And thus you shall greet him: d 'Peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have.
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I hear that you have shearers. Now your shepherds have been with us, and we did them no harm, e and they missed nothing all the time they were in Carmel.
8
Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore let my young men find favor in your eyes, for we come f on a feast day. Please give whatever you have at hand to your servants and to your son David.'"
9
When David's young men came, they said all this to Nabal in the name of David, and then they waited.
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And Nabal answered David's servants, g "Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? h There are many servants these days who are breaking away from their masters.
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Shall I take i my bread and my water and my meat that I have killed for my shearers and give it to j men who come from I do not know where?"
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So David's young men turned away and came back and told him all this.
13
And David said to his men, "Every man strap on his sword!" And every man of them strapped on his sword. David also strapped on his sword. And k about four hundred men went up after David, k while two hundred l remained with the baggage.
14
But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, "Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to greet our master, and he railed at them.
15
Yet the men were very good to us, and we suffered no harm, n and we did not miss anything when we were in the fields, as long as we went with them.
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They were o a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
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Now therefore know this and consider what you should do, p for harm is determined against our master and against all his house, and he is such q a worthless man that one cannot speak to him."
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Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves and two skins of wine and five sheep already prepared and five seahs of parched grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.
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And she said to her young men, "Go on before me; behold, I come after you." But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
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And as she rode on the donkey and came down under cover of the mountain, behold, David and his men came down toward her, and she met them.
21
Now David had said, "Surely in vain have I guarded all that this fellow has in the wilderness, r so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him, and he has s returned me evil for good.
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t God do so to the enemies of David and more also, if by morning I leave so much as one male of all who belong to him."
23
When Abigail saw David, she hurried u and got down from the donkey v and fell before David on her face and bowed to the ground.
24
She fell at his feet and said, w "On me alone, my lord, be the guilt. Please let your servant speak in your ears, and hear the words of your servant.
25
Let not my lord regard q this worthless fellow, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him. But I your servant did not see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.
26
Now then, my lord, x as the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, because y the Lord has restrained you from bloodguilt and from z saving with your own hand, now then a let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be as Nabal.
27
And now let this b present that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord.
28
Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For the Lord will certainly make my lord c a sure house, because my lord d is fighting the battles of the Lord, and evil shall not be found in you so long as you live.
29
If men rise up to pursue you and to seek your life, the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living in the care of the Lord your God. And the lives of your enemies e he shall sling out as from the hollow of a sling.
30
And when the Lord has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you and has appointed you prince over Israel,
31
my lord shall have no cause of grief or pangs of conscience for having shed blood without cause or for my lord z taking vengeance himself. And when the Lord has dealt well with my lord, then remember your servant."
32
And David said to Abigail, f "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me!
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Blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, y who have kept me this day from bloodguilt z and from avenging myself with my own hand!
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For as surely g as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, y who has restrained me from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, truly by morning there had not been left to Nabal so much as one male."
35
Then David received from her hand what she had brought him. And he said to her, h "Go up in peace to your house. See, I have obeyed your voice, and I have granted your petition."
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And Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, i he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart j was merry within him, for he was very drunk. So she told him nothing k at all until the morning light.
37
In the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
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And about ten days later l the Lord struck Nabal, and he died.
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When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, f "Blessed be the Lord who has m avenged the insult I received at the hand of Nabal, n and has kept back his servant from wrongdoing. o The Lord has returned the evil of Nabal on his own head." Then David sent and p spoke to Abigail, to take her as his wife.
40
When the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, they said to her, "David has sent us to you to take you to him as his wife."
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And she rose q and bowed with her face to the ground and said, "Behold, your handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord."
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And Abigail hurried and rose and mounted a donkey, and her five young women attended her. She followed the messengers of David and became his wife.
43
David also took Ahinoam of r Jezreel, s and both of them became his wives.
44
Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.
1 Samuel 26
1
t Then the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah, saying, "Is not David hiding himself on the hill of Hachilah, which is on the east of Jeshimon?"
2
So Saul arose and went down to u the wilderness of Ziph with v three thousand chosen men of Israel to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.
3
And Saul encamped on the hill of Hachilah, which is beside the road on the east of Jeshimon. But David remained in the wilderness. When he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness,
4
David sent out spies and learned that Saul had come.
5
Then David rose and came to the place where Saul had encamped. And David saw the place where Saul lay, with w Abner the son of Ner, the commander of his army. Saul was lying within x the encampment, while the army was encamped around him.
6
Then David said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Joab's brother y Abishai the son of Zeruiah, z "Who will go down with me into the camp to Saul?" And Abishai said, "I will go down with you."
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So David and Abishai went to the army by night. And there lay Saul sleeping within x the encampment, with his spear stuck in the ground a at his head, and Abner and the army lay around him.
8
Then said Abishai to David, b "God has given your enemy into your hand this day. Now please let me pin him to the earth with one stroke of the spear, and I will not strike him twice."
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But David said to Abishai, "Do not destroy him, for who can put out his hand c against the Lord's anointed and be guiltless?"
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And David said, d "As the Lord lives, e the Lord will strike him, or f his day will come to die, g or he will go down into battle and perish.
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h The Lord forbid that I should put out my hand against the Lord's anointed. But take now the spear that is i at his head and the jar of water, and let us go."
12
So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul's head, and they went away. No man saw it or knew it, nor did any awake, for they were all asleep, because j a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen upon them.
13
Then David went over to the other side and stood far off on the top of the hill, with a great space between them.
14
And David called to the army, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, "Will you not answer, Abner?" Then Abner answered, "Who are you who calls to the king?"
15
And David said to Abner, "Are you not a man? Who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not kept watch over your lord the king? For one of the people came in to destroy the king your lord.
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This thing that you have done is not good. k As the Lord lives, you deserve to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, the Lord's anointed. And now see where the king's spear is and the jar of water that was l at his head."
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Saul recognized David's voice and said, m "Is this your voice, my son David?" And David said, "It is my voice, my lord, O king."
18
And he said, n "Why does my lord pursue after his servant? For what have I done? What evil is on my hands?
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Now therefore let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is the Lord who has stirred you up against me, may he accept an offering, but if it is men, may they be cursed before the Lord, o for they have driven me out this day that I should have no share in p the heritage of the Lord, saying, 'Go, serve other gods.'
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Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of the Lord, for the king of Israel has come out to seek q a single flea like one who hunts a partridge in the mountains."
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Then Saul said, r "I have sinned. Return, my son David, for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes this day. Behold, I have acted foolishly, and have made a great mistake."
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And David answered and said, "Here is the spear, O king! Let one of the young men come over and take it.
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s The Lord rewards every man for his righteousness and his faithfulness, for the Lord gave you into my hand today, and I would not put out my hand against the Lord's anointed.
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Behold, as your life was precious this day in my sight, so may my life be precious in the sight of the Lord, and may he deliver me out of all tribulation."
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Then Saul said to David, "Blessed be you, my son David! You will do many things and will t succeed in them." So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place.
1 Samuel 27
1
Then David said in his heart, "Now I shall perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will despair of seeking me any longer within the borders of Israel, and I shall escape out of his hand."
2
So David arose and went over, he and u the six hundred men who were with him, v to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.
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And David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, and David with w his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel, and Abigail of Carmel, Nabal's widow.
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And when it was told Saul that David had fled to Gath, he no longer sought him.
5
Then David said to Achish, "If x I have found favor in your eyes, let a place be given me in one of the country towns, that I may dwell there. For why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?"
6
So that day Achish gave him y Ziklag. Therefore Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah to this day.
7
z And the number of the days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months.
8
Now David a and his men went up and made raids against b the Geshurites, c the Girzites, and d the Amalekites, for these were the inhabitants of the land from of old, e as far as Shur, to the land of Egypt.
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And David would strike the land and would leave neither man nor woman alive, but would take away the sheep, the oxen, the donkeys, the camels, and the garments, and come back to Achish.
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When Achish asked, "Where have you f made a raid today?" David would say, "Against the Negeb of Judah," or, "Against the Negeb of g the Jerahmeelites," or, "Against the Negeb of h the Kenites."
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And David would leave neither man nor woman alive to bring news to Gath, thinking, "lest they should tell about us and say, 'So David has done.'" Such was his custom all the while he lived in the country of the Philistines.
12
And Achish trusted David, thinking, "He has made himself an utter stench to his people Israel; therefore he shall always be my servant."
1 Samuel 28
1
In those days i the Philistines gathered their forces for war, to fight against Israel. And Achish said to David, "Understand that you and your men are to go out with me in the army."
2
David said to Achish, "Very well, you shall know what your servant can do." And Achish said to David, "Very well, I will make you my bodyguard for life."
3
Now j Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him k in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had put l the mediums and the necromancers out of the land.
4
The Philistines assembled and came and encamped m at Shunem. And Saul gathered all Israel, and they encamped n at Gilboa.
5
When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly.
6
And when Saul inquired of the Lord, o the Lord did not answer him, either p by dreams, or q by Urim, or by prophets.
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Then Saul said to his servants, r "Seek out for me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her." And his servants said to him, "Behold, there is a medium at s En-dor."
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So Saul t disguised himself and put on other garments and went, he and two men with him. And they came to the woman by night. And he said, u "Divine for me by a spirit and bring up for me whomever I shall name to you."
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The woman said to him, "Surely you know what Saul has done, l how he has cut off the mediums and the necromancers from the land. Why then are you laying a trap for my life to bring about my death?"
10
But Saul swore to her by the Lord, v "As the Lord lives, no punishment shall come upon you for this thing."
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Then the woman said, "Whom shall I bring up for you?" He said, "Bring up Samuel for me."
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When the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice. And the woman said to Saul, "Why have you deceived me? You are Saul."
13
The king said to her, "Do not be afraid. What do you see?" And the woman said to Saul, "I see a god coming up out of the earth."
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He said to her, "What is his appearance?" And she said, "An old man is coming up, and he is wrapped w in a robe." And Saul knew that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground and paid homage.
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Then Samuel said to Saul, "Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?" Saul answered, "I am in great distress, for the Philistines are warring against me, and x God has turned away from me and y answers me no more, either by prophets or by dreams. Therefore I have summoned you to tell me what I shall do."
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And Samuel said, "Why then do you ask me, since the Lord has turned from you and become your enemy?
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The Lord has done to you as he spoke by me, for z the Lord has torn the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbor, David.
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a Because you did not obey the voice of the Lord and did not carry out his fierce wrath against Amalek, therefore the Lord has done this thing to you this day.
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Moreover, the Lord will give Israel also with you into the hand of the Philistines, and tomorrow you b and your sons shall be with me. The Lord will give the army of Israel also into the hand of the Philistines."
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Then Saul fell at once full length on the ground, filled with fear because of the words of Samuel. And there was no strength in him, for he had eaten nothing all day and all night.
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And the woman came to Saul, and when she saw that he was terrified, she said to him, "Behold, your servant has obeyed you. c I have taken my life in my hand and have listened to what you have said to me.
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Now therefore, you also obey your servant. Let me set a morsel of bread before you; and eat, that you may have strength when you go on your way."
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He refused and said, "I will not eat." But his servants, together with the woman, urged him, and he listened to their words. So he arose from the earth and sat on the bed.
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Now the woman had a fattened calf in the house, and she quickly killed it, and she took flour and kneaded it and baked unleavened bread of it,
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and she put it before Saul and his servants, and they ate. Then they rose and went away that night.
1 Samuel 29
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d Now the Philistines had gathered all their forces at e Aphek. And the Israelites were encamped by f the spring that is in g Jezreel.
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As h the lords of the Philistines were passing on by hundreds and by thousands, and David and his men were passing on in the rear i with Achish,
3
the commanders of the Philistines said, "What are these Hebrews doing here?" And Achish said to the commanders of the Philistines, "Is this not David, the servant of Saul, king of Israel, who has been with me j now for days and years, and since he deserted to me k I have found no fault in him to this day."
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But h the commanders of the Philistines were angry with him. And the commanders of the Philistines said to him, "Send the man back, that he may return l to the place to which you have assigned him. He shall not go down with us to battle, m lest in the battle he become an adversary to us. For how could this fellow reconcile himself to his lord? Would it not be with the heads of the men here?
5
Is not this David, of whom they sing to one another in dances,
n 'Saul has struck down his thousands,
and David his ten thousands'?"
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Then Achish called David and said to him, o "As the Lord lives, you have been honest, and to me it seems right that p you should march out and in with me in the campaign. For I have found nothing wrong in you from the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords do not approve of you.
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So go back now; and go peaceably, that you may not displease the lords of the Philistines."
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And David said to Achish, "But what have I done? What have you found in your servant from the day I entered your service until now, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?"
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And Achish answered David and said, "I know that you are as blameless in my sight q as an angel of God. Nevertheless, r the commanders of the Philistines have said, 'He shall not go up with us to the battle.'
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Now then rise early in the morning s with the servants of your lord who came with you, and start early in the morning, and depart as soon as you have light."
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So David set out with his men early in the morning to return to the land of the Philistines. But the Philistines went up to t Jezreel.
1 Samuel 30
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Now when David and his men came to u Ziklag on the third day, v the Amalekites had w made a raid against the Negeb and against Ziklag. They had overcome Ziklag and burned it with fire
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and taken captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great. They killed no one, but carried them off and went their way.
3
And when David and his men came to the city, they found it burned with fire, and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.
4
Then David and the people who were with him raised their voices and wept until they had no more strength to weep.
5
David's x two wives also had been taken captive, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel.
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And David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke y of stoning him, because all the people were bitter in soul, each for his sons and daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.
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z And David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, "Bring me the ephod." So Abiathar brought the ephod to David.
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a And David inquired of the Lord, "Shall I pursue after this b band? Shall I overtake them?" He answered him, "Pursue, for you shall surely overtake c and shall surely rescue."
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So David set out, and d the six hundred men who were with him, and they came to the brook Besor, where those who were left behind stayed.
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But David pursued, he and four hundred men. e Two hundred stayed behind, who were too exhausted to cross the brook Besor.
11
They found an Egyptian in the open country and brought him to David. And they gave him bread and he ate. They gave him water to drink,
12
and they gave him a piece of a cake of figs and two clusters of raisins. And when he had eaten, f his spirit revived, for he had not eaten bread or drunk water for three days and three nights.
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And David said to him, "To whom do you belong? And where are you from?" He said, "I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite, and my master left me behind because I fell sick three days ago.
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g We had made a raid against the Negeb of h the Cherethites and against that which belongs to Judah and against the Negeb of Caleb, and we burned Ziklag with fire."
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And David said to him, "Will you take me down to this band?" And he said, "Swear to me by God that you will not kill me or deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will take you down to this i band."
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And when he had taken him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the land, eating and drinking and dancing, because of all the great spoil they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.
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And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day, and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men, who mounted camels and fled.
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j David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and David rescued his two wives.
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Nothing was missing, whether small or great, sons or daughters, spoil or anything that had been taken. j David brought back all.
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David also captured all the flocks and herds, and the people drove the livestock before him, and said, "This is David's spoil."
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Then David came to k the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow David, and who had been left k at the brook Besor. And they went out to meet David and to meet the people who were with him. And when David came near to the people he greeted them.
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Then all the wicked and worthless fellows among the men who had gone with David said, "Because they did not go with us, we will not give them any of the spoil that we have recovered, except that each man may lead away his wife and children, and depart."
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But David said, "You shall not do so, my brothers, with what the Lord has given us. He has preserved us and given into our hand the band that came against us.
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Who would listen to you in this matter? l For as his share is who goes down into the battle, so shall his share be who stays by the baggage. They shall share alike."
25
And he made it a statute and a rule for Israel from that day forward to this day.
26
When David came to Ziklag, he sent part of the spoil to his friends, the elders of Judah, saying, "Here is a present for you from the spoil of the enemies of the Lord."
27
It was for those in m Bethel, in Ramoth of the Negeb, in n Jattir,
28
in o Aroer, in Siphmoth, in p Eshtemoa,
29
in Racal, in the cities of q the Jerahmeelites, in the cities of r the Kenites,
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in s Hormah, in Bor-ashan, in Athach,
31
in t Hebron, for all the places where David and his men had roamed.
1 Samuel 31
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u Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines and fell slain v on Mount Gilboa.
2
And the Philistines overtook Saul and his sons, and the Philistines struck down w Jonathan and x Abinadab and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul.
3
y The battle pressed hard against Saul, and the archers found him, and he was badly wounded by the archers.
4
z Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, "Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these a uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and mistreat me." But his armor-bearer would not, b for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword c and fell upon it.
5
And when his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell upon his sword and died with him.
6
Thus Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor-bearer, and all his men, on the same day together.
7
And when the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley and those beyond the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities and fled. And the Philistines came and lived in them.
8
The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
9
So they cut off his head and stripped off his armor and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines, d to carry the good news e to the house of their idols and to the people.
10
f They put his armor in the temple of g Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of h Beth-shan.
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i But when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,
12
j all the valiant men arose and went all night and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and they came to Jabesh k and burned them there.
13
And they took their bones l and buried them under m the tamarisk tree in Jabesh and n fasted seven days.
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1 Samuel 14:51
Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
1 Chronicles 8:33
Ner was the father of Kish, Kish of Saul, Saul of Jonathan, Malchi-shua, Abinadab and Eshbaal.
1 Chronicles 9:39
Ner fathered Kish, Kish fathered Saul, Saul fathered Jonathan, Malchi-shua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
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1 Samuel 8:16
He will take your male servants and female servants and the best of your young men and your donkeys, and put them to his work.
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1 Samuel 10:23
Then they ran and took him from there. And when he stood among the people, he was taller than any of the people from his shoulders upward.
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Joshua 24:33
And Eleazar the son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of Phinehas his son, which had been given him in the hill country of Ephraim.
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2 Kings 4:42
A man came from Baal-shalishah, bringing the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And Elisha said, "Give to the men, that they may eat.
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1 Samuel 10:2
When you depart from me today, you will meet two men by Rachel's tomb in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah, and they will say to you, 'The donkeys that you went to seek are found, and now your father has ceased to care about the donkeys and is anxious about you, saying, "What shall I do about my son?"
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Deuteronomy 33:1
This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the people of Israel before his death.
Judges 13:6
Then the woman came and told her husband, "A man of God came to me, and his appearance was like the appearance of the angel of God, very awesome. I did not ask him where he was from, and he did not tell me his name.
1 Kings 13:1
And behold, a man of God came out of Judah by the word of the Lord to Bethel. Jeroboam was standing by the altar to make offerings.
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1 Samuel 3:19
And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground.
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1 Kings 14:3
Take with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what shall happen to the child.
2 Kings 4:42
A man came from Baal-shalishah, bringing the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And Elisha said, "Give to the men, that they may eat.
2 Kings 8:8
The king said to Hazael, "Take a present with you and go to meet the man of God, and inquire of the Lord through him, saying, 'Shall I recover from this sickness?'
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Genesis 25:22
The children struggled together within her, and she said, "If it is thus, why is this happening to me?" So she went to inquire of the Lord.
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Genesis 24:11
And he made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time when women go out to draw water.
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1 Samuel 16:2
And Samuel said, "How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me." And the Lord said, "Take a heifer with you and say, 'I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.
1 Samuel 20:29
He said, 'Let me go, for our clan holds a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has commanded me to be there. So now, if I have found favor in your eyes, let me get away and see my brothers.' For this reason he has not come to the king's table.
Genesis 31:54
And Jacob offered a sacrifice in the hill country and called his kinsmen to eat bread. They ate bread and spent the night in the hill country.
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1 Samuel 10:5
After that you shall come to Gibeath-elohim, where there is a garrison of the Philistines. And there, as soon as you come to the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place with harp, tambourine, flute, and lyre before them, prophesying.
1 Kings 3:2 - 4
The people were sacrificing at the high places, however, because no house had yet been built for the name of the Lord.
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1 Samuel 15:1
And Samuel said to Saul, "The Lord sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore listen to the words of the Lord.
Acts 13:21
Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
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Ruth 4:4
So I thought I would tell you of it and say, 'Buy it in the presence of those sitting here and in the presence of the elders of my people.' If you will redeem it, redeem it. But if you will not, tell me, that I may know, for there is no one besides you to redeem it, and I come after you." And he said, "I will redeem it.
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1 Samuel 10:1
Then Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it on his head and kissed him and said, "Has not the Lord anointed you to be prince over his people Israel? And you shall reign over the people of the Lord and you will save them from the hand of their surrounding enemies. And this shall be the sign to you that the Lord has anointed you to be prince over his heritage.
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Exodus 2:25
God saw the people of Israel - and God knew.
Exodus 3:7
Then the Lord said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings.
Exodus 3:9
And now, behold, the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
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1 Samuel 16:12
And he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome. And the Lord said, "Arise, anoint him, for this is he.
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1 Samuel 9:3
Now the donkeys of Kish, Saul's father, were lost. So Kish said to Saul his son, "Take one of the young men with you, and arise, go and look for the donkeys.
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Judges 20:46
So all who fell that day of Benjamin were 25,000 men who drew the sword, all of them men of valor.
Judges 21:6
And the people of Israel had compassion for Benjamin their brother and said, "One tribe is cut off from Israel this day.
Psalms 68:27
There is Benjamin, the least of them, in the lead, the princes of Judah in their throng, the princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali.
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1 Samuel 15:17
And Samuel said, "Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? The Lord anointed you king over Israel.
Judges 6:15
And he said to him, "Please, Lord, how can I save Israel? Behold, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.
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Exodus 29:22
You shall also take the fat from the ram and the fat tail and the fat that covers the entrails, and the long lobe of the liver and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram of ordination).
Exodus 29:27
And you shall consecrate the breast of the wave offering that is waved and the thigh of the priests' portion that is contributed from the ram of ordination, from what was Aaron's and his sons'.
Leviticus 7:32 - 33
And the right thigh you shall give to the priest as a contribution from the sacrifice of your peace offerings.
Ezekiel 24:4
Put in it the pieces of meat, all the good pieces, the thigh and the shoulder; fill it with choice bones.
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Deuteronomy 22:8
When you build a new house, you shall make a pa...
2 Samuel 11:2
It happened, late one afternoon, when David aro...
2 Samuel 16:22
So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof....
Nehemiah 8:16
So the people went out and brought them and mad...
Matthew 24:17
Let the one who is on the housetop not go down ...
Acts 10:9
The next day, as they were on their journey and...
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1 Samuel 9:16
"Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a ...
1 Samuel 16:13
Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed h...
2 Samuel 2:4
And the men of Judah came, and there they anoin...
1 Kings 1:34
And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet...
1 Kings 1:39
There Zadok the priest took the horn of oil fro...
2 Kings 9:1
Then Elisha the prophet called one of the sons ...
2 Kings 9:3
Then take the flask of oil and pour it on his h...
2 Kings 9:6
So he arose and went into the house. And the yo...
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Psalms 2:12
Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.
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Deuteronomy 32:9
But the Lord 's portion is his people, Jacob his allotted heritage.
Psalms 78:71
From following the nursing ewes he brought him to shepherd Jacob his people, Israel his inheritance.
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Genesis 35:19 - 20
So Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
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1 Samuel 9:3 - 4
Now the donkeys of Kish, Saul's father, were lost. So Kish said to Saul his son, "Take one of the young men with you, and arise, go and look for the donkeys.
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1 Samuel 9:5
When they came to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, "Come, let us go back, lest my father cease to care about the donkeys and become anxious about us.
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Genesis 13:18
So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.
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Judges 20:31
And the people of Benjamin went out against the people and were drawn away from the city. And as at other times they began to strike and kill some of the people in the highways, one of which goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah, and in the open country, about thirty men of Israel.
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Genesis 28:22
And this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God's house. And of all that you give me I will give a full tenth to you.
Genesis 35:1
God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.
Genesis 35:3
Then let us arise and go up to Bethel, so that I may make there an altar to the God who answers me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone.
Genesis 35:7
And there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.
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1 Samuel 10:10
When they came to Gibeah, behold, a group of prophets met him, and the Spirit of God rushed upon him, and he prophesied among them.
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1 Samuel 13:3 - 4
Jonathan defeated the garrison of the Philistines that was at Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, "Let the Hebrews hear.
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1 Samuel 9:12
They answered, "He is; behold, he is just ahead of you. Hurry. He has come just now to the city, because the people have a sacrifice today on the high place.
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1 Samuel 10:10
When they came to Gibeah, behold, a group of pr...
1 Samuel 11:6
And the Spirit of God rushed upon Saul when he ...
1 Samuel 16:13
Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed h...
Numbers 11:25
Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke ...
Judges 3:10
The Spirit of the Lord was upon him, and he jud...
Judges 14:6
Then the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, an...
Judges 14:19
And the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and...
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1 Samuel 10:10
When they came to Gibeah, behold, a group of prophets met him, and the Spirit of God rushed upon him, and he prophesied among them.
1 Samuel 19:23 - 24
And he went there to Naioth in Ramah. And the Spirit of God came upon him also, and as he went he prophesied until he came to Naioth in Ramah.
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Exodus 4:8
If they will not believe you," God said, "or listen to the first sign, they may believe the latter sign.
Judges 6:17
And he said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, then show me a sign that it is you who speak with me.
Luke 2:12
And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.
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Joshua 1:5
No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.
Judges 6:12
And the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, "The Lord is with you, O mighty man of valor.
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1 Samuel 11:14 - 15
Then Samuel said to the people, "Come, let us go to Gilgal and there renew the kingdom.
1 Samuel 13:4
And all Israel heard it said that Saul had defeated the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel had become a stench to the Philistines. And the people were called out to join Saul at Gilgal.
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1 Samuel 11:15
So all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before the Lord in Gilgal. There they sacrificed peace offerings before the Lord, and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.
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1 Samuel 13:8
He waited seven days, the time appointed by Samuel. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the people were scattering from him.
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1 Samuel 10:5
After that you shall come to Gibeath-elohim, where there is a garrison of the Philistines. And there, as soon as you come to the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place with harp, tambourine, flute, and lyre before them, prophesying.
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1 Samuel 10:6
Then the Spirit of the Lord will rush upon you, and you will prophesy with them and be turned into another man.
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1 Samuel 19:24
And he too stripped off his clothes, and he too prophesied before Samuel and lay naked all that day and all that night. Thus it is said, "Is Saul also among the prophets?
Matthew 13:54 - 55
And coming to his hometown he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, "Where did this man get this wisdom and these mighty works?
John 7:15
The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How is it that this man has learning, when he has never studied?
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Isaiah 54:13
All your children shall be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the peace of your children.
John 6:45
It is written in the Prophets, 'And they will all be taught by God.' Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me -
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1 Samuel 10:11
And when all who knew him previously saw how he prophesied with the prophets, the people said to one another, "What has come over the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?
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1 Samuel 14:50
And the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz. And the name of the commander of his army was Abner the son of Ner, Saul's uncle.
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1 Samuel 9:4 - 6
And he passed through the hill country of Ephraim and passed through the land of Shalishah, but they did not find them. And they passed through the land of Shaalim, but they were not there. Then they passed through the land of Benjamin, but did not find them.
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1 Samuel 9:20
As for your donkeys that were lost three days ago, do not set your mind on them, for they have been found. And for whom is all that is desirable in Israel? Is it not for you and for all your father's house?
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1 Samuel 11:15
So all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before the Lord in Gilgal. There they sacrificed peace offerings before the Lord, and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.
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1 Samuel 7:5 - 6
Then Samuel said, "Gather all Israel at Mizpah, and I will pray to the Lord for you.
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Judges 6:8 - 9
The Lord sent a prophet to the people of Israel. And he said to them, "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I led you up from Egypt and brought you out of the house of bondage.
1 Samuel 12:8
When Jacob went into Egypt, and the Egyptians oppressed them, then your fathers cried out to the Lord and the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt and made them dwell in this place.
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1 Samuel 8:7
And the Lord said to Samuel, "Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.
1 Samuel 8:19
But the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel. And they said, "No! But there shall be a king over us.
1 Samuel 12:12
And when you saw that Nahash the king of the Ammonites came against you, you said to me, 'No, but a king shall reign over us,' when the Lord your God was your king.
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Joshua 24:1
Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel. And they presented themselves before God.
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Joshua 7:14
In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes. And the tribe that the Lord takes by lot shall come near by clans. And the clan that the Lord takes shall come near by households. And the household that the Lord takes shall come near man by man.
Joshua 7:16 - 17
So Joshua rose early in the morning and brought Israel near tribe by tribe, and the tribe of Judah was taken.
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1 Samuel 22:10
And he inquired of the Lord for him and gave him provisions and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
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1 Samuel 9:2
And he had a son whose name was Saul, a handsome young man. There was not a man among the people of Israel more handsome than he. From his shoulders upward he was taller than any of the people.
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2 Samuel 21:6
Let seven of his sons be given to us, so that we may hang them before the Lord at Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the Lord." And the king said, "I will give them.
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2 Samuel 16:16
And when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, came to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom, "Long live the king! Long live the king!
1 Kings 1:25
For he has gone down this day and has sacrificed oxen, fattened cattle, and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the king's sons, the commanders of the army, and Abiathar the priest. And behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and saying, 'Long live King Adonijah!
1 Kings 1:39
There Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the tent and anointed Solomon. Then they blew the trumpet, and all the people said, "Long live King Solomon!
2 Kings 11:12
Then he brought out the king's son and put the crown on him and gave him the testimony. And they proclaimed him king and anointed him, and they clapped their hands and said, "Long live the king!
2 Chronicles 23:11
Then they brought out the king's son and put the crown on him and gave him the testimony. And they proclaimed him king, and Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and they said, "Long live the king.
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1 Samuel 8:11 - 18
He said, "These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots.
Deuteronomy 17:14 - 20
"When you come to the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, 'I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,'
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1 Samuel 11:4
When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, they reported the matter in the ears of the people, and all the people wept aloud.
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1 Samuel 2:12
Now the sons of Eli were worthless men. They did not know the Lord.
Deuteronomy 13:13
That certain worthless fellows have gone out among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods,' which you have not known.
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1 Samuel 12:12
And when you saw that Nahash the king of the Ammonites came against you, you said to me, 'No, but a king shall reign over us,' when the Lord your God was your king.
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Judges 21:8
And they said, "What one is there of the tribes of Israel that did not come up to the Lord to Mizpah?" And behold, no one had come to the camp from Jabesh-gilead, to the assembly.
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Genesis 26:28
They said, "We see plainly that the Lord has be...
1 Kings 20:34
And Ben-hadad said to him, "The cities that my ...
Ezekiel 17:13
And he took one of the royal offspring and made...
Exodus 23:32
You shall make no covenant with them and their ...
Exodus 34:12
Take care, lest you make a covenant with the in...
Exodus 34:15
Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants o...
Deuteronomy 7:2
And when the Lord your God gives them over to y...
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Numbers 16:14
Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up.
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1 Samuel 17:26
And David said to the men who stood by him, "What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
Genesis 34:14
They said to them, "We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a disgrace to us.
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1 Samuel 10:26
Saul also went to his home at Gibeah, and with him went men of valor whose hearts God had touched.
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Judges 2:4
As soon as the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the people of Israel, the people lifted up their voices and wept.
Judges 21:2
And the people came to Bethel and sat there till evening before God, and they lifted up their voices and wept bitterly.
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1 Samuel 10:6
Then the Spirit of the Lord will rush upon you, and you will prophesy with them and be turned into another man.
1 Samuel 10:10
When they came to Gibeah, behold, a group of prophets met him, and the Spirit of God rushed upon him, and he prophesied among them.
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Judges 19:29
And when he entered his house, he took a knife, and taking hold of his concubine he divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the territory of Israel.
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Judges 21:5
And the people of Israel said, "Which of all the tribes of Israel did not come up in the assembly to the Lord ?" For they had taken a great oath concerning him who did not come up to the Lord to Mizpah, saying, "He shall surely be put to death.
Judges 21:8
And they said, "What one is there of the tribes of Israel that did not come up to the Lord to Mizpah?" And behold, no one had come to the camp from Jabesh-gilead, to the assembly.
Judges 21:10
So the congregation sent 12,000 of their bravest men there and commanded them, "Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword; also the women and the little ones.
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Judges 20:1
Then all the people of Israel came out, from Dan to Beersheba, including the land of Gilead, and the congregation assembled as one man to the Lord at Mizpah.
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Judges 1:5
They found Adoni-bezek at Bezek and fought against him and defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
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Judges 20:15 - 17
And the people of Benjamin mustered out of their cities on that day 26,000 men who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who mustered 700 chosen men.
2 Samuel 24:9
And Joab gave the sum of the numbering of the people to the king: in Israel there were 800,000 valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were 500,000.
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1 Samuel 11:13
But Saul said, "Not a man shall be put to death this day, for today the Lord has worked salvation in Israel.
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1 Samuel 11:3
The elders of Jabesh said to him, "Give us seven days' respite that we may send messengers through all the territory of Israel. Then, if there is no one to save us, we will give ourselves up to you.
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1 Samuel 31:11
But when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul.
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Judges 7:16
And he divided the 300 men into three companies and put trumpets into the hands of all of them and empty jars, with torches inside the jars.
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1 Samuel 10:27
But some worthless fellows said, "How can this man save us?" And they despised him and brought him no present. But he held his peace.
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Luke 19:27
But as for these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slaughter them before me.'
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2 Samuel 19:22
But David said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be as an adversary to me? Shall anyone be put to death in Israel this day? For do I not know that I am this day king over Israel?
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1 Samuel 19:5
For he took his life in his hand and he struck down the Philistine, and the Lord worked a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood by killing David without cause?
Exodus 14:13
And Moses said to the people, "Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again.
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1 Samuel 11:9
And they said to the messengers who had come, "Thus shall you say to the men of Jabesh-gilead: 'Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you shall have deliverance.'" When the messengers came and told the men of Jabesh, they were glad.
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1 Samuel 10:8
Then go down before me to Gilgal. And behold, I am coming to you to offer burnt offerings and to sacrifice peace offerings. Seven days you shall wait, until I come to you and show you what you shall do.
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1 Samuel 15:33
And Samuel said, "As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women." And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.
1 Samuel 10:17
Now Samuel called the people together to the Lord at Mizpah.
Judges 11:11
So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and leader over them. And Jephthah spoke all his words before the Lord at Mizpah.
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1 Samuel 10:8
Then go down before me to Gilgal. And behold, I am coming to you to offer burnt offerings and to sacrifice peace offerings. Seven days you shall wait, until I come to you and show you what you shall do.
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1 Samuel 8:5
And said to him, "Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations.
1 Samuel 8:19 - 20
But the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel. And they said, "No! But there shall be a king over us.
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1 Samuel 10:24
And Samuel said to all the people, "Do you see him whom the Lord has chosen? There is none like him among all the people." And all the people shouted, "Long live the king!
1 Samuel 11:14 - 15
Then Samuel said to the people, "Come, let us go to Gilgal and there renew the kingdom.
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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.
Numbers 27:17
Who shall go out before them and come in before them, who shall lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the Lord may not be as sheep that have no shepherd.
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1 Samuel 8:1
When Samuel became old, he made his sons judges over Israel.
1 Samuel 8:5
And said to him, "Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations.
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1 Samuel 24:6
He said to his men, "The Lord forbid that I sho...
1 Samuel 26:9
But David said to Abishai, "Do not destroy him,...
1 Samuel 26:11
The Lord forbid that I should put out my hand a...
1 Samuel 26:16
This thing that you have done is not good. As t...
2 Samuel 1:14
David said to him, "How is it you were not afra...
2 Samuel 1:16
And David said to him, "Your blood be on your h...
1 Samuel 10:1
Then Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it o...
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Exodus 20:17
"You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's."
Numbers 16:15
And Moses was very angry and said to the Lord, "Do not respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, and I have not harmed one of them.
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1 Samuel 12:3
Here I am; testify against me before the Lord and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? Testify against me and I will restore it to you.
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Exodus 21:16
Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, shall be put to death.
Exodus 22:4
If the stolen beast is found alive in his possession, whether it is an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he shall pay double.
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Micah 6:4
For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
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Genesis 46:5 - 6
Then Jacob set out from Beersheba. The sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
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Exodus 2:23
During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.
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Exodus 3:10
Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.
Exodus 4:14 - 16
Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses and he said, "Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Behold, he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
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1 Samuel 10:18
And he said to the people of Israel, "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, 'I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all the kingdoms that were oppressing you.
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Judges 3:7
And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Asheroth.
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Judges 4:2
And the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.
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Judges 10:7
So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the Ammonites.
Judges 13:1
And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, so the Lord gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.
Judges 3:31
After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed 600 of the Philistines with an oxgoad, and he also saved Israel.
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Judges 3:12
And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
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Judges 10:10
And the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, saying, "We have sinned against you, because we have forsaken our God and have served the Baals.
Judges 3:9
But when the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer for the people of Israel, who saved them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
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Judges 2:13
They abandoned the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth.
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Judges 10:15
And the people of Israel said to the Lord, "We have sinned; do to us whatever seems good to you. Only please deliver us this day.
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Judges 6:14
And the Lord turned to him and said, "Go in this might of yours and save Israel from the hand of Midian; do not I send you?
Judges 6:32
Therefore on that day Gideon was called Jerubbaal, that is to say, "Let Baal contend against him," because he broke down his altar.
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Judges 4:6
She sent and summoned Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh-naphtali and said to him, "Has not the Lord, the God of Israel, commanded you, 'Go, gather your men at Mount Tabor, taking 10,000 from the people of Naphtali and the people of Zebulun.
Judges 4:8
Barak said to her, "If you will go with me, I will go, but if you will not go with me, I will not go.
Judges 4:10
And Barak called out Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh. And 10,000 men went up at his heels, and Deborah went up with him.
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Judges 11:1
Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior, but he was the son of a prostitute. Gilead was the father of Jephthah.
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1 Samuel 7:10 - 13
As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to attack Israel. But the Lord thundered with a mighty sound that day against the Philistines and threw them into confusion, and they were routed before Israel.
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1 Samuel 11:1
Then Nahash the Ammonite went up and besieged Jabesh-gilead, and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, "Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.
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1 Samuel 8:5
And said to him, "Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations.
1 Samuel 8:19
But the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel. And they said, "No! But there shall be a king over us.
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1 Samuel 8:7
And the Lord said to Samuel, "Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.
1 Samuel 10:19
But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your calamities and your distresses, and you have said to him, 'Set a king over us.' Now therefore present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes and by your thousands.
Judges 8:23
Gideon said to them, "I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the Lord will rule over you.
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1 Samuel 10:24
And Samuel said to all the people, "Do you see him whom the Lord has chosen? There is none like him among all the people." And all the people shouted, "Long live the king!
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1 Samuel 9:16 - 17
"Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have seen my people, because their cry has come to me."
Hosea 13:11
I gave you a king in my anger, and I took him away in my wrath.
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1 Samuel 12:24
Only fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart. For consider what great things he has done for you.
Deuteronomy 6:2
That you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long.
Joshua 24:14
Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.
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Leviticus 26:14 - 15
But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments.
Deuteronomy 28:15
But if you will not obey the voice of the Lord your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you.
Joshua 24:20
If you forsake the Lord and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you harm and consume you, after having done you good.
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1 Samuel 5:9
But after they had brought it around, the hand of the Lord was against the city, causing a very great panic, and he afflicted the men of the city, both young and old, so that tumors broke out on them.
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1 Samuel 12:9
But they forgot the Lord their God. And he sold them into the hand of Sisera, commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab. And they fought against them.
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Exodus 14:13
And Moses said to the people, "Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again.
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Proverbs 26:1
Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.
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1 Samuel 7:9 - 10
So Samuel took a nursing lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the Lord. And Samuel cried out to the Lord for Israel, and the Lord answered him.
James 5:16 - 18
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
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1 Samuel 8:7
And the Lord said to Samuel, "Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.
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Exodus 14:31
Israel saw the great power that the Lord used against the Egyptians, so the people feared the Lord, and they believed in the Lord and in his servant Moses.
Ezra 10:9
Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled at Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month. And all the people sat in the open square before the house of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the heavy rain.
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1 Samuel 12:23
Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, and I will instruct you in the good and the right way.
Exodus 9:28
Plead with the Lord, for there has been enough of God's thunder and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.
Exodus 10:17
Now therefore, forgive my sin, please, only this once, and plead with the Lord your God only to remove this death from me.
Jeremiah 15:1
Then the Lord said to me, "Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go!
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Deuteronomy 11:16
Take care lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them.
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1 Samuel 12:20
And Samuel said to the people, "Do not be afraid; you have done all this evil. Yet do not turn aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart.
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Jeremiah 16:19
O Lord, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: "Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit.
Habakkuk 2:18
What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation when he makes speechless idols!
1 Corinthians 8:4
Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that "an idol has no real existence," and that "there is no God but one.
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1 Kings 6:13
And I will dwell among the children of Israel and will not forsake my people Israel.
Psalms 94:14
For the Lord will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage.
1 Kings 8:57
The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. May he not leave us or forsake us.
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Joshua 7:9
For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of t...
Psalms 106:8
Yet he saved them for his name's sake, that he ...
Jeremiah 14:21
Do not spurn us, for your name's sake; do not d...
Ezekiel 20:9
But I acted for the sake of my name, that it sh...
Ezekiel 20:14
But I acted for the sake of my name, that it sh...
Ezekiel 20:22
But I withheld my hand and acted for the sake o...
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Deuteronomy 7:7 - 8
It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples.
Deuteronomy 14:2
For you are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
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1 Samuel 12:19
And all the people said to Samuel, "Pray for your servants to the Lord your God, that we may not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for ourselves a king.
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1 Kings 8:36
Then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk, and grant rain upon your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.
2 Chronicles 6:27
Then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk, and grant rain upon your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.
Psalms 27:11
Teach me your way, O Lord, and lead me on a level path because of my enemies.
Proverbs 4:11
I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness.
Jeremiah 6:16
Thus says the Lord : "Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it.
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1 Samuel 12:14
If you will fear the Lord and serve him and obey his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the Lord, and if both you and the king who reigns over you will follow the Lord your God, it will be well.
Ecclesiastes 12:13
The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.
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Deuteronomy 10:21
He is your praise. He is your God, who has done for you these great and terrifying things that your eyes have seen.
Psalms 126:2 - 3
Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, "The Lord has done great things for them.
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Joshua 24:20
If you forsake the Lord and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you harm and consume you, after having done you good.
Numbers 16:26
And he spoke to the congregation, saying, "Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be swept away with all their sins.
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Deuteronomy 28:36
The Lord will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone.
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1 Samuel 13:5
And the Philistines mustered to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen and troops like the sand on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven.
1 Samuel 13:11
Samuel said, "What have you done?" And Saul said, "When I saw that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines had mustered at Michmash.
1 Samuel 13:16
And Saul and Jonathan his son and the people who were present with them stayed in Geba of Benjamin, but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.
1 Samuel 13:23
And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.
1 Samuel 14:31
They struck down the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. And the people were very faint.
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1 Samuel 13:15
And Samuel arose and went up from Gilgal. The rest of the people went up after Saul to meet the army; they went up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people who were present with him, about six hundred men.
1 Samuel 10:26
Saul also went to his home at Gibeah, and with him went men of valor whose hearts God had touched.
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1 Samuel 10:5
After that you shall come to Gibeath-elohim, where there is a garrison of the Philistines. And there, as soon as you come to the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place with harp, tambourine, flute, and lyre before them, prophesying.
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1 Samuel 13:16
And Saul and Jonathan his son and the people who were present with them stayed in Geba of Benjamin, but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.
1 Samuel 14:5
The one crag rose on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south in front of Geba.
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Judges 3:27
When he arrived, he sounded the trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim. Then the people of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he was their leader.
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Joshua 11:4
And they came out with all their troops, a great horde, in number like the sand that is on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots.
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1 Samuel 14:23
So the Lord saved Israel that day. And the battle passed beyond Beth-aven.
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Judges 6:2
And the hand of Midian overpowered Israel, and because of Midian the people of Israel made for themselves the dens that are in the mountains and the caves and the strongholds.
Hebrews 11:38
Of whom the world was not worthy - wandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
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1 Samuel 10:8
Then go down before me to Gilgal. And behold, I am coming to you to offer burnt offerings and to sacrifice peace offerings. Seven days you shall wait, until I come to you and show you what you shall do.
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2 Samuel 24:10
But David's heart struck him after he had numbered the people. And David said to the Lord, "I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O Lord, please take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have done very foolishly.
1 Chronicles 21:8
And David said to God, "I have sinned greatly in that I have done this thing. But now, please take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.
2 Chronicles 16:9
For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him. You have done foolishly in this, for from now on you will have wars.
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1 Samuel 15:11
I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and has not performed my commandments." And Samuel was angry, and he cried to the Lord all night.
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1 Samuel 15:28
And Samuel said to him, "The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.
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Acts 13:22
And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, 'I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.
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1 Samuel 13:2
Saul chose three thousand men of Israel. Two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. The rest of the people he sent home, every man to his tent.
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1 Samuel 14:2
Saul was staying in the outskirts of Gibeah in the pomegranate cave at Migron. The people who were with him were about six hundred men.
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1 Samuel 13:3
Jonathan defeated the garrison of the Philistines that was at Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, "Let the Hebrews hear.
1 Samuel 14:5
The one crag rose on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south in front of Geba.
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1 Samuel 14:15
And there was a panic in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. The garrison and even the raiders trembled, the earth quaked, and it became a very great panic.
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Joshua 10:10
And the Lord threw them into a panic before Israel, who struck them with a great blow at Gibeon and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon and struck them as far as Azekah and Makkedah.
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Nehemiah 11:34
Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat.
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2 Kings 24:14
He carried away all Jerusalem and all the officials and all the mighty men of valor, 10,000 captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. None remained, except the poorest people of the land.
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Judges 5:8
When new gods were chosen, then war was in the gates. Was shield or spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?
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1 Samuel 14:1
One day Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who carried his armor, "Come, let us go over to the Philistine garrison on the other side." But he did not tell his father.
1 Samuel 14:4
Within the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistine garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side and a rocky crag on the other side. The name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.
1 Samuel 14:6
Jonathan said to the young man who carried his armor, "Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that the Lord will work for us, for nothing can hinder the Lord from saving by many or by few.
1 Samuel 14:11
So both of them showed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines. And the Philistines said, "Look, Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they have hidden themselves.
2 Samuel 23:14
David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then at Bethlehem.
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1 Samuel 14:4 - 5
Within the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistine garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side and a rocky crag on the other side. The name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.
Isaiah 10:28 - 29
He has come to Aiath; he has passed through Migron; at Michmash he stores his baggage.
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Isaiah 10:28
He has come to Aiath; he has passed through Migron; at Michmash he stores his baggage.
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1 Samuel 13:23
And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.
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1 Samuel 13:15
And Samuel arose and went up from Gilgal. The rest of the people went up after Saul to meet the army; they went up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people who were present with him, about six hundred men.
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1 Samuel 22:9
Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, "I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
1 Samuel 22:11
Then the king sent to summon Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests who were at Nob, and all of them came to the king.
1 Samuel 22:20
But one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled after David.
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1 Samuel 4:21
And she named the child Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel!" because the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
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Joshua 18:1
Then the whole congregation of the people of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the tent of meeting there. The land lay subdued before them.
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1 Samuel 2:28
Did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? I gave to the house of your father all my offerings by fire from the people of Israel.
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1 Samuel 13:23
And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.
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1 Samuel 13:3
Jonathan defeated the garrison of the Philistines that was at Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, "Let the Hebrews hear.
1 Samuel 13:16
And Saul and Jonathan his son and the people who were present with them stayed in Geba of Benjamin, but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.
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1 Samuel 17:26
And David said to the men who stood by him, "What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
Judges 14:3
But his father and mother said to him, "Is there not a woman among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?" But Samson said to his father, "Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes.
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Judges 7:4
And the Lord said to Gideon, "The people are still too many. Take them down to the water, and I will test them for you there, and anyone of whom I say to you, 'This one shall go with you,' shall go with you, and anyone of whom I say to you, 'This one shall not go with you,' shall not go.
Judges 7:7
And the Lord said to Gideon, "With the 300 men who lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hand, and let all the others go every man to his home.
2 Chronicles 14:11
And Asa cried to the Lord his God, "O Lord, there is none like you to help, between the mighty and the weak. Help us, O Lord our God, for we rely on you, and in your name we have come against this multitude. O Lord, you are our God; let not man prevail against you.
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1 Samuel 13:6
When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were hard pressed), the people hid themselves in caves and in holes and in rocks and in tombs and in cisterns.
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1 Samuel 13:17
And raiders came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies. One company turned toward Ophrah, to the land of Shual.
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Joshua 2:9
And said to the men, "I know that the Lord has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.
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Numbers 27:21
And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the Lord. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the people of Israel with him, the whole congregation.
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Judges 7:22
When they blew the 300 trumpets, the Lord set every man's sword against his comrade and against all the army. And the army fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath.
2 Chronicles 20:23
For the men of Ammon and Moab rose against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, devoting them to destruction, and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, they all helped to destroy one another.
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1 Samuel 29:4
But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with him. And the commanders of the Philistines said to him, "Send the man back, that he may return to the place to which you have assigned him. He shall not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us. For how could this fellow reconcile himself to his lord? Would it not be with the heads of the men here?
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1 Samuel 14:11
So both of them showed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines. And the Philistines said, "Look, Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they have hidden themselves.
1 Samuel 13:6
When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were hard pressed), the people hid themselves in caves and in holes and in rocks and in tombs and in cisterns.
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Joshua 24:33
And Eleazar the son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of Phinehas his son, which had been given him in the hill country of Ephraim.
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Exodus 14:30
Thus the Lord saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.
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1 Samuel 13:5
And the Philistines mustered to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen and troops like the sand on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven.
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Joshua 6:26
Joshua laid an oath on them at that time, saying, "Cursed before the Lord be the man who rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho. "At the cost of his firstborn shall he lay its foundation, and at the cost of his youngest son shall he set up its gates.
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1 Samuel 14:43
Then Saul said to Jonathan, "Tell me what you have done." And Jonathan told him, "I tasted a little honey with the tip of the staff that was in my hand. Here I am; I will die.
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Judges 8:4 - 5
And Gideon came to the Jordan and crossed over, he and the 300 men who were with him, exhausted yet pursuing.
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1 Samuel 13:2
Saul chose three thousand men of Israel. Two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. The rest of the people he sent home, every man to his tent.
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Joshua 10:12
At that time Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day when the Lord gave the Amorites over to the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, "Sun, stand still at Gibeon, and moon, in the Valley of Aijalon.
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1 Samuel 14:28
Then one of the people said, "Your father strictly charged the people with an oath, saying, 'Cursed be the man who eats food this day.'" And the people were faint.
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1 Samuel 15:19
Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord ? Why did you pounce on the spoil and do what was evil in the sight of the Lord ?
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Leviticus 3:17
It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood.
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1 Samuel 14:32
The people pounced on the spoil and took sheep and oxen and calves and slaughtered them on the ground. And the people ate them with the blood.
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1 Samuel 7:12
Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen and called its name Ebenezer; for he said, "Till now the Lord has helped us.
1 Samuel 7:17
Then he would return to Ramah, for his home was there, and there also he judged Israel. And he built there an altar to the Lord.
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1 Samuel 14:3
Including Ahijah the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, son of Phinehas, son of Eli, the priest of the Lord in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people did not know that Jonathan had gone.
1 Samuel 14:18 - 19
So Saul said to Ahijah, "Bring the ark of God here." For the ark of God went at that time with the people of Israel.
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1 Samuel 28:6
And when Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord did not answer him, either by dreams, or by Urim, or by prophets.
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Ruth 3:13
Remain tonight, and in the morning, if he will redeem you, good; let him do it. But if he is not willing to redeem you, then, as the Lord lives, I will redeem you. Lie down until the morning.
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1 Samuel 14:44
And Saul said, "God do so to me and more also; you shall surely die, Jonathan.
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1 Samuel 10:20 - 21
Then Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was taken by lot.
Joshua 7:16 - 18
So Joshua rose early in the morning and brought Israel near tribe by tribe, and the tribe of Judah was taken.
Acts 1:24 - 26
And they prayed and said, "You, Lord, who know the hearts of all, show which one of these two you have chosen
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1 Samuel 14:41
Therefore Saul said, "O Lord God of Israel, why have you not answered your servant this day? If this guilt is in me or in Jonathan my son, O Lord, God of Israel, give Urim. But if this guilt is in your people Israel, give Thummim." And Jonathan and Saul were taken, but the people escaped.
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Joshua 7:19
Then Joshua said to Achan, "My son, give glory to the Lord God of Israel and give praise to him. And tell me now what you have done; do not hide it from me.
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1 Samuel 14:27
But Jonathan had not heard his father charge the people with the oath, so he put out the tip of the staff that was in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb and put his hand to his mouth, and his eyes became bright.
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Ruth 1:17
Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.
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1 Samuel 14:39
For as the Lord lives who saves Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die." But there was not a man among all the people who answered him.
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1 Samuel 14:39
For as the Lord lives who saves Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die." But there was not a man among all the people who answered him.
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2 Samuel 14:11
Then she said, "Please let the king invoke the ...
1 Kings 1:52
And Solomon said, "If he will show himself a wo...
Luke 21:18
But not a hair of your head will perish.
Acts 27:34
Therefore I urge you to take some food. For it ...
Matthew 10:30
But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.
Luke 12:7
Why, even the hairs of your head are all number...
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1 Samuel 11:11
And the next day Saul put the people in three companies. And they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch and struck down the Ammonites until the heat of the day. And those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.
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2 Samuel 8:3
David also defeated Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to restore his power at the river Euphrates.
2 Samuel 10:6
When the Ammonites saw that they had become a stench to David, the Ammonites sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, 20,000 foot soldiers, and the king of Maacah with 1,000 men, and the men of Tob, 12,000 men.
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1 Samuel 15:3
Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.'
1 Samuel 15:7
And Saul defeated the Amalekites from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt.
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1 Samuel 31:2
And the Philistines overtook Saul and his sons, and the Philistines struck down Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul.
2 Samuel 2:8 - 10
But Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul's army, took Ish-bosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim.
1 Chronicles 8:33
Ner was the father of Kish, Kish of Saul, Saul of Jonathan, Malchi-shua, Abinadab and Eshbaal.
1 Chronicles 9:39
Ner fathered Kish, Kish fathered Saul, Saul fathered Jonathan, Malchi-shua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
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1 Samuel 18:17
Then Saul said to David, "Here is my elder daughter Merab. I will give her to you for a wife. Only be valiant for me and fight the Lord 's battles." For Saul thought, "Let not my hand be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.
1 Samuel 18:19
But at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite for a wife.
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2 Samuel 2:8
But Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul's army, took Ish-bosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim.
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1 Samuel 10:14
Saul's uncle said to him and to his servant, "Where did you go?" And he said, "To seek the donkeys. And when we saw they were not to be found, we went to Samuel.
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1 Samuel 9:1
There was a man of Benjamin whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, son of Zeror, son of Becorath, son of Aphiah, a Benjaminite, a man of wealth.
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1 Samuel 9:1
There was a man of Benjamin whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, son of Zeror, son of Becorath, son of Aphiah, a Benjaminite, a man of wealth.
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1 Samuel 8:11
He said, "These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots.
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1 Samuel 9:16
"Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have seen my people, because their cry has come to me."
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Exodus 17:8 - 16
Then Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim.
Deuteronomy 25:17 - 19
Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you came out of Egypt.
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Leviticus 27:28 - 29
But no devoted thing that a man devotes to the Lord, of anything that he has, whether man or beast, or of his inherited field, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the Lord.
Joshua 6:17
And the city and all that is within it shall be devoted to the Lord for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent.
Joshua 6:21
Then they devoted all in the city to destruction, both men and women, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys, with the edge of the sword.
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1 Samuel 22:19
And Nob, the city of the priests, he put to the sword; both man and woman, child and infant, ox, donkey and sheep, he put to the sword.
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1 Samuel 27:10
When Achish asked, "Where have you made a raid today?" David would say, "Against the Negeb of Judah," or, "Against the Negeb of the Jerahmeelites," or, "Against the Negeb of the Kenites.
Judges 1:16
And the descendants of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, went up with the people of Judah from the city of palms into the wilderness of Judah, which lies in the Negeb near Arad, and they went and settled with the people.
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Exodus 18:10
Jethro said, "Blessed be the Lord, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharaoh and has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
Exodus 18:19
Now obey my voice; I will give you advice, and God be with you! You shall represent the people before God and bring their cases to God.
Numbers 10:29
And Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, "We are setting out for the place of which the Lord said, 'I will give it to you.' Come with us, and we will do good to you, for the Lord has promised good to Israel.
Numbers 10:32
And if you do go with us, whatever good the Lord will do to us, the same will we do to you.
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1 Samuel 14:48
And he did valiantly and struck the Amalekites and delivered Israel out of the hands of those who plundered them.
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Genesis 2:11
The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
Genesis 25:18
They settled from Havilah to Shur, which is opposite Egypt in the direction of Assyria. He settled over against all his kinsmen.
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1 Samuel 27:8
Now David and his men went up and made raids against the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites, for these were the inhabitants of the land from of old, as far as Shur, to the land of Egypt.
Genesis 16:7
The angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur.
Exodus 15:22
Then Moses made Israel set out from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and found no water.
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1 Samuel 27:8 - 9
Now David and his men went up and made raids against the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites, for these were the inhabitants of the land from of old, as far as Shur, to the land of Egypt.
1 Samuel 30:1
Now when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid against the Negeb and against Ziklag. They had overcome Ziklag and burned it with fire
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1 Samuel 15:15
Saul said, "They have brought them from the Amalekites, for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen to sacrifice to the Lord your God, and the rest we have devoted to destruction.
1 Samuel 15:21
But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.
1 Samuel 28:18
Because you did not obey the voice of the Lord and did not carry out his fierce wrath against Amalek, therefore the Lord has done this thing to you this day.
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1 Samuel 15:35
And Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death, but Samuel grieved over Saul. And the Lord regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel.
1 Samuel 15:29
And also the Glory of Israel will not lie or have regret, for he is not a man, that he should have regret.
Genesis 6:6
And the Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.
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1 Samuel 15:3
Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.
1 Samuel 15:9
But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fattened calves and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them. All that was despised and worthless they devoted to destruction.
1 Samuel 13:13
And Samuel said to Saul, "You have done foolishly. You have not kept the command of the Lord your God, with which he commanded you. For then the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.
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Joshua 15:55
Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah.
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Ruth 2:20
And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, "May he be blessed by the Lord, whose kindness has not forsaken the living or the dead!" Naomi also said to her, "The man is a close relative of ours, one of our redeemers.
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1 Samuel 15:9
But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fattened calves and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them. All that was despised and worthless they devoted to destruction.
1 Samuel 15:21
But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.
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1 Samuel 9:21
Saul answered, "Am I not a Benjaminite, from the least of the tribes of Israel? And is not my clan the humblest of all the clans of the tribe of Benjamin? Why then have you spoken to me in this way?
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1 Samuel 14:32
The people pounced on the spoil and took sheep and oxen and calves and slaughtered them on the ground. And the people ate them with the blood.
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1 Samuel 15:13
And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, "Blessed be you to the Lord. I have performed the commandment of the Lord.
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1 Samuel 15:15
Saul said, "They have brought them from the Amalekites, for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen to sacrifice to the Lord your God, and the rest we have devoted to destruction.
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Psalms 40:6 - 8
In sacrifice and offering you have not delighte...
Psalms 50:8 - 9
Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you; your b...
Proverbs 21:3
To do righteousness and justice is more accepta...
Isaiah 1:11 - 13
What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices?...
Isaiah 1:16 - 17
Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove ...
Jeremiah 7:22 - 23
For in the day that I brought them out of the l...
Micah 6:6 - 8
With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow...
Hebrews 10:6 - 9
In burnt offerings and sin offerings you have t...
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Ecclesiastes 5:1
Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil.
Hosea 6:6
For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
Matthew 9:13
Go and learn what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.' For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.
Matthew 12:7
And if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless.
Mark 12:33
And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
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Genesis 31:19
Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father's household gods.
Genesis 31:34
Now Rachel had taken the household gods and put them in the camel's saddle and sat on them. Laban felt all about the tent, but did not find them.
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1 Samuel 15:26
And Samuel said to Saul, "I will not return with you. For you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel.
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1 Samuel 13:14
But now your kingdom shall not continue. The Lord has sought out a man after his own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.
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2 Samuel 12:13
David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the Lord." And Nathan said to David, "The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die.
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1 Samuel 15:30
Then he said, "I have sinned; yet honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, that I may bow before the Lord your God.
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1 Samuel 15:23
For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has also rejected you from being king.
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1 Samuel 16:1
The Lord said to Samuel, "How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.
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1 Kings 11:30 - 31
Then Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore it into twelve pieces.
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1 Samuel 28:17 - 18
The Lord has done to you as he spoke by me, for the Lord has torn the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbor, David.
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Numbers 23:19
God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
Ezekiel 24:14
I am the Lord. I have spoken; it shall come to pass; I will do it. I will not go back; I will not spare; I will not relent; according to your ways and your deeds you will be judged, declares the Lord God.
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John 5:44
How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
John 12:43
For they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.
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1 Samuel 15:25
Now therefore, please pardon my sin and return with me that I may worship the Lord.
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Judges 1:7
And Adoni-bezek said, "Seventy kings with their thumbs and their big toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table. As I have done, so God has repaid me." And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
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1 Samuel 15:12
And Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning. And it was told Samuel, "Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself and turned and passed on and went down to Gilgal.
1 Samuel 15:21
But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.
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1 Samuel 1:19
They rose early in the morning and worshiped before the Lord ; then they went back to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the Lord remembered her.
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1 Samuel 11:4
When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, they reported the matter in the ears of the people, and all the people wept aloud.
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1 Samuel 19:24
And he too stripped off his clothes, and he too prophesied before Samuel and lay naked all that day and all that night. Thus it is said, "Is Saul also among the prophets?
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1 Samuel 16:1
The Lord said to Samuel, "How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.
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1 Samuel 15:11
I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and has not performed my commandments." And Samuel was angry, and he cried to the Lord all night.
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1 Samuel 15:35
And Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death, but Samuel grieved over Saul. And the Lord regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel.
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1 Samuel 15:23
For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has also rejected you from being king.
1 Samuel 15:26
And Samuel said to Saul, "I will not return with you. For you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel.
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1 Samuel 10:1
Then Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it on his head and kissed him and said, "Has not the Lord anointed you to be prince over his people Israel? And you shall reign over the people of the Lord and you will save them from the hand of their surrounding enemies. And this shall be the sign to you that the Lord has anointed you to be prince over his heritage.
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Psalms 78:70
He chose David his servant and took him from the sheepfolds.
Psalms 89:19 - 20
Of old you spoke in a vision to your godly one, and said: "I have granted help to one who is mighty; I have exalted one chosen from the people.
Acts 13:22
And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, 'I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.
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1 Samuel 9:12
They answered, "He is; behold, he is just ahead of you. Hurry. He has come just now to the city, because the people have a sacrifice today on the high place.
1 Samuel 20:29
He said, 'Let me go, for our clan holds a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has commanded me to be there. So now, if I have found favor in your eyes, let me get away and see my brothers.' For this reason he has not come to the king's table.
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1 Samuel 9:16
"Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have seen my people, because their cry has come to me."
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1 Samuel 21:1
Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech came to meet David trembling and said to him, "Why are you alone, and no one with you?
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1 Kings 2:13
Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. And she said, "Do you come peacefully?" He said, "Peacefully.
2 Kings 9:22
And when Joram saw Jehu, he said, "Is it peace, Jehu?" He answered, "What peace can there be, so long as the whorings and the sorceries of your mother Jezebel are so many?
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Joshua 3:5
Then Joshua said to the people, "Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.
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1 Samuel 17:13
The three oldest sons of Jesse had followed Saul to the battle. And the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
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Psalms 147:10 - 11
His delight is not in the strength of the horse, nor his pleasure in the legs of a man.
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1 Kings 8:39
Then hear in heaven your dwelling place and for...
1 Chronicles 28:9
And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your f...
Psalms 7:9
Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, ...
Jeremiah 11:20
But, O Lord of hosts, who judges righteously, w...
Jeremiah 17:10
"I the Lord search the heart and test the mind,...
Jeremiah 20:12
O Lord of hosts, who tests the righteous, who s...
Acts 1:24
And they prayed and said, "You, Lord, who know ...
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1 Samuel 17:13
The three oldest sons of Jesse had followed Saul to the battle. And the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
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1 Samuel 16:8
Then Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, "Neither has the Lord chosen this one.
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1 Samuel 17:13
The three oldest sons of Jesse had followed Saul to the battle. And the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
2 Samuel 13:3
But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David's brother. And Jonadab was a very crafty man.
1 Chronicles 2:13
Jesse fathered Eliab his firstborn, Abinadab the second, Shimea the third.
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2 Samuel 7:8
Now, therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David, 'Thus says the Lord of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel.
Psalms 78:70 - 71
He chose David his servant and took him from the sheepfolds.
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1 Samuel 17:42
And when the Philistine looked and saw David, he disdained him, for he was but a youth, ruddy and handsome in appearance.
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1 Samuel 9:17
When Samuel saw Saul, the Lord told him, "Here is the man of whom I spoke to you! He it is who shall restrain my people.
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1 Samuel 16:1
The Lord said to Samuel, "How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.
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1 Samuel 10:1
Then Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it on his head and kissed him and said, "Has not the Lord anointed you to be prince over his people Israel? And you shall reign over the people of the Lord and you will save them from the hand of their surrounding enemies. And this shall be the sign to you that the Lord has anointed you to be prince over his heritage.
Psalms 89:20
I have found David, my servant; with my holy oil I have anointed him.
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1 Samuel 10:6
Then the Spirit of the Lord will rush upon you, and you will prophesy with them and be turned into another man.
1 Samuel 10:10
When they came to Gibeah, behold, a group of prophets met him, and the Spirit of God rushed upon him, and he prophesied among them.
1 Samuel 11:6
And the Spirit of God rushed upon Saul when he heard these words, and his anger was greatly kindled.
Judges 3:10
The Spirit of the Lord was upon him, and he judged Israel. He went out to war, and the Lord gave Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand. And his hand prevailed over Cushan-rishathaim.
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1 Samuel 18:12
Saul was afraid of David because the Lord was with him but had departed from Saul.
1 Samuel 28:15 - 16
Then Samuel said to Saul, "Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?" Saul answered, "I am in great distress, for the Philistines are warring against me, and God has turned away from me and answers me no more, either by prophets or by dreams. Therefore I have summoned you to tell me what I shall do.
Judges 16:20
And she said, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" And he awoke from his sleep and said, "I will go out as at other times and shake myself free." But he did not know that the Lord had left him.
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1 Samuel 18:10
The next day a harmful spirit from God rushed upon Saul, and he raved within his house while David was playing the lyre, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand.
1 Samuel 19:9
Then a harmful spirit from the Lord came upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand. And David was playing the lyre.
Judges 9:23
And God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem, and the leaders of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech.
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1 Samuel 16:21 - 22
And David came to Saul and entered his service. And Saul loved him greatly, and he became his armor-bearer.
1 Kings 10:8
Happy are your men! Happy are your servants, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom!
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1 Samuel 18:10
The next day a harmful spirit from God rushed upon Saul, and he raved within his house while David was playing the lyre, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand.
1 Samuel 19:9
Then a harmful spirit from the Lord came upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand. And David was playing the lyre.
2 Kings 3:15
But now bring me a musician." And when the musician played, the hand of the Lord came upon him.
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1 Samuel 17:32
And David said to Saul, "Let no man's heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.
1 Samuel 17:34 - 36
But David said to Saul, "Your servant used to keep sheep for his father. And when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb from the flock.
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1 Samuel 3:19
And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground.
1 Samuel 18:12
Saul was afraid of David because the Lord was with him but had departed from Saul.
1 Samuel 18:14
And David had success in all his undertakings, for the Lord was with him.
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1 Samuel 16:11
Then Samuel said to Jesse, "Are all your sons here?" And he said, "There remains yet the youngest, but behold, he is keeping the sheep." And Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and get him, for we will not sit down till he comes here.
1 Samuel 17:15
But David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.
1 Samuel 17:34
But David said to Saul, "Your servant used to keep sheep for his father. And when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb from the flock.
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1 Samuel 17:18
Also take these ten cheeses to the commander of their thousand. See if your brothers are well, and bring some token from them.
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1 Samuel 16:16
Let our lord now command your servants who are before you to seek out a man who is skillful in playing the lyre, and when the harmful spirit from God is upon you, he will play it, and you will be well.
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1 Samuel 16:14
Now the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and a harmful spirit from the Lord tormented him.
1 Samuel 16:16
Let our lord now command your servants who are before you to seek out a man who is skillful in playing the lyre, and when the harmful spirit from God is upon you, he will play it, and you will be well.
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1 Samuel 16:16
Let our lord now command your servants who are before you to seek out a man who is skillful in playing the lyre, and when the harmful spirit from God is upon you, he will play it, and you will be well.
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1 Samuel 13:5
And the Philistines mustered to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen and troops like the sand on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven.
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Joshua 15:35
Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah.
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Joshua 10:10
And the Lord threw them into a panic before Israel, who struck them with a great blow at Gibeon and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon and struck them as far as Azekah and Makkedah.
Nehemiah 11:30
Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish and its fields, and Azekah and its villages. So they encamped from Beersheba to the Valley of Hinnom.
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1 Chronicles 11:13
He was with David at Pas-dammim when the Philistines were gathered there for battle. There was a plot of ground full of barley, and the men fled from the Philistines.
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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 21:9
And the priest said, "The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck down in the Valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you will take that, take it, for there is none but that here." And David said, "There is none like that; give it to me.
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2 Samuel 21:19
And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, the Bethlehemite, struck down Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
1 Chronicles 20:4
And after this there arose war with the Philistines at Gezer. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite struck down Sippai, who was one of the descendants of the giants, and the Philistines were subdued.
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1 Samuel 21:10
And David rose and fled that day from Saul and went to Achish the king of Gath.
Joshua 11:22
There was none of the Anakim left in the land of the people of Israel. Only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod did some remain.
Joshua 13:3
(from the Shihor, which is east of Egypt, northward to the boundary of Ekron, it is counted as Canaanite; there are five rulers of the Philistines, those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron), and those of the Avvim.
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1 Samuel 17:45
Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
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1 Samuel 17:41
And the Philistine moved forward and came near to David, with his shield-bearer in front of him.
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1 Samuel 8:17
He will take the tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves.
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1 Samuel 11:1
Then Nahash the Ammonite went up and besieged Jabesh-gilead, and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, "Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.
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1 Samuel 17:25 - 26
And the men of Israel said, "Have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel. And the king will enrich the man who kills him with great riches and will give him his daughter and make his father's house free in Israel.
1 Samuel 17:36
Your servant has struck down both lions and bears, and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.
1 Samuel 17:45
Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
2 Samuel 21:21
And when he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David's brother, struck him down.
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1 Samuel 17:58
And Saul said to him, "Whose son are you, young man?" And David answered, "I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.
1 Samuel 16:1
The Lord said to Samuel, "How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.
1 Samuel 16:18
One of the young men answered, "Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, a man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a man of good presence, and the Lord is with him.
Ruth 4:22
Obed fathered Jesse, and Jesse fathered David.
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Genesis 35:19
So Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
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1 Samuel 17:58
And Saul said to him, "Whose son are you, young man?" And David answered, "I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.
1 Samuel 16:1
The Lord said to Samuel, "How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.
1 Samuel 16:18
One of the young men answered, "Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, a man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a man of good presence, and the Lord is with him.
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1 Samuel 16:10 - 11
And Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, "The Lord has not chosen these.
1 Chronicles 2:13 - 15
Jesse fathered Eliab his firstborn, Abinadab the second, Shimea the third.
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1 Samuel 16:6
When they came, he looked on Eliab and thought, "Surely the Lord 's anointed is before him.
1 Samuel 16:8 - 9
Then Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, "Neither has the Lord chosen this one.
1 Chronicles 2:13
Jesse fathered Eliab his firstborn, Abinadab the second, Shimea the third.
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1 Samuel 16:11
Then Samuel said to Jesse, "Are all your sons here?" And he said, "There remains yet the youngest, but behold, he is keeping the sheep." And Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and get him, for we will not sit down till he comes here.
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1 Samuel 16:19
Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, "Send me David your son, who is with the sheep.
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1 Samuel 16:20
And Jesse took a donkey laden with bread and a skin of wine and a young goat and sent them by David his son to Saul.
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Genesis 37:14
So he said to him, "Go now, see if it is well with your brothers and with the flock, and bring me word." So he sent him from the Valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
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1 Samuel 26:5
Then David rose and came to the place where Saul had encamped. And David saw the place where Saul lay, with Abner the son of Ner, the commander of his army. Saul was lying within the encampment, while the army was encamped around him.
1 Samuel 26:7
So David and Abishai went to the army by night. And there lay Saul sleeping within the encampment, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head, and Abner and the army lay around him.
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Isaiah 10:28
He has come to Aiath; he has passed through Migron; at Michmash he stores his baggage.
Acts 21:15
After these days we got ready and went up to Jerusalem.
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Isaiah 10:28
He has come to Aiath; he has passed through Migron; at Michmash he stores his baggage.
Acts 21:15
After these days we got ready and went up to Jerusalem.
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1 Samuel 17:4
And there came out from the camp of the Philistines a champion named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
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1 Samuel 17:8
He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, "Why have you come out to draw up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.
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1 Samuel 17:10
And the Philistine said, "I defy the ranks of Israel this day. Give me a man, that we may fight together.
1 Samuel 17:36
Your servant has struck down both lions and bears, and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.
1 Samuel 17:45
Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
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Joshua 15:16
And Caleb said, "Whoever strikes Kiriath-sepher and captures it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife.
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1 Samuel 11:2
But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, "On this condition I will make a treaty with you, that I gouge out all your right eyes, and thus bring disgrace on all Israel.
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Judges 14:3
But his father and mother said to him, "Is there not a woman among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?" But Samson said to his father, "Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes.
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1 Samuel 17:25
And the men of Israel said, "Have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel. And the king will enrich the man who kills him with great riches and will give him his daughter and make his father's house free in Israel.
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Deuteronomy 5:26
For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of fire as we have, and has still lived?
Joshua 3:10
And Joshua said, "Here is how you shall know that the living God is among you and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites.
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1 Samuel 17:25
And the men of Israel said, "Have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel. And the king will enrich the man who kills him with great riches and will give him his daughter and make his father's house free in Israel.
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1 Samuel 17:26 - 27
And David said to the men who stood by him, "What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
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Deuteronomy 20:3
And shall say to them, 'Hear, O Israel, today you are drawing near for battle against your enemies: let not your heart faint. Do not fear or panic or be in dread of them.
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1 Samuel 16:18
One of the young men answered, "Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, a man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a man of good presence, and the Lord is with him.
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1 Samuel 17:10
And the Philistine said, "I defy the ranks of Israel this day. Give me a man, that we may fight together.
1 Samuel 17:26
And David said to the men who stood by him, "What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
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2 Timothy 4:17
But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion's mouth.
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1 Samuel 20:13
But should it please my father to do you harm, the Lord do so to Jonathan and more also if I do not disclose it to you and send you away, that you may go in safety. May the Lord be with you, as he has been with my father.
1 Chronicles 22:11
Now, my son, the Lord be with you, so that you may succeed in building the house of the Lord your God, as he has spoken concerning you.
1 Chronicles 22:16
Gold, silver, bronze, and iron. Arise and work! The Lord be with you!
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1 Samuel 17:7
The shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam, and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron. And his shield-bearer went before him.
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1 Samuel 16:12
And he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome. And the Lord said, "Arise, anoint him, for this is he.
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1 Samuel 24:14
After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom do you pursue? After a dead dog! After a flea!
2 Samuel 3:8
Then Abner was very angry over the words of Ish-bosheth and said, "Am I a dog's head of Judah? To this day I keep showing steadfast love to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not given you into the hand of David. And yet you charge me today with a fault concerning a woman.
2 Samuel 9:8
And he paid homage and said, "What is your servant, that you should show regard for a dead dog such as I?
2 Samuel 16:9
Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, "Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and take off his head.
2 Kings 8:13
And Hazael said, "What is your servant, who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing?" Elisha answered, "The Lord has shown me that you are to be king over Syria.
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1 Samuel 17:46
This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head. And I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.
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1 Samuel 17:6
And he had bronze armor on his legs, and a javelin of bronze slung between his shoulders.
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1 Samuel 17:36
Your servant has struck down both lions and bears, and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.
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Deuteronomy 28:26
And your dead body shall be food for all birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth, and there shall be no one to frighten them away.
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1 Samuel 17:44
The Philistine said to David, "Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the field.
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1 Kings 18:36
And at the time of the offering of the oblation, Elijah the prophet came near and said, "O Lord, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.
Joshua 4:24
So that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the Lord is mighty, that you may fear the Lord your God forever.
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Hosea 1:7
But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and I will save them by the Lord their God. I will not save them by bow or by sword or by war or by horses or by horsemen.
Psalms 44:6 - 7
For not in my bow do I trust, nor can my sword save me.
Zechariah 4:6
Then he said to me, "This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.
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2 Chronicles 20:15
And he said, "Listen, all Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem and King Jehoshaphat: Thus says the Lord to you, 'Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed at this great horde, for the battle is not yours but God's.
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1 Samuel 21:9
And the priest said, "The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck down in the Valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you will take that, take it, for there is none but that here." And David said, "There is none like that; give it to me.
2 Samuel 23:21
And he struck down an Egyptian, a handsome man. The Egyptian had a spear in his hand, but Benaiah went down to him with a staff and snatched the spear out of the Egyptian's hand and killed him with his own spear.
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Hebrews 11:34
Quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.
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Joshua 15:11
The boundary goes out to the shoulder of the hill north of Ekron, then the boundary bends around to Shikkeron and passes along to Mount Baalah and goes out to Jabneel. Then the boundary comes to an end at the sea.
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Joshua 15:36
Shaaraim, Adithaim, Gederah, Gederothaim: fourteen cities with their villages.
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1 Samuel 17:4
And there came out from the camp of the Philistines a champion named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
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1 Samuel 17:57
And as soon as David returned from the striking down of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.
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2 Samuel 5:6 - 7
And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who said to David, "You will not come in here, but the blind and the lame will ward you off" - thinking, "David cannot come in here.
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2 Samuel 2:8
But Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul's army, took Ish-bosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim.
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1 Samuel 16:21 - 22
And David came to Saul and entered his service. And Saul loved him greatly, and he became his armor-bearer.
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1 Samuel 1:26
And she said, "Oh, my lord! As you live, my lord, I am the woman who was standing here in your presence, praying to the Lord.
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1 Samuel 17:54
And David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his armor in his tent.
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1 Samuel 17:12
Now David was the son of an Ephrathite of Bethlehem in Judah, named Jesse, who had eight sons. In the days of Saul the man was already old and advanced in years.
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1 Samuel 20:17
And Jonathan made David swear again by his love for him, for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
Deuteronomy 13:6
If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife you embrace or your friend who is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods,' which neither you nor your fathers have known.
1 Samuel 19:2
And Jonathan told David, "Saul my father seeks to kill you. Therefore be on your guard in the morning. Stay in a secret place and hide yourself.
2 Samuel 1:26
I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant have you been to me; your love to me was extraordinary, surpassing the love of women.
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1 Samuel 17:15
But David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.
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1 Samuel 18:1
As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
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1 Samuel 18:14 - 15
And David had success in all his undertakings, for the Lord was with him.
1 Samuel 18:30
Then the princes of the Philistines came out to battle, and as often as they came out David had more success than all the servants of Saul, so that his name was highly esteemed.
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Exodus 15:20
Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing.
Judges 11:34
Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah. And behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter.
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Exodus 15:21
And Miriam sang to them: "Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
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1 Samuel 21:11
And the servants of Achish said to him, "Is not this David the king of the land? Did they not sing to one another of him in dances, 'Saul has struck down his thousands, and David his ten thousands'?
1 Samuel 29:5
Is not this David, of whom they sing to one another in dances, 'Saul has struck down his thousands, and David his ten thousands'?
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1 Samuel 15:28
And Samuel said to him, "The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.
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1 Samuel 16:14
Now the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and a harmful spirit from the Lord tormented him.
Judges 9:23
And God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem, and the leaders of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech.
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1 Samuel 19:23 - 24
And he went there to Naioth in Ramah. And the Spirit of God came upon him also, and as he went he prophesied until he came to Naioth in Ramah.
1 Kings 18:29
And as midday passed, they raved on until the time of the offering of the oblation, but there was no voice. No one answered; no one paid attention.
Acts 16:16
As we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners much gain by fortune-telling.
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1 Samuel 16:16
Let our lord now command your servants who are before you to seek out a man who is skillful in playing the lyre, and when the harmful spirit from God is upon you, he will play it, and you will be well.
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1 Samuel 19:9
Then a harmful spirit from the Lord came upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand. And David was playing the lyre.
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1 Samuel 19:10
And Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he eluded Saul, so that he struck the spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.
1 Samuel 20:33
But Saul hurled his spear at him to strike him. So Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.
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1 Samuel 18:15
And when Saul saw that he had great success, he stood in fearful awe of him.
1 Samuel 18:29
Saul was even more afraid of David. So Saul was David's enemy continually.
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1 Samuel 18:28
But when Saul saw and knew that the Lord was with David, and that Michal, Saul's daughter, loved him.
1 Samuel 16:18
One of the young men answered, "Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, a man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a man of good presence, and the Lord is with him.
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1 Samuel 16:14
Now the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and a harmful spirit from the Lord tormented him.
1 Samuel 28:15
Then Samuel said to Saul, "Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?" Saul answered, "I am in great distress, for the Philistines are warring against me, and God has turned away from me and answers me no more, either by prophets or by dreams. Therefore I have summoned you to tell me what I shall do.
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1 Samuel 18:16
But all Israel and Judah loved David, for he went out and came in before them.
Numbers 27:17
Who shall go out before them and come in before them, who shall lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the Lord may not be as sheep that have no shepherd.
2 Samuel 5:2
In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. And the Lord said to you, 'You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.'
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1 Samuel 18:5
And David went out and was successful wherever Saul sent him, so that Saul set him over the men of war. And this was good in the sight of all the people and also in the sight of Saul's servants.
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1 Samuel 18:12
Saul was afraid of David because the Lord was with him but had departed from Saul.
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1 Samuel 18:14
And David had success in all his undertakings, for the Lord was with him.
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1 Samuel 18:5
And David went out and was successful wherever Saul sent him, so that Saul set him over the men of war. And this was good in the sight of all the people and also in the sight of Saul's servants.
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1 Samuel 14:49
Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchi-shua. And the names of his two daughters were these: the name of the firstborn was Merab, and the name of the younger Michal.
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1 Samuel 17:25
And the men of Israel said, "Have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel. And the king will enrich the man who kills him with great riches and will give him his daughter and make his father's house free in Israel.
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1 Samuel 25:28
Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For the Lord will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord is fighting the battles of the Lord, and evil shall not be found in you so long as you live.
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1 Samuel 18:21
Saul thought, "Let me give her to him, that she may be a snare for him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him." Therefore Saul said to David a second time, "You shall now be my son-in-law.
1 Samuel 18:25
Then Saul said, "Thus shall you say to David, 'The king desires no bride-price except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, that he may be avenged of the king's enemies.'" Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
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1 Samuel 18:23
And Saul's servants spoke those words in the ears of David. And David said, "Does it seem to you a little thing to become the king's son-in-law, since I am a poor man and have no reputation?
2 Samuel 7:18
Then King David went in and sat before the Lord and said, "Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?
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2 Samuel 21:8
The king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Merab the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.
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Judges 7:22
When they blew the 300 trumpets, the Lord set every man's sword against his comrade and against all the army. And the army fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath.
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1 Samuel 18:17
Then Saul said to David, "Here is my elder daughter Merab. I will give her to you for a wife. Only be valiant for me and fight the Lord 's battles." For Saul thought, "Let not my hand be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.
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1 Samuel 18:28
But when Saul saw and knew that the Lord was with David, and that Michal, Saul's daughter, loved him.
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Exodus 10:7
Then Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long shall this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God. Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined?
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1 Samuel 18:17
Then Saul said to David, "Here is my elder daughter Merab. I will give her to you for a wife. Only be valiant for me and fight the Lord 's battles." For Saul thought, "Let not my hand be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.
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1 Samuel 18:26
And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law. Before the time had expired.
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Numbers 16:9
Is it too small a thing for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do service in the tabernacle of the Lord and to stand before the congregation to minister to them.
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Genesis 34:12
Ask me for as great a bride price and gift as you will, and I will give whatever you say to me. Only give me the young woman to be my wife.
Exodus 22:17
If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the bride-price for virgins.
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1 Samuel 14:24
And the men of Israel had been hard pressed that day, so Saul had laid an oath on the people, saying, "Cursed be the man who eats food until it is evening and I am avenged on my enemies." So none of the people had tasted food.
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1 Samuel 18:17
Then Saul said to David, "Here is my elder daughter Merab. I will give her to you for a wife. Only be valiant for me and fight the Lord 's battles." For Saul thought, "Let not my hand be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.
1 Samuel 18:21
Saul thought, "Let me give her to him, that she may be a snare for him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him." Therefore Saul said to David a second time, "You shall now be my son-in-law.
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1 Samuel 18:21
Saul thought, "Let me give her to him, that she may be a snare for him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him." Therefore Saul said to David a second time, "You shall now be my son-in-law.
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1 Samuel 18:13
So Saul removed him from his presence and made him a commander of a thousand. And he went out and came in before the people.
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2 Samuel 3:14
Then David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, saying, "Give me my wife Michal, for whom I paid the bridal price of a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.
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1 Samuel 18:12
Saul was afraid of David because the Lord was with him but had departed from Saul.
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1 Samuel 18:20
Now Saul's daughter Michal loved David. And they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
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1 Samuel 19:8
And there was war again. And David went out and fought with the Philistines and struck them with a great blow, so that they fled before him.
2 Samuel 11:1
In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.
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1 Samuel 18:5
And David went out and was successful wherever Saul sent him, so that Saul set him over the men of war. And this was good in the sight of all the people and also in the sight of Saul's servants.
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1 Samuel 18:1
As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
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Genesis 42:22
And Reuben answered them, "Did I not tell you not to sin against the boy? But you did not listen. So now there comes a reckoning for his blood.
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1 Samuel 28:21
And the woman came to Saul, and when she saw that he was terrified, she said to him, "Behold, your servant has obeyed you. I have taken my life in my hand and have listened to what you have said to me.
Judges 12:3
And when I saw that you would not save me, I took my life in my hand and crossed over against the Ammonites, and the Lord gave them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me this day to fight against me?
Judges 9:17
For my father fought for you and risked his life and delivered you from the hand of Midian.
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1 Samuel 17:49 - 50
And David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone and slung it and struck the Philistine on his forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground.
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1 Samuel 11:13
But Saul said, "Not a man shall be put to death this day, for today the Lord has worked salvation in Israel.
1 Chronicles 11:14
But he took his stand in the midst of the plot and defended it and killed the Philistines. And the Lord saved them by a great victory.
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Matthew 27:4
Saying, "I have sinned by betraying innocent blood." They said, "What is that to us? See to it yourself.
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Ruth 3:13
Remain tonight, and in the morning, if he will redeem you, good; let him do it. But if he is not willing to redeem you, then, as the Lord lives, I will redeem you. Lie down until the morning.
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1 Samuel 16:21
And David came to Saul and entered his service. And Saul loved him greatly, and he became his armor-bearer.
1 Samuel 18:2
And Saul took him that day and would not let him return to his father's house.
1 Samuel 18:13
So Saul removed him from his presence and made him a commander of a thousand. And he went out and came in before the people.
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1 Samuel 16:14
Now the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and a harmful spirit from the Lord tormented him.
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1 Samuel 16:16
Let our lord now command your servants who are before you to seek out a man who is skillful in playing the lyre, and when the harmful spirit from God is upon you, he will play it, and you will be well.
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1 Samuel 18:11
And Saul hurled the spear, for he thought, "I will pin David to the wall." But David evaded him twice.
1 Samuel 20:33
But Saul hurled his spear at him to strike him. So Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.
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Psalms 59:1
Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; protect me from those who rise up against me.
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Joshua 2:15
Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was built into the city wall, so that she lived in the wall.
Acts 9:24 - 25
But their plot became known to Saul. They were watching the gates day and night in order to kill him.
2 Corinthians 11:33
But I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his hands.
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Genesis 31:19
Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father's household gods.
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1 Samuel 19:13
Michal took an image and laid it on the bed and put a pillow of goats' hair at its head and covered it with the clothes.
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2 Samuel 2:22
And Abner said again to Asahel, "Turn aside from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I lift up my face to your brother Joab?
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1 Samuel 1:19
They rose early in the morning and worshiped before the Lord ; then they went back to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the Lord remembered her.
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1 Samuel 10:5 - 6
After that you shall come to Gibeath-elohim, where there is a garrison of the Philistines. And there, as soon as you come to the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place with harp, tambourine, flute, and lyre before them, prophesying.
1 Samuel 10:10
When they came to Gibeah, behold, a group of prophets met him, and the Spirit of God rushed upon him, and he prophesied among them.
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Numbers 11:25
Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. And as soon as the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied. But they did not continue doing it.
Joel 2:28
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.
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1 Samuel 19:20
Then Saul sent messengers to take David, and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.
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1 Samuel 19:20
Then Saul sent messengers to take David, and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.
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1 Samuel 19:18
Now David fled and escaped, and he came to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and lived at Naioth.
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1 Samuel 18:10
The next day a harmful spirit from God rushed upon Saul, and he raved within his house while David was playing the lyre, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand.
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Isaiah 20:2
At that time the Lord spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, "Go, and loose the sackcloth from your waist and take off your sandals from your feet," and he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
Micah 1:8
For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.
2 Samuel 6:20
And David returned to bless his household. But Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David and said, "How the king of Israel honored himself today, uncovering himself today before the eyes of his servants' female servants, as one of the vulgar fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!
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1 Samuel 10:11 - 12
And when all who knew him previously saw how he prophesied with the prophets, the people said to one another, "What has come over the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?
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1 Samuel 1:19
They rose early in the morning and worshiped before the Lord ; then they went back to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the Lord remembered her.
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Genesis 33:15
So Esau said, "Let me leave with you some of the people who are with me." But he said, "What need is there? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.
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1 Samuel 25:26
Now then, my lord, as the Lord lives, and as yo...
2 Kings 2:2
And Elijah said to Elisha, "Please stay here, f...
2 Kings 2:4
Elijah said to him, "Elisha, please stay here, ...
2 Kings 2:6
Then Elijah said to him, "Please stay here, for...
2 Kings 4:30
Then the mother of the child said, "As the Lord...
Ruth 3:13
Remain tonight, and in the morning, if he will ...
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1 Samuel 1:26
And she said, "Oh, my lord! As you live, my lord, I am the woman who was standing here in your presence, praying to the Lord.
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1 Samuel 20:18
Then Jonathan said to him, "Tomorrow is the new moon, and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty.
Numbers 10:10
On the day of your gladness also, and at your appointed feasts and at the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings. They shall be a reminder of you before your God: I am the Lord your God.
Numbers 28:11
At the beginnings of your months, you shall offer a burnt offering to the Lord : two bulls from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish.
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1 Samuel 19:2 - 3
And Jonathan told David, "Saul my father seeks to kill you. Therefore be on your guard in the morning. Stay in a secret place and hide yourself.
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1 Samuel 20:18
Then Jonathan said to him, "Tomorrow is the new moon, and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty.
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1 Samuel 16:4
Samuel did what the Lord commanded and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling and said, "Do you come peaceably?
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1 Samuel 9:12
They answered, "He is; behold, he is just ahead of you. Hurry. He has come just now to the city, because the people have a sacrifice today on the high place.
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1 Samuel 25:17
Now therefore know this and consider what you should do, for harm is determined against our master and against all his house, and he is such a worthless man that one cannot speak to him.
Esther 7:7
And the king arose in his wrath from the wine-drinking and went into the palace garden, but Haman stayed to beg for his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that harm was determined against him by the king.
1 Samuel 20:33
But Saul hurled his spear at him to strike him. So Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.
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1 Samuel 20:16
And Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, "May the Lord take vengeance on David's enemies.
1 Samuel 20:42
Then Jonathan said to David, "Go in peace, because we have sworn both of us in the name of the Lord, saying, 'The Lord shall be between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring, forever.'" And he rose and departed, and Jonathan went into the city.
1 Samuel 18:3
Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul.
1 Samuel 23:18
And the two of them made a covenant before the Lord. David remained at Horesh, and Jonathan went home.
2 Samuel 21:7
But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Saul's son Jonathan, because of the oath of the Lord that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
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2 Samuel 14:32
Absalom answered Joab, "Behold, I sent word to you, 'Come here, that I may send you to the king, to ask, "Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still." Now therefore let me go into the presence of the king, and if there is guilt in me, let him put me to death.'
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1 Samuel 20:7
If he says, 'Good!' it will be well with your servant, but if he is angry, then know that harm is determined by him.
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Ruth 1:17
Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.
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Joshua 1:5
No man shall be able to stand before you all th...
Joshua 1:17
Just as we obeyed Moses in all things, so we wi...
1 Kings 1:37
As the Lord has been with my lord the king, eve...
1 Chronicles 22:11
Now, my son, the Lord be with you, so that you ...
1 Chronicles 22:16
Gold, silver, bronze, and iron. Arise and work!...
1 Samuel 17:37
And David said, "The Lord who delivered me from...
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2 Samuel 9:1
And David said, "Is there still anyone left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?
2 Samuel 9:3
And the king said, "Is there not still someone of the house of Saul, that I may show the kindness of God to him?" Ziba said to the king, "There is still a son of Jonathan; he is crippled in his feet.
2 Samuel 9:7
And David said to him, "Do not fear, for I will show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan, and I will restore to you all the land of Saul your father, and you shall eat at my table always.
2 Samuel 21:7
But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Saul's son Jonathan, because of the oath of the Lord that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
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1 Samuel 25:22
God do so to the enemies of David and more also, if by morning I leave so much as one male of all who belong to him.
Joshua 22:23
For building an altar to turn away from following the Lord. Or if we did so to offer burnt offerings or grain offerings or peace offerings on it, may the Lord himself take vengeance.
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1 Samuel 18:1
As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
1 Samuel 18:3
Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul.
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1 Samuel 20:5
David said to Jonathan, "Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit at table with the king. But let me go, that I may hide myself in the field till the third day at evening.
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1 Samuel 20:6
If your father misses me at all, then say, 'David earnestly asked leave of me to run to Bethlehem his city, for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the clan.
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1 Samuel 20:25
The king sat on his seat, as at other times, on the seat by the wall. Jonathan sat opposite, and Abner sat by Saul's side, but David's place was empty.
1 Samuel 20:27
But on the second day, the day after the new moon, David's place was empty. And Saul said to Jonathan his son, "Why has not the son of Jesse come to the meal, either yesterday or today?
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1 Samuel 20:3
But David vowed again, saying, "Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he thinks, 'Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved.' But truly, as the Lord lives and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.
Ruth 3:13
Remain tonight, and in the morning, if he will redeem you, good; let him do it. But if he is not willing to redeem you, then, as the Lord lives, I will redeem you. Lie down until the morning.
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1 Samuel 20:37
And when the boy came to the place of the arrow that Jonathan had shot, Jonathan called after the boy and said, "Is not the arrow beyond you?
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1 Samuel 20:14 - 15
If I am still alive, show me the steadfast love of the Lord, that I may not die.
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1 Samuel 20:42
Then Jonathan said to David, "Go in peace, because we have sworn both of us in the name of the Lord, saying, 'The Lord shall be between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring, forever.'" And he rose and departed, and Jonathan went into the city.
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1 Samuel 20:18
Then Jonathan said to him, "Tomorrow is the new moon, and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty.
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Leviticus 7:21
And if anyone touches an unclean thing, whether human uncleanness or an unclean beast or any unclean detestable creature, and then eats some flesh from the sacrifice of the Lord 's peace offerings, that person shall be cut off from his people.
Leviticus 11:24 - 28
And by these you shall become unclean. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
Leviticus 15:1 - 4
The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying.
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1 Samuel 20:34
And Jonathan rose from the table in fierce anger and ate no food the second day of the month, for he was grieved for David, because his father had disgraced him.
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1 Samuel 20:25
The king sat on his seat, as at other times, on the seat by the wall. Jonathan sat opposite, and Abner sat by Saul's side, but David's place was empty.
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1 Samuel 20:6
If your father misses me at all, then say, 'David earnestly asked leave of me to run to Bethlehem his city, for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the clan.
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1 Samuel 19:5
For he took his life in his hand and he struck down the Philistine, and the Lord worked a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood by killing David without cause?
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1 Samuel 18:11
And Saul hurled the spear, for he thought, "I will pin David to the wall." But David evaded him twice.
1 Samuel 19:10
And Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he eluded Saul, so that he struck the spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.
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1 Samuel 20:7
If he says, 'Good!' it will be well with your servant, but if he is angry, then know that harm is determined by him.
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1 Samuel 20:22
But if I say to the youth, 'Look, the arrows are beyond you,' then go, for the Lord has sent you away.
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1 Samuel 20:13
But should it please my father to do you harm, the Lord do so to Jonathan and more also if I do not disclose it to you and send you away, that you may go in safety. May the Lord be with you, as he has been with my father.
1 Samuel 1:17
Then Eli answered, "Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant your petition that you have made to him.
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1 Samuel 20:23
And as for the matter of which you and I have spoken, behold, the Lord is between you and me forever.
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1 Samuel 20:15
And do not cut off your steadfast love from my house forever, when the Lord cuts off every one of the enemies of David from the face of the earth.
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1 Samuel 22:9
Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, "I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
1 Samuel 22:11
Then the king sent to summon Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests who were at Nob, and all of them came to the king.
1 Samuel 22:19
And Nob, the city of the priests, he put to the sword; both man and woman, child and infant, ox, donkey and sheep, he put to the sword.
Nehemiah 11:32
Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah.
Isaiah 10:32
This very day he will halt at Nob; he will shake his fist at the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
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1 Samuel 14:3
Including Ahijah the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, son of Phinehas, son of Eli, the priest of the Lord in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people did not know that Jonathan had gone.
Mark 2:26
How he entered the house of God, in the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those who were with him?
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1 Samuel 16:4
Samuel did what the Lord commanded and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling and said, "Do you come peaceably?
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Exodus 25:30
And you shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before me regularly.
Leviticus 24:5
You shall take fine flour and bake twelve loaves from it; two tenths of an ephah shall be in each loaf.
Matthew 12:3 - 4
He said to them, "Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him:
Mark 2:25 - 26
And he said to them, "Have you never read what David did, when he was in need and was hungry, he and those who were with him:
Luke 6:3 - 4
And Jesus answered them, "Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him:
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Exodus 19:15
And he said to the people, "Be ready for the third day; do not go near a woman.
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1 Samuel 21:4
And the priest answered David, "I have no common bread on hand, but there is holy bread - if the young men have kept themselves from women.
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Leviticus 24:8 - 9
Every Sabbath day Aaron shall arrange it before the Lord regularly; it is from the people of Israel as a covenant forever.
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1 Samuel 22:9
Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, "I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
Psalms 52:1
Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The steadfast love of God endures all the day.
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1 Samuel 17:51
Then David ran and stood over the Philistine and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.
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1 Samuel 17:2
And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered, and encamped in the Valley of Elah, and drew up in line of battle against the Philistines.
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Psalms 34:1
I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
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1 Samuel 18:7
And the women sang to one another as they celebrated, "Saul has struck down his thousands, and David his ten thousands.
1 Samuel 29:5
Is not this David, of whom they sing to one another in dances, 'Saul has struck down his thousands, and David his ten thousands'?
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Luke 2:19
But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart.
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Psalms 57:1
Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for in you my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge, till the storms of destruction pass by.
Psalms 142:1
With my voice I cry out to the Lord ; with my voice I plead for mercy to the Lord.
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2 Samuel 23:13
And three of the thirty chief men went down and came about harvest time to David at the cave of Adullam, when a band of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.
1 Chronicles 11:15
Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David at the cave of Adullam, when the army of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.
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Judges 9:4
And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless fellows, who followed him.
Judges 11:3
Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob, and worthless fellows collected around Jephthah and went out with him.
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1 Samuel 23:13
Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed from Keilah, and they went wherever they could go. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he gave up the expedition.
1 Samuel 25:13
And David said to his men, "Every man strap on his sword!" And every man of them strapped on his sword. David also strapped on his sword. And about four hundred men went up after David, while two hundred remained with the baggage.
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2 Samuel 24:11
And when David arose in the morning, the word o...
2 Samuel 24:18 - 19
And Gad came that day to David and said to him,...
1 Chronicles 21:9
And the Lord spoke to Gad, David's seer, saying.
1 Chronicles 21:11
So Gad came to David and said to him, "Thus say...
1 Chronicles 21:13
Then David said to Gad, "I am in great distress...
1 Chronicles 21:18 - 19
Now the angel of the Lord had commanded Gad to ...
1 Chronicles 29:29
Now the acts of King David, from first to last,...
2 Chronicles 29:25
And he stationed the Levites in the house of th...
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1 Samuel 31:13
And they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh and fasted seven days.
Genesis 21:33
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and called there on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.
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1 Samuel 8:14
He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his servants.
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1 Samuel 18:3
Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul.
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1 Samuel 23:21
And Saul said, "May you be blessed by the Lord, for you have had compassion on me.
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1 Samuel 22:13
And Saul said to him, "Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread and a sword and have inquired of God for him, so that he has risen against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
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1 Samuel 21:7
Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the Lord. His name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul's herdsmen.
Psalms 52:1
Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The steadfast love of God endures all the day.
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1 Samuel 21:1
Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech came to meet David trembling and said to him, "Why are you alone, and no one with you?
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1 Samuel 14:3
Including Ahijah the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, son of Phinehas, son of Eli, the priest of the Lord in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people did not know that Jonathan had gone.
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1 Samuel 23:2
Therefore David inquired of the Lord, "Shall I ...
1 Samuel 23:4
Then David inquired of the Lord again. And the ...
1 Samuel 30:8
And David inquired of the Lord, "Shall I pursue...
2 Samuel 5:19
And David inquired of the Lord, "Shall I go up ...
2 Samuel 5:23
And when David inquired of the Lord, he said, "...
Numbers 27:21
And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, w...
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1 Samuel 21:6
So the priest gave him the holy bread, for there was no bread there but the bread of the Presence, which is removed from before the Lord, to be replaced by hot bread on the day it is taken away.
1 Samuel 21:9
And the priest said, "The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck down in the Valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you will take that, take it, for there is none but that here." And David said, "There is none like that; give it to me.
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1 Samuel 22:10
And he inquired of the Lord for him and gave him provisions and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
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1 Samuel 22:8
That all of you have conspired against me? No one discloses to me when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse. None of you is sorry for me or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day.
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1 Samuel 22:10
And he inquired of the Lord for him and gave him provisions and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
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1 Samuel 25:36
And Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. So she told him nothing at all until the morning light.
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2 Kings 10:25
So as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guard and to the officers, "Go in and strike them down; let not a man escape." So when they put them to the sword, the guard and the officers cast them out and went into the inner room of the house of Baal.
2 Kings 11:4
But in the seventh year Jehoiada sent and brought the captains of the Carites and of the guards, and had them come to him in the house of the Lord. And he made a covenant with them and put them under oath in the house of the Lord, and he showed them the king's son.
2 Kings 11:6
( another third being at the gate Sur and a third at the gate behind the guards) shall guard the palace.
2 Chronicles 12:10
And King Rehoboam made in their place shields of bronze and committed them to the hands of the officers of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house.
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1 Samuel 2:31
Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father's house, so that there will not be an old man in your house.
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1 Samuel 15:3
Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.
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1 Samuel 23:6
When Abiathar the son of Ahimelech had fled to David to Keilah, he had come down with an ephod in his hand.
1 Samuel 23:9
David knew that Saul was plotting harm against him. And he said to Abiathar the priest, "Bring the ephod here.
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1 Samuel 21:7
Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the Lord. His name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul's herdsmen.
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1 Kings 2:26
And to Abiathar the priest the king said, "Go to Anathoth, to your estate, for you deserve death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you carried the ark of the Lord God before David my father, and because you shared in all my father's affliction.
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Joshua 15:44
Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah: nine cities with their villages.
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1 Samuel 22:10
And he inquired of the Lord for him and gave him provisions and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
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1 Samuel 23:2
Therefore David inquired of the Lord, "Shall I go and attack these Philistines?" And the Lord said to David, "Go and attack the Philistines and save Keilah.
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1 Samuel 23:14
And David remained in the strongholds in the wilderness, in the hill country of the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God did not give him into his hand.
Joshua 24:11
And you went over the Jordan and came to Jericho, and the leaders of Jericho fought against you, and also the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. And I gave them into your hand.
Judges 7:7
And the Lord said to Gideon, "With the 300 men who lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hand, and let all the others go every man to his home.
Judges 20:28
And Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, ministered before it in those days), saying, "Shall we go out once more to battle against our brothers, the people of Benjamin, or shall we cease?" And the Lord said, "Go up, for tomorrow I will give them into your hand.
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1 Samuel 22:20
But one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled after David.
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1 Samuel 30:7
And David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, "Bring me the ephod." So Abiathar brought the ephod to David.
Numbers 27:21
And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the Lord. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the people of Israel with him, the whole congregation.
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1 Samuel 23:20
Now come down, O king, according to all your heart's desire to come down, and our part shall be to surrender him into the king's hand.
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1 Samuel 25:13
And David said to his men, "Every man strap on his sword!" And every man of them strapped on his sword. David also strapped on his sword. And about four hundred men went up after David, while two hundred remained with the baggage.
1 Samuel 27:2
So David arose and went over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.
1 Samuel 22:2
And everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul, gathered to him. And he became captain over them. And there were with him about four hundred men.
1 Samuel 30:9 - 10
So David set out, and the six hundred men who were with him, and they came to the brook Besor, where those who were left behind stayed.
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2 Samuel 15:20
You came only yesterday, and shall I today make you wander about with us, since I go I know not where? Go back and take your brothers with you, and may the Lord show steadfast love and faithfulness to you.
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Psalms 63:1
O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
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Joshua 15:24
Ziph, Telem, Bealoth.
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1 Samuel 24:20
And now, behold, I know that you shall surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in your hand.
1 Samuel 20:31
For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, neither you nor your kingdom shall be established. Therefore send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die.
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1 Samuel 18:3
Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul.
1 Samuel 20:8
Therefore deal kindly with your servant, for you have brought your servant into a covenant of the Lord with you. But if there is guilt in me, kill me yourself, for why should you bring me to your father?
1 Samuel 20:16
And Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, "May the Lord take vengeance on David's enemies.
1 Samuel 20:42
Then Jonathan said to David, "Go in peace, because we have sworn both of us in the name of the Lord, saying, 'The Lord shall be between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring, forever.'" And he rose and departed, and Jonathan went into the city.
2 Samuel 21:7
But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Saul's son Jonathan, because of the oath of the Lord that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
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1 Samuel 26:1
Then the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah, saying, "Is not David hiding himself on the hill of Hachilah, which is on the east of Jeshimon?
Psalms 54:1
O God, save me by your name, and vindicate me by your might.
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Numbers 21:20
And from Bamoth to the valley lying in the region of Moab by the top of Pisgah that looks down on the desert.
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1 Samuel 23:12
Then David said, "Will the men of Keilah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul?" And the Lord said, "They will surrender you.
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Ruth 2:20
And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, "May he be blessed by the Lord, whose kindness has not forsaken the living or the dead!" Naomi also said to her, "The man is a close relative of ours, one of our redeemers.
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1 Samuel 22:8
That all of you have conspired against me? No one discloses to me when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse. None of you is sorry for me or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day.
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1 Samuel 25:2
And there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. The man was very rich; he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. He was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
Joshua 15:55
Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah.
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Deuteronomy 1:1
These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
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1 Samuel 23:19
Then the Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah, saying, "Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah, which is south of Jeshimon?
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Joshua 15:62
Nibshan, the City of Salt, and Engedi: six cities with their villages.
2 Chronicles 20:2
Some men came and told Jehoshaphat, "A great multitude is coming against you from Edom, from beyond the sea; and, behold, they are in Hazazon-tamar" (that is, Engedi).
Song of Solomon 1:14
My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of Engedi.
Ezekiel 47:10
Fishermen will stand beside the sea. From Engedi to Eneglaim it will be a place for the spreading of nets. Its fish will be of very many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea.
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1 Samuel 23:28
So Saul returned from pursuing after David and went against the Philistines. Therefore that place was called the Rock of Escape.
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1 Samuel 26:2
So Saul arose and went down to the wilderness of Ziph with three thousand chosen men of Israel to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.
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Judges 3:24
When he had gone, the servants came, and when they saw that the doors of the roof chamber were locked, they thought, "Surely he is relieving himself in the closet of the cool chamber.
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Psalms 57:1
Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for in you my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge, till the storms of destruction pass by.
Psalms 142:1
With my voice I cry out to the Lord ; with my voice I plead for mercy to the Lord.
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1 Samuel 24:7
So David persuaded his men with these words and did not permit them to attack Saul. And Saul rose up and left the cave and went on his way.
1 Samuel 26:8
Then said Abishai to David, "God has given your enemy into your hand this day. Now please let me pin him to the earth with one stroke of the spear, and I will not strike him twice.
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2 Samuel 24:10
But David's heart struck him after he had numbered the people. And David said to the Lord, "I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O Lord, please take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have done very foolishly.
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1 Samuel 26:11
The Lord forbid that I should put out my hand against the Lord 's anointed. But take now the spear that is at his head and the jar of water, and let us go.
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1 Samuel 12:3
Here I am; testify against me before the Lord and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? Testify against me and I will restore it to you.
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Psalms 7:4
If I have repaid my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause.
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1 Samuel 24:4
And the men of David said to him, "Here is the day of which the Lord said to you, 'Behold, I will give your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.'" Then David arose and stealthily cut off a corner of Saul's robe.
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1 Samuel 24:6
He said to his men, "The Lord forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the Lord 's anointed, to put out my hand against him, seeing he is the Lord 's anointed.
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Psalms 7:3
O Lord my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands.
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1 Samuel 26:20
Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of the Lord, for the king of Israel has come out to seek a single flea like one who hunts a partridge in the mountains.
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Genesis 16:5
And Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the Lord judge between you and me!
Judges 11:27
I therefore have not sinned against you, and you do me wrong by making war on me. The Lord, the Judge, decide this day between the people of Israel and the people of Ammon.
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1 Samuel 17:43
And the Philistine said to David, "Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?" And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
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1 Samuel 26:20
Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of the Lord, for the king of Israel has come out to seek a single flea like one who hunts a partridge in the mountains.
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1 Samuel 24:12
May the Lord judge between me and you, may the Lord avenge me against you, but my hand shall not be against you.
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1 Samuel 25:39
When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, "Blessed be the Lord who has avenged the insult I received at the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from wrongdoing. The Lord has returned the evil of Nabal on his own head." Then David sent and spoke to Abigail, to take her as his wife.
Psalms 35:1
Contend, O Lord, with those who contend with me; fight against those who fight against me!
Psalms 43:1
Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people, from the deceitful and unjust man deliver me!
Psalms 119:154
Plead my cause and redeem me; give me life according to your promise!
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1 Samuel 26:17
Saul recognized David's voice and said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" And David said, "It is my voice, my lord, O king.
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1 Samuel 26:21
Then Saul said, "I have sinned. Return, my son David, for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes this day. Behold, I have acted foolishly, and have made a great mistake.
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1 Samuel 23:17
And he said to him, "Do not fear, for the hand of Saul my father shall not find you. You shall be king over Israel, and I shall be next to you. Saul my father also knows this.
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Genesis 21:23
Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my descendants or with my posterity, but as I have dealt kindly with you, so you will deal with me and with the land where you have sojourned.
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2 Samuel 21:7
But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Saul's son Jonathan, because of the oath of the Lord that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
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1 Samuel 23:29
And David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of Engedi.
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1 Samuel 28:3
Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had put the mediums and the necromancers out of the land.
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Genesis 50:10
When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation, and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
Numbers 20:29
And when all the congregation saw that Aaron had perished, all the house of Israel wept for Aaron thirty days.
Deuteronomy 34:8
And the people of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. Then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
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1 Kings 2:34
Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and struck him down and put him to death. And he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
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1 Samuel 1:19
They rose early in the morning and worshiped before the Lord ; then they went back to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the Lord remembered her.
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Numbers 10:12
And the people of Israel set out by stages from the wilderness of Sinai. And the cloud settled down in the wilderness of Paran.
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1 Samuel 23:24
And they arose and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah to the south of Jeshimon.
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Joshua 15:55
Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah.
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Genesis 38:13
And when Tamar was told, "Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.
2 Samuel 13:23
After two full years Absalom had sheepshearers at Baal-hazor, which is near Ephraim, and Absalom invited all the king's sons.
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1 Samuel 30:14
We had made a raid against the Negeb of the Cherethites and against that which belongs to Judah and against the Negeb of Caleb, and we burned Ziklag with fire.
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1 Samuel 25:2
And there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. The man was very rich; he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. He was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
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1 Chronicles 12:18
Then the Spirit clothed Amasai, chief of the thirty, and he said, "We are yours, O David, and with you, O son of Jesse! Peace, peace to you, and peace to your helpers! For your God helps you." Then David received them and made them officers of his troops.
Matthew 10:13
And if the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it, but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you.
Luke 10:5
Whatever house you enter, first say, 'Peace be to this house!
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1 Samuel 25:15
Yet the men were very good to us, and we suffered no harm, and we did not miss anything when we were in the fields, as long as we went with them.
1 Samuel 25:21
Now David had said, "Surely in vain have I guarded all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him, and he has returned me evil for good.
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Esther 8:17
And in every province and in every city, wherever the king's command and his edict reached, there was gladness and joy among the Jews, a feast and a holiday. And many from the peoples of the country declared themselves Jews, for fear of the Jews had fallen on them.
Esther 9:19
Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the rural towns, hold the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day for gladness and feasting, as a holiday, and as a day on which they send gifts of food to one another.
Esther 9:22
As the days on which the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending gifts of food to one another and gifts to the poor.
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Judges 9:28
And Gaal the son of Ebed said, "Who is Abimelech, and who are we of Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerubbaal, and is not Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem; but why should we serve him?
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Judges 12:4
Then Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead and fought with Ephraim. And the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, "You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim and Manasseh.
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Judges 8:6
And the officials of Succoth said, "Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?
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1 Samuel 22:2
And everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul, gathered to him. And he became captain over them. And there were with him about four hundred men.
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1 Samuel 23:13
Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed from Keilah, and they went wherever they could go. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he gave up the expedition.
1 Samuel 27:2
So David arose and went over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.
1 Samuel 22:2
And everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul, gathered to him. And he became captain over them. And there were with him about four hundred men.
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1 Samuel 23:13
Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed from Keilah, and they went wherever they could go. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he gave up the expedition.
1 Samuel 27:2
So David arose and went over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.
1 Samuel 22:2
And everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul, gathered to him. And he became captain over them. And there were with him about four hundred men.
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1 Samuel 30:24
Who would listen to you in this matter? For as his share is who goes down into the battle, so shall his share be who stays by the baggage. They shall share alike.
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1 Samuel 25:7
I hear that you have shearers. Now your shepherds have been with us, and we did them no harm, and they missed nothing all the time they were in Carmel.
1 Samuel 25:21
Now David had said, "Surely in vain have I guarded all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him, and he has returned me evil for good.
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Job 1:10
Have you not put a hedge around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
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1 Samuel 20:7
If he says, 'Good!' it will be well with your servant, but if he is angry, then know that harm is determined by him.
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Deuteronomy 13:13
That certain worthless fellows have gone out among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods,' which you have not known.
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1 Samuel 25:7
I hear that you have shearers. Now your shepherds have been with us, and we did them no harm, and they missed nothing all the time they were in Carmel.
1 Samuel 25:15
Yet the men were very good to us, and we suffered no harm, and we did not miss anything when we were in the fields, as long as we went with them.
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Psalms 109:5
So they reward me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
Proverbs 17:13
If anyone returns evil for good, evil will not depart from his house.
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Ruth 1:17
Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.
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Joshua 15:18
When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. And she got off her donkey, and Caleb said to her, "What do you want?
Judges 1:14
When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. And she dismounted from her donkey, and Caleb said to her, "What do you want?
Genesis 24:64
And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she dismounted from the camel
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1 Samuel 25:41
And she rose and bowed with her face to the ground and said, "Behold, your handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.
Ruth 2:10
Then she fell on her face, bowing to the ground, and said to him, "Why have I found favor in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?
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2 Samuel 14:9
And the woman of Tekoa said to the king, "On me be the guilt, my lord the king, and on my father's house; let the king and his throne be guiltless.
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1 Samuel 25:17
Now therefore know this and consider what you should do, for harm is determined against our master and against all his house, and he is such a worthless man that one cannot speak to him.
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1 Samuel 20:3
But David vowed again, saying, "Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he thinks, 'Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved.' But truly, as the Lord lives and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.
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Genesis 20:6
Then God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her.
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Romans 12:19
Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.
Hebrews 10:30
For we know him who said, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay." And again, "The Lord will judge his people.
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2 Samuel 18:32
The king said to the Cushite, "Is it well with the young man Absalom?" And the Cushite answered, "May the enemies of my lord the king and all who rise up against you for evil be like that young man.
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1 Samuel 30:26
When David came to Ziklag, he sent part of the spoil to his friends, the elders of Judah, saying, "Here is a present for you from the spoil of the enemies of the Lord.
Genesis 33:11
Please accept my blessing that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough." Thus he urged him, and he took it.
2 Kings 5:15
Then he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and he came and stood before him. And he said, "Behold, I know that there is no God in all the earth but in Israel; so accept now a present from your servant.
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1 Kings 11:38
And if you will listen to all that I command yo...
1 Samuel 2:35
And I will raise up for myself a faithful pries...
2 Samuel 7:11
From the time that I appointed judges over my p...
2 Samuel 7:27
For you, O Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, ha...
1 Kings 9:5
Then I will establish your royal throne over Is...
1 Chronicles 17:10
From the time that I appointed judges over my p...
1 Chronicles 17:25
For you, my God, have revealed to your servant ...
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1 Samuel 18:17
Then Saul said to David, "Here is my elder daughter Merab. I will give her to you for a wife. Only be valiant for me and fight the Lord 's battles." For Saul thought, "Let not my hand be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.
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Jeremiah 10:18
For thus says the Lord : "Behold, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and I will bring distress on them, that they may feel it.
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1 Samuel 25:26
Now then, my lord, as the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, because the Lord has restrained you from bloodguilt and from saving with your own hand, now then let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be as Nabal.
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Genesis 24:27
And said, "Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his steadfast love and his faithfulness toward my master. As for me, the Lord has led me in the way to the house of my master's kinsmen.
Psalms 41:13
Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! Amen and Amen.
Psalms 72:18
Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things.
Luke 1:68
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people
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1 Samuel 25:26
Now then, my lord, as the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, because the Lord has restrained you from bloodguilt and from saving with your own hand, now then let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be as Nabal.
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1 Samuel 25:26
Now then, my lord, as the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, because the Lord has restrained you from bloodguilt and from saving with your own hand, now then let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be as Nabal.
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Ruth 3:13
Remain tonight, and in the morning, if he will redeem you, good; let him do it. But if he is not willing to redeem you, then, as the Lord lives, I will redeem you. Lie down until the morning.
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1 Samuel 25:26
Now then, my lord, as the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, because the Lord has restrained you from bloodguilt and from saving with your own hand, now then let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be as Nabal.
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1 Samuel 1:17
Then Eli answered, "Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant your petition that you have made to him.
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2 Samuel 13:23
After two full years Absalom had sheepshearers at Baal-hazor, which is near Ephraim, and Absalom invited all the king's sons.
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2 Samuel 13:28
Then Absalom commanded his servants, "Mark when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, 'Strike Amnon,' then kill him. Do not fear; have I not commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant.
1 Kings 21:7
And Jezebel his wife said to him, "Do you now govern Israel? Arise and eat bread and let your heart be cheerful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
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1 Samuel 22:15
Is today the first time that I have inquired of God for him? No! Let not the king impute anything to his servant or to all the house of my father, for your servant has known nothing of all this, much or little.
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1 Samuel 26:10
And David said, "As the Lord lives, the Lord will strike him, or his day will come to die, or he will go down into battle and perish.
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1 Samuel 25:32
And David said to Abigail, "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me!
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1 Samuel 24:15
May the Lord therefore be judge and give sentence between me and you, and see to it and plead my cause and deliver me from your hand.
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1 Samuel 25:26
Now then, my lord, as the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, because the Lord has restrained you from bloodguilt and from saving with your own hand, now then let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be as Nabal.
1 Samuel 25:33 - 34
Blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodguilt and from avenging myself with my own hand!
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1 Kings 2:44
The king also said to Shimei, "You know in your own heart all the harm that you did to David my father. So the Lord will bring back your harm on your own head.
Psalms 7:16
His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own skull his violence descends.
Ezekiel 17:19
Therefore thus says the Lord God : As I live, surely it is my oath that he despised, and my covenant that he broke. I will return it upon his head.
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Song of Solomon 8:8
We have a little sister, and she has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister on the day when she is spoken for?
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Ruth 2:10
Then she fell on her face, bowing to the ground, and said to him, "Why have I found favor in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?
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Joshua 15:56
Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah.
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1 Samuel 27:3
And David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, and David with his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel, and Abigail of Carmel, Nabal's widow.
1 Samuel 30:5
David's two wives also had been taken captive, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel.
2 Samuel 2:2
So David went up there, and his two wives also, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel.
2 Samuel 3:2 - 3
And sons were born to David at Hebron: his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam of Jezreel.
1 Chronicles 3:1
These are the sons of David who were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn, Amnon, by Ahinoam the Jezreelite; the second, Daniel, by Abigail the Carmelite.
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1 Samuel 23:19
Then the Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah, saying, "Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah, which is south of Jeshimon?
Psalms 54:1
O God, save me by your name, and vindicate me by your might.
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1 Samuel 23:14
And David remained in the strongholds in the wilderness, in the hill country of the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God did not give him into his hand.
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1 Samuel 24:2
Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel and went to seek David and his men in front of the Wildgoats' Rocks.
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1 Samuel 14:50
And the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz. And the name of the commander of his army was Abner the son of Ner, Saul's uncle.
1 Samuel 17:55
As soon as Saul saw David go out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the commander of the army, "Abner, whose son is this youth?" And Abner said, "As your soul lives, O king, I do not know.
2 Samuel 2:8
But Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul's army, took Ish-bosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim.
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1 Samuel 17:20
And David rose early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper and took the provisions and went, as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to the encampment as the host was going out to the battle line, shouting the war cry.
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2 Samuel 2:18
And the three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was as swift of foot as a wild gazelle.
2 Samuel 3:39
And I was gentle today, though anointed king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah, are more severe than I. The Lord repay the evildoer according to his wickedness!
2 Samuel 16:10
But the king said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? If he is cursing because the Lord has said to him, 'Curse David,' who then shall say, 'Why have you done so?'
2 Samuel 19:22
But David said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be as an adversary to me? Shall anyone be put to death in Israel this day? For do I not know that I am this day king over Israel?
1 Chronicles 2:16
And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three.
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Judges 7:9 - 11
That same night the Lord said to him, "Arise, go down against the camp, for I have given it into your hand.
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1 Samuel 26:5
Then David rose and came to the place where Saul had encamped. And David saw the place where Saul lay, with Abner the son of Ner, the commander of his army. Saul was lying within the encampment, while the army was encamped around him.
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1 Samuel 26:11
The Lord forbid that I should put out my hand against the Lord 's anointed. But take now the spear that is at his head and the jar of water, and let us go.
1 Samuel 26:16
This thing that you have done is not good. As the Lord lives, you deserve to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, the Lord 's anointed. And now see where the king's spear is and the jar of water that was at his head.
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1 Samuel 24:4
And the men of David said to him, "Here is the day of which the Lord said to you, 'Behold, I will give your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.'" Then David arose and stealthily cut off a corner of Saul's robe.
1 Samuel 24:18
And you have declared this day how you have dealt well with me, in that you did not kill me when the Lord put me into your hands.
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1 Samuel 26:11
The Lord forbid that I should put out my hand a...
1 Samuel 26:16
This thing that you have done is not good. As t...
1 Samuel 26:23
The Lord rewards every man for his righteousnes...
1 Samuel 24:6
He said to his men, "The Lord forbid that I sho...
1 Samuel 24:10
Behold, this day your eyes have seen how the Lo...
2 Samuel 1:16
And David said to him, "Your blood be on your h...
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Ruth 3:13
Remain tonight, and in the morning, if he will redeem you, good; let him do it. But if he is not willing to redeem you, then, as the Lord lives, I will redeem you. Lie down until the morning.
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1 Samuel 25:38
And about ten days later the Lord struck Nabal, and he died.
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Genesis 47:29
And when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh and promise to deal kindly and truly with me. Do not bury me in Egypt.
Deuteronomy 31:14
And the Lord said to Moses, "Behold, the days approach when you must die. Call Joshua and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I may commission him." And Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tent of meeting.
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1 Samuel 31:6
Thus Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor-bearer, and all his men, on the same day together.
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1 Samuel 24:6
He said to his men, "The Lord forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the Lord 's anointed, to put out my hand against him, seeing he is the Lord 's anointed.
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1 Samuel 26:7
So David and Abishai went to the army by night. And there lay Saul sleeping within the encampment, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head, and Abner and the army lay around him.
1 Samuel 26:16
This thing that you have done is not good. As the Lord lives, you deserve to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, the Lord 's anointed. And now see where the king's spear is and the jar of water that was at his head.
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Genesis 2:21
So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.
Genesis 15:12
As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. And behold, dreadful and great darkness fell upon him.
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Ruth 3:13
Remain tonight, and in the morning, if he will redeem you, good; let him do it. But if he is not willing to redeem you, then, as the Lord lives, I will redeem you. Lie down until the morning.
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1 Samuel 26:7
So David and Abishai went to the army by night. And there lay Saul sleeping within the encampment, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head, and Abner and the army lay around him.
1 Samuel 26:11
The Lord forbid that I should put out my hand against the Lord 's anointed. But take now the spear that is at his head and the jar of water, and let us go.
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1 Samuel 24:16
As soon as David had finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" And Saul lifted up his voice and wept.
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1 Samuel 24:9
And David said to Saul, "Why do you listen to the words of men who say, 'Behold, David seeks your harm'?
1 Samuel 24:11
See, my father, see the corner of your robe in my hand. For by the fact that I cut off the corner of your robe and did not kill you, you may know and see that there is no wrong or treason in my hands. I have not sinned against you, though you hunt my life to take it.
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Psalms 120:5
Woe to me, that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!
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2 Samuel 14:16
For the king will hear and deliver his servant from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together from the heritage of God.
2 Samuel 20:19
I am one of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city that is a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up the heritage of the Lord ?
2 Samuel 21:3
And David said to the Gibeonites, "What shall I do for you? And how shall I make atonement, that you may bless the heritage of the Lord ?
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1 Samuel 24:14
After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom do you pursue? After a dead dog! After a flea!
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1 Samuel 15:24
Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.
1 Samuel 24:17 - 18
He said to David, "You are more righteous than I, for you have repaid me good, whereas I have repaid you evil.
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Psalms 7:8
The Lord judges the peoples; judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.
Psalms 18:20
The Lord dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he rewarded me.
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Genesis 32:28
Then he said, "Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.
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1 Samuel 23:13
Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed from Keilah, and they went wherever they could go. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he gave up the expedition.
2 Samuel 15:18
And all his servants passed by him, and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the six hundred Gittites who had followed him from Gath, passed on before the king.
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1 Samuel 21:10
And David rose and fled that day from Saul and went to Achish the king of Gath.
1 Kings 2:39
But it happened at the end of three years that two of Shimei's servants ran away to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. And when it was told Shimei, "Behold, your servants are in Gath.
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1 Samuel 25:43
David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel, and both of them became his wives.
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Genesis 33:15
So Esau said, "Let me leave with you some of the people who are with me." But he said, "What need is there? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.
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Joshua 15:31
Ziklag, Madmannah, Sansannah.
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1 Samuel 29:3
The commanders of the Philistines said, "What are these Hebrews doing here?" And Achish said to the commanders of the Philistines, "Is this not David, the servant of Saul, king of Israel, who has been with me now for days and years, and since he deserted to me I have found no fault in him to this day.
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1 Chronicles 12:1
Now these are the men who came to David at Ziklag, while he could not move about freely because of Saul the son of Kish. And they were among the mighty men who helped him in war.
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Joshua 13:2
This is the land that yet remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all those of the Geshurites
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Joshua 16:10
However, they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived in the midst of Ephraim to this day but have been made to do forced labor.
Judges 1:29
And Ephraim did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.
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1 Samuel 15:7 - 8
And Saul defeated the Amalekites from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt.
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1 Samuel 15:7
And Saul defeated the Amalekites from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt.
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1 Samuel 23:27
A messenger came to Saul, saying, "Hurry and come, for the Philistines have made a raid against the land.
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1 Samuel 30:29
In Racal, in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, in the cities of the Kenites.
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Judges 1:16
And the descendants of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, went up with the people of Judah from the city of palms into the wilderness of Judah, which lies in the Negeb near Arad, and they went and settled with the people.
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1 Samuel 29:1
Now the Philistines had gathered all their forces at Aphek. And the Israelites were encamped by the spring that is in Jezreel.
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1 Samuel 25:1
Now Samuel died. And all Israel assembled and mourned for him, and they buried him in his house at Ramah. Then David rose and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
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1 Samuel 1:19
They rose early in the morning and worshiped before the Lord ; then they went back to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the Lord remembered her.
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Exodus 22:18
You shall not permit a sorceress to live.
Leviticus 19:31
Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 20:27
"A man or a woman who is a medium or a necromancer shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones; their blood shall be upon them."
Deuteronomy 18:10 - 11
There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer
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Joshua 19:18
Their territory included Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem.
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1 Samuel 31:1
Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines and fell slain on Mount Gilboa.
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1 Samuel 28:15
Then Samuel said to Saul, "Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?" Saul answered, "I am in great distress, for the Philistines are warring against me, and God has turned away from me and answers me no more, either by prophets or by dreams. Therefore I have summoned you to tell me what I shall do.
1 Samuel 14:37
And Saul inquired of God, "Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will you give them into the hand of Israel?" But he did not answer him that day.
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Numbers 12:6
And he said, "Hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord make myself known to him in a vision; I speak with him in a dream.
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Exodus 28:30
And in the breastpiece of judgment you shall put the Urim and the Thummim, and they shall be on Aaron's heart, when he goes in before the Lord. Thus Aaron shall bear the judgment of the people of Israel on his heart before the Lord regularly.
Numbers 27:21
And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the Lord. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the people of Israel with him, the whole congregation.
Deuteronomy 33:8
And of Levi he said, "Give to Levi your Thummim, and your Urim to your godly one, whom you tested at Massah, with whom you quarreled at the waters of Meribah.
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1 Chronicles 10:13
So Saul died for his breach of faith. He broke faith with the Lord in that he did not keep the command of the Lord, and also consulted a medium, seeking guidance.
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Joshua 17:11
Also in Issachar and in Asher Manasseh had Beth-shean and its villages, and Ibleam and its villages, and the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its villages, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages; the third is Naphath.
Psalms 83:10
Who were destroyed at En-dor, who became dung for the ground.
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1 Kings 20:38
So the prophet departed and waited for the king by the way, disguising himself with a bandage over his eyes.
1 Kings 22:30
And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "I will disguise myself and go into battle, but you wear your robes." And the king of Israel disguised himself and went into battle.
2 Chronicles 18:29
And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "I will disguise myself and go into battle, but you wear your robes." And the king of Israel disguised himself, and they went into battle.
2 Chronicles 35:22
Nevertheless, Josiah did not turn away from him, but disguised himself in order to fight with him. He did not listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, but came to fight in the plain of Megiddo.
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Deuteronomy 18:10
There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer
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1 Samuel 28:3
Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had put the mediums and the necromancers out of the land.
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Ruth 3:13
Remain tonight, and in the morning, if he will redeem you, good; let him do it. But if he is not willing to redeem you, then, as the Lord lives, I will redeem you. Lie down until the morning.
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1 Samuel 15:27
As Samuel turned to go away, Saul seized the skirt of his robe, and it tore.
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1 Samuel 16:14
Now the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and a harmful spirit from the Lord tormented him.
1 Samuel 18:12
Saul was afraid of David because the Lord was with him but had departed from Saul.
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1 Samuel 28:6
And when Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord did not answer him, either by dreams, or by Urim, or by prophets.
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1 Samuel 15:28
And Samuel said to him, "The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.
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1 Samuel 15:9
But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fattened calves and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them. All that was despised and worthless they devoted to destruction.
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1 Samuel 31:2
And the Philistines overtook Saul and his sons, and the Philistines struck down Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul.
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Judges 12:3
And when I saw that you would not save me, I took my life in my hand and crossed over against the Ammonites, and the Lord gave them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me this day to fight against me?
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1 Samuel 28:1
In those days the Philistines gathered their forces for war, to fight against Israel. And Achish said to David, "Understand that you and your men are to go out with me in the army.
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1 Samuel 4:1
And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out to battle against the Philistines. They encamped at Ebenezer, and the Philistines encamped at Aphek.
Joshua 12:18
The king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one.
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Judges 7:1
Then Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him rose early and encamped beside the spring of Harod. And the camp of Midian was north of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
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Joshua 17:16
The people of Joseph said, "The hill country is not enough for us. Yet all the Canaanites who dwell in the plain have chariots of iron, both those in Beth-shean and its villages and those in the Valley of Jezreel.
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Joshua 13:3
(from the Shihor, which is east of Egypt, northward to the boundary of Ekron, it is counted as Canaanite; there are five rulers of the Philistines, those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron), and those of the Avvim.
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1 Samuel 28:1 - 2
In those days the Philistines gathered their forces for war, to fight against Israel. And Achish said to David, "Understand that you and your men are to go out with me in the army.
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1 Samuel 27:7
And the number of the days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months.
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Daniel 6:5
Then these men said, "We shall not find any ground for complaint against this Daniel unless we find it in connection with the law of his God.
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1 Samuel 29:2
As the lords of the Philistines were passing on by hundreds and by thousands, and David and his men were passing on in the rear with Achish.
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1 Samuel 27:6
So that day Achish gave him Ziklag. Therefore Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah to this day.
1 Samuel 30:1
Now when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid against the Negeb and against Ziklag. They had overcome Ziklag and burned it with fire
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1 Samuel 14:21
Now the Hebrews who had been with the Philistines before that time and who had gone up with them into the camp, even they also turned to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.
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1 Samuel 18:7
And the women sang to one another as they celebrated, "Saul has struck down his thousands, and David his ten thousands.
1 Samuel 21:11
And the servants of Achish said to him, "Is not this David the king of the land? Did they not sing to one another of him in dances, 'Saul has struck down his thousands, and David his ten thousands'?
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1 Samuel 20:3
But David vowed again, saying, "Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he thinks, 'Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved.' But truly, as the Lord lives and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.
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2 Samuel 3:25
You know that Abner the son of Ner came to deceive you and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you are doing.
2 Kings 19:27
But I know your sitting down and your going out and coming in, and your raging against me.
Psalms 121:8
The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.
Isaiah 37:28
'I know your sitting down and your going out and coming in, and your raging against me.
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2 Samuel 14:17
And your servant thought, 'The word of my lord the king will set me at rest,' for my lord the king is like the angel of God to discern good and evil. The Lord your God be with you!
2 Samuel 14:20
In order to change the course of things your servant Joab did this. But my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God to know all things that are on the earth.
2 Samuel 19:27
He has slandered your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is like the angel of God; do therefore what seems good to you.
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Joshua 13:3
(from the Shihor, which is east of Egypt, northward to the boundary of Ekron, it is counted as Canaanite; there are five rulers of the Philistines, those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron), and those of the Avvim.
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1 Chronicles 12:19
Some of the men of Manasseh deserted to David when he came with the Philistines for the battle against Saul. (Yet he did not help them, for the rulers of the Philistines took counsel and sent him away, saying, "At peril to our heads he will desert to his master Saul.")
1 Chronicles 12:22
For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there was a great army, like an army of God.
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Joshua 17:16
The people of Joseph said, "The hill country is not enough for us. Yet all the Canaanites who dwell in the plain have chariots of iron, both those in Beth-shean and its villages and those in the Valley of Jezreel.
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1 Samuel 29:4
But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with him. And the commanders of the Philistines said to him, "Send the man back, that he may return to the place to which you have assigned him. He shall not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us. For how could this fellow reconcile himself to his lord? Would it not be with the heads of the men here?
1 Samuel 29:11
So David set out with his men early in the morning to return to the land of the Philistines. But the Philistines went up to Jezreel.
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1 Samuel 27:8
Now David and his men went up and made raids against the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites, for these were the inhabitants of the land from of old, as far as Shur, to the land of Egypt.
1 Samuel 15:3
Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.
1 Samuel 15:7
And Saul defeated the Amalekites from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt.
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1 Samuel 30:14
We had made a raid against the Negeb of the Cherethites and against that which belongs to Judah and against the Negeb of Caleb, and we burned Ziklag with fire.
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1 Samuel 25:42 - 43
And Abigail hurried and rose and mounted a donkey, and her five young women attended her. She followed the messengers of David and became his wife.
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Exodus 17:4
So Moses cried to the Lord, "What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.
Numbers 14:10
Then all the congregation said to stone them with stones. But the glory of the Lord appeared at the tent of meeting to all the people of Israel.
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1 Samuel 23:6
When Abiathar the son of Ahimelech had fled to David to Keilah, he had come down with an ephod in his hand.
1 Samuel 23:9
David knew that Saul was plotting harm against him. And he said to Abiathar the priest, "Bring the ephod here.
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1 Samuel 22:10
And he inquired of the Lord for him and gave him provisions and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
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1 Chronicles 12:21
They helped David against the band of raiders, for they were all mighty men of valor and were commanders in the army.
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1 Samuel 30:18
David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and David rescued his two wives.
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1 Samuel 23:13
Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed from Keilah, and they went wherever they could go. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he gave up the expedition.
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1 Samuel 30:21
Then David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow David, and who had been left at the brook Besor. And they went out to meet David and to meet the people who were with him. And when David came near to the people he greeted them.
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Judges 15:19
And God split open the hollow place that is at Lehi, and water came out from it. And when he drank, his spirit returned, and he revived. Therefore the name of it was called En-hakkore; it is at Lehi to this day.
1 Samuel 14:27
But Jonathan had not heard his father charge the people with the oath, so he put out the tip of the staff that was in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb and put his hand to his mouth, and his eyes became bright.
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1 Samuel 30:1
Now when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid against the Negeb and against Ziklag. They had overcome Ziklag and burned it with fire
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2 Samuel 8:18
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Ch...
2 Samuel 15:18
And all his servants passed by him, and all the...
2 Samuel 20:7
And there went out after him Joab's men and the...
2 Samuel 20:23
Now Joab was in command of all the army of Isra...
1 Kings 1:38
So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Be...
1 Kings 1:44
And the king has sent with him Zadok the priest...
1 Chronicles 18:17
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Ch...
Ezekiel 25:16
Therefore thus says the Lord God, Behold, I wil...
Zephaniah 2:5
Woe to you inhabitants of the seacoast, you nat...
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1 Samuel 25:3
Now the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail. The woman was discerning and beautiful, but the man was harsh and badly behaved; he was a Calebite.
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1 Samuel 30:8
And David inquired of the Lord, "Shall I pursue after this band? Shall I overtake them?" He answered him, "Pursue, for you shall surely overtake and shall surely rescue.
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1 Samuel 30:18
David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and David rescued his two wives.
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1 Samuel 30:10
But David pursued, he and four hundred men. Two hundred stayed behind, who were too exhausted to cross the brook Besor.
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1 Samuel 30:10
But David pursued, he and four hundred men. Two hundred stayed behind, who were too exhausted to cross the brook Besor.
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Numbers 31:27
And divide the plunder into two parts between the warriors who went out to battle and all the congregation.
Joshua 22:8
He said to them, "Go back to your tents with much wealth and with very much livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, and iron, and with much clothing. Divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.
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Genesis 28:19
He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
Judges 1:22 - 26
The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and the Lord was with them.
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Joshua 15:48
And in the hill country, Shamir, Jattir, Socoh.
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Deuteronomy 2:36
From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. The Lord our God gave all into our hands.
Joshua 13:16
So their territory was from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland by Medeba.
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Joshua 15:50
Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim.
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1 Samuel 27:10
When Achish asked, "Where have you made a raid today?" David would say, "Against the Negeb of Judah," or, "Against the Negeb of the Jerahmeelites," or, "Against the Negeb of the Kenites.
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Judges 1:16
And the descendants of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, went up with the people of Judah from the city of palms into the wilderness of Judah, which lies in the Negeb near Arad, and they went and settled with the people.
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Judges 1:17
And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they defeated the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath and devoted it to destruction. So the name of the city was called Hormah.
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Joshua 14:13 - 15
Then Joshua blessed him, and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.
Judges 1:10
And Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (now the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-arba), and they defeated Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai.
2 Samuel 2:1 - 4
After this David inquired of the Lord, "Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?" And the Lord said to him, "Go up." David said, "To which shall I go up?" And he said, "To Hebron.
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1 Samuel 31:1 - 13
Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines and fell slain on Mount Gilboa.
1 Chronicles 10:1 - 12
Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines and fell slain on Mount Gilboa.
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1 Samuel 28:4
The Philistines assembled and came and encamped at Shunem. And Saul gathered all Israel, and they encamped at Gilboa.
2 Samuel 1:6
And the young man who told him said, "By chance I happened to be on Mount Gilboa, and there was Saul leaning on his spear, and behold, the chariots and the horsemen were close upon him.
2 Samuel 1:21
You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain upon you, nor fields of offerings! For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.
2 Samuel 21:12
David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, on the day the Philistines killed Saul on Gilboa.
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1 Chronicles 8:33
Ner was the father of Kish, Kish of Saul, Saul of Jonathan, Malchi-shua, Abinadab and Eshbaal.
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1 Samuel 14:49
Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchi-shua. And the names of his two daughters were these: the name of the firstborn was Merab, and the name of the younger Michal.
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2 Samuel 1:6
And the young man who told him said, "By chance I happened to be on Mount Gilboa, and there was Saul leaning on his spear, and behold, the chariots and the horsemen were close upon him.
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Judges 9:54
Then he called quickly to the young man his armor-bearer and said to him, "Draw your sword and kill me, lest they say of me, 'A woman killed him.'" And his young man thrust him through, and he died.
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Judges 14:3
But his father and mother said to him, "Is there not a woman among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?" But Samson said to his father, "Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes.
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2 Samuel 1:14
David said to him, "How is it you were not afraid to put out your hand to destroy the Lord 's anointed?
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2 Samuel 1:10
So I stood beside him and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after he had fallen. And I took the crown that was on his head and the armlet that was on his arm, and I have brought them here to my lord.
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2 Samuel 1:20
Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.
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Judges 16:23 - 24
Now the lords of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to rejoice, and they said, "Our god has given Samson our enemy into our hand.
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1 Samuel 21:9
And the priest said, "The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck down in the Valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you will take that, take it, for there is none but that here." And David said, "There is none like that; give it to me.
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Judges 2:13
They abandoned the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth.
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Joshua 17:11
Also in Issachar and in Asher Manasseh had Beth-shean and its villages, and Ibleam and its villages, and the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its villages, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages; the third is Naphath.
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2 Samuel 21:10
Then Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until rain fell upon them from the heavens. And she did not allow the birds of the air to come upon them by day, or the beasts of the field by night.
1 Samuel 11:1 - 11
Then Nahash the Ammonite went up and besieged Jabesh-gilead, and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, "Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.
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2 Samuel 2:4 - 7
And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. When they told David, "It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul.
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2 Chronicles 16:14
They buried him in the tomb that he had cut for himself in the city of David. They laid him on a bier that had been filled with various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumer's art, and they made a very great fire in his honor.
2 Chronicles 21:19
In the course of time, at the end of two years, his bowels came out because of the disease, and he died in great agony. His people made no fire in his honor, like the fires made for his fathers.
Jeremiah 34:5
You shall die in peace. And as spices were burned for your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so people shall burn spices for you and lament for you, saying, "Alas, lord!"' For I have spoken the word, declares the Lord.
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2 Samuel 21:12
David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, on the day the Philistines killed Saul on Gilboa.
2 Samuel 21:14
And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father. And they did all that the king commanded. And after that God responded to the plea for the land.
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1 Samuel 22:6
Now Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men who were with him. Saul was sitting at Gibeah under the tamarisk tree on the height with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him.
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Genesis 50:10
When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation, and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
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