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Ask a QuestionNow the men of Israel had sworn an oath at Mizpah, saying, "None of us shall give his daughter to Benjamin as a wife."
Now the LORD came and stood and called as at other times, "Samuel! Samuel!" And Samuel answered, "Speak, for Your servant hears."
"Be strong and conduct yourselves like men, you Philistines, that you do not become servants of the Hebrews, as they have been to you. Conduct yourselves like men, and fight!"
As they went up the hill to the city, they met some young women going out to draw water, and said to them, "Is the seer here?"
And Jonathan climbed up on his hands and knees with his armorbearer after him; and they fell before Jonathan. And as he came after him, his armorbearer killed them.
"For as the LORD lives, who saves Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die." But not a man among all the people answered him.
Then Jonathan called David, and Jonathan told him all these things. So Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence as in times past.
"May God do so to Abner, and more also, if I do not do for David as the LORD has sworn to him -
Your hands were not bound Nor your feet put into fetters; As a man falls before wicked men, so you fell." Then all the people wept over him again.
"Now, O LORD God, the word which You have spoken concerning Your servant and concerning his house, establish it forever and do as You have said.
And the people stole back into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
"You have also delivered me from the strivings of my people; You have kept me as the head of the nations. A people I have not known shall serve me.
But Zadok the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and the mighty men who belonged to David were not with Adonijah.
Then he said, "Please speak to King Solomon, for he will not refuse you, that he may give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife."
And Shimei said to the king, "The saying is good. As my lord the king has said, so your servant will do." So Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days.
"You have kept what You promised Your servant David my father; You have both spoken with Your mouth and fulfilled it with Your hand, as it is this day.
"May the LORD our God be with us, as He was with our fathers. May He not leave us nor forsake us,
And this thing was the sin of the house of Jeroboam, so as to exterminate and destroy it from the face of the earth.
Now his servant Zimri, commander of half his chariots, conspired against him as he was in Tirzah drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, steward of his house in Tirzah.
And as she was going to get it, he called to her and said, "Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand."