Before 1079. 32 Then said Samuel, Bring ye CHRIST, hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came to him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past. 33 And Samuel said, & As thy, swordEx. 17. 11. hath made women childless, so shall thy Num. 14.45. mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal. 34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul. 35 And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel. CHAP. XVI. 1 Samuel, sent by God under pretense of a sacrifice, cometh to Beth-lehem: 6 His human Heb. in thy hand. 2 Heb. meeting. Jesse, Send and bring him: for we will not sit 4 down till he hath come hither. 12 And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and also 5 of a beautiful countenance, and a good appearance. And the LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he. 13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel arose, and went to Ramah. 14 But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD 6 troubled him. 15 And Saul's servants said to him, Behold now, an evil spirit from God troubleth thee. 16 Let our lord now command thy judgment is reproved: 13 He anointeth Da- 3 Heb. eyes. servants, who are before thee, to seek a vid. 19 Saul sendeth for David to quiet his evil spirit. AND the LORD said to Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thy horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth-1Chr. 28. 9. lehemite: for I have provided me a king Jer. 11. 20. among his sons. 2 And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul shall hear it, he will kill me. And the LORD said, Take a heifer 1 with thee, and say, I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. 3 And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show thee what thou shalt do: and Ps. 7. 9. & 17. 10. & 20. 12. man who is a skillful player on a harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he will play with his hand, and thou wilt be well. 17 And Saul said to his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me. 18 Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Beth-lehemite, that is skillful in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in 7 matters, and a comely person, and the LORD is with him. 19 Wherefore Saul sent messengers thou shalt anoint to me him whom I 628am. 7. 8. to Jesse, and said, Send to me David thy name to thee. 4 And Samuel did that which the LORD spoke, and came to Beth-lehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his 2 coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably? Ps. 78. 70. 4 Heb. 5 And he said, Peaceably: I have come to sacrifice to the LORD: sanctify round. yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice. 6 ¶ And it came to pass when they had come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD's anointed is before him. 5 Heb. fair of eyes. 7 But the LORD said to Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the hight of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the 3 outward 6 or, terrifiappearance, but the LORD looketh on the • heart. 8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this. 9 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this. 10 Again, Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, The LORD hath not chosen these. ed. 7 or, speech. son, who is with the sheep. 20 And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son to Saul. 21 And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armor-bearer. 22 And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favor in my sight. 23 And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took a harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him. CHAP. XVII. 1 The armies of the Israelites and Philistines being ready for battle, 4 Goliath cometh proudly forth to challenge a combat. 12 David sent by his father to visit his brethren, taketh the challenge. 28 Eliab chideth him: 30 He is brought to Saul: 32 He showeth the reason of his confidence. 38 Without armor, armed by faith, he slayeth the giant. 55 Saul taketh notice of David. [OW the Philistines collected their Narmies to battle, and were assem bled at Shochoh, which belongeth to Julor, the bordah, and encamped between Shochoh der of Dammim. and Azekah, in 1 Ephes-dammim. 11 And Samuel said to Jesse, Are here 2 Heb. ranall thy children? And he said, There re-ged the maineth yet the youngest, and behold, he battle. keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said to 2 And Saul and the men of Israel were assembled and encamped by the valley of Elah, and 2 they set the battle in array against the Philistines. 3 And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on 1 a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them. 4 And there went out a champion from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose hight was six cubits and a span. Before CHRIST, 1406. ed. the hand of the keeper of the vessels, and ran into the army, and came and 11 saluted his brethren. 23 And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, from according to the same words: and David heard them. 5 And he had a helmet of brass upon 3 Heb. cloth- the armies of the Philistines, and spoke his head, and he was 3 armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass. 6 And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a 4 target of brass between his shoulders. 4 or, gorget. a c. 16. 1. 5 Heb. chees es of milk. 6 Heb. cap- 7 And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him. 8 And he stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them, Why have ye come out to set your battle in ar-7 or, place of ray? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me. 9 If he shall be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I shall prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us. 10 And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together. 11 When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid. 12 Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul. 13 And the three eldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were Eliab the first-born, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah. 14 And David was the youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul. 8 the car riuge. or, battle array, or, place of fight. 9 Heb. the vessels 10 or, bag. 11 Heb. ask- 24 And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled 12 from him, and were exceedingly afraid. 25 And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that hath come up? surely to defy Israel hath he come: and it shall be, that the man who shall kill him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel. 26 And David spoke to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God? 27 And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that killeth him. 28 And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thy heart; for thou art come down that thou mayest see the battle. 29 And David said, What have I now brethren of done? Is there not a cause? peace. 15 But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Beth-12 Heb. from his face. lehem. 16 And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days. 30 And he turned from him towards another, and spoke after the same 13 manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner. 31 And when the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul: and he 14 sent for him. 32 And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine. 33 And Saul said to David, Thou art 17 And Jesse said to David his son, Josh. 15.16. not able to go against this Philistine to Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren; fight with him: for thou art but a youth, 18 And carry these ten 5 cheeses to the 13 Heb.word. vant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a 15 lamb out of the flock: 35 And I went after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him. 36 Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God. 37 David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this and the LORD be with thee. Before 1063. Philistine. And Saul said to David, Go, CHRIST, listines to the entrance of the valley, and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even to Gath, and to Ekron. 38 And Saul 16 armed David with his armor, and he put a helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail.'" 39 And David girded his sword upon his armor, and he essayed to go; for he had not 17 proved it. And David said to Saul, I cannot go with these, for I have not proved them. And David put them off from him. 40 And he took his staff in his hand,] and chose him five smooth stones out of the 18 brook, and put them in a shepherd's 19 bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand; and he drew near to the Philistine. 41 And the Philistine advanced and drew near to David; and the man that bore the shield went before him. 42 And when the Philistine looked: about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance. 43 And the Philistine said to David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staffs? and the Philistine cursed David by his gods. 16 Heb. clothed David with his clothes. 17 or, tried. 53 And the children of Israel returned from chasing the Philistines, and they plundered their tents. 54 And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armor in his tent. 55 And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said to Abner the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this youth? And Abner said, As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell. 56 And the king said, Inquire thou 18 or, valley. whose son the stripling is. 57 And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand. 58 And Saul said to him, Whose son art thou, thou young man? And David 19 Heb. ves- answered, I am the son of thy servant sel. Jesse the Beth-lehemite. 44 And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh to the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of 20 Heb. shut the field. 45 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. thee up. pered. 46 This day will the LORD 20 deliver 1 or, prosthee into my hand; and I will smite thee, and take thy head from thee; and I will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day to the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. 47 And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD's, and he will give you into our hands. 48 And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted, and ran towards the army to meet the Philistine. 49 And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and hurled it with his sling, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth. 50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David. 51 Therefore David ran and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of its sheath, and slew him, and cut off his head with it. And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled. 52 And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Phi 2or, Philis- CHAP. XVIII. 1 Jonathan loveth David. 5 Saul envieth his praise, 10 seeketh in his fury to kill him, 12 feareth him for his good success, 17 offereth him his daughters for a snare. 22 David persuaded to be the king's son-in-law, giveth two hundred foreskins of the Philistines for Michal's dowry. 28 Saul's hatred and David's glory increase. AND it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was,knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. 2 And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house. 3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul. 4 And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle. 5 ¶ And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him, and 1 behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men 3 Heb. three-of war, and he was accepted in the sight stringed of all the people, and also in the sight of ments. Saul's servants. instru 6 And it came to pass as they came, when David had returned from the slaughter of the 2 Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with 3 instruc. 21. 11. & ments of music. 29. 5. 4 Heb. was evil in his eyes. 7 And the women answered one another as they played, and said, a Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands. 8 And Saul was very wroth, and the saying 4 displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed thousands; and what can he have more but the kingdom? 10 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David' played with his hand, as at other times: and 5 or, prosthere was a javelin in Saul's hand. pered. 11 And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall. And David escaped from his presence twice. 12 T And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and had departed from Saul. 13 Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people. 14 And David 5 behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the LORD was with him. 6 Heb. a son of valor. 7 Heb. was his eyes. 15 Wherefore when Saul saw that he right in behaved himself very wisely, he was afraid of him. 16 But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out and came in before them. 17 ¶ And Saul said to David, Behold, my elder daughter Merab, her will give thee for a wife: only be thou 6 valiant for me, and fight the LORD's battles. For Saul said, Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him. 18 And David said to Saul, Who am I? and what is my life, or my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-inlaw to the king? 19 But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul's daughter should have been given to David, that she was given to Adriel the Meholathite to wife. 8 According to these 9 words. Heb. were at fulfill ed. the king's son-in-law: and the days had not 9 expired. 27 Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might be the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter for a wife. 28 ¶ And Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal, Saul's daughter, loved him. 29 And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David's enemy continually. 30 Then the princes of the Philistines went forth and it came to pass after they went forth, that David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much 10 esteemed. 3 And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou art, and and what I see, that I will tell thee. 20 And Michal Saul's daughter loved 10 Heb. pre-I will commune with my father of thee; David: and they told Saul, and the thing cious. 7 pleased him. 21 And Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son-inlaw, in the one of the two. 22 ¶ And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king's son-inlaw. 23 And Saul's servants spoke those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king's son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed? 24 And the servants of Saul told him, saying, & On this manner spoke David. 25 And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dower, but a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. 2 Heb. his 26 And when his servants told David face. these words, it pleased David well to bel 4¶ And Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works have been toward thee very good: 5 For he put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice: Why then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause? 6 And Saul hearkened to the voice of Jonathan: and Saul swore, As the LORD liveth, he shall not be slain. 7 And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as 1 in times past. 8 And there was war again and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled from 2 him. 9 And the evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his javelin in his hand: and David played with his hand. Before 1063. 10 And Saul sought to smite David CHRIST, even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away from Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night. 11 Saul also sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, If thou dost not save thy life to-night, to-morrow thou wilt be slain. 12¶ So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped. 13 And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goat's hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth. 14 And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick. 15 And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him to me in the bed, that I may slay him. 16 And when the messengers had come in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goat's hair for his bolster. 17 And Saul said to Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away my enemy, that he has escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said to me, Let me go; why should I kill thee? 18 ¶ So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth. 19 And it was told to Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah. 20 And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as appointed over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied. 21 And when it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they prophesied likewise. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they prophesied also. 22 Then he went also to Ramah, and came to a great well that is in Sechu: and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? And one said, Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah. 3 Heb. fell. b c. 10. 11. 1 Heb. un. cover my ear. 2 or, Say what is thy will do, mind, and &c. 3 Heb. speaketh, or, thinketh. athan, What have I done? what is my iniquity? and what is my sin before thy father, that he seeketh my life? 2 And he said to him, Far be it from thee; thou shalt not die: behold, my father will do nothing, either great or small, but that he will 1 show it to me: and why should my father hide this thing from me? it is not so. 3 And David swore moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thy eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he should be grieved: But truly as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death. 4 Then said Jonathan to David, Whatever thy soul 3 desireth, I will even do it for thee. 5 And David said to Jonathan, Behold, to-morrow is the new-moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field to the third day at evening. 6 If thy father shall at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me, that he might run to Beth-lehem his city: for there is a yearly 4 sacrifice there for all the family. 7 If he shall say thus, It is well; thy servant will have peace: but if he shall be very wroth, then be sure that evil is determined by him. 8 Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the LORD with thee: notwithstanding, if there is in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldst thou bring me to thy father? 9 And Jonathan said, Far be it from thee: for if I knew certainly that evil is determined by my father to come upon thee, then would not I tell it thee? 10 Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what if thy father shall answer thee roughly? 11 ¶ And Jonathan said to David, Come, and let us go out into the field. And they went out both of them into the field. 12 And Jonathan said to David, O LORD God of Israel, when I have 5 sounded my father about to-morrow any time, or the third day, and behold, if there be good towards David, and I then send not to thee, and 6 show it thee; 13 The LORD do so and much more to Jonathan: but if it shall please my father to do thee evil, then I will show it to thee, and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace: and the LORD be with thee, as he hath been with my father. 14 And thou shalt, not only while yet I live, show me the kindness of the LORD, that I may not die : 15 But also thou shalt not withdraw thy kindness from my house for ever: no, not when the LORD hath cut off the enemies of David every one from the face of the earth. 16 So Jonathan 7 made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let the LORD |