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___Judges chapter 1
 1 Now after the death of Joshua, the children of Israel asked the Lord, "Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?"
 2 And the Lord said, "Judah shall go up, see, I have delivered the land into his hand."
 3 And Judah said to Simeon his brother, "Come up with me into my lot, so that we can fight against the Canaanites, and I also will go with you into your lot."  So Simeon went with him.
 4 And Judah went up, and the Lord delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand, and they killed of them in Bezek ten thousand men.
 5 And they found Adonibezek in Bezek, and they fought against him, and they killed the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
 6 But Adonibezek fled, and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
 7 And Adonibezek said, "Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their food under my table, as I have done, so God has repaid me."  And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.
 8 Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.
 9 And afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites, that lived in the mountain, and in the south, and in the valley.
 10 And Judah went against the Canaanites that lived in Hebron, (now the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba,) and they killed Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.
 11 And from there he went against the inhabitants of Debir, and the name of Debir before was Kirjathsepher,
 12 And Caleb said, "He that smites Kirjathsepher, and takes it, to him I will give Achsah my daughter as wife."
 13 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it, and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.
 14 And when she came to him, she moved him to ask from her father a field, and she lighted from off her animal, and Caleb said to her, "What do you want?"
 15 And she said to him, "Give me a blessing, for you've given me a south land, give me also springs of water."  And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.
 16 And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father in law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, that lies in the south of Arad, and they went and lived among the people.
 17 And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they killed the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and completely destroyed it.  And the name of the city was called Hormah.
 18 Also Judah took Gaza with the coast of it, and Askelon with the coast of it, and Ekron with the coast of it.
 19 And the Lord was with Judah, and he drove out the inhabitants of the mountain, but couldn't drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.
 20 And they gave Hebron to Caleb, like Moses said, and he expelled from there the three sons of Anak.
 21 And the children of Benjamin didn't drive out the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem, but the Jebusites live with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem until this day.
 22 And the house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and the Lord was with them.
 23 And the house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel.  (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)
 24 And the spies saw a man come out of the city, and they said to him, "Show us, please, the entrance to the city, and we will show you mercy."
 25 And when he showed them the entrance into the city, they struck the city with the edge of the sword, but they let the man and all his family go.
 26 And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name of it Luz, which is the name of it until this day.
 27 Nor did Manasseh drive out the inhabitants of Bethshean and its towns, nor Taanach and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns, but the Canaanites would live in that land.
 28 And when Israel was strong, they put the Canaanites to tribute, and didn't completely drive them out.
 29 Nor did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that lived in Gezer, but the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.
 30 Nor did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol, but the Canaanites lived among them, and became tributaries.
 31 Nor did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob,
 32 But the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land, for they didn't drive them out.
 33 Nor did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Bethshemesh, nor the inhabitants of Bethanath, but he lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land, nevertheless the inhabitants of Bethshemesh and of Bethanath became tributaries to them.
 34 And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain, for they wouldn't allow them to come down to the valley,
 35 But the Amorites would live in mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim, yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became tributaries.
 36 And the coast of the Amorites was from the going up to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.

___Judges chapter 2
 1 And an angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, "I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land that I promised to your fathers, and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.
 2 And you shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land, you shall throw down their altars, but you haven't obeyed my voice, why have you done this?
 3 So I also said, I won't drive them out from before you, but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you."
 4 And when the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the children of Israel, the people lifted up their voice, and cried.
 5 And they called the name of that place Bochim, and they sacrificed there to the Lord.
 6 And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man to his inheritance to possess the land.
 7 And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the Lord, that he did for Israel.
 8 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died at age one hundred ten.
 9 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathheres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.
 10 And also all of that generation were gathered to their fathers, and there arose another generation after them, that didn't know the Lord, nor yet the works that he had done for Israel.
 11 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served Baalim,
 12 And they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, that brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were around them, and bowed themselves to them, and provoked the Lord to anger.
 13 And they forsook the Lord, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
 14 And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.
 15 Wherever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had said, and as the Lord had sworn to them, and they were greatly distressed.
 16 But the Lord raised up judges, who delivered them out of the hand of those who spoiled them.
 17 And yet they wouldn't listen to their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves to them, they turned quickly out of the way that their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the Lord, but they didn't do it.
 18 And when the Lord raised them up judges, then the Lord was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge, for it repented the Lord because of their groanings because of those who oppressed them and vexed them.
 19 And when the judge was dead, they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them, they didn't stop from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.
 20 And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he said, "Because these people have transgressed my covenant that I commanded their fathers, and haven't listened to my voice,
 21 I also, from now on, won't drive out any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died,
 22 So that through them I can prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the Lord to walk in it, as their fathers kept it, or not."
 23 Therefore the Lord left those nations, without driving them out hastily, nor did he deliver them into the hand of Joshua.

___Judges chapter 3
 1 Now these are the nations that the Lord left, to prove Israel by them, as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan,
 2 Only so that the generations of the children of Israel would know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing of it,
 3 Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that lived in mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon to the entrance of Hamath.
 4 And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to the commandments of the Lord, that he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
 5 And the children of Israel lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites,
 6 And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
 7 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and forgot the Lord their God, and served Baalim and the groves.
 8 Therefore the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim, king of Mesopotamia, and the children of Israel served Chushanrishathaim eight years.
 9 And when the children of Israel cried to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
 10 And the Spirit of the Lord came on him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war, and the Lord delivered Chushanrishathaim, king of Mesopotamia, into his hand, and his hand prevailed against Chushanrishathaim.
 11 And the land had rest forty years.  And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
 12 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the Lord.
 13 And he gathered to him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and struck Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees.
 14 So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
 15 But when the children of Israel cried to the Lord, the Lord raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man left-handed, and by him the children of Israel sent a present to Eglon the king of Moab.
 16 But Ehud made him a dagger that had two edges, eighteen inches long, and he girded it under his clothes on his right thigh.
 17 And he brought the present to Eglon king of Moab, and Eglon was a very fat man.
 18 And when he had made an end of offering the present, he sent away the people that carried the present.
 19 But he himself turned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, "I have a secret errand to you, O king," who said, "Keep silence."  And all that stood by him went out from him.
 20 And Ehud came to him, and he was sitting in a summer parlor, that he had for himself alone.  And Ehud said, "I have a message from God to you."  And he got up out of his seat.
 21 And Ehud put out his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly,
 22 And the haft also went in after the blade, and the fat closed on the blade, so that he couldn't pull the dagger out of his belly, and the dirt came out.
 23 Then Ehud went out through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlor on him, and locked them.
 24 When he had gone out, his servants came, and when they saw that, see, the doors of the parlor were locked, they said, "Surely he covers his feet in his summer room."
 25 And they tarried until they were ashamed, and, see, he didn't open the doors of the parlor, therefore they took a key, and opened them, and, see, their lord had fallen down dead on the ground.
 26 And Ehud escaped while they waited, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped to Seirath.
 27 And when he had come, he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mountain, and he before them.
 28 And he said to them, "Follow me, for the Lord has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand."  And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and wouldn't allow anyone to pass over.
 29 And they killed of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valor, and not a man escaped.
 30 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel.  And the land had rest eighty years.
 31 And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad, and he also delivered Israel.

___Judges chapter 4
 1 And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord, when Ehud was dead.
 2 And the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that ruled in Hazor, the captain of whose host was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
 3 And the children of Israel cried to the Lord, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron, and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
 4 And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, judged Israel at that time.
 5 And she lived under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim, and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
 6 And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, and said to him, "Hasn't the Lord God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?
 7 And I will draw to you to the river Kishon, Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude, and I will deliver him into your hand."
 8 And Barak said to her, "If you'll go with me, then I'll go, but if you won't go with me, then I won't go."
 9 And she said, "I will surely go with you, but the journey that you take won't be for your honor, for the Lord shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.  And Deborah got up, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
 10 And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh, and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet, and Deborah went up with him.
 11 Now Heber the Kenite, who was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had separated himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent at the plain of Zaanaim, that is by Kedesh.
 12 And they showed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam had gone up to mount Tabor.
 13 And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles to the river of Kishon.
 14 And Deborah said to Barak, "Get up, for this is the day that the Lord has delivered Sisera into your hand, hasn't the Lord gone out before you?"  So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
 15 And the Lord discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak, so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on foot.
 16 But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, to Harosheth of the Gentiles, and all the host of Sisera fell on the edge of the sword, and there was not a man left.
 17 But Sisera fled away on foot to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite, for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
 18 And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, "Turn in, my lord, turn in to me, don't be afraid."  And when he had turned in to her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle.
 19 And he said to her, "Give me, please, a little water to drink, for I am thirsty."  And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.
 20 Again he said to her, "Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man comes and asks you, "Is there any man here?"  That you shall say, "No."
 21 Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground, for he was fast asleep and weary.  So he died.
 22 And, see, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said to him, "Come, and I will show you the man you're looking for."  And when he came into her tent, see, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.
 23 So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.
 24 And the hand of the children of Israel prospered, and prevailed against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.

___Judges chapter 5
 1 Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying,
 2 "Praise the Lord for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.
 3 Hear, O you kings, give ear, O ye princes, I, even I, will sing to the Lord, I will sing praise to the Lord God of Israel.
 4 Lord, when you went out of Seir, when you marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
 5 The mountains melted from before the Lord, even that Sinai from before the Lord God of Israel.
 6 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
 7 The inhabitants of the villages stopped, they ceased in Israel, until I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
 8 They chose new gods, then there was war in the gates, was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
 9 My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people.  Bless the Lord.
 10 Speak, you that ride on white asses, you that sit in judgment, and walk on the road.
 11 Those who are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there they shall rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel, then shall the people of the Lord go down to the gates.
 12 Awake, awake, Deborah, awake, awake, sing a song, arise, Barak, and lead your captivity captive, you son of Abinoam.
 13 Then he made him that remained have dominion over the nobles among the people, the Lord made me have dominion over the mighty.
 14 Out of Ephraim there was a root of them against Amalek, after you, Benjamin, among your people, out of Machir governors came down, and out of Zebulun those who handle the pen of the writer.
 15 And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah, even Issachar, and also Barak, he was sent on foot into the valley.  For the divisions of Reuben, there were great thoughts of heart.
 16 Why did you live among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks?  For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
 17 Gilead lived beyond Jordan, and why did Dan remain in ships?  Asher continued on the sea shore, and lived in his breaches.
 18 Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that endangered their lives to the death in the high places of the field.
 19 The kings came and fought, then the kings of Canaan fought in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo, they took no gain of money.
 20 They fought from heaven, the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
 21 The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon.  O my soul, you've trodden down strength.
 22 Then were the horse hoofs broken by the means of the prancings, the prancings of their mighty ones.
 23 Curse Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse bitterly the inhabitants of it, because they didn't come to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
 24 Blessed above women shall be Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.
 25 He asked water, and she gave him milk, she brought out butter in a lordly dish.
 26 She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer, and with the hammer she struck Sisera, she struck off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
 27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down, at her feet he bowed, he fell, where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
 28 The mother of Sisera looked out of a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming?  Why do the wheels of his chariots take so long?
 29 Her wise ladies answered her, yes, she returned answer to herself,
 30 Haven't they sped?  Haven't they divided the prey, to every man a damsel or two, to Sisera a prey of divers colors, a prey of divers colors of needlework, of divers colors of needlework on both sides, appropriate for the necks of those who take the spoil?
 31 So let all your enemies perish, O Lord, but let those who love him be like the sun when it goes out in his might."  And the land had rest forty years.

___Judges chapter 6
 1 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.
 2 And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel, and because of the Midianites the children of Israel made themselves the dens that are in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds.
 3 And so it was, when Israel had planted, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, they came up against them,
 4 And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, 'til you come to Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.
 5 For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came like grasshoppers for multitude, for both they and their camels were without number, and they entered into the land to destroy it.
 6 And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites, and the children of Israel cried to the Lord.
 7 And when the children of Israel cried to the Lord because of the Midianites,
 8 The Lord sent a prophet to the children of Israel, who said to them, "Thus says the Lord God of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you out of the house of bondage,
 9 And I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that oppressed you, and drove them out from before you, and gave you their land,
 10 And I said to you, I am the Lord your God, don't be afraid of the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you live, but you haven't obeyed my voice."
 11 And an angel of the Lord came, and sat under an oak that was in Ophrah, that pertained to Joash the Abiezrite, and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
 12 And the angel of the Lord appeared to him, and said to him, "The Lord is with you, you mighty man of valor."
 13 And Gideon said to him, "Oh my Lord, if the Lord is with us, why then has all of this happened to us?  And where are all his miracles that our fathers told us about, saying, Didn't the Lord bring us up from Egypt?  But now the Lord has forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites."
 14 And the Lord looked at him, and said, "Go in this your might, and you'll save Israel from the hand of the Midianites, haven't I sent you?"
 15 And he said to him, "Oh my Lord, how shall I save Israel?  See, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house."
 16 And the Lord said to him, "Surely I will be with you, and you shall smite the Midianites like one man."
 17 And he said to him, "If now I have found grace in your sight, then show me a sign that you're talking with me.
 18 Don't go from here, please, until I come to you, and bring out my present, and set it before you."  And he said, "I'll wait 'til you return."
 19 And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour, the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it.
 20 And the angel of God said to him, "Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth."  And he did so.
 21 Then the angel of the Lord put out the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and fire rose up out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes.  Then the angel of the Lord departed out of his sight.
 22 And when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of the Lord, Gideon said, "Alas, O Lord God!  Because I have seen an angel of the Lord face to face."
 23 And the Lord said to him, "Peace be to you, don't be afraid, you won't die."
 24 Then Gideon built an altar there to the Lord, and called it Jehovahshalom, to this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
 25 And the same night, the Lord said to him, "Take your father's young bullock, the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the grove that is by it,
 26 And build an altar to the Lord your God on top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove that you'll cut down."
 27 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the Lord had said to him, and so it was, because he feared his father's household, and the men of the city, that he couldn't do it during the day, so he did it at night.
 28 And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, see, the altar of Baal had been thrown down, and the grove that was by it had been cut down, and the second bullock had been offered on the altar that had been built.
 29 And they said to each other, "Who has done this?"  And when they inquired and asked, they said, "Gideon the son of Joash has done this."
 30 Then the men of the city said to Joash, "Bring out your son to die, because he has thrown down the altar of Baal, and because he has cut down the grove that was by it."
 31 And Joash said to all that stood against him, "Will you plead for Baal?  Will you save him?  He that will plead for him, let him be put to death while it is yet morning, if he's a god, let him plead for himself, because someone has thrown down his altar."
 32 Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, "Let Baal plead against him, because he has thrown down his altar."
 33 Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east gathered together, and went over, and pitched in the valley of Jezreel.
 34 But the Spirit of the Lord came on Gideon, and he blew a trumpet, and Abiezer was gathered after him.
 35 And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh, who also was gathered after him, and he sent messengers to Asher, and to Zebulun, and to Naphtali, and they came up to meet them.
 36 And Gideon said to God, "If you'll save Israel by my hand, like you've said,
 37 See, I'll put a fleece of wool on the ground, and if the dew is on the fleece only, and it's dry on all the earth beside, then I'll know that you'll save Israel by my hand, as you've said."
 38 And it was so, for he rose up early on the next day, and pushed the fleece together, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.
 39 And Gideon said to God, "Don't let your anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once, let me prove, please, but this once with the fleece, let it now be dry only on the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew."
 40 And God did so that night, for it was dry on the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

___Judges chapter 7
 1 Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod, so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
 2 And the Lord said to Gideon, "The people that are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, so Israel doesn't vaunt themselves against me, saying, my own hand has saved me.
 3 Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, whoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead.  And twenty two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.
 4 And the Lord said to Gideon, "The people are still too many, bring them down to the water, and I will test them for you there, and it shall be, that about whom I say to you, this one shall go with you, the same shall go with you, and about whomever I say to you, this one shall not go with you, the same shall not go."
 5 So he brought down the people to the water, and the Lord said to Gideon, "Everyone that laps from of the water with his tongue, like a dog laps, him shall you set by himself, also everyone that bows down on his knees to drink."
 6 And the number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men, but all the rest of the people bowed down on their knees to drink water.
 7 And the Lord said to Gideon, "By the three hundred men that lapped I will save you, and deliver the Midianites into your hand, and let all the other people go every man to his place."
 8 So the people took food in their hand, and their trumpets, and he sent all the rest of Israel every man to his tent, and retained those three hundred men, and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
 9 And the same night, the Lord said to him, "Arise, get down to the host, for I have delivered it into your hand.
 10 But if you're afraid to go down, go with Phurah your servant down to the host,
 11 And you shall hear what they say, and afterward shall your hands be strengthened to go down to the host.  Then he went down with Phurah his servant to the outside of the armed men that were in the host.
 12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude, and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.
 13 And when Gideon had come, see, there was a man that told a dream to his fellow, and said, "See, I dreamed a dream, and, see, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came to a tent, and smote it so that it fell, and overturned it, so that the tent lay along."
 14 And his fellow answered and said, "This is nothing else but the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel, for God has delivered Midian into his hand, and all the host."
 15 And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation of it, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, "Get up, for the Lord has delivered the host of Midian into your hand."
 16 And he divided the three hundred men into three groups, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps inside the pitchers.
 17 And he said to them, "Look at me, and do likewise, and, see, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that, like I do, so you shall do."
 18 When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then you blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, "The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon."
 19 So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came to the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, and they had just newly set the watch, and they blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers that were in their hands.
 20 And the three companies blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow with, and they shouted, "The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon."
 21 And they stood every man in his place around the camp, and all the army ran, and shouted, and fled.
 22 And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the Lord set every man's sword against his fellow, throughout all the host, and the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abelmeholah, to Tabbath.
 23 And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after the Midianites.
 24 And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, "Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters to Bethbarah and Jordan."  Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and took the waters to Bethbarah and Jordan.
 25 And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb, and they killed Oreb on the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they killed at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side of Jordan.

___Judges chapter 8
 1 And the men of Ephraim said to him, "Why have you treated us this way, that you didn't call us, when you went to fight with the Midianites?"  And they chided with him sharply.
 2 And he said to them, "What have I done now in comparison to you?  Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?
 3 God has delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb, and what was I able to do compared to you?"  Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.
 4 And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them.
 5 And he said to the men of Succoth, "Please give loaves of bread to the people that follow me, for they're faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian."
 6 And the princes of Succoth said, "Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, so that we should give bread to your army?"
 7 And Gideon said, "Therefore when the Lord has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers."
 8 And he went up from there to Penuel, and spoke to them likewise, and the men of Penuel answered him like the men of Succoth had answered him.
 9 And he spoke also to the men of Penuel, saying, "When I come back in peace, I will break down this tower."
 10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east, for there fell one hundred twenty thousand men that drew sword.
 11 And Gideon went up by the way of those who lived in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and struck the host, for the host was secure.
 12 And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited all the host.
 13 And Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle before the sun was up,
 14 And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him, and he described to him the princes of Succoth, and the elders of it, seventy seven men.
 15 And he came to the men of Succoth, and said, "Look at Zebah and Zalmunna, with whom you scolded me, saying, are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, so that we should give bread to your men that are weary?"
 16 And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.
 17 And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and killed the men of the city.
 18 Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, "What kind of men were they whom you killed at Tabor?"  And they answered, "Like you are, so were they, each one resembled the children of a king."
 19 And he said, "They were my brothers, the sons of my mother, as the Lord lives, if you had saved them alive, I wouldn't kill you."
 20 And he said to Jether his firstborn, "Get up, and kill them."  But the youth didn't draw his sword, for he was afraid, because he was still a youth.
 21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, "You rise, and fall on us, for as the man is, so is his strength."  And Gideon arose, and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments that were on their camels' necks.
 22 Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, "You rule over us, both you, and your son, and your son's son also, for you've delivered us from the hand of Midian.
 23 And Gideon said to them, "I won't rule over you, nor shall my son rule over you, the Lord shall rule over you."
 24 And Gideon said to them, "I would desire a request of you, that you would give me every man the earrings of his prey."  (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)
 25 And they answered, "We will willingly give them."  And they spread a garment, and every man threw in it the earrings of his prey.
 26 And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was one thousand seven hundred shekels of gold, beside ornaments, and collars, and purple clothing that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were around their camels' necks.
 27 And Gideon made an ephod of it, and put it in his city, in Ophrah, and all Israel went there a whoring after it, which thing became a trap to Gideon, and to his house.
 28 Thus Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more.  And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.
 29 And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his own house.
 30 And Gideon had seventy sons begotten from his body, for he had many wives.
 31 And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bore him a son, whose name he called Abimelech.
 32 And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
 33 And as soon as Gideon was dead, the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baalberith their god.
 34 And the children of Israel didn't remember the Lord their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side,
 35 Nor did they show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, namely, Gideon, according to all the goodness that he had shown to Israel.

___Judges chapter 9
 1 And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother's brothers, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,
 2 "Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem, which is better for you, that all the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy persons, rule over you, or that one rules over you?  Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh."
 3 And his mother's brothers spoke about him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words, and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, "He is our brother."
 4 And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baalberith, with which Abimelech hired vain and light persons, who followed him.
 5 And he went to his father's house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone, nevertheless Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself.
 6 And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that was in Shechem.
 7 And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and shouted, and said to them, "Listen to me, you men of Shechem, so that God will listen to you.
 8 The trees went out one time to anoint a king over them, and they said to the olive tree, rule over us.
 9 But the olive tree said to them, shall leave my fatness, with which by me they honor God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?
 10 And the trees said to the fig tree, come and rule over us.
 11 But the fig tree said to them, shall I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?
 12 Then the trees said to the vine, come and rule over us.
 13 And the vine said to them, should I leave my wine, that cheers God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?
 14 Then all the trees said to the bramble, come and rule over us.
 15 And the bramble said to the trees, if in truth you anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow, and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
 16 Now therefore, if you've truly and sincerely, in that you have made Abimelech king, and if you've dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done to him according to the deserving of his hands,
 17 (For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian,
 18 And you have risen up against my father's house this day, and have killed his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother,)
 19 If you then have dealt truly and sincerely with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you,
 20 But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo, and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech."
 21 And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and lived there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.
 22 When Abimelech had ruled three years over Israel,
 23 Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem, and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech,
 24 So that the cruelty done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal would come, and their blood be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who aided him in the killing of his brothers.
 25 And the men of Shechem set liers in wait for him in the top of the mountains, and they robbed all that came along that way by them, and it was told Abimelech.
 26 And Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brothers, and went over to Shechem, and the men of Shechem put their confidence in him.
 27 And they went out into the fields, and gathered their vineyards, and trode the grapes, and made merry, and went into the house of their god, and ate and drank, and cursed Abimelech.
 28 And Gaal the son of Ebed said, "Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him?  Isn't he the son of Jerubbaal?  And Zebul his officer?  Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem, for why should we serve him?
 29 And would to God this people were under my hand!  Then I would remove Abimelech."  And he said to Abimelech, "Increase your army, and come out."
 30 And when Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled.
 31 And he sent messengers to Abimelech privately, saying, "See, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brothers have come to Shechem, and, see, they fortify the city against you.
 32 Now therefore get up at night, you and the people that are with you, and lie in wait in the field,
 33 And it shall be, that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, you shall rise early, and set on the city, and, see, when he and the people that are with him come out against you, then you can do to them as you shall find occasion."
 34 And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.
 35 And Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city, and Abimelech rose up, and the people that were with him, from lying in wait.
 36 And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, "See, people come down from the top of the mountains."  And Zebul said to him, "You see the shadow of the mountains as if they were men."
 37 And Gaal spoke again and said, "See there come people down by the middle of the land, and another company comes along by the plain of Meonenim."
 38 Then Zebul said to him, "Where is now your mouth, with which you said, who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?  Isn't this the people that you've despised?  Go out, please, and fight with them."
 39 And Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech.
 40 And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many were overthrown and wounded, up to the entering of the gate.
 41 And Abimelech lived at Arumah, and Zebul thrust out Gaal and his brothers, so that they couldn't live in Shechem.
 42 And it occurred on the next day, that the people went out into the field, and they told Abimelech.
 43 And he took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field, and looked, and, see, the people had come out of the city, and he rose up against them, and struck them.
 44 And Abimelech, and the company that was with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city, and the two other companies ran to the people that were in the fields, and killed them.
 45 And Abimelech fought against the city all that day, and he took the city, and killed the people that were in it, and beat down the city, and sprinkled it with salt.
 46 And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard that, they entered into a hold of the house of the god Berith.
 47 And Abimelech was told, that all the men of the tower of Shechem had gathered together.
 48 And Abimelech got himself up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him, and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid it on his shoulder, and said to the people that were with him, "What you've seen me do, make haste, and do as I've done."
 49 And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire on them, so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.
 50 Then Abimelech went to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.
 51 But there was a strong tower in the city, and all the men and women fled there, and all the citizens, and shut it on themselves, and got up to the top of the tower.
 52 And Abimelech came to the tower, and fought against it, and went hard to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
 53 And a certain woman threw a piece of a millstone on Abimelech's head, and broke his skull.
 54 Then he called hastily to the young man his armor carrier, and said to him, "Draw your sword, and kill me, so that men don't say about me, a woman killed him.  And his young man thrust him through, and he died.
 55 And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man to his place.
 56 Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, that he did to his father, in killing his seventy brothers,
 57 And God rendered on their heads all the evil of the men of Shechem, and the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal came on them.

___Judges chapter 10
 1 And after Abimelech, Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar arose to defend Israel, and he lived in Shamir in mount Ephraim.
 2 And he judged Israel twenty three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
 3 And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty two years.
 4 And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, that are called Havothjair until this day, that are in the land of Gilead.
 5 And Jair died, and was buried in Camon.
 6 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the Lord, and didn't serve him.
 7 And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon.
 8 And that year, they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel, eighteen years all the children of Israel that were on the other side of Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
 9 Also the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was very distressed.
 10 And the children of Israel cried to the Lord, saying, "We have sinned against you, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim."
 11 And the Lord said to the children of Israel, "Didn't I deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?
 12 The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, oppressed you, and you cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.
 13 Yet you've forsaken me, and served other gods, so I will deliver you no more.
 14 Go and shout to the gods that you've chosen, let them deliver you in the time of your trouble."
 15 And the children of Israel said to the Lord, "We have sinned, do to us whatever seems good to you, deliver us only, please, this day."
 16 And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the Lord, and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
 17 Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead.  And the children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpeh.
 18 And the people and princes of Gilead said to each other, "What man is he that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon?  He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead."

___Judges chapter 11
 1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, and he was the son of a harlot, and Gilead begat Jephthah.
 2 And Gilead's wife bore him sons, and his wife's sons grew up, and they threw out Jephthah, and said to him, "You shall not inherit in our father's house, for you are the son of a strange woman."
 3 Then Jephthah fled from his brothers, and lived in the land of Tob, and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with him.
 4 And in process of time, the children of Ammon made war against Israel.
 5 And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to bring Jephthah out of the land of Tob,
 6 And they said to Jephthah, "Come, and be our captain, so that we can fight with the children of Ammon."
 7 And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "Didn't you hate me, and expel me out of my father's house?  And why have you come to me now when you are in distress?"
 8 And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "Therefore we turn again to you now, so that you'll go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead."
 9 And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "If you bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the Lord delivers them before me, shall I be your head?"
 10 And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "The Lord be witness between us, if we don't so according to your words."
 11 Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain over them, and Jephthah spoke all his words before the Lord in Mizpeh.
 12 And Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, "What do you have to do with me, that you've come against me to fight in my land?"
 13 And the king of the children of Ammon answered to the messengers of Jephthah, "Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon to Jabbok, and to Jordan, now therefore restore those lands again peaceably."
 14 And Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of Ammon,
 15 And said to him, "Thus says Jephthah, Israel didn't take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon,
 16 But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness to the Red sea, and came to Kadesh,
 17 Then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, and said, please let me pass through your land, but the king of Edom would not listen to it.  And similarly, they sent to the king of Moab, but he wouldn't give permission, and Israel lived in Kadesh.
 18 Then they went along through the wilderness, and circled the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, but didn't come within the border of Moab, for Arnon was the border of Moab.
 19 And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon, and Israel said to him, please let us pass through your land into my place."
 20 But Sihon didn't trust Israel to pass through his coast, but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
 21 And the Lord God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they struck them, so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
 22 And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon to Jabbok, and from the wilderness to Jordan.
 23 So now the Lord God of Israel has dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and should you possess it?
 24 Will you not possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to possess?  So whomever the Lord our God shall drive out from before us, that's what we'll possess.
 25 And now are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab?  Did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them,
 26 While Israel lived in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that be along by the coasts of Arnon, three hundred years?  Why therefore didn't you recover them within that time?
 27 So, I have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong to war against me, the Lord the Judge be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon."
 28 But  the king of the children of Ammon didn't listen to the words of Jephthah that he sent him.
 29 Then the Spirit of the Lord came on Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over to the children of Ammon.
 30 And Jephthah vowed a vow to the Lord, and said, "If you shall without fail deliver the children of Ammon into my hands,
 31 Then it shall be, that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the Lord's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering."
 32 So Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon to fight against them, and the Lord delivered them into his hands.
 33 And he struck them from Aroer, 'til you come to Minnith, twenty cities, and to the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter.  Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.
 34 And Jephthah came to Mizpeh to his house, and, see, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances, and she was his only child, beside her he had neither son nor daughter.
 35 And when he saw her, he tore his clothes, and said, "Alas, my daughter!  You've brought me very low, and you are one of those who trouble me, for I have opened my mouth to the Lord, and I can't go back."
 36 And she said to him, "My father, if you've opened your mouth to the Lord, do to me according to what you've said, since the Lord has taken vengeance for you of your enemies, against the children of Ammon."
 37 And she said to her father, "Let this thing be done for me, let me alone two months, so I can go up and down on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my friends."
 38 And he said, "Go."  And he sent her away for two months, and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity on the mountains.
 39 And at the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow that he had vowed, and she knew no man.  And it was a custom in Israel,
 40 That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

___Judges chapter 12
 1 And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said to Jephthah, "Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didn't call us to go with you?  We will burn your house on you with fire."
 2 And Jephthah said to them, "I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon, and when I called you, you didn't deliver me out of their hands.
 3 And when I saw that you didn't deliver me, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the Lord delivered them into my hand, why then have you come up to me this day, to fight against me?"
 4 Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim, and the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, "You Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites."
 5 And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites, and it was so, that when those Ephraimites who had escaped said, "Let me go over, that the men of Gilead said to him, Are you an Ephraimite?"  If he said, "No,"
 6 Then said they to him, "Say now Shibboleth, and he said Sibboleth," for he couldn't frame to pronounce it right.  Then they took him, and killed him at the passages of Jordan, and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty two thousand.
 7 And Jephthah judged Israel six years.  Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.
 8 And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
 9 And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent out, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons.  And he judged Israel seven years.
 10 Then Ibzan died, and was buried at Bethlehem.
 11 And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel, and he judged Israel ten years.
 12 And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the country of Zebulun.
 13 And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel.
 14 And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on seventy ass colts, and he judged Israel eight years.
 15 And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mountain of the Amalekites.

___Judges chapter 13
 1 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
 2 And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah, and his wife was barren, and didn't bare.
 3 And the angel of the Lord appeared to the woman, and said to her, "See now, you're barren, and don't bear, but you'll conceive, and bear a son.
 4 Now therefore beware, please, and don't drink wine nor strong drink, and don't eat any unclean thing,
 5 For, see, you'll conceive, and bear a son, and no razor shall come on his head, for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb, and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines."
 6 Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, "A man of God came to me, and his facial expression was like the facial expression of an angel of God, very terrible, but I didn't ask him where he was from, nor did he tell me his name,
 7 But he said to me, see, you'll conceive, and bear a son, and now drink no wine nor strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing, for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death."
 8 Then Manoah intreated the Lord, and said, "O my Lord, let the man of God that you sent come again to us, and teach us what we shall do to the child that shall be born."
 9 And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field, but Manoah her husband was not with her.
 10 And the woman made haste, and ran, and showed her husband, and said to him, "See, the man has appeared to me, that came to me the other day."
 11 And Manoah got up, and followed his wife, and came to the man, and said to him, "Are you the man that spoke to the woman?"  And he said, "I am."
 12 And Manoah said, "Now let your words happen.  How shall we order the child, and how shall we do to him?"
 13 And the angel of the Lord said to Manoah, "Of all that I said to the woman let her beware.
 14 She may not eat of anything that comes of the vine, nor let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing, all that I commanded her let her observe."
 15 And Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, "Please let us detain you, until we prepare a kid for you."
 16 And the angel of the Lord said to Manoah, "Though you detain me, I won't eat of your bread, and if you want to offer a burnt offering, you must offer it to the Lord."  For Manoah didn't know that he was an angel of the Lord.
 17 And Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, "What is your name, so that when your sayings occur we can honor you?"
 18 And the angel of the Lord said to him, "Why do you ask my name, since it is secret?"
 19 So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it on a rock to the Lord, and the angel did wondrously, and Manoah and his wife looked on.
 20 For when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar.  And Manoah and his wife looked at it, and fell on their faces to the ground.
 21 But the angel of the Lord didn't appear anymore to Manoah and to his wife.  Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the Lord.
 22 And Manoah said to his wife, "We shall surely die, because we have seen God."
 23 But his wife said to him, "If the Lord were pleased to kill us, he wouldn't have received a burnt offering and a meat offering from our hands, nor would he have showed us all these things, nor would, as at this time, have told us such things as these."
 24 And the woman bore a son, and called his name Samson, and the child grew, and the Lord blessed him.
 25 And the Spirit of the Lord began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.

___Judges chapter 14
 1 And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines.
 2 And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, "I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines, now therefore get her for me as wife."
 3 Then his father and his mother said to him, "Is there not a woman among the daughters of your brothers, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?"  And Samson said to his father, "Get her for me, for she pleases me well."
 4 But his father and his mother didn't know that it was of the Lord, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines, for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.
 5 Then Samson went down to Timnath, and his father and his mother, and came to the vineyards of Timnath, and, see, a young lion roared against him.
 6 And the Spirit of the Lord came mightily on him, and he tore him like he would have torn a young goat, and he had nothing in his hand, but he didn't tell his father or his mother what he had done.
 7 And he went down, and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.
 8 And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and, see, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcass of the lion.
 9 And he took some of it in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they ate, but he didn't tell them that he had taken the honey out of the carcass of the lion.
 10 So his father went down to the woman, and Samson made a feast there, since that's what the young men used to do.
 11 And when they saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.
 12 And Samson said to them, "I will now tell a riddle to you, if you can tell me the right answer within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty change of garments,
 13 But if you can't explain it to me, then you shall give me thirty sheets and thirty change of garments."  And they said to him, "Tell us your riddle, so we can hear it."
 14 And he said to them, "Out of the eater came forth food, and out of the strong came sweetness."  And they could not in three days explain the riddle.
 15 And on the seventh day, they said to Samson's wife, "Entice your husband, so he will explain to us the riddle, so we don't burn don't and your father's house with fire, have you called us to take what we have?  Is it not so?"
 16 And Samson's wife cried before him, and said, "You hate me, and don't love me, you've put forth a riddle to the children of my people, and haven't told it to me."  And he said to her, "See, I haven't told it to my father nor my mother, and shall I tell it to you?"
 17 And she cried before him the seven days, while their feast lasted, and on the seventh day, he told her, because she lay severely on him, and she told the riddle to the children of her people.
 18 And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, "What is sweeter than honey?  And what is stronger than a lion?"  And he said to them, "If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have found out my riddle."
 19 And the Spirit of the Lord came on him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and killed thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments to them who explained the riddle.  And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house.
 20 But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.

___Judges chapter 15
 1 But a while afterward, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a kid, and he said, "I will go in to my wife into the bedroom."  But her father wouldn't allow him to go in.
 2 And her father said, "I truly thought that you completely hated her, therefore I gave her to your companion, is not her younger sister fairer than she?  Please take her, instead of the other."
 3 And Samson said concerning them, "Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure."
 4 And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the middle between two tails.
 5 And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.
 6 Then the Philistines said, "Who has done this?"  And they answered, "Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion."  And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
 7 And Samson said to them, "Though you've done this, yet I will be avenged against you, and after that I will cease."
 8 And he struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter, and he went down and lived in the top of the rock Etam.
 9 Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
 10 And the men of Judah said, "Why have you come up against us?"  And they answered, "We've come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us."
 11 Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, "Don't you know that the Philistines are rulers over us?  What is this that you've done to us?"  And he said to them, "As they did to me, so I have done to them."
 12 And they said to him, "We've come down to bind you, so we can deliver you into the hand of the Philistines."  And Samson said to them, "Swear to me, that you won't fall on me yourselves."
 13 And they said to him, saying, "No, but we will bind you tightly, and deliver you into their hand, but surely we will not kill you."  And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.
 14 And when he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him, and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily on him, and the cords that were on his arms became like flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.
 15 And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put out his hand, and took it, and killed a thousand men with it.
 16 And Samson said, "With the jawbone of an ass, heaps on heaps, with the jaw of an ass I've killed a thousand men."
 17 And when he had stopped speaking, he threw away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramathlehi.
 18 And he was very thirsty, and called on the Lord, and said, "You've given this great deliverance into the hand of your servant, and now shall I die from thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?"
 19 But God split a hollow place that was in the jaw, and water came water from there, and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived, so he called the name of it Enhakkore, which is in Lehi until this day.
 20 And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

___Judges chapter 16
 1 Then Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and had sex with her.
 2 And it was told the Gazites, saying, "Samson has come here."  And they surrounded him, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, "In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him."
 3 And Samson lay 'til midnight, and got up at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron.
 4 And afterward, he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
 5 And the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, "Entice him, and find out the source of his great strength, and how we can prevail against him, so we can bind him to afflict him, and we will give you every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver."
 6 And Delilah said to Samson, "Tell me, please, what the source of your great strength is, and how you can be bound to afflict you."
 7 And Samson said to her, "If they bind me with seven green withs that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be like another man."
 8 Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withs that hadn't been dried, and she bound him with them.
 9 Now there were men lying in wait, staying with her in the room.  And she said to him, "The Philistines are on you, Samson."  And he broke the withs, like a thread of tow is broken when it touches the fire.  So his strength was not known.
 10 And Delilah said to Samson, "See, you have mocked me, and told me lies, now tell me, please, how you can be bound."
 11 And he said to her, "If they bind me tightly with new ropes that never were occupied, then I shall be weak, and be like another man."
 12 Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him with them, and said to him, "The Philistines are on you, Samson."  And there were liers in wait staying in the room.  And he broke them from off his arms like a thread.
 13 And Delilah said to Samson, "Until now you've mocked me, and told me lies, tell me how you can be bound."  And he said to her, "If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web."
 14 And she fastened it with the pin, and said to him, "The Philistines are on you, Samson."  And he awoke out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.
 15 And she said to him, "How can you say, I love you, when your heart is not with me?  You've mocked me these three times, and haven't told me the source of your great strength."
 16 And when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed to death,
 17 He told her all his heart, and said to her, "There hasn't come a razor on my head, for I have been a Nazarite to God from my mother's womb, if I'm shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man."
 18 And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, "Come up this once, for he's shown me all his heart."  Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and brought money in their hand.
 19 And she made him sleep on her knees, and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head, and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
 20 And she said, "The Philistines are on you, Samson."  And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, "I will go out like at other times before, and shake myself."  And he didn't know that the Lord had departed from him.
 21 But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with shackles of brass, and he ground in the prison house.
 22 But the hair of his head began to grow again after he had been shaved.
 23 Then the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice, for they said, "Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand."
 24 And when the people saw him, they praised their god, for they said, "Our god has delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, who killed many of us."
 25 And when their hearts were merry, they said, "Call for Samson, so he can make sport for us."  And they called for Samson out of the prison house, and he made them sport, and they set him between the pillars.
 26 And Samson said to the lad that held him by the hand, "Allow me to feel the pillars that support the house, so I can lean on them."
 27 Now the house was full of men and women, and all the lords of the Philistines were there, and there were on the roof about three thousand men and women, that watched while Samson made sport.
 28 And Samson called to the Lord, and said, "O Lord God, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, O God, so I can be at once avenged against the Philistines for my two eyes."
 29 And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars on which the house stood, and on which it was supported, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left.
 30 And Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines."  And he bowed himself with all his might, and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people that were in it.  So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those that he killed in his life.
 31 Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burying place of Manoah his father.  And he judged Israel twenty years.

___Judges chapter 17
 1 And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
 2 And he said to his mother, "The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from you, about which you cursed, and spoke of also in my ears, see, the silver is with me, I took it."  And his mother said, "The Lord bless you, my son."
 3 And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver to the Lord from my hand for my son, to make an engraved image and an image cast in foundry, now therefore I will restore it to you."
 4 Yet he restored the money to his mother, and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made from it an engraved image and an image cast in foundry, and they were in the house of Micah.
 5 And the man Micah had a house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
 6 In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
 7 And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he visited there.
 8 And the man departed out of the city from Bethlehemjudah to stay where he could find a place, and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.
 9 And Micah said to him, "Where do you come from?"  And he said to him, "I'm a Levite of Bethlehemjudah, and I go to stay where I can find a place."
 10 And Micah said to him, "Live with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten shekels of silver yearly, and a suit of clothes, and your food."  So the Levite went in.
 11 And the Levite was content to live with the man, and the young man was to him like one of his sons.
 12 And Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.
 13 Then Micah said, "Now know I that the Lord will do me good, seeing I have a Levite as my priest."

___Judges chapter 18
 1 In those days there was no king in Israel, and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought an inheritance to live in, for until that day all their inheritance had not fallen to them among the tribes of Israel.
 2 And the children of Dan sent five men of their family from their coasts, men of valor, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it, and they said to them, "Go, search the land, who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there."
 3 When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite, and they turned in there, and said to him, "Who brought you here?  And what do you make in this place?  And what do you have here?"
 4 And he said to them, "Micah deals thus and thus with me, and has hired me, and I am his priest."
 5 And they said to him, "Ask counsel, please, of God, so we will know whether our way that we go shall be prosperous."
 6 And the priest said to them, "Go in peace, before the Lord is your way that you go."
 7 Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were in it, how they lived careless, like the Zidonians, quiet and secure, and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in anything, and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man.
 8 And they came to their brothers to Zorah and Eshtaol, and their brothers said to them, "What do you say?"
 9 And they said, "Get up, so we can go up against them, for we have seen the land, and, see, it is very good, and are you still?  Don't be slothful to go, and to enter to possess the land.
 10 When you go, you'll come to a people secure, and to a large land, for God has given it into your hands, a place where there is no want of anything that is in the earth."
 11 And there went from there from the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men appointed with weapons of war.
 12 And they went up, and pitched in Kirjathjearim, in Judah, so they called that place Mahanehdan to this day, see, it is behind Kirjathjearim.
 13 And they passed from there to mount Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah.
 14 Then the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish answered, and said to their brothers, "Do you know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and an engraved image, and a foundry cast image?  Now therefore consider what you have to do."
 15 And they turned toward there, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, to the house of Micah, and greeted him.
 16 And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entering of the gate.
 17 And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in there, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image, and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.
 18 And these went into Micah's house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image.  Then the priest said to them, "What are you doing?"
 19 And they said to him, "Be quiet, lay your hand on your mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest, is it better for you to be a priest to the house of one man, or that you be a priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?"
 20 And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the middle of the people.
 21 So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the baggage before them.
 22 And when they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men that were in the houses near Micah's house were gathered together, and overtook the children of Dan.
 23 And they shouted to the children of Dan.  And they turned their faces, and said to Micah, "What's wrong with you, that you come with such a company?"
 24 And he said, "You've taken away my gods that I made, and the priest, and you're gone away, and what do I have more?  And what is this that you say to me, what's wrong with you?"
 25 And the children of Dan said to him, "Don't let your voice be heard among us, so that angry fellows don't run at you, and you lose your life, with the lives of your household."
 26 And the children of Dan went their way, and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house.
 27 And they took the things that Micah had made, and the priest that he had, and came to Laish, to a people that were quiet and secure, and they struck them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire.
 28 And there was no deliverer, because it was far from Zidon, and they had no business with any man, and it was in the valley that lies by Bethrehob.  And they built a city, and lived in it.
 29 And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born to Israel, but the name of the city was Laish at the first.
 30 And the children of Dan set up the graven image, and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.
 31 And they set up Micah's engraved image, that he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

___Judges chapter 19
 1 And in those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite staying on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine out of Bethlehemjudah.
 2 And his concubine played the prostitute against him, and went away from him to her father's house to Bethlehemjudah, and was there four whole months.
 3 And her husband got up, and went after her, to speak friendly to her, and to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of asses, and she brought him into her father's house, and when the father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.
 4 And his father in law, the young woman's father, retained him, and he stayed with him three days, so they ate and drink, and lodged there.
 5 And on the fourth day, when they got up early in the morning, he rose up to depart, and the damsel's father said to his son in law, "Comfort your heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward go your way."
 6 And they sat down, and ate and drink both of them together, for the young woman's father had said to the man, "Be content, please, and wait all night, and let your heart be merry."
 7 And when the man rose up to depart, his father in law urged him, therefore he lodged there again.
 8 And he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart, and the damsel's father said, "Comfort your heart, please."  And they stayed until afternoon, and they ate both of them.
 9 And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father in law, the damsel's father, said to him, "See, now the day draws toward evening, please stay the night, see, the day grows to an end, lodge here, so that your heart will be merry, and tomorrow get you early on your way, so that you can go home."
 10 But the man would not stay that night, but he rose up and departed, and came opposite Jebus, which is Jerusalem, and there were with him two asses saddled, his concubine also was with him.
 11 And when they were by Jebus, the day was far spent, and the servant said to his master, "Come, please, and let us turn in to this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it."
 12 And his master said to him, "We won't turn aside here into the city of a stranger, that is not of the children of Israel, we will pass over to Gibeah."
 13 And he said to his servant, "Come, and let us draw near to one of these places to lodge all night, in Gibeah, or in Ramah."
 14 And they passed on and went their way, and the sun went down on them when they were by Gibeah, that belongs to Benjamin.
 15 And they turned aside there, to go in and to lodge in Gibeah, and when he went in, he sat down in a street of the city, for there was no man that took them into his house to lodging.
 16 And, see, an old man came from his work out of the field at evening, who was also of mount Ephraim, and he was staying in Gibeah, but the men of the place were Benjamites.
 17 And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a traveling man in the street of the city, and the old man said, "Where are you going?  And where have you come from?"
 18 And he said to him, "We are passing from Bethlehemjudah toward the side of mount Ephraim, that's where I'm from, and I went to Bethlehemjudah, but I am now going to the house of the Lord, and there is no man that has received me into his house.
 19 Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses, and there is bread and wine also for me, and for your handmaid, and for the young man that is with your servants, there is lack of nothing."
 20 And the old man said, "Peace be with you, however let all your needs lie on me, only don't lodge in the street."
 21 So he brought him into his house, and gave provender to the asses, and they washed their feet, and ate and drank.
 22 Now as they were making their hearts merry, see, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, surrounded the house round, and beat at the door, and spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, "Bring out the man that came into your house, so we can know him."
 23 And the man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said to them, "No, my brothers, no, please, don't do so wickedly, seeing that this man has come into my house, don't do this foolishness.
 24 See, here is my daughter a virgin, and his concubine, I will bring them out now, and humble them, and do with them what seems good to you, but to this man don't do so dirty a thing."
 25 But the men would not listen to him, so the man took his concubine, and brought her out to them, and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning, and when the day began to spring, they let her go.
 26 Then the woman came in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, 'til daylight.
 27 And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way, and, see, the woman, his concubine, had fallen down at the door of the house, and her hands were on the threshold.
 28 And he said to her, "Get up, and let's be going.  But there was no answer.  Then the man took her up on an ass, and the man rose up, and went to his place.
 29 And when he had come to his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel.
 30 And it was so, that all that saw it said, "There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt until this day, consider it, take advice, and speak your minds."

___Judges chapter 20
 1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation gathered together like one man, from Dan to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to the Lord in Mizpeh.
 2 And the chief of all the people, of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.
 3 (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpeh.)  Then said the children of Israel, "Tell us, how was this wickedness?"
 4 And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was killed, answered and said, "I came into Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to stay for a night.
 5 And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and surrounded the house around me at night, and thought to have killed me, and my concubine they've forced, so that she is dead.
 6 And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel, for they have committed lewdness and foolishness in Israel.
 7 See, you're all children of Israel, give here your advice and counsel."
 8 And all the people arose as one man, saying, "None of us will go to his tent, nor will any of us turn into his house.
 9 But now this shall be the thing that we will do to Gibeah, we will go up by lot against it,
 10 And we will take ten men of a hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch food for the people, so they can do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the foolishness that they have done in Israel."
 11 So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together unanimously.
 12 And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, "What wickedness is this that has been done among you?
 13 Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, who are in Gibeah, so that we can put them to death, and put away evil from Israel.  But the children of Benjamin wouldn't listen to the voice of their brothers the children of Israel,
 14 But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.
 15 And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men.
 16 Among all these people there were seven hundred chosen men left-handed, everyone could sling stones at a hair's width, and not miss.
 17 And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword, all these were men of war.
 18 And the children of Israel got up, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, "Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin?"  And the Lord said, "Judah shall go up first."
 19 And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.
 20 And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin, and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah.
 21 And the children of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty two thousand men.
 22 And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array the first day.
 23 (And the children of Israel went up and wept before the Lord until evening, and asked counsel of the Lord, and said, "Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother?  And the Lord said, "Go up against him.")
 24 And the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.
 25 And Benjamin went out against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men, all these drew the sword.
 26 Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came to the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the Lord, and fasted that day until evening, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.
 27 And the children of Israel inquired of the Lord, (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
 28 And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days,) saying, "Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I stop?"  And the Lord said, Go up, for tomorrow I will deliver them into your hand.
 29 And Israel set liers in wait around Gibeah.
 30 And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.
 31 And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city, and they began to strike of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
 32 And the children of Benjamin said, "They are struck down before us, like at the first."  But the children of Israel said, "Let us flee, and draw them from the city to the highways."
 33 And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baaltamar, and the liers in wait of Israel came out of their places, out of the meadows of Gibeah.
 34 And ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel came against Gibeah, and the battle was severe, but they didn't know that evil was near them.
 35 And the Lord struck Benjamin before Israel, and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty five thousand one hundred men, all these drew the sword.
 36 So the children of Benjamin saw that they were struck, for the men of Israel gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted to the liers in wait that they had set beside Gibeah.
 37 And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed on Gibeah, and the liers in wait drew themselves along, and struck all the city with the edge of the sword.
 38 Now there was a appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city.
 39 And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons, for they said, "Surely they are struck down before us, like in the first battle."
 40 But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, see, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven.
 41 And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed, for they saw that evil had come on them.
 42 Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness, but the battle overtook them, and those who came out of the cities they destroyed among them.
 43 Thus they surrounded the Benjamites, and chased them, and walked on them easily opposite Gibeah toward the sunrising.
 44 And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men, all these were men of valor.
 45 And they turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men, and pursued hard after them to Gidom, and killed two thousand men of them.
 46 So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty five thousand men that drew the sword, all these were men of valor.
 47 But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness to the rock Rimmon, and stayed in the rock Rimmon four months.
 48 And the men of Israel turned again on the children of Benjamin, and struck them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city, as the beast, and all that came to hand, also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.

___Judges chapter 21
 1 Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, "None of us will give his daughter to Benjamin as wife."
 2 And the people came to the house of God, and stayed there 'til evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and cried severely,
 3 And said, "O Lord God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?"
 4 And on the next day the people rose early, and built an altar  there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.
 5 And the children of Israel said, "Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that didn't come up with the congregation to the Lord?"  For they had made a great oath concerning him that didn't come up to the Lord to Mizpeh, saying, "He shall surely be put to death."
 6 And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, "One tribe has been cut off from Israel this day.
 7 What shall we do for wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by the Lord that we will not give them of our daughters as wives?"
 8 And they said, "Which one is there of the tribes of Israel that didn't come up to Mizpeh to the Lord?"  And see, no one came to the camp from Jabeshgilead to the assembly.
 9 For the people were counted, and see, none of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead were there.
 10 And the congregation sent twelve thousand men of the most valiant there, and commanded them, "Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.
 11 And this is the thing that you shall do, you shall completely destroy every male, and every woman that has lain with man."
 12 And they found among the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male, and they brought them to the camp to Shiloh, that is in the land of Canaan.
 13 And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably to them.
 14 And Benjamin came again at that time, and they gave them wives who they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead, but they were not enough.
 15 And the people repented for Benjamin, because the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
 16 Then the elders of the congregation said, "What shall we do for wives for those who remain, since the women have been destroyed out of Benjamin?"
 17 And they said, "There must be an inheritance for those who've escaped of Benjamin, so that a tribe is not destroyed out of Israel.
 18 But we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, cursed be he that gives a wife to Benjamin."
 19 Then they said, "Behold, there is a feast of the Lord in Shiloh yearly at a place that is on the north side of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah."
 20 Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, "Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,
 21 And look, and see if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then you come out of the vineyards, and every man catch his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
 22 And it shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to us to complain, that we will say to them, be favorable to them for our sakes, because we didn't reserve to each man his wife in the war, for you didn't give to them at that time, so you wouldn't be guilty."
 23 And the children of Benjamin did so, and took themselves wives, according to their number, of those who danced, whom they caught, and they went and returned to their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and lived in them.
 24 And the children of Israel departed from there at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from there every man to his inheritance.
 25 In those days there was no king in Israel, every man did what was right in his own eyes.

___Ruth chapter 1
 1 Now in the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land.  And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to visit in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
 2 And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehemjudah.  And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there.
 3 And Elimelech Naomi's husband died, and she was left, and her two sons.
 4 And they took wives from the women of Moab, the name of one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth, and they lived there about ten years.
 5 And Mahlon and Chilion both died also, and the woman was deprived of her two sons and her husband.
 6 Then she arose with her daughters in law, so that she could return from the country of Moab, for she had heard in the country of Moab how the Lord had visited his people in giving them bread.
 7 So she went out of the place where she was, and her two daughters in law with her, and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah.
 8 And Naomi said to her two daughters in law, "Go, return each to her mother's house, the Lord deal kindly with you, as you've dealt with the dead, and with me.
 9 The Lord grant you that you'll find rest, each of you in the house of her husband."  Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voice, and wept.
 10 And they said to her, "Surely we will return with you to your people."
 11 And Naomi said, "Turn again, my daughters, why would you go with me?  Are there yet any more sons in my womb, so they can be your husbands?
 12 Turn again, my daughters, go your way, for I am too old to have a husband.  If I should say, 'I have hope,' if I should have a husband also tonight, and also bear sons,
 13 Would you wait for them 'til they're grown?  Would you wait for them instead of having other husbands?  No, my daughters, for it grieves me much for your sakes that the hand of the Lord has gone out against me."
 14 And they lifted up their voice, and cried again, and Orpah kissed her mother in law, but Ruth stuck to her.
 15 And she said, "See, your sister in law has gone back to her people, and to her gods, go after your sister in law."
 16 And Ruth said, "Don't ask me to leave you, or to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge, your people shall be my people, and your God my God,
 17 Where you die, I'll die, and there I'll be buried, the Lord do so to me, and more also, if anything but death separates you and me."
 18 When she saw that she was steadily minded to go with her, then she left speaking to her.
 19 So they two went until they came to Bethlehem.  And when they had come to Bethlehem, all the city was moved about them, and they said, "Is this Naomi?"
 20 And she said to them, "Don't call me Naomi, call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
 21 I went out full, and the Lord has brought me home again empty, why then do you call me Naomi, seeing the Lord has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?"
 22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab, and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.

___Ruth chapter 2
 1 And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.
 2 And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, "Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace."  And she said to her, "Go, my daughter."
 3 And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers, and she happened to go to a part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.
 4 And, see, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, "The Lord be with you."  And they answered him, "The Lord bless you."
 5 Then Boaz said to his servant that was set over the reapers, "Whose damsel is this?"
 6 And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, "It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab,
 7 And she said, 'Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves,' so she came, and has continued even from the morning until now, that she tarried a little in the house."
 8 Then Boaz said to Ruth, "Don't you hear, my daughter?  Don't go to glean in some other field, and don't go from here, but stay here close by my maidens,
 9 Let your eyes be on the field that they reap, and go after them, haven't  I commanded the young men that they shall not touch you?  And when you are thirsty, go to the containers, and drink of that which the young men have drawn."
 10 Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said to him, "Why have I found grace in your eyes, so that you would take knowledge of me, since I'm a stranger?"
 11 And Boaz answered and said to her, "It has fully been shown me, all that you've done to your mother in law since the death of your husband, and how you've left your father and your mother, and the land of your nativity, and have come to a people that you didn't know until now.
 12 The Lord repay your work, and a full reward be given to you by the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings you've come to trust."
 13 Then she said, "Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, because you've comforted me, and because you've spoken friendly to your handmaid, though I'm not like one of your handmaidens."
 14 And Boaz said to her, "At mealtime come here, and eat of the bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar."  And she sat beside the reapers, and he reached her parched corn, and she ate, and was filled, and left.
 15 And when she had risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, "Let her glean even among the sheaves, and don't reproach her,
 16 And let also some of the handfuls fall on purpose for her, and leave them, so that she can glean them, and don't rebuke her."
 17 So she gleaned in the field until evening, and beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.
 18 And she took it up, and went into the city, and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned, and she brought out, and gave to her what she had left after she was full.
 19 And her mother in law said to her, "Where have you gleaned today?  And where did you work?  Blessed be he that took knowledge of you."  And she showed her mother in law with whom she had worked, and said, "The man's name with whom I worked today is Boaz."
 20 And Naomi said to her daughter in law, "The Lord bless him, who has not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead."  And Naomi said to her, "The man is near of kin to us, one of our next kinsmen."
 21 And Ruth the Moabitess said, "He said to me also, you shall keep close to by my young men, until they've ended all my harvest."
 22 And Naomi said to Ruth her daughter in law, "It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his maidens, so they don't meet you in any other field."
 23 So she kept close by the maidens of Boaz to glean until the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest, and lived with her mother in law.

___Ruth chapter 3
 1 Then Naomi her mother in law said to her, "My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you, so that it will be well with you?
 2 And now isn't Boaz of our kindred, with whose maidens you were?  See, he winnows barley tonight in the threshing floor.
 3 Wash yourself therefore, and anoint yourself, and put your clothes on, and get down to the floor, but don't make yourself known to the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking.
 4 And it shall be, when he lies down, that you shall see the place where he shall lie, and you shall go in, and uncover his feet, and lay down, and he will tell you what you shall do."
 5 And she said to her, "All that you say to me I will do."
 6 And she went down to the floor, and did according to all that her mother in law told her.
 7 And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn, and she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and laid down.
 8 And it at midnight, the man was afraid, and turned himself, and, see, a woman lay at his feet.
 9 And he said, "Who are you?"  And she answered, "I am Ruth your handmaid, spread therefore your skirt over your handmaid, for you are a near kinsman."
 10 And he said, "The Lord bless you, my daughter, for you've shown more kindness in the end than at the beginning, since you don't follow young men, whether poor or rich.
 11 And now, my daughter, don't be afraid, I will do to you all that you require, for all the city of my people know that you're a virtuous woman.
 12 And now it is true that I am your near kinsman, but there is a kinsman nearer than I am.
 13 Wait this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform to you the part of a kinsman, well, let him do the kinsman's part, but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to you, then I will do the part of a kinsman to you, as the Lord lives, lie down until the morning."
 14 And she lay at his feet until the morning, and she rose up before one could know another.  And he said, "Let it not be known that a woman came into the floor."
 15 Also he said, "Bring the veil that you have on you, and hold it."  And when she held it, he measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her, and she went into the city.
 16 And when she came to her mother in law, she said, "Who are you, my daughter?"  And she told her all that the man had done to her.
 17 And she said, "He gave me these six measures of barley, for he said to me, don't go empty to your mother in law."
 18 Then she said, "Sit still, my daughter, until you know how the matter will fall, for the man will not be in rest, until he has finished the thing this day."

___Ruth chapter 4
 1 Then Boaz went up to the gate, and sat down there, and, see, the kinsman about whom Boaz spoke came by, to whom he said, "Ho, such a one!  Turn aside, sit down here."  And he turned aside, and sat down.
 2 And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, "Sit down here."  And they sat down.
 3 And he said to the kinsman, "Naomi, that has come again out of the country of Moab, is selling a parcel of land, that was our brother Elimelech's,
 4 And I thought to tell you, saying, "Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people.  If you'll redeem it, redeem it, but if you won't redeem it, then tell me, so that I will know, for there is none to redeem it beside you, and I am after you."  And he said, "I will redeem it."
 5 Then said Boaz, "When you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you must buy it also from Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance."
 6 And the kinsman said, "I can't redeem it for myself, so I don't mar my own inheritance, you redeem my right for yourself, for I can't redeem it."
 7 Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things, a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbor, and this was a testimony in Israel.
 8 Therefore the kinsman said to Boaz, "Buy it for yourself."  So he pulled off his shoe.
 9 And Boaz said to the elders, and to all the people, "You are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, from the hand of Naomi.
 10 Also Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, so that the name of the dead is not cut off from among his brothers, and from the gate of his place, you are witnesses this day."
 11 And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, "We are witnesses.  The Lord make the woman that has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel, and do worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem,
 12 And let your house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the seed that the Lord shall give you from this young woman."
 13 So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife, and when he went in to her, the Lord gave her conception, and she bore a son.
 14 And the women said to Naomi, "Blessed be the Lord, who has not left you this day without a kinsman, so that his name will be famous in Israel.
 15 And he shall be to you a restorer of your life, and a nourisher of your old age, for your daughter in law, that loves, who is better to you than seven sons, has born him."
 16 And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse to it.
 17 And the women her neighbors gave it a name, saying, "There is a son born to Naomi," and they called his name Obed, he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.
 18 Now these are the generations of Pharez, Pharez begat Hezron,
 19 And Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab,
 20 And Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon,
 21 And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed,
 22 And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.

___1 Samuel chapter 1
 1 Now there was a certain man of Ramathaimzophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite,
 2 And he had two wives, the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah, and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
 3 And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts in Shiloh.  And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the Lord, were there.
 4 And at the time when Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions,
 5 But to Hannah he gave a worthy portion, for he loved Hannah, but the Lord had shut up her womb.
 6 And her adversary also provoked her severely, to make her fret, because the Lord had shut up her womb.
 7 And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the Lord, so she provoked her, therefore she wept, and didn't eat.
 8 Then Elkanah, her husband, said to her, "Hannah, why do you cry?  And why don't you eat?  And why is your heart grieved?  Am I not better to you than ten sons?"
 9 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk.  Now Eli the priest sat on a seat by a post of the temple of the Lord.
 10 And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to the Lord, and wept severely.
 11 And she vowed a vow, and said, "O Lord of hosts, if you'll indeed look at the affliction of your handmaid, and remember me, and not forget your handmaid, but will give to your handmaid a man child, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head."
 12 And as she continued praying before the Lord, Eli observed her mouth.
 13 Now Hannah, she spoke in her heart, only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard, therefore Eli thought she was drunk.
 14 And Eli said to her, "How long will you be drunk?  Put away your wine."
 15 And Hannah answered and said, "No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit, I haven't drunk wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the Lord.
 16 Don't count your handmaid as a daughter of Belial, for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken until now."
 17 Then Eli answered and said, "Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant you your petition that you've asked from him."
 18 And she said, "Let your handmaid find grace in your sight."  So the woman went her way, and ate, and her countenance was no more sad.
 19 And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the Lord, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah, and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the Lord remembered her.
 20 So, after Hannah had conceived, when the time had come, she bore a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, "Because I have asked him from the Lord."
 21 And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer to the Lord the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.
 22 But Hannah didn't go up, for she said to her husband, I won't go up until the child is weaned, and then I will bring him, so that he will appear before the Lord, and there live forever."
 23 And Elkanah her husband said to her, "Do what seems good to you, wait until you've weaned him, only the Lord establish his word."  So the woman stayed, and gave her son suck until she weaned him.
 24 And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him to the house of the Lord in Shiloh, and the child was young.
 25 And they killed a bullock, and brought the child to Eli.
 26 And she said, "Oh my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman that stood by you here, praying to the Lord.
 27 For this child I prayed, and the Lord has given me my petition that I asked him for,
 28 Therefore also I have lent him to the Lord, as long as he lives he shall be lent to the Lord."  And he worshipped the Lord there.

___1 Samuel chapter 2
 1 And Hannah prayed, and said, "My heart rejoices in the Lord, my horn is exalted in the Lord, my mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.
 2 There is none holy like the Lord, for there is none beside you, nor is there any rock like our God.
 3 Talk no more so very proudly, don't let arrogancy come out of your mouth, for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
 4 The bows of the mighty men have been broken, and those who stumbled have been clothed with strength.
 5 Those who were full have hired out themselves for bread, and those who were hungry stopped, so that the barren has given birth to seven, and she that has many children has grown feeble.
 6 The Lord kills, and makes alive, he brings down to the grave, and brings up.
 7 The Lord makes poor, and makes rich, he brings low, and lifts up.
 8 He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory, for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and he has set the world on them.
 9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness, for by strength shall no man prevail.
 10 The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces, out of heaven he shall thunder on them, the Lord shall judge the ends of the earth, and he shall give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed."
 11 And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house.  And the child ministered to the Lord before Eli the priest.
 12 Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial, they didn't know the Lord.
 13 And the priests' custom with the people was that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was seething, with a flesh hook of three teeth in his hand,
 14 And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot, all that the flesh hook brought up the priest took for himself.  So they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites that came there.
 15 Also before they burned the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, "Give flesh to roast for the priest, for he will not have sodden flesh from you, but raw."
 16 And if any man said to him, "Let them not fail to burn the fat presently, and then take as much as your soul desires," then he would answer him, "No, but you shall give it to me now, and if not, I will take it by force."
 17 So the sin of the young men was very great before the Lord, for men hated the offering of the Lord.
 18 But Samuel ministered before the Lord, being a child, clothed with a linen ephod.
 19 Also his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
 20 And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, "The Lord give you seed of this woman for the loan that is lent to the Lord."  And they went to their own home.
 21 And the Lord visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters.  And the child Samuel grew before the Lord.
 22 Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
 23 And he said to them, "Why do you do such things?  For I hear of your evil dealings by all these people.
 24 No, my sons, for it is no good report that I hear, you make the Lord's people transgress.
 25 If one man sins against another, the judge shall judge him, but if a man sins against the Lord, who shall intreat for him?"  But they didn't listen to the voice of their father, because the Lord had decided to kill them.
 26 And the child Samuel grew, and was in favor both with the Lord, and also with men.
 27 And a man of God came to Eli, and said to him, "Thus says the Lord, did I plainly appear to the house of your father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh's house?
 28 And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer on my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me?  And did I give to the house of your father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel?
 29 Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, that I have commanded in my habitation, and honor your sons more than me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?
 30 So the Lord God of Israel says, I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, would walk before me forever, but now the Lord says, be it far from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
 31 See, the days come, that I will cut off your arm, and the arm of your father's house, so that there won't be an old man in your house.
 32 And you'll see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth that God shall give Israel, and there shall not be an old man in your house forever.
 33 And the man of yours, whom I shall not cut off from my altar, shall be to consume your eyes, and to grieve your heart, and all the increase of your house shall die in the flower of their age.
 34 And this shall be a sign to thee, that shall come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas, in one day they shall die both of them.
 35 And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind, and I will build him a sure house, and he shall walk before my anointed forever.
 36 And it shall happen, that everyone that is left in your house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Please put me into one of the priests' offices, so that I can eat a piece of bread."

___1 Samuel chapter 3
 1 And the child Samuel ministered to the Lord before Eli.  And the word of the Lord was precious in those days, there was no open vision.
 2 And at that time, when Eli had laid down in his place, and his eyes began to grow dim, he could not see,
 3 And before the lamp of God went out in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was, and Samuel had laid down to sleep,
 4 That the Lord called Samuel, and he answered, "Here am I."
 5 And he ran to Eli, and said, "Here am I, for you called me."  And he said, "I didn't call, lie down again."  And he went and lay down.
 6 And the Lord called yet again, "Samuel."  And Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, "Here am I, for you called me."  And he answered, "I didn't call, my son, lie down again."
 7 Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, nor was the word of the Lord yet revealed to him.
 8 And the Lord called Samuel again the third time.  And he arose and went to Eli, and said, "Here am I, for you called me."  And Eli perceived that the Lord had called the child.
 9 Therefore Eli said to Samuel, "Go, lie down, and it shall be, if he calls you, that you shall say, "Speak, Lord, for your servant hears."  So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
 10 And the Lord came, and stood, and called like at other times, "Samuel, Samuel."  Then Samuel answered, "Speak, for your servant hears."
 11 And the Lord said to Samuel, "See, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of everyone that hears it shall tingle.
 12 In that day, I will perform against Eli all things that I have spoken concerning his house, when I begin, I will also make an end.
 13 For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the sin that he knows, because his sons made themselves filthy, and he didn't restrain them.
 14 And therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli, that the sin of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering forever."
 15 And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of the Lord.  And Samuel was afraid to tell Eli the vision.
 16 Then Eli called Samuel, and said, "Samuel, my son."  And he answered, "Here I am."
 17 And he said, "What is the thing that the Lord has said to you?  Please don't hide it from me, God do so to you, and more also, if you hide anything from me of all the things that he said to you."
 18 And Samuel told him every bit, and hid nothing from him.  And he said, "It is the Lord, let him do what seems good to him."
 19 And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him, and didn't let any of his words fall to the ground.
 20 And all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the Lord.
 21 And the Lord appeared again in Shiloh, for the Lord revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the Lord.

___1 Samuel chapter 4
 1 And the word of Samuel came to all Israel.  Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside Ebenezer, and the Philistines pitched in Aphek.
 2 And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel, and when they joined battle, Israel was struck before the Philistines, and they killed of the army in the field about four thousand men.
 3 And when the people had come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, "Why has the Lord struck us today before the Philistines?  Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of Shiloh to us, so that, when it comes among us, it will save us out of the hand of our enemies.
 4 So the people sent to Shiloh, so that they could bring from there the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts, who lives between the cherubims, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
 5 And when the ark of the covenant of the Lord came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again.
 6 And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, "What does the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews mean?"  And they understood that the ark of the Lord had come into the camp.
 7 And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, "God has come into the camp."  And they said, "Woe to us!  For there has not been such a thing previously.
 8 Woe to us!  Who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods?  These are the Gods that struck the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness.
 9 Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O you Philistines, so that you're not servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you, quit yourselves like men, and fight."
 10 And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent, and there was a very great slaughter, for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.
 11 And the ark of God was taken, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were killed.
 12 And a man of Benjamin ran out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes torn, and with dirt on his head.
 13 And when he came, see, Eli sat on a seat by the wayside watching, for his heart trembled for the ark of God.  And when the man came into the city, and told it, all the city shouted.
 14 And when Eli heard the noise of the shouting, he said, "What does the noise of this commotion mean?"  And the man came in hastily, and told Eli.
 15 Now Eli was ninety eight years old, and his eyes were dim, so that he couldn't see.
 16 And the man said to Eli, "I'm someone who came out of the army, and I fled today out of the army."  And he said, "What happened there, my son?"
 17 And the messenger answered, "Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people, and your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been taken."
 18 And when he made mention of the ark of God, he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck broke, and he died, for he was an old man, and heavy.  And he had judged Israel forty years.
 19 And his daughter in law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered, and when she heard the news that the ark of God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came on her.
 20 And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said to her, "Don't be afraid, for you've given birth to a son."  But she didn't answer, nor did she regard it.
 21 And she named the child Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel," because the ark of God had been taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.
 22 And she said, "The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been taken."

___1 Samuel chapter 5
 1 And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.
 2 When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.
 3 And when those of Ashdod arose early on the next day, see, Dagon had fallen on his face to the earth before the ark of the Lord.  And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.
 4 And when they arose early on the next morning, see, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord, and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off on the threshold, only the stump of Dagon was left to him.
 5 Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon's house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod until this day.
 6 But the hand of the Lord was heavy on those of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and struck them with emerods, Ashdod and the coasts of it.
 7 And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, "The ark of the God of Israel shall not stay with us, for his hand is severe on us, and on Dagon our god."
 8 They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines to them, and said, "What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?"  And they answered, "Let the ark of the God of Israel be taken to Gath."  And they carried the ark of the God of Israel there.
 9 And it was so, that, after they had carried it there, the hand of the Lord was against the city with a very great destruction, and he struck the men of the city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts.
 10 Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron.  And as the ark of God came to Ekron, the Ekronites shouted, saying, "They have brought here the ark of the God of Israel to us, to kill us and our people."
 11 So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, "Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to its own place, so that it doesn't kill us, and our people," for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city, the hand of God was very heavy there.
 12 And the men that didn't die were struck with the emerods, and the cry of the city went up to heaven.

___1 Samuel chapter 6
 1 And the ark of the Lord was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
 2 And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, "What shall we do to the ark of the Lord?  Tell us how we shall send it to its place."
 3 And they said, "If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, don't send it empty, but be sure to return him a trespass offering, then you shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand has not been removed from you."
 4 Then they said, "What should the trespass offering be that we return to him?"  They answered, "Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines, for one plague was on all of you, and on your lords.
 5 So you shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that damage the land, and you shall give glory to the God of Israel, perhaps he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
 6 Why then do you harden your hearts, like the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts?  When he had done wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?
 7 Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which no yoke has come, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them,
 8 And take the ark of the Lord, and lay it on the cart, and put the jewels of gold, that you return to him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by the side of it, and send it away, so that it can go.
 9 And see, if it goes up by the way of its own coast to Bethshemesh, then he has done us this great evil, but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us, it was a chance that happened to us."
 10 And the men did so, and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home,
 11 And they laid the ark of the Lord on the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.
 12 And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and didn't turn aside to the right hand or to the left, and the lords of the Philistines followed them to the border of Bethshemesh.
 13 And people of Bethshemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley, and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.
 14 And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Bethshemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone, and they cut up the wood of the cart, and offered the kine as a burnt offering to the Lord.
 15 And the Levites took down the ark of the Lord, and the coffer that was with it, in which the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone, and the men of Bethshemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day to the Lord.
 16 And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.
 17 And these are the golden emerods that the Philistines returned for a trespass offering to the Lord, for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one,
 18 And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities, and of country villages, to the great stone of Abel, on which they set down the ark of the Lord, which stone remains until this day in the field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.
 19 And he struck the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the Lord, he smote of the people fifty thousand seventy men, and the people lamented, because the Lord had struck many of the people with a great slaughter.
 20 And the men of Bethshemesh said, "Who is able to stand before this holy Lord God?  And to whom shall he go up from us?"
 21 And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjathjearim, saying, "The Philistines have brought again the ark of the Lord, come down, and fetch it."

___1 Samuel chapter 7
 1 And the men of Kirjathjearim came, and fetched up the ark of the Lord, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and dedicated Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the Lord.
 2 And while the ark stayed in Kirjathjearim, the time was long, for it was twenty years, and all the house of Israel lamented after the Lord.
 3 And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, "If you return to the Lord with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts to the Lord, and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines."
 4 Then the children of Israel put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the Lord only.
 5 And Samuel said, "Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you to the Lord."
 6 And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before the Lord, and fasted on that day, and said there, "We have sinned against the Lord."  And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh.
 7 And when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel had gathered together to Mizpeh, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel.  And when the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines.
 8 And the children of Israel said to Samuel, "Don't stop praying to the Lord our God for us, so that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines."
 9 And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt offering wholly to the Lord, and Samuel called to the Lord for Israel, and the Lord heard him.
 10 And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel, but the Lord thundered with a great thunder on that day on the Philistines, and discomfited them, and they were struck before Israel.
 11 And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the Philistines, and struck them, until they came under Bethcar.
 12 Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, "The Lord has helped us to here."
 13 So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more into the coast of Israel, and the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.
 14 And the cities that the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron to Gath, and Israel delivered the coasts of them out of the hands of the Philistines.  And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.
 15 And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
 16 And he went from year to year in a circle to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.
 17 And his return was to Ramah, for there was his house, and there he judged Israel, and he built an altar to the Lord there.

___1 Samuel chapter 8
 1 And when Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel.
 2 Now the name of his firstborn was Joel, and the name of his second, Abiah, they were judges in Beersheba.
 3 And his sons didn't walk in his ways, but turned aside after money, and took bribes, and perverted justice.
 4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel to Ramah,
 5 And said to him, "See, you're old, and your sons don't walk in your ways, now make for us a king to judge us like all the nations."
 6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, "Give us a king to judge us."  And Samuel prayed to the Lord.
 7 And the Lord said to Samuel, "Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me, so that I wouldn't rule over them.
 8 According to all the works that they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt to this day, with which they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so they also do to you.
 9 Now therefore listen to their voice, but yet protest solemnly to them, and show them the manner of the king that shall rule over them."
 10 And Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people that asked from him a king.
 11 And he said, "This will be the manner of the king that shall rule over you, he will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen, and some shall run before his chariots.
 12 And he will appoint himself captains over thousands, and captains over fifties, and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.
 13 And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
 14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, the best of them, and give them to his servants.
 15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
 16 And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
 17 He will take the tenth of your sheep, and you'll be his servants.
 18 And you'll cry out in that day because of your king that you shall have chosen you, and the Lord will not hear you in that day."
 19 But the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel, and they said, "No, we want to have a king over us,
 20 So that we also will be like all the nations, and that our king will judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles."
 21 And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he repeated them in the ears of the Lord.
 22 And the Lord said to Samuel, "Listen to their voice, and make a king for them.  And Samuel said to the men of Israel, "All of you go to your cities."

___1 Samuel chapter 9
 1 Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power.
 2 And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and attractive, and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he, from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.
 3 And the asses of Kish Saul's father were lost.  And Kish said to Saul his son, "Take one of the servants with you, and get up, go look for the asses."
 4 And he passed through mount Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalisha, but they didn't find them, then they passed through the land of Shalim, and they weren't there, and he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they didn't find them.
 5 And when they had come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant that was with him, "Come, and let us return, so that my father doesn't stop caring for the asses, and start worrying about us."
 6 And he said to him, "Look, there's a man of God in this city, and he's an honorable man, whatever he says surely happens, now let's go there, perhaps he can tell us where to go."
 7 Then Saul said to his servant, "But, see, if we go, what shall we bring the man?  For the bread is spent in our containers, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God, what do we have?"
 8 And the servant answered Saul, and said, "See, I have here one fourth of a shekel of silver, I'll give that to the man of God, to tell us our way."
 9 (Before in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he spoke, "Come, and let us go to the seer," for he that is now called a Prophet used to be called a Seer.)
 10 Then Saul said to his servant, "Well said, come, let us go."  So they went to the city where the man of God was.
 11 And as they went up the hill to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said to them, "Is the seer here?"
 12 And they answered them, and said, "He is, see, he is before you, make haste now, for he came today to the city, for there is a sacrifice of the people today in the high place,
 13 As soon as you've come into the city, you'll immediately find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat, for the people will not eat until he comes, because he blesses the sacrifice, and afterward the people eat who've been invited.  Now therefore go up there, for at about this time you'll find him."
 14 And they went up into the city, and when they had come into the city, see, Samuel came out opposite them, to go up to the high place.
 15 Now the Lord had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul came, saying,
 16 "Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be captain over my people Israel, so that he will save my people out of the hand of the Philistines, for I have looked at my people, because their cry has come to me."
 17 And when Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said to him, "See, the man about whom I 
spoke to you!  This this is the one who'll rule over my people."
 18 Then Saul went near Samuel in the gate, and said, "Tell me, please, where the seer's house is."
 19 And Samuel answered Saul, "I am the seer, go up before me to the high place, for you'll eat with me today, and tomorrow I'll let you go, and will tell you all that is in your heart.
 20 And as for your asses that were lost three days ago, don't worry about them, for they've been found.  And on whom is all the desire of Israel?  Is it not on you, and on all your father's house?"
 21 And Saul answered and said, "Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel?  And my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin?  Why then do you speak to me this way?"
 22 And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the parlor, and made them sit in the most important place among those who were invited, who were about thirty persons.
 23 And Samuel said to the cook, "Bring the portion that I gave you, about which I said to you, set it by you."
 24 And the cook took up the shoulder, and that which was on it, and set it before Saul.  And Samuel said, "See what is left!  Set it before you, and eat, for to this time it has been kept for you since I said, I have invited the people."  So Saul ate with Samuel that day.
 25 And when they had come down from the high place into the city, Samuel talked with Saul on the top of the house.
 26 And they got up early, and at about daybreak, Samuel called Saul to the top of the house, saying, "Get up, so I can send you away."  And Saul got up, and they both went out, he and Samuel, outside.
 27 And as they were going down to the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, "Tell the servant to pass on before us, (and he passed on,) but you stand still a while, so that I can show you the word of God."

___1 Samuel chapter 10
 1 Then Samuel took a bottle of oil, and poured it on his head, and kissed him, and said, "Isn't it because the Lord has anointed you to be captain over his inheritance?
 2 When you've departed from me today, then you'll find two men by Rachel's tomb in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah, and they will say to thee, the asses that you went to seek have been found, and, see, your father has stopped worrying about the asses, and sorrows for you, saying, "What shall I do about my son?"
 3 Then you shall go on forward from there, and you shall come to the plain of Tabor, and three men going up to God to Bethel shall meet you, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine,
 4 And they will greet you, and give you two loaves of bread, that you'll receive from their hands.
 5 After that you'll come to the hill of God, where the garrison of the Philistines is, and when you've come there to the city, you'll meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a flute, and a harp, before them, and they shall prophesy,
 6 And the Spirit of the Lord will come on you, and you'll prophesy with them, and shall be changed into another man.
 7 And let it be, when these signs have come to you, that you do as occasion serves you, for God is with you.
 8 And you shall go down before me to Gilgal, and, see, I will come down to you, to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings, seven days you shall wait, 'til I come to you, and show you what to do."
 9 And when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him a different heart, and all those signs happened that day.
 10 And when they came there to the hill, see, a group of prophets met him, and the Spirit of God came on him, and he prophesied among them.
 11 And when all that knew him before saw, see, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said to each other, "What is this that has come to the son of Kish?  Is Saul also among the prophets?"
 12 And one of the same place answered and said, "But who is their father?"  Therefore it became a proverb, "Is Saul also among the prophets?"
 13 And when he had stopped prophesying, he came to the high place.
 14 And Saul's uncle said to him and to his servant, "Where did you go?"  And he said, "To seek the asses, and when we saw that they were no where, we came to Samuel."
 15 And Saul's uncle said, "Tell me, please, what Samuel said to you."
 16 And Saul said to his uncle, "He told us plainly that the asses were found."  But he didn't tell him about the matter of the kingdom, about which Samuel had spoken.
 17 And Samuel called the people together to the Lord to Mizpeh,
 18 And said to the children of Israel, "Thus says the Lord God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, and of those who oppressed you,
 19 And you have this day rejected your God, who himself saved you out of all your adversities and your tribulations, and you have said to him, 'No, set a king over us.'  Now therefore present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes, and by your thousands."
 20 And when Samuel had caused all the tribes of Israel to come near, the tribe of Benjamin was taken.
 21 When he had caused the tribe of Benjamin to come near by their families, the family of Matri was taken, and Saul the son of Kish was taken, and when they sought him, he couldn't be found.
 22 Therefore they inquired of the Lord further, if the man should yet come there.  And the Lord answered, "See, he has hidden himself among the stuff."
 23 And they ran and fetched him there, and when he stood among the people, he was taller than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.
 24 And Samuel said to all the people, "See him whom the Lord has chosen, that there is no one like him among all the people?"  And all the people shouted, and said, "God save the king."
 25 Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the Lord.  And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.
 26 And Saul also went home to Gibeah, and a band of men went with him, whose hearts God had touched.
 27 But the children of Belial said, "How can this man save us?"  And they despised him, and brought him no presents.  But he didn't say anything.

___1 Samuel chapter 11
 1 Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabeshgilead, and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, "Make a covenant with us, and we will serve you."
 2 And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, "On this condition will I make a covenant with you, if I may poke out all your right eyes, and make it a reproach on all Israel."
 3 And the elders of Jabesh said to him, "Give us seven days' respite, so that we can send messengers to all the coasts of Israel, and then, if there's no man to save us, we will come out to you."
 4 Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and told the news in the ears of the people, and all the people lifted up their voices, and cried.
 5 And, see, Saul came after the herd out of the field, and Saul said, "What are the people crying?"  And they told him the news from the men of Jabesh.
 6 And the Spirit of God came on Saul when he heard that news, and his anger was kindled greatly.
 7 And he took a yoke of oxen, and cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, "Whoever doesn't come out after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen."  And the fear of the Lord fell on the people, and they all came out in agreement.
 8 And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
 9 And they said to the messengers that came, "Say this to the men of Jabeshgilead, tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you'll have help."  And the messengers came and told the men of Jabesh, and they were glad.
 10 Therefore the men of Jabesh said, "Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you can do with us all that seems good to you."
 11 And on the next day, Saul put the people in three companies, and they came into the middle of the host in the morning watch, and killed the Ammonites until the heat of the day, and those who remained were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.
 12 And the people said to Samuel, "Who was it that said, 'Shall Saul rule over us?'  Bring the men, so we can put them to death."
 13 And Saul said, "Not a man shall be put to death today, for today the Lord has worked salvation in Israel."
 14 Then Samuel said to the people, "Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there."
 15 And all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before the Lord in Gilgal, and there they sacrificed sacrifices of peace offerings before the Lord, and there Saul, and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.

___1 Samuel chapter 12
 1 And Samuel said to all Israel, "See, I've listened to your voice in all that you said to me, and have made a king over you.
 2 And now, the king walks before you, and I am old and gray headed, and see, my sons are with you, and I have walked before you from my childhood to this day.
 3 See, here I am, testify against me before the Lord, and before his anointed, whose ox have I taken?  Or whose ass have I taken?  Or whom have I defrauded?  Whom have I oppressed?  Or from whose hand have I received any bribe to blind my eyes with it?  And I will restore it to you."
 4 And they said, "You haven't defrauded us, nor oppressed us, nor have you taken anything from any man's hand."
 5 And he said to them, "The Lord is a witness against you, and his anointed is a witness today, that you haven't found anything in my hand."  And they answered, "He is a witness."
 6 And Samuel said to the people, "It is the Lord that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
 7 Now therefore stand still, so I can reason with you before the Lord of all the righteous acts of the Lord, that he did to you and to your fathers.
 8 When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried to the Lord, then the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt, and made them live in this place.
 9 And when they forgot the Lord their God, he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.
 10 And they cried to the Lord, and said, we have sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord, and have served Baalim and Ashtaroth, but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve you.
 11 And the Lord sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and you lived safely.
 12 And when you saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, you said to me, no, but a king shall rule over us, when the Lord your God was your king.
 13 Now therefore see the king whom you have chosen, and whom you have desired!  And, see, the Lord has set a king over you.
 14 If you will fear the Lord, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then both you and also the king that rules over you shall continue following the Lord your God,
 15 But if you won't obey the voice of the Lord, but rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then the hand of the Lord shall be against you, as it was against your fathers.
 16 Now therefore stand and see this great thing, that the Lord will do before your eyes.
 17 Isn't it wheat harvest today?  I will call to the Lord, and he shall send thunder and rain, so that you'll perceive and see that your wickedness is great, that you've done in the sight of the Lord, in asking for yourselves a king."
 18 So Samuel called to the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day, and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.
 19 And all the people said to Samuel, "Pray for your servants to the Lord your God, so we don't die, for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for ourselves a king."
 20 And Samuel said to the people, "Don't be afraid, you have done all this wickedness, yet don't turn aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart,
 21 And don't turn aside, for then you would go after vain things, that can't profit nor deliver, for they are vain.
 22 For the Lord will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it has pleased the Lord to make you his people.
 23 Also as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in stopping to pray for you, but I will teach you the good and the right way,
 24 Only fear the Lord, and serve him in truth with all your heart, for consider how great things he has done for you.
 25 But if you shall still do wickedly, you shall be consumed, both you and your king."

___1 Samuel chapter 13
 1 Saul ruled one year, and when he had ruled two years over Israel,
 2 Saul chose three thousand men of Israel for himself, of which two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin, and he sent all of the rest of the people to their tents.
 3 And Jonathan struck the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it.  And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, "Let the Hebrews hear."
 4 And all Israel heard that Saul had struck a garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel also was hated by the Philistines.  And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal.
 5 And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people like the sand on the sea shore in multitude, and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Bethaven.
 6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in a difficult place, (for the people were distressed,) then the people hid themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.
 7 And some of the Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead.  As for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.
 8 And he waited seven days, according to the set time that Samuel had appointed, but Samuel didn't come to Gilgal, and the people were scattered from him.
 9 And Saul said, "Bring me here a burnt offering, and peace offerings."  And he offered the burnt offering.
 10 And as soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, Samuel came, and Saul went out to meet him and greet him.
 11 And Samuel said, "What have you done?"  And Saul said, "Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn't come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash,
 12 Therefore I said, the Philistines will come down now on me to Gilgal, and I haven't made supplication to the Lord, I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering."
 13 And Samuel said to Saul, "You've done foolishly, you haven't kept the commandment of the Lord your God, that he commanded you, for now the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.
 14 But now your kingdom shall not continue, the Lord has sought for himself a man after his own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be captain over his people, because you haven't kept what the Lord commanded you."
 15 And Samuel got up, and went up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin.  And Saul numbered the people that were present with him, about six hundred men.
 16 And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were present with them, lived in Gibeah of Benjamin, but the Philistines camped in Michmash.
 17 And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies, one company turned to the way that leads to Ophrah, to the land of Shual,
 18 And another company turned the way to Bethhoron, and another company turned to the way of the border that looks to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
 19 Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, "So that the Hebrews won't make themselves swords or spears,"
 20 But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
 21 Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.
 22 So in the day of battle, there was no sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan, except for Saul and Jonathan themselves.
 23 And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.

___1 Samuel chapter 14
 1 Now one day, Jonathan the son of Saul, said to the young man that carried his armor, "Come, and let's go over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on the other side.  But he didn't tell his father.
 2 And Saul waited in the farthest part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree that is in Migron, and the people that were with him were about six hundred men,
 3 And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the Lord's priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod.  And the people didn't know that Jonathan was gone.
 4 And between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistines' garrison, there was a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side, and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.
 5 The front of one was situated northward opposite Michmash, and the other southward opposite Gibeah.
 6 And Jonathan said to the young man that carried his armor, "Come, and let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised, maybe the Lord will work for us, for there is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by few."
 7 And his armor bearer said to him, "Do all that is in your heart, turn, see, I am with you according to your heart."
 8 Then said Jonathan, "See, we'll pass over to these men, and we will reveal ourselves to them.
 9 If they say to us, 'Wait until we come to you,' then we'll stand still in our place, and won't go up to them.
 10 But if they say, 'Come up to us, then we'll go up, for the Lord has delivered them into our hand, and this shall be a sign to us."
 11 And both of them revealed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines, and the Philistines said, "See, the Hebrews come out of the holes where they had hid themselves."
 12 And the men of the 
garrison said to Jonathan and his armor bearer, "Come up to us, and we'll show you something."  And Jonathan said to his armor bearer, "Come up after me, for the Lord has delivered them into the hand of Israel."
 13 And Jonathan climbed up on his hands and on his feet, and his armor bearer after him, and they fell before Jonathan, and his armor bearer killed after him.
 14 And that first slaughter, that Jonathan and his armor bearer made, was about twenty men, within about a half acre of land, that a yoke of oxen might plow.
 15 And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all the people, the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked, so it was a very great trembling.
 16 And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked, and, see, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down each other.
 17 Then Saul said to the people that were with him, "Count now, and see who has gone from us."  And when they had counted, see, Jonathan and his armor bearer weren't there.
 18 And Saul said to Ahiah, "Bring the ark of God here."  For the ark of God was with the children of Israel at that time.
 19 And while Saul talked to the priest, the noise that was in the host of the Philistines went on and increased, and Saul said to the priest, "Pull your hand back."
 20 And Saul and all the people that were with him assembled themselves, and they came to the battle, and see, every man's sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great slaughter.
 21 Also the Hebrews that were with the Philistines before that time, that went up with them into the camp from the surrounding country, they also turned to be with the Israelites that were with Saul and Jonathan.
 22 Likewise, all the men of Israel that had hidden themselves in mount Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, they also followed hard after them in the battle.
 23 So the Lord saved Israel that day, and the battle passed over to Bethaven.
 24 And the men of Israel were distressed that day, for Saul had told the people, "Cursed be the man that eats any food until evening, so I can be avenged against my enemies."  So none of the people tasted any food.
 25 And all of those of the land came to the woods, and there was honey on the ground.
 26 And when the people had come into the woods, see, the honey dropped, but no man put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath.
 27 But Jonathan didn't hear when his father charged the people with the oath, so he put out the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in a honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth, and his eyes were enlightened.
 28 Then one of the people said, "Your father strictly charged the people with an oath, saying, cursed be the man that eats any food this day."  And the people were faint.
 29 Then Jonathan said, "My father has troubled the land, please observe how my eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
 30 How much more, if perhaps the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies that they found?  For wouldn't there have now been a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?"
 31 And they struck the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon, and the people were very faint.
 32 And the people rushed to the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and killed them on the ground, and the people ate them with the blood.
 33 Then they told Saul, "See, the people sin against the Lord, in that they eat with the blood."  And he said, "You have transgressed, roll a large stone to me this day."
 34 And Saul said, "Disperse yourselves among the people, and say to them, bring here every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and kill them here, and eat, and don't sin against the Lord in eating with the blood."  And all the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and killed them there.
 35 And Saul built an altar to the Lord, which was the first altar that he built to the Lord.
 36 And Saul said, "Let's go down after the Philistines at night, and spoil them until the morning light, and let's leave a man of them."  And they said, "Do whatever seems good to you."  Then the priest said, "Let's draw near here to God."
 37 And Saul asked advice from God, "Shall I go down after the Philistines?  Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel?"  But he didn't answer him that day.
 38 And Saul said, "Come near here, all the chief of the people, and know and see how this sin has been today.
 39 For, as the Lord lives, who saves Israel, even if it's in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die."  But there was not a man among all the people that answered him.
 40 Then he said to all Israel, "You 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."
 41 Therefore Saul said to the Lord God of Israel, "Give a perfect lot."  And Saul and Jonathan were taken, but the people escaped.
 42 And Saul said, "Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son."  And Jonathan was taken.
 43 Then Saul said to Jonathan, tell me what you've done.  And Jonathan told him, "I only tasted a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand, and see, I must die."
 44 And Saul answered, "God do so and more also, for you shall surely die, Jonathan."
 45 And the people said to Saul, "Shall Jonathan die, who has performed this great salvation in Israel?  God forbid, as the Lord lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground, for he has worked with God this day."  So the people rescued Jonathan, so that he didn't die.
 46 Then Saul went up from following the Philistines, and the Philistines went to their own place.
 47 So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines, and wherever he turned himself, he vexed them.
 48 And he gathered an army, and struck the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of those who spoiled them.
 49 Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchishua, and the names of his two daughters were these, the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal,
 50 And the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam, the daughter of Ahimaaz, and the name of the captain of his host was Abner, the son of Ner, Saul's uncle.
 51 And Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
 52 And there was severe war against the Philistines all the days of Saul, and when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he took him to himself.

___1 Samuel chapter 15
 1 Samuel also said to Saul, "The Lord sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel, now therefore listen to the voice of the words of the Lord.
 2 Thus says the Lord of hosts, I remember what Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him on the way, when he came up from Egypt.
 3 Now go and strike Amalek, and completely destroy all that they have, and don't spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass."
 4 And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
 5 And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.
 6 And Saul said to the Kenites, "Go, depart, get down from among the Amalekites, so that I don't destroy you with them, for you showed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt."  So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
 7 And Saul struck the Amalekites from Havilah until you come to Shur, that is over against Egypt.
 8 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and completely destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
 9 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not completely destroy them, but everything that was filthy and garbage they destroyed completely.
 10 Then the word of the Lord came to Samuel, saying,
 11 "I regret that I've set up Saul to be king, for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments."  And it grieved Samuel, and he prayed to the Lord all night.
 12 And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, Samuel was told, "Saul came to Carmel, and see, he set himself up a place, and has gone around, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal."
 13 And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, "The Lord bless you, I have performed the commandment of the Lord."
 14 And Samuel said, "What then does this bleating of the sheep in my ears mean, and the lowing of the oxen that I hear?"
 15 And Saul said, "They have brought them from the Amalekites, for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice to the Lord your God, and the rest we have completely destroyed."
 16 Then Samuel said to Saul, "Stay, and I will tell you what the Lord has said to me this night."  And he said to him, "Go ahead."
 17 And Samuel said, "When you were little in your own sight, weren't you made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the Lord anointed you king over Israel?
 18 And the Lord sent you on a journey, and said, go and completely destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they're consumed.
 19 So then you didn't obey the voice of the Lord, but jumped on the spoil, and did evil in the sight of the Lord?"
 20 And Saul said to Samuel, "Yes, I have obeyed the voice of the Lord, and have gone the way that the Lord sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have completely destroyed the Amalekites.
 21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things that should have been completely destroyed, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal."
 22 And Samuel said, "Does the Lord have as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord?  See, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
 23 For rebellion is like the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is like sin and idolatry.  Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has also rejected you from being king."
 24 And 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.
 25 Now therefore, please, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, so that I can worship the Lord."
 26 And Samuel said to Saul, "I won't return with you, for you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel."
 27 And as Samuel turned around to go away, he grabbed hold of the skirt of his mantle, and it tore.
 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, that is better than you.
 29 And also the strength of Israel will not lie nor repent, for he is not a man, that he should repent."
 30 Then he said, "I have sinned, yet honor me now, please, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, so I can worship the Lord your God."
 31 So Samuel turned again after Saul, and Saul worshipped the Lord.
 32 Then Samuel said, "Bring here 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, "Like your sword has made women childless, so your shall mother be childless among women."  And Samuel cut 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 didn't go anymore to see Saul until the day of his death, but Samuel mourned for Saul, and the Lord regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel.

___1 Samuel chapter 16
 1 And the Lord said to Samuel, "How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing that I've rejected him from ruling over Israel?  Fill your horn with oil, and go, I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided myself a king among his sons."
 2 And Samuel said, "How can I go?  If Saul hears about it, he'll kill me."  And the Lord said, take a heifer with you, and say, "I've come to sacrifice to the Lord.
 3 And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do, and you shall anoint for me him whom I name to you."
 4 And Samuel did what the Lord said, and came to Bethlehem.  And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, "Do you come peaceably?"
 5 And he said, "Peaceably, I've come to sacrifice to the Lord, make yourselves holy, and come with me to the sacrifice."  And he made Jesse and his sons holy, and called them to the sacrifice.
 6 And when they had come, he looked at Eliab, and said, surely the Lord's anointed is before him.
 7 But the Lord said to Samuel, "Don't look at his face, or at how tall he is, because I've refused him, for the Lord doesn't see like man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart."
 8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel.  And he said, "Nor has the Lord chosen this."
 9 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by.  And he said, "Nor has the Lord chosen this."
 10 Again, Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel.  And Samuel said to Jesse, "The Lord has not chosen these."
 11 And Samuel said to Jesse, "Are all your children here?"  And he said, "There's still the youngest, and see, he's keeping the sheep."  And Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and fetch him, for we will not sit down 'til he comes here."
 12 And he sent, and brought him in.  Now he was ruddy, and with a beautiful face, and attractive to look at.  And the Lord said, "Get up, anoint him, he's the one."
 13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and the Spirit of the Lord came on David from that day forward.  So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
 14 But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him.
 15 And Saul's servants said to him, see now, an evil spirit from God troubles you.
 16 Let our lord now command your servants, that are before you, to seek out a man, who is a skillful player on an harp, and when the evil spirit from God is on you, he shall play with his hand, and you'll 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, "See, I've seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, that is skillful in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a attractive person, and the Lord is with him."
 19 So Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, "Send me David your son, who is with the sheep."
 20 And Jesse took an ass loaded 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 carrier.
 22 And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, "Let David, please, stand before me, for he has found favor in my sight."
 23 And when the evil spirit from God was on Saul, David took a harp, and played with his hand, so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.

___1 Samuel chapter 17
 1 Now the Philistines gathered their armies together to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, that belongs to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim.
 2 And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.
 3 And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side, and there was a valley between them.
 4 And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was nine feet plus a span.
 5 And he had a helmet of brass on his head, and he was 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 on his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders.
 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 someone carrying a shield went before him.
 8 And he stood and shouted to the armies of Israel, and said to them, "Why have you come out to set your battle in array?  Am I not a Philistine, and you servants to Saul?  Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.
 9 If he's able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants, but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then you'll be our servants, and serve us."
 10 And the Philistine said, "I defy the armies of Israel this day, give me a man, so we can fight together."
 11 When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were discouraged, and quite afraid.
 12 Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehemjudah, whose name was Jesse, and he had eight sons, and the man was considered to be 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 firstborn, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
 14 And David was the youngest, and the three eldest followed Saul.
 15 But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.
 16 And the Philistine came near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
 17 And Jesse said to David his son, "Now take now for your brothers an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to your brothers,
 18 And carry these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and find out how your brothers are doing, and take their pledge."
 19 Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
 20 And David got up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him, and he came to the trench, as the host was going out to the fight, and shouted for the battle.
 21 For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army against army.
 22 And David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage, and ran into the army, and came and greeted his brothers.
 23 And as he talked with them, see, the champion came up, the Philistine of Gath, named Goliath, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spoke according to the same words, and David heard them.
 24 And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were very afraid.
 25 And the men of Israel said, "Have you seen this man that has come up?  Surely to defy Israel he has come up, and it shall be, that the man who kills 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 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?"
 27 And the people answered him after this manner, saying, "So shall it be done to the man that kills 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 did you come down here?  And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness?  I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart, for you've come down so you can see the battle."
 29 And David said, "What have I now done?  Is there not a reason?"
 30 And he turned from him toward another, and spoke after the same manner, and the people answered him again after the former manner.
 31 And when the words were heard that David spoke, they repeated them before Saul, and he sent for him.
 32 And David said to Saul, "Let no man's heart fail because of him, your servant will go and fight with this Philistine."
 33 And Saul said to David, "You're not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him, for you're just a youth, and he's a man of war since his youth."
 34 And David said to Saul, "Your servant kept his father's sheep, and a lion came, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock,
 35 And I went out after him, and struck him, and delivered it out of his mouth, and when he rose up against me, I caught him by his beard, and struck him, and killed him.
 36 Your servant killed both the lion and the bear, and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, since he has defied the armies of the living God."
 37 David said also, "The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine."  And Saul said to David, "Go, and the Lord be with you."
 38 And Saul armed David with his armor, and he put a helmet of brass on his head, also he armed him with a coat of mail.
 39 And David put his sword on his armor, and he tried to go, but he had not tested it.  And David said to Saul, "I can't go with these, for I haven't tested them."  And David took them off.
 40 And he took his staff in his hand, and chose five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag that he had, in a scrip, and his sling was in his hand, and he went near the Philistine.
 41 And the Philistine came near to David, and the man that carried the shield went before him.
 42 And when the Philistine looked around, and saw David, he scorned him, for he was just a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance.
 43 And the Philistine said to David, "Am I a dog, that you come to me with staves?"  And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
 44 And the Philistine said to David, "Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the fowls 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 a shield, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you've defied.
 46 This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you, and take your head from you, 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, so that all the earth will know that there is a God in Israel.
 47 And all this assembly shall know that the Lord doesn't save by sword and spear, for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hands."
 48 And when the Philistine got up, and came near to meet David, David hurried, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.
 49 And David put his hand in his bag, and took from there a stone, and slung it, and struck the Philistine in his forehead, so that the stone sunk into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth.
 50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and struck the Philistine, and killed him, but there was no sword in the hand of David.
 51 Therefore David ran, and stood on the Philistine, and took his sword, and pulled it out of the sheath, and killed him, and cut off his head with it.  And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they ran away.
 52 And the men of Israel and of Judah got up, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until you come to the valley, and to the gates of Ekron.  And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, to Gath, and to Ekron.
 53 And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they spoiled 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 out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the captain of the host, "Abner, whose son is this youth?"  And Abner said, "As your soul lives, O king, I don't know."
 56 And the king said, "Find out 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 are you, young man?"  And David answered, "I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite."

___1 Samuel chapter 18
 1 And when he finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him like his own soul.
 2 And Saul took him that day, and wouldn't let him go home anymore to his father's house.
 3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him like his own soul.
 4 And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even his sword, and his bow, and his girdle.
 5 And David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely, and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants.
 6 And as they came, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of music.
 7 And the women answered each other as they played, and said, "Saul has killed his thousands, and David his ten thousands."
 8 And Saul was very angry, and the saying displeased him, and he said, "They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands, and what can he have more but the kingdom?"
 9 And Saul watched David from that day onward.
 10 And on the next day, the evil spirit from God came on Saul, and he prophesied in the middle of the house, and David played with his hand, like at other times, and there was a javelin in Saul's hand.
 11 And Saul threw the javelin, for he said, "I will strike David to the wall with it."  And David got away from him twice.
 12 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 behaved himself wisely in all his ways, and the Lord was with him.
 15 So when Saul saw that he 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, "See my elder daughter Merab, I will give you her for your wife, only be valiant for me, and fight the Lord's battles."  For Saul said, "I won't kill him myself, but let the hand of the Philistines kill 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 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 Adriel the Meholathite as wife.
 20 And Michal Saul's daughter loved David, and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
 21 And Saul said, "I will give her to him, so that she'll be a trap to him, and so that the hand of the Philistines will be against him."  So Saul said to David, "Today, you'll be my son in law with the one of the two."
 22 And Saul commanded his servants, saying, "Talk with David privately, and say, see, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you, now therefore be the king's son in law."
 23 And Saul's servants spoke those words in the ears of David.  And David said, "Does it seem to you a light thing to be a king's son in law, since I'm a poor man, and lightly esteemed?"
 24 And the servants of Saul told him, saying, "David spoke like this."
 25 And Saul said, "Say this to David, the king doesn't desire any dowry, 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.
 26 And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David to be the king's son in law, and the time hadn't ended yet.
 27 So David got up and went, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines, and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them all to the king, so that he could be the king's son in law.  And Saul gave him Michal his daughter as 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 out, and after they went out, David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul, so that he had an excellent reputation.

___1 Samuel chapter 19
 1 And Saul told Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David.
 2 But Jonathan Saul's son delighted much in David, and Jonathan told David, "Saul my father is looking to kill you, now therefore, please, be careful until the morning, and 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 talk with my father about you, and what I find out, I will tell you."
 4 And Jonathan spoke good about David to Saul his father, and said to him, "Let the king not sin against his servant, against David, because he has not sinned against you, and because his works toward you have been very good,
 5 For he put his life in his hand, and killed the Philistine, and the Lord made a great salvation for all Israel, you saw it, and rejoiced, so then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a reason?"
 6 And Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan, and Saul swore, "As the Lord lives, he shall not be killed."
 7 And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things.  And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, like previously.
 8 And there was war again, and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter, and they fled from him.
 9 And the evil spirit from the Lord was on Saul, as he sat in his house with his javelin in his hand, and David played with his hand.
 10 And Saul sought to strike David to the wall with the javelin, but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he struck 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 kill him in the morning, and Michal David's wife told him, saying, "If you don't save your life to night, tomorrow you'll be killed."
 12 So Michal let David down through a window, and he went, and fled, and escaped.
 13 And Michal took a statue, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' 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 up to me in the bed, so I can kill him."
 16 And when the messengers had come in, see, there was a statue in the bed, with a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster.
 17 And Saul said to Michal, "Why have you deceived me this way, and sent away my enemy, so that he has escaped?"  And Michal answered Saul, "He said to me, let me go, why should I kill you?"
 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 lived in Naioth.
 19 And it was told Saul, see, "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 on the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.
 21 And when they told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they prophesied also.  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 someone said, "See, they're at Naioth in Ramah."
 23 And he went there to Naioth in Ramah, and the Spirit of God was on him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah.
 24 And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that night.  So they say, "Is Saul also among the prophets?"

___1 Samuel chapter 20
 1 And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, "What have I done?  What is my iniquity?  And what is my sin before your father, so that he seeks my life?"
 2 And he said to him, "God forbid, you shall not die, see, my father will do nothing either great or small, but that he will show it to me, and why should my father hide this thing from me?  It is not so."
 3 And David swore also, and said, "Your father certainly knows that I have found grace in yours eyes, and he says, let Jonathan not know this, so he won't be grieved, but truly as the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death."
 4 Then Jonathan said to David, "Whatever your soul desires, I will do it for you."
 5 And David said to Jonathan, see, "Tomorrow is the new moon, and I shouldn't fail to sit with the king to eat, but let me go, so I can hide myself in the field until the third day at evening.
 6 If your father at all misses me, then say, David earnestly asked permission from me to run to Bethlehem his city, for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family."
 7 If he says like this, "It is well, your servant shall have peace, but if he's very angry, then be sure that evil is determined by him.
 8 Therefore you shall deal kindly with your servant, for you have brought your servant into a covenant of the Lord with you, but if there's sin in me, kill me yourself, for why should you bring me to your father?"
 9 And Jonathan said, "Far be it from you, for if I knew certainly that evil were purposed by my father against you, then wouldn't I tell you?"
 10 Then David said to Jonathan, "Who shall tell me?  Or what if your father answers you 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 sounded my father about to next day any time, or the third day, and, see, if there is good toward David, and I then don't send to you, and show it you,
 13 The Lord do so and much more to Jonathan, but if it pleases my father to do you evil, then I will show it you, and send you away, so you can go in peace, and the Lord be with you, as he has been with my father.
 14 And you shall not only while yet I live show me the kindness of the Lord, so I don't die,
 15 But also you shall not cut off your kindness from my house forever, no, not when the Lord has cut off every one of the enemies of David from the face of the earth."
 16 So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, "Let the Lord require it at the hand of David's enemies."
 17 And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him, for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
 18 Then Jonathan said to David, "Tomorrow is the new moon, and you shall be missed, because your seat will be empty.
 19 And when you've stayed three days, then you shall go down quickly, and come to the place where you hid yourself when the business was in hand, and shall remain by the stone Ezel.
 20 And I will shoot three arrows on the side of it, as though I shot at a mark.
 21 And, see, I will send a lad, saying, go, find the arrows.  If I specifically say to the lad, see, the arrows are on this side of you, take them, then come you, for there is peace to you, and no hurt, as the Lord lives.
 22 But if I say thus to the young man, see, the arrows are beyond you, go your way, for the Lord has sent you away.
 23 And concerning the matter that you and I have spoken of, see, the Lord be between you and me forever."
 24 So David hid himself in the field, and when the new moon had come, the king sat down to eat.
 25 And the king sat on his seat, as at other times, on a seat by the wall, and Jonathan got up, and Abner sat by Saul's side, and David's place was empty.
 26 But Saul didn't say anything that day, for he thought, something has happened him, he is not clean, surely he is not clean.
 27 And on the next day, that was the second day of the month, David's place was empty, and Saul said to Jonathan his son, "So the son of Jesse doesn't come to eat, neither yesterday, nor today?"
 28 And Jonathan answered Saul, "David earnestly asked permission from me to go to Bethlehem,
 29 And he said, let me go, please, for our family has a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has commanded me to be there, and now, if I have found favor in yours eyes, let me get away, please, and see my brothers.  That's why he didn't come to the king's table."
 30 Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, "You son of the perverse rebellious woman, don't I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own confusion, and to the confusion of your mother's nakedness?
 31 For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you shall not be established, nor your kingdom.  So now send and fetch him to me, for he shall surely die."
 32 And Jonathan answered Saul his father, "Why should he be killed?  What has he done?"
 33 And Saul threw a javelin at him to strike him, by which Jonathan knew that it was determined by his father to kill David.
 34 So Jonathan got up from the table in fierce anger, and ate no meat the second day of the month, for he was grieved for David, because his father had done him shame.
 35 And it in the morning, Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little lad with him.
 36 And he said to his lad, run, find now the arrows that I shoot.  And as the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
 37 And when the lad had come to the place of the arrow that Jonathan had shot, Jonathan shouted to the lad, "Is not the arrow beyond you?"
 38 And Jonathan shouted to the lad, "Make speed, hurry up, don't stay."  And Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.
 39 But the lad didn't know anything, only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
 40 And Jonathan gave his bow and arrows to his lad, and said to him, "Go, carry them to the city."
 41 And as soon as the lad had gone, David got up out of a place toward the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times, and they kissed each other, and wept with each other, until David finished.
 42 And Jonathan said to David, "Go in peace, since we have sworn both of us in the name of the Lord, saying, the Lord be between me and you, and between my seed and your seed forever."  And he got up and departed, and Jonathan went into the city.

___1 Samuel chapter 21
 1 Then David went to Nob to Ahimelech the priest, and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said to him, "Why are you alone, and no man with you?"
 2 And David said to Ahimelech the priest, "The king has commanded me a business, and has said to me, let no man know anything of the business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you, and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place.
 3 Now therefore what is under your hand?  Give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or what there is present."
 4 And the priest answered David, and said, "There is no common bread under my hand, but there is hallowed bread, if the young men have kept themselves at least from women."
 5 And David answered the priest, of a truth women have been kept from us for about three days, since I came out, and the containers of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yes, though it were made holy this day in the container."
 6 So the priest gave him hallowed bread, for there was no bread there but the showbread, that was taken from before the Lord, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
 7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the Lord, and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the top man of the herdsmen that belonged to Saul.
 8 And David said to Ahimelech, "And isn't there here under your hand spear or sword?  For I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste."
 9 And the priest said, "The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah, see, it is here, wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod, if you want that, take it, for there is no other one except that here."  And David said, "There is none like that, give it to me."
 10 And David got up, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.
 11 And the servants of Achish said to him, "Isn't this David the king of the land?  Didn't they sing to each other about him in dances, saying, Saul has killed his thousands, and David his ten thousands?"
 12 And David laid up these words in his heart, and was very afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
 13 And he changed his behavior before them, and pretended to be crazy in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spit fall down on his beard.
 14 Then Achish said to his servants, "You see the man is crazy, why then have you brought him to me?
 15 Do I need crazy men, that you have brought this fellow to play the crazy man in my presence?  Shall this fellow come into my house?"

___1 Samuel chapter 22
 1 David therefore departed from there, and escaped to the cave Adullam, and when his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him.
 2 And everyone that was in distress, and everyone that was in debt, and everyone that was discontented, gathered themselves to him, and he became a captain over them, and there were with him about four hundred men.
 3 And David went there to Mizpeh of Moab, and he said to the king of Moab, "Please let my father and my mother come out and be with you, 'til I know what God will do for me."
 4 And he brought them before the king of Moab, and they lived with him all the while that David was in the hold.
 5 And the prophet Gad said to David, "Don't stay in the hold, depart, and get to the land of Judah."  Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth.
 6 When Saul heard that David had been discovered, and the men that were with him, (now Saul lived in Gibeah under a tree in Ramah, having his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing around him,)
 7 Then Saul said to his servants that stood around him, "Hear now, you Benjamites, will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, and make you all captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds,
 8 So that all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that shows me that my son has made a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or shows me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?"
 9 Then Doeg the Edomite answered, who was set over the servants of Saul, and said, "I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
 10 And he inquired of the Lord for him, and gave him food, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine."
 11 Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests that were in Nob, and they came all of them to the king.
 12 And Saul said, "Hear now, you son of Ahitub.  And he answered, here I am, my lord."
 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 should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?"
 14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, "And who is so faithful among all your servants as David, who is the king's son in law, and goes at your bidding, and is honorable in your house?
 15 Did I then begin to inquire of God for him?  Be it far from me, let not the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father, for your servant knew nothing of all this, less or more."
 16 And the king said, "You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father's house."
 17 And the king said to the infantry that stood around him, "Turn, and kill the priests of the Lord, because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not show it to me."  But the servants of the king would not put out their hand to fall on the priests of the Lord.
 18 And the king said to Doeg, "Turn and fall on the priests."  And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell on the priests, and killed on that day eighty five persons that wore a linen ephod.
 19 And he struck Nob, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
 20 And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled to David.
 21 And Abiathar showed David that Saul had killed the Lord's priests.
 22 And David said to Abiathar, "I knew it that day, 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.
 23 Stay with me, fear not, for he that seeks my life seeks your life, but with me you shall be in safeguard."

___1 Samuel chapter 23
 1 Then they told David, saying, "See, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshing floors."
 2 Therefore David inquired of the Lord, saying, "Shall I go and strike these Philistines?"  And the Lord said to David, "Go, and strike the Philistines, and save Keilah."
 3 And David's men said to him, "See, we're afraid here in Judah, how much more then if we come to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?"
 4 Then David inquired of the Lord again.  And the Lord answered him and said, "Get up, go down to Keilah, for I will deliver the Philistines into your hand."
 5 So David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and struck them with a great slaughter.  So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
 6 And when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, he came down with an ephod in his hand.
 7 And it was told Saul that David had come to Keilah.  And Saul said, "God has delivered him into my hand, for he is shut in, by entering into a town that has gates and bars."
 8 And Saul called all the people together to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
 9 And David knew that Saul secretly practiced mischief against him, and he said to Abiathar the priest, bring here the ephod.
 10 Then David said, "O Lord God of Israel, your servant has certainly heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.
 11 Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand?  Will Saul come down, as your servant has heard?  O Lord God of Israel, I beg you, tell your servant."  And the Lord said, "He will come down."
 12 Then David said, "Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?"  And the Lord said, "They will deliver you up."
 13 Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, got up and departed out of Keilah, and went wherever they could go.  And it was told Saul that David had escaped from Keilah, and he didn't go out.
 14 And David lived in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph.  And Saul sought him every day, but God didn't deliver him into his hand.
 15 And David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life, and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the woods.
 16 And Jonathan, Saul's son, got up and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.
 17 And he said to him, "Don't be afraid, for the hand of Saul my father shall not find you, and you shall be king over Israel, and I shall be next to you, and Saul my father also knows that."
 18 And the two of them made a covenant before the Lord, and David stayed in the woods, and Jonathan went to his house.
 19 Then the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, "Doesn't David hide himself with us in strong holds in the woods, in the hill of Hachilah, that is on the south of Jeshimon?
 20 Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of your soul to come down, and our part shall be to deliver him into the king's hand."
 21 And Saul said, "Blessed be you by the Lord, for you have compassion on me.
 22 Go, please, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who has seen him there, for it is told me that he deals very subtlely.
 23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself, and come again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you, and if he's in the land, I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah."
 24 And they got up, and went to Ziph before Saul, but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of Jeshimon.
 25 Saul also and his men went to seek him.  And they told David, so he came down into the rocks, and lived in the wilderness of Maon.  And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.
 26 And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain, and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul, for Saul and his men surrounded David and his men to take them.
 27 But a messenger came to Saul, saying, "Hurry and come, for the Philistines have invaded the land."
 28 So Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines, therefore they called that place Selahammahlekoth.
 29 And David went up from there, and lived in strong holds at Engedi.

___1 Samuel chapter 24
 1 And when Saul had returned from following the Philistines, it was told him, saying, "See, David is in the wilderness of Engedi."
 2 Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men on the rocks of the wild goats.
 3 And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where there was a cave, and Saul went in to cover his feet, and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave.
 4 And the men of David said to him, "See, the day about which the Lord said to you, see, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, so you can do to him as it shall seem good to you."  Then David got up, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe secretly.
 5 And afterward, David's heart struck him, because he had cut off Saul's skirt.
 6 And he said to his men, "The Lord forbid that I should do this thing to my master, the Lord's anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the Lord."
 7 So David stopped his servants with these words, and didn't allow them to rise against Saul.  But Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.
 8 David also got up afterward, and went out of the cave, and shouted after Saul, saying, "My lord the king."  And when Saul looked behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed himself.
 9 And David said to Saul, "Why do you listen to men's words, saying, see, David seeks your hurt?
 10 See, this day your eyes have seen how that the Lord had delivered you today into my hand in the cave, and some told me kill you, but my eye spared you, and I said, I will not put out my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord's anointed.
 11 Also, my father, see, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand, for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn't kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, yet you hunt my soul to take it.
 12 The Lord judge between me and you, and the Lord avenge me of you, but my hand shall not be on you.
 13 As says the proverb of the ancients, wickedness proceeds from the wicked, but my hand shall not be on you.
 14 After whom has the king of Israel come out?  After whom do you pursue?  After a dead dog, after a flea.
 15 The Lord therefore be judge, and judge between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand."
 16 And when David had stopped speaking these words to Saul, Saul said, "Is this your voice, my son David?"  And Saul lifted up his voice, and cried.
 17 And he said to David, "You are more righteous than I, for you have rewarded me good, but I've rewarded you evil.
 18 And you have showed this day how that you have dealt well with me, since when the Lord had delivered me into your hand, you didn't kill.
 19 For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go well away?  So the Lord reward you good for what you've done to me this day.
 20 And now, see, I know well that you shall surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in your hand.
 21 Swear now therefore to me by the Lord, that you will not cut off my descendants after me, and that you will not destroy my name out of my father's house."
 22 And David swore to Saul.  And Saul went home, but David and his men got up to the hold.

___1 Samuel chapter 25
 1 And Samuel died, and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah.  And David got up, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
 2 And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel, and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats, and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
 3 Now the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail, and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful face, but the man was churlish and evil in his doings, and he was of the house of Caleb.
 4 And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.
 5 And David sent out ten young men, and David said to the young men, "Get up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name,
 6 And thus shall you say to him that lives in prosperity, peace be both to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have.
 7 And now I have heard that you have shearers, now your shepherds who were with us, we didn't hurt them, nor was there anything missing to them, all the while they were in Carmel.
 8 Ask your young men, and they will show you.  So let the young men find favor in your eyes, for we come in a good day, please give, whatever comes to your hand to your servants, and to your son David."
 9 And when David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and finished.
 10 And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, "Who is David?  And who is the son of Jesse?  There are many servants these days that break away every man from his master.
 11 Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men, whom I don't know where they're from?"
 12 So David's young men turned their way, and returned, and came and told him all those sayings.
 13 And David said to his men, "Gird on every man his sword."  And every man girded on his sword, and David also girded on his sword, and about four hundred men went up after David, and two hundred stayed by the stuff.
 14 But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, see, "David sent messengers out of the wilderness to greet our master, and he railed at them.
 15 But the men were very good to us, and we were not hurt, nor did we miss anything, as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields,
 16 They were a wall to us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
 17 Now therefore know and consider what you will do, for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household, for he is such a son of Belial, that a man can't speak to him."
 18 Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
 19 And she said to her servants, "Go on before me, see, I come after you."  But she didn't tell her husband Nabal.
 20 And it was so, as she rode on the ass, that she came down by the covert of the hill, and, see, David and his men came down opposite her, and she met them.
 21 Now David had said, "Surely I've kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness in vain, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him, and he has repaid me evil for good.
 22 So and more also do God to the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisses against the wall."
 23 And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,
 24 And fell at his feet, and said, "On me, my lord, on me let this iniquity be, and let your handmaid, please, speak in your audience, and hear the words of your handmaid.
 25 Please let my lord not regard this man of Belial, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he, Nabal is his name, and foolishness is with him, but I, your handmaid, didn't see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.
 26 Now therefore, my lord, as the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, seeing the Lord has withheld you from coming to shed blood, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now let your enemies, and those who seek evil against my lord, be like Nabal.
 27 And now this blessing that your handmaid has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men that follow my lord.
 28 Please forgive the trespass of your handmaid, for the Lord will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights the battles of the Lord, and evil has not been found in you all your days.
 29 Yet a man has risen to pursue you, and to seek your soul, but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord your God, and the souls of your enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
 30 And when the Lord shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and shall have appointed you ruler over Israel,
 31 This shall be no grief to you, nor offence of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood unnecessarily, or that my lord has avenged himself, but when the Lord shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember your handmaid."
 32 And David said to Abigail, "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me,
 33 And blessed be your advice, and blessed be you, who has kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with my own hand.
 34 For in very deed, as the Lord God of Israel lives, who has kept me back from hurting you, unless you had hastened and come to meet me, surely there had not been left to Nabal by the morning light any that pisses against the wall."
 35 So David received from her hand what she had brought him, and said to her, "Go up in peace to your house, see, I have listened to your voice, and have accepted your person."
 36 And Abigail came to Nabal, and, see, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king, and Nabal's heart was merry inside him, for he was very drunken, so she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
 37 But in the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, his heart died inside him, and he became like a stone.
 38 And about ten days afterward, the Lord struck Nabal, so that he died.
 39 And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, "Blessed be the Lord, that has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept his servant from evil, for the Lord has returned the wickedness of Nabal on his own head."  And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.
 40 And when the servants of David had come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, "David sent us to you, to take you to him as wife."
 41 And she got up, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, "See, let your handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord."
 42 And Abigail hurried, and got up, and rode on an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her, and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.
 43 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel, and they were both his wives.
 44 But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.

___1 Samuel chapter 26
 1 And the Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, "Doesn't David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, that is before Jeshimon?"
 2 Then Saul got up, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.
 3 And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah, that is before Jeshimon, by the way.  But David lived in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.
 4 David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul had really come.
 5 And David got up, and came to the place where Saul had pitched, and David saw the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host, and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched around him.
 6 Then David said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, "Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp?  And Abishai said, I will go down with you."
 7 So David and Abishai came to the people by night, and, see, Saul lay sleeping inside the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster, but Abner and the people lay around him.
 8 Then Abishai said to David, "God has delivered your enemy into your hand this day, now therefore let me strike him, please, with the spear to the earth immediately, and I will not strike him the second time."
 9 And David said to Abishai, "Don't destroy him, for who can stretch out his hand against the Lord's anointed, and be guiltless?"
 10 David said also, "As the Lord lives, the Lord shall strike him, or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down into battle, and die.
 11 The Lord forbid that I should stretch out my hand against the Lord's anointed, but please take now the spear that is at his bolster, and the cruse of water, and let's go.
 12 So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's bolster, and they got away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, nor awoke, for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen on them.
 13 Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of an hill afar off, a great distance being between them,
 14 And David shouted to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, "Don't you answer, Abner?"  Then Abner answered and said, "Who are you that calls to the king?"
 15 And David said to Abner, "Aren't you a valiant man?  And who is like you in Israel?  Why then haven't you not kept your lord the king?  For one of the people came in to destroy the king your lord.
 16 This thing is not good that you have done.  As the Lord lives, you are worthy to die, because you haven't kept your master, the Lord's anointed.  And now see where the king's spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his bolster."
 17 And Saul knew David's voice, and said, "Is this your voice, my son David?"  And David said, "It is my voice, my lord, O king."
 18 And he said, "Why does my lord thus pursue after his servant?  For what have I done?  Or what evil is in my hand?
 19 Now therefore, please, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant.  If the Lord has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering, but if they are the children of men, they are cursed before the Lord, for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the Lord, saying, go, serve other gods.
 20 Now therefore, let my blood not fall to the earth before the face of the Lord, for the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, like when someone hunts a partridge in the mountains."
 21 Then Saul said, "I have sinned, return, my son David, for I will no more do you harm, because my soul was precious in yours eyes this day, see, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly."
 22 And David answered, "See the king's spear!  And let one of the young men come over and fetch it.
 23 The Lord render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness, for the Lord delivered you into my hand today, but I would not stretch out my hand against the Lord's anointed.
 24 And, see, as your life was much set by this day in my eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the Lord, and let him deliver me out of all tribulation."
 25 Then Saul said to David, "Blessed be you, my son David, you shall both do great things, and also shall still prevail."  So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.

___1 Samuel chapter 27
 1 And David said in his heart, "I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul, there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines, and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me anymore in any coast of Israel, so I shall escape out of his hand."
 2 And David got up, and he passed over with the six hundred men that were with him to Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.
 3 And David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.
 4 And it was told Saul that David had fled to Gath, and he sought no more again for him.
 5 And David said to Achish, "If I have now found grace in your eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, so I can live there, for why should your servant live in the royal city with you?"
 6 Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day, so Ziklag pertains to the kings of Judah to this day.
 7 And the time that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.
 8 And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites, for those nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, as you go to Shur, to the land of Egypt.
 9 And David struck the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.
 10 And Achish said, "Where have you made a road today?"  And David said, "Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites."
 11 And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring news to Gath, and said, "So that they won't tell on us, saying, so did David, and so will be his manner all the while he lives in the country of the Philistines."
 12 And Achish believed David, saying, "He has made his people Israel completely to hate him, therefore he shall be my servant forever."

___1 Samuel chapter 28
 1 And in those days, the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel.  And Achish said to David, "Know surely, that you'll go out with me to battle, you and your men."
 2 And David said to Achish, "Surely you shall know what your servant can do."  And Achish said to David, "Therefore I'll make you keeper of my head forever."
 3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, in his own city.  And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.
 4 And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched in Shunem, and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa.
 5 And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled.
 6 And when Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord didn't answer him, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
 7 Then said Saul to his servants, "Seek me a woman that has a familiar spirit, so I can go to her, and inquire of her."  And his servants said to him, see, "There is a woman that has a familiar spirit at Endor."
 8 And Saul disguised himself, and put on other clothes, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman at night, and he said, "Please, divine to me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him up, whom I shall name to you."
 9 And the woman said to him, "You know what Saul has done, how he has cut off those that have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land, why then do you lay a trap for my life, to cause me to die?"
 10 And Saul swore to her by the Lord, saying, "As the Lord lives, there shall no punishment happen to you for this thing."
 11 Then the woman said, "Whom shall I bring up to you?"  And he said, "Bring me up Samuel."
 12 And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice, and the woman spoke to Saul, saying, "Why have you deceived me?  For you are Saul."
 13 And the king said to her, "Don't be afraid, what did you see?"  And the woman said to Saul, "I saw gods ascending out of the earth."
 14 And he said to her, "What form does he have?"  And she said, "An old man comes up, and he is covered with a mantle."  And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself.
 15 And Samuel said to Saul, "Why have you disquieted me, to bring me up?"  And Saul answered, "I am very distressed, for the Philistines make war against me, and God has departed from me, and doesn't answer me anymore, neither by prophets, nor by dreams, therefore I've called you, so you can make known to me what I should do."
 16 Then Samuel said, "Why then do you ask me, since the Lord has departed from you, and has become your enemy?
 17 And 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, to David,
 18 Because you didn't obey the voice of the Lord, nor executed his fierce anger on Amalek, therefore the Lord has done this thing to you this day.
 19 The Lord will also deliver Israel with you into the hand of the Philistines, and tomorrow you and your sons shall be with me, the Lord also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of the Philistines."
 20 Then Saul fell immediately down on the earth, and was very afraid, because of the words of Samuel, and there was no strength in him, for he had eaten no bread all day, nor all night.
 21 And the woman came to Saul, and saw that he was very troubled, and said to him, "See, your handmaid has obeyed your voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have listened to your words that you spoke to me.
 22 Now therefore, please, listen also to the voice of your handmaid, and let me set a bite of food before you, and eat, so that you'll have strength, when you go on your way."
 23 But he refused, and said, "I won't eat."  But his servants, together with the woman, compelled him, and he listened to their voice.  So he got up from the earth, and sat on the bed.
 24 And the woman had a fat calf in the house, and she hurried, and killed it, and took flour, and kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread with it,
 25 And she brought it before Saul, and before his servants, and they ate.  Then they rose up, and went away that night.

___1 Samuel chapter 29
 1 Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek, and the Israelites pitched by a fountain that is in Jezreel.
 2 And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands, but David and his men passed on in the rear guard with Achish.
 3 Then the princes of the Philistines said, "What are these Hebrews doing here?"  And Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, "Isn't this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me these days, or these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell to me until this day?"
 4 And the princes of the Philistines were angry with him, and the princes of the Philistines said to him, "Make this fellow go back, so he can return to his place that you've appointed for him, and let him not go down with us to battle, so that he won't be an adversary to us in the battle, for how would he reconcile himself with his master?  Wouldn't it be with the heads of these men?
 5 Isn't this David, about whom they sang to each other in dances, saying, Saul killed his thousands, and David his ten thousands?"
 6 Then Achish called David, and said to him, "Surely, as the Lord lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the host is good in my sight, for I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me until this day, but the lords don't favor you.
 7 So now return, and go in peace, so that you don't displease the lords of the Philistines."
 8 And David said to Achish, "But what have I done?  And what have you found in your servant so long as I have been with you to this day, so that I can't go fight against the enemies of my lord the king?"
 9 And Achish answered and said to David, "I know that you are good in my sight, like an angel of God, but the princes of the Philistines have said, he shall not go up with us to the battle.
 10 So now rise up early in the morning with your master's servants that have come with you, and as soon as you're up early in the morning, and have light, depart."
 11 So David and his men rose up early to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines.  And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

___1 Samuel chapter 30
 1 And when David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and struck Ziklag, and burned it with fire,
 2 And had taken the women captives, that were in it, they didn't kill any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way.
 3 So David and his men came to the city, and, see, it was burned with fire, and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, had been taken captives.
 4 Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
 5 And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
 6 And David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters, but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.
 7 And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, "Please bring the ephod here."  And Abiathar brought the ephod to David.
 8 And David inquired of the Lord, saying, "Shall I pursue after this troop?  Shall I overtake them?"  And he answered him, "Pursue, for you'll surely overtake them, and without fail recover all."
 9 So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.
 10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men, for two hundred stayed behind, that were so faint that they couldn't go over the brook Besor.
 11 And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he ate, and they made him drink water,
 12 And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins, and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him, for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.
 13 And David said to him, "To whom do you belong?  And from where are you?"  And he said, "I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite, and my master left me, because three days ago I fell sick.
 14 We made an invasion on the south of the Cherethites, and on the coast that belongs to Judah, and on the south of Caleb, and we burned Ziklag with fire."
 15 And David said to him, "Can you bring me down to this company?"  And he said, "Swear to me by God, that you will neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this company."
 16 And when he had brought him down, see, they were spread abroad on all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
 17 And David struck them from the twilight until the evening of the next day, and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men, who rode on camels, and fled.
 18 And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away, and David rescued his two wives.
 19 And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor anything that they had taken to them, David recovered all.
 20 And David took all the flocks and the herds, that they drove before those other cattle, and said, "This is David's spoil."
 21 And David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they couldn't follow David, whom they had made also to stay at the brook Besor, and they went out to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him, and when David came near to the people, he greeted them.
 22 Then all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those that went with David said, "Because they didn't go with us, we will not give them any of the spoil that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, so that they can lead them away, and depart."
 23 Then David said, "You shall not do so, my brothers, with that which the Lord has given us, who has preserved us, and delivered the company that came against us into our hand.
 24 For who will listen to you in this matter?  But as his part is that goes down to the battle, so shall his part be that stays by the stuff, they shall divide equally."
 25 And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day.
 26 And when David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the spoil to the elders of Judah, to his friends, saying, "See a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of the Lord,"
 27 To those who were in Bethel, and to those who were in south Ramoth, and to those who were in Jattir,
 28 And to those who were in Aroer, and to those who were in Siphmoth, and to those who were in Eshtemoa,
 29 And to those who were in Rachal, and to those who were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to those who were in the cities of the Kenites,
 30 And to those who were in Hormah, and to those who were in Chorashan, and to those who were in Athach,
 31 And to those who were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men used to frequent.

___1 Samuel chapter 31
 1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down dead in mount Gilboa.
 2 And the Philistines followed hard after Saul and on his sons, and the Philistines killed Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, Saul's sons.
 3 And the battle went badly against Saul, and the archers hit him, and he was severely wounded by the archers.
 4 Then Saul said to his armor bearer, "Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, so that these uncircumcised don't come and thrust me through, and abuse me."  But his armor bearer wouldn't, for he was very afraid.  Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell on it.
 5 And when his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise on his sword, and died with him.
 6 So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor bearer, and all his men, that same day together.
 7 And when the men of Israel that were on the other side of the valley, and those who were on the other side of Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the cities, and fled, and the Philistines came and lived in them.
 8 And on the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the killed, they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa.
 9 And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines all around, to publish it in the house of their idols, and among the people.
 10 And they put his armor in the house of Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Bethshan.
 11 And when the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead heard about what the Philistines had done to Saul,
 12 All the valiant men got up, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Bethshan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
 13 And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.