014:008 Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over to the men,
and we will disclose ourselves to them.
014:009 If they say thus to us, Wait until we come to you; then we
will stand still in our place, and will not go up to them.
014:010 But if they say thus, Come up to us; then we will go up;
for Yahweh has delivered them into our hand: and this shall
be the sign to us.
014:011 Both of them disclosed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines:
and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth
out of the holes where they had hid themselves.
014:012 The men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armor bearer,
and said, Come up to us, and we will show you a thing.
Jonathan said to his armor bearer, Come up after me;
for Yahweh has delivered them into the hand of Israel.
014:013 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 them after him.
014:014 That first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armor bearer made,
was about twenty men, within as it were half a furrow's length
in an acre of land.
014:015 There was a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all
the people; the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled;
and the earth quaked: so there was an exceeding great trembling.
014:016 The watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and behold,
the multitude melted away, and they went [here] and there.
014:017 Then said Saul to the people who were with him, Number now,
and see who is gone from us. When they had numbered, behold,
Jonathan and his armor bearer were not there.
014:018 Saul said to Ahijah, Bring here the ark of God. For the ark
of God was [there] at that time with the children of Israel.
014:019 It happened, while Saul talked to the priest, that the tumult
that was in the camp of the Philistines went on and increased:
and Saul said to the priest, Withdraw your hand.
014:020 Saul and all the people who were with him were gathered together,
and came to the battle: and behold, every man's sword was
against his fellow, [and there was] a very great confusion.
014:021 Now the Hebrews who were with the Philistines as before,
and who went up with them into the camp, [from the country]
round about, even they also [turned] to be with the Israelites
who were with Saul and Jonathan.
014:022 Likewise all the men of Israel who had hid themselves in the hill
country of Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled,
even they also followed hard after them in the battle.
014:023 So Yahweh saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over
by Beth Aven.
014:024 The men of Israel were distressed that day; for Saul had
adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man who eats any
food until it be evening, and I be avenged on my enemies.
So none of the people tasted food.
014:025 All the people came into the forest; and there was honey
on the ground.
014:026 When the people were come to the forest, behold, the honey dropped:
but no man put his hand to his mouth; for the people
feared the oath.
014:027 But Jonathan didn't hear when his father charged the people
with the oath: therefore he put forth the end of the rod
who was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put
his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.
014:028 Then answered one of the people, and said, Your father directly
charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man
who eats food this day. The people were faint.
014:029 Then said Jonathan, My father has troubled the land.
Please look how my eyes have been enlightened, because I
tasted a little of this honey.
014:030 How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely today
of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for now has
there been no great slaughter among the Philistines.
014:031 They struck of the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon.
The people were very faint;
014:032 and the people flew on the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen,
and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people
ate them with the blood.
014:033 Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin
against Yahweh, in that they eat with the blood.
He said, you have dealt treacherously: roll a great stone
to me this day.
014:034 Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and tell them,
Bring me here every man his ox, and every man his sheep,
and kill them here, and eat; and don't sin against Yahweh
in eating with the blood. All the people brought every man
his ox with him that night, and killed them there.
014:035 Saul built an altar to Yahweh: the same was the first altar
that he built to Yahweh.
014:036 Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night,
and take spoil among them until the morning light, and let us not
leave a man of them. They said, Do whatever seems good to you.
Then said the priest, Let us draw near here to God.
014:037 Saul asked counsel of 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.
014:038 Saul said, Draw near here, all you chiefs of the people;
and know and see in which this sin has been this day.
014:039 For, as Yahweh lives, who saves Israel, though it be in Jonathan
my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among
all the people who answered him.
014:040 Then said he to all Israel, Be you on one side,
and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side.
The people said to Saul, Do what seems good to you.
014:041 Therefore Saul said to Yahweh, the God of Israel, Show the right.
Jonathan and Saul were taken [by lot]; but the people escaped.
014:042 Saul said, Cast [lots] between me and Jonathan my son.
Jonathan was taken.
014:043 Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what you have done.
Jonathan told him, and said, I did certainly taste a little
honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand; and behold,
I must die.
014:044 Saul said, God do so and more also; for you shall
surely die, Jonathan.
014:045 The people said to Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who has
worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it:
as Yahweh 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, that he didn't die.
014:046 Then Saul went up from following the Philistines;
and the Philistines went to their own place.
014:047 Now when Saul had taken the kingdom over Israel, he 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 put [them] to the worse.
014:048 He did valiantly, and struck the Amalekites, and delivered
Israel out of the hands of those who despoiled them.
014:049 Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishvi, and Malchishua;
and the names of his two daughters were these: the name
of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal:
014:050 and the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz.
The name of the captain of his army was Abner the son
of Ner, Saul's uncle.
014:051 Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was
the son of Abiel.
014:052 There was sore war against the Philistines all the days of Saul:
and when Saul saw any mighty man, or any valiant man,
he took him to him.
015:001 Samuel said to Saul, Yahweh sent me to anoint you to be king
over his people, over Israel: now therefore listen you
to the voice of the words of Yahweh.
015:002 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, I have marked that which Amalek
did to Israel, how he set himself against him in the way,
when he came up out of Egypt.
015:003 Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have,
and don't spare them; but kill both man and woman,
infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.
015:004 Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim,
two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
015:005 Saul came to the city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.
015:006 Saul said to the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among
the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you shown kindness
to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt.
So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
015:007 Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur,
that is before Egypt.
015:008 He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly
destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
015:009 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 wouldn't utterly destroy them: but everything
that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
015:010 Then came the word of Yahweh to Samuel, saying,
015:011 It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned
back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.
Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.
015:012 Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and it
was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and behold,
he set him up a monument, and turned, and passed on,
and went down to Gilgal.
015:013 Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, Blessed are you
by Yahweh: I have performed the commandment of Yahweh.
015:014 Samuel said, What means then this bleating of the sheep in my ears,
and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?
015:015 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 Yahweh your God; and the rest we
have utterly destroyed.
015:016 Then Samuel said to Saul, Stay, and I will tell you what Yahweh
has said to me this night. He said to him, Say on.
015:017 Samuel said, "Though you were little in your own sight,
weren't you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed
you king over Israel;
015:018 and Yahweh sent you on a journey, and said, 'Go, and utterly
destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them
until they are consumed.'
015:019 Why then didn't you obey the voice of Yahweh, but flew on the spoil,
and did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh?"
015:020 Saul said to Samuel, Yes, I have obeyed the voice of Yahweh,
and have gone the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag
the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
015:021 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief
of the devoted things, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God in Gilgal.
015:022 Samuel said, Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings
and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Yahweh? Behold, to obey
is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
015:023 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is
as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected the word
of Yahweh, he has also rejected you from being king.
015:024 Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned; for I have transgressed
the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared
the people, and obeyed their voice.
015:025 Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and turn again with me,
that I may worship Yahweh.
015:026 Samuel said to Saul, I will not return with you; for you
have rejected the word of Yahweh, and Yahweh has rejected
you from being king over Israel.
015:027 As Samuel turned about to go away, [Saul] laid hold on the skirt
of his robe, and it tore.
015:028 Samuel said to him, Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel
from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours
who is better than you.
015:029 Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent;
for he is not a man, that he should repent.
015:030 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,
that I may worship Yahweh your God.
015:031 So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshiped Yahweh.
015:032 Then said Samuel, Bring you here to me Agag the king
of the Amalekites. Agag came to him cheerfully.
Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.
015:033 Samuel said, As your sword has made women childless, so shall
your mother be childless among women. Samuel hewed Agag
in pieces before Yahweh in Gilgal.
015:034 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house
to Gibeah of Saul.
015:035 Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death;
for Samuel mourned for Saul: and Yahweh grieved that he had
made Saul king over Israel.
016:001 Yahweh said to Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I
have rejected him from being king over Israel? fill your horn
with oil, and go: I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite;
for I have provided me a king among his sons.
016:002 Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me.
Yahweh said, Take a heifer with you, and say, I am come
to sacrifice to Yahweh.
016:003 Call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do:
and you shall anoint to me him whom I name to you.
016:004 Samuel did that which Yahweh spoke, and came to Bethlehem.
The elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said,
Come you peaceably?
016:005 He said, Peaceably; I am come to sacrifice to Yahweh:
sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.
He sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.
016:006 It happened, when they had come, that he looked at Eliab,
and said, Surely Yahweh's anointed is before him.
016:007 But Yahweh said to Samuel, "Don't look on his face, or on
the height of his stature; because I have rejected him:
for [Yahweh sees] not as man sees; for man looks at the
outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart."
016:008 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel.
He said, Neither has Yahweh chosen this.
016:009 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. He said, Neither has
Yahweh chosen this.
016:010 Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel.
Samuel said to Jesse, Yahweh has not chosen these.
016:011 Samuel said to Jesse, Are here all your children?
He said, There remains yet the youngest, and behold, he is
keeping the sheep. Samuel said to Jesse, Send and get him;
for we will not sit down until he come here.
016:012 He sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy,
and withal of a beautiful face, and goodly to look on.
Yahweh said, Arise, anoint him; for this is he.
016:013 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst
of his brothers: and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily
on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up,
and went to Ramah.
016:014 Now the Spirit of Yahweh departed from Saul, and an evil spirit
from Yahweh troubled him.
016:015 Saul's servants said to him, See now, an evil spirit from
God troubles you.
016:016 Let our lord now command your servants who are before you,
to seek out a man who is a skillful player on the harp:
and it shall happen, when the evil spirit from God is on you,
that he shall play with his hand, and you shall be well.
016:017 Saul said to his servants, Provide me now a man who can play well,
and bring him to me.
016:018 Then answered one of the young men, and said, Behold, I have seen
a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing,
and a mighty man of valor, and a man of war, and prudent
in speech, and a comely person; and Yahweh is with him.
016:019 Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, Send me
David your son, who is with the sheep.
016:020 Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, and a bottle of wine,
and a kid, and sent them by David his son to Saul.
016:021 David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly;
and he became his armor bearer.
016:022 Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Please let David stand before me;
for he has found favor in my sight.
016:023 It happened, when the [evil] spirit from God was on Saul,
that David took the harp, and played with his hand:
so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit
departed from him.
017:001 Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle;
and they were gathered together at Socoh, which belongs to Judah,
and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim.
017:002 Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together,
and encamped in the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array
against the Philistines.
017:003 The Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side,
and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side:
and there was a valley between them.
017:004 There went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines,
named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
017:005 He had a helmet of brass on his head, and he was clad with a
coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand
shekels of brass.
017:006 He had brass shin armor on his legs, and a javelin of brass
between his shoulders.
017:007 The staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam;
and his spear's head [weighed] six hundred shekels of iron:
and his shield bearer went before him.
017:008 He stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them,
Why are you come out to set your battle in array? am I not
a Philistine, and you servants to Saul? choose you a man for you,
and let him come down to me.
017:009 If he be able to fight with me, and kill me, then will we
be your servants; but if I prevail against him, and kill him,
then shall you be our servants, and serve us.
017:010 The Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day;
give me a man, that we may fight together.
017:011 When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine,
they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.
017:012 Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah,
whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man was
an old man in the days of Saul, stricken [in years] among men.
017:013 The three eldest sons of Jesse had gone after Saul to the battle:
and the names of his three sons who went to the battle
were Eliab the firstborn, and next to him Abinadab,
and the third Shammah.
017:014 David was the youngest; and the three eldest followed Saul.
017:015 Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father's
sheep at Bethlehem.
017:016 The Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented
himself forty days.
017:017 Jesse said to David his son, Take now for your brothers
an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves,
and carry [them] quickly to the camp to your brothers;
017:018 and bring these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand,
and look how your brothers fare, and take their pledge.
017:019 Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley
of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
017:020 David rose 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 place of the wagons, as the army which was
going forth to the fight shouted for the battle.
017:021 Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array,
army against army.
017:022 David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage,
and ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers.
017:023 As he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion,
the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the ranks
of the Philistines, and spoke according to the same words:
and David heard them.
017:024 All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him,
and were sore afraid.
017:025 The men of Israel said, Have you seen this man who is come
up? surely to defy Israel is he 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.
017:026 David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, What shall
be done to the man who kills this Philistine, and takes away
the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine,
that he should defy the armies of the living God?
017:027 The people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall
it be done to the man who kills him.
017:028 Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab's
anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why are you come down?
and with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness?
I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart;
for you have come down that you might see the battle.
017:029 David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?
017:030 He turned away from him toward another, and spoke after
the same manner: and the people answered him again after
the former manner.
017:031 When the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed
them before Saul; and he sent for him.
017:032 David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him;
your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.
017:033 Saul said to David, You are not able to go against this
Philistine to fight with him; for you are but a youth,
and he a man of war from his youth.
017:034 David said to Saul, Your servant was keeping his father's sheep;
and when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb out
of the flock,
017:035 I went out after him, and struck him, and delivered it out
of his mouth; and when he arose against me, I caught him
by his beard, and struck him, and killed him.
017:036 Your servant struck both the lion and the bear:
and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them,
seeing he has defied the armies of the living God.
017:037 David said, Yahweh who 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. Saul said to David, Go, and Yahweh shall
be with you.
017:038 Saul clad David with his clothing, and he put a helmet of brass
on his head, and he clad him with a coat of mail.
017:039 David girded his sword on his clothing, and he tried to go;
for he had not proved it. David said to Saul, I can't go with these;
for I have not proved them. David put them off him.
017:040 He took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones
out of the brook, and put them in the shepherd's bag which
he had, even in his wallet; and his sling was in his hand:
and he drew near to the Philistine.
017:041 The Philistine came on and drew near to David; and the man
who bore the shield went before him.
017:042 When the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him;
for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and withal of a fair face.
017:043 The Philistine said to David, Am I a dog, that you come to me
with sticks? The Philistine cursed David by his gods.
017:044 The Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give
your flesh to the birds of the sky, and to the animals
of the field.
017:045 Then said David to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword,
and with a spear, and with a javelin: but I come to you in
the name of Yahweh of Armies, the God of the armies of Israel,
whom you have defied.
017:046 This day will Yahweh deliver you into my hand; and I will
strike you, and take your head from off you; and I will give
the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines this day
to the birds of the sky, and to the wild animals of the earth;
that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,
017:047 and that all this assembly may know that Yahweh doesn't
save with sword and spear: for the battle is Yahweh's,
and he will give you into our hand.
017:048 It happened, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew near
to meet David, that David hurried, and ran toward the army
to meet the Philistine.
017:049 David put his hand in his bag, and took there a stone,
and slang it, and struck the Philistine in his forehead;
and the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face
to the earth.
017:050 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.
017:051 Then David ran, and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword,
and drew it out of the sheath of it, and killed him,
and cut off his head therewith. When the Philistines saw
that their champion was dead, they fled.
017:052 The men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued
the Philistines, until you come to Gai, and to the gates of Ekron.
The wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim,
even to Gath, and to Ekron.
017:053 The children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines,
and they plundered their camp.
017:054 David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem;
but he put his armor in his tent.
017:055 When Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said to Abner,