# Bible

BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 9
Verse: 37
VText:
And Gaal spake again and said, See there come people down by the middle of the land, and another company come along by the plain of Meonenim.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 9
Verse: 38
VText:
Then said Zebul unto him, Where [is] now thy mouth, wherewith thou saidst, Who [is] Abimelech, that we should serve him? [is] not this the people that thou hast despised? go out, I pray now, and fight with them.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 9
Verse: 40
VText:
And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many were overthrown [and] wounded, [even] unto the entering of the gate.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 9
Verse: 41
VText:
And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah: and Zebul thrust out Gaal and his brethren, that they should not dwell in Shechem.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 9
Verse: 42
VText:
And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 9
Verse: 43
VText:
And he took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field, and looked, and, behold, the people [were] come forth out of the city; and he rose up against them, and smote them.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 9
Verse: 44
VText:
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 upon all [the people] that [were] in the fields, and slew them.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 9
Verse: 45
VText:
And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that [was] therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 9
Verse: 46
VText:
And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard [that], they entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 9
Verse: 48
VText:
And Abimelech gat him 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 unto the people that [were] with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, [and] do as I [have done].


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 9
Verse: 49
VText:
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 upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 9
Verse: 51
VText:
But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut [it] to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 9
Verse: 52
VText:
And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 9
Verse: 54
VText:
Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A woman slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 9
Verse: 56
VText:
Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 9
Verse: 57
VText:
And all the evil of the men of Shechem did God render upon their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 10
Verse: 1
VText:
And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 10
Verse: 4
VText:
And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havothjair unto this day, which [are] in the land of Gilead.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 10
Verse: 6
VText:
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 served not him.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 10
Verse: 7
VText:
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.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 10
Verse: 8
VText:
And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that [were] on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which [is] in Gilead.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 10
Verse: 9
VText:
Moreover 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 sore distressed.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 10
Verse: 10
VText:
And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 10
Verse: 11
VText:
And the LORD said unto the children of Israel, [Did] not [I deliver you] from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 10
Verse: 12
VText:
The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 10
Verse: 14
VText:
Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 10
Verse: 15
VText:
And the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, this day.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 10
Verse: 16
VText:
And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 10
Verse: 17
VText:
Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpeh.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 10
Verse: 18
VText:
And the people [and] princes of Gilead said one to another, What man [is he] that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 1
VText:
Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he [was] the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 2
VText:
And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and his wife's sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house; for thou [art] the son of a strange woman.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 3
VText:
Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with him.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 5
VText:
And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob:


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 6
VText:
And they said unto Jephthah, Come, and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 7
VText:
And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expel me out of my father's house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 8
VText:
And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Therefore we turn again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 9
VText:
And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the LORD deliver them before me, shall I be your head?


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 10
VText:
And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, The LORD be witness between us, if we do not so according to thy words.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 11
VText:
Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain over them: and Jephthah uttered all his words before the LORD in Mizpeh.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 12
VText:
And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against me to fight in my land?


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 13
VText:
And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore restore those [lands] again peaceably.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 15
VText:
And said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah, Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 16
VText:
But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 17
VText:
Then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king of Edom would not hearken [thereto]. And in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab: but he would not [consent]: and Israel abode in Kadesh.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 18
VText:
Then they went along through the wilderness, and compassed 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 came not within the border of Moab: for Arnon [was] the border of Moab.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 19
VText:
And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land into my place.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 20
VText:
But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 21
VText:
And the LORD God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 22
VText:
And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 23
VText:
So now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 24
VText:
Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the LORD our God shall drive out from before us, them will we possess.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 25
VText:
And now [art] thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them,


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 26
VText:
While Israel dwelt 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 did ye not recover [them] within that time?


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 27
VText:
Wherefore I have not sinned against thee, but thou doest me wrong to war against me: the LORD the Judge be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 28
VText:
Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 29
VText:
Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over [unto] the children of Ammon.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 30
VText:
And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 31
VText:
Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth 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.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 32
VText:
So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 33
VText:
And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, [even] twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 34
VText:
And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, 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.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 35
VText:
And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot go back.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 36
VText:
And she said unto him, My father, [if] thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, [even] of the children of Ammon.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 37
VText:
And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 38
VText:
And he said, Go. And he sent her away [for] two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 39
VText:
And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her [according] to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel,


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 11
Verse: 40
VText:
[That] the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 12
Verse: 1
VText:
And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 12
Verse: 2
VText:
And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not out of their hands.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 12
Verse: 3
VText:
And when I saw that ye delivered [me] not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 12
Verse: 4
VText:
Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites [are] fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, [and] among the Manassites.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 12
Verse: 5
VText:
And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was [so], that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, [Art] thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 12
Verse: 6
VText:
Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce [it] right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 12
Verse: 7
VText:
And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in [one of] the cities of Gilead.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 12
Verse: 9
VText:
And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, [whom] he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 12
Verse: 14
VText:
And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 12
Verse: 15
VText:
And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 13
Verse: 1
VText:
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.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 13
Verse: 2
VText:
And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name [was] Manoah; and his wife [was] barren, and bare not.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 13
Verse: 3
VText:
And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou [art] barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 13
Verse: 4
VText:
Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean [thing]:


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 13
Verse: 5
VText:
For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no rasor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 13
Verse: 6
VText:
Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance [was] like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he [was], neither told he me his name:


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 13
Verse: 7
VText:
But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean [thing]: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 13
Verse: 8
VText:
Then Manoah intreated the LORD, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 13
Verse: 9
VText:
And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah her husband [was] not with her.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 13
Verse: 10
VText:
And the woman made haste, and ran, and shewed her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me the [other] day.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 13
Verse: 11
VText:
And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, [Art] thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I [am].


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 13
Verse: 12
VText:
And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and [how] shall we do unto him?


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 13
Verse: 14
VText:
She may not eat of any [thing] that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean [thing]: all that I commanded her let her observe.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 13
Verse: 15
VText:
And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 13
Verse: 16
VText:
And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD. For Manoah knew not that he [was] an angel of the LORD.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 13
Verse: 17
VText:
And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, What [is] thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 13
Verse: 19
VText:
So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered [it] upon a rock unto the LORD: and [the angel] did wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 13
Verse: 20
VText:
For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on [it], and fell on their faces to the ground.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 13
Verse: 21
VText:
But the angel of the LORD did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he [was] an angel of the LORD.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 13
Verse: 23
VText:
But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these [things], nor would as at this time have told us [such things] as these.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 14
Verse: 2
VText:
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 to wife.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 14
Verse: 3
VText:
Then his father and his mother said unto him, [Is there] never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 14
Verse: 4
VText:
But his father and his mother knew not that it [was] of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 14
Verse: 5
VText:
Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 14
Verse: 6
VText:
And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and [he had] nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 14
Verse: 8
VText:
And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, [there was] a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 14
Verse: 9
VText:
And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 14
Verse: 10
VText:
So his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 14
Verse: 12
VText:
And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find [it] out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty change of garments:


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 14
Verse: 13
VText:
But if ye cannot declare [it] me, then shall ye give me thirty sheets and thirty change of garments. And they said unto him, Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 14
Verse: 14
VText:
And he said unto them, Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days expound the riddle.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 14
Verse: 15
VText:
And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said unto Samson's wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house with fire: have ye called us to take that we have? [is it] not [so]?


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 14
Verse: 16
VText:
And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told [it] me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told [it] my father nor my mother, and shall I tell [it] thee?


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 14
Verse: 17
VText:
And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 14
Verse: 18
VText:
And the men of the city said unto 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 unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 14
Verse: 19
VText:
And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 15
Verse: 1
VText:
But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 15
Verse: 2
VText:
And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: [is] not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 15
Verse: 3
VText:
And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 15
Verse: 4
VText:
And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 15
Verse: 5
VText:
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.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 15
Verse: 6
VText:
Then the Philistines said, Who hath 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.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 15
Verse: 7
VText:
And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 15
Verse: 8
VText:
And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 15
Verse: 10
VText:
And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 15
Verse: 11
VText:
Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines [are] rulers over us? what [is] this [that] thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 15
Verse: 12
VText:
And they said unto him, We are come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 15
Verse: 13
VText:
And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 15
Verse: 14
VText:
[And] when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that [were] upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 15
Verse: 15
VText:
And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 15
Verse: 16
VText:
And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 15
Verse: 17
VText:
And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramathlehi.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 15
Verse: 18
VText:
And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 15
Verse: 19
VText:
But God clave an hollow place that [was] in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkore, which [is] in Lehi unto this day.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 16
Verse: 2
VText:
[And it was told] the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed [him] in, 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.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 16
Verse: 3
VText:
And Samson lay till midnight, and arose 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] upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that [is] before Hebron.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 16
Verse: 4
VText:
And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name [was] Delilah.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 16
Verse: 5
VText:
And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength [lieth], and by what [means] we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred [pieces] of silver.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 16
Verse: 6
VText:
And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength [lieth], and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 16
Verse: 7
VText:
And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withs that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 16
Verse: 8
VText:
Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withs which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 16
Verse: 9
VText:
Now [there were] men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines [be] upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 16
Verse: 10
VText:
And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 16
Verse: 11
VText:
And he said unto her, If they bind me fast with new ropes that never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 16
Verse: 12
VText:
Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines [be] upon thee, Samson. And [there were] liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he brake them from off his arms like a thread.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 16
Verse: 13
VText:
And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 16
Verse: 14
VText:
And she fastened [it] with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines [be] upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 16
Verse: 15
VText:
And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart [is] not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength [lieth].


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 16
Verse: 16
VText:
And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, [so] that his soul was vexed unto death;


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 16
Verse: 17
VText:
That he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a rasor upon mine head; for I [have been] a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any [other] man.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 16
Verse: 18
VText:
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 hath shewed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in their hand.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 16
Verse: 19
VText:
And she made him sleep upon 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.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 16
Verse: 20
VText:
And she said, The Philistines [be] upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 16
Verse: 21
VText:
But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 16
Verse: 23
VText:
Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 16
Verse: 24
VText:
And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 16
Verse: 25
VText:
And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 16
Verse: 26
VText:
And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I may lean upon them.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 16
Verse: 27
VText:
Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines [were] there; and [there were] upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 16
Verse: 28
VText:
And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 16
Verse: 29
VText:
And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 16
Verse: 30
VText:
And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with [all his] might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that [were] therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than [they] which he slew in his life.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 16
Verse: 31
VText:
Then his brethren 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 buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 17
Verse: 2
VText:
And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred [shekels] of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver [is] with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed [be thou] of the LORD, my son.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 17
Verse: 3
VText:
And when he had restored the eleven hundred [shekels] of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 17
Verse: 4
VText:
Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred [shekels] of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 17
Verse: 5
VText:
And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 17
Verse: 6
VText:
In those days [there was] no king in Israel, [but] every man did [that which was] right in his own eyes.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 17
Verse: 7
VText:
And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah, who [was] a Levite, and he sojourned there.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 17
Verse: 8
VText:
And the man departed out of the city from Bethlehemjudah to sojourn where he could find [a place]: and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 17
Verse: 9
VText:
And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, I [am] a Levite of Bethlehemjudah, and I go to sojourn where I may find [a place].


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 17
Verse: 10
VText:
And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten [shekels] of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 17
Verse: 11
VText:
And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 17
Verse: 12
VText:
And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 18
Verse: 1
VText:
In those days [there was] no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day [all their] inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 18
Verse: 2
VText:
And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 18
Verse: 3
VText:
When they [were] by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite: and they turned in thither, and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what makest thou in this [place]? and what hast thou here?


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 18
Verse: 5
VText:
And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 18
Verse: 7
VText:
Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that [were] therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and [there was] no magistrate in the land, that might put [them] to shame in [any] thing; and they [were] far from the Zidonians, and had no business with [any] man.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 18
Verse: 8
VText:
And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What [say] ye?


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 18
Verse: 9
VText:
And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it [is] very good: and [are] ye still? be not slothful to go, [and] to enter to possess the land.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 18
Verse: 10
VText:
When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where [there is] no want of any thing that [is] in the earth.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 18
Verse: 11
VText:
And there went from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men appointed with weapons of war.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 18
Verse: 12
VText:
And they went up, and pitched in Kirjathjearim, in Judah: wherefore they called that place Mahanehdan unto this day: behold, [it is] behind Kirjathjearim.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 18
Verse: 14
VText:
Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 18
Verse: 15
VText:
And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, [even] unto the house of Micah, and saluted him.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 18
Verse: 16
VText:
And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war, which [were] of the children of Dan, stood by the entering of the gate.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 18
Verse: 17
VText:
And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, [and] came in thither, [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.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 18
Verse: 18
VText:
And these went into Micah's house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest unto them, What do ye?


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 18
Verse: 19
VText:
And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: [is it] better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 18
Verse: 20
VText:
And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 18
Verse: 22
VText:
[And] when they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men that [were] in the houses near to Micah's house were gathered together, and overtook the children of Dan.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 18
Verse: 23
VText:
And they cried unto the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 18
Verse: 24
VText:
And he said, Ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and ye are gone away: and what have I more? and what [is] this [that] ye say unto me, What aileth thee?


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 18
Verse: 25
VText:
And the children of Dan said unto him, Let not thy voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows run upon thee, and thou lose thy life, with the lives of thy household.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 18
Verse: 26
VText:
And the children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they [were] too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 18
Verse: 27
VText:
And they took [the things] which Micah had made, and the priest which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people [that were] at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 18
Verse: 28
VText:
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 [lieth] by Bethrehob. And they built a city, and dwelt therein.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 18
Verse: 29
VText:
And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city [was] Laish at the first.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 18
Verse: 30
VText:
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.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 18
Verse: 31
VText:
And they set them up Micah's graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 19
Verse: 1
VText:
And it came to pass in those days, when [there was] no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehemjudah.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 19
Verse: 2
VText:
And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father's house to Bethlehemjudah, and was there four whole months.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 19
Verse: 3
VText:
And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak friendly unto 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.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 19
Verse: 4
VText:
And his father in law, the damsel's father, retained him; and he abode with him three days: so they did eat and drink, and lodged there.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 19
Verse: 5
VText:
And it came to pass on the fourth day, when they arose early in the morning, that he rose up to depart: and the damsel's father said unto his son in law, Comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward go your way.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 19
Verse: 6
VText:
And they sat down, and did eat and drink both of them together: for the damsel's father had said unto the man, Be content, I pray thee, and tarry all night, and let thine heart be merry.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 19
Verse: 8
VText:
And he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart: and the damsel's father said, Comfort thine heart, I pray thee. And they tarried until afternoon, and they did eat both of them.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 19
Verse: 9
VText:
And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father in law, the damsel's father, said unto him, Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day groweth to an end, lodge here, that thine heart may be merry; and to morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 19
Verse: 10
VText:
But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus, which [is] Jerusalem; and [there were] with him two asses saddled, his concubine also [was] with him.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 19
Verse: 11
VText:
[And] when they [were] by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said unto his master, Come, I pray thee, and let us turn in into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 19
Verse: 12
VText:
And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside hither into the city of a stranger, that [is] not of the children of Israel; we will pass over to Gibeah.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 19
Verse: 13
VText:
And he said unto his servant, Come, and let us draw near to one of these places to lodge all night, in Gibeah, or in Ramah.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 19
Verse: 14
VText:
And they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down upon them [when they were] by Gibeah, which [belongeth] to Benjamin.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 19
Verse: 15
VText:
And they turned aside thither, to go in [and] to lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for [there was] no man that took them into his house to lodging.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 19
Verse: 16
VText:
And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, which [was] also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place [were] Benjamites.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 19
Verse: 17
VText:
And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 19
Verse: 18
VText:
And he said unto him, We [are] passing from Bethlehemjudah toward the side of mount Ephraim; from thence [am] I: and I went to Bethlehemjudah, but I [am now] going to the house of the LORD; and there [is] no man that receiveth me to house.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 19
Verse: 19
VText:
Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man [which is] with thy servants: [there is] no want of any thing.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 19
Verse: 20
VText:
And the old man said, Peace [be] with thee; howsoever [let] all thy wants [lie] upon me; only lodge not in the street.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 19
Verse: 21
VText:
So he brought him into his house, and gave provender unto the asses: and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 19
Verse: 22
VText:
[Now] as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, [and] beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 19
Verse: 23
VText:
And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, [nay], I pray you, do not [so] wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 19
Verse: 24
VText:
Behold, [here is] my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 19
Verse: 25
VText:
But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto 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.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 19
Verse: 26
VText:
Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord [was], till it was light.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 19
Verse: 27
VText:
And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down [at] the door of the house, and her hands [were] upon the threshold.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 19
Verse: 28
VText:
And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going. But none answered. Then the man took her [up] upon an ass, and the man rose up, and gat him unto his place.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 19
Verse: 29
VText:
And when he was come into 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.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 19
Verse: 30
VText:
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 unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak [your minds].


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 1
VText:
Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpeh.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 2
VText:
And the chief of all the people, [even] of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 3
VText:
(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell [us], how was this wickedness?


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 4
VText:
And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that [belongeth] to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 5
VText:
And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, [and] thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 6
VText:
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 folly in Israel.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 8
VText:
And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any [of us] go to his tent, neither will we any [of us] turn into his house.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 10
VText:
And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 12
VText:
And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness [is] this that is done among you?


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 13
VText:
Now therefore deliver [us] the men, the children of Belial, which [are] in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel:


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 14
VText:
But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 15
VText:
And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 16
VText:
Among all this people [there were] seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair [breadth], and not miss.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 17
VText:
And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these [were] men of war.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 18
VText:
And the children of Israel arose, 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.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 20
VText:
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.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 21
VText:
And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 22
VText:
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.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 23
VText:
(And the children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until even, and asked counsel of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the LORD said, Go up against him.)


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 25
VText:
And Benjamin went forth 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.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 26
VText:
Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the LORD, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 27
VText:
And the children of Israel inquired of the LORD, (for the ark of the covenant of God [was] there in those days,


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 28
VText:
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 cease? And the LORD said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 30
VText:
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.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 31
VText:
And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, [and] were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, [and] kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 32
VText:
And the children of Benjamin said, They [are] smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 33
VText:
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 forth out of their places, [even] out of the meadows of Gibeah.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 34
VText:
And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil [was] near them.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 35
VText:
And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 36
VText:
So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the men of Israel gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set beside Gibeah.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 37
VText:
And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in wait drew [themselves] along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 38
VText:
Now there was an 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.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 39
VText:
And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to smite [and] kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as [in] the first battle.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 40
VText:
But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 41
VText:
And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 42
VText:
Therefore they turned [their backs] before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which [came] out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 43
VText:
[Thus] they inclosed the Benjamites round about, [and] chased them, [and] trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward the sunrising.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 45
VText:
And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 46
VText:
So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these [were] men of valour.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 47
VText:
But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 20
Verse: 48
VText:
And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote 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.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 21
Verse: 1
VText:
Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 21
Verse: 2
VText:
And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 21
Verse: 3
VText:
And said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 21
Verse: 4
VText:
And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 21
Verse: 5
VText:
And the children of Israel said, Who [is there] among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation unto the LORD? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the LORD to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 21
Verse: 6
VText:
And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 21
Verse: 7
VText:
How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 21
Verse: 8
VText:
And they said, What one [is there] of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabeshgilead to the assembly.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 21
Verse: 9
VText:
For the people were numbered, and, behold, [there were] none of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead there.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 21
Verse: 10
VText:
And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 21
Verse: 11
VText:
And this [is] the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 21
Verse: 12
VText:
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 unto the camp to Shiloh, which [is] in the land of Canaan.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 21
Verse: 13
VText:
And the whole congregation sent [some] to speak to the children of Benjamin that [were] in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 21
Verse: 14
VText:
And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 21
Verse: 15
VText:
And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 21
Verse: 16
VText:
Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 21
Verse: 17
VText:
And they said, [There must be] an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 21
Verse: 18
VText:
Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed [be] he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 21
Verse: 19
VText:
Then they said, Behold, [there is] a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly [in a place] which [is] on the north side of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 21
Verse: 21
VText:
And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 21
Verse: 22
VText:
And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, [that] ye should be guilty.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 21
Verse: 23
VText:
And the children of Benjamin did so, and took [them] wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.


BookID: 7
BookAbr: Jg
BookName: Judges
Chapter: 21
Verse: 24
VText:
And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 1
Verse: 1
VText:
Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 1
Verse: 2
VText:
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.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 1
Verse: 4
VText:
And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one [was] Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 1
Verse: 5
VText:
And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 1
Verse: 6
VText:
Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 1
Verse: 7
VText:
Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters in law with her; and they went on the way to return unto the land of Judah.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 1
Verse: 8
VText:
And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother's house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 1
Verse: 9
VText:
The LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each [of you] in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 1
Verse: 11
VText:
And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? [are] there yet [any more] sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 1
Verse: 12
VText:
Turn again, my daughters, go [your way]; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, [if] I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 1
Verse: 13
VText:
Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 1
Verse: 14
VText:
And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 1
Verse: 15
VText:
And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 1
Verse: 16
VText:
And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, [or] to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people [shall be] my people, and thy God my God:


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 1
Verse: 17
VText:
Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, [if ought] but death part thee and me.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 1
Verse: 19
VText:
So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they said, [Is] this Naomi?


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 1
Verse: 20
VText:
And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 1
Verse: 21
VText:
I went out full, and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why [then] call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 1
Verse: 22
VText:
So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 2
Verse: 1
VText:
And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name [was] Boaz.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 2
Verse: 2
VText:
And Ruth the Moabitess said unto 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 unto her, Go, my daughter.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 2
Verse: 3
VText:
And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field [belonging] unto Boaz, who [was] of the kindred of Elimelech.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 2
Verse: 4
VText:
And, behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said unto the reapers, The LORD [be] with you. And they answered him, The LORD bless thee.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 2
Verse: 6
VText:
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:


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 2
Verse: 7
VText:
And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves: so she came, and hath continued even from the morning until now, that she tarried a little in the house.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 2
Verse: 8
VText:
Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens:


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 2
Verse: 9
VText:
[Let] thine eyes [be] on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of [that] which the young men have drawn.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 2
Verse: 10
VText:
Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I [am] a stranger?


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 2
Verse: 11
VText:
And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and [how] thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 2
Verse: 12
VText:
The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 2
Verse: 13
VText:
Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 2
Verse: 14
VText:
And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched [corn], and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 2
Verse: 15
VText:
And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not:


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 2
Verse: 16
VText:
And let fall also [some] of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave [them], that she may glean [them], and rebuke her not.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 2
Verse: 17
VText:
So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 2
Verse: 18
VText:
And she took [it] up, and went into the city: and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 2
Verse: 19
VText:
And her mother in law said unto her, Where hast thou gleaned to day? and where wroughtest thou? blessed be he that did take knowledge of thee. And she shewed her mother in law with whom she had wrought, and said, The man's name with whom I wrought to day [is] Boaz.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 2
Verse: 20
VText:
And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed [be] he of the LORD, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said unto her, The man [is] near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 2
Verse: 21
VText:
And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 2
Verse: 22
VText:
And Naomi said unto Ruth her daughter in law, [It is] good, my daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, that they meet thee not in any other field.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 2
Verse: 23
VText:
So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt with her mother in law.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 3
Verse: 1
VText:
Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 3
Verse: 2
VText:
And now [is] not Boaz of our kindred, with whose maidens thou wast? Behold, he winnoweth barley to night in the threshingfloor.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 3
Verse: 3
VText:
Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the floor: [but] make not thyself known unto the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 3
Verse: 4
VText:
And it shall be, when he lieth down, that thou shalt mark the place where he shall lie, and thou shalt go in, and uncover his feet, and lay thee down; and he will tell thee what thou shalt do.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 3
Verse: 7
VText:
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 her down.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 3
Verse: 8
VText:
And it came to pass at midnight, that the man was afraid, and turned himself: and, behold, a woman lay at his feet.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 3
Verse: 9
VText:
And he said, Who [art] thou? And she answered, I [am] Ruth thine handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid; for thou [art] a near kinsman.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 3
Verse: 10
VText:
And he said, Blessed [be] thou of the LORD, my daughter: [for] thou hast shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 3
Verse: 11
VText:
And now, my daughter, fear not; I will do to thee all that thou requirest: for all the city of my people doth know that thou [art] a virtuous woman.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 3
Verse: 13
VText:
Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, [that] if he will perform unto thee 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 thee, then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee, [as] the LORD liveth: lie down until the morning.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 3
Verse: 14
VText:
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.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 3
Verse: 15
VText:
Also he said, Bring the vail that [thou hast] upon thee, 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.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 3
Verse: 16
VText:
And when she came to her mother in law, she said, Who [art] thou, my daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 3
Verse: 17
VText:
And she said, These six [measures] of barley gave he me; for he said to me, Go not empty unto thy mother in law.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 3
Verse: 18
VText:
Then said she, Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall: for the man will not be in rest, until he have finished the thing this day.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 4
Verse: 1
VText:
Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 4
Verse: 3
VText:
And he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which [was] our brother Elimelech's:


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 4
Verse: 4
VText:
And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy [it] before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem [it], redeem [it]: but if thou wilt not redeem [it, then] tell me, that I may know: for [there is] none to redeem [it] beside thee; and I [am] after thee. And he said, I will redeem [it].


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 4
Verse: 5
VText:
Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy [it] also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 4
Verse: 6
VText:
And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem [it] for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem [it].


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 4
Verse: 7
VText:
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 neighbour: and this [was] a testimony in Israel.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 4
Verse: 9
VText:
And Boaz said unto the elders, and [unto] all the people, Ye [are] witnesses this day, that I have bought all that [was] Elimelech's, and all that [was] Chilion's and Mahlon's, of the hand of Naomi.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 4
Verse: 10
VText:
Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye [are] witnesses this day.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 4
Verse: 11
VText:
And all the people that [were] in the gate, and the elders, said, [We are] witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 4
Verse: 12
VText:
And let thy house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bare unto Judah, of the seed which the LORD shall give thee of this young woman.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 4
Verse: 13
VText:
So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bare a son.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 4
Verse: 14
VText:
And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed [be] the LORD, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 4
Verse: 15
VText:
And he shall be unto thee a restorer of [thy] life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.


BookID: 8
BookAbr: Ru
BookName: Ruth
Chapter: 4
Verse: 17
VText:
And the women her neighbours 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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 1
VText:
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:


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 2
VText:
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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 3
VText:
And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, [were] there.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 4
VText:
And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 6
VText:
And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 7
VText:
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 did not eat.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 8
VText:
Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? [am] not I better to thee than ten sons?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 9
VText:
So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the LORD.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 11
VText:
And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life, and there shall no rasor come upon his head.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 13
VText:
Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 15
VText:
And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I [am] a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 16
VText:
Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 17
VText:
Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant [thee] thy petition that thou hast asked of him.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 18
VText:
And she said, Let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight. So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more [sad].


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 19
VText:
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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 20
VText:
Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, [saying], Because I have asked him of the LORD.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 21
VText:
And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 22
VText:
But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, [I will not go up] until the child be weaned, and [then] I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD, and there abide for ever.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 23
VText:
And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what seemeth thee good; tarry until thou have weaned him; only the LORD establish his word. So the woman abode, and gave her son suck until she weaned him.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 24
VText:
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 unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child [was] young.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 26
VText:
And she said, Oh my lord, [as] thy soul liveth, my lord, I [am] the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the LORD.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 28
VText:
Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he worshipped the LORD there.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 1
VText:
And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 2
VText:
[There is] none holy as the LORD: for [there is] none beside thee: neither [is there] any rock like our God.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 3
VText:
Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let [not] arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD [is] a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 5
VText:
[They that were] full have hired out themselves for bread; and [they that were] hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 8
VText:
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, [and] lifteth 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 hath set the world upon them.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 9
VText:
He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 10
VText:
The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 11
VText:
And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto the LORD before Eli the priest.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 13
VText:
And the priests' custom with the people [was, that], when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand;


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 14
VText:
And he struck [it] into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 15
VText:
Also before they burnt 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 of thee, but raw.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 16
VText:
And [if] any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat presently, and [then] take [as much] as thy soul desireth; then he would answer him, [Nay]; but thou shalt give [it me] now: and if not, I will take [it] by force.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 17
VText:
Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 19
VText:
Moreover 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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 20
VText:
And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the LORD. And they went unto their own home.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 21
VText:
And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 22
VText:
Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled [at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 25
VText:
If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the LORD, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the LORD would slay them.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 27
VText:
And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh's house?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 28
VText:
And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel [to be] my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 29
VText:
Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded [in my] habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 30
VText:
Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed [that] thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 31
VText:
Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 32
VText:
And thou shalt see an enemy [in my] habitation, in all [the wealth] which [God] shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 33
VText:
And the man of thine, [whom] I shall not cut off from mine altar, [shall be] to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 34
VText:
And this [shall be] a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 35
VText:
And I will raise me up a faithful priest, [that] shall do according to [that] which [is] in mine heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 36
VText:
And it shall come to pass, [that] every one that is left in thine house shall come [and] crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 1
VText:
And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before Eli. And the word of the LORD was precious in those days; [there was] no open vision.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 2
VText:
And it came to pass at that time, when Eli [was] laid down in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, [that] he could not see;


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 3
VText:
And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God [was], and Samuel was laid down [to sleep];


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 5
VText:
And he ran unto Eli, and said, Here [am] I; for thou calledst me. And he said, I called not; lie down again. And he went and lay down.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 6
VText:
And the LORD called yet again, Samuel. And Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, Here [am] I; for thou didst call me. And he answered, I called not, my son; lie down again.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 8
VText:
And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli, and said, Here [am] I; for thou didst call me. And Eli perceived that the LORD had called the child.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 9
VText:
Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, LORD; for thy servant heareth. So Samuel went and lay down in his place.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 10
VText:
And the LORD came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak; for thy servant heareth.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 11
VText:
And the LORD said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 12
VText:
In that day I will perform against Eli all [things] which I have spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 13
VText:
For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 14
VText:
And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 15
VText:
And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of the LORD. And Samuel feared to shew Eli the vision.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 17
VText:
And he said, What [is] the thing that [the LORD] hath said unto thee? I pray thee hide [it] not from me: God do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide [any] thing from me of all the things that he said unto thee.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 18
VText:
And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It [is] the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 20
VText:
And all Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel [was] established [to be] a prophet of the LORD.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 21
VText:
And the LORD appeared again in Shiloh: for the LORD revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 4
Verse: 1
VText:
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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 4
Verse: 2
VText:
And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the Philistines: and they slew of the army in the field about four thousand men.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 4
Verse: 3
VText:
And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 4
Verse: 4
VText:
So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth [between] the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, [were] there with the ark of the covenant of God.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 4
Verse: 5
VText:
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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 4
Verse: 6
VText:
And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What [meaneth] the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? And they understood that the ark of the LORD was come into the camp.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 4
Verse: 7
VText:
And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the camp. And they said, Woe unto us! for there hath not been such a thing heretofore.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 4
Verse: 8
VText:
Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these [are] the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 4
Verse: 9
VText:
Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 4
Verse: 10
VText:
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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 4
Verse: 12
VText:
And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 4
Verse: 13
VText:
And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon 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 cried out.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 4
Verse: 14
VText:
And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What [meaneth] the noise of this tumult? And the man came in hastily, and told Eli.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 4
Verse: 16
VText:
And the man said unto Eli, I [am] he that came out of the army, and I fled to day out of the army. And he said, What is there done, my son?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 4
Verse: 17
VText:
And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 4
Verse: 18
VText:
And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 4
Verse: 19
VText:
And his daughter in law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, [near] to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings 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 upon her.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 4
Verse: 20
VText:
And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said unto her, Fear not; for thou hast born a son. But she answered not, neither did she regard [it].


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 4
Verse: 21
VText:
And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 5
Verse: 2
VText:
When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 5
Verse: 3
VText:
And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon [was] fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 5
Verse: 4
VText:
And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon [was] fallen upon 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 upon the threshold; only [the stump of] Dagon was left to him.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 5
Verse: 5
VText:
Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon's house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 5
Verse: 6
VText:
But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, [even] Ashdod and the coasts thereof.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 5
Verse: 7
VText:
And when the men of Ashdod saw that [it was] so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 5
Verse: 8
VText:
They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto 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 carried about unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel about [thither].


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 5
Verse: 9
VText:
And it was [so], that, after they had carried it about, the hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great destruction: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 5
Verse: 10
VText:
Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 5
Verse: 11
VText:
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 his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 2
VText:
And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do to the ark of the LORD? tell us wherewith we shall send it to his place.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 3
VText:
And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 4
VText:
Then said they, What [shall be] the trespass offering which we shall 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 you all, and on your lords.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 5
VText:
Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 6
VText:
Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 7
VText:
Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 8
VText:
And take the ark of the LORD, and lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return him [for] a trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 9
VText:
And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, [then] he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that [it is] not his hand [that] smote us; it [was] a chance [that] happened to us.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 10
VText:
And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 11
VText:
And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 12
VText:
And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, [and] went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside [to] the right hand or [to] the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Bethshemesh.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 13
VText:
And [they 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].


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 14
VText:
And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Bethshemite, and stood there, where [there was] a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the LORD.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 15
VText:
And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD, and the coffer that [was] with it, wherein 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 unto the LORD.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 17
VText:
And these [are] the golden emerods which the Philistines returned [for] a trespass offering unto the LORD; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 18
VText:
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, even unto the great [stone of] Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the LORD: [which stone remaineth] unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 19
VText:
And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten [many] of the people with a great slaughter.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 20
VText:
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?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 21
VText:
And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjathjearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of the LORD; come ye down, [and] fetch it up to you.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 7
Verse: 1
VText:
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 sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the LORD.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 7
Verse: 2
VText:
And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjathjearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after the LORD.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 7
Verse: 3
VText:
And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, [then] put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 7
Verse: 6
VText:
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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 7
Verse: 7
VText:
And when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were 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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 7
Verse: 8
VText:
And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to cry unto the LORD our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 7
Verse: 9
VText:
And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered [it for] a burnt offering wholly unto the LORD: and Samuel cried unto the LORD for Israel; and the LORD heard him.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 7
Verse: 10
VText:
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 upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten before Israel.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 7
Verse: 11
VText:
And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them, until [they came] under Bethcar.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 7
Verse: 12
VText:
Then Samuel took a stone, and set [it] between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 7
Verse: 13
VText:
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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 7
Verse: 14
VText:
And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the coasts thereof did Israel deliver out of the hands of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 7
Verse: 16
VText:
And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 7
Verse: 17
VText:
And his return [was] to Ramah; for there [was] his house; and there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the LORD.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 8
Verse: 2
VText:
Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: [they were] judges in Beersheba.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 8
Verse: 3
VText:
And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 8
Verse: 5
VText:
And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 8
Verse: 6
VText:
But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 8
Verse: 7
VText:
And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 8
Verse: 8
VText:
According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 8
Verse: 9
VText:
Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 8
Verse: 11
VText:
And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign 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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 8
Verse: 12
VText:
And he will appoint him 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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 8
Verse: 14
VText:
And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, [even] the best [of them], and give [them] to his servants.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 8
Verse: 15
VText:
And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 8
Verse: 16
VText:
And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put [them] to his work.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 8
Verse: 18
VText:
And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 8
Verse: 19
VText:
Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 8
Verse: 20
VText:
That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 8
Verse: 22
VText:
And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 1
VText:
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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 2
VText:
And he had a son, whose name [was] Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: 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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 3
VText:
And the asses of Kish Saul's father were lost. And Kish said to Saul his son, Take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go seek the asses.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 4
VText:
And he passed through mount Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalisha, but they found [them] not: then they passed through the land of Shalim, and [there they were] not: and he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they found [them] not.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 5
VText:
[And] when they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant that [was] with him, Come, and let us return; lest my father leave [caring] for the asses, and take thought for us.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 6
VText:
And he said unto him, Behold now, [there is] in this city a man of God, and [he is] an honourable man; all that he saith cometh surely to pass: now let us go thither; peradventure he can shew us our way that we should go.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 7
VText:
Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, [if] we go, what shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and [there is] not a present to bring to the man of God: what have we?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 8
VText:
And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: [that] will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 9
VText:
(Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for [he that is] now [called] a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 10
VText:
Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they went unto the city where the man of God [was].


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 11
VText:
[And] as they went up the hill to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 12
VText:
And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, [he is] before you: make haste now, for he came to day to the city; for [there is] a sacrifice of the people to day in the high place:


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 13
VText:
As soon as ye be come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people will not eat until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; [and] afterwards they eat that be bidden. Now therefore get you up; for about this time ye shall find him.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 14
VText:
And they went up into the city: [and] when they were come into the city, behold, Samuel came out against them, for to go up to the high place.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 16
VText:
To morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him [to be] captain over my people Israel, that he may save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is come unto me.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 17
VText:
And when Samuel saw Saul, the LORD said unto him, Behold the man whom I spake to thee of! this same shall reign over my people.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 18
VText:
Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, where the seer's house [is].


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 19
VText:
And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I [am] the seer: go up before me unto the high place; for ye shall eat with me to day, and to morrow I will let thee go, and will tell thee all that [is] in thine heart.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 20
VText:
And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not thy mind on them; for they are found. And on whom [is] all the desire of Israel? [Is it] not on thee, and on all thy father's house?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 21
VText:
And Saul answered and said, [Am] not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to me?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 22
VText:
And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the parlour, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were bidden, which [were] about thirty persons.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 23
VText:
And Samuel said unto the cook, Bring the portion which I gave thee, of which I said unto thee, Set it by thee.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 24
VText:
And the cook took up the shoulder, and [that] which [was] upon it, and set [it] before Saul. And [Samuel] said, Behold that which is left! set [it] before thee, [and] eat: for unto this time hath it been kept for thee since I said, I have invited the people. So Saul did eat with Samuel that day.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 25
VText:
And when they were come down from the high place into the city, [Samuel] communed with Saul upon the top of the house.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 26
VText:
And they arose early: and it came to pass about the spring of the day, that Samuel called Saul to the top of the house, saying, Up, that I may send thee away. And Saul arose, and they went out both of them, he and Samuel, abroad.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 27
VText:
[And] as they were going down to the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us, (and he passed on,) but stand thou still a while, that I may shew thee the word of God.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 1
VText:
Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured [it] upon his head, and kissed him, and said, [Is it] not because the LORD hath anointed thee [to be] captain over his inheritance?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 2
VText:
When thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel's sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 3
VText:
Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 4
VText:
And they will salute thee, and give thee two [loaves] of bread; which thou shalt receive of their hands.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 5
VText:
After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where [is] the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy:


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 6
VText:
And the Spirit of the LORD will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 7
VText:
And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee, [that] thou do as occasion serve thee; for God [is] with thee.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 8
VText:
And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I will come down unto thee, to offer burnt offerings, [and] to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings: seven days shalt thou tarry, till I come to thee, and shew thee what thou shalt do.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 9
VText:
And it was [so], that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs came to pass that day.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 10
VText:
And when they came thither to the hill, behold, a company of prophets met him; and the Spirit of God came upon him, and he prophesied among them.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 11
VText:
And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said one to another, What [is] this [that] is come unto the son of Kish? [Is] Saul also among the prophets?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 12
VText:
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?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 14
VText:
And Saul's uncle said unto him and to his servant, Whither went ye? And he said, To seek the asses: and when we saw that [they were] no where, we came to Samuel.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 16
VText:
And Saul said unto his uncle, He told us plainly that the asses were found. But of the matter of the kingdom, whereof Samuel spake, he told him not.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 18
VText:
And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith 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 them that oppressed you:


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 19
VText:
And ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saved you out of all your adversities and your tribulations; and ye have said unto him, [Nay], but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes, and by your thousands.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 21
VText:
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 could not be found.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 22
VText:
Therefore they inquired of the LORD further, if the man should yet come thither. And the LORD answered, Behold, he hath hid himself among the stuff.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 23
VText:
And they ran and fetched him thence: and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 24
VText:
And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the LORD hath chosen, that [there is] none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 25
VText:
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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 26
VText:
And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had touched.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 27
VText:
But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 11
Verse: 1
VText:
Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabeshgilead: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 11
Verse: 2
VText:
And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this [condition] will I make [a covenant] with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it [for] a reproach upon all Israel.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 11
Verse: 3
VText:
And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days' respite, that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel: and then, if [there be] no man to save us, we will come out to thee.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 11
Verse: 4
VText:
Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and told the tidings in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voices, and wept.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 11
Verse: 5
VText:
And, behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field; and Saul said, What [aileth] the people that they weep? And they told him the tidings of the men of Jabesh.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 11
Verse: 6
VText:
And the Spirit of God came upon Saul when he heard those tidings, and his anger was kindled greatly.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 11
Verse: 7
VText:
And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent [them] throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 11
Verse: 8
VText:
And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 11
Verse: 9
VText:
And they said unto the messengers that came, Thus shall ye say unto the men of Jabeshgilead, To morrow, by [that time] the sun be hot, ye shall have help. And the messengers came and shewed [it] to the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 11
Verse: 10
VText:
Therefore the men of Jabesh said, To morrow we will come out unto you, and ye shall do with us all that seemeth good unto you.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 11
Verse: 11
VText:
And it was [so] on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the host in the morning watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it came to pass, that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left together.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 11
Verse: 12
VText:
And the people said unto Samuel, Who [is] he that said, Shall Saul reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 11
Verse: 13
VText:
And Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day: for to day the LORD hath wrought salvation in Israel.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 11
Verse: 15
VText:
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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 1
VText:
And Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened unto your voice in all that ye said unto me, and have made a king over you.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 2
VText:
And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons [are] with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 3
VText:
Behold, here I [am]: witness 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 of whose hand have I received [any] bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 4
VText:
And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 5
VText:
And he said unto them, The LORD [is] witness against you, and his anointed [is] witness this day, that ye have not found ought in my hand. And they answered, [He is] witness.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 6
VText:
And Samuel said unto the people, [It is] the LORD that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 7
VText:
Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to your fathers.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 8
VText:
When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried unto the LORD, then the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, which brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 9
VText:
And when they forgat 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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 10
VText:
And they cried unto 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 thee.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 11
VText:
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 ye dwelled safe.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 12
VText:
And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, Nay; but a king shall reign over us: when the LORD your God [was] your king.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 13
VText:
Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen, [and] whom ye have desired! and, behold, the LORD hath set a king over you.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 14
VText:
If ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the LORD your God:


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 15
VText:
But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, as [it was] against your fathers.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 17
VText:
[Is it] not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness [is] great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 18
VText:
So Samuel called unto the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 19
VText:
And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the LORD thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins [this] evil, to ask us a king.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 20
VText:
And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart;


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 21
VText:
And turn ye not aside: for [then should ye go] after vain [things], which cannot profit nor deliver; for they [are] vain.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 22
VText:
For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 23
VText:
Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 24
VText:
Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great [things] he hath done for you.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 2
VText:
Saul chose him three thousand [men] of Israel; [whereof] two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 3
VText:
And Jonathan smote 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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 4
VText:
And all Israel heard say [that] Saul had smitten a garrison of the Philistines, and [that] Israel also was had in abomination with the Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 5
VText:
And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which [is] on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Bethaven.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 6
VText:
When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 7
VText:
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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 8
VText:
And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel [had appointed]: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 9
VText:
And Saul said, Bring hither a burnt offering to me, and peace offerings. And he offered the burnt offering.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 10
VText:
And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might salute him.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 11
VText:
And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and [that] thou camest not within the days appointed, and [that] the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash;


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 12
VText:
Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the LORD: I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 13
VText:
And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 14
VText:
But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him [to be] captain over his people, because thou hast not kept [that] which the LORD commanded thee.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 15
VText:
And Samuel arose, and gat him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people [that were] present with him, about six hundred men.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 16
VText:
And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people [that were] present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 17
VText:
And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned unto the way [that leadeth to] Ophrah, unto the land of Shual:


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 18
VText:
And another company turned the way [to] Bethhoron: and another company turned [to] the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 19
VText:
Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make [them] swords or spears:


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 20
VText:
But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 21
VText:
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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 22
VText:
So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that [were] with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 1
VText:
Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison, that [is] on the other side. But he told not his father.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 2
VText:
And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree which [is] in Migron: and the people that [were] with him [were] about six hundred men;


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 3
VText:
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 knew not that Jonathan was gone.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 4
VText:
And between the passages, by which Jonathan sought to go over unto 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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 5
VText:
The forefront of the one [was] situate northward over against Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 6
VText:
And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that the LORD will work for us: for [there is] no restraint to the LORD to save by many or by few.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 7
VText:
And his armourbearer said unto him, Do all that [is] in thine heart: turn thee; behold, I [am] with thee according to thy heart.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 8
VText:
Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over unto [these] men, and we will discover ourselves unto them.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 9
VText:
If they say thus unto us, Tarry until we come to you; then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up unto them.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 10
VText:
But if they say thus, Come up unto us; then we will go up: for the LORD hath delivered them into our hand: and this [shall be] a sign unto us.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 11
VText:
And both of them discovered themselves unto the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 12
VText:
And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armourbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will shew you a thing. And Jonathan said unto his armourbearer, Come up after me: for the LORD hath delivered them into the hand of Israel.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 13
VText:
And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet, and his armourbearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armourbearer slew after him.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 14
VText:
And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, [which] a yoke [of oxen might plow].


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 15
VText:
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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 16
VText:
And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down [one another].


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 17
VText:
Then said Saul unto the people that [were] with him, Number now, and see who is gone from us. And when they had numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armourbearer [were] not [there].


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 18
VText:
And Saul said unto Ahiah, Bring hither the ark of God. For the ark of God was at that time with the children of Israel.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 19
VText:
And it came to pass, while Saul talked unto the priest, that the noise that [was] in the host of the Philistines went on and increased: and Saul said unto the priest, Withdraw thine hand.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 20
VText:
And Saul and all the people that [were] with him assembled themselves, and they came to the battle: and, behold, every man's sword was against his fellow, [and there was] a very great discomfiture.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 21
VText:
Moreover the Hebrews [that] were with the Philistines before that time, which went up with them into the camp [from the country] round about, even they also [turned] to be with the Israelites that [were] with Saul and Jonathan.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 22
VText:
Likewise all the men of Israel which had hid themselves in mount Ephraim, [when] they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 24
VText:
And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed [be] the man that eateth [any] food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted [any] food.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 26
VText:
And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oath.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 27
VText:
But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that [was] in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 28
VText:
Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed [be] the man that eateth [any] food this day. And the people were faint.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 29
VText:
Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 30
VText:
How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 32
VText:
And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew [them] on the ground: and the people did eat [them] with the blood.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 33
VText:
Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have transgressed: roll a great stone unto me this day.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 34
VText:
And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say unto them, Bring me hither every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and slay [them] here, and eat; and sin not against the LORD in eating with the blood. And all the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and slew [them] there.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 36
VText:
And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and spoil them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. And they said, Do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee. Then said the priest, Let us draw near hither unto God.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 37
VText:
And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he answered him not that day.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 38
VText:
And Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the chief of the people: and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 39
VText:
For, [as] the LORD liveth, which saveth Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But [there was] not a man among all the people [that] answered him.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 40
VText:
Then said he unto all Israel, Be ye on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side. And the people said unto Saul, Do what seemeth good unto thee.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 41
VText:
Therefore Saul said unto the LORD God of Israel, Give a perfect [lot]. And Saul and Jonathan were taken: but the people escaped.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 43
VText:
Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that [was] in mine hand, [and], lo, I must die.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 45
VText:
And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? God forbid: [as] the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 47
VText:
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 whithersoever he turned himself, he vexed [them].


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 48
VText:
And he gathered an host, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 49
VText:
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:


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 50
VText:
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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 52
VText:
And there was sore war against the Philistines all the days of Saul: and when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he took him unto him.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 1
VText:
Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint thee [to be] king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the LORD.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 2
VText:
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember [that] which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid [wait] for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 3
VText:
Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 4
VText:
And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 6
VText:
And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 7
VText:
And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah [until] thou comest to Shur, that [is] over against Egypt.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 8
VText:
And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 9
VText:
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 utterly destroy them: but every thing [that was] vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 11
VText:
It repenteth me that I have set up Saul [to be] king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 12
VText:
And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 13
VText:
And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed [be] thou of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 14
VText:
And Samuel said, What [meaneth] then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 15
VText:
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 unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 16
VText:
Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the LORD hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 17
VText:
And Samuel said, When thou [wast] little in thine own sight, [wast] thou not [made] the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 18
VText:
And the LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 19
VText:
Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 20
VText:
And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 21
VText:
But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 22
VText:
And Samuel said, Hath the LORD [as great] delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey [is] better than sacrifice, [and] to hearken than the fat of rams.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 23
VText:
For rebellion [is as] the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness [is as] iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from [being] king.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 24
VText:
And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 26
VText:
And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected thee from being king over Israel.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 28
VText:
And Samuel said unto him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine, [that is] better than thou.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 29
VText:
And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he [is] not a man, that he should repent.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 30
VText:
Then he said, I have sinned: [yet] honour me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD thy God.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 32
VText:
Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 33
VText:
And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 35
VText:
And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 1
VText:
And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 2
VText:
And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear [it], he will kill me. And the LORD said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the LORD.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 3
VText:
And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will shew thee what thou shalt do: and thou shalt anoint unto me [him] whom I name unto thee.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 4
VText:
And Samuel did that which the LORD spake, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 5
VText:
And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice unto the LORD: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 6
VText:
And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD's anointed [is] before him.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 7
VText:
But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for [the LORD seeth] not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 8
VText:
Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 10
VText:
Again, Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. And Samuel said unto Jesse, The LORD hath not chosen these.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 11
VText:
And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all [thy] children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 12
VText:
And he sent, and brought him in. Now he [was] ruddy, [and] withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this [is] he.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 13
VText:
Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 16
VText:
Let our lord now command thy servants, [which are] before thee, to seek out a man, [who is] a cunning player on an harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 18
VText:
Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, [that is] cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the LORD [is] with him.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 19
VText:
Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which [is] with the sheep.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 20
VText:
And Jesse took an ass [laden] with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent [them] by David his son unto Saul.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 21
VText:
And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armourbearer.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 22
VText:
And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favour in my sight.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 23
VText:
And it came to pass, when the [evil] spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 1
VText:
Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which [belongeth] to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 2
VText:
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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 3
VText:
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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 4
VText:
And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height [was] six cubits and a span.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 5
VText:
And [he had] an helmet of brass upon his head, and he [was] armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat [was] five thousand shekels of brass.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 7
VText:
And the staff of his spear [was] like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head [weighed] six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 8
VText:
And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, Why are ye come out to set [your] battle in array? [am] not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 9
VText:
If he be 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 shall ye be our servants, and serve us.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 10
VText:
And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 11
VText:
When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 12
VText:
Now David [was] the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehemjudah, whose name [was] Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men [for] an old man in the days of Saul.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 13
VText:
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 unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 17
VText:
And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched [corn], and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren;


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 18
VText:
And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of [their] thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 19
VText:
Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, [were] in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 20
VText:
And 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 trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 22
VText:
And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 23
VText:
And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard [them].


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 25
VText:
And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, [that] the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 26
VText:
And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who [is] this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 27
VText:
And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that killeth him.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 28
VText:
And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 30
VText:
And he turned from him toward another, and spake after the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 31
VText:
And when the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed [them] before Saul: and he sent for him.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 32
VText:
And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 33
VText:
And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou [art but] a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 34
VText:
And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 35
VText:
And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered [it] out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught [him] by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 36
VText:
Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 37
VText:
David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the LORD be with thee.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 38
VText:
And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 39
VText:
And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved [it]. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved [them]. And David put them off him.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 40
VText:
And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling [was] in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 41
VText:
And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the man that bare the shield [went] before him.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 42
VText:
And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was [but] a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 43
VText:
And the Philistine said unto David, [Am] I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 44
VText:
And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 45
VText:
Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 46
VText:
This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 47
VText:
And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle [is] the LORD's, and he will give you into our hands.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 48
VText:
And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 49
VText:
And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang [it], and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 50
VText:
So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but [there was] no sword in the hand of David.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 51
VText:
Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 52
VText:
And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until thou come to the valley, and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto Ekron.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 53
VText:
And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they spoiled their tents.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 54
VText:
And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armour in his tent.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 55
VText:
And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son [is] this youth? And Abner said, [As] thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 57
VText:
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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 58
VText:
And Saul said to him, Whose son [art] thou, [thou] young man? And David answered, [I am] the son of thy servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 1
VText:
And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 4
VText:
And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that [was] upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 5
VText:
And David went out whithersoever 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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 6
VText:
And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 7
VText:
And the women answered [one another] as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 8
VText:
And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed [but] thousands: and [what] can he have more but the kingdom?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 10
VText:
And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as at other times: and [there was] a javelin in Saul's hand.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 11
VText:
And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall [with it]. And David avoided out of his presence twice.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 13
VText:
Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 17
VText:
And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD's battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 18
VText:
And David said unto 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?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 19
VText:
But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul's daughter should have been given to David, that she was given unto Adriel the Meholathite to wife.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 21
VText:
And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in [the one of] the twain.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 22
VText:
And Saul commanded his servants, [saying], Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king's son in law.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 23
VText:
And Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you [a] light [thing] to be a king's son in law, seeing that I [am] a poor man, and lightly esteemed?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 25
VText:
And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an 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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 26
VText:
And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son in law: and the days were not expired.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 27
VText:
Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 30
VText:
Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it came to pass, after they went forth, [that] David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much set by.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 2
VText:
But Jonathan Saul's son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret [place], and hide thyself:


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 3
VText:
And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou [art], and I will commune with my father of thee; and what I see, that I will tell thee.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 4
VText:
And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works [have been] to theeward very good:


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 5
VText:
For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest [it], and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 6
VText:
And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware, [As] the LORD liveth, he shall not be slain.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 7
VText:
And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan shewed him all those things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as in times past.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 8
VText:
And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled from him.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 9
VText:
And the evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his javelin in his hand: and David played with [his] hand.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 10
VText:
And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 11
VText:
Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 13
VText:
And Michal took an image, and laid [it] in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' [hair] for his bolster, and covered [it] with a cloth.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 15
VText:
And Saul sent the messengers [again] to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 16
VText:
And when the messengers were come in, behold, [there was] an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' [hair] for his bolster.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 17
VText:
And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said unto me, Let me go; why should I kill thee?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 18
VText:
So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 20
VText:
And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing [as] appointed over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 21
VText:
And when it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they prophesied likewise. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they prophesied also.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 22
VText:
Then went he also to Ramah, and came to a great well that [is] in Sechu: and he asked and said, Where [are] Samuel and David? And [one] said, Behold, [they be] at Naioth in Ramah.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 23
VText:
And he went thither to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God was upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 24
VText:
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. Wherefore they say, [Is] Saul also among the prophets?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 1
VText:
And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? what [is] mine iniquity? and what [is] my sin before thy father, that he seeketh my life?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 2
VText:
And he said unto him, God forbid; thou shalt not die: behold, my father will do nothing either great or small, but that he will shew it me: and why should my father hide this thing from me? it [is] not [so].


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 3
VText:
And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly [as] the LORD liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, [there is] but a step between me and death.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 5
VText:
And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to morrow [is] the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field unto the third [day] at even.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 6
VText:
If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked [leave] of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city: for [there is] a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 7
VText:
If he say thus, [It is] well; thy servant shall have peace: but if he be very wroth, [then] be sure that evil is determined by him.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 8
VText:
Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the LORD with thee: notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 9
VText:
And Jonathan said, Far be it from thee: for if I knew certainly that evil were determined by my father to come upon thee, then would not I tell it thee?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 11
VText:
And Jonathan said unto David, Come, and let us go out into the field. And they went out both of them into the field.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 12
VText:
And Jonathan said unto David, O LORD God of Israel, when I have sounded my father about to morrow any time, [or] the third [day], and, behold, [if there be] good toward David, and I then send not unto thee, and shew it thee;


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 13
VText:
The LORD do so and much more to Jonathan: but if it please my father [to do] thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace: and the LORD be with thee, as he hath been with my father.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 15
VText:
But [also] thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house for ever: no, not when the LORD hath cut off the enemies of David every one from the face of the earth.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 16
VText:
So Jonathan made [a covenant] with the house of David, [saying], Let the LORD even require [it] at the hand of David's enemies.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 17
VText:
And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 18
VText:
Then Jonathan said to David, To morrow [is] the new moon: and thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 19
VText:
And [when] thou hast stayed three days, [then] thou shalt go down quickly, and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself when the business was [in hand], and shalt remain by the stone Ezel.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 21
VText:
And, behold, I will send a lad, [saying], Go, find out the arrows. If I expressly say unto the lad, Behold, the arrows [are] on this side of thee, take them; then come thou: for [there is] peace to thee, and no hurt; [as] the LORD liveth.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 22
VText:
But if I say thus unto the young man, Behold, the arrows [are] beyond thee; go thy way: for the LORD hath sent thee away.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 23
VText:
And [as touching] the matter which thou and I have spoken of, behold, the LORD [be] between thee and me for ever.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 24
VText:
So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat meat.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 25
VText:
And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, [even] upon a seat by the wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul's side, and David's place was empty.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 26
VText:
Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen him, he [is] not clean; surely he [is] not clean.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 27
VText:
And it came to pass on the morrow, [which was] the second [day] of the month, that David's place was empty: and Saul said unto Jonathan his son, Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse to meat, neither yesterday, nor to day?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 29
VText:
And he said, Let me go, I pray thee; for our family hath a sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he hath commanded me [to be there]: and now, if I have found favour in thine eyes, let me get away, I pray thee, and see my brethren. Therefore he cometh not unto the king's table.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 30
VText:
Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious [woman], do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the confusion of thy mother's nakedness?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 31
VText:
For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 32
VText:
And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore shall he be slain? what hath he done?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 33
VText:
And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay David.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 34
VText:
So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and did eat no meat the second day of the month: for he was grieved for David, because his father had done him shame.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 35
VText:
And it came to pass in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little lad with him.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 36
VText:
And he said unto his lad, Run, find out now the arrows which I shoot. [And] as the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 37
VText:
And when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, and said, [Is] not the arrow beyond thee?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 38
VText:
And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed, haste, stay not. And Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 41
VText:
[And] as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of [a place] toward the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 42
VText:
And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying, The LORD be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever. And he arose and departed: and Jonathan went into the city.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 21
Verse: 1
VText:
Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why [art] thou alone, and no man with thee?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 21
Verse: 2
VText:
And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed [my] servants to such and such a place.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 21
Verse: 3
VText:
Now therefore what is under thine hand? give [me] five [loaves of] bread in mine hand, or what there is present.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 21
Verse: 4
VText:
And the priest answered David, and said, [There is] no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 21
Verse: 5
VText:
And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women [have been] kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and [the bread is] in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 21
Verse: 6
VText:
So the priest gave him hallowed [bread]: for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 21
Verse: 7
VText:
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 chiefest of the herdmen that [belonged] to Saul.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 21
Verse: 8
VText:
And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thine hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 21
Verse: 9
VText:
And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it [is here] wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take [it]: for [there is] no other save that here. And David said, [There is] none like that; give it me.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 21
Verse: 11
VText:
And the servants of Achish said unto him, [Is] not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 21
Verse: 13
VText:
And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 21
Verse: 14
VText:
Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore [then] have ye brought him to me?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 21
Verse: 15
VText:
Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this [fellow] to play the mad man in my presence? shall this [fellow] come into my house?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 22
Verse: 1
VText:
David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard [it], they went down thither to him.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 22
Verse: 2
VText:
And every one [that was] in distress, and every one that [was] in debt, and every one [that was] discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 22
Verse: 3
VText:
And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said unto the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, [and be] with you, till I know what God will do for me.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 22
Verse: 4
VText:
And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the hold.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 22
Verse: 5
VText:
And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 22
Verse: 6
VText:
When Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that [were] with him, (now Saul abode in Gibeah under a tree in Ramah, having his spear in his hand, and all his servants [were] standing about him;)


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 22
Verse: 7
VText:
Then Saul said unto his servants that stood about him, Hear now, ye 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;


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 22
Verse: 8
VText:
That all of you have conspired against me, and [there is] none that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, and [there is] none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 22
Verse: 9
VText:
Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 22
Verse: 10
VText:
And he inquired of the LORD for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 22
Verse: 11
VText:
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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 22
Verse: 13
VText:
And Saul said unto him, Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, and a sword, and hast inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 22
Verse: 14
VText:
Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who [is so] faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king's son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 22
Verse: 15
VText:
Did I then begin to inquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king impute [any] thing unto his servant, [nor] to all the house of my father: for thy servant knew nothing of all this, less or more.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 22
Verse: 17
VText:
And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; because their hand also [is] with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 22
Verse: 18
VText:
And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 22
Verse: 19
VText:
And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he 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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 22
Verse: 22
VText:
And David said unto 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 thy father's house.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 22
Verse: 23
VText:
Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy life: but with me thou [shalt be] in safeguard.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 1
VText:
Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 2
VText:
Therefore David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go and smite these Philistines? And the LORD said unto David, Go, and smite the Philistines, and save Keilah.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 3
VText:
And David's men said unto him, Behold, we be afraid here in Judah: how much more then if we come to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 4
VText:
Then David inquired of the LORD yet again. And the LORD answered him and said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into thine hand.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 5
VText:
So David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and smote them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 6
VText:
And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, [that] he came down [with] an ephod in his hand.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 7
VText:
And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And Saul said, God hath delivered him into mine hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that hath gates and bars.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 9
VText:
And David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 10
VText:
Then said David, O LORD God of Israel, thy servant hath certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 11
VText:
Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? O LORD God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant. And the LORD said, He will come down.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 12
VText:
Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul? And the LORD said, They will deliver [thee] up.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 13
VText:
Then David and his men, [which were] about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he forbare to go forth.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 14
VText:
And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 15
VText:
And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David [was] in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 17
VText:
And he said unto him, Fear not: for the hand of Saul my father shall not find thee; and thou shalt be king over Israel, and I shall be next unto thee; and that also Saul my father knoweth.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 18
VText:
And they two made a covenant before the LORD: and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 19
VText:
Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which [is] on the south of Jeshimon?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 20
VText:
Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part [shall be] to deliver him into the king's hand.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 22
VText:
Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his haunt is, [and] who hath seen him there: for it is told me [that] he dealeth very subtilly.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 23
VText:
See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 24
VText:
And they arose, 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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 25
VText:
Saul also and his men went to seek [him]. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard [that], he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 26
VText:
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 compassed David and his men round about to take them.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 27
VText:
But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste thee, and come; for the Philistines have invaded the land.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 28
VText:
Wherefore Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines: therefore they called that place Selahammahlekoth.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 1
VText:
And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David [is] in the wilderness of Engedi.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 2
VText:
Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 3
VText:
And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where [was] a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 4
VText:
And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of which the LORD said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 6
VText:
And he said unto his men, The LORD forbid that I should do this thing unto my master, the LORD's anointed, to stretch forth mine hand against him, seeing he [is] the anointed of the LORD.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 7
VText:
So David stayed his servants with these words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul. But Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on [his] way.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 8
VText:
David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed himself.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 10
VText:
Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and [some] bade [me] kill thee: but [mine eye] spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he [is] the LORD's anointed.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 11
VText:
Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that [there is] neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 12
VText:
The LORD judge between me and thee, and the LORD avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 13
VText:
As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 14
VText:
After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 15
VText:
The LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 16
VText:
And it came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words unto Saul, that Saul said, [Is] this thy voice, my son David? And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 17
VText:
And he said to David, Thou [art] more righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 18
VText:
And thou hast shewed this day how that thou hast dealt well with me: forasmuch as when the LORD had delivered me into thine hand, thou killedst me not.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 19
VText:
For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the LORD reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this day.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 20
VText:
And now, behold, I know well that thou shalt surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in thine hand.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 21
VText:
Swear now therefore unto me by the LORD, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father's house.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 1
VText:
And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 2
VText:
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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 3
VText:
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 countenance: but the man [was] churlish and evil in his doings; and he [was] of the house of Caleb.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 5
VText:
And David sent out ten young men, and David said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 6
VText:
And thus shall ye say to him that liveth [in prosperity], Peace [be] both to thee, and peace [be] to thine house, and peace [be] unto all that thou hast.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 7
VText:
And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 8
VText:
Ask thy young men, and they will shew thee. Wherefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants, and to thy son David.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 9
VText:
And when David's young men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 10
VText:
And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who [is] David? and who [is] the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 11
VText:
Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give [it] unto men, whom I know not whence they [be]?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 13
VText:
And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 14
VText:
But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 15
VText:
But the men [were] very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields:


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 17
VText:
Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he [is such] a son of Belial, that [a man] cannot speak to him.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 18
VText:
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 an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid [them] on asses.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 19
VText:
And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 20
VText:
And it was [so, as] she rode on the ass, that she came down by the covert of the hill, and, behold, David and his men came down against her; and she met them.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 21
VText:
Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this [fellow] hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that [pertained] unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 22
VText:
So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that [pertain] to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 23
VText:
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,


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 24
VText:
And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, [upon] me [let this] iniquity [be]: and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 25
VText:
Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, [even] Nabal: for as his name [is], so [is] he; Nabal [is] his name, and folly [is] with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 26
VText:
Now therefore, my lord, [as] the LORD liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to [shed] blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 27
VText:
And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 28
VText:
I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee [all] thy days.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 29
VText:
Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, [as out] of the middle of a sling.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 30
VText:
And it shall come to pass, when the LORD shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel;


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 31
VText:
That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the LORD shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 32
VText:
And David said to Abigail, Blessed [be] the LORD God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me:


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 33
VText:
And blessed [be] thy advice, and blessed [be] thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to [shed] blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 34
VText:
For in very deed, [as] the LORD God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 35
VText:
So David received of her hand [that] which she had brought him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to thine house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 36
VText:
And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart [was] merry within him, for he [was] very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 37
VText:
But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became [as] a stone.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 39
VText:
And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed [be] the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 40
VText:
And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to take thee to him to wife.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 41
VText:
And she arose, and bowed herself on [her] face to the earth, and said, Behold, [let] thine handmaid [be] a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 42
VText:
And Abigail hasted, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 25
Verse: 44
VText:
But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which [was] of Gallim.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 26
Verse: 1
VText:
And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, [which is] before Jeshimon?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 26
Verse: 2
VText:
Then Saul arose, 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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 26
Verse: 3
VText:
And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah, which [is] before Jeshimon, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 26
Verse: 5
VText:
And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched: and David beheld 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 round about him.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 26
Verse: 6
VText:
Then answered David and 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 thee.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 26
Verse: 7
VText:
So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 26
Verse: 8
VText:
Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not [smite] him the second time.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 26
Verse: 9
VText:
And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the LORD's anointed, and be guiltless?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 26
Verse: 10
VText:
David said furthermore, [As] the LORD liveth, the LORD shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 26
Verse: 11
VText:
The LORD forbid that I should stretch forth mine hand against the LORD's anointed: but, I pray thee, take thou now the spear that [is] at his bolster, and the cruse of water, and let us go.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 26
Verse: 12
VText:
So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw [it], nor knew [it], neither awaked: for they [were] all asleep; because a deep sleep from the LORD was fallen upon them.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 26
Verse: 13
VText:
Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of an hill afar off; a great space [being] between them:


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 26
Verse: 14
VText:
And David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, Answerest thou not, Abner? Then Abner answered and said, Who [art] thou [that] criest to the king?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 26
Verse: 15
VText:
And David said to Abner, [Art] not thou a [valiant] man? and who [is] like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast thou not kept thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in to destroy the king thy lord.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 26
Verse: 16
VText:
This thing [is] not good that thou hast done. [As] the LORD liveth, ye [are] worthy to die, because ye have not 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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 26
Verse: 17
VText:
And Saul knew David's voice, and said, [Is] this thy voice, my son David? And David said, [It is] my voice, my lord, O king.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 26
Verse: 18
VText:
And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil [is] in mine hand?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 26
Verse: 19
VText:
Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if [they be] the children of men, cursed [be] they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 26
Verse: 20
VText:
Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 26
Verse: 21
VText:
Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 26
Verse: 22
VText:
And David answered and said, Behold the king's spear! and let one of the young men come over and fetch it.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 26
Verse: 23
VText:
The LORD render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness: for the LORD delivered thee into [my] hand to day, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the LORD's anointed.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 26
Verse: 24
VText:
And, behold, as thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the LORD, and let him deliver me out of all tribulation.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 26
Verse: 25
VText:
Then Saul said to David, Blessed [be] thou, my son David: thou shalt both do great [things], and also shalt still prevail. So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 27
Verse: 1
VText:
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 any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 27
Verse: 2
VText:
And David arose, and he passed over with the six hundred men that [were] with him unto Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 27
Verse: 3
VText:
And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, [even] David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 27
Verse: 5
VText:
And David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace in thine eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 27
Verse: 6
VText:
Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Ziklag pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this day.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 27
Verse: 8
VText:
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 thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 27
Verse: 9
VText:
And David smote 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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 27
Verse: 10
VText:
And Achish said, Whither have ye made a road to day? And David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 27
Verse: 11
VText:
And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring [tidings] to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on us, saying, So did David, and so [will be] his manner all the while he dwelleth in the country of the Philistines.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 27
Verse: 12
VText:
And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant for ever.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 28
Verse: 1
VText:
And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. And Achish said unto David, Know thou assuredly, that thou shalt go out with me to battle, thou and thy men.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 28
Verse: 2
VText:
And David said to Achish, Surely thou shalt know what thy servant can do. And Achish said to David, Therefore will I make thee keeper of mine head for ever.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 28
Verse: 3
VText:
Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 28
Verse: 4
VText:
And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 28
Verse: 6
VText:
And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 28
Verse: 7
VText:
Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, [there is] a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 28
Verse: 8
VText:
And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me [him] up, whom I shall name unto thee.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 28
Verse: 9
VText:
And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou knowest what Saul hath done, how he hath cut off those that have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: wherefore then layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 28
Verse: 10
VText:
And Saul sware to her by the LORD, saying, [As] the LORD liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 28
Verse: 12
VText:
And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice: and the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why hast thou deceived me? for thou [art] Saul.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 28
Verse: 13
VText:
And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 28
Verse: 14
VText:
And he said unto her, What form [is] he of? And she said, An old man cometh 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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 28
Verse: 15
VText:
And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 28
Verse: 16
VText:
Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 28
Verse: 17
VText:
And the LORD hath done to him, as he spake by me: for the LORD hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and given it to thy neighbour, [even] to David:


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 28
Verse: 18
VText:
Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD, nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done this thing unto thee this day.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 28
Verse: 19
VText:
Moreover the LORD will also deliver Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines: and to morrow [shalt] thou and thy sons [be] with me: the LORD also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 28
Verse: 20
VText:
Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 28
Verse: 21
VText:
And the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and said unto him, Behold, thine handmaid hath obeyed thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened unto thy words which thou spakest unto me.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 28
Verse: 22
VText:
Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice of thine handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 28
Verse: 23
VText:
But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, compelled him; and he hearkened unto their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 28
Verse: 24
VText:
And the woman had a fat calf in the house; and she hasted, and killed it, and took flour, and kneaded [it], and did bake unleavened bread thereof:


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 28
Verse: 25
VText:
And she brought [it] before Saul, and before his servants; and they did eat. Then they rose up, and went away that night.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 29
Verse: 1
VText:
Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which [is] in Jezreel.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 29
Verse: 2
VText:
And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rereward with Achish.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 29
Verse: 3
VText:
Then said the princes of the Philistines, What [do] these Hebrews [here]? And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines, [Is] not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, which hath been with me these days, or these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell [unto me] unto this day?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 29
Verse: 4
VText:
And the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines said unto him, Make this fellow return, that he may go again to his place which thou hast appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he be an adversary to us: for wherewith should he reconcile himself unto his master? [should it] not [be] with the heads of these men?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 29
Verse: 5
VText:
[Is] not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 29
Verse: 6
VText:
Then Achish called David, and said unto him, Surely, [as] the LORD liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the host [is] good in my sight: for I have not found evil in thee since the day of thy coming unto me unto this day: nevertheless the lords favour thee not.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 29
Verse: 8
VText:
And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee unto this day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king?


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 29
Verse: 9
VText:
And Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou [art] good in my sight, as an angel of God: notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 29
Verse: 10
VText:
Wherefore now rise up early in the morning with thy master's servants that are come with thee: and as soon as ye be up early in the morning, and have light, depart.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 29
Verse: 11
VText:
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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 30
Verse: 1
VText:
And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 30
Verse: 2
VText:
And had taken the women captives, that [were] therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried [them] away, and went on their way.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 30
Verse: 3
VText:
So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, [it was] burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 30
Verse: 4
VText:
Then David and the people that [were] with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 30
Verse: 5
VText:
And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 30
Verse: 6
VText:
And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 30
Verse: 7
VText:
And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 30
Verse: 8
VText:
And David inquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake [them], and without fail recover [all].


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 30
Verse: 9
VText:
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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 30
Verse: 10
VText:
But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred abode behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 30
Verse: 11
VText:
And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water;


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 30
Verse: 12
VText:
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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 30
Verse: 13
VText:
And David said unto him, To whom [belongest] thou? and whence [art] thou? And he said, I [am] a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 30
Verse: 14
VText:
We made an invasion [upon] the south of the Cherethites, and upon [the coast] which [belongeth] to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 30
Verse: 15
VText:
And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this company? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this company.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 30
Verse: 16
VText:
And when he had brought him down, behold, [they were] spread abroad upon 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.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 30
Verse: 17
VText:
And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 30
Verse: 19
VText:
And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any [thing] that they had taken to them: David recovered all.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 30
Verse: 20
VText:
And David took all the flocks and the herds, [which] they drave before those [other] cattle, and said, This [is] David's spoil.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 30
Verse: 21
VText:
And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that [were] with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted them.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 30
Verse: 22
VText:
Then answered all the wicked men and [men] of Belial, of those that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them [ought] of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead [them] away, and depart.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 30
Verse: 23
VText:
Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the LORD hath given us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the company that came against us into our hand.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 30
Verse: 24
VText:
For who will hearken unto you in this matter? but as his part [is] that goeth down to the battle, so [shall] his part [be] that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 30
Verse: 25
VText:
And it was [so] from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 30
Verse: 26
VText:
And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the elders of Judah, [even] to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of the LORD;


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 30
Verse: 27
VText:
To [them] which [were] in Bethel, and to [them] which [were] in south Ramoth, and to [them] which [were] in Jattir,


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 30
Verse: 28
VText:
And to [them] which [were] in Aroer, and to [them] which [were] in Siphmoth, and to [them] which [were] in Eshtemoa,


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 30
Verse: 29
VText:
And to [them] which [were] in Rachal, and to [them] which [were] in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to [them] which [were] in the cities of the Kenites,


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 30
Verse: 30
VText:
And to [them] which [were] in Hormah, and to [them] which [were] in Chorashan, and to [them] which [were] in Athach,


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 30
Verse: 31
VText:
And to [them] which [were] in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 31
Verse: 1
VText:
Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 31
Verse: 2
VText:
And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, Saul's sons.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 31
Verse: 3
VText:
And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 31
Verse: 4
VText:
Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 31
Verse: 5
VText:
And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 31
Verse: 7
VText:
And when the men of Israel that [were] on the other side of the valley, and [they] that [were] on the other side Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 31
Verse: 8
VText:
And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 31
Verse: 9
VText:
And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish [it in] the house of their idols, and among the people.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 31
Verse: 10
VText:
And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Bethshan.


BookID: 9
BookAbr: 1Sa
BookName: 1 Samuel
Chapter: 31
Verse: 12
VText:
All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Bethshan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 1
VText:
Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag;


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 2
VText:
It came even to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul with his clothes rent, and earth upon his head: and [so] it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 3
VText:
And David said unto him, From whence comest thou? And he said unto him, Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 4
VText:
And David said unto him, How went the matter? I pray thee, tell me. And he answered, That the people are fled from the battle, and many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 5
VText:
And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 6
VText:
And the young man that told him said, As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 9
VText:
He said unto me again, Stand, I pray thee, upon me, and slay me: for anguish is come upon me, because my life [is] yet whole in me.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 10
VText:
So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that [was] upon his head, and the bracelet that [was] on his arm, and have brought them hither unto my lord.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 12
VText:
And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 13
VText:
And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence [art] thou? And he answered, I [am] the son of a stranger, an Amalekite.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 14
VText:
And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the LORD's anointed?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 15
VText:
And David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, [and] fall upon him. And he smote him that he died.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 16
VText:
And David said unto him, Thy blood [be] upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the LORD's anointed.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 18
VText:
(Also he bade them teach the children of Judah [the use of] the bow: behold, [it is] written in the book of Jasher.)


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 20
VText:
Tell [it] not in Gath, publish [it] not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 21
VText:
Ye mountains of Gilboa, [let there be] no dew, neither [let there be] rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, [as though he had] not [been] anointed with oil.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 22
VText:
From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan turned not back, and the sword of Saul returned not empty.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 23
VText:
Saul and Jonathan [were] lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 24
VText:
Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with [other] delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 25
VText:
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, [thou wast] slain in thine high places.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 1
Verse: 26
VText:
I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 1
VText:
And it came to pass after this, that David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah? And the LORD said unto him, Go up. And David said, Whither shall I go up? And he said, Unto Hebron.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 2
VText:
So David went up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail Nabal's wife the Carmelite.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 3
VText:
And his men that [were] with him did David bring up, every man with his household: and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 4
VText:
And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, saying, [That] the men of Jabeshgilead [were they] that buried Saul.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 5
VText:
And David sent messengers unto the men of Jabeshgilead, and said unto them, Blessed [be] ye of the LORD, that ye have shewed this kindness unto your lord, [even] unto Saul, and have buried him.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 6
VText:
And now the LORD shew kindness and truth unto you: and I also will requite you this kindness, because ye have done this thing.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 7
VText:
Therefore now let your hands be strengthened, and be ye valiant: for your master Saul is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 8
VText:
But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 9
VText:
And made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 10
VText:
Ishbosheth Saul's son [was] forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 12
VText:
And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 13
VText:
And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, and met together by the pool of Gibeon: and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 14
VText:
And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men now arise, and play before us. And Joab said, Let them arise.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 15
VText:
Then there arose and went over by number twelve of Benjamin, which [pertained] to Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 16
VText:
And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and [thrust] his sword in his fellow's side; so they fell down together: wherefore that place was called Helkathhazzurim, which [is] in Gibeon.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 17
VText:
And there was a very sore battle that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 18
VText:
And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel [was as] light of foot as a wild roe.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 19
VText:
And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he turned not to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 21
VText:
And Abner said to him, Turn thee aside to thy right hand or to thy left, and lay thee hold on one of the young men, and take thee his armour. But Asahel would not turn aside from following of him.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 22
VText:
And Abner said again to Asahel, Turn thee aside from following me: wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then should I hold up my face to Joab thy brother?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 23
VText:
Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth [rib], that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, [that] as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 24
VText:
Joab also and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that [lieth] before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 25
VText:
And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one troop, and stood on the top of an hill.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 26
VText:
Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 27
VText:
And Joab said, [As] God liveth, unless thou hadst spoken, surely then in the morning the people had gone up every one from following his brother.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 28
VText:
So Joab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 29
VText:
And Abner and his men walked all that night through the plain, and passed over Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and they came to Mahanaim.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 30
VText:
And Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of David's servants nineteen men and Asahel.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 31
VText:
But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, [so that] three hundred and threescore men died.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 2
Verse: 32
VText:
And they took up Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre of his father, which [was in] Bethlehem. And Joab and his men went all night, and they came to Hebron at break of day.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 1
VText:
Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 3
VText:
And his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 6
VText:
And it came to pass, while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, that Abner made himself strong for the house of Saul.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 7
VText:
And Saul had a concubine, whose name [was] Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and [Ishbosheth] said to Abner, Wherefore hast thou gone in unto my father's concubine?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 8
VText:
Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ishbosheth, and said, [Am] I a dog's head, which against Judah do shew kindness this day unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, that thou chargest me to day with a fault concerning this woman?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 10
VText:
To translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 12
VText:
And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, Whose [is] the land? saying [also], Make thy league with me, and, behold, my hand [shall be] with thee, to bring about all Israel unto thee.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 13
VText:
And he said, Well; I will make a league with thee: but one thing I require of thee, that is, Thou shalt not see my face, except thou first bring Michal Saul's daughter, when thou comest to see my face.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 14
VText:
And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth Saul's son, saying, Deliver [me] my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred foreskins of the Philistines.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 16
VText:
And her husband went with her along weeping behind her to Bahurim. Then said Abner unto him, Go, return. And he returned.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 17
VText:
And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, Ye sought for David in times past [to be] king over you:


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 18
VText:
Now then do [it]: for the LORD hath spoken of David, saying, By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 19
VText:
And Abner also spake in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and that seemed good to the whole house of Benjamin.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 20
VText:
So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. And David made Abner and the men that [were] with him a feast.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 21
VText:
And Abner said unto David, I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel unto my lord the king, that they may make a league with thee, and that thou mayest reign over all that thine heart desireth. And David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 22
VText:
And, behold, the servants of David and Joab came from [pursuing] a troop, and brought in a great spoil with them: but Abner [was] not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he was gone in peace.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 23
VText:
When Joab and all the host that [was] with him were come, they told Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he hath sent him away, and he is gone in peace.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 24
VText:
Then Joab came to the king, and said, What hast thou done? behold, Abner came unto thee; why [is] it [that] thou hast sent him away, and he is quite gone?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 25
VText:
Thou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive thee, and to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to know all that thou doest.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 26
VText:
And when Joab was come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, which brought him again from the well of Sirah: but David knew [it] not.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 27
VText:
And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth [rib], that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 28
VText:
And afterward when David heard [it], he said, I and my kingdom [are] guiltless before the LORD for ever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner:


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 29
VText:
Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 30
VText:
So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 31
VText:
And David said to Joab, and to all the people that [were] with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David [himself] followed the bier.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 32
VText:
And they buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 34
VText:
Thy hands [were] not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, [so] fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 35
VText:
And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 36
VText:
And all the people took notice [of it], and it pleased them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 37
VText:
For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 38
VText:
And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 3
Verse: 39
VText:
And I [am] this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah [be] too hard for me: the LORD shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 4
Verse: 1
VText:
And when Saul's son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands were feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 4
Verse: 2
VText:
And Saul's son had two men [that were] captains of bands: the name of the one [was] Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin: (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin:


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 4
Verse: 4
VText:
And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son [that was] lame of [his] feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name [was] Mephibosheth.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 4
Verse: 5
VText:
And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, who lay on a bed at noon.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 4
Verse: 6
VText:
And they came thither into the midst of the house, [as though] they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth [rib]: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 4
Verse: 7
VText:
For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 4
Verse: 8
VText:
And they brought the head of Ishbosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ishbosheth the son of Saul thine enemy, which sought thy life; and the LORD hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 4
Verse: 9
VText:
And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, [As] the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 4
Verse: 10
VText:
When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who [thought] that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 4
Verse: 11
VText:
How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 4
Verse: 12
VText:
And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged [them] up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried [it] in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 5
Verse: 1
VText:
Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we [are] thy bone and thy flesh.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 5
Verse: 2
VText:
Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 5
Verse: 3
VText:
So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the LORD: and they anointed David king over Israel.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 5
Verse: 5
VText:
In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 5
Verse: 6
VText:
And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spake unto David, saying, Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither: thinking, David cannot come in hither.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 5
Verse: 8
VText:
And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, [that are] hated of David's soul, [he shall be chief and captain]. Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 5
Verse: 9
VText:
So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 5
Verse: 11
VText:
And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an house.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 5
Verse: 12
VText:
And David perceived that the LORD had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel's sake.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 5
Verse: 13
VText:
And David took [him] more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron: and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 5
Verse: 14
VText:
And these [be] the names of those that were born unto him in Jerusalem; Shammua, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 5
Verse: 17
VText:
But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines came up to seek David; and David heard [of it], and went down to the hold.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 5
Verse: 19
VText:
And David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up to the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the LORD said unto David, Go up: for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into thine hand.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 5
Verse: 20
VText:
And David came to Baalperazim, and David smote them there, and said, The LORD hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baalperazim.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 5
Verse: 23
VText:
And when David inquired of the LORD, he said, Thou shalt not go up; [but] fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 5
Verse: 24
VText:
And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall the LORD go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 5
Verse: 25
VText:
And David did so, as the LORD had commanded him; and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gazer.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 2
VText:
And David arose, and went with all the people that [were] with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose name is called by the name of the LORD of hosts that dwelleth [between] the cherubims.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 3
VText:
And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that [was] in Gibeah: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drave the new cart.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 4
VText:
And they brought it out of the house of Abinadab which [was] at Gibeah, accompanying the ark of God: and Ahio went before the ark.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 5
VText:
And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of [instruments made of] fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 6
VText:
And when they came to Nachon's threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth [his hand] to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook [it].


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 7
VText:
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for [his] error; and there he died by the ark of God.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 8
VText:
And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place Perezuzzah to this day.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 10
VText:
So David would not remove the ark of the LORD unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 11
VText:
And the ark of the LORD continued in the house of Obededom the Gittite three months: and the LORD blessed Obededom, and all his household.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 12
VText:
And it was told king David, saying, The LORD hath blessed the house of Obededom, and all that [pertaineth] unto him, because of the ark of God. So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obededom into the city of David with gladness.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 13
VText:
And it was [so], that when they that bare the ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 15
VText:
So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 16
VText:
And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 17
VText:
And they brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in his place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it: and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 18
VText:
And as soon as David had made an end of offering burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of hosts.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 19
VText:
And he dealt among all the people, [even] among the whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every one a cake of bread, and a good piece [of flesh], and a flagon [of wine]. So all the people departed every one to his house.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 20
VText:
Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 21
VText:
And David said unto Michal, [It was] before the LORD, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the LORD, over Israel: therefore will I play before the LORD.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 6
Verse: 22
VText:
And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 7
Verse: 1
VText:
And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies;


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 7
Verse: 2
VText:
That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 7
Verse: 6
VText:
Whereas I have not dwelt in [any] house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 7
Verse: 7
VText:
In all [the places] wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not me an house of cedar?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 7
Verse: 8
VText:
Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 7
Verse: 9
VText:
And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great [men] that [are] in the earth.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 7
Verse: 10
VText:
Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime,


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 7
Verse: 11
VText:
And as since the time that I commanded judges [to be] over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the LORD telleth thee that he will make thee an house.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 7
Verse: 12
VText:
And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 7
Verse: 14
VText:
I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 7
Verse: 16
VText:
And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 7
Verse: 18
VText:
Then went king David in, and sat before the LORD, and he said, Who [am] I, O Lord GOD? and what [is] my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 7
Verse: 19
VText:
And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord GOD; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come. And [is] this the manner of man, O Lord GOD?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 7
Verse: 21
VText:
For thy word's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know [them].


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 7
Verse: 22
VText:
Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for [there is] none like thee, neither [is there any] God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 7
Verse: 23
VText:
And what one nation in the earth [is] like thy people, [even] like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, [from] the nations and their gods?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 7
Verse: 24
VText:
For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel [to be] a people unto thee for ever: and thou, LORD, art become their God.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 7
Verse: 25
VText:
And now, O LORD God, the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant, and concerning his house, establish [it] for ever, and do as thou hast said.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 7
Verse: 26
VText:
And let thy name be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts [is] the God over Israel: and let the house of thy servant David be established before thee.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 7
Verse: 27
VText:
For thou, O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee an house: therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 7
Verse: 28
VText:
And now, O Lord GOD, thou [art] that God, and thy words be true, and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 7
Verse: 29
VText:
Therefore now let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee: for thou, O Lord GOD, hast spoken [it]: and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 8
Verse: 1
VText:
And after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them: and David took Methegammah out of the hand of the Philistines.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 8
Verse: 2
VText:
And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And [so] the Moabites became David's servants, [and] brought gifts.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 8
Verse: 3
VText:
David smote also Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his border at the river Euphrates.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 8
Verse: 4
VText:
And David took from him a thousand [chariots], and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all the chariot [horses], but reserved of them [for] an hundred chariots.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 8
Verse: 5
VText:
And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 8
Verse: 6
VText:
Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became servants to David, [and] brought gifts. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 8
Verse: 7
VText:
And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 8
Verse: 10
VText:
Then Toi sent Joram his son unto king David, to salute him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer, and smitten him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. And [Joram] brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass:


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 8
Verse: 11
VText:
Which also king David did dedicate unto the LORD, with the silver and gold that he had dedicated of all nations which he subdued;


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 8
Verse: 12
VText:
Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 8
Verse: 13
VText:
And David gat [him] a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, [being] eighteen thousand [men].


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 8
Verse: 14
VText:
And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he garrisons, and all they of Edom became David's servants. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 8
Verse: 17
VText:
And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, [were] the priests; and Seraiah [was] the scribe;


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 8
Verse: 18
VText:
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was over] both the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief rulers.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 1
VText:
And David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan's sake?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 2
VText:
And [there was] of the house of Saul a servant whose name [was] Ziba. And when they had called him unto David, the king said unto him, [Art] thou Ziba? And he said, Thy servant [is he].


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 3
VText:
And the king said, [Is] there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may shew the kindness of God unto him? And Ziba said unto the king, Jonathan hath yet a son, [which is] lame on [his] feet.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 4
VText:
And the king said unto him, Where [is] he? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he [is] in the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, in Lodebar.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 6
VText:
Now when Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, was come unto David, he fell on his face, and did reverence. And David said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold thy servant!


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 7
VText:
And David said unto him, Fear not: for I will surely shew thee kindness for Jonathan thy father's sake, and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy father; and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 8
VText:
And he bowed himself, and said, What [is] thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I [am]?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 9
VText:
Then the king called to Ziba, Saul's servant, and said unto him, I have given unto thy master's son all that pertained to Saul and to all his house.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 10
VText:
Thou therefore, and thy sons, and thy servants, shall till the land for him, and thou shalt bring in [the fruits], that thy master's son may have food to eat: but Mephibosheth thy master's son shall eat bread alway at my table. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 11
VText:
Then said Ziba unto the king, According to all that my lord the king hath commanded his servant, so shall thy servant do. As for Mephibosheth, [said the king], he shall eat at my table, as one of the king's sons.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 12
VText:
And Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name [was] Micha. And all that dwelt in the house of Ziba [were] servants unto Mephibosheth.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 9
Verse: 13
VText:
So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem: for he did eat continually at the king's table; and was lame on both his feet.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 1
VText:
And it came to pass after this, that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his stead.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 2
VText:
Then said David, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father shewed kindness unto me. And David sent to comfort him by the hand of his servants for his father. And David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 3
VText:
And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? hath not David [rather] sent his servants unto thee, to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 4
VText:
Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, [even] to their buttocks, and sent them away.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 5
VText:
When they told [it] unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and [then] return.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 6
VText:
And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ishtob twelve thousand men.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 8
VText:
And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entering in of the gate: and the Syrians of Zoba, and of Rehob, and Ishtob, and Maacah, [were] by themselves in the field.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 9
VText:
When Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice [men] of Israel, and put [them] in array against the Syrians:


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 10
VText:
And the rest of the people he delivered into the hand of Abishai his brother, that he might put [them] in array against the children of Ammon.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 11
VText:
And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I will come and help thee.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 12
VText:
Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the LORD do that which seemeth him good.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 13
VText:
And Joab drew nigh, and the people that [were] with him, unto the battle against the Syrians: and they fled before him.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 14
VText:
And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, then fled they also before Abishai, and entered into the city. So Joab returned from the children of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 16
VText:
And Hadarezer sent, and brought out the Syrians that [were] beyond the river: and they came to Helam; and Shobach the captain of the host of Hadarezer [went] before them.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 17
VText:
And when it was told David, he gathered all Israel together, and passed over Jordan, and came to Helam. And the Syrians set themselves in array against David, and fought with him.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 18
VText:
And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew [the men of] seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, who died there.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 10
Verse: 19
VText:
And when all the kings [that were] servants to Hadarezer saw that they were smitten before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and served them. So the Syrians feared to help the children of Ammon any more.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 11
Verse: 1
VText:
And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth [to battle], that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 11
Verse: 2
VText:
And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman [was] very beautiful to look upon.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 11
Verse: 3
VText:
And David sent and inquired after the woman. And [one] said, [Is] not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 11
Verse: 4
VText:
And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 11
Verse: 7
VText:
And when Uriah was come unto him, David demanded [of him] how Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war prospered.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 11
Verse: 8
VText:
And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet. And Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there followed him a mess [of meat] from the king.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 11
Verse: 9
VText:
But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 11
Verse: 10
VText:
And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from [thy] journey? why [then] didst thou not go down unto thine house?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 11
Verse: 11
VText:
And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? [as] thou livest, and [as] thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 11
Verse: 12
VText:
And David said to Uriah, Tarry here to day also, and to morrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the morrow.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 11
Verse: 13
VText:
And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 11
Verse: 14
VText:
And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent [it] by the hand of Uriah.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 11
Verse: 15
VText:
And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 11
Verse: 16
VText:
And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men [were].


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 11
Verse: 17
VText:
And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell [some] of the people of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 11
Verse: 19
VText:
And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king,


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 11
Verse: 20
VText:
And if so be that the king's wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 11
Verse: 21
VText:
Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 11
Verse: 23
VText:
And the messenger said unto David, Surely the men prevailed against us, and came out unto us into the field, and we were upon them even unto the entering of the gate.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 11
Verse: 24
VText:
And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and [some] of the king's servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 11
Verse: 25
VText:
Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 11
Verse: 27
VText:
And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 1
VText:
And the LORD sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 3
VText:
But the poor [man] had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 4
VText:
And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 5
VText:
And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, [As] the LORD liveth, the man that hath done this [thing] shall surely die:


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 7
VText:
And Nathan said to David, Thou [art] the man. Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul;


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 8
VText:
And I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if [that had been] too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 9
VText:
Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife [to be] thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 10
VText:
Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 11
VText:
Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give [them] unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 13
VText:
And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 14
VText:
Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also [that is] born unto thee shall surely die.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 15
VText:
And Nathan departed unto his house. And the LORD struck the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 16
VText:
David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 17
VText:
And the elders of his house arose, [and went] to him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 18
VText:
And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 19
VText:
But when David saw that his servants whispered, David perceived that the child was dead: therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 20
VText:
Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed [himself], and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the LORD, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 21
VText:
Then said his servants unto him, What thing [is] this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, [while it was] alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 22
VText:
And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell [whether] GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 23
VText:
But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 24
VText:
And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the LORD loved him.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 25
VText:
And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 27
VText:
And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought against Rabbah, and have taken the city of waters.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 28
VText:
Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it: lest I take the city, and it be called after my name.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 30
VText:
And he took their king's crown from off his head, the weight whereof [was] a talent of gold with the precious stones: and it was [set] on David's head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 12
Verse: 31
VText:
And he brought forth the people that [were] therein, and put [them] under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 1
VText:
And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name [was] Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 2
VText:
And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar; for she [was] a virgin; and Amnon thought it hard for him to do any thing to her.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 3
VText:
But Amnon had a friend, whose name [was] Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother: and Jonadab [was] a very subtil man.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 4
VText:
And he said unto him, Why [art] thou, [being] the king's son, lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 5
VText:
And Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me meat, and dress the meat in my sight, that I may see [it], and eat [it] at her hand.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 6
VText:
So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 8
VText:
So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was laid down. And she took flour, and kneaded [it], and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 9
VText:
And she took a pan, and poured [them] out before him; but he refused to eat. And Amnon said, Have out all men from me. And they went out every man from him.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 10
VText:
And Amnon said unto Tamar, Bring the meat into the chamber, that I may eat of thine hand. And Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought [them] into the chamber to Amnon her brother.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 11
VText:
And when she had brought [them] unto him to eat, he took hold of her, and said unto her, Come lie with me, my sister.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 12
VText:
And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 13
VText:
And I, whither shall I cause my shame to go? and as for thee, thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the king; for he will not withhold me from thee.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 14
VText:
Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 15
VText:
Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her [was] greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 16
VText:
And she said unto him, [There is] no cause: this evil in sending me away [is] greater than the other that thou didst unto me. But he would not hearken unto her.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 17
VText:
Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said, Put now this [woman] out from me, and bolt the door after her.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 18
VText:
And [she had] a garment of divers colours upon her: for with such robes were the king's daughters [that were] virgins apparelled. Then his servant brought her out, and bolted the door after her.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 19
VText:
And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that [was] on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 20
VText:
And Absalom her brother said unto her, Hath Amnon thy brother been with thee? but hold now thy peace, my sister: he [is] thy brother; regard not this thing. So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom's house.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 22
VText:
And Absalom spake unto his brother Amnon neither good nor bad: for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 23
VText:
And it came to pass after two full years, that Absalom had sheepshearers in Baalhazor, which [is] beside Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king's sons.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 24
VText:
And Absalom came to the king, and said, Behold now, thy servant hath sheepshearers; let the king, I beseech thee, and his servants go with thy servant.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 25
VText:
And the king said to Absalom, Nay, my son, let us not all now go, lest we be chargeable unto thee. And he pressed him: howbeit he would not go, but blessed him.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 26
VText:
Then said Absalom, If not, I pray thee, let my brother Amnon go with us. And the king said unto him, Why should he go with thee?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 28
VText:
Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 29
VText:
And the servants of Absalom did unto Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and every man gat him up upon his mule, and fled.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 30
VText:
And it came to pass, while they were in the way, that tidings came to David, saying, Absalom hath slain all the king's sons, and there is not one of them left.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 31
VText:
Then the king arose, and tare his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 32
VText:
And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother, answered and said, Let not my lord suppose [that] they have slain all the young men the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by the appointment of Absalom this hath been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 33
VText:
Now therefore let not my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead: for Amnon only is dead.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 34
VText:
But Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people by the way of the hill side behind him.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 36
VText:
And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of speaking, that, behold, the king's sons came, and lifted up their voice and wept: and the king also and all his servants wept very sore.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 37
VText:
But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And [David] mourned for his son every day.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 13
Verse: 39
VText:
And [the soul of] king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 2
VText:
And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 4
VText:
And when the woman of Tekoah spake to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 5
VText:
And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I [am] indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 6
VText:
And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and [there was] none to part them, but the one smote the other, and slew him.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 7
VText:
And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband [neither] name nor remainder upon the earth.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 9
VText:
And the woman of Tekoah said unto the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity [be] on me, and on my father's house: and the king and his throne [be] guiltless.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 10
VText:
And the king said, Whosoever saith [ought] unto thee, bring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 11
VText:
Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, [As] the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 12
VText:
Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak [one] word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 13
VText:
And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 14
VText:
For we must needs die, and [are] as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect [any] person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 15
VText:
Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king, [it is] because the people have made me afraid: and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 16
VText:
For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man [that would] destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 17
VText:
Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so [is] my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD thy God will be with thee.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 18
VText:
Then the king answered and said unto the woman, Hide not from me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall ask thee. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 19
VText:
And the king said, [Is not] the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, [As] thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid:


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 20
VText:
To fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant Joab done this thing: and my lord [is] wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all [things] that [are] in the earth.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 21
VText:
And the king said unto Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing: go therefore, bring the young man Absalom again.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 22
VText:
And Joab fell to the ground on his face, and bowed himself, and thanked the king: and Joab said, To day thy servant knoweth that I have found grace in thy sight, my lord, O king, in that the king hath fulfilled the request of his servant.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 24
VText:
And the king said, Let him turn to his own house, and let him not see my face. So Absalom returned to his own house, and saw not the king's face.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 25
VText:
But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 26
VText:
And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end that he polled [it]: because [the hair] was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 27
VText:
And unto Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name [was] Tamar: she was a woman of a fair countenance.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 29
VText:
Therefore Absalom sent for Joab, to have sent him to the king; but he would not come to him: and when he sent again the second time, he would not come.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 30
VText:
Therefore he said unto his servants, See, Joab's field is near mine, and he hath barley there; go and set it on fire. And Absalom's servants set the field on fire.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 31
VText:
Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom unto [his] house, and said unto him, Wherefore have thy servants set my field on fire?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 32
VText:
And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent unto thee, saying, Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say, Wherefore am I come from Geshur? [it had been] good for me [to have been] there still: now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there be [any] iniquity in me, let him kill me.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 14
Verse: 33
VText:
So Joab came to the king, and told him: and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king: and the king kissed Absalom.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 1
VText:
And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 2
VText:
And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was [so], that when any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said, Of what city [art] thou? And he said, Thy servant [is] of one of the tribes of Israel.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 3
VText:
And Absalom said unto him, See, thy matters [are] good and right; but [there is] no man [deputed] of the king to hear thee.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 4
VText:
Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice!


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 5
VText:
And it was [so], that when any man came nigh [to him] to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took him, and kissed him.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 6
VText:
And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 7
VText:
And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto the LORD, in Hebron.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 8
VText:
For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If the LORD shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem, then I will serve the LORD.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 10
VText:
But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, As soon as ye hear the sound of the trumpet, then ye shall say, Absalom reigneth in Hebron.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 11
VText:
And with Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem, [that were] called; and they went in their simplicity, and they knew not any thing.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 12
VText:
And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counseller, from his city, [even] from Giloh, while he offered sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 14
VText:
And David said unto all his servants that [were] with him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for we shall not [else] escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us suddenly, and bring evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 15
VText:
And the king's servants said unto the king, Behold, thy servants [are ready to do] whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 16
VText:
And the king went forth, and all his household after him. And the king left ten women, [which were] concubines, to keep the house.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 18
VText:
And all his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men which came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 19
VText:
Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite, Wherefore goest thou also with us? return to thy place, and abide with the king: for thou [art] a stranger, and also an exile.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 20
VText:
Whereas thou camest [but] yesterday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us? seeing I go whither I may, return thou, and take back thy brethren: mercy and truth [be] with thee.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 21
VText:
And Ittai answered the king, and said, [As] the LORD liveth, and [as] my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy servant be.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 22
VText:
And David said to Ittai, Go and pass over. And Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones that [were] with him.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 23
VText:
And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 24
VText:
And lo Zadok also, and all the Levites [were] with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God: and they set down the ark of God; and Abiathar went up, until all the people had done passing out of the city.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 25
VText:
And the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favour in the eyes of the LORD, he will bring me again, and shew me [both] it, and his habitation:


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 26
VText:
But if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, [here am] I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 27
VText:
The king said also unto Zadok the priest, [Art not] thou a seer? return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz thy son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 30
VText:
And David went up by the ascent of [mount] Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people that [was] with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 31
VText:
And [one] told David, saying, Ahithophel [is] among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 32
VText:
And it came to pass, that [when] David was come to the top [of the mount], where he worshipped God, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his head:


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 34
VText:
But if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king; [as] I [have been] thy father's servant hitherto, so [will] I now also [be] thy servant: then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 35
VText:
And [hast thou] not there with thee Zadok and Abiathar the priests? therefore it shall be, [that] what thing soever thou shalt hear out of the king's house, thou shalt tell [it] to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 15
Verse: 36
VText:
Behold, [they have] there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz Zadok's [son], and Jonathan Abiathar's [son]; and by them ye shall send unto me every thing that ye can hear.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 1
VText:
And when David was a little past the top [of the hill], behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred [loaves] of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 2
VText:
And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses [be] for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 3
VText:
And the king said, And where [is] thy master's son? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he abideth at Jerusalem: for he said, To day shall the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 4
VText:
Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, thine [are] all that [pertained] unto Mephibosheth. And Ziba said, I humbly beseech thee [that] I may find grace in thy sight, my lord, O king.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 5
VText:
And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name [was] Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 6
VText:
And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men [were] on his right hand and on his left.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 8
VText:
The LORD hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the LORD hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou [art taken] in thy mischief, because thou [art] a bloody man.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 9
VText:
Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 10
VText:
And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the LORD hath said unto him, Curse David. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done so?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 11
VText:
And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now [may this] Benjamite [do it]? let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden him.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 12
VText:
It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 13
VText:
And as David and his men went by the way, Shimei went along on the hill's side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him, and cast dust.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 16
VText:
And it came to pass, when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, was come unto Absalom, that Hushai said unto Absalom, God save the king, God save the king.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 17
VText:
And Absalom said to Hushai, [Is] this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 18
VText:
And Hushai said unto Absalom, Nay; but whom the LORD, and this people, and all the men of Israel, choose, his will I be, and with him will I abide.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 19
VText:
And again, whom should I serve? [should I] not [serve] in the presence of his son? as I have served in thy father's presence, so will I be in thy presence.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 21
VText:
And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father's concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then shall the hands of all that [are] with thee be strong.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 22
VText:
So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 16
Verse: 23
VText:
And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, [was] as if a man had inquired at the oracle of God: so [was] all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 1
VText:
Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 2
VText:
And I will come upon him while he [is] weary and weak handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that [are] with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only:


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 3
VText:
And I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest [is] as if all returned: [so] all the people shall be in peace.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 6
VText:
And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spake unto him, saying, Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner: shall we do [after] his saying? if not; speak thou.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 8
VText:
For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they [be] mighty men, and they [be] chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father [is] a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 9
VText:
Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some [other] place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 10
VText:
And he also [that is] valiant, whose heart [is] as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father [is] a mighty man, and [they] which [be] with him [are] valiant men.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 11
VText:
Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that [is] by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 12
VText:
So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground: and of him and of all the men that [are] with him there shall not be left so much as one.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 13
VText:
Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there be not one small stone found there.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 14
VText:
And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite [is] better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 15
VText:
Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counselled.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 16
VText:
Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that [are] with him.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 17
VText:
Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by Enrogel; for they might not be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them; and they went and told king David.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 18
VText:
Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man's house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went down.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 19
VText:
And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 20
VText:
And when Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where [is] Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find [them], they returned to Jerusalem.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 21
VText:
And it came to pass, after they were departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David, and said unto David, Arise, and pass quickly over the water: for thus hath Ahithophel counselled against you.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 22
VText:
Then David arose, and all the people that [were] with him, and they passed over Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one of them that was not gone over Jordan.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 23
VText:
And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled [his] ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 25
VText:
And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa [was] a man's son, whose name [was] Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 27
VText:
And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 28
VText:
Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched [corn], and beans, and lentiles, and parched [pulse],


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 17
Verse: 29
VText:
And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that [were] with him, to eat: for they said, The people [is] hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 1
VText:
And David numbered the people that [were] with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 2
VText:
And David sent forth a third part of the people under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said unto the people, I will surely go forth with you myself also.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 3
VText:
But the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but now [thou art] worth ten thousand of us: therefore now [it is] better that thou succour us out of the city.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 4
VText:
And the king said unto them, What seemeth you best I will do. And the king stood by the gate side, and all the people came out by hundreds and by thousands.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 5
VText:
And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, [Deal] gently for my sake with the young man, [even] with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 7
VText:
Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand [men].


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 8
VText:
For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 9
VText:
And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that [was] under him went away.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 11
VText:
And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest [him], and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten [shekels] of silver, and a girdle.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 12
VText:
And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand [shekels] of silver in mine hand, [yet] would I not put forth mine hand against the king's son: for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none [touch] the young man Absalom.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 13
VText:
Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood against mine own life: for there is no matter hid from the king, and thou thyself wouldest have set thyself against [me].


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 14
VText:
Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he [was] yet alive in the midst of the oak.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 16
VText:
And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 17
VText:
And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him: and all Israel fled every one to his tent.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 18
VText:
Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which [is] in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 19
VText:
Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and bear the king tidings, how that the LORD hath avenged him of his enemies.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 20
VText:
And Joab said unto him, Thou shalt not bear tidings this day, but thou shalt bear tidings another day: but this day thou shalt bear no tidings, because the king's son is dead.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 21
VText:
Then said Joab to Cushi, Go tell the king what thou hast seen. And Cushi bowed himself unto Joab, and ran.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 22
VText:
Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab, But howsoever, let me, I pray thee, also run after Cushi. And Joab said, Wherefore wilt thou run, my son, seeing that thou hast no tidings ready?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 23
VText:
But howsoever, [said he], let me run. And he said unto him, Run. Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 24
VText:
And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 25
VText:
And the watchman cried, and told the king. And the king said, If he [be] alone, [there is] tidings in his mouth. And he came apace, and drew near.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 26
VText:
And the watchman saw another man running: and the watchman called unto the porter, and said, Behold [another] man running alone. And the king said, He also bringeth tidings.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 27
VText:
And the watchman said, Me thinketh the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king said, He [is] a good man, and cometh with good tidings.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 28
VText:
And Ahimaaz called, and said unto the king, All is well. And he fell down to the earth upon his face before the king, and said, Blessed [be] the LORD thy God, which hath delivered up the men that lifted up their hand against my lord the king.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 29
VText:
And the king said, [Is] the young man Absalom safe? And Ahimaaz answered, When Joab sent the king's servant, and [me] thy servant, I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what [it was].


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 31
VText:
And, behold, Cushi came; and Cushi said, Tidings, my lord the king: for the LORD hath avenged thee this day of all them that rose up against thee.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 32
VText:
And the king said unto Cushi, [Is] the young man Absalom safe? And Cushi answered, The enemies of my lord the king, and all that rise against thee to do [thee] hurt, be as [that] young man [is].


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 18
Verse: 33
VText:
And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 2
VText:
And the victory that day was [turned] into mourning unto all the people: for the people heard say that day how the king was grieved for his son.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 3
VText:
And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 4
VText:
But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 5
VText:
And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines;


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 6
VText:
In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 7
VText:
Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants: for I swear by the LORD, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry one with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that befell thee from thy youth until now.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 8
VText:
Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told unto all the people, saying, Behold, the king doth sit in the gate. And all the people came before the king: for Israel had fled every man to his tent.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 9
VText:
And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved us out of the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 10
VText:
And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 11
VText:
And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, [even] to his house.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 12
VText:
Ye [are] my brethren, ye [are] my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 13
VText:
And say ye to Amasa, [Art] thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 14
VText:
And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as [the heart of] one man; so that they sent [this word] unto the king, Return thou, and all thy servants.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 15
VText:
So the king returned, and came to Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to conduct the king over Jordan.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 16
VText:
And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, which [was] of Bahurim, hasted and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 17
VText:
And [there were] a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went over Jordan before the king.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 18
VText:
And there went over a ferry boat to carry over the king's household, and to do what he thought good. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, as he was come over Jordan;


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 19
VText:
And said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 20
VText:
For thy servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come the first this day of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 21
VText:
But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD's anointed?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 22
VText:
And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries unto me? shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I [am] this day king over Israel?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 24
VText:
And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came [again] in peace.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 25
VText:
And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said unto him, Wherefore wentest not thou with me, Mephibosheth?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 26
VText:
And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go to the king; because thy servant [is] lame.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 27
VText:
And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king [is] as an angel of God: do therefore [what is] good in thine eyes.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 28
VText:
For all [of] my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 29
VText:
And the king said unto him, Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the land.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 30
VText:
And Mephibosheth said unto the king, Yea, let him take all, forasmuch as my lord the king is come again in peace unto his own house.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 31
VText:
And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim, and went over Jordan with the king, to conduct him over Jordan.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 32
VText:
Now Barzillai was a very aged man, [even] fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he [was] a very great man.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 33
VText:
And the king said unto Barzillai, Come thou over with me, and I will feed thee with me in Jerusalem.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 34
VText:
And Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 35
VText:
I [am] this day fourscore years old: [and] can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 36
VText:
Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 37
VText:
Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, [and be buried] by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 38
VText:
And the king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good unto thee: and whatsoever thou shalt require of me, [that] will I do for thee.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 39
VText:
And all the people went over Jordan. And when the king was come over, the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned unto his own place.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 40
VText:
Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him: and all the people of Judah conducted the king, and also half the people of Israel.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 41
VText:
And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said unto the king, Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away, and have brought the king, and his household, and all David's men with him, over Jordan?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 42
VText:
And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king [is] near of kin to us: wherefore then be ye angry for this matter? have we eaten at all of the king's [cost]? or hath he given us any gift?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 19
Verse: 43
VText:
And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more [right] in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 1
VText:
And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name [was] Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 2
VText:
So every man of Israel went up from after David, [and] followed Sheba the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah clave unto their king, from Jordan even to Jerusalem.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 3
VText:
And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women [his] concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 4
VText:
Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Judah within three days, and be thou here present.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 5
VText:
So Amasa went to assemble [the men of] Judah: but he tarried longer than the set time which he had appointed him.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 6
VText:
And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than [did] Absalom: take thou thy lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape us.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 7
VText:
And there went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men: and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 8
VText:
When they [were] at the great stone which [is] in Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Joab's garment that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle [with] a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 9
VText:
And Joab said to Amasa, [Art] thou in health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 10
VText:
But Amasa took no heed to the sword that [was] in Joab's hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth [rib], and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 11
VText:
And one of Joab's men stood by him, and said, He that favoureth Joab, and he that [is] for David, [let him go] after Joab.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 12
VText:
And Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 13
VText:
When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 14
VText:
And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and to Bethmaachah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and went also after him.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 15
VText:
And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that [were] with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 16
VText:
Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with thee.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 17
VText:
And when he was come near unto her, the woman said, [Art] thou Joab? And he answered, I [am he]. Then she said unto him, Hear the words of thine handmaid. And he answered, I do hear.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 18
VText:
Then she spake, saying, They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask [counsel] at Abel: and so they ended [the matter].


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 19
VText:
I [am one of them that are] peaceable [and] faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 21
VText:
The matter [is] not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, [even] against David: deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 22
VText:
Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast [it] out to Joab. And he blew a trumpet, and they retired from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 20
Verse: 23
VText:
Now Joab [was] over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada [was] over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites:


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 21
Verse: 1
VText:
Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, [It is] for Saul, and for [his] bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 21
Verse: 2
VText:
And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites [were] not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 21
Verse: 3
VText:
Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 21
Verse: 4
VText:
And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, [that] will I do for you.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 21
Verse: 5
VText:
And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us [that] we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 21
Verse: 6
VText:
Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, [whom] the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give [them].


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 21
Verse: 7
VText:
But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD's oath that [was] between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 21
Verse: 8
VText:
But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 21
Verse: 9
VText:
And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell [all] seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first [days], in the beginning of barley harvest.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 21
Verse: 10
VText:
And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 21
Verse: 12
VText:
And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 21
Verse: 13
VText:
And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 21
Verse: 14
VText:
And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 21
Verse: 15
VText:
Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David waxed faint.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 21
Verse: 16
VText:
And Ishbibenob, which [was] of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear [weighed] three hundred [shekels] of brass in weight, he being girded with a new [sword], thought to have slain David.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 21
Verse: 17
VText:
But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 21
Verse: 18
VText:
And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which [was] of the sons of the giant.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 21
Verse: 19
VText:
And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew [the brother of] Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear [was] like a weaver's beam.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 21
Verse: 20
VText:
And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of [great] stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 21
Verse: 22
VText:
These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 22
Verse: 1
VText:
And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day [that] the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 22
Verse: 3
VText:
The God of my rock; in him will I trust: [he is] my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 22
Verse: 7
VText:
In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry [did enter] into his ears.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 22
Verse: 9
VText:
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 22
Verse: 16
VText:
And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 22
Verse: 18
VText:
He delivered me from my strong enemy, [and] from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 22
Verse: 21
VText:
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 22
Verse: 25
VText:
Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 22
Verse: 26
VText:
With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, [and] with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 22
Verse: 28
VText:
And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes [are] upon the haughty, [that] thou mayest bring [them] down.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 22
Verse: 31
VText:
[As for] God, his way [is] perfect; the word of the LORD [is] tried: he [is] a buckler to all them that trust in him.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 22
Verse: 39
VText:
And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 22
Verse: 40
VText:
For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 22
Verse: 43
VText:
Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, [and] did spread them abroad.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 22
Verse: 44
VText:
Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me [to be] head of the heathen: a people [which] I knew not shall serve me.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 22
Verse: 49
VText:
And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 22
Verse: 50
VText:
Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 22
Verse: 51
VText:
[He is] the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 1
VText:
Now these [be] the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man [who was] raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 3
VText:
The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men [must be] just, ruling in the fear of God.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 4
VText:
And [he shall be] as the light of the morning, [when] the sun riseth, [even] a morning without clouds; [as] the tender grass [springing] out of the earth by clear shining after rain.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 5
VText:
Although my house [be] not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all [things], and sure: for [this is] all my salvation, and all [my] desire, although he make [it] not to grow.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 6
VText:
But [the sons] of Belial [shall be] all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 7
VText:
But the man [that] shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the [same] place.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 8
VText:
These [be] the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same [was] Adino the Eznite: [he lift up his spear] against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 9
VText:
And after him [was] Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, [one] of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines [that] were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away:


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 10
VText:
He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and the LORD wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 11
VText:
And after him [was] Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the Philistines.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 12
VText:
But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the Philistines: and the LORD wrought a great victory.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 13
VText:
And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 15
VText:
And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which [is] by the gate!


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 16
VText:
And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that [was] by the gate, and took [it], and brought [it] to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 17
VText:
And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this: [is not this] the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 18
VText:
And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, [and] slew [them], and had the name among three.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 19
VText:
Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the [first] three.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 20
VText:
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 21
VText:
And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 23
VText:
He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the [first] three. And David set him over his guard.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 23
Verse: 29
VText:
Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 1
VText:
And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 2
VText:
For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which [was] with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 3
VText:
And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see [it]: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 4
VText:
Notwithstanding the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 5
VText:
And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that [lieth] in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward Jazer:


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 6
VText:
Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtimhodshi; and they came to Danjaan, and about to Zidon,


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 7
VText:
And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, [even] to Beersheba.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 8
VText:
So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 9
VText:
And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah [were] five hundred thousand men.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 10
VText:
And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 11
VText:
For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 12
VText:
Go and say unto David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three [things]; choose thee one of them, that I may [do it] unto thee.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 13
VText:
So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 14
VText:
And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies [are] great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 15
VText:
So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 16
VText:
And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 17
VText:
And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 18
VText:
And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 20
VText:
And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 21
VText:
And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 22
VText:
And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what [seemeth] good unto him: behold, [here be] oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing instruments and [other] instruments of the oxen for wood.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 23
VText:
All these [things] did Araunah, [as] a king, give unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God accept thee.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 24
VText:
And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy [it] of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.


BookID: 10
BookAbr: 2Sa
BookName: 2 Samuel
Chapter: 24
Verse: 25
VText:
And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.


BookID: 11
BookAbr: 1Ki
BookName: 1 Kings
Chapter: 1
Verse: 1
VText:
Now king David was old [and] stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.


BookID: 11
BookAbr: 1Ki
BookName: 1 Kings
Chapter: 1
Verse: 2
VText:
Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.


BookID: 11
BookAbr: 1Ki
BookName: 1 Kings
Chapter: 1
Verse: 3
VText:
So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.


BookID: 11
BookAbr: 1Ki
BookName: 1 Kings
Chapter: 1
Verse: 4
VText:
And the damsel [was] very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him: but the king knew her not.


BookID: 11
BookAbr: 1Ki
BookName: 1 Kings
Chapter: 1
Verse: 5
VText:
Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.


BookID: 11
BookAbr: 1Ki
BookName: 1 Kings
Chapter: 1
Verse: 6
VText:
And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also [was a] very goodly [man]; and [his mother] bare him after Absalom.


BookID: 11
BookAbr: 1Ki
BookName: 1 Kings
Chapter: 1
Verse: 7
VText:
And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped [him].


BookID: 11
BookAbr: 1Ki
BookName: 1 Kings
Chapter: 1
Verse: 8
VText:
But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men which [belonged] to David, were not with Adonijah.


BookID: 11
BookAbr: 1Ki
BookName: 1 Kings
Chapter: 1
Verse: 9
VText:
And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which [is] by Enrogel, and called all his brethren the king's sons, and all the men of Judah the king's servants:


BookID: 11
BookAbr: 1Ki
BookName: 1 Kings
Chapter: 1
Verse: 11
VText:
Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith doth reign, and David our lord knoweth [it] not?


BookID: 11
BookAbr: 1Ki
BookName: 1 Kings
Chapter: 1
Verse: 12
VText:
Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel, that thou mayest save thine own life, and the life of thy son Solomon.


BookID: 11
BookAbr: 1Ki
BookName: 1 Kings
Chapter: 1
Verse: 13
VText:
Go and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him, Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why then doth Adonijah reign?


BookID: 11
BookAbr: 1Ki
BookName: 1 Kings
Chapter: 1
Verse: 14
VText:
Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come in after thee, and confirm thy words.


BookID: 11
BookAbr: 1Ki
BookName: 1 Kings
Chapter: 1
Verse: 15
VText:
And Bathsheba went in unto the king into the chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto the king.


BookID: 11
BookAbr: 1Ki
BookName: 1 Kings
Chapter: 1
Verse: 17
VText:
And she said unto him, My lord, thou swarest by the LORD thy God unto thine handmaid, [saying], Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.


BookID: 11
BookAbr: 1Ki
BookName: 1 Kings
Chapter: 1
Verse: 19
VText:
And he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the host: but Solomon thy servant hath he not called.


BookID: 11
BookAbr: 1Ki
BookName: 1 Kings
Chapter: 1
Verse: 20
VText:
And thou, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel [are] upon thee, that thou shouldest tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.


BookID: 11
BookAbr: 1Ki
BookName: 1 Kings
Chapter: 1
Verse: 21
VText:
Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.


