1. SAMUEL.

stroyed, to sacrifice unto the Lonotheless Samuel mourned for Saul; and the LORD repented that he had made

22 And Samuel said, Hath the LonD Saul king over Israel.
as great delightin burnt-offerings and
sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of

the Lono? Behold, to obey is better AND the LORD said unto Samue

than sacrifices,and to hearken than the How long wilt thou mourn for fat of rams. Saul, seeing I have rejected him from 23 For rebellion is as the sin of witch-reigning over Israel? fill thy horn craft, and stubboruness is as iniquity with oil, and go, I will send thee to and idolatry. Because thou hast re- Jesse the Beth-lehemite, for I have jected the word of the LORD, he hath provided me a king among his sons. also rejected thee from being king. 2 And Samuel said, How can I go? 24 T And Saul said unto Samuel, 1|if Saul hear it, he will kill me. have sinned: for 1 have transgressed the LORD said,Take a heifer with thee, the commandment of the LORD, and and say, I am come to sacrifice to the thy words: because 1 feared the peoLond. ple, and obeyed their voice.

11 And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remiameth yet the youngest, 35 And Samuel came no more to see and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. Saul until the day of his death: never laud Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and

David anainted.

CHAP. XVII.

Goliath's challenge

fetch him ; for we will not sit down were gathered together at Shochol, till he come hither. which belongeth to Judab,and pitched 12 And he sent, and brought him in. between Shochol and Azekalı, in Now he was ruddy, and withal of a Ephes-dammim. beautiful countenance, and goodly to And the LORD said, Arise,

auoint him: for this is he.
13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil,
and anointed him in the midst of his
brethren and the Spirit of the LORD
came upon David from that day for
ward. So Samuel rose up, and went
to Raman.

2 And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines. 3And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them. 4 ¶ And there went out a champion But the Spirit of the Lond de-out of the camp of the Philistines, parted from Saul, and an evil spirit named Goliath, of Gath, whose height from the LORD troubled him. was six cubits and a spau.

15 And Saul's servants said unto him, Behold now, an evil spirit from God Troubleth thee.

5 And he had a helmet of brass upon bis head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the 15 Let our lord now command thy coat wasfive thousand shekels of brass. servants, which are before thee, to seek 6 And he had greaves of brass upon out a man, who is a cuming player on his legs, aud a target of brass between a harp and it shall come to pass, his shoulders.

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when the evil spirit from God is upon 7 And the staff of his spear was like thee, that he shall play with his hand, a weaver's beam; and his spear's head and thou shalt be well. weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him.

17 And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.

8 And he stood and cried unto the 18Then answered one of the servants, armies of Israel, and said unto thein, and said, Behold, I have seen a sou of Why are ye come out to set your batJesse the Beth-lehemite, that is cun-tle in array? am not I a Philistine, and ning in playing, and a mighty valiant maŭ, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the LORD is with him.

19 1 Wherefore Saul sent messengers anto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep.

20 And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul.

21 And David came to Saul,and stood before him; and he loved him greatly; and he became his armour-bearer.

22And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, 1 pray thee, stand before me, for he hath found favour in my sight. 23 And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took a harp, and played with his hand, so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.

ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me. 9 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.

10 And the Philistine said, I defy the Jarmies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.

11 When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.

12 T Now David was the son of that Ephrathite, of Beth-lehem-judab, whose name was Jesse ; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul. 13 And the three eldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were Eliab the first born, and next unto him, Abinadab, aud the third, Shammah.

14 And David was the youngest; and the three eldest followed Saul.

15 But David went and returned from

David accepteth 1. SAMUEL. the challenge. Saul to feed his father s sheep at Beth-and Eliab's anger was kindled against ehem. David, and he said, Why camest thou 16 And the Philistine drew near down hither? and with whom hast morning and evening, and presented thou left those few sheep in the wilhimself forty days.

17And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of his parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren;

18 And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.

19 Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elab, fighting with the Philistines. 20 ¶ 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 fight, and shouted for the battle. 21 For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army against

army.

22 And David left lus carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.

23 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 spakeaccording to the same words: and David heard them.

24 And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.

derness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thy heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.

29 And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause ? 30 T And he turned from him toward another, and spake after the same mammer: and the people answered him again after the former manner. 31 And when the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul; and he sent for him. 32 ↑ And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of bim; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.

33 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.

34 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:

35 And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth; and when be arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.

36 Thy servaut 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.

25 And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come ap? 37 David said moreover, The LORD surely to defy Israel is he come up that delivered me out of the paw of the and it shall be, that the man who kill-lion, and out of the paw of the bear, be eth him, the king will enrich brim with will deliver me out of the hand of this great riches, and will give him his Philistine. And Saul said unto David, daughter, and make his father's house Go, and the Lond be with thee. free in Israel.

38 T And Saul armed David with his 26 And Davic spake to the men that armour, and he put a helmet of brass stood by him saying, What shall be upon his head; also he armed him done to the man that killeth this Phil-with a coat of mail.

istine, and taketh away the reproach 39 And David girded his sword upon from Israel? for who is this uncircum- his armour, and assayed to go; for he cised Philistine, that he should defy had not proved it. And David said the armies of the living God? unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for 1 have not proved them. And David put them oll him,

27 And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that killeth him.

40 And he took his staff in his hand, 28 ↑ And Eliab his eldest brother and chose him five smooth stones out heard when he spake unto the men:lof the brook, and put them in a shep

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He slayeth Goliath.

herd's bag which he had, even in a 52 ¶ And the men of Israel and of scrip; and his sling was in his hand :Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued and he drew near to the Philistine. the Philistines, until thou come to the 41 And the Philistine came on, and valley, and to the gates of Ekren; and drew near unto David: and the man the wounded of the Philistines fell that bare the shield went before him. down by the way to Shaaraim, even 42 And when the Philistine looked|unto Gath, and unto Ekron.

about, and saw David, he disaained 53 And the children of Israel returnhim for he was but a youth, anded from chasing after the Philistines, ruddy, and of a fair countenance. and they spoiled their tents.

43 And the Philistine said unto Da- 64 And David took the head of the vid, Am I a dog, that thou comest to Philistine,and brought it to Jerusalem: me with staves? And the Philistine but he put his armour in his tent. cursed David by his gods. 55 ¶ Aud when Saul saw David go 44 And the Philistine said to David, forth against the Philistine, he said Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto Abner, the captain of the host, unto the fowls of the air, and to the Abner, whose son is this youth? And beasts of the field. Abner said, As thy soul liveth, O king,

45 Then said David to the Philistine,|I cannot tell. Thou comest to me with a sword, and] 56 And the king said, Inquire thou with a spear, and with a shield; but I whose son the stripling is.

come to thee in the name of the LonD] 57 And as David returned from the of hosts, the God of the armies of Is-slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took rael, whom thou hast defied. him, and brought him before Saul, 46 This day will the LORD deliver with the head of the Philistine in his thee into my hand; and I will smite band.

thee, and take thy head from thee; 58 And Saul said to him, Whose son and I will give the carcases of the host art thou, thou young man? And Daof the Philistines this day unto the vid answered, I am the son of thy serfowls of the air, and to the wild beasts vant Jesse the Beth-lehemite, of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.

47 And all this assembly shall know

that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD's, and he will give you into our hands. 48 And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.

CHAP. XVIII

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 Jongthan loved him as his own soul.

2 And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house.

3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

49 And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone and slang i, and smote the Philistine in his fore- 4 And Jonathan stripped himself of head, that the stone sunk into his fore-the robe that was upon him, and gave bead; and he fell upon his face to the it to David, and his garments, even te earth. his sword, and to his bow, and to hi'

50 So David prevailed over the Phil-girdle. istine with a sling and with a stone, 5 And David went out whithersoever and smote the Philistine, and slew Saul sent him, and behaved himself him; but there was no sword in the wisely; and Saul set him over the mer hand of David. of war; and he was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants.

51 Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath 6T And it came to pass as they came, thereof, and slew him, and cut off his when David was returned from thể head therewith. And when the Phil-slaughter of the Philistine, that the istines saw their champion was dead, wonien came out of all the cities o they fled. [Israel, singing and dancing, to meet

Saul secketh

1. SAMUEL.

to kill David. king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and, 21 And Saul said, I will give him her, with instruments of music. that she may be a snare to him, and 7 And the women answered one an-that the hand of the Philistines may other as they played, and said, Saul be against him. Wherefore Saul said hath slain his thousands, and David to David, Thou shalt this day be my his ten thousands. son-in-law in the one of the twain. 8 And Saul was very wroth, and the 22 T And Saul commanded his ser saying displeased him; and he said, vants, saying, Cominune with David They have ascribed unto David ten secretly, and say, Behold, the king thousands, and to me they have ascrib-hath delight in thee, and all his sered but thousands: and what can be vants love thee: now therefore be the have more but the kingdom? king's son-in-law,

9 And Saul eyed David from that day 23 And Saul's servants spake those and forward. words in the ears of David. And Da 10 ¶ And it came to pass on the mor-vid said, Seemeth it to you a lig row, that the evil spirit from God thing to be a king's son-in-law, seem came upon Saul, and be prophesied in that I am a poor man, and lightly esthe midst of the house; and David teemed? played with his hand,as at other times: and there was a javelin in Saul's hand. 11 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.

24 And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David. 25 And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's 12 ¶ And Saul was afraid of David, Jenemies. But Saul thought to make. because the Lord was with him, and David fall by the hand of the Philiswas departed from Saul.

13 Therefore Saul removed him from| him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people

14 And David behaved himself wise ly in all his ways; and the LORD was with him.

15 Wherefore when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he was afraid of him.

16 But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out and came in before them.

17 ¶ And Saul said to David, Behold, my elder daughter Merab, her will give thee to wife; only be thou valiaut for me, and fight the LORD's battles for Saul said, Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.

ties.

26 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.

27 Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philis tines 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.

28 And Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal, Saul's daughter, loved him. 29 And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David's enemy continually.

30 Then the princes of the Philistines went forth; and it came to pass, after 18 And David said unto Saul, Who they went forth, that David behaved am 1? and what is my life, or my fa-himself more wisely than all the serther's family in Israel, that I should vants of Saul; so that his name was be son-in-law to the king? much set by.

19 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 wile.

20 T And Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him

CHAP. XIX. A ND Saul spake to Jonathan his AND Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David.

2 But Jonathan, Saul's son,delighted much in David and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee. Now therefore, I pray