ND the CHAP. XVI, XVII. Samuel anoints David. The challenge of Goliath. CHAP. XVI. 16 Let our lord now command thy serA LORD said unto Samuel, How vants, which are before thee, to seek out a long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing man who is a cunning player on a harp: I have rejected him from reigning over Is- and it shall come to pass, when the evil rael? fill thy horn with oil, and go, I will spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall send thee to Jesse the Beth-lehemite : for play with his hand, and thou shalt be well. I have provided me a king among his sons. 17 And Saul said unto his servants, Pro2 And Samuel said, How can I go? if vide me now a man that can play well, Saul hear it, he will kill me. And the LORD and bring him to me. said, Take a heifer with thee, and say, I 18 Then answered one of the servants, am come to sacrifice to the LORD. and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jes 3 And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I se the Beth-lehemite, that is cunning in will shew thee what thou shalt do: and playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a thou shalt anoint unto me him whom I name unto thee. 4 And Samuel did that which the LORD spake, and came to Beth-lehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably? man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the LORD is with him. 19 Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep. 20 And Jesse took an ass laden with 5 And he said, Peaceably: I am come bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and to sacrifice unto the LORD: sanctify your- sent them by David his son unto Saul. selves, and come with me to the sacrifice. 21 And David came to Saul, and stood And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice. 6 And it came to pass when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armour-bearer. 22 And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for Surely the LORD's anointed is before him. he hath found favour in my sight. 7 But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look 23 And it came to pass, when the evil not on his countenance, or on the height of spirit from God was upon Saul, that David his stature; because I have refused him: took a harp, and played with his hand: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and man looketh on the outward appearance, the evil spirit departed from him. but the LORD looketh on the heart. 8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither hath the LORD chosen this. 9 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither hath the LORD Cho sen this. CHAP. XVII. Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim. 2 And Saul and the men of Israel were 10 Again Jesse made seven of his sons gathered together, and pitched by the valto pass before Samuel. And Samuel said ley of Elah, and set the battle in array unto Jesse, The Lord hath not chosen against the Philistines. these. 3 And the Philistines stood on a moun 11 And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are tain on the one side, and Israel stood on a here all thy children? And he said, There mountain on the other side: and there was remaineth yet the youngest, and behold, a valley between them. he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said 4 And there went out a champion out unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we of the camp of the Philistines, named Gowill not sit down till he come hither. liath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits 12 And he sent, and brought him in. and a span. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beau- 5 And he had a helmet of brass upon tiful countenance, and goodly to look to. his head, and he was armed with a coat of And the LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for mail; and the weight of the coat was five this is he. thousand shekels of brass. 13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, 6 And he had greaves of brass upon his and anointed him in the midst of his breth- legs, and a target of brass between his ren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon shoulders. David from that day forward. So Samuel 7 And the staff of his spear was like a rose up, and went to Ramah. weaver's beam; and his spear's head weigh14 But the Spirit of the LORD depart-ed six hundred shekels of iron and one ed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the bearing a shield went before him. LORD troubled him. 8 And he stood and cried unto the ar15 And Saul's servants said unto him, mies of Israel, and said unto them, Why Behold now, an evil spirit from God are ye come out to set your battle in array? troubleth thee. am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to David accepts I. SAMUEL. the challenge. Saul? choose you a man for you, and let give him his daughter, and make his fahim come down to me. ther's house free in Israel. 9 If he be able to fight with me, and to 26 And David spake to the men that kill me, then will we be your servants: stood by him, saying, What shall be done but if I prevail against him, and kill him, to the man that killeth this Philistine, and then shall ye be our servants, and serve us. taketh away the reproach from Israel? for 10 And the Philistine said, I defy the who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that armies of Israel this day; give me a man, he should defy the armies of the living God? that we may fight together. 27 And the people answered him after 11 When Saul and all Israel heard those this manner, saying, So shall it be done words of the Philistine, they were dismay- to the man that killeth him. ed, and greatly afraid. 28 And Eliab his eldest brother heard 12 Now David was the son of that when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah, whose anger was kindled against David, and he name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: said, Why camest thou down hither? and and the man went among men for an old with whom hast thou left those few sheep man in the days of Saul. in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and 13 And the three eldest sons of Jesse the naughtiness of thy heart; for thou art went and followed Saul to the battle: and come down that thou mightest see the battle. the names of his three sons that went to the 29 And David said, What have I now battle were Eliab the first-born, and next untohim Abinadab, and the third Shammah. done? Is there not a cause? 30 And he turned from him toward 14 And David was the youngest and another, and spake after the same manner: the three eldest followed Saul. and the people answered him again after 15 But David went and returned from the former manner. Saul to feed his father's sheep at Beth31 And when the words were heard lehem. which David spake, they rehearsed them 16 And the Philistine drew near morn-before Saul: and he sent for him. ing and evening, and presented himself 32 And David said to Saul, Let no forty days. man's heart fail because of him; thy ser17 And Jesse said unto David his son, vant will go and fight with this Philistine. Take now for thy brethren an ephah of 33 And Saul said to David, Thou art this parched corn, and these ten loaves, not able to go against this Philistine to and run to the camp to thy brethren: fight with him for thou art but a youth, 18 And carry these ten cheeses unto the and he a man of war from his youth. captain of their thousand, and look how 34 And David said unto Saul, Thy serthy brethren fare, and take their pledge. vant kept his father's sheep, and there 19 Now Saul, and they, and all the men came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fight- out of the flock: ing with the Philistines. 35 And I went out after him and smote 20 And David rose up early in the him, and delivered it out of his mouth: morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and when he arose against me, I caught him and took, and went, as Jesse had com- by his beard, and smote him, and slew him. manded him; and he came to the trench, 36 Thy servant slew both the lion and as the host was going forth to the fight, the bear: and this uncircumcised Philisand shouted for the battle, tine shall be as one of them, seeing he 21 For Israel and the Philistineshad put hath defied the arnies of the living God. the battle in array, army against army. 37 David said moreover, The LORD 22 And David left his carriage in the that delivered me out of the paw of the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran lion, and out of the paw of the bear, be into the army, and came and saluted his will deliver me out of the hand of this brethren. Philistine. And Saul said unto David, 23 And as he talked with them, behold, Go, and the LORD be with thee. there came up the champion, the Philistine 38 And Saul armed David with his of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the ar- armour, and he put a helmet of brass upmies of the Philistines, and spake according on his head; also he armed him with a to the same words: and David heard them. coat of mail. sore afraid. 24 And all the men of Israel, when 39 And David girded his sword upon they saw the man, fled from him, and were his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto 25 And the men of Israel said, Have ye Saul, I cannot go with these, for I have not seen this man that is come up? surely to proved them. And David put them off him. defy Israel is he come up and it shall be, 40 And he took his staff in his hand, that the man who killeth him, the king and chose him five smooth stones out of will enrich him with great riches, and will the brook and put them in a shepherd's 13 He slays Goliath. CHAP. XVIII. Jonathan loves David. bag which he had, even in a scrip; and listine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but his sling was in his hand: and he drew he put his armour in his tent. near to the Philistine. 55 And when Saul saw David go 42 And when the Philistine looked As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell. 57 And as David returned from the 43 And the Philistine said unto David, slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with him, and brought him before Saul with the staves? and the Philistine cursed David head of the Philistine in his hand. by his gods. 58 And Saul said to him, Whose son 44 And the Philistine said to David, art thou, thou young man? And David Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto answered, I am the son of thy servant Jesse the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the Beth-lehemite. the field. A CHAP. XVIII. 45 Then said David to the Philistine, ND it came to pass, when he had Thou comest to me with a sword, and with made an end of speaking unto Saul, a spear, and with a shield: but I come to that the soul of Jonathan was knit with thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the the soul of David, and Jonathan loved God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast him as his own soul. defied. 2 And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house. 46 This day will the LORD deliver thee into my hand; and I will smite thee, and take thy head from thee; and I will give 3 Then Jonathan and David made a covethe carcasses of the host of the Philistines nant, because he loved him as his own soul. this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the 4 And Jonathan stripped himself of the wild beasts of the earth: that all the earth robe that was upon him, and gave it to may know that there is a God in Israel. David, and his garments, even to his 47 And all this assembly shall know sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle. that the Lord saveth not with sword and 5 And David went out whithersoever spear: for the battle is the Lord's, and Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisehe will give you into our hands. ly: and Saul set him over the men of war, 48 And it came to pass, when the Phi- and he was accepted in the sight of all listine arose, and came and drew nigh to the people, and also in the sight of Saul's meet David, that David hasted, and ran servants. toward the army to meet the Philistine. 6 And it came to pass as they came, 49 And David put his hand in his bag, when David was returned from the slaughand took thence a stone, and slang it, and ter of the Philistine, that the women came smote the Philistine in his forehead, that out of all the cities of Israel, singing and the stone sunk into his forehead; and he dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, fell upon his face to the earth. with joy, and with instruments of music. 50 So David prevailed over the Philis- 7 And the women answered one another tine with a sling and with a stone, and as they played, and said, Saul hath slain smote the Philistine and slew him; but his thousands, and David his ten thousands. there was no sword in the hand of David. 8 And Saul was very wroth, and the 51 Therefore David ran and stood upon saying displeased him; and he said, They the Philistine, and took his sword, and have ascribed unto David ten thousands, drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew and to me they have ascribed but thouhim, and cut off his head therewith. And sands: and what can he have more but when the Philistines saw their champion the kingdom? was dead, they fled. 9 And Saul eyed David from that day 52 And the men of Israel and of Ju- and forward. dah arose, and shouted, and pursued the 10 And it came to pass on the mor- 54 And David took the head of the Phi- presence twice. Saul conspires against David. I. SAMUEL. Jonathan discloses it to him. 12 And Saul was afraid of David, be- king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him cause the LORD was with him, and was Michal his daughter to wife. departed from Saul. 28 And Saul saw and knew that the 13 Therefore Saul removed him from LORD was with David, and that Michal, him, and made him his captain over a Saul's daughter, loved him. thousand; and he went out and came in before the people. 14 And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the LORD was with him. 15 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. 29 And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David's enemy continually. 30 Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it came to pass, after they went forth, that David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul: so that his name was much set by. A CHAP. XIX. ND Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they 17 And Saul said to David, Behold, my elder daughter Merab, her will I give should kill David. thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD's battles. For Saul said, Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him. 18 And David said unto Saul, Who a I? and what is my life, or my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-inlaw to the king? 19 But it came to pass at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David, that she was given unto Adriel the Meholathite to wife. 20 And Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. 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 thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself: 3 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. 4 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 thee-ward very good: 21 And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that 5 For he did put his life in his hand, and the hand of the Philistines may be against slew the Philistine, and the LORD wrought him. Wherefore Saul said to David, a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest Thou shalt this day be my son-in-law, in it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt the one of the twain. 22 And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king's son-in-law. thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause? 6 And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware, As the LORD liveth, he shall not be slain.. 7 And Jonathan called David, and Jo 23 And Saul's servants spake those nathan shewed him all those things. And words in the ears of David. And David Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be was in his presence, as in times past. a king's son-in-law, seeing that I am a 8 And there was war again: and Dapoor inan, and lightly esteemed? 24 And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David. vid went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled from him. 9 And the evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his 25 And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, the king desireth not any dowry, nut a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, javelin in his hand: and David played with to be avenged of the king's enemies. But his hand. Saul thought to make David fall by the 10 And Saul sought to smite David even hand of the Philistines. to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped 26 And when his servants told David away out of Saul's presence, and he smote these words, it pleased David well to be the javelin into the wall: and David fled, the king's son-in-law: and the days were and escaped that night. not expired. 11 Saul also sent messengers unto Da 27 Wherefore David arose and went, vid's house, to watch him, and to slay him Le and his men, and slew of the Philistines in the morning: and Michal, David's wife, two hundred men; and David brought told him, saying, If thou save not thy life their foreskins, and they gave them in to-night, to-morrow thou shalt be slain. full talc to the king, that he might be the 12 So Michal let David down through David and Jonathan consult. CHAP. XX. They renew their covenant. a window: and he went, and fled, and and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step escaped. between me and death. 13 And Michal took an image, and laid 4 Then said Jonathan unto David, it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair Whatsoever thy soul desireth, I will even for his bolster, and covered it with a do it for thee. cloth. 5 And David said unto Jonathan, Be14 And when Saul sent messengers to hold, to-morrow is the new-moon, and I take David, she said, He is sick. should not fail to sit with the king at meat: 15 And Saul sent the messengers again but let me go, that I may hide myself in to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him. the field unto the third day at even. 6 If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me, that he might run to Beth-lehem his city: for there 16 And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster. is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family. 17 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? 18 So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth. 19 And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah. 7 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. 8 Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the LORD with thee: notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father? 9 And Jonathan said, Far be it from thee: for if I knew certainly that evil were determined by my father to come upon 20 And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company thee, then would not I tell it thee? of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel 10 Then said David to Jonathan, Who standing as appointed over them, the Spi- shall tell me? or what if thy father answer rit of God was upon the messengers of thee roughly? Saul, and they also prophesied. 11 T And Jonathan said unto David, 21 And when it was told Saul, he sent Come, and let us go out into the field. And other messengers, and they prophesied they went out both of them into the field. likewise. And Saul sent messengers again 12 And Jonathan said unto David, O the third time, and they prophesied also. LORD God of Israel, when I have sounded 22 Then went he also to Ramah, and my father about to-morrow any time, or came to a great well that is in Sechu: and the third day, and behold, if there be good he asked and said, Where are Samuel and toward David, and I then send not unto David! And one said, Behold, they be at thee, and shew it thee; Najoth in Ramah. 13 The LORD do so and much more to 23 And he went thither to Naioth in Ra- Jonathan; but if it please my father to do mah: and the Spirit of God was upon him thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send also, and he went on, and prophesied, thee away, that thou mayest go in peace: until he came to Najoth in Ramah. and the LORD be with thee, as he hath been 24 And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like man- 14 And thou shalt not only while yet I ner, and lay down naked all that day and Saul also among the prophets? A with my father. live shew me the kindness of the LORD, that I die not. 15 But also thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house for ever: no, not ND David fled from Naioth in Ramah, when the LORD hath cut off the enemies of and came and said before Jonathan, David every one from the face of the earth. What have I done? what is mine iniquity? 16 So Jonathan made a covenant with my sin before thy father, that the house of David, saying, Let the LORD even require it at the hand of David's ene and what is 2 And he said unto him, God forbid; mies. thou shalt not die: behold, my father will 17 And Jonathan caused David to do nothing either great or small, but that he swear again, because he loved him: for he will shew it me: and why should my father loved him as he loved his own soul. Fide this thing from me? it is not so. 18 Then Jonathan said to David, To 3 And David sware moreover, and said, morrow is the new-moon: and thou shalt Thy father certainly knoweth that I have be missed, because thy seat will be empty. found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, 19 And when thou hast stayed three Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be days, then thou shalt go down quickly, grieved: But truly as the LORD liveth, and come to the place where thou didst |