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."

A good man is merciful, and lendeth gladly, and pondereth his words with discretion.

For he was a good man, and full of the holy ghost and of faith. And much people was added unto the Lord.

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which have for my life laid down their own necks. Unto which not I only give thanks: but also the congregations of the gentiles.

And the people answered, "Nay, for if we flee, our adversaries will not care for us: neither, though half of us were slain, shall they regard us. But thou were worth ten thousand of us. And therefore it is better that thou be ready to succor us out of the city."

And David was then in a hold. And the soldiers of the Philistines were then in Bethlehem.

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and an ox, a ram and a lamb of a year old for burnt offerings;

Greater love than this hath no man, than that a man bestow his life for his friends.