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Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry have ceased [to hunger]. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.

Verse ConceptsHiringSeven ChildrenPlenty For The Poor

He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh's. He has set the world on them.

Verse ConceptsFoundationsEarth, Belonging To GodDust, Figurative UseGod, The ProviderOppression, God's Attitude ToPrincesThroneGloryGod And The PoorMetaphorical PillarsGod Lifting PeopleRubbishGod Helps The PoorThe poordust

He said, "What is the thing that [Yahweh] has spoken to you? Please don't hide it from me. God do so to you, and more also, if you hide anything from me of all the things that he spoke to you."

Verse ConceptsGod's Things Concealed

When the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, "Why has Yahweh struck us today before the Philistines? Let us get the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of Shiloh to us, that it may come among us, and save us out of the hand of our enemies."

Verse ConceptsWhy Does God Do This?

The Philistines were afraid, for they said, "God has come into the camp." They said, "Woe to us! For there has not been such a thing before.

Verse ConceptsFear, Of UnknownUnique EventsThose Frightened Of God

He who brought the news answered, "Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been captured."

Verse ConceptsLossPriesthood, In OtThe Ark Moved AroundIsrael Fleeing

She named the child Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel;" because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

Verse ConceptsPeople With Apt NamesTragedy

She said, "The glory has departed from Israel; for the ark of God is taken."

"Now therefore take and prepare yourselves a new cart, and two milk cows, on which there has come no yoke; and tie the cows to the cart, and bring their calves home from them;

Verse ConceptsCartsYokesCattleDairyYoung AnimalAnimal OffspringUnusedTwo Animals

Behold; if it goes up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; it was a chance that happened to us."

Verse ConceptsChanceDistinguishingNatural Disasters

They answered them, and said, "He is. Behold, he is before you. Hurry now, for he has come today into the city; for the people have a sacrifice today in the high place.

Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesHurrying Others On

"Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel; and he shall save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked on my people, because their cry has come to me."

Verse ConceptsDeliverersGod's Action TomorrowAnointing KingsCries Of Distress To GodMaking KingsIndividuals Saving Others

The cook took up the thigh, and that which was on it, and set it before Saul. Samuel said, "Behold, that which has been reserved! Set it before yourself and eat; because for the appointed time has it been kept for you, for I said, 'I have invited the people.'" So Saul ate with Samuel that day.

Then Samuel took the vial of oil, and poured it on his head, and kissed him, and said, "Isn't it that Yahweh has anointed you to be prince over his inheritance?

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingAnointing, Performed OnKingsKingship, HumanKissingLeaders, PoliticalOilRankKissesOlive OilThe Act Of AnointingAnointing KingsAnointing Oil

When you have departed from me today, then you shall find two men by Rachel's tomb, in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will tell you, 'The donkeys which you went to seek have been found; and behold, your father has stopped caring about the donkeys, and is anxious for you, saying, "What shall I do for my son?"'

Verse ConceptsCareFinding ThingsTwo Other Men

Therefore they asked of Yahweh further, "Is there yet a man to come here?" Yahweh answered, "Behold, he has hidden himself among the baggage."

Verse Conceptsenquiring of GodHiding From PeopleBaggage

Samuel said to all the people, "You see him whom Yahweh has chosen, that there is none like him among all the people?" All the people shouted, and said, "[Long] live the king!"

Verse ConceptsVoicesGroups ShoutingUnique Individuals

Saul said, "There shall not a man be put to death this day; for today Yahweh has worked deliverance in Israel."

Verse ConceptsMercy, Examples OfRescueAmnesty

Now therefore see the king whom you have chosen, and whom you have asked for: and behold, Yahweh has set a king over you.

For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people to himself.

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfGod, The LordGod Not Forsaking

But now your kingdom shall not continue. Yahweh has sought for himself a man after his own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept that which Yahweh commanded you."

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfDavid, Character OfHeart, DivineSpiritualityDisobedience, To GodFalse AccusationsThey Do Not Keep CommandsSaul And David

But if they say this, 'Come up to us!' then we will go up; for Yahweh has delivered them into our hand. This shall be the sign to us."

Verse ConceptsSigns From God

The men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armor bearer, and said, "Come up to us, and we will show you something!" Jonathan said to his armor bearer, "Come up after me; for Yahweh has delivered them into the hand of Israel."

Verse ConceptsThose God Gave Into Their Hands

Then Jonathan said, "My father has troubled the land. Please look how my eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.

Verse ConceptsHoneyGood EyesPeople Refreshed

How much more, if perhaps the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies which they found? For now has there been no great slaughter among the Philistines."

Saul said, "Draw near here, all you chiefs of the people; and know and see in which this sin has been this day.

Verse ConceptsInvestigating

The people said to Saul, "Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God this day!" So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn't die.

Verse ConceptsHairsHeadsPublic OpinionFar Be It!Hairs ProtectedIndividuals Saving Others

Then Samuel said to Saul, "Stay, and I will tell you what Yahweh has said to me last night." He said to him, "Say on."

Verse ConceptsTelling Of God

Samuel said to Saul, "I will not return with you; for you have rejected the word of Yahweh, and Yahweh has rejected you from being king over Israel."

Verse ConceptsConsequences Of Forsaking GodNot With PeopleDeposingRejection

Samuel said to him, "Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you.

Verse ConceptsPredictionssaul

Samuel said, "As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women!" Samuel cut Agag in pieces before Yahweh in Gilgal.

Verse ConceptsDeath penaltySwordsPeople Cut In PiecesReasons For BarrennessKilling Kings

Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. He said, "Neither has Yahweh chosen this one."

Verse ConceptsRejecting People

Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. He said, "Neither has Yahweh chosen this one."

Verse ConceptsRejecting People

Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. Samuel said to Jesse, "Yahweh has not chosen these."

Verse ConceptsRejecting PeopleSeven Children

Saul sent to Jesse, saying, "Please let David stand before me; for he has found favor in my sight."

Verse ConceptsHuman FavourNetworkingsaul

The men of Israel said, "Have you seen this man who is come up? He has surely come up to defy Israel. It shall be, that the man who kills him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel."

Verse ConceptsExemptGetting RichGiving In Marriage

Your servant struck both the lion and the bear. This uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, since he has defied the armies of the living God."

The women sang one to another as they played, and said, "Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands."

Verse ConceptsExaggerationsPopularityComparisons

Saul commanded his servants, "Talk with David secretly, and say, 'Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you: now therefore be the king's son-in-law.'"

Verse ConceptsPrivacySons In LawThose Who Loved

Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, "Don't let the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you;

Verse ConceptsWronging Other Peopleservanthood

Yahweh do so to Jonathan, and more also, should it please my father to do you evil, if I don't disclose it to you, and send you away, that you may go in peace: and Yahweh be with you, as he has been with my father.

Verse ConceptsGod Be With YouGod With Specific People

but also you shall not cut off your kindness from my house forever; no, not when Yahweh has cut off the enemies of David everyone from the surface of the earth."

But if I say this to the boy, 'Behold, the arrows are beyond you;' then go your way; for Yahweh has sent you away.

Nevertheless Saul didn't say anything that day: for he thought, "Something has happened to him. He is not clean. Surely he is not clean."

Verse ConceptsPurity, Nature OfIndividuals Being SilentPeople Being Unclean

He said, 'Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice in the city. My brother has commanded me to be there. Now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go away and see my brothers.' Therefore he has not come to the king's table."

Verse ConceptsBrothersethics, personalTown

Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, "Why should he be put to death? What has he done?"

Verse ConceptsRestraints From KillingWhy Does This Happen?What Sin?

David said to Ahimelech the priest, "The king has commanded me a business, and has said to me, 'Let no man know anything of the business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you; and I have appointed the young men to such and such a place.'

Verse ConceptsHigh Priest, In OtDo Not TellMan Appointing

The servants of Achish said to him, "Isn't this David the king of the land? Didn't they sing one to another about him in dances, saying, 'Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands?'"

Verse ConceptsdanceExaggerationsPopularityComparisonsA Thousand PeopleMany EnemiesKilling Many PeopleSaul And David

that all of you have conspired against me, and there is none who discloses to me when my son makes a treaty with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?"

Verse ConceptsTreatyAllegiancesAmbushThose Who Did Not TellPeople Without Mercy

It was told Saul that David had come to Keilah. Saul said, "God has delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that has gates and bars."

Verse ConceptsGatesTownShutting GatesGiven Into One's HandsTelling Of Movements

Then David said, "O Yahweh, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.

Verse ConceptsPlans

Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? Will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? Yahweh, the God of Israel, I beg you, tell your servant." Yahweh said, "He will come down."

Please go make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, [and] who has seen him there; for it is told me that he deals very subtly.

Verse ConceptsThose Looking For People

Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?

Verse ConceptsdogsInsectsPersecution, Nature OfFleasI Am Unimportantbugsrelentless

Now David had said, "Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. He has returned me evil for good.

Verse ConceptsIngratitudeReward, HumanMannersUseless LabourPeople Actually Doing Evil

Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, since Yahweh has withheld you from blood guiltiness, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

Verse ConceptsSheddingRestraints From KillingNot Avenging

Now this present which your servant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.

Verse ConceptsPresents

It shall come to pass, when Yahweh has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and shall have appointed you prince over Israel,

Verse ConceptsSaul And David

that this shall be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. When Yahweh has dealt well with my lord, then remember your handmaid."

Verse ConceptsSheddingRestraints From KillingRemembering PeopleNot Avenging

For indeed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, who has withheld me from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn't have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall."

Verse ConceptsUrinatingDeath Of All Males

When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, "Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head." David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to him as wife.

Verse ConceptsDivine RestraintsHeadsRestraintGod Makes Evil ReboundGod VindicatesBless The Lord!

When the servants of David had come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, "David has sent us to you, to take you to him as wife."

Then Abishai said to David, "God has delivered up your enemy into your hand this day. Now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time."

Verse ConceptsGiven Into One's Hands

Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that Yahweh has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven me out this day that I shouldn't cling to Yahweh's inheritance, saying, 'Go, serve other gods!'

Verse ConceptsParticipation, In ChristDifferent GodsCursing The UngodlyEncouraged To Serve Foreign gods

Now therefore, don't let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Yahweh; for the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains."

Verse ConceptsHuntingInsectsBirds, Types Of BirdsRestraints From KillingFleasPartridges

David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring them to Gath, saying, "Lest they should tell of us, saying, 'So did David, and so has been his way all the while he has lived in the country of the Philistines.'"

Verse ConceptsCustomExterminationDo Not Tell

Achish believed David, saying, "He has made his people Israel utterly to abhor him. Therefore he shall be my servant forever."

Verse ConceptsTrustworthinessTrusting Other PeopleTroubling Groups Of People

Then Saul said to his servants, "Seek me a woman who has a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her." His servants said to him, "Behold, there is a woman who has a familiar spirit at Endor."

Verse ConceptsMaidsNecromancyOccultismDivinationmagicwitchesmistresssaul

The woman said to him, "Behold, you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land. Why then do you lay a snare for my life, to cause me to die?"

Verse ConceptsDeath penaltyTrapMan TrappingSpiritism Avoidedpsychics

Samuel said to Saul, "Why have you disturbed me, to bring me up?" Saul answered, "I am very distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God has departed from me, and answers me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams. Therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I shall do."

Verse ConceptsMiseryApostasy Of SaulGod Not AnsweringProphecy AbolishedTroubling Individualswitchesawakeningsaul

Samuel said, "Why then do you ask of me, since Yahweh has departed from you and has become your adversary?

Verse ConceptsGod As Enemy

Yahweh has done to you as he spoke by me. Yahweh has torn the kingdom out of your hand, and given it to your neighbor, even to David.

Verse ConceptsSaul And David

Because you didn't obey the voice of Yahweh, and didn't execute his fierce wrath on Amalek, therefore Yahweh has done this thing to you this day.

Verse ConceptsDisobedience, Examples OfApostasy Of SaulGod Angry With The Nations

The woman came to Saul, and saw that he was very troubled, and said to him, "Behold, your handmaid has listened to your voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have listened to your words which you spoke to me.

Verse ConceptsTrouble, Causes OfRisking

Then the princes of the Philistines said, "What about these Hebrews?" Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, "Isn't this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me these days, or rather these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell away to this day?"

Verse ConceptsFaultlessnessSaul And David

Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, 'Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands?'"

Verse ConceptsdanceExaggerationsPopularityComparisonsA Thousand PeopleMany EnemiesKilling Many People

Then David said, "You shall not do so, my brothers, with that which Yahweh has given to us, who has preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.

Verse ConceptsThose God Gave Into Their Hands