but Hannah did not go up with them. Instead she told her husband, "Once the boy is weaned, I will bring him and appear before the Lord, and he will remain there from then on."

So Samuel told him everything. He did not hold back anything from him. Eli said, "The Lord will do what he pleases."

When Eli heard the outcry, he said, "What is this commotion?" The man quickly came and told Eli.

Now the day before Saul arrived, the Lord had told Samuel:

When Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said, "Here is the man that I told you about! He will rule over my people."

Now Saul was walking behind the oxen as he came from the field. Saul asked, "What has happened to the people? Why are they weeping?" So they told him about the men of Jabesh.

They said to the messengers who had come, "Here's what you should say to the men of Jabesh Gilead: 'Tomorrow deliverance will come to you when the sun is fully up.'" When the messengers went and told the men of Jabesh Gilead, they were happy.

So Saul said to Jonathan, "Tell me what you have done." Jonathan told him, "I used the end of the staff that was in my hand to taste a little honey. I must die!"

"I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from me and has not done what I told him to do." Samuel became angry and he cried out to the Lord all that night.

Samuel did what the Lord told him. When he arrived in Bethlehem, the elders of the city were afraid to meet him. They said, "Do you come in peace?"

The soldiers told him what had been promised, saying, "This is what will be done for the man who can strike him down."

Now Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David. When they told Saul about this, it pleased him.

So his servants told David these things and David agreed to become the king's son-in-law. Now the specified time had not yet expired

Then Saul told his son Jonathan and all his servants to kill David. But Saul's son Jonathan liked David very much.

So Jonathan told David, "My father Saul is trying to kill you. So be careful tomorrow morning. Find a hiding place and stay in seclusion.

Then Jonathan called David and told him all these things. Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he served him as he had done formerly.

Saul sent messengers to David's house to guard it and to kill him in the morning. Then David's wife Michal told him, "If you do not save yourself tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!"

Now David had run away and escaped. He went to Samuel in Ramah and told him everything that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went and stayed at Naioth.

David replied to Ahimelech the priest, "The king instructed me to do something, but he said to me, 'Don't let anyone know the reason I am sending you or the instructions I have given you.' I have told my soldiers to wait at a certain place.

Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the priests of the Lord.

They told David, "The Philistines are fighting in Keilah and are looting the threshing floors."

When Saul was told that David had come to Keilah, Saul said, "God has delivered him into my hand, for he has boxed himself into a corner by entering a city with two barred gates."

When David realized that Saul was planning to harm him, he told Abiathar the priest, "Bring the ephod!"

So David and his men, who numbered about six hundred, set out and left Keilah; they moved around from one place to another. When told that David had escaped from Keilah, Saul called a halt to his expedition.

Go and make further arrangements. Determine precisely where he is and who has seen him there, for I am told that he is extremely cunning.

When Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, they told him, "Look, David is in the desert of En Gedi."

Today your own eyes see how the Lord delivered you -- this very day -- into my hands in the cave. Some told me to kill you, but I had pity on you and said, 'I will not extend my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord's chosen one.'

So David's servants went on their way. When they had returned, they came and told David all these things.

But one of the servants told Nabal's wife Abigail, "David sent messengers from the desert to greet our lord, but he screamed at them.

When Abigail went back to Nabal, he was holding a banquet in his house like that of the king. Nabal was having a good time and was very intoxicated. She told him absolutely nothing until morning's light.

In the morning, when Nabal was sober, his wife told him about these matters. He had a stroke and was paralyzed.

When the woman came to Saul and saw how terrified he was, she said to him, "Your servant has done what you asked. I took my life into my own hands and did what you told me.