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Then Saul went to Ramah himself and came to the great well that is in Secu; and he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” And he was told, “They are at Naioth [with the prophets] in Ramah.”

Verse ConceptsWhere Are People?

Jonathan told him, "Far from it! You won't die. Look, my father never does anything, great or small, without telling me; so why should my father hide this thing from me? It's not like that!"

Verse ConceptsSmallnessFar Be It!Things RevealedThose Who Did Not Tell

David again took an oath: "Your father certainly knows that I've found favor with you, and so he told himself, "Jonathan must not know this so he won't be upset.' But as certainly as the LORD is alive and living, and as certainly as I'm alive and living, too, there is only a step between me and death."

Verse ConceptsLife, Brevity OfThe Frailty Of ManThose Who Did Not TellDeath Of A Father

Jonathan told David, "Whatever you say, I'll do."

Verse ConceptsPeople Willing

So David told him, “Look, tomorrow is the New Moon, and I’m supposed to sit down and eat with the king. Instead, let me go, and I’ll hide in the field until the third night.

Verse ConceptsNew Moon FestivalThe Third Day Of The WeekMan's Action TomorrowHiding From People

Then Jonathan said, "Far be it from you! For if I know for certain that {my father decided evil should come upon you}, would I not have told it to you?"

Verse ConceptsFar Be It!Things Revealed

Then David told Jonathan, "Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?"

Verse ConceptsTelling What People Said

Then Jonathan told David, "Come, let's go into the field." So the two of them went into the field.

Jonathan told David, "The LORD God of Israel is my witness that I'll carefully question my father by tomorrow or the next day. And if the response is favorable for David, will I not then send word to you and let you know?

Verse ConceptsThe Witness Of God

Jonathan told him, "Tomorrow is the New Moon, and you will be missed because your seat is empty.

Verse ConceptsMan's Action TomorrowEmpty ThingsGone AwayMissing Someone

Saul didn't say anything that day because he told himself, "Something has happened; he's unclean; surely he's not clean."

Verse ConceptsPurity, Nature OfIndividuals Being SilentPeople Being Unclean

But the next day, on the second day of the New Moon, David's place was empty, and so Saul told his son Jonathan, "Why didn't Jesse's son come to the festival, either yesterday or today?"

Verse ConceptsEmpty ThingsWhy Do People Not Do This?

He said, ‘Please let me go because our clan is holding a sacrifice in the town, and my brother has told me to be there. So now, if you are pleased with me, let me go so I can see my brothers.’ That’s why he didn’t come to the king’s table.”

Verse ConceptsBrothersethics, personalTown

Saul flew into a rage and told Jonathan, "You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Don't I know that you have chosen Jesse's son to your shame and to the shame of your mother who bore you?

Verse ConceptsAnger, HumanTemperAnger, Sinful ExamplesAnger Of Man, UnrighteousAnger Of Man, CauseChoosing PeopleNamed People Angry With OthersShame Has Comerebellion

Jonathan told his servant, "Run, find the arrows that I'm shooting." As the servant ran, Jonathan shot the arrow beyond him.

Verse ConceptsHelpfulnessHelpful ChildrenSeeking For Concrete Things

Then Jonathan gave his equipment to the servant who was with him and told him, "Go, take these things to the city."

Verse ConceptsCarrying Other Loads

Jonathan told David, "Go in peace since both of us swore in the name of the LORD: "May the LORD be between me and you, and between my descendants and your descendants forever.'" Then David got up and left, while Jonathan went to the city.

Verse ConceptsCovenant ObligationsLoyaltyUnfaithfulness, To PeopleThe Witness Of GodGoing In Peace

David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest, and Ahimelech was trembling as he came to meet David. Ahimelech told him, "Why are you alone, and no one with you?"

Verse ConceptsBodyguardsActing AloneWhy Do You Do This?

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.

Verse ConceptsHigh Priest, In OtDo Not TellMan Appointing

The priest told him, “There is no ordinary bread on hand. However, there is consecrated bread, but the young men may eat it only if they have kept themselves from women.”

Verse ConceptsAsceticism, TypesPriests, Function In Ot TimesPurity, Nature OfShowbread

David answered the priest, “Be assured that women have been kept from us in these three days since I set out, and the bodies of the young men were consecrated (ceremonially clean), although it was an ordinary (unconsecrated) journey; so how much more will their vessels be holy today?”

Verse ConceptsSpecific Holy Individuals

David told Ahimelech, "Is there no spear or sword available here? I took neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's mission is urgent."

Verse ConceptsUrgencyWeaponsHasteHasty Action

The officials of Achish told him, "Isn't this David, king of the land? Isn't this the one about whom they sang as they danced, "Saul has struck down his thousands, but David his ten thousands'?"

Verse ConceptsdanceExaggerationsPopularityComparisonsA Thousand PeopleMany EnemiesKilling Many PeopleSaul And David

Achish told his officials, "Look, you see a person acting like a madman. Why'd you bring him to me?

David went from there to Mizpah of Moab, and he told the king of Moab, "Please let my father and mother come and stay with you until I know what God is going to do for me."

Verse ConceptsLove, And The WorldRespect, For Human BeingsSanctity Of LifeRelations With ForeignersGrandmothers

The prophet Gad told David, "Don't remain in the stronghold. Go and enter the territory of Judah." So David left and went into the forest of Hereth.

Verse ConceptsForestsNamed Prophets Of The Lord

Saul told his officials who were standing around him, "Listen, men of Benjamin! Will Jesse's son also give fields and vineyards to all of you? Will he make all of you officers over thousands and officers over hundreds?

Verse ConceptsVineyard

The king told the guards, who were standing beside him, "Turn and kill the priests of the LORD because they supported David, and because they knew he was fleeing, but didn't inform me." But the officials of the king did not want to lift their hands to attack the priests of the LORD.

Verse ConceptsFugitivesKilling PriestsOthers Who FledPeople UnwillingThose Who Did Not Tell

Then the king told Doeg, "You turn and attack the priests." Doeg the Edomite turned and attacked the priests. That day he killed eighty-five men who carry the linen ephod.

Verse ConceptsCriminalsephodsLinenThe Number EightyEighties

David told Abiathar, "I knew on that day when Doeg the Edomite was there that he would certainly tell Saul! I'm responsible for the deaths of your father's whole family.

Verse ConceptsTelling Of Movements

Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshing-floors.

Verse ConceptsThreshing FloorTaking Possessions

David inquired of the LORD: "Shall I go and strike down these Philistines?" The LORD told David, "Go strike down the Philistines and deliver Keilah."

Verse Conceptsenquiring of GodThe Nations Attacked

David's men told him, "Look, we're afraid here in Judah. How much then, if we go to Keilah against the Philistine army?"

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

Verse ConceptsGatesTownShutting GatesGiven Into One's HandsTelling Of Movements

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

Verse ConceptsephodsMischiefThe Urim And Thummim

Then David and his men who were about six hundred, arose and departed from Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that David had escaped from Keilah: and he forbore to go forth.

Verse ConceptsEscaping, Physical ThingsExamples Of EscapingSix To Seven HundredEscaping From PeopleSix Hundred And AboveTelling Of Movements

Jonathan told him, "Don't be afraid. My father Saul won't find you, and you will be king over Israel. I'll be your second-in-command. My father Saul also knows this."

Verse ConceptsPeople With General KnowledgeDo Not Fear MenSaul And Davidreassurance

Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know, and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there: for it is told to me that he dealeth very subtilly.

Verse ConceptsThose Looking For People

Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.

Verse ConceptsRocksPursuingStones For ProtectionTelling Of Movements

And it came to pass, when Saul had returned from following the Philistines, that it was told to him, saying, Behold, David is in the wilderness of En-gedi.

Verse ConceptsDeserts, SpecificTelling Of Movementssaul

so they said to him, “Look, this is the day the Lord told you about: ‘I will hand your enemy over to you so you can do to him whatever you desire.’” Then David got up and secretly cut off the corner of Saul’s robe.

Verse ConceptsGiven Into One's Handssaul

He told his men, "God forbid that I should do this thing to your majesty, the LORD's anointed, by stretching out my hand against him, since he's the LORD's anointed."

Verse Conceptsethics, socialCivic DutiesHonouring RulersResistanceThe Anointed OneThe Lord's Anointed

Then David told Saul, "Why do you listen to the words of those who say, "Look, David is trying to harm you?'

Verse ConceptsSlanderPeople Possibly Doing Evilrumors

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.'

Verse ConceptsThe Lord's AnointedGiven Into One's Hands

You yourself have told me today what good you did for me: when the Lord handed me over to you, you didn’t kill me.

Verse ConceptsGrace, In Human RelationshipsGiven Into One's Hands

David's young men came to Nabal and told him all this in David's name, and then they waited.

Verse ConceptsPeople Waiting

So David's young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all these sayings.

Verse ConceptsTelling What People Said

David told his men, "Put on your swords." They put on their swords, and David put on his sword. Then about 400 men followed David, while 200 stayed with the supplies.

Verse ConceptsThe Number Two HundredFour To Five HundredFour And Five HundredBaggage

But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers from the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed at them.

Verse ConceptsGreetingsInsulting Other PeopleTelling Of Happenings

And she said to her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.

Verse ConceptsThose Who Did Not Tell

David told Abigail, "Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who sent you to meet me today.

Verse ConceptsBless The Lord!

David took from her what she had brought him and told her, "Go up to your house in peace. Look, I've heard your request and will grant it."

Verse ConceptsAcceptance, Of Gifts

And Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: Therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

Verse ConceptsDawnGluttonyFeastingExcessdrinking, abstention fromBanquets, ActivitiesDrunkenness, Examples OfMerrinessRevelryDrunk IndividualsThose Who Did Not Tell

But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine had left Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.

Verse ConceptsHeart, HumanHuman EmotionSick Individuals

Then David sent word to Abigail that he would take her as his wife. David's servants went to Abigail at Carmel and told her, "David sent us to you to take you to him as his wife."

Abishai told David, "Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand. Let me run the spear through him into the ground with a single blow. I won't need to strike him twice!"

Verse ConceptsGiven Into One's Hands

David told Abishai, "Don't destroy him. Who can raise his hand to strike the LORD's anointed and remain innocent?

Verse ConceptsMercy, Examples OfThe Anointed OneThe Lord's Anointed

David told Abner, "Are you not a man, and who is like you in Israel? Why didn't you guard your lord, the king? Indeed, a soldier came to destroy the king, your lord.

Verse ConceptsUnique IndividualsPeople Keeping

Saul told David, "Blessed are you, my son David. In whatever you do you will surely succeed." So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfSons Being A Blessingsaul

David told himself, "One of these days I'll perish by Saul's hand. There is nothing better for me to do than to escape to Philistine territory. Saul will give up searching for me anymore within the borders of Israel, so I'll escape from him."

Verse ConceptsEscaping From PeopleDespair

And it was told to Saul that David had fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him.

Verse ConceptsNot Seeking PeopleTelling Of Movements

David told Achish, "If it pleases you, give me a place in one of the outlying towns, so I may live there. Why should your servant live with you in the royal city?"

Verse ConceptsCity

David answered, "Against the Negev of Judah, against the Negev of the Jerahmeelites, and against the Negev of the Kenites." David did not leave a man or woman alive to bring to Gath. He told himself, "Otherwise, they'll say, "This is what David is doing, and this has been his practice all the time he has lived in Philistine territory.'"

Verse ConceptsCustomExterminationDo Not Tell

At that time the Philistines assembled their army for war to fight against Israel. Achish told David, "You know, of course, that you and your men will go out with me into the battle."

Verse ConceptsFighting Together

David told Achish, "Very well, you will now see what your servant will do." Achish told David, "Very well, I'll appoint you as my permanent bodyguard."

Verse ConceptsGuards

Saul told his servants, "Find me a woman who is a medium so I can go to her and make my inquiry through her." His servants told him, "Look, there's a woman at Endor who is a medium."

Verse ConceptsMaidsNecromancyOccultismDivinationmagicwitchesmistresssaul

The woman told him, "Look, you know what Saul has done. He has removed mediums and spiritists from the land, so why are you trying to entrap me, so as to cause my death?"

Verse ConceptsDeath penaltyTrapMan TrappingSpiritism Avoidedpsychics

When the woman saw Samuel, she cried out loudly. The woman told Saul, "Why have you deceived me? You are Saul!"

Verse ConceptsVoicesThose Who Deceived

The king told her, "Don't be afraid; but what do you see?" The woman told Saul, "I see a divine being coming up out of the ground."

Verse ConceptsClairvoyancesDo Not Fear Menwitches

Saul told her, "What does he look like?" She said, "An old man is coming up, and he's wrapped in a robe." Saul knew that it was Samuel, and he bowed low to the ground and prostrated himself.

Verse ConceptsCovering The BodyProstrationRecognising People

Samuel told Saul, "Why did you disturb me by bringing me up?" Saul said, "I'm in great distress. The Philistines are waging war against me. God has departed from me and won't answer me anymore, either by messages written by the hand of the prophets or by dreams. So I've summoned you to tell me what I should do."

Verse ConceptsMiseryApostasy Of SaulGod Not AnsweringProphecy AbolishedTroubling Individualswitchesawakeningsaul

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.

Verse ConceptsTrouble, Causes OfRisking

The Philistine commanders, however, were enraged with Achish and told him, “Send that man back and let him return to the place you assigned him. He must not go down with us into battle only to become our adversary during the battle. What better way could he regain his master’s favor than with the heads of our men?

Verse ConceptsSending people homeUnnamed People Angry With Others

So Achish summoned David and told him, “As the Lord lives, you are an honorable man. I think it is good to have you working with me in the camp, because I have found no fault in you from the day you came to me until today. But the leaders don’t think you are reliable.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, Examples OfGoing Out And Coming In

David told Achish, "What have I done, and what have you found in your servant from the time I came before you until this very moment, that I shouldn't go out and fight the enemies of your majesty?"

Verse ConceptsWhat Sin?

David told Ahimelech's son Abiathar the priest, "Bring me the ephod." So Abiathar brought the ephod to David.

Verse ConceptsThe Urim And Thummim

The LORD told David, "Pursue them! You will definitely overtake them and rescue the captives." So David and 600 men who were with him set out. They came to the Wadi Besor where those who were left behind stayed.

Verse ConceptsSix To Seven HundredSix Hundred And Above

Saul told his armor bearer, "Draw your sword and run me through with it, or these uncircumcised people will come and run me through and make sport of me." But his armor bearer did not want to do it because he was very frightened, so Saul took the sword and fell on it.

Verse ConceptsDespair, Description OfHope, Results Of Its AbsenceSuicideUncircumcisionAnxiety, Examples OfMaking FunApproval To Kill OneselfAbuse

And David said to the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?

Verse Conceptssaul

And the young man that told him said, As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and lo, the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him.

Verse ConceptsChariotsChanceAttacking With ChariotsOther Supporting

He asked me, 'Who are you?' I told him, 'I'm an Amalekite.'

Verse ConceptsWho Is This?

And David said to the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite.

Verse ConceptsWhere From?

David told him, "Your blood is on your own head, because your own words testified against you! After all, you said, "I myself have killed the LORD's anointed!'"

Verse ConceptsBlood, Figurative UseHeadsThe Lord's AnointedKilling KingsWitness Against Oneselftraitors

Also he told them to teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.

Verse ConceptsWriting SongsHistorical BooksTeaching The Way Of God

Afterward David inquired of the Lord, "Should I go up to one of the cities of Judah?" The Lord told him, "Go up." David asked, "Where should I go?" The Lord replied, "To Hebron."

Verse ConceptsAdvice, Receiving God's Adviceenquiring of GodAskingGuidance, Examples Of God'sPrayer, As Asking GodTribes Of IsraelAnswered Prayer

And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, saying, That the men of Jabesh-gilead were they that buried Saul.

Verse ConceptsDavid, Reign OfAnointing KingsMaking Kings

So David sent messengers to the people of Jabesh Gilead and told them, "May you be blessed by the Lord because you have shown this kindness to your lord Saul by burying him.

Verse ConceptsMessengers Sent OutKindnessMay God Bless!

Abner told Joab, "Let's have the young men get up and fight in our presence." Joab replied, "Let them come."

Verse ConceptsAmusementsLeisure, And PastimesRecreationBoxing

Abner told him, "Go off to your right or left after one of the young men and grab some war spoils." But Asahel would not stop following him,

Verse ConceptsPlunderingNot Turning AsideChanging Direction

so Abner told Asahel again, "Stop following me. Why should I strike you down? How could I show my face to your brother Joab?"

Her husband accompanied her, crying as he followed after her all the way to Bahurim, where Abner told him, "Leave! Go back!" So he went back.

Verse ConceptsWeeping

So Abner told David, "Give me permission to go out and rally all of Israel to your majesty the king so they can enter into a formal agreement with you to reign over everything that your heart desires." So David sent Abner off, and he went away in peace.

Verse ConceptsCovenant RelationshipsMaking Kings

When Joab and all the host that was with him had come, they told Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he hath sent him away, and he hath gone in peace.

Verse ConceptsSoldiers

They brought Ish-bosheth's head to David at Hebron and told the king, "Look! Here's the head of your enemy Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, who sought your life. Today the LORD has given your majesty the king vengeance on Saul and his descendants."

Verse ConceptsAttempting To Kill Specific People

When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, (thinking to have brought good tidings,) I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:

Verse ConceptsNewsGood News

Even back when Saul was our king, it was you who kept on leading Israel out to battle and bringing them back again. The LORD told you, "You yourself will shepherd my people Israel and serve as Commander-in-Chief over Israel.'"

Verse ConceptsGod, As ShepherdGoing Out And Coming InSaul And David

Later, the king and his army marched on Jerusalem against the Jebusites, who were inhabiting the territory at that time and who had told David, "You're not coming in here! Even the blind and the lame could turn you away!" because they were thinking "David can't come here."

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesZion, As A PlaceEntering Cities

And it was told king David, saying, The LORD hath blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all that pertaineth to him, because of the ark of God. So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom into the city of David with gladness.

Verse ConceptsNames For JerusalemExcitementBlessed By God