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the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
14
After
whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.
15
The L
ORD
therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and
deliver me out of thine hand.
16
And it came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words unto Saul, that
Saul said,
Is
this thy voice, my son David? And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.
17
And he said
to David, Thou
art
more righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded
thee evil.
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And thou hast shewed this day how that thou hast dealt well with me: forasmuch as
when the L
ORD
had delivered me into thine hand, thou killedst me not.
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For if a man find his
enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the L
ORD
reward thee good for that thou hast done
unto me this day.
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And now, behold, I know well that thou shalt surely be king, and that the
kingdom of Israel shall be established in thine hand.
21
Swear now therefore unto me by the L
ORD
,
that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father’s
house.
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And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his men gat them up
unto the hold.
CHAPTER SAMUEL 25
And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him
in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
2
And
there
was
a man in Maon, whose possessions
were
in Carmel; and the man
was
very great, and he had
three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
3
Now the
name of the man
was
Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and
she was
a woman of good
understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man
was
churlish and evil in his doings;
and he
was
of the house of Caleb.
4
And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.
5
And David sent out ten
young men, and David said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet
him in my name:
6
And thus shall ye say to him that liveth
in prosperity,
Peace
be
both to thee, and
peace
be
to thine house, and peace
be
unto all that thou hast.
7
And now I have heard that thou hast
shearers: now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing
unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.
8
Ask thy young men, and they will shew thee.
Wherefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray
thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants, and to thy son David.
9
And when David’s
young men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and
ceased.
10
And Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, Who
is
David? and who
is
the son of Jesse?
there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master.
11
Shall I then take
my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give
it
unto men,
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