1SamuEL 028-31; PS18 1SamuEL 28:1 Now it happened in those days that the Philistines gathered their armies together for war, to fight with IsraEL. And Achish said to David, “You assuredly know that you will go out with me to battle, you and your men.” 1SamuEL 28:2 So David said to Achish, “Surely you know what your servant can do.” And Achish said to David, “Therefore I will make you one of my chief guardians forever.” Saul Consults a Medium 1SamuEL 28:3 Now SamuEL had died, and all IsraEL had lamented for him and buried him in RamAH, in his own city. And Saul had put the mediums and the spiritists out of the land. 1SamuEL 28:4 Then the Philistines gathered together, and came and encamped at Shunem. (in Issachar) So Saul gathered all IsraEL together, and they encamped at Gilboa. (district in Manasseh) 1SamuEL 28:5 When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly. 1SamuEL 28:6 And when Saul inquired of The LORD, The LORD did not answer him, either by dreams or by Urim or by the prophets. 1SamuEL 28:7 Then Saul said to his servants, “Find me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her.” And his servants said to him, “In fact, there is a woman who is a medium at En Dor.” (village near Mount Tabor which is between Issachar and Zebulun) 1SamuEL 28:8 So Saul disguised himself and put on other clothes, and he went, and two men with him; and they came to the woman by night. And he said, “Please conduct a séance for me, and bring up for me the one I shall name to you.” 1SamuEL 28:9 Then the woman said to him, “Look, you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off the mediums and the spiritists from the land. Why then do you lay a snare for my life, to cause me to die?” 1SamuEL 28:10 And Saul swore to her by The LORD, saying, “As The LORD lives, no punishment shall come upon you for this thing.” 1SamuEL 28:11 Then the woman said, “Whom shall I bring up for you?” And he said, “Bring up SamuEL for me.” 1SamuEL 28:12 When the woman saw SamuEL, she cried out with a loud voice. And the woman spoke to Saul, saying, “Why have you deceived me? For you are Saul!” 1SamuEL 28:13 And the king said to her, “Do not be afraid. What did you see?” And the woman said to Saul, “I saw a spirit ascending out of the earth.” 1SamuEL 28:14 So he said to her, “What is his form?” And she said, “An old man is coming up, and he is covered with a mantle.” And Saul perceived that it was SamuEL, and he stooped with his face to the ground and bowed down. 1SamuEL 28:15 Now SamuEL said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” And Saul answered, “I am deeply distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and GOD has departed 4:21 from me and does not ANSWER me anymore, neither by prophets nor by dreams. Therefore I have called you, that you may reveal to me what I should do.” 1SamuEL 28:16 Then SamuEL said: “So why do you ask me, seeing The LORD has departed from you and has become your ENEMY? 1SamuEL 28:17 And The LORD has done for HIMSELF as HE SPOKE by me. For The LORD has torn the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbour, David. 1SamuEL 28:18 Because you did not obey The VOICE of The LORD nor execute HIS fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore The LORD has done this thing to you this day. 1SamuEL 28:19 Moreover The LORD will also deliver IsraEL with you into the hand of the Philistines. And tomorrow you and your sons will be with me. 31:2 The LORD will also deliver the army of IsraEL into the hand of the Philistines.” 1SamuEL 28:20 Immediately Saul fell full length on the ground, and was dreadfully afraid because of the words of SamuEL. And there was no strength in him, for he had eaten no food all day or all night. 1SamuEL 28:21 And the woman came to Saul and saw that he was severely troubled, and said to him, “Look, your maidservant has obeyed your voice, and I have put my life in my hands and heeded the words which you spoke to me. 1SamuEL 28:22 Now therefore, please, heed also the voice of your maidservant, and let me set a piece of bread before you; and eat, that you may have strength when you go on your way.” 1SamuEL 28:23 But he refused and said, “I will not eat.” So his servants, together with the woman, urged him; and he heeded their voice. Then he arose from the ground and sat on the bed. 1SamuEL 28:24 Now the woman had a fatted calf in the house, and she hastened to kill it. And she took flour and kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread from it. 1SamuEL 28:25 So she brought it before Saul and his servants, and they ate. Then they rose and went away that night. The Philistines Reject David 1SamuEL 29:1 Then the Philistines gathered together all their armies at Aphek, (Canaanite city) and the IsraELites encamped by a fountain which is in JezreEL. (in JudAH) 1SamuEL 29:2 And the lords of the Philistines passed in review by hundreds and by thousands, but David and his men passed in review at the rear with Achish. 1SamuEL 29:3 Then the princes of the Philistines said, “What are these Hebrews doing here?” And Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, “Is this not David, the servant of Saul king of IsraEL, who has been with me these days, or these years? And to this day I have found no fault in him since he defected to me.” 1SamuEL 29:4 But the princes of the Philistines were angry with him; so the princes of the Philistines said to him, “Make this fellow return, that he may go back to the place which you have appointed (Ziklag) for him, and do not let him go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become our adversary. For with what could he reconcile himself to his master, if not with the heads of these men? 1SamuEL 29:5 Is this not David, of whom they sang to one another in dances, saying: ‘Saul has slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands’?” 18:7 1SamuEL 29:6 Then Achish called David and said to him, “Surely, as The LORD lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my sight. For to this day I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me. Nevertheless the lords do not favour you. 1SamuEL 29:7 Therefore return now, and go in peace, that you may not displease the lords of the Philistines.” 1SamuEL 29:8 So David said to Achish, “But what have I done? Genesis 4:10 And to this day what have you found in your servant as long as I have been with you, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?” 1SamuEL 29:9 Then Achish answered and said to David, “I know that you are as good in my sight as an angel of GOD; nevertheless the princes of the Philistines have said, ‘He shall not go up with us to the battle.’ 1SamuEL 29:10 Now therefore, rise early in the morning with your master’s servants who have come with you. And as soon as you are up early in the morning and have light, depart.” 1SamuEL 29:11 So David and his men rose early to depart in the morning, to return to the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to JezreEL. David’s Conflict with the Amalekites 1SamuEL 30:1 Now it happened, when David and his men came to Ziklag, on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the South and Ziklag, attacked Ziklag and burned it with fire, 1SamuEL 30:2 and had taken captive the women and those who were there, from small to great; they did not kill anyone, but carried them away and went their way. 1SamuEL 30:3 So David and his men came to the city, and there it was, burned with fire; and their wives, their sons, and their daughters had been taken captive. 1SamuEL 30:4 Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voices and wept, until they had no more power to weep. 1SamuEL 30:5 And David’s two wives, AHinoam the JezreELitess, and ABigail the widow of NABal the CarmELite, had been taken captive. 1SamuEL 30:6 Now David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in The LORD his GOD. 1SamuEL 30:7 Then David said to ABiathar the priest, AHimELech’s son, “Please bring the ephod here to me.” And ABiathar brought the ephod to David. 1SamuEL 30:8 So David inquired of The LORD, saying, “Shall I pursue this troop? Shall I overtake them?” And HE ANSWERED him, “Pursue, for you shall surely overtake them and without fail recover all.” 1SamuEL 30:9 So David went, he and the six hundred men who were with him, and came to the Brook Besor, where (in Southern JudAH) those stayed who were left behind. 1SamuEL 30:10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were so weary that they could not cross the Brook Besor. 1SamuEL 30:11 Then they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David; and they gave him bread and he ate, and they let him drink water. 1SamuEL 30:12 And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs and two clusters of raisins. So when he had eaten, his strength came back to him; for he had eaten no bread nor drunk water for three days and three nights. 1SamuEL 30:13 Then David said to him, “To whom do you belong, and where are you from?” And he said, “I am a young man from Egypt, servant of an Amalekite; and my master left me behind, because three days ago I fell sick. 1SamuEL 30:14 We made an invasion of the Southern area of the Cherethites, (in Gilead) in the territory which belongs to JudAH, and of the Southern area of Caleb; (from Esau but in JudAH) and we burned Ziklag with fire.” 1SamuEL 30:15 And David said to him, “Can you take me down to this troop?” So he said, “Swear to me by GOD that you will neither kill me nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will take you down to this troop.” 1SamuEL 30:16 And when he had brought him down, there they were, spread out over all the land, eating and drinking and dancing, because of all the great spoil which they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of JudAH. 1SamuEL 30:17 Then David attacked them from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled. 1SamuEL 30:18 So David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away, and David rescued his two wives. 1SamuEL 30:19 And nothing of theirs was lacking, either small or great, sons or daughters, spoil or anything which they had taken from them; David recovered all. Genesis 14:16 1SamuEL 30:20 Then David took all the flocks and herds they had driven before those other livestock, and said, “This is David’s spoil.” 1SamuEL 30:21 Now David came to the two hundred men who had been so weary that they could not follow David, whom they also had made to stay at the Brook Besor. So they went out to meet David and to meet the people who were with him. And when David came near the people, he greeted them. 1SamuEL 30:22 Then all the wicked and worthless men of those who went with David answered and said, “Because they did not go with us, we will not give them any of the spoil that we have recovered, except for every man’s wife and children, that they may lead them away and depart.” 1SamuEL 30:23 But David said, “My brethren, you shall not do so with what The LORD has given us, WHO has preserved us and delivered into our hand the troop that came against us. 1SamuEL 30:24 For who will heed you in this matter? But as his part is who goes down to the battle, so shall his part be who stays by the supplies; they shall share alike.” 1SamuEL 30:25 So it was, from that day forward; he made it a statute and an ordinance for IsraEL to this day. 1SamuEL 30:26 Now when David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the spoil to the elders of JudAH, to his friends, saying, “Here is a present for you from the spoil of the enemies of The LORD”— 1SamuEL 30:27 to those who were in BethEL, (town in JudAH) those who were in Ramoth of the South, (city in Simeon) those who were in Jattir, (Levitical city in JudAH) 1SamuEL 30:28 those who were in Aroer, (city in Southern JudAH) those who were in Siphmoth, (city in JudAH) those who were in Eshtemoa, (Levitical town in JudAH) 1SamuEL 30:29 those who were in Rachal, (city in JudAH) those who were in the cities of the JerAHmeELites, those who were in the cities of the Kenites, (Midian) 1SamuEL 30:30 those who were in HormAH, (Canaanite royal town) those who were in Chorashan, (town in JudAH) those who were in Athach, (city in JudAH) 1SamuEL 30:31 those who were in Hebron, (city in JudAH) and to all the places where David himself and his men were accustomed to rove. The Tragic End of Saul and His Sons 1SamuEL 31:1 Now the Philistines fought against IsraEL; and the men of IsraEL fled from before the Philistines, and fell slain on Mount Gilboa. (near valley JezreEL) 1SamuEL 31:2 Then the Philistines followed hard after Saul and his sons. And the Philistines killed Jonathan, ABinadAB, and Malchishua, Saul’s sons. 1SamuEL 31:3 The battle became fierce against Saul. The archers hit him, and he was severely wounded by the archers. 1SamuEL 31:4 Then Saul said to his armourbearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised men come and thrust me through and abuse me.” But his armourbearer would not, for he was greatly afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword and fell on it. (Hara-Kiri)?, 1SamuEL 31:5 And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his sword, and died with him. 1SamuEL 31:6 So Saul, his three sons, his armourbearer, and all his men died together that same day. 1SamuEL 31:7 And when the men of IsraEL who were on the other side of the valley, and those who were on the other side of the Jordan, saw that the men of IsraEL had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them. 1SamuEL 31:8 So it happened the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. 1SamuEL 31:9 And they cut off his head 17:51 and stripped off his armour, 17:38 and sent word throughout the land of the Philistines, to proclaim it in the temple of their idols and among the people. 1SamuEL 31:10 Then they put his armour in the temple of the Ashtoreths, 5:2 and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan. (city in Manasseh) 1SamuEL 31:11 Now when the inhabitants of JABesh Gilead heard (city in Gad) what the Philistines had done to Saul, 1SamuEL 31:12 all the valiant men arose and traveled all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan; and they came to JABesh and burned them there. (first cremation)? 1SamuEL 31:13 Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree at JABesh, and fasted seven days. GOD The Sovereign SAVIOUR To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David the servant of The LORD, who spoke to The LORD the words of this song on the day that The LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. And he said: Psalm 18:1 I will love 116:1 YOU, O LORD, my STRENGTH. Psalm 18:2 The LORD is my ROCK and my FORTRESS and my DELIVERER; My GOD, my STRENGTH, in WHOM I will trust; My SHIELD https://youtube/watch?v=ytE8um04l24 and The HORN of my salvation, my STRONGHOLD. Psalm 18:3 I will call upon The LORD, WHO is worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies. https://youtube/watch?v=CmyGypg7Iy8 Psalm 18:4 The pangs of death surrounded me, And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid. Psalm 18:5 The sorrows of Sheol surrounded me; The snares of death confronted me. Psalm 18:6 In my distress I called upon The LORD, And cried out to my GOD; HE heard my voice from HIS Temple, And my cry came before HIM, even to HIS ears. Psalm 18:7 Then the earth shook and trembled; The foundations of the hills also quaked and were shaken, Because HE was angry. Psalm 18:8 Smoke went up from HIS nostrils, And devouring fire from HIS mouth; Coals were kindled by it. Psalm 18:9 HE bowed the heavens also, and came down With darkness under HIS feet. https://youtube/watch?v=T4wwdfal-UU Psalm 18:10 And HE rode upon a cherub, and flew; HE flew upon the wings of the wind. https://youtube/watch?v=rqTLsIyx3I0 Psalm 18:11 HE made darkness HIS secret place; HIS canopy around HIM was dark waters And thick clouds of the skies. Psalm 18:12 From the brightness before HIM, HIS thick clouds passed with hailstones and coals of fire. Psalm 18:13 The LORD thundered from heaven, And the Most HIGH UTTERED HIS VOICE, Hailstones and coals of fire. Psalm 18:14 HE sent out HIS arrows and scattered the foe, Lightnings in abundance, and HE vanquished them. Psalm 18:15 Then the channels of the sea were seen, The foundations of the world were uncovered At YOUR rebuke, O LORD, At the blast of the breath of YOUR nostrils. Psalm 18:16 HE sent from above, HE took me; HE drew me out of many waters. Psalm 18:17 HE delivered me from my strong enemy, From those who hated me, For they were too strong for me. Psalm 18:18 They confronted me in the day of my calamity, But The LORD was my SUPPORT. Psalm 18:19 HE also brought me out into a broad place; HE delivered me because HE delighted in me. Psalm 18:20 The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; 2Corinthians 5:21 According to the cleanness of my hands 34:18; 2SamuEL 22:21 HE has recompensed me. Psalm 18:21 For I have kept the ways of The LORD, And have not wickedly departed from my GOD. Psalm 18:22 For all HIS judgments were before me, And I did not put away HIS statutes 2SamuEL 22:23 from me. Psalm 18:23 I was also blameless before HIM, And I kept myself from my iniquity. Psalm 18:24 Therefore The LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands in HIS sight. Psalm 18:25 With the merciful 2SamuEL 22:26 YOU will show YOURSELF merciful; With a blameless man YOU will show YOURSELF blameless; Psalm 18:26 With the pure YOU will show YOURSELF pure; And with the devious YOU will show YOURSELF shrewd. Psalm 18:27 For YOU will save the humble people, But will bring down haughty looks. 2SamuEL 22:28; Proverbs 16:18 Psalm 18:28 For YOU will light my lamp; 2SamuEL 22:29 The LORD my GOD will enlighten John 8:12 my darkness. Psalm 18:29 For by YOU I can run against a troop, 2SamuEL 22:30 By my GOD I can leap over a wall. Psalm 18:30 As for GOD, HIS way is perfect; John 14:6 The WORD of The LORD is proven; HE is a SHIELD to all who trust in HIM. Psalm 18:31 For who is GOD, except The LORD? And who is a ROCK, except our GOD? Psalm 18:32 It is GOD WHO arms me with strength, And makes my way perfect. Psalm 18:33 HE makes my feet like the feet of deer, And sets me on my high places. Psalm 18:34 HE teaches my hands to make war, So that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. Psalm 18:35 YOU have also given me the shield 3:3 of YOUR salvation; YOUR right hand has held me up, YOUR gentleness has made me great. Psalm 18:36 YOU enlarged my path under me, So my feet did not slip. Psalm 18:37 I have pursued my enemies and overtaken them; Neither did I turn back again till they were destroyed. Psalm 18:38 I have wounded them, Ephesians 6:12 So that they could not rise; They have fallen under my feet. Ephesians 1:20; 2:6 Psalm 18:39 For YOU have armed me with strength for the battle; YOU have subdued under me those who rose up against me. Psalm 18:40 YOU have also given me the necks of my enemies, So that I destroyed those who hated me. Psalm 18:41 They cried out, but there was none to save; Even to The LORD, but HE did not ANSWER them. Psalm 18:42 Then I beat them as fine as the dust before the wind; I cast them out like dirt in the streets. Psalm 18:43 YOU have delivered me from the strivings of the people; YOU have made me the head of the nations; A people I have not known shall serve me. Psalm 18:44 As soon as they hear of me they obey me; The foreigners submit to me. Psalm 18:45 The foreigners fade away, And come frightened from their hideouts. Psalm 18:46 The LORD lives! Blessed be my ROCK! Let The GOD of my salvation be exalted. https://youtube/watch?v=1vxqfPz2Pkc Psalm 18:47 IT is GOD WHO avenges me, And subdues the peoples under me; Psalm 18:48 HE delivers me from my enemies. YOU also lift me up above those who rise against me; YOU have delivered me from the violent man. Psalm 18:49 Therefore I will give thanks to YOU, O LORD, among the Gentiles, And sing praises to YOUR NAME. Psalm 18:50 Great deliverance HE gives to HIS king, KING And shows mercy to HIS anointed, ANOINTED, To David and his descendants forevermore.
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