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- 1 Samuel 26:8
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Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand. Now, therefore, please let me thrust the spear through him into the ground with one stroke. I will not need to strike him twice!”
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- 1 Samuel 26:9
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But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can extend a hand against the LORD’s anointed and be guiltless?”
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- 1 Samuel 26:14
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And David shouted to the troops and to Abner son of Ner, “Will you not answer me, Abner?” “Who are you who calls to the king?” Abner replied.
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- 1 Samuel 26:15
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So David said to Abner, “You are a man, aren’t you? And who in Israel is your equal? Why then did you not protect your lord the king when one of the people came to destroy him?
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- 1 Samuel 26:25
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Saul said to him, “May you be blessed, David my son. You will accomplish great things and will surely prevail.” So David went on his way, and Saul returned home.
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- 1 Samuel 27:1
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David, however, said to himself, “One of these days now I will be swept away by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will stop searching for me all over Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.”
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- 1 Samuel 27:2
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So David set out with his six hundred men and went to Achish son of Maoch, the king of Gath.
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- 1 Samuel 27:5
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Then David said to Achish, “If I have found favor in your eyes, let me be assigned a place in one of the outlying towns, so I can live there. For why should your servant live in the royal city with you?”
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- 1 Samuel 27:8
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Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these people had inhabited the land extending to Shur and Egypt.)
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- 1 Samuel 27:9
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Whenever David attacked a territory, he did not leave a man or woman alive, but he took the flocks and herds, the donkeys, camels, and clothing. Then he would return to Achish,
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- 1 Samuel 27:10
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who would ask him, “What have you raided today?” And David would reply, “The Negev of Judah,” or “The Negev of Jerahmeel,” or “The Negev of the Kenites.”
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- 1 Samuel 28:1
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Now in those days the Philistines gathered their forces for warfare against Israel. So Achish said to David, “You must understand that you and your men are to go out to battle with me.”
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- 1 Samuel 28:2
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David replied, “Then you will come to know what your servant can do.” “Very well,” said Achish. “I will make you my bodyguard for life.”
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- 1 Samuel 28:7
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Then Saul said to his servants, “Find me a woman who is a medium, so I can go and consult her.” “There is a medium at Endor,” his servants replied.
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- 1 Samuel 28:8
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So Saul disguised himself by putting on different clothes, and he set out with two of his men. They came to the woman at night, and Saul said, “Consult a spirit for me. Bring up for me the one I name.”
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- 1 Samuel 28:9
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But the woman replied, “Surely you know what Saul has done, how he has killed the mediums and spiritists in the land. Why have you set a trap to get me killed?”
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- 1 Samuel 28:12
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But when the woman saw Samuel, she cried out in a loud voice and said to Saul, “Why have you deceived me? You are Saul!”
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- 1 Samuel 28:13
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“Do not be afraid,” the king replied. “What do you see?” “I see a god coming up out of the earth,” the woman answered.
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- 1 Samuel 28:15
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Then Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” “I am deeply distressed,” replied Saul. “The Philistines are fighting against me, and God has turned away from me. He no longer answers me, either by prophets or by dreams. So I have called on you to tell me what to do.”
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- 1 Samuel 28:21
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When the woman came to Saul and saw how distraught he was, she said to him, “Look, your maidservant has obeyed your voice. I took my life in my hands and did as you told me.
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- 1 Samuel 28:23
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Saul refused, saying, “I will not eat.” But his servants joined the woman in urging him, and he heeded their voice. He got up from the ground and sat on the bed.
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- 1 Samuel 29:3
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Then the commanders of the Philistines asked, “What about these Hebrews?” Achish replied, “Is this not David, the servant of King Saul of Israel? He has been with me all these days, even years, and from the day he defected until today I have found no fault in him.”
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- 1 Samuel 29:4
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But the commanders of the Philistines were angry 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 war. What better way for him to regain the favor of his master than with the heads of our men?
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- 1 Samuel 29:6
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So Achish summoned David and told him, “As surely as the LORD lives, you have been upright, and it seems right in my sight that you should march in and out with me in the army, because I have found no fault in you from the day you came to me until this day. But you are not good in the sight of the leaders.
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- 1 Samuel 29:8
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“But what have I done?” David replied. “What have you found against your servant, from the day I came to you until today, to keep me from going along to fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”
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- 1 Samuel 29:9
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Achish replied, “I know that you are as pleasing in my sight as an angel of God. But the commanders of the Philistines have said, ‘He must not go into battle with us.’
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- 1 Samuel 29:11
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So David and his men got up early in the morning to return to the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.
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- 1 Samuel 30:1
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On the third day David and his men arrived in Ziklag, and the Amalekites had raided the Negev, attacked Ziklag, and burned it down.
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- 1 Samuel 30:3
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When David and his men came to the city, they found it burned down and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.
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- 1 Samuel 30:7
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Then David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, “Bring me the ephod.” So Abiathar brought it to him,
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- 1 Samuel 30:11
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Now his men found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David. They gave the man water to drink and food to eat—
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- 1 Samuel 30:12
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a piece of a fig cake and two clusters of raisins. So he ate and was revived, for he had not had any food or water for three days and three nights.
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- 1 Samuel 30:15
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“Will you lead me to these raiders?” David asked. And the man replied, “Swear to me by God that you will not kill me or deliver me into the hand of my master, and I will lead you to them.”
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- 1 Samuel 30:21
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When David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow him and who were left behind at the Brook of Besor, they came out to meet him and the troops with him. As David approached the men, he greeted them,
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- 1 Samuel 30:26
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When David arrived in Ziklag, he sent some of the plunder to his friends, the elders of Judah, saying, “Here is a gift for you from the plunder of the LORD’s enemies.”
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- 1 Samuel 31:3
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When the battle intensified against Saul, the archers overtook him and wounded him critically.
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- 1 Samuel 31:11
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When the people of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,
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- 2 Samuel 1:2
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On the third day a man with torn clothes and dust on his head arrived from Saul’s camp. When he came to David, he fell to the ground to pay him homage.
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- 2 Samuel 1:3
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“Where have you come from?” David asked. “I have escaped from the Israelite camp,” he replied.
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- 2 Samuel 1:4
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“What was the outcome?” David asked. “Please tell me.” “The troops fled from the battle,” he replied. “Many of them fell and died. And Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead.”
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- 2 Samuel 1:5
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Then David asked the young man who had brought him the report, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?”
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- 2 Samuel 1:7
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When he turned around and saw me, he called out to me, and I answered, ‘Here I am!’
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- 2 Samuel 1:8
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‘Who are you?’ he asked. So I told him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’
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- 2 Samuel 1:9
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Then he begged me, ‘Stand over me and kill me, for agony has seized me, but my life still lingers.’
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- 2 Samuel 1:10
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So I stood over him and killed him, because I knew that after he had fallen he could not survive. And I took the crown that was on his head and the band that was on his arm, and I have brought them here to my lord.”
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- 2 Samuel 1:13
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And David inquired of the young man who had brought him the report, “Where are you from?” “I am the son of a foreigner,” he answered. “I am an Amalekite.”
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- 2 Samuel 1:14
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So David asked him, “Why were you not afraid to lift your hand to destroy the LORD’s anointed?”
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- 2 Samuel 1:16
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For David had said to the Amalekite, “Your blood be on your own head because your own mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I killed the LORD’s anointed.’”
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- 2 Samuel 1:24
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O daughters of Israel, weep for Saul, who clothed you in scarlet and luxury, who decked your garments with ornaments of gold.
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- 2 Samuel 2:1
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Some time later, David inquired of the LORD, “Should I go up to one of the towns of Judah?” “Go up,” the LORD answered. Then David asked, “Where should I go?” “To Hebron,” replied the LORD.
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