When Saul saw how very successful he was, he was afraid of him.

The Spirit of God rushed upon Saul when he heard these words, and he became very angry.

On that day the army struck down the Philistines from Micmash to Aijalon, and they became very tired.

David came to Saul and stood before him. Saul liked him a great deal, and he became his armor bearer.

When Saul and all the Israelites heard these words of the Philistine, they were upset and very afraid.

When all the men of Israel saw this man, they retreated from his presence and were very afraid.

When Saul saw the camp of the Philistines, he was absolutely terrified.

Saul himself was in the thick of the battle; the archers spotted him and wounded him severely.

The sin of these young men was very great in the Lord’s sight, for they treated the Lord’s offering with contempt.

So the Philistines fought. Israel was defeated; they all ran home. The slaughter was very great; thirty thousand foot soldiers fell in battle.

So Samuel called to the Lord, and the Lord made it thunder and rain that day. All the people were very afraid of both the Lord and Samuel.

Saul and all the army that was with him assembled and marched into battle, where they found the Philistines in total panic killing one another with their swords.

This made Saul very angry. The statement displeased him and he thought, “They have attributed to David tens of thousands, but to me they have attributed only thousands. What does he lack, except the kingdom?”

Then the leaders of the Philistines would march out, and as often as they did so, David achieved more success than all of Saul’s servants. His name was held in high esteem.

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

On the third day you should go down quickly and come to the place where you hid yourself the day this all started. Stay near the stone Ezel.

David thought about what they said and was very afraid of King Achish of Gath.

There was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. This man was very wealthy; he owned three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. At that time he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

These men were very good to us. They did not insult us, nor did we sustain any loss during the entire time we were together in the field.

Now Eli was very old when he heard about everything that his sons used to do to all the people of Israel and how they used to have sex with the women who were stationed at the entrance to the tent of meeting.