When Saul counted them at Bezek, the Israelites were 300,000 strong and the men of Judah numbered 30,000.

Just when he had finished offering the burnt offering, Samuel appeared on the scene. Saul went out to meet him and to greet him.

They charged two-thirds of a shekel to sharpen plowshares and cutting instruments, and a third of a shekel to sharpen picks and axes, and to set ox goads.

Now the whole army entered the forest and there was honey on the ground.

When they arrived, Samuel noticed Eliab and said to himself, “Surely, here before the Lord stands his chosen king!”

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

So Saul was keeping an eye on David from that day onward.

So Saul feared David, because the Lord was with him but had departed from Saul.

So David hid in the field. When the new moon came, the king sat down to eat his meal.

The next morning Jonathan, along with a young servant, went out to the field to meet David.

So he had them stay with the king of Moab; they stayed with him the whole time that David was in the stronghold.

Now when Abiathar son of Ahimelech had fled to David at Keilah, he had brought with him an ephod.

May the Lord judge between the two of us, and may the Lord vindicate me over you, but my hand will not be against you.

It’s like the old proverb says: ‘From evil people evil proceeds.’ But my hand will not be against you.

David had also married Ahinoam from Jezreel; the two of them became his wives.

The length of time that David lived in the Philistine countryside was a year and four months.

So Achish trusted David, thinking to himself, “He is really hated among his own people in Israel! From now on he will be my servant.”

Samuel said, “Why are you asking me, now that the Lord has turned away from you and has become your enemy?

From that time onward it was a binding ordinance for Israel, right up to the present time.

But after it had been moved the Lord attacked that city as well, causing a great deal of panic. He struck all the people of that city with sores.