So Saul crossed through the hill country of Ephraim, passing through the land of Shalisha, but they did not find them. So they crossed through the land of Shaalim, but they were not there. Then he crossed through the land of Benjamin, and still they did not find them.

When Elijah arrived, Ahab said to him, “So, you have found me, my enemy!” Elijah replied, “I have found you, because you are committed to doing evil in the sight of the Lord.

Even your clothes are stained with the lifeblood of the poor who had not done anything wrong; you did not catch them breaking into your homes. Yet, in spite of all these things you have done,

Ephraim boasts, “I am very rich! I have become wealthy! In all that I have done to gain my wealth, no one can accuse me of any offense that is actually sinful.”

“Whoever kidnaps someone and sells him, or is caught still holding him, must surely be put to death.

When the sacrifices were completed, the king and all who were with him bowed down and worshiped.

who rejoice even to jubilation, and are exultant when they find the grave?

Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.

O that I knew where I might find him, that I could come to his place of residence!

“But wisdom – where can it be found? Where is the place of understanding?

Mankind does not know its place; it cannot be found in the land of the living.

If I have rejoiced over the misfortune of my enemy or exulted because calamity found him –

So do not say, ‘We have found wisdom! God will refute him, not man!’

Yet God finds occasions with me; he regards me as his enemy!

and if God is gracious to him and says, ‘Spare him from going down to the place of corruption, I have found a ransom for him,’

For he repays a person for his work, and according to the conduct of a person, he causes the consequences to find him.

Whether it is for punishment for his land, or whether it is for mercy, he causes it to find its mark.

Break the arm of the wicked and evil man! Hold him accountable for his wicked deeds, which he thought you would not discover.

for he is too proud to recognize and give up his sin.

I have discovered David, my servant. With my holy oil I have anointed him as king.