The soldiers told him what had been promised, saying, “This is what will be done for the man who can strike him down.”

When David’s words were overheard and reported to Saul, he called for him.

With regard to the matter that you and I discussed, the Lord is the witness between us forever!”

Then you will say to my brother, “Peace to you and your house! Peace to all that is yours!

Now let this present that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the servants who follow my lord.

Then David said to Abigail, “Praised be the Lord, the God of Israel, who has sent you this day to meet me!

(Now Saul had given his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Paltiel son of Laish, who was from Gallim.)

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

The Philistines assembled all their troops at Aphek, while Israel camped at the spring that is in Jezreel.

David retrieved everything the Amalekites had taken; he also rescued his two wives.

and Hebron; and for those in whatever other places David and his men had traveled.

When the residents of Jabesh Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,

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.

Eli said, “What message did he speak to you? Don’t conceal it from me. God will judge you severely if you conceal from me anything that he said to you!”

The Levites took down the ark of the Lord and the chest that was with it, which contained the gold objects. They placed them near the big stone. At that time the people of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the Lord.

But the servant said to him, “Look, there is a man of God in this town. He is highly respected. Everything that he says really happens. Now let’s go there. Perhaps he will tell us where we should go from here.”

The Hebrews who had earlier gone over to the Philistine side joined the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.

Then Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed the Lord! I went on the campaign the Lord sent me on. I brought back King Agag of the Amalekites after exterminating the Amalekites.

Now David had been thinking, “In vain I guarded everything that belonged to this man in the desert. I didn’t take anything from him. But he has repaid my good with evil.

So David set out and went to the place where Saul was camped. David saw the place where Saul and Abner son of Ner, the general in command of his army, were sleeping. Now Saul was lying in the entrenchment, and the army was camped all around him.