Delilah said to Samson, “Look, you deceived me and told me lies! Now tell me how you can be subdued.”

However, she got angry at him and went home to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. When she had been there four months,

But his master said to him, “We should not stop at a foreign city where non-Israelites live. We will travel on to Gibeah.”

The Israelites attacked the Benjaminites the next day; they took their positions against Gibeah just as they had done before.

Then the Benjaminites saw they were defeated. The Israelites retreated before Benjamin, because they had confidence in the men they had hid in ambush outside Gibeah.

This will be a confirming sign for you that will be fulfilled through your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas: in a single day they both will die!

On that day I will carry out against Eli everything that I spoke about his house – from start to finish!

She named the boy Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel,” referring to the capture of the ark of God and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband.

So they sent messengers to the residents of Kiriath Jearim, saying, “The Philistines have returned the ark of the Lord. Come down here and take it back home with you.”

The Israelites said to Samuel, “Keep crying out to the Lord our God so that he may save us from the hand of the Philistines!”

The Lord said to Samuel, “Do as they say and install a king over them.” Then Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Each of you go back to his own city.”

Raiding bands went out from the camp of the Philistines in three groups. One band turned toward the road leading to Ophrah by the land of Shual;

When the army entered the forest, they saw the honey flowing, but no one ate any of it, for the army was afraid of the oath.

Then Samuel said to Saul, “Wait a minute! Let me tell you what the Lord said to me last night.” Saul said to him, “Tell me.”

Then Samuel said, “Bring me King Agag of the Amalekites.” So Agag came to him trembling, thinking to himself, “Surely death is bitter!”

So Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, “Send me your son David, who is out with the sheep.

The Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you are coming after me with sticks?” Then the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

The Philistine said to David, “Come here to me, so I can give your flesh to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the field!”

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

Achish said to his servants, “Look at this madman! Why did you bring him to me?