As Saul turned to leave Samuel, God changed his inmost person. All these signs happened on that very day.

They replied, “You have not wronged us or oppressed us. You have not taken anything from the hand of anyone.”

However, fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart. Just look at the great things he has done for you!

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

So all Israel had to go down to the Philistines in order to get their plowshares, cutting instruments, axes, and sickles sharpened.

Saul’s watchmen at Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin looked on as the crowd of soldiers seemed to melt away first in one direction and then in another.

and Saul threw the spear, thinking, “I’ll nail David to the wall!” But David escaped from him on two different occasions.

David said to Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?”

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

Jonathan replied to Saul, “David urgently requested that he be allowed to go to Bethlehem.

He said to David, “You are more innocent than I, for you have treated me well, even though I have tried to harm you!

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.

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

But David said to Abishai, “Don’t kill him! Who can extend his hand against the Lord’s chosen one and remain guiltless?”

She brought it to Saul and his servants, and they ate. Then they arose and left that same night.

When he turned around and saw me, he called out to me. I answered, ‘Here I am!’

Abner advised the elders of Israel, “Previously you were wanting David to be your king.

You made Israel your very own people for all time. You, O Lord, became their God.

Then David asked, “Is anyone still left from the family of Saul, so that I may extend kindness to him for the sake of Jonathan?”