So get up early in the morning along with the servants of your lord who have come with you.<n id="1" /> When you get up early in the morning, as soon as it is light enough to see, leave.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The next morning Jonathan, along with a young servant, went out to the field to meet David.

<p class="bodytext">They got up early the next morning and after worshiping the <sc>Lordsc>, they returned to their home at Ramah. Elkanah had marital relations with<n id="1" /> his wife Hannah, and the <sc>Lordsc> remembered<n id="2" /> her.

<p class="bodytext">So Samuel lay down until morning. Then he opened the doors of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s house. But Samuel was afraid to tell Eli about the vision.

So Jonathan told David, &#8220;My father Saul is trying<n id="1" /> to kill you. So be careful tomorrow morning. Find<n id="2" /> a hiding place and stay in seclusion.<n id="3" />

God will severely punish David,<n id="1" /> if I leave alive until morning even one male<n id="2" /> from all those who belong to him!&#8221;p>

In the morning, when Nabal was sober,<n id="1" /> his wife told him about these matters. He had a stroke and was paralyzed.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">So David and his men got up early in the morning to return<n id="1" /> to the land of the Philistines, but the Philistines went up to Jezreel.p>

But when they got up early the following day, Dagon was again lying on the ground before the ark of the <sc>Lordsc>. The head of Dagon and his two hands were sheared off and were lying at the threshold. Only Dagon&#8217;s body was left intact.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">Samuel replied to Saul, &#8220;I am the seer! Go up in front of me to the high place! Today you will eat with me and in the morning I will send you away. I will tell you everything that you are thinking.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">The next day Saul placed the people in three groups. They went to the Ammonite camp during the morning watch and struck them<n id="1" /> down until the hottest part of the day. The survivors scattered; no two of them remained together.p>

Saul said, &#8220;Let&#8217;s go down after the Philistines at night; we will rout<n id="1" /> them until the break of day.<n id="2" /> We won&#8217;t leave any of them alive!&#8221;<n id="3" /> They replied, &#8220;Do whatever seems best to you.&#8221;<n id="4" /> But the priest said, &#8220;Let&#8217;s approach God here.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Then Samuel got up early to meet Saul the next morning. But Samuel was informed, &#8220;Saul has gone to Carmel where<n id="1" /> he is setting up a monument for himself. Then Samuel left<n id="2" /> and went down to Gilgal.&#8221;<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">So David got up early in the morning and entrusted the flock to someone else who would watch over it.<n id="1" /> After loading up, he went just as Jesse had instructed him. He arrived at the camp<n id="2" /> as the army was going out to the battle lines shouting its battle cry.

<p class="bodytext">Saul sent messengers to David&#8217;s house to guard it and to kill him in the morning. Then David&#8217;s wife Michal told him, &#8220;If you do not save yourself<n id="1" /> tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!&#8221;

Otherwise, as surely as the <sc>Lordsc>, the God of Israel, lives &#8211; he who has prevented me from harming you &#8211; if you had not come so quickly to meet me, by morning&#8217;s light not even one male belonging to Nabal would have remained alive!&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">When Abigail went back to Nabal, he was holding a banquet in his house like that of the king. Nabal was having a good time<n id="1" /> and was very intoxicated. She told him absolutely nothing<n id="2" /> until morning&#8217;s light.