<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> both kills and gives life;p> <p class="poetry">he brings down to the grave<n id="1" /> and raises up.p>

<p class="bodytext">So Saul said, &#8220;Bring me the burnt offering and the peace offerings.&#8221; Then he offered a burnt offering.

<p class="bodytext">Then Saul stopped chasing the Philistines, and the Philistines went back home.<n id="1" />

<v id="(24:1)" /><n id="1" /> Then David went up from there and stayed in the strongholds of En Gedi.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">This man Elkanah went up with all his family to make the yearly sacrifice to the <sc>Lordsc> and to keep his vow,

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Nahash<n id="2" /> the Ammonite marched<n id="3" /> against Jabesh Gilead. All the men of Jabesh Gilead said to Nahash, &#8220;Make a treaty with us and we will serve you.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Samuel set out and went up from Gilgal<n id="1" /> to Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin.<n id="2" /> Saul mustered the army that remained with him; there were about six hundred men.

<p class="bodytext">Jonathan crawled up on his hands and feet, with his armor bearer following behind him. Jonathan struck down the Philistines,<n id="1" /> while his armor bearer came along behind him and killed them.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Then David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (They had been living in that land for a long time, from the approach<n id="1" /> to Shur as far as the land of Egypt.)