Then the king said to the messengers<n id="1" /> who were stationed beside him, &#8220;Turn and kill the priests of the <sc>Lordsc>, for they too have sided<n id="2" /> with David! They knew he was fleeing, but they did not inform me.&#8221; But the king&#8217;s servants refused to harm<n id="3" /> the priests of the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

But he would give a double<n id="1" /> portion to Hannah, because he especially loved her.<n id="2" /> Now the <sc>Lordsc> had not enabled her to have children.<n id="3" />

Her rival wife used to upset her and make her worry,<n id="1" /> for the <sc>Lordsc> had not enabled her to have children.

<p class="bodytext">As she continued praying to<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>, Eli was watching her mouth.

<p class="poetry">No one is holy<n id="1" /> like the <sc>Lordsc>!p> <p class="poetry">There is no one other than you!p> <p class="poetry">There is no rock<n id="2" /> like our God!p>

<p class="poetry">He watches over<n id="1" /> his holy ones,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">but the wicked are made speechless in the darkness,p> <p class="poetry">for it is not by one&#8217;s own strength that one prevails.p>

This ought not to be,<n id="1" /> my sons! For the report that I hear circulating among the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s people is not good.

All Israel from Dan to Beer Sheba realized that Samuel was confirmed as a prophet of the <sc>Lordsc>.

Then the <sc>Lordsc> again appeared in Shiloh, for it was in Shiloh that the <sc>Lordsc> had revealed himself to Samuel<n id="1" /> through the word of the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">But the people refused to heed Samuel&#8217;s warning.<n id="1" /> Instead they said, &#8220;No! There will be a king over us!

Saul said, &#8220;God will punish me severely if Jonathan doesn&#8217;t die!&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

The Preeminent One<n id="1" /> of Israel does not go back on his word<n id="2" /> or change his mind, for he is not a human being who changes his mind.&#8221;<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">So Saul feared David, because the <sc>Lordsc> was with him but had departed from Saul.

But all Israel and Judah loved David, for he was the one leading them out to battle and back.p>

<p class="bodytext">When Saul realized<n id="1" /> that the <sc>Lordsc> was with David and that his<n id="2" /> daughter Michal loved David,<n id="3" />

Jonathan once again took an oath with David, because he loved him. In fact Jonathan loved him as much as he did his own life.<n id="1" />

Jonathan said to him, &#8220;Tomorrow is the new moon, and you will be missed, for your seat will be empty.

But if I say to the boy, &#8220;Look, the arrows are on the other side of you,&#8217;<n id="1" /> get away. For in that case the <sc>Lordsc> has sent you away.

Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the priests of the <sc>Lordsc>.

David realized<n id="1" /> that Saul had come out to seek his life; at that time David was in Horesh in the desert of Ziph.p>