So Eli said to Samuel, &#8220;Go back and lie down. When he calls you, say, &#8220;Speak, <sc>Lordsc>, for your servant is listening.&#8221; So Samuel went back and lay down in his place.p>

While<n id="1" /> Saul spoke to the priest, the panic in the Philistines&#8217; camp was becoming greater and greater. So Saul said to the priest, &#8220;Withdraw your hand!&#8221;p>

So Samuel took the horn full of olive oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers. The Spirit of the <sc>Lordsc> rushed upon David from that day onward. Then Samuel got up and went to Ramah.p>

<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.

when David, along with his men, went out<n id="1" /> and struck down two hundred Philistine men. David brought their foreskins and presented all of them to the king so he could become the king&#8217;s son-in-law. Saul then gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.p>

<p class="bodytext">Now David had run away and escaped. He went to Samuel in Ramah and told him everything that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went and stayed at Naioth.

Finally Saul<n id="1" /> himself went to Ramah. When he arrived at the large cistern that is in Secu, he asked, &#8220;Where are Samuel and David?&#8221; They said, &#8220;At Naioth in Ramah.&#8221;p>

Jonathan said to David, &#8220;Go in peace, for the two of us have sworn together in the name of the <sc>Lordsc> saying, &#8216;The <sc>Lordsc> will be between me and you and between my descendants and your descendants forever.&#8217;&#8221;p><t /><v id="(21:1)" /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Then David<n id="2" /> got up and left, while Jonathan went back to the city.

<p class="bodytext">Then David went from there to Mizpah in Moab, where he said to the king of Moab, &#8220;Please let my father and mother stay<n id="1" /> with you until I know what God is going to do for me.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">So David and his men went to Keilah and fought the Philistines. He took away their cattle and thoroughly defeated them.<n id="1" /> David delivered the inhabitants of Keilah.p>

Saul went on one side of the mountain, while David and his men went on the other side of the mountain. David was hurrying to get away from Saul, but Saul and his men were surrounding David and his men so they could capture them.

Saul replied to David, &#8220;May you be rewarded,<n id="1" /> my son David! You will without question be successful!&#8221;<n id="2" /> So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.p>

<p class="bodytext">So Saul disguised himself and put on other clothing and left, accompanied by two of his men. They came to the woman at night and said, &#8220;Use your ritual pit to conjure up for me the one I tell you.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>