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The LORD forbid that I should stretch forth mine hand against the LORD'S anointed: but, I pray thee, take thou now the spear that is at his bolster, and the cruse of water, and let us go.
So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.
Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?
Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:
Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with ashes upon his face.
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.
Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:
And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all; insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it on this fashion.
And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.
Dimnah with her suburbs, Nahalal with her suburbs; four cities.
And on the other side of Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, an hundred and twenty thousand.
And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.
Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.
But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.
