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And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.
Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.
And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water;
And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old.
As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;
Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in:
Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead.
Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And Saul said, God hath delivered him into mine hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that hath gates and bars.
And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, that he made with the children of Israel.
These were the sons of Caleb the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah; Shobal the father of Kirjath-jearim,
And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?
And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.
And Joab said, As God liveth, unless thou hadst spoken, surely then in the morning the people had gone up every one from following his brother.
