I. SamuEL XXX.

host 7s good in my sight: for I -haye| B.C. abot not found evil in thee since the-day_of| 1056. thy coming unto me unto xthis xday: an nevertheless ‘the lords fayour thee|¢. thowa not. not goo
7 Wherefore now -return, and -go in| the evss¢ peace; that thou atdisplease not the_|a.
ords_of the Philistines. evil in the
8 And David said unto Achish, “But| ¢yes of th what -have_I_done? and what hast_| : thou_found in thy servant so long as I shave_been with thee unto xthis xday, that I hay not go «fight against the_| th enemies_of my -lord the king?”
®° And Achish answered and said to David, “I -know that thou art good in mny sight, as an mangel_of =God: not- withstanding the_princes_of the Philis- tines -have_said, ‘He shall not go_up with us to the battle’
10 Wherefore now -rise_up_early in the morning with thy =master’s servants that-are_come with thee; and as_soon_ as ye be_up_early in the morning, and have light, -depart.”
1180 Dayid and his «men rose_up_ early to depart in the ee to return into the_land_of the Philis- tines... And the Philistines went_up_to Jezreél.
AND it came_to_pass, when Da-
vid and his «men were.come_
to Ziklag on the third xday, that the
Amalekites had_invaded the south, and
Ziklag, and smitten -Ziklag, and bburned it with xfire ;
2 And had_taken the women cap- tives, that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried_ them_away, and went_on their way.
3 So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was » burned with xfire ; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were_taken_cap- tives.
4 Then Dayid and the people that were with him lifted_up their «voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
5 And David’s two wives were_taken_ captives, Ahinoam the Jezreélitess, and Fine the_wife_of Nabal the Carmel- ite.
6 And Dayid was greatly distressed ;} pi. for the people spake of stoning him,]é-i because the_soul_of all the people was_|*: bi grieved, i every_man for his sons and | self. for his daughters: but David s encou- raged_himself in ‘the Lorp his =God.
7 And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech’s son, “I_pray_th -bring_me_hither the ephod.” An Abiathar brought_thither «the ephod to} 7 David. 9.
8 And David inquired at ’the Lorn, saying, “Shall_I_ pursue after xthis| 4 xtroop ? shall_I_overtakethem?” And He answered him, “:Pursue: for thou shalt_surely overtake them, and with- out_fail recover all.”
° So David went, he and the six hun- dred imen that were with him, and came to the brook »xBesor, where x1those_that were_left_behind stayed. | 5. Besor,
10 But David pursued, he and four) jigs hundred ‘men: for two_hundred abode_}|10, ». 21.
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