³⁰ Then the princes of the Philistines ^(A)went out to war. And so it was, whenever they went out, that David ^(B)behaved more wisely than all the servants of Saul, so that his name became highly esteemed.

David, Bathsheba, and Uriah

11 It happened in the spring of the year, at the ^(A)time when kings go out to battle, that ^(B)David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the people of Ammon and besieged ^(C)Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.

⁵ So David went out wherever Saul sent him, and ^[a]behaved wisely. And Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people and also in the sight of Saul’s servants.

⁷ Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious; but to those who ^[a]are disobedient,

The Chosen Stone and His Chosen People^(A)

⁴ Coming to Him as to a living stone, ^(B)rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious,

Walk in Wisdom

^15 (A)See then that you walk ^[a]circumspectly, not as fools but as wise,

¹⁵ for I will give you a mouth and wisdom ^(A)which all your adversaries will not be able to contradict or ^[a]resist.

^20 (A)And in all matters of wisdom and understanding about which the king examined them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers who were in all his realm.