¹² Thus says the Lord:

³⁴ But David said to Saul, “Your servant used to keep his father’s sheep, and when a ^(A)lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock, ³⁵ I went out after it and struck it, and delivered the lamb from its mouth; and when it arose against me, I caught it by its beard, and struck and killed it. ³⁶ Your servant has killed both lion and bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God.” ³⁷ Moreover David said, ^(B)“The Lord, who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.”

And Saul said to David, ^(C)“Go, and the Lord be with you!”

⁴ But what does the divine response say to him? ^(A)“I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” ^5 (B)Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

God Will Deliver Jerusalem

⁴ For thus the Lord has spoken to me:

⁹ So the king of Assyria heeded him; for the king of Assyria went up against ^(A)Damascus and ^(B)took it, carried its people captive to ^(C)Kir, and killed Rezin.

²⁵ And Micaiah said, “Indeed, you shall see on that day when you go into an ^(A)inner chamber to hide!”

³⁴ So Ben-Hadad said to him, ^(A)“The cities which my father took from your father I will restore; and you may set up marketplaces for yourself in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.”

Then Ahab said, “I will send you away with this treaty.” So he made a treaty with him and sent him away.

³⁰ But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; then a wall fell on twenty-seven thousand of the men who were left.

And Ben-Hadad fled and went into the city, into an inner chamber.