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But Saul and the army spared Agag and the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambs—everything that was good. These they were unwilling to destroy completely, but everything that was despised and weak they totally destroyed.
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For forty days the Philistine came forward every morning and evening and took his stand.
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“Now what have I done?” said David. “Can’t I even speak?”
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Jonathan took off the robe he was wearing and gave it to David, along with his tunic, and even his sword, his bow and his belt.
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In everything he did he had great success, because the Lord was with him.
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So Saul went to Naioth at Ramah. But the Spirit of God came even on him, and he walked along prophesying until he came to Naioth.
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So David said, “Look, tomorrow is the New Moon feast, and I am supposed to dine with the king; but let me go and hide in the field until the evening of the day after tomorrow.
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But if my father intends to harm you, may the Lord deal with Jonathan, be it ever so severely, if I do not let you know and send you away in peace. May the Lord be with you as he has been with my father.
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and do not ever cut off your kindness from my family—not even when the Lord has cut off every one of David’s enemies from the face of the earth.”
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The day after tomorrow, toward evening, go to the place where you hid when this trouble began, and wait by the stone Ezel.
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David replied, “Indeed women have been kept from us, as usual whenever I set out. The men’s bodies are holy even on missions that are not holy. How much more so today!”
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“Don’t be afraid,” he said. “My father Saul will not lay a hand on you. You will be king over Israel, and I will be second to you. Even my father Saul knows this.”
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David’s men turned around and went back. When they arrived, they reported every word.
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May God deal with David, be it ever so severely, if by morning I leave alive one male of all who belong to him!”
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Even though someone is pursuing you to take your life, the life of my lord will be bound securely in the bundle of the living by the Lord your God, but the lives of your enemies he will hurl away as from the pocket of a sling.
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When the Lord has fulfilled for my lord every good thing he promised concerning him and has appointed him ruler over Israel,
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The Lord rewards everyone for their righteousness and faithfulness. The Lord delivered you into my hands today, but I would not lay a hand on the Lord’s anointed.
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So on that day Achish gave him Ziklag, and it has belonged to the kings of Judah ever since.
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and had taken captive the women and everyone else in it, both young and old. They killed none of them, but carried them off as they went on their way.
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David fought them from dusk until the evening of the next day, and none of them got away, except four hundred young men who rode off on camels and fled.
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David recovered everything the Amalekites had taken, including his two wives.
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Nothing was missing: young or old, boy or girl, plunder or anything else they had taken. David brought everything back.
