I chose your ancestor Aaron from among all the tribes of Israel to be My priest: to serve at the altar, to offer incense, and to wear the priestly vest in My presence. And I repaid your family by presenting them with all the offerings made to Me by fire from all the people of Israel.

Saul (to Jonathan): What have you done? Jonathan: I certainly tasted a little honey with the tip of the staff I carried. I am ready to die.

From there he sent a message to the Kenite people. Message from Saul: Get out! Be gone! You showed kindness to the people of Israel when they came out of Egypt. Get away from among the Amalekites, or I will be forced to destroy you with them. So the Kenites left their homes among the Amalekites.

Eternal One (to Samuel): How long will you mourn over Saul? I have rejected him as king over My people Israel. Now take your horn, fill it with oil, and depart. I have selected a new king for Me from among the sons of Jesse of Bethlehem.

Samuel: How can I do that? If Saul hears I am anointing a new king, he will kill me! Eternal One: Take a heifer with you, and say, “I have come to sacrifice to the Eternal One.”

David (to Saul): Don’t let anyone be frightened because of that man. I am your servant, and I will go and fight with him.

Goliath: Am I a dog that you come to beat me with a stick? And he cursed David, invoking the names of his Philistine gods.

So deal kindly with your servant, for you have made a sacred covenant with me, your servant. But if I am guilty, then kill me yourself. Why should you have to bring me in front of your father?

Is that why all of you have betrayed me? None of you told me that my own son had made a covenant with the son of Jesse. None of you are sorry for me or let me know that my son had stirred up my servant to challenge me, to lie in ambush, just as he is doing at this moment.

Saul: Why have you plotted against me with the son of Jesse, giving him bread and a sword and speaking to the True God on his behalf, so that he should rise up to fight against me? At this moment he must be lying in ambush.

Look around, find out all his hiding places, and come back to me when you are certain of your information. Then I will go back with you, and if he is still in the land, I will find him among the tribe of Judah no matter how many thousands of people there are.

It’s true that you are more righteous than I am—you have repaid me with good when I handed you only evil.

Now, please, accept my gift and distribute it among the young men who are with you.