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of Keilah deliuer me vp into his hand? and will get from the presence of Saul: for Saul and his
Saul come downe, as thy seruant hath heard? O men compassed Dauid and his men round about,
LordGodofIsrael, Ibeseechthee, tellthyseruant. to take them. 27 But there came a messenger
And the Lord sayde, He will come downe. 12 Then to Saul, saying, Haste thee, and come: for the
said Dauid, Will the lords of Keilah deliuer me Philistims haue inuaded the land. 28 Wherefore
vp, and the men that are with me, into the hand Saul returned from pursuing Dauid, and went
of Saul? And the Lord sayde, They will deliuer against the Philistims. Therefore they called that
thee vp. 13 Then Dauid and his men, which were place, Sela-hammahlekoth.
about sixe hundreth, arose, and departed out of
Keilah, and went whither they coulde. And it 24
was tolde Saul, that Dauid was fled from Keilah, 1 And Dauid went thence, and dwelt in holdes
and he left off his iourney. 14 And Dauid abode at En-gedi. 2 When Saul was turned from ye
in the wildernesse in holdes, and remayned in Philistims, they told him, saying, Behold, Dauid
a mountaine in the wildernes of Ziph. And Saul is in the wildernes of En-gedi. Then Saul tooke
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sought him euery day, but God deliuered him not three thousande chosen men out of all Israel, and
into his hand. 15 And Dauid sawe that Saul was went to seeke Dauid and his men vpon the rocks
come out for to seeke his life: and Dauid was among the wilde goates. 4 And hee came to the
in the wildernes of Ziph in the wood. 16 And sheepecoates by the way where there was a caue,
Ionathan Sauls sonne arose and went to Dauid and Saul went in to do his easement: and Dauid
into the wood, and comforted him in God, 17 And and his men sate in the inward parts of the caue.
said vnto him, Feare not: for the hand of Saul
my father shall not finde thee, and thou shalt be 5 And the men of Dauid said vnto him, See, the
King ouer Israel, and I shalbe next vnto thee: and day is come, whereof the Lord sayde vnto thee,
also Saul my father knoweth it. 18 So they twaine Beholde, I will deliuer thine enemie into thine
hande, and thou shalt doe to him as it shall seeme
made a couenant before ye Lord: and Dauid did good to thee. Then Dauid arose and cut off the
remaine in the wood: but Ionathan went to his lap of Sauls garment priuily. 6 And afterward
house. 19 Then came vp the Ziphims to Saul to Dauid was touched in his heart, because he had
Gibeah, saying, Doeth not Dauid hide himselfe by cut off the lappe which was on Sauls garment.
vs in holdes, in the wood in the hill of Hachilah, 7 And he said vnto his men, The Lord keepe mee
which is on the right side of Ieshimon? 20 Nowe from doing that thing vnto my master the Lords
therefore, O King, come downe according to all Anoynted, to lay mine hand vpon him: for he is
that thine heart can desire, and our part shall be the Anoynted of the Lord. 8 So Dauid ouercame
to deliuer him into the Kinges handes. 21 Then his seruants with these words, and suffered them
Saul said, Be ye blessed of the Lord: for ye haue not to arise against Saul: so Saul rose vp out
had compassion on mee. 22 Goe, I pray you, and of the caue and went away. 9 Dauid also arose
prepare ye yet better: know and see his place afterward, and went out of the caue, and cryed
where he haunteth, and who hath seene him after Saul, saying, O my lorde the King. And when
there: for it is sayd to me, He is subtile, and Saul looked behinde him, Dauid inclined his face
craftie. 23 See therefore and know all the secret to the earth, and bowed himselfe. 10 And Dauid
places where he hideth himselfe, and come ye saide to Saul, Wherefore giuest thou an eare to
againe to me with the certaintie, and I will goe mens words, that say, Behold, Dauid seeketh euill
with you: and if he be in the lande, I will searche against thee? 11 Behold, this day thine eyes haue
him out throughout all the thousands of Iudah. seene, that the Lord had deliuered thee this day
24 Then they arose and went to Ziph before Saul, into mine hand in the caue, and some bade me
but Dauid and his men were in the wildernesse kill thee, but I had compassion on thee, and said,
of Maon, in the playne on the right hande of I will not lay mine hande on my master: for he
Ieshimon. 25 Saul also and his men went to seeke is the Lordes Anoynted. 12 Moreouer my father,
him, and they told Dauid: wherefore he came behold: behold, I say, the lappe of thy garment
downe vnto a rocke, and abode in the wildernesse in mine hand: for when I cut off the lappe of
of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he folowed
after Dauid in the wildernes of Maon. 26 And thy garment, I killed thee not. Vnderstad and
Saul and his men went on the one side of the see, that there is neither euil nor wickednesse
mountaine, and Dauid and his men on the other in mee, neither haue I sinned against thee, yet
side of the mountaine: and Dauid made haste to thou huntest after my soule to take it. 13 The Lord