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of Egypt. 9 And Dauid smote the lande, and left the woman, Whom shall I bring vp vnto thee?
neither man nor woman aliue, and tooke sheepe, And he answered, Bring me vp Samuel. 12 And
and oxen, and asses, and camels, and apparell, when the woman sawe Samuel, she cryed with
and returned and came to Achish. 10 And Achish a loude voyce, and the woman spake to Saul,
said, Where haue ye bene a rouing this day? saying, Why hast thou deceiued me? for thou
And Dauid answered, Against the South of Iudah, art Saul. 13 And the King said vnto her, Be not
and against the South of the Ierahmeelites, and afraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman
against the South of ye Kenites. 11 And Dauid said vnto Saul, I saw gods ascending vp out of the
saued neither man nor woman aliue, to bring earth. 14 Then he said vnto her, What facion is
them to Gath, saying, Lest they should tel on vs, heeof? Andsheanswered, Anoldemancommeth
and say, So did Dauid, and so will be his maner vp lapped in a mantel: and Saul knewe that it was
all the while that he dwelleth in the countrey Samuel, and he enclined his face to the grounde,
of the Philistims. 12 And Achish beleeued Dauid, and bowed him selfe. 15 And Samuel said to
saying, He hath made his people of Israel vtterly Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me
to abhorre him: therefore he shalbe my seruant vp? Then Saul answered, I am in great distresse:
for euer. for the Philistims make warre against me, and
God is departed from me, and answereth me no
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1 Nowe at that time the Philistims assembled therefore I haue called thee, that thou mayest
their bandes and armie to fight with Israel: ther- tell me, what I shall doe. 16 Then said Samuel,
fore Achish said to Dauid, Be sure, thou shalt Wherefore then doest thou aske of me, seeing
go out with me to the battel, thou, and thy the Lord is gone from thee, and is thine enemie?
men. 2 And Dauid said to Achish, Surely thou 17 EuentheLordhathdonetohim, asheespakeby
shalt knowe, what thy seruant can doe. And mine hande: for the Lord will rent the kingdome
Achish sayde to Dauid, Surely I will make thee out of thine hande, and giue it thy neighbour
keeper of mine head for euer. 3 (Samuel was Dauid. 18 Because thou obeyedst not the voyce
then dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and of the Lord, nor executedst his fierce wrath vpon
buried him in Ramah his owne citie: and Saul
had put away the sorcerers, and the soothsayers the Amalekites, therefore hath the Lord done this
vnto thee this day.
Moreouer the Lord wil
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out of the land) Then the Philistims assembled deliuer Israel with thee into the handes of the
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themselues, and came, and pitched in Shunem: Philistims: and to morowe shalt thou and thy
and Saul assembled all Israel, and they pitched sonnes be with me, and the Lord shall giue the
in Gilboa. 5 And when Saul saw the hoste of the hoste of Israel into the handes of the Philistims.
Philistims, he was afraid, and his heart was sore 20 Then Saul fell streight way all along on the
astonied. 6 Therefore Saul asked counsel of the
Lord, and the Lord answered him not, neither earth, and was sore afraide because of the wordes
by dreames, nor by Vrim, nor yet by Prophets. of Samuel, so that there was no strength in him:
7 Then saide Saul vnto his seruants, Seeke me a for he had eaten no bread all the day nor all
woman that hath a familiar spirite, that I may goe the night. 21 Then the woman came vnto Saul,
to her, and aske of her. And his seruants said to and sawe that he was sore troubled, and said
him, Beholde, there is a woman at En-dor that vnto him, See, thine handmaide hath obeyed thy
hath a familiar spirit. 8 Then Saul changed him voyce, and I haue put my soule in mine hande,
selfe, and put on other raiment, and he went, and and haue obeyed thy wordes which thou saydest
two men with him, and they came to the woman vnto me. 22 Now therefore, I pray thee, hearke
by night: and he saide, I pray thee, coniecture thou also vnto ye voyce of thine handmaid, and
vnto me by the familiar spirite, and bring me let me set a morsell of bread before thee, that
him vp whome I shall name vnto thee. And the thou mayest eat and get thee strength, and go on
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woman saide vnto him, Beholde, thou knowest thy iourney. 23 But he refused, and said, I will not
what Saul hath done, how he hath destroyed the eate: but his seruants and the woman together
sorcerers, and the southsayers out of the land: compelled him, and he obeyed their voyce: so
wherefore then seekest thou to take me in a snare he arose from the earth, and sate on the bed.
to cause me to die? 10 And Saul sware to her by 24 Nowe the woman had a fat calfe in the house,
the Lord, saying, As the Lord liueth, no harme and she hasted, and killed it, and tooke floure
shall come to thee for this thing. 11 Then said and kneaded it, and baked of it vnleauened bread.