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hoste? Then Abishai said, I will goe downe with fall to the earth before the face of the Lord: for
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thee. So Dauid and Abishai came downe to the the King of Israel is come out to seeke a flea, as
people by night: and beholde, Saul lay sleeping one would hunt a partridge in the mountaines.
within the fort, and his speare did sticke in the 21 Then sayde Saul, I haue sinned: come againe,
ground at his head: and Abner and the people my sonne Dauid: for I will doe thee no more
lay round about him. 8 Then saide Abishai to harme, because my soule was precious in thine
Dauid, God hath closed thine enemie into thine eyes this day: behold, I haue done foolishly, and
hande this day: now therefore, I pray thee, let haue erred exceedingly. 22 Then Dauid answered,
me smite him once with a speare to the earth, and saide, Beholde the Kings speare, let one of
and I will not smite him againe. 9 And Dauid the yong men come ouer and set it. 23 And let
sayde to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can the Lord rewarde euery man according to his
lay his hand on the Lordes anoynted, and be righteousnesse and faithfulnesse: for the Lord
giltlesse? 10 Moreouer Dauid said, As the Lord had deliuered thee into mine handes this day,
liueth, eyther the Lord shall smite him, or his but I woulde not lay mine hand vpon the Lords
day shall come to dye, or he shall descend into anointed. 24 And beholde, like as thy life was
battel, and perish. 11 The Lord keepe mee from much set by this day in mine eyes: so let my life
laying mine hand vpon the Lordes anointed: but, be set by in the eyes of the Lord, that he may
I pray thee, take now the speare that is at his deliuer me out of all tribulation. 25 Then Saul
head, and the pot of water, and let vs goe hence. said to Dauid, Blessed art thou, my sonne Dauid:
12 So Dauid tooke the speare and the pot of water for thou shalt doe great things, and also preuaile.
from Sauls head, and they gate them away, and So Dauid went his way, and Saul returned to his
no man saw it, nor marked it, neither did any place.
awake, but they were all asleepe: for the Lord had
sentadeadsleepevponthem. 13 ThenDauidwent 27
vnto the other side, and stoode on the toppe of 1 And Dauid said in his heart, I shall now perish
an hill a farre off, a great space being betweene one day by the hand of Saul: is it not better
them. 14 And Dauid cryed to the people, and to for me that I saue my selfe in the lande of the
Abner the sonne of Ner, saying, Hearest thou not, Philistims, and that Saul may haue no hope of
Abner? Then Abner answered, and said, Who me to seeke me any more in all the coastes of
art thou that cryest to the King? 15 And Dauid Israel, and so escape out of his hand? 2 Dauid
said to Abner, Art not thou a man? and who therefore arose, and he, and the sixe hundreth
is like thee in Israel? wherefore then hast thou men that were with him, went vnto Achish the
not kept thy lorde the King? for there came sonne of Maoch King of Gath. And Dauid dwelt
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one of the folke in to destroy the King thy lord. with Achish at Gath, he, and his men, euery man
16 This is not well done of thee: as the Lord liueth, with his housholde, Dauid with his two wiues,
ye are worthy to dye, because ye haue not kept Ahinoam the Izreelite, and Abigail Nabals wife
your master the Lordes Anointed: and now see the Carmelite. And it was tolde Saul that Dauid
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where the Kings speare is, and the pot of water was fled to Gath: so he sought no more for him.
that was at his head. 17 And Saul knewe Dauids 5 And Dauid saide vnto Achish, If I haue nowe
voyce, and sayde, Is this thy voyce, my sonne founde peace in thine eyes, let them giue me a
Dauid? And Dauid sayde, It is my voyce, my lorde place in some other citie of the countrey, that
O King. 18 And he sayde, Wherefore doeth my I may dwell there: for why should thy seruant
lorde thus persecute his seruant? for what haue dwel in ye head citie of the kingdome with thee?
I done? or what euill is in mine hand? 19 Now 6 Then Achish gaue him Ziklag that same day:
therefore, I beseech thee, let my lord the King therefore Ziklag pertaineth vnto the kings of
heare the wordes of his seruant. If the Lord haue Iudah vnto this day. 7 And the time that Dauid
stirred thee vp against me, let him smell the
sauour of a sacrifice: but if the children of men dwelt in the countrey of the Philistims, was foure
haue done it, cursed be they before the Lord: for moneths and certaine dayes. 8 Then Dauid and
they haue cast me out this day from abiding in his men went vp, and inuaded the Geshurites,
the inheritance of the Lord, saying, Goe, serue and the Girzites, and the Amalekites: for they
other gods. 20 Nowe therefore let not my blood inhabited the lande from the beginning, from the
way, as thou goest to Shur, euen vnto the lande