13 And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman said unto
Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth.
14 And he said unto her, What form ishe of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he is
covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it wasSamuel, and he stooped with hisface to
the ground, and bowed himself.
15 And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I
am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and
answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that
thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.
16 Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from
thee, and is become thine enemy?
17 And the LORD hath done to him, as he spake by me: for the LORD hath rent the kingdom out of
thine hand, and given it to thy neighbour, evento David:
18 Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the LORD, nor executedst his fierce wrath upon
Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done this thing unto thee this day.
19 Moreover the LORD will also deliver Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines: and to
morrow shaltthou and thy sons bewith me: the LORD also shall deliver the host of Israel into
the hand of the Philistines.
20 Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words
of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the
night.
21 And the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and said unto him,
Behold, thine handmaid hath obeyed thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have
hearkened unto thy words which thou spakest unto me.
22 Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice of thine handmaid, and let me
set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on
thy way.
23 But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman,
compelled him; and he hearkened unto their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the
bed.
24 And the woman had a fat calf in the house; and she hasted, and killed it, and took flour, and
kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread thereof:
25 And she brought itbefore Saul, and before his servants; and they did eat. Then they rose up,
and went away that night.
1 Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by
a fountain which isin Jezreel.
2 And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: but David and his
men passed on in the rereward with Achish.
3 Then said the princes of the Philistines, What dothese Hebrews here? And Achish said unto
the princes of the Philistines, Isnot this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, which
hath been with me these days, or these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell unto
meunto this day?
4 And the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines
said unto him, Make this fellow return, that he may go again to his place which thou hast
appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he be an adversary
to us: for wherewith should he reconcile himself unto his master? should itnot bewith the
heads of these men?
5 Isnot this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul slew his
thousands, and David his ten thousands?

6 Then Achish called David, and said unto him, Surely, asthe LORD liveth, thou hast been
upright, and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the host isgood in my sight: for I have
not found evil in thee since the day of thy coming unto me unto this day: nevertheless the lords
favour thee not.
7 Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.
8 And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so
long as I have been with thee unto this day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my
lord the king?
9 And Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou artgood in my sight, as an angel of
God: notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the
battle.
10 Wherefore now rise up early in the morning with thy master's servants that are come with
thee: and as soon as ye be up early in the morning, and have light, depart.
11 So David and his men rose up early to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the
Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.
1 And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the
Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;
2 And had taken the women captives, that weretherein: they slew not any, either great or
small, but carried themaway, and went on their way.
3 So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it wasburned with fire; and their wives,
and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.
4 Then David and the people that werewith him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no
more power to weep.
5 And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife
of Nabal the Carmelite.
6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all
the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged
himself in the LORD his God.
7 And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod.
And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David.
8 And David enquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake
them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail
recover all.
9 So David went, he and the six hundred men that werewith him, and came to the brook Besor,
where those that were left behind stayed.
10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred abode behind, which were so
faint that they could not go over the brook Besor.
11 And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he
did eat; and they made him drink water;
12 And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had
eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk anywater, three days
and three nights.
13 And David said unto him, To whom belongestthou? and whence artthou? And he said, I ama
young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I
fell sick.
14 We made an invasion uponthe south of the Cherethites, and upon the coastwhich belongeth
to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.
15 And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this company? And he said, Swear unto
me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will

bring thee down to this company.
16 And when he had brought him down, behold, they werespread abroad upon all the earth,
eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the
land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
17 And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there
escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.
18 And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two
wives.
19 And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters,
neither spoil, nor any thingthat they had taken to them: David recovered all.
20 And David took all the flocks and the herds, whichthey drave before those othercattle, and
said, This isDavid's spoil.
21 And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that they could not follow
David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David,
and to meet the people that werewith him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted
them.
22 Then answered all the wicked men and menof Belial, of those that went with David, and
said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them oughtof the spoil that we have
recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead themaway, and
depart.
23 Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the LORD hath given us,
who hath preserved us, and delivered the company that came against us into our hand.
24 For who will hearken unto you in this matter? but as his part isthat goeth down to the
battle, so shallhis part bethat tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike.
25 And it was sofrom that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel
unto this day.
26 And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the elders of Judah, evento his
friends, saying, Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of the LORD;
27 To themwhich werein Bethel, and to themwhich werein south Ramoth, and to themwhich
werein Jattir,
28 And to themwhich werein Aroer, and to themwhich werein Siphmoth, and to themwhich
werein Eshtemoa,
29 And to themwhich werein Rachal, and to themwhich werein the cities of the
Jerahmeelites, and to themwhich werein the cities of the Kenites,
30 And to themwhich werein Hormah, and to themwhich werein Chorashan, and to themwhich
werein Athach,
31 And to themwhich werein Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men
were wont to haunt.
1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the
Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.
2 And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew
Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, Saul's sons.
3 And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of
the archers.
4 Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest
these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not;
for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.
5 And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died
with him.