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Return and search and find the place where his haunt is and learn who has seen him there; for I am told that he is very subtle.

And Samuel said to Saul, Why have you disturbed me to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines are making war against me, and God has departed from me, and answers me no more although I have inquired by the prophets and also by dreams; therefore I have called you, that you may tell me what I shall do.

And David said to him, To whom do you belong? And where do you come from? And the young man said, I am an Egyptian, a servant of an Amalekite; and my master left me because I have been sick for three days,

And when he looked behind him, he saw me and called to me. And I answered, Here am I.

And he said to me, Who are you? And I answered him, I am an Amalekite.

Then David said to the young man who told him, Where do you come from? And he answered, I am the son of a proselyte, an Amalekite.

I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; you were very dear to me; your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

Then Abner was exceedingly displeased at the words of Ashbashul, and Abner said, Am I the leader of vicious men in Judah? This day I show kindness to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David, and yet you charge me today with this iniquity concerning a woman?

And I am this day troubled, and as king I see that the sons of Zoriah are too hard for me; the LORD shall reward the evil doer according to his wickedness.

Then King David went in and sat before the LORD, and he said, Who am I, O LORD God? And what is my house, that thou hast elevated me to this place?

Now there was of the house of Saul a servant whose name was Ziba. And they called him to David, and the king said to him, Are you Ziba? And he said, I am your servant.

And he bowed himself and said, What is your servant, that you should look upon me? For I am like a dead dog.

And the woman conceived, and sent and told David and said to him, I am with child.

And the king said to her, What ails you? And she answered, I am indeed a widow, my husband is dead.

But if he shall say, I have no delight in you; behold, here I am, let him do to me as seems good in his sight.

But if you return to the city, say to Absalom, I am your servant, O king, as I was your fathers servant hitherto. And now, I the king, want you to go and defeat the counsel of Ahithophel.

And David said, What is it to me and to you, you sons of Zoriah, that you should this day be deceivers to me? Shall any man be put to death this day in Israel? For do I not know that I am this day king over Israel?

I am this day eighty years old; and I cannot discern between luxury and simple living; neither can your servant taste what he eats or what he drinks. Nor can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women. Why then should your servant be a burden to my lord the king?

And when he was come near to her, she said to him, Are you Joab? And he answered, I am he. Then she said to him, Hear the words of your maidservant. And he answered, I do hear.

I am of those who have suffered the pangs of childbirth in Israel; you seek to destroy a child and his mother in Israel; why will you swallow up the heritage of the LORD?