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But Saul hurled his spear at him to strike him. So Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.

But the boy knew nothing. Only Jonathan and David knew the matter.

And the priest answered David, "I have no common bread on hand, but there is holy bread—if the young men have kept themselves from women."

So the priest gave him the holy bread, for there was no bread there but the bread of the Presence, which is removed from before the Lord , to be replaced by hot bread on the day it is taken away.

And the priest said, "The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck down in the Valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you will take that, take it, for there is none but that here." And David said, "There is none like that; give it to me."

And the king said to the guard who stood about him, "Turn and kill the priests of the Lord , because their hand also is with David, and they knew that he fled and did not disclose it to me." But the servants of the king would not put out their hand to strike the priests of the Lord .

But one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled after David.

But David's men said to him, "Behold, we are afraid here in Judah; how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?"

And David remained in the strongholds in the wilderness, in the hill country of the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God did not give him into his hand.

Behold, this day your eyes have seen how the Lord gave you today into my hand in the cave. And some told me to kill you, but I spared you. I said, ‘I will not put out my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord 's anointed.'

May the Lord judge between me and you, may the Lord avenge me against you, but my hand shall not be against you.

As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Out of the wicked comes wickedness.' But my hand shall not be against you.

And David swore this to Saul. Then Saul went home, but David and his men went up to the stronghold.

Now the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail. The woman was discerning and beautiful, but the man was harsh and badly behaved; he was a Calebite.

But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, "Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to greet our master, and he railed at them.

And she said to her young men, "Go on before me; behold, I come after you." But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

Let not my lord regard this worthless fellow, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him. But I your servant did not see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.

And Saul encamped on the hill of Hachilah, which is beside the road on the east of Jeshimon. But David remained in the wilderness. When he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness,

But David said to Abishai, "Do not destroy him, for who can put out his hand against the Lord 's anointed and be guiltless?"

The Lord forbid that I should put out my hand against the Lord 's anointed. But take now the spear that is at his head and the jar of water, and let us go."