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The king said to her, "Do not be afraid. What do you see?" The woman said to Saul, "I see a god coming up out of the earth."

Then Samuel said to Saul, "Why have you troubled my rest by bringing me up?" Saul answered, "I am very troubled. The Philistines are making war against me. And God has left me and answers me no more, by those who speak for Him or by dreams. So I have called you to tell me what I should do."

Achish answered David, "I know that you are pleasing in my eyes, like an angel of God. But the captains of the Philistines have said, ‘He must not go with us to the battle.'

And David was very troubled because the people talked about killing him with stones. For all the people were very angry in their sorrow for their sons and daughters. But David got his strength from the Lord his God.

Then David said to him, "Will you take me down to his army?" And he said, "Promise me by God that you will not kill me or give me to my owner, and I will bring you down to this army."

They put his sword and battle-clothes in the house of their god Ashtaroth. And they tied his body to the wall of Beth-shan.

Joab said, "As God lives, if you had not spoken, for sure the people would have stopped going after their brothers in the morning."

May God do so to Abner, and more also, if I do not do for David what the Lord has promised him.

Then all the people came to try to talk David into eating bread while it was still day. But David promised, saying, "May God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread or anything else before the sun goes down."

David became greater and greater, for the Lord God of All was with him.

He got up and went with all the people who were with him to Baale-judah to bring from there the special box of God. It is called by the name of the Lord of All Who sits on His throne above the cherubim.

They carried the special box of God on a new wagon, and brought it out of the family of Abinadab which was on the hill. Abinadab's sons Uzzah and Ahio were leading the new wagon.

They brought it with the special box of God from the family of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Ahio was walking in front of the special box.

But the cattle pulling the wagon almost made the special box of God fall when they came to the grain-floor of Nacon. So Uzzah put out his hand and took hold of the special box so it would not fall.

The anger of the Lord burned against Uzzah. God killed him there for his mistake. And he died there by the special box of God.

Now it was told to King David, "The Lord has brought good to the house of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of the special box of God." So David went and brought the special box of God from Obed-edom's family into the city of David with joy.

the king said to Nathan, the man who spoke for God, "See now, I live in a house of cedar wood. But the special box of God stays within tent curtains."

Then King David went in and sat before the Lord, and said, "Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, that You have brought me this far?

Yet this was a small thing in Your eyes, O Lord God. You have spoken of Your servant's family in the future. And this is the way of man, O Lord God.

What more can David say to You? For You know Your servant, O Lord God.