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"Now therefore, hold still; and see the great deed which Adonai will perform before your very eyes.

Now is wheat harvest time, isn't it? I am going to call on Adonai to send thunder and rain. Then you will understand and see how wicked from Adonai 's viewpoint is the thing you have done in asking for a king."

Sha'ul's men on watch in Giv‘at-Binyamin could see the enemy camp scattering and running in all directions.

Sha'ul ordered the forces with him to call the roll and see who was missing. So they called the roll, and found Y'honatan and his armor-bearer not present.

Never again did Sh'mu'el see Sha'ul, until the day he died. But Sh'mu'el grieved over Sha'ul, and Adonai regretted that he had made Sha'ul king over Isra'el.

But Adonai said to Sh'mu'el, "Don't pay attention to how he looks or how tall he is, because I have rejected him. Adonai doesn't see the way humans see — humans look at the outward appearance, but Adonai looks at the heart."

Sha'ul sent the messengers to see David with the order, "Bring him up to me, bed and all, so that I can kill him."

He said, ‘Please let me go, because our family has a sacrifice in the city, and my brother demanded that I come. So now, if you look on me favorably, please let me get away and see my brothers.' That's why he hasn't come to the king's table."

David went to see Achimelekh the cohen in Nov. Achimelekh came trembling to meet David and asked, "Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?"

Akhish said to his servants, "Here, you see that the man is meshugga; why bring him to me? Am I short of meshugga‘im? Is that why you've brought this one to go crazy on me? Must I have this one in my house?"

David left there and took refuge in the Cave of ‘Adulam. When his brothers and the rest of his father's family heard of it, they went down to see him there.

Moreover, my father, look! Here in my hand you see the corner of your cloak. By the fact that I only cut off a piece of your cloak and didn't kill you, you can see and understand that I have no plan to do harm or rebel, and that I haven't sinned against you — even though you are seeking every chance you get to take my life.

Please! My lord shouldn't pay any attention to this worthless fellow Naval, because he's just like his name — ‘Naval' means ‘boor,' and his boorishness stays with him. But I, your servant, did not see my lord's men, whom you sent.

It's not good, what you've done! As Adonai lives, you deserve to die; because you didn't keep watch over your lord, Adonai 's anointed. And now, see where the king's spear is, and the jug of water that was next to his head!"

David answered Akhish, "I see that you already know what your servant will do." Akhish said to David, "For that answer, I am making you my personal bodyguard for life."

The king replied, "Don't be afraid. Just tell me what you see." The woman said to Sha'ul, "I see a god-like being coming up out of the earth."

"‘So why have you shown such contempt for the word of Adonai and done what I see as evil? You murdered Uriyah the Hitti with the sword and taken his wife as your own wife; you put him to death with the sword of the people of ‘Amon.

Yonadav said to him, "Lie down on your bed, and pretend you're sick. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me food to eat, and have her prepare the food where I can watch. I'll eat what she serves me."

So Amnon lay down and pretended he was sick. When the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, "Please let my sister Tamar come and make me a couple of cakes here where I can watch, and I'll eat what she serves me."

But as King David became reconciled to the death of his son Amnon, he was increasingly filled with longing to see Avshalom.