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"And you shall invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will let you know what you shall do; and you shall anoint for Me the one whom I designate to you."

"May our lord now command your servants who are before you. Have them search for a man who is a skillful musician on the harp; and it shall come about whenever the evil spirit from God is upon you, that he shall play the harp with his hand, and you will become well."

"If he is able to fight me and kill me, then we will become your servants; but if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall become our servants and serve us."

Then Saul said to David, "Here is my older daughter Merab; I will give her to you as a wife, only be a valiant man for me and fight the LORD'S battles." For Saul thought, "My hand shall not be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him."

Saul then said, "This is what you shall say to David: 'The king does not desire any dowry except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to take vengeance on the king's enemies.'" But Saul plotted to have David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan, and Saul vowed, "As the LORD lives, David shall not be put to death."

He said to him, "Far from it, you shall not die! Behold, my father does nothing either great or small without informing me. So why would my father hide this thing from me? It is not so!"

Then Jonathan said to David, "The LORD, the God of Israel, is my witness! When I have sounded out my father about this time tomorrow or the third day, behold, if he has a good feeling toward you, shall I not then send word to you and inform you?

"And you shall never cut off your loyalty to my house, not even when the LORD cuts off every one of the enemies of David from the face of the earth."

"When you have stayed for three days, you shall go down quickly and come to the place where you hid yourself on that eventful day, and you shall remain beside the stone Ezel.

"Do I lack insane people, that you have brought this one to behave like an insane person in my presence? Shall this one come into my house?"

But the king said, "You shall certainly die, Ahimelech, you and all your father's household!"

So David inquired of the LORD, saying, "Shall I go and attack these Philistines?" And the LORD said to David, "Go and attack the Philistines and save Keilah."

"Now then, O king, come down, since you fully desire to do so; and our part shall be to hand him over to the king."

Then David's men said to him, "Behold, this is the day of which the LORD said to you, 'Behold; I am about to hand your enemy over to you, and you shall do to him as it seems good to you.'" Then David got up and cut off the edge of Saul's robe secretly.

"May the LORD judge between you and me, and may the LORD take vengeance on you for me; 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 this is what you shall say: 'Have a long life, peace to you, and peace to your house, and peace to all that you have!

"Shall I then take my bread and my water and my meat that I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give it to men whose origin I do not know?"

"Should anyone rise up to pursue you and to seek your life, then the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living with the LORD your God; but the lives of your enemies He will sling out as from the hollow of a sling.