1 Samuel 24 Cross References - ACV

¹ And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David is in the wilderness of En-gedi. ² Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats. ³ And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave, and Saul went in to cover his feet. Now David and his men were abiding in the innermost parts of the cave. ⁴ And the men of David said to him, Behold, the day of which LORD said to thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thy hand, and thou shall do to him as it shall seem good to thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe secretly. ⁵ And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart smote him, because he had cut off Saul's skirt. ⁶ And he said to his men, LORD forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, LORD's anointed, to put forth my hand against him, since he is LORD's anointed. ⁷ So David restrained his men with these words, and did not allow them to rise against Saul. And Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way. ⁸ David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth, and did obeisance. ⁹ And David said to Saul, Why do thou hearken to men's words, saying, Behold, David seeks thy hurt? ¹⁰ Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that LORD had delivered thee today into my hand in the cave. And some bade me kill thee, but I spared thee. And I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord, for he is LORD's anointed. ¹¹ Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand, for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not. Know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in my hand, and I have not sinned against thee, though thou hunt after my life to take it. ¹² LORD judge between me and thee, and LORD avenge me of thee, but my hand shall not be upon thee. ¹³ As says the proverb of the ancients, Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness, but my hand shall not be upon thee. ¹⁴ After whom is the king of Israel come out? After whom do thou pursue? After a dead dog, after a flea. ¹⁵ LORD therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thy hand. ¹⁶ And it came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words to Saul, that Saul said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept. ¹⁷ And he said to David, Thou are more righteous than I, for thou have rendered to me good, whereas I have rendered to thee evil. ¹⁸ And thou have declared this day how that thou have dealt well with me, inasmuch as when LORD had delivered me up into thy hand, thou killed me not. ¹⁹ For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away well? Therefore LORD reward thee good for that which thou have done to me this day. ²⁰ And now, behold, I know that thou shall surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in thy hand. ²¹ Swear now therefore to me by LORD, that thou will not cut off my seed after me, and that thou will not destroy my name out of my father's house. ²² And David swore to Saul. And Saul went home, but David and his men got up to the stronghold.

¹⁹ Then the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Does not David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the forest, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?

²⁸ So Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines. Therefore they called that place Sela-hammahlekoth. ²⁹ And David went up from there, and dwelt in the strongholds of En-gedi.

⁵ Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.

¹² If a ruler hearkens to falsehood, all his servants are wicked.

⁹ Slanderous men have been in thee to shed blood, and in thee they have eaten upon the mountains. In the midst of thee they have committed lewdness.

³ They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the rulers with their lies.

² Saul chose for him three thousand men of Israel, of which two thousand were with Saul in Michmash, and on the mount of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin, and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.

² Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.

³² A wicked man watches a righteous man, and seeks to kill him.

¹² Those also who seek after my life lay snares for me. And those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all the day long.

¹⁸ The high mountains are for the wild goats. The rocks are a refuge for the conies.

⁶ Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. And they shall hear my words, for they are sweet.

²⁴ Now when he was gone out, his servants came, and they saw, and, behold, the doors of the upper room were locked. And they said, Surely he is covering his feet in the upper chamber.

¹ Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in thee. Yea, in the shadow of thy wings I will take refuge until calamities be passed by. ² I will cry to God Most High, to God who performs for me. ³ He will send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him who would swallow me up. Selah. God will send forth his loving kindness and his truth. ⁴ My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword. ⁵ Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, thy glory above all the earth. ⁶ They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They have dug a pit before me. They are fallen into the midst of it themselves. Selah. ⁷ My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed. I will sing, yea, I will sing praises. ⁸ Awake up, my glory. Awake, psaltery and harp. I myself will awake right early. ⁹ I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, among the peoples. I will sing praises to thee among the nations. ¹⁰ For thy loving kindness is great to the heavens, and thy truth to the skies. ¹¹ Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, thy glory above all the earth.

¹ I cry with my voice to LORD. With my voice to LORD I make supplication. ² I pour out my complaint before him. I show my trouble before him. ³ When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, thou knew my path. In the way in which I walk they have hidden a snare for me. ⁴ Look on my right hand, and see, for there is no man who knows me. Refuge has failed me. No man cares for my soul. ⁵ I cried to thee, O LORD. I said, Thou are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living. ⁶ Attend to my cry, for I am brought very low. Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are stronger than I. ⁷ Bring my soul out of prison that I may give thanks to thy name. The righteous shall encompass me around, for thou will deal bountifully with me.

⁷ And it was told Saul that David came to Keilah. And Saul said, God has delivered him into my hand, for he is shut in by entering into a town that has gates and bars.

¹⁷ And he said to him, Fear not, for the hand of Saul my father shall not find thee. And thou shall be king over Israel, and I shall be next to thee. And that, Saul my father also knows.

¹⁰ Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that LORD had delivered thee today into my hand in the cave. And some bade me kill thee, but I spared thee. And I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord, for he is LORD's anointed.

¹⁸ And thou have declared this day how that thou have dealt well with me, inasmuch as when LORD had delivered me up into thy hand, thou killed me not.

²⁸ Forgive, I pray thee, the trespass of thy handmaid. For LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights the battles of LORD, and evil shall not be found in thee all thy days. ²⁹ And though men be risen up to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul, yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with LORD thy God. And the souls of thine enemies, them he shall sling out as from the hollow of a sling. ³⁰ And it shall come to pass, when LORD shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee prince over Israel,

⁸ Then said Abishai to David, God has delivered up thine enemy into thy hand this day. Now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not smite him the second time. ⁹ And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not, for who can put forth his hand against LORD's anointed, and be guiltless? ¹⁰ And David said, As LORD lives, LORD will smite him, or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down into battle and perish. ¹¹ LORD forbid that I should put forth my hand against LORD's anointed. But now take, I pray thee, the spear that is at his head, and the cruse of water, and let us go.

²³ And LORD will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness, inasmuch as LORD delivered thee into my hand today, and I would not put forth my hand against LORD's anointed.

⁸ And they brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold, the head of Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul, thine enemy, who sought thy life. And LORD has avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.

³¹ if the men of my tent have not said, Who can find one who has not been filled with his food?

⁹ Why have thou despised the word of LORD, to do that which is evil in his sight? Thou have smitten Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be thy wife, and have slain him with the sword of the sons of Ammon.

¹⁰ And David's heart smote him after he had numbered the people. And David said to LORD, I have sinned greatly in that which I have done, but now, O LORD, put away, I beseech thee, the iniquity of thy servant, for I have done very foolishly.

¹⁹ because thy heart was tender, and thou humbled thyself before LORD when thou heard what I spoke against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn thy clothes, and wept before me, I also have heard thee, says LORD.

²⁰ Because if our heart should condemn us, that God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. ²¹ Beloved, if our heart should not condemn us, we have confidence toward God,

¹⁴ And David said to him, Why were thou not afraid to put forth thy hand to destroy LORD's anointed?

³ And Naboth said to Ahab, LORD forbid it of me that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to thee.

²⁹ if I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him ³⁰ (yea, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);

⁴⁴ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

¹⁴ Bless those who persecute you. Bless ye and do not curse.

¹⁵ See that not any man repays evil for evil to any man, but always pursue the good, both for each other and for all.

³³ and blessed be thy discretion, and blessed be thou, who have kept me this day from blood guiltiness, and from avenging myself with my own hand.

⁴ if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me, (yea, I have delivered him without cause who was my adversary),

¹⁷ rendering to no man evil for evil, premeditating things right in the sight of all men. ¹⁸ If possible from you, keeping peace with all men, ¹⁹ not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath, for it is written, Vengeance is for me, I will repay, says the Lord. ²⁰ Therefore if thine enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him to drink. For by doing this thou will heap coals of fire upon his head. ²¹ Be thou not overcome by evil, but overcome evil by good.

³ And Abram fell on his face. And God talked with him, saying,

¹² Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which LORD thy God gives thee.

⁴¹ And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of a place toward the South, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times. And they kissed each other, and wept one with another until David surpassed him.

²³ And when Abigail saw David, she hastened, and alighted from her donkey, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground. ²⁴ And she fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me be the iniquity, and let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine ears, and hear thou the words of thy handmaid.

¹⁷ And Saul knew David's voice, and said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And David said, It is my voice, my lord, O king.

⁷ Render therefore to all, the things due: tax to the man of tax, tribute to the man of tribute, fear to the man of fear, esteem to the man of esteem.

¹⁷ Respect all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Respect the king.

¹⁶ Thou shall not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people, neither shall thou stand against the blood of thy neighbor. I am LORD.

¹⁹ Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it be LORD who has stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering, but if it be the sons of men, cursed be they before LORD. For they have driven me out this day that I should not cling to the inheritance of LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods.

⁵ He who slanders his neighbor secretly, him I will destroy. He who has a high look and a proud heart I will not endure.

²⁸ A perverse man scatters abroad strife, and a whisperer separates chief friends.

⁴ An evildoer gives heed to wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.

⁸ The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts.

²³ The north wind brings forth rain. So does a backbiting tongue, an angry countenance.

²⁰ For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, contention ceases. ²¹ As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to inflame strife. ²² The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts.

²⁸ A lying tongue hates those whom it has wounded, and a flattering mouth works ruin.

²¹ Also do not take heed to all words that are spoken, lest thou hear thy servant curse thee. ²² For many times also thine own heart knows that thou thyself likewise have cursed others.

⁶ And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Thus, the tongue is made to lead among our body-parts, defiling the whole body, and setting the cycle of nature on fire, and being set on fire by hell.

⁴ And the men of David said to him, Behold, the day of which LORD said to thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thy hand, and thou shall do to him as it shall seem good to thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe secretly.

⁸ Then said Abishai to David, God has delivered up thine enemy into thy hand this day. Now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not smite him the second time. ⁹ And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not, for who can put forth his hand against LORD's anointed, and be guiltless?

¹⁵ saying, Touch not my anointed men, and do my prophets no harm.

²⁷ And David arose and went, he and his men, and killed of the Philistines two hundred men. And David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might be the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.

¹⁴ And David abode in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill-country in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God did not deliver him into his hand.

²³ See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking-places where he hides himself, and come ye again to me of a certainty. And I will go with you, and it shall come to pass, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.

¹⁸ And he said, Why does my lord pursue after his servant? For what have I done? Or what evil is in my hand?

²⁰ Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of LORD. For the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when a man hunts a partridge in the mountains.

¹³ And his servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, would thou not have done it? How much rather then, when he says to thee, Wash, and be clean?

¹⁶ And if my head exalts itself, thou hunt me as a lion. And again thou show thyself marvelous upon me.

³ O LORD my God, if I have done this, if there be iniquity in my hands, ⁴ if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me, (yea, I have delivered him without cause who was my adversary),

⁷ For without cause they have hid their net for me in a pit. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

¹¹ An evil speaker shall not be established in the earth. Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

¹ A soft answer turns away wrath, but a grievous word stirs up anger.

¹⁸ They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets. Our end is near, our days are fulfilled, for our end has come.

¹⁸ And say, Thus says the lord LORD: Woe to the women who sew pillows upon all elbows, and make headdresses for the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and save souls alive for yourselves?

² The devout man has perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood. They hunt every man his brother with a net.

²⁵ But, that the word that is written in their law may be fulfilled, They hated me without cause.

⁵ And Sarai said to Abram, My wrong be upon thee. I gave my handmaid into they bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. LORD judge between me and thee.

⁵³ The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.

²⁷ I therefore have not sinned against thee, but thou do me wrong to war against me. LORD, the Judge, be judge this day between the sons of Israel and the sons of Ammon.

⁸ But as for me, I would seek to God. And to God I would commit my cause,

⁸ LORD shall judge the peoples. Judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me. ⁹ O let the wickedness of the wicked man come to an end, but establish thou the righteous man. For the righteous God tries the minds and hearts.

¹ Strive thou, O LORD, with those who strive with me. Fight thou against those who fight against me.

¹ Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against a profane nation. O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

¹ O LORD, thou God to whom vengeance belongs, thou God to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth.

¹⁹ not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath, for it is written, Vengeance is for me, I will repay, says the Lord.

²³ Who, being reviled, did not revile in return. Suffering, he did not threaten, but yielded to him who judges righteously.

¹⁰ And they cried out in a great voice, saying, Master, Holy and True, how long do thou not judge and avenge our blood from those who dwell on the earth?

¹⁶ From their fruits ye will know them. Do they gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? ¹⁷ Likewise every good tree produces good fruits, but the corrupt tree produces bad fruits. ¹⁸ A good tree cannot produce bad fruits, nor a corrupt tree produce good fruits.

²⁰ So then from their fruits ye will know them.

³³ Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt, for the tree is known by its fruit. ³⁴ Ye offspring of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

¹⁹ For from the heart comes forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, revilings.

¹ And the men of Ephraim said to him, Why have thou done thus to us, that thou did not call us when thou went to fight with Midian? And they chided with him sharply. ² And he said to them, What have I now done in comparison with you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer? ³ God has delivered into your hand the rulers of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb, and what was I able to do in comparison with you? Then their anger was abated toward him when he had said that.

⁴³ And the Philistine said to David, Am I a dog, that thou come to me with sticks? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

⁸ Then Abner was very angry for the words of Ish-bosheth, and said, Am I a dog's head that belongs to Judah? This day I show kindness to the house of Saul thy father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, and yet thou charge me this day with a fault concerning this woman.

²⁰ Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!

⁸ And he did obeisance, and said, What is thy servant that thou should look upon such a dead dog as I am?

⁹ Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.

⁷ And Jezebel his wife said to him, Do thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? Arise, and eat bread, and let thy heart be merry. I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.

¹² LORD judge between me and thee, and LORD avenge me of thee, but my hand shall not be upon thee.

⁴ David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul definitely came.

²² Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. And when he died, he said, LORD look upon it, and require it.

¹⁵⁴ Plead thou my cause, and redeem me. Enliven me according to thy word.

² Hear, ye peoples, all of you. Hearken, O earth, and all who are in it, and let the Lord LORD be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

⁹ I will bear the indignation of LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

⁴ And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him, and they wept.

²⁵ How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?

¹¹ A word fitly spoken is apples of gold in a network of silver.

¹⁵ For I will give you a mouth and wisdom that all those who oppose you will not be able to contradict or to resist.

¹⁰ And they were not able to withstand the wisdom and the spirit by which he spoke.

²⁶ And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She is more righteous than I, inasmuch as I did not give her to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.

²⁷ And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have sinned this time. LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

²¹ Then Saul said, I have sinned. Return, my son David, for I will no more do thee harm because my life was precious in thine eyes this day. Behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.

⁶ And he will make thy righteousness to go forth as the light, and thy justice as the noon-day.

⁴ saying, I sinned, having betrayed innocent blood. But they said, What is it to us? See thou to it.

¹² Then David said, Will the men of Keilah deliver up me and my men into the hand of Saul? And LORD said, They will deliver thee up.

⁸ Then said Abishai to David, God has delivered up thine enemy into thy hand this day. Now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not smite him the second time.

⁸ and thou have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. Thou have set my feet in a large place.

² And he said to his mother, The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me. I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be my son from LORD.

²¹ And Saul said, Blessed be ye of LORD, for ye have had compassion on me.

²⁵ Then Saul said to David, Blessed be thou, my son David. Thou shall both do mightily, and shall surely prevail. So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place.

²⁰ LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands he has recompensed me.

²¹ If thine enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink. ²² For thou will heap coals of fire upon his head, and LORD will reward thee.

¹⁴ but now thy kingdom shall not continue. LORD has sought for him a man after his own heart, and LORD has appointed him to be prince over his people, because thou have not kept that which LORD commanded thee.

³⁰ Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, Thou son of a perverse rebellious woman, do I not know that thou have chosen the son of Jesse to thine own shame, and to the shame of thy mother's nakedness? ³¹ For as long as the son of Jesse lives upon the ground, thou shall not be established, nor thy kingdom. Therefore now send and fetch him to me, for he shall surely die.

¹⁷ And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, In times past ye sought for David to be king over you. ¹⁸ Now then do it, for LORD has spoken of David, saying, By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.

²⁵ Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty.

³ And Herod the king having heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. ⁴ And having gathered together all the chief priests and scholars of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ is born. ⁵ And they said to him, In Bethlehem of Judea. For thus it is written through the prophet, ⁶ And thou Bethlehem, land of Judah, are in no way least among the rulers of Judah, for out of thee will come forth a man who rules, who will tend my people Israel.

¹³ Now after they departed, behold, an agent of the Lord appears to Joseph in a dream, saying, After rising, take the child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and thou be there until I tell thee, for Herod is going to seek the child to destroy it.

¹⁶ Then Herod, when he saw that he was scorned by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and having sent forth, he killed all the boys in Bethlehem, and in all the borders of it, from two years old and under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men.

²³ Now therefore swear to me here by God that thou will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. But according to the kindness that I have done to thee, thou shall do to me, and to the land in which thou have sojourned.

⁴⁸ And Laban said, This heap is witness between me and thee this day. Therefore the name of it was called Galeed,

¹⁴ And thou shall not only show me the loving kindness of LORD, while I yet live, that I not die, ¹⁵ but also thou shall not cut off thy kindness from my house forever. No, not when LORD has cut off the enemies of David every one from the face of the earth. ¹⁶ So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, And LORD will require it at the hand of David's enemies. ¹⁷ And Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had to him. For he loved him as he loved his own soul.

⁶ let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang them up to LORD in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of LORD. And the king said, I will give them. ⁷ But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of LORD's oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul. ⁸ But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth, and the five sons of Merab the daughter of Saul whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

¹⁶ For men certainly swear by the greater, and of every dispute with them the oath is final for confirmation.

²⁹ And David went up from there, and dwelt in the strongholds of En-gedi.

²⁴ He who hates masquerades with his lips, but he lays up deceit within him. ²⁵ When he speaks graciously, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart.

¹⁶ Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves. Become ye therefore wise as serpents, and innocent as doves. ¹⁷ But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues,

²⁴ But Jesus did not trust himself to them, because he knew all men,