All the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “We are your own flesh and blood. In the past, when Saul was king over us, you were the one who led Israel on their military campaigns. And the LORD said to you, ‘You will shepherd my people Israel, and you will become their ruler.”When all the elders of Israel had come to King David at Hebron, the king made a covenant with them at Hebron ...  Read More

After the death of Saul, David returned from striking down the Amalekites.  . . . On the third day a man arrived from Saul’s camp with his clothes torn and dust on his head.  . . . “Where have you come from?” David asked him, “I have escaped from the Israelite camp.” “What happened,” David asked.  . . .  “The men fled from the battle,” he replied. “Many of them fell and died. And Saul and his son ...  Read More

David recovered everything the Amalekites had taken.  . . . David brought everything back.  . . . Then David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow him and who were left behind at the Besor valley.  . . . As David and his men approached, he asked them how they were. But all the evil men and troublemakers among David’s followers said, “Because they did not go out with us, ...  Read More

Now it happened, when David and his men came to Ziklag, on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the South and Ziklag, attacked Ziklag and burned it with fire, and had taken captive the women and those who were there, from small to great; they did not kill anyone, but carried them away and went their way.So David and his men came to the city, and there it was, burned with fire; and their ...  Read More

Then David went out of the cave and called out to Saul, “My lord the king!” When Saul looked behind him, David bowed down and prostrated himself with his face to the ground. He said to Saul.  . . . “This day you have seen with your own eyes how the LORD delivered you into my hands in the cave. Some urged me to kill you, but I spared you; I said, ‘I will not lay my hand on my lord, because he is th...  Read More

Now Saul heard that David and his men had been discovered.  . . . Then the king sent for the priest Ahimelek son of Ahitub and all the men of his family, who were the priests at Nob, and they all came to the king.Saul said, “Listen now, son of Ahitub,” “Yes my lord,” he answered.” Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, giving him bread and a sword and inqui...  Read More