The First Book of Shemu'el, starting at chapter 28
{28:1} It happened in those days, that the Pelishtim gathered their
hosts together for warfare, to fight with Yisra'el. Akhish said to
David, Know you assuredly, that you shall go out with me in the host,
you and your men. {28:2} David said to Akhish, Therefore you shall
know what your servant will do. Akhish said to David, Therefore will I
make you keeper of my head for ever. {28:3} Now Shemu'el was dead, and
all Yisra'el had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his
own city. Sha'ul had put away those who had familiar spirits, and the
wizards, out of the land. {28:4} The Pelishtim gathered themselves
together, and came and encamped in Shunem: and Sha'ul gathered all
Yisra'el together, and they encamped in Gilboa. {28:5} When Sha'ul saw
the host of the Pelishtim, he was afraid, and his heart trembled
greatly. {28:6} When Sha'ul inquired of the LORD, the LORD didn't
answer him, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets. {28:7}
Then said Sha'ul to his servants, Seek me a woman who has a familiar
spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her. His servants said to
him, Behold, there is a woman who has a familiar spirit at En-dor.
{28:8} Sha'ul disguised himself, and put on other clothing, and went,
he and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he
said, Please divine to me by the familiar spirit, and bring me up
whoever I shall name to you. {28:9} The woman said to him, Behold, you
know what Sha'ul has done, how he has cut off those who have familiar
spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: why then lay you a snare
for my life, to cause me to die? {28:10} Sha'ul swore to her by the
LORD, saying, As the LORD lives, there shall no punishment happen to
you for this thing. {28:11} Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up
to you? He said, Bring me up Shemu'el. {28:12} When the woman saw
Shemu'el, she cried with a loud voice; and the woman spoke to Sha'ul,
saying, Why have you deceived me? for you are Sha'ul. {28:13} The king
said to her, Don't be afraid: for what do you see? The woman said to
Sha'ul, I see a god coming up out of the [1>]eretz[<1]. {28:14} He
said to her, What form is he of? She said, An old man comes up; and he
is covered with a robe. Sha'ul perceived that it was Shemu'el, and he
bowed with his face to the ground, and did obeisance. {28:15} Shemu'el
said to Sha'ul, Why have you disquieted me, to bring me up? Sha'ul
answered, I am sore distressed; for the Pelishtim make war against me,
and God is departed from me, and answers me no more, neither by
prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called you, that you may
make known to me what I shall do. {28:16} Shemu'el said, Why then do
you ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from you, and is become
your adversary? {28:17} The LORD has done to you, as he spoke by me:
and the LORD has torn the kingdom out of your hand, and given it to
your neighbor, even to David. {28:18} Because you didn't obey the
voice of the LORD, and didn't execute his fierce wrath on `Amalek,
therefore has the LORD done this thing to you this day. {28:19}
Moreover the LORD will deliver Yisra'el also with you into the hand of
the Pelishtim; and tomorrow shall you and your sons be with me: the
LORD will deliver the host of Yisra'el also into the hand of the
Pelishtim. {28:20} Then Sha'ul fell immediately his full length on the
[2>]eretz[<2], and was sore afraid, because of the words of Shemu'el:
and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the
day, nor all the night. {28:21} The woman came to Sha'ul, and saw that
he was sore troubled, and said to him, Behold, your handmaid has
listened to your voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have
listened to your words which you spoke to me. {28:22} Now therefore,
please listen also to the voice of your handmaid, and let me set a
morsel of bread before you; and eat, that you may have strength, when
you go on your way. {28:23} But he refused, and said, I will not eat.
But his servants, together with the woman, constrained him; and he
listened to their voice. So he arose from the [3>]eretz[<3], and sat
on the bed. {28:24} The woman had a fattened calf in the house; and
she hurried, and killed it; and she took flour, and kneaded it, and
did bake [4>]matzah[<4] of it: {28:25} and she brought it before
Sha'ul, and before his servants; and they ate. Then they rose up, and
went away that night.
{29:1} Now the Pelishtim gathered together all their hosts to Afek:
and the Yisra'elites encamped by the spring which is in Yizre`el.
{29:2} The lords of the Pelishtim passed on by hundreds, and by
thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rearward with
Akhish. {29:3} Then said the princes of the Pelishtim, What [do] these
Hebrews [here]? Akhish said to the princes of the Pelishtim, Isn't
this David, the servant of Sha'ul the king of Yisra'el, who has been
with me these days, or [rather] these years, and I have found no fault
in him since he fell away [to me] to this day? {29:4} But he princes
of the Pelishtim were angry with him; and the princes of the Pelishtim
said to him, Make the man return, that he may go back to his place
where you have appointed him, and let him not go down with us to
battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us: for with what
should this [fellow] reconcile himself to his lord? should it not be
with the heads of these men? {29:5} Is not this David, of whom they
sang one to another in dances, saying, Sha'ul has slain his thousands,
David his ten thousands? {29:6} Then Akhish called David, and said to
him, As the LORD lives, you have been upright, and your going out and
your coming in with me in the host is good in my sight; for I have not
found evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day:
nevertheless the lords don't favor you. {29:7} Therefore now return,
and go in shalom, that you not displease the lords of the Pelishtim.
{29:8} David said to Akhish, But what have I done? and what have you
found in your servant so long as I have been before you to this day,
that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?
{29:9} Akhish answered David, I know that you are good in my sight, as
an angel of God: notwithstanding the princes of the Pelishtim have
said, He shall not go up with us to the battle. {29:10} Therefore now
rise up early in the morning with the servants of your lord who have
come with you; and as soon as you are up early in the morning, and
have light, depart. {29:11} So David rose up early, he and his men, to
depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Pelishtim. The
Pelishtim went up to Yizre`el.
{30:1} It happened, when David and his men were come to Tziklag on
the third day, that the `Amaleki had made a raid on the South, and on
Tziklag, and had struck Tziklag, and burned it with fire, {30:2} and
had taken captive the women [and all] who were therein, both small and
great: they didn't kill any, but carried them off, and went their way.
{30:3} When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned
with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were
taken captive. {30:4} Then David and the people who were with him
lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
{30:5} David's two wives were taken captive, Achino'am the
Yizre`elite, and Avigayil the wife of Naval the Karmelite. {30:6}
David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him,
because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons
and for his daughters: but David strengthened himself in the LORD his
God. {30:7} David said to Avyatar the [1>]Kohen[<1], the son of
Achimelekh, Please bring me here the efod. Avyatar brought there the
efod to David. {30:8} David inquired of the LORD, saying, If I pursue
after this troop, shall I overtake them? He answered him, Pursue; for
you shall surely overtake [them], and shall without fail recover
[all]. {30:9} So David went, he and the six hundred men who were with
him, and came to the brook Besor, where those who were left behind
stayed. {30:10} But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two
hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they couldn't go over
the brook Besor. {30:11} They found a Mitzrian in the field, and
brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he ate; and they gave
him water to drink. {30:12} They gave him a piece of a cake of figs,
and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came
again to him; for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three
days and three nights. {30:13} David said to him, To whom belong you?
and whence are you? He said, I am a young man of Mitzrayim, servant to
an `Amaleki; and my master left me, because three days ago I fell
sick. {30:14} We made a raid on the South of the Kereti, and on that
which belongs to Yehudah, and on the South of Kalev; and we burned
Tziklag with fire. {30:15} David said to him, Will you bring me down
to this troop? He said, Swear to me by God, that you will neither kill
me, nor deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring
you down to this troop. {30:16} When he had brought him down, behold,
they were spread abroad over all the ground, eating and drinking, and
dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the
land of the Pelishtim, and out of the land of Yehudah. {30:17} David
struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day: and
there not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men, who
rode on camels and fled. {30:18} David recovered all that the `Amaleki
had taken; and David rescued his two wives. {30:19} There was nothing
lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters,
neither spoil, nor anything that they had taken to them: David brought
back all. {30:20} David took all the flocks and the herds, [which]
they drove before those [other] cattle, and said, This is David's
spoil. {30:21} David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint
that they could not follow David, whom also they had made to abide at
the brook Besor; and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the
people who were with him: and when David came near to the people, he
greeted them. {30:22} Then answered all the wicked men and base
fellows, of those who went with David, and said, Because they didn't
go with us, we will not give them anything of the spoil that we have
recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that he may
lead them away, and depart. {30:23} Then said David, You shall not do
so, my brothers, with that which the LORD has given to us, who has
preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our
hand. {30:24} Who will listen to you in this matter? for as his share
is who goes down to the battle, so shall his share be who tarries by
the baggage: they shall share alike. {30:25} It was so from that day
forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Yisra'el to
this day. {30:26} When David came to Tziklag, he sent of the spoil to
the Zakenim of Yehudah, even to his friends, saying, Behold, a present
for you of the spoil of the enemies of the LORD: {30:27} To those who
were in Beit-El, and to those who were in Ramot of the South, and to
those who were in Yattir, {30:28} and to those who were in `Aro`er,
and to those who were in Shefamot, and to those who were in Eshtemoa,
{30:29} and to those who were in Racal, and to those who were in the
cities of the Yerachme'eli, and to those who were in the cities of the
Kinim, {30:30} and to those who were in Hormah, and to those who were
in Kor-`Ashan, and to those who were in `Atakh, {30:31} and to those
who were in Hevron, and to all the places where David himself and his
men used to stay.
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Footnotes:
[1] {28:13} earth
[2] {28:20} earth
[3] {28:23} earth
[4] {28:24} unleavened bread
[1] {30:7} priest
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