Instances Of Disobedience To God : Of Saul

Then came the messengers to Gibeah Of Saul, and told the tidings in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voices, and wept.

Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son Of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on the other side. But he told not his father.

And the watchmen Of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went on beating down one another.

Now the sons Of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchishua: and the names of his two daughters were these; the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal:

• Commander-in-chief
• Armies

And the name Of Saul's wife was Ahinoam, the daughter of Ahimaaz: and the name of the captain of his host was Abner, the son of Ner, Saul's uncle.

And Kish was the father Of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.

And there was sore war against the Philistines all the days Of Saul: and when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he took him unto him.

Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah Of Saul.

Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehemjudah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days Of Saul.

And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight Of Saul's servants.

• Envy

And the servants Of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David. And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son in law: and the days were not expired. Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.

Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it came to pass, after they went forth, that David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants Of Saul; so that his name was much set by.

And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out Of Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.

And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as appointed over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers Of Saul, and they also prophesied.

Now a certain man of the servants Of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.

• Fugitives

And David arose, and fled that day for fear Of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.

Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants Of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.

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

And he said unto him, Fear not: for the hand Of Saul my father shall not find thee; and thou shalt be king over Israel, and I shall be next unto thee; and that also Saul my father knoweth.

And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear Of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take them.

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

And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand Of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.

• Hebrew

Then said the princes of the Philistines, What do these Hebrews here? And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines, Is not this David, the servant Of Saul the king of Israel, which hath been with me these days, or these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell unto me unto this day?

All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body Of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Bethshan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.

Now it came to pass after the death Of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag;

• David
• Imprecation

Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield Of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.

From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan turned not back, and the sword Of Saul returned not empty.

• Commander-in-chief
• Armies

But Abner the son of Ner, captain Of Saul's host, took Ishbosheth the son Of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;

And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son Of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.

Then there arose and went over by number twelve of Benjamin, which pertained to Ishbosheth the son Of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.

Now there was long war between the house Of Saul and the house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house Of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.

And it came to pass, while there was war between the house Of Saul and the house of David, that Abner made himself strong for the house Of Saul.

Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ishbosheth, and said, Am I a dog's head, which against Judah do shew kindness this day unto the house Of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, that thou chargest me to day with a fault concerning this woman?

To translate the kingdom from the house Of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba.

And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came Of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.

And they brought the head of Ishbosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ishbosheth the son Of Saul thine enemy, which sought thy life; and the LORD hath avenged my lord the king this day Of Saul, and of his seed.

• David
• Family
• Irony

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 to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!

Therefore Michal the daughter Of Saul had no child unto the day of her death.

And David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house Of Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan's sake?

And there was of the house Of Saul a servant whose name was Ziba. And when they had called him unto David, the king said unto him, Art thou Ziba? And he said, Thy servant is he.

• Mephibosheth
• Orphan

And the king said, Is there not yet any of the house Of Saul, that I may shew the kindness of God unto him? And Ziba said unto the king, Jonathan hath yet a son, which is lame on his feet.

• Prostration
• King

Now when Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son Of Saul, was come unto David, he fell on his face, and did reverence. And David said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold thy servant!

And David said unto him, Fear not: for I will surely shew thee kindness for Jonathan thy father's sake, and will restore thee all the land Of Saul thy father; and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually.

• David
• Anointing

And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand Of Saul;

• Blasphemy
• Shimei
• Imprecation

And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the family of the house Of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came.

The LORD hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house Of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the LORD hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou art taken in thy mischief, because thou art a bloody man.

And there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house Of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went over Jordan before the king.

And Mephibosheth the son Of Saul came down to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in peace.

And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold Of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for you.

Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah Of Saul, whom the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give them.

• Covenant

But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son Of Saul, because of the LORD'S oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son Of Saul.

But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter Of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:

And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine Of Saul, had done.

And David went and took the bones Of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:

And he brought up from thence the bones Of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.

And the bones Of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land.

And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand Of Saul:

And in the days Of Saul they made war with the Hagarites, who fell by their hand: and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the east land of Gilead.

And the Philistines followed hard after Saul, and after his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons Of Saul.

• Fasting

They arose, all the valiant men, and took away the body Of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

Now these are they that came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because Of Saul the son of Kish: and they were among the mighty men, helpers of the war.

They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even Of Saul's brethren of Benjamin.

And these are the numbers of the bands that were ready armed to the war, and came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom Of Saul to him, according to the word of the LORD.

And of the children of Benjamin, the kindred Of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept the ward of the house Of Saul.

• Ark

And let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we inquired not at it in the days Of Saul.

And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter Of Saul looking out at a window saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart.

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand Of Saul: And he said,} I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.

They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah Of Saul is fled.

But their laying await was known Of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him.