1 SAMUEL CHAPTER 1

1 Samuel 1:1 And there is a certain man of Ramathaim-Zophim, of the hill-country of Ephraim, and his name [is] Elkanah, son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, and Ephrathite,
1:2 and he hath two wives, the name of the one [is] Hannah, and the name of the second Peninnah, and Peninnah hath children, and Hannah hath no children.
1:3 And that man hath gone up out of his city from time to time, to bow himself, and to sacrifice, before YHWH of Hosts, in Shiloh, and there [are] two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to YHWH.
1:4 And the day cometh, and Elkanah sacrificeth, and he hath given to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions,
1:5 and to Hannah he giveth a certain portion -- double, for he hath loved Hannah, and YHWH hath shut her womb;
1:6 and her adversity hath also provoked her greatly, so as to make her tremble, for YHWH hath shut up her womb.
1:7 And so he doth year by year, from the time of her going up into the house of YHWH, so it provoketh her, and she weepeth, and doth not eat.
1:8 And Elkanah her husband saith to her, `Hannah, why weepest thou? and why dost thou not eat? and why is thy heart afflicted? am I not better to thee than ten sons?'
1:9 And Hannah riseth after eating in Shiloh, and after drinking, and Eli the priest is sitting on the throne by the side-post of the temple of YHWH.
1 Samuel 1:10 And she is bitter in soul, and prayeth unto YHWH, and weepeth greatly,
1:11 and voweth a vow, and saith, `YHWH of Hosts, if Thou dost certainly look on the affliction of Thy handmaid, and hast remembered me, and dost not forget Thy handmaid, and hast given to Thy handmaid seed of men -- then I have given him to YHWH all days of his life, and a razor doth not go up upon his head.'
1:12 And it hath been, when she multiplied praying before YHWH, that Eli is watching her mouth,
1:13 and Hannah, she is speaking to her heart, only her lips are moving, and her voice is not heard, and Eli reckoneth her to be drunken.
1:14 And Eli saith unto her, `Until when are thou drunken? turn aside thy wine from thee.'
1:15 And Hannah answereth and saith, `No, my lord, A woman sharply pained in spirit I [am], and wine and strong drink I have not drunk, and I pour out my soul before YHWH;
1:16 put not thy handmaid before a daughter of worthlessness, for from the abundance of my meditation, and of my provocation, I have spoken hitherto.'
1:17 And Eli answereth and saith, `Go in peace, and the God of Israel doth give thy petition which thou hast asked of Him.'
1:18 And she saith, `Let thy handmaid find grace in thine eyes;' and the woman goeth on her way, and eateth, and her countenance hath not been [sad] for it any more.
1:19 And they rise early in the morning, and bow themselves before YHWH, and turn back, and come in unto their house in Ramah, and Elkanah knoweth Hannah his wife, and YHWH remembereth her;
1 Samuel 1:20 and it cometh to pass, at the revolution of the days, that Hannah conceiveth, and beareth a son, and calleth his name Samuel, `for, from YHWH I have asked him.'
1:21 And the man Elkanah goeth up, and all his house, to sacrifice to YHWH the sacrifice of the days, and his vow.
1:22 And Hannah hath not gone up, for she said to her husband, `Till the youth is weaned -- then I have brought him in, and he hath appeared before the face of YHWH, and dwelt there -- unto the age.'
1:23 And Elkanah her husband saith to her, `Do that which is good in thine eyes; abide till thy weaning him; only, YHWH establish His word;' and the woman abideth and suckleth her son till she hath weaned him,
1:24 and she causeth him to go up with her when she hath weaned him, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and she bringeth him into the house of YHWH at Shiloh, and the youth [is but] a youth.
1:25 And they slaughter the bullock, and bring in the youth unto Eli,
1:26 and she saith, `O, my lord, thy soul liveth! my lord, I [am] the woman who stood with thee in this [place], to pray unto YHWH;
1:27 for this youth I prayed, and YHWH doth give to me my petition which I asked of Him;
1:28 and also I have caused him to be asked for YHWH, all the days that he hath lived -- he is asked for YHWH;' and he boweth himself there before YHWH.

1 SAMUEL CHAPTER 2

1 Samuel 2:1 And Hannah prayeth, and saith: `My heart hath exulted in YHWH, My horn hath been high in YHWH, My mouth hath been large over mine enemies, For I have rejoiced in Thy salvation.
2:2 There is none holy like YHWH, For there is none save Thee, And there is no rock like our God.
2:3 Ye multiply not -- ye speak haughtily -- The old saying goeth out from your mouth, For a God of knowledge [is] YHWH, And by Him actions are weighed.
2:4 Bows of the mighty are broken, And the stumbling have girded on strength.
2:5 The satiated for bread hired themselves, And the hungry have ceased. While the barren hath borne seven, And she abounding with sons hath languished.
2:6 YHWH putteth to death, and keepeth alive, He bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up.
2:7 YHWH dispossesseth, and He maketh rich, He maketh low, yea, He maketh high.
2:8 He raiseth from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He lifteth up the needy, To cause [them] to sit with nobles, Yea, a throne of honour He doth cause them to inherit, For to YHWH [are] the fixtures of earth, And He setteth on them the habitable world.
2:9 The feet of His saints He keepeth, And the wicked in darkness are silent, For not by power doth man become mighty.
1 Samuel 2:10 YHWH -- broken down are His adversaries, Against them in the heavens He thundereth: YHWH judgeth the ends of earth, And giveth strength to His king, And exalteth the horn of His anointed.'
2:11 And Elkanah goeth to Ramath, unto his house, and the youth hath been serving YHWH, [in] the presence of Eli the priest;
2:12 and the sons of Eli [are] sons of worthlessness, they have not known YHWH.
2:13 And the custom of the priests with the people [is]: any man sacrificing a sacrifice -- then hath the servant of the priest come in when the flesh is boiling, and the hook of three teeth in his hand,
2:14 and hath struck [it] into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the hook bringeth up doth the priest take for himself; thus they do to all Israel who are coming in, there, in Shiloh.
2:15 Also before they make perfume with the fat -- then hath the priest's servant come in, and said to the man who is sacrificing, `Give flesh to roast for the priest, and he doth not take of thee flesh boiled, but raw;'
2:16 and the man saith unto him, `Let them surely make a perfume (as to-day) with the fat, then take to thee as thy soul desireth;' and he hath said to him, `Surely now thou dost give; and if not -- I have taken by strength.'
2:17 And the sin of the young men is very great [in] the presence of YHWH, for the men have despised the offering of YHWH.
2:18 And Samuel is ministering [in] the presence of YHWH, a youth girt [with] an ephod of linen;
2:19 and a small upper coat doth his mother make to him, and she hath brought it up to him from time to time, in her coming up with her husband to sacrifice the sacrifice of the time.
1 Samuel 2:20 And Eli blessed Elkanah, and his wife, and said, `YHWH doth appoint for thee seed of this woman, for the petition which she asked for YHWH;' and they have gone to their place.
2:21 When YHWH hath looked after Hannah, then she conceiveth and beareth three sons and two daughters; and the youth Samuel groweth up with YHWH.
2:22 And Eli [is] very old, and hath heard all that his sons do to all Israel, and how that they lie with the women who are assembling [at] the opening of the tent of meeting,
2:23 and he saith to them, `Why do ye things like these? for I am hearing of your evil words from all the people -- these!
2:24 Nay, my sons; for the report which I am hearing is not good causing the people of YHWH to transgress. --
2:25 If a man sin against a man, then hath God judged him; but if against YHWH a man sin, who doth pray for him?' and they hearken not to the voice of their father, though YHWH hath delighted to put them to death.
2:26 And the youth Samuel is going on and growing up, and [is] good both with YHWH, and also with men.
2:27 And there cometh a man of God unto Eli, and saith unto him, `Thus said YHWH, Was I really revealed unto the house of thy father in their being in Egypt, before Pharaoh's house,
2:28 even to choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to Me for a priest, to go up on Mine altar, to make a perfume, to bear an ephod before Me, and I give to the house of thy father all the fire-offerings of the sons of Israel?
2:29 Why do ye kick at My sacrifice, and at Mine offering which I commanded [in] My habitation, and dost honour thy sons above Me, to make yourselves fat from the first part of every offering of Israel, of My people?
1 Samuel 2:30 `Therefore -- the affirmation of YHWH, God of Israel -- I certainly said, Thy house and the house of thy father, do walk up and down before Me to the age; and now -- the affirmation of YHWH -- Far be it from Me! for he who is honouring Me, I honour, and those despising Me, are lightly esteemed.
2:31 `Lo, days [are] coming, and I have cut off thine arm, and the arm of the house of thy father, that an old man is not in thy house;
2:32 and thou hast beheld an adversary [in My] habitation, in all that He doth good with Israel, and there is not an old man in thy house all the days.
2:33 `And the man I cut not off of thine from Mine altar, [is] to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thy soul; and all the increase of thy house do die men;
2:34 and this [is] to thee the sign that cometh unto thy two sons, unto Hophni and Phinehas -- in one day they die both of them;
2:35 and I have raised up for Me a stedfast priest; as in My heart and in My soul he doth do; and I have built for him a stedfast house, and he hath walked up and down before Mine anointed all the days;
2:36 and it hath been, every one who is left in thy house doth come in to bow himself to him, for a wage of silver, and a cake of bread, and hath said, Admit me, I pray thee, unto one of the priest's offices, to eat a morsel of bread.'

1 SAMUEL CHAPTER 3

1 Samuel 3:1 And the youth Samuel is serving YHWH before Eli, and the word of YHWH hath been precious in those days -- there is no vision broken forth.
3:2 And it cometh to pass, at that time, that Eli is lying down in his place, and his eyes have begun to be dim -- he is not able to see.
3:3 And the lamp of God is not yet extinguished, and Samuel is lying down in the temple of YHWH, where the ark of God [is],
3:4 and YHWH calleth unto Samuel, and he saith, `Here [am] I.'
3:5 And he runneth unto Eli, and saith, `Here [am] I, for thou hast called for me;' and he saith, `I called not; turn back, lie down;' and he goeth and lieth down.
3:6 And YHWH addeth to call again Samuel, and Samuel riseth and goeth unto Eli, and saith, `Here [am] I, for thou hast called for me;' and he saith, `I have not called, my son, turn back, lie down.'
3:7 And Samuel hath not yet known YHWH, and the word of YHWH is not yet revealed unto him.
3:8 And YHWH addeth to call Samuel the third time, and he riseth and goeth unto Eli, and saith, `Here [am] I, for thou hast called for me;' and Eli understandeth that YHWH is calling to the youth.
3:9 And Eli saith to Samuel, `Go, lie down, and it hath been, if He doth call unto thee, that thou hast said, Speak, YHWH, for Thy servant is hearing;' and Samuel goeth and lieth down in his place.
1 Samuel 3:10 And YHWH cometh, and stationeth Himself, and calleth as time by time, `Samuel, Samuel;' and Samuel saith, `Speak, for Thy servant if hearing.'
3:11 And YHWH saith unto Samuel, `Lo, I am doing a thing in Israel, at which the two ears of every one hearing it do tingle.
3:12 In that day I establish unto Eli all that I have spoken unto his house, beginning and completing;
3:13 and I have declared to him that I am judging his house -- to the age, for the iniquity which he hath known, for his sons are making themselves vile, and he hath not restrained them,
3:14 and therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli: the iniquity of the house of Eli is not atoned for, by sacrifice, and by offering -- unto the age.'
3:15 And Samuel lieth till the morning, and openeth the doors of the house of YHWH, and Samuel is afraid of declaring the vision unto Eli.
3:16 And Eli calleth Samuel, and saith, `Samuel, my son;' and he saith, `Here [am] I.'
3:17 And he saith, `What [is] the word which He hath spoken unto thee? I pray thee, hide it not from me; so doth God do to thee, and so doth He add, if thou hidest from me a word of all the words that He hath spoken unto thee.'
3:18 And Samuel declareth to him the whole of the words, and hath not hid from him; and he saith, `It [is] YHWH; that which is good in His eyes He doth.'
3:19 And Samuel groweth up, and YHWH hath been with him, and hath not let fall any of his words to the earth;
1 Samuel 3:20 and all Israel know, from Dan even unto Beer-Sheba, that Samuel is established for a prophet to YHWH.
3:21 And YHWH addeth to appear in Shiloh, for YHWH hath been revealed unto Samuel, in Shiloh, by the word of YHWH.

1 SAMUEL CHAPTER 4

1 Samuel 4:1 And the word of Samuel is to all Israel, and Israel goeth out to meet the Philistines for battle, and they encamp by Eben-Ezer, and the Philistines have encamped in Aphek,
4:2 and the Philistines set themselves in array to meet Israel, and the battle spreadeth itself, and Israel is smitten before the Philistines, and they smite among the ranks in the field about four thousand men.
4:3 And the people cometh in unto the camp, and the elders of Israel say, `Why hath YHWH smitten us to-day before the Philistines? we take unto us from Shiloh the ark of the covenant of YHWH, and it cometh into our midst, and He doth save us out of the hand of our enemies.'
4:4 And the people sendeth to Shiloh, and they take up thence the ark of the covenant of YHWH of Hosts, inhabiting the cherubs, and there [are] two sons of Eli, with the ark of the covenant of God, Hophni and Phinehas.
4:5 And it cometh to pass, at the coming in of the ark of the covenant of YHWH unto the camp, that all Israel shout -- a great shout -- and the earth is moved.
4:6 And the Philistines hear the noise of the shouting, and say, `What [is] the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews?' and they perceive that the ark of YHWH hath come in unto the camp.
4:7 And the Philistines are afraid, for they said, `God hath come in unto the camp;' and they say, `Wo to us, for there hath not been like this heretofore.
4:8 Wo to us, who doth deliver us out of the hand of these honourable gods? these [are] the gods who are smiting the Egyptians with every plague in the wilderness.
4:9 Strengthen yourselves, and become men, O Philistines, lest ye do service to Hebrews, as they have done to you -- then ye have become men, and have fought.'
1 Samuel 4:10 And the Philistines fight, and Israel is smitten, and they flee each to his tents, and the blow is very great, and there fall of Israel thirty thousand footmen;
4:11 and the ark of God hath been taken, and the two sons of Eli have died, Hophni and Phinehas.
4:12 And a man of Benjamin runneth out of the ranks, and cometh into Shiloh, on that day, and his long robes [are] rent, and earth on his head;
4:13 and he cometh in, and lo, Eli is sitting on the throne by the side of the way, watching, for his heart hath been trembling for the ark of God, and the man hath come in to declare [it] in the city, and all the city crieth out.
4:14 And Eli heareth the noise of the cry, and saith, `What -- the noise of this tumult!' And the man hasted, and cometh in, and declareth to Eli.
4:15 And Eli is a son of ninety and eight years, and his eyes have stood, and he hath not been able to see.
4:16 And the man saith unto Eli, `I [am] he who hath come out of the ranks, and I out of the ranks have fled to-day;' and he saith, `What hath been the matter, my son?'
4:17 And he who is bearing tidings answereth and saith, `Israel hath fled before the Philistines, and also a great slaughter hath been among the people, and also thy two sons have died -- Hophni and Phinehas -- and the ark of God hath been captured.'
4:18 And it cometh to pass, at his mentioning the ark of God, that he falleth from off the throne backward, by the side of the gate, and his neck is broken, and he dieth, for the man [is] old and heavy, and he hath judged Israel forty years.
4:19 And his daughter-in-law, wife of Phinehas, [is] pregnant, about to bear, and she heareth the report of the taking of the ark of God, that her father-in-law and her husband have died, and she boweth, and beareth, for her pains have turned upon her.
1 Samuel 4:20 And at the time of her death, when the women who are standing by her say, `Fear not, for a son thou hast borne,' she hath not answered, nor set her heart [to it];
4:21 and she calleth the youth I-Chabod, saying, `Honour hath removed from Israel,' because of the taking of the ark of God, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
4:22 And she saith, `Honour hath removed from Israel, for the ark of God hath been taken.'

1 SAMUEL CHAPTER 5

1 Samuel 5:1 And the Philistines have taken the ark of God, and bring it in from Eben-Ezer to Ashdod,
5:2 and the Philistines take the ark of God and bring it into the house of Dagon, and set it near Dagon.
5:3 And the Ashdodites rise early on the morrow, and lo, Dagon is fallen on its face to the earth, before the ark of YHWH; and they take Dagon, and put it back to its place.
5:4 And they rise early in the morning on the morrow, and lo, Dagon is fallen on its face to the earth, before the ark of YHWH, and the head of Dagon, and the two palms of its hands are cut off at the threshold, only the fishy part hath been left to him;
5:5 therefore the priests of Dagon, and all those coming into the house of Dagon, tread not on the threshold of Dagon, in Ashdod, till this day.
5:6 And the hand of YHWH is heavy on the Ashdodites, and He maketh them desolate, and smiteth them with emerods, Ashdod and its borders.
5:7 And the men of Ashdod see that [it is] so, and have said, `The ark of the God of Israel doth not abide with us, for hard hath been His hand upon us, and upon Dagon our god.'
5:8 And they send and gather all the princes of the Philistines unto them, and say, `What do we do to the ark of the God of Israel?' and they say, `To Gath let the ark of the God of Israel be brought round;' and they bring round the ark of the God of Israel;
5:9 and it cometh to pass after they have brought it round, that the hand of YHWH is against the city -- a very great destruction; and He smiteth the men of the city, from small even unto great; and break forth on them do emerods.
1 Samuel 5:10 And they send the ark of God to Ekron, and it cometh to pass, at the coming in of the ark of God to Ekron, that the Ekronites cry out, saying, `They have brought round unto us the ark of the God of Israel, to put us to death -- and our people.'
5:11 And they send and gather all the princes of the Philistines, and say, `Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and it turneth back to its place, and it doth not put us to death -- and our people;' for there hath been a deadly destruction throughout all the city, very heavy hath the hand of God been there,
5:12 and the men who have not died have been smitten with emerods, and the cry of the city goeth up into the heavens.

1 SAMUEL CHAPTER 6

1 Samuel 6:1 And the ark of YHWH is in the field of the Philistines seven months,
6:2 and the Philistines call for priests and for diviners, saying, `What do we do to the ark of YHWH? let us know wherewith we send it to its place?'
6:3 And they say, `If ye are sending away the ark of the God of Israel, ye do not send it away empty; for ye do certainly send back to Him a guilt-offering; then ye are healed, and it hath been known to you why His hand doth not turn aside from you.'
6:4 And they say, `What [is] the guilt-offering which we send back to Him?' and they say, `The number of the princes of the Philistines -- five golden emerods, and five golden mice -- for one plague [is] to you all, and to your princes,
6:5 and ye have made images of your emerods, and images of your mice that are corrupting the land, and have given honour to the God of Israel; it may be He doth lighten His hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land;
6:6 and why do ye harden your heart as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their heart? do they not -- when He hath rolled Himself upon them -- send them away, and they go?
6:7 `And now, take and make one new cart, and two suckling kine, on which a yoke hath not gone up, and ye have bound the kine in the cart, and caused their young ones to turn back from after them to the house,
6:8 and ye have taken the ark of YHWH, and put it on the cart, and the vessels of gold which ye have returned to Him -- a guilt-offering -- ye put in a coffer on its side, and have sent it away, and it hath gone;
6:9 and ye have seen, if the way of its own border it goeth up to Beth-Shemesh -- He hath done to us this great evil; and if not, then we have known that His hand hath not come against us; an accident it hath been to us.'
1 Samuel 6:10 And the men do so, and take two suckling kine, and bind them in the cart, and their young ones they have shut up in the house;
6:11 and they place the ark of YHWH upon the cart, and the coffer, and the golden mice, and the images of their emerods.
6:12 And the kine go straight in the way, on the way to Beth-Shemesh, in one highway they have gone, going and lowing, and have not turned aside right or left; and the princes of the Philistines are going after them unto the border of Beth-Shemesh.
6:13 And the Beth-Shemeshites are reaping their wheat-harvest in the valley, and they lift up their eyes, and see the ark, and rejoice to see [it].
6:14 And the cart hath come in unto the field of Joshua the Beth-Shemeshite, and standeth there, and there [is] a great stone, and they cleave the wood of the cart, and the kine they have caused to ascend -- a burnt-offering to YHWH.
6:15 And the Levites have taken down the ark of YHWH, and the coffer which [is] with it, in which [are] the vessels of gold, and place [them] on the great stone; and the men of Beth-Shemesh have caused to ascend burnt-offerings and sacrifice sacrifices in that day to YHWH;
6:16 and the five princes of the Philistines have seen [it], and turn back [to] Ekron, on that day.
6:17 And these [are] the golden emerods which the Philistines have sent back -- a guilt-offering to YHWH: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;
6:18 and the golden mice -- the number of all the cities of the Philistines -- for the five princes, from the fenced city even unto the hamlet of the villages, even unto the great meadow on which they placed the ark of YHWH -- [are] unto this day in the field of Joshua the Beth-Shemeshite.
6:19 And He smiteth among the men of Beth-Shemesh, for they looked into the ark of YHWH, yea, He smiteth among the people seventy men -- fifty chief men; and the people mourn, because YHWH smote among the people -- a great smiting.
1 Samuel 6:20 And the men of Beth-Shemesh say, `Who is able to stand before YHWH, this holy God? and unto whom doth He go up from us?'
6:21 And they send messengers unto the inhabitants of Kirjath-Jearim, saying, `The Philistines have sent back the ark of YHWH; come down, take it up unto you.'

1 SAMUEL CHAPTER 7

1 Samuel 7:1 And the men of Kirjath-Jearim come and bring up the ark of YHWH, and bring it in unto the house of Abinadab, in the height, and Eleazar his son they have sanctified to keep the ark of YHWH.
7:2 And it cometh to pass, from the day of the dwelling of the ark in Kirjath-Jearim, that the days are multiplied -- yea, they are twenty years -- and wail do all the house of Israel after YHWH.
7:3 And Samuel speaketh unto all the house of Israel, saying, `If with all your heart ye are turning back unto YHWH -- turn aside the gods of the stranger from your midst, and Ashtaroth; and prepare your heart unto YHWH, and serve Him only, and He doth deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.'
7:4 And the sons of Israel turn aside the Baalim and Ashtaroth, and serve YHWH alone;
7:5 and Samuel saith, `Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I pray for you unto YHWH.'
7:6 And they are gathered to Mizpeh, and draw water, and pour out before YHWH, and fast on that day, and say there, `We have sinned against YHWH;' and Samuel judgeth the sons of Israel in Mizpeh.
7:7 And the Philistines hear that the sons of Israel have gathered themselves to Mizpeh; and the princes of the Philistines go up against Israel, and the sons of Israel hear, and are afraid of the presence of the Philistines.
7:8 And the sons of Israel say unto Samuel, `Keep not silent for us from crying unto YHWH our God, and He doth save us out of the hand of the Philistines.'
7:9 And Samuel taketh a fat lamb, and causeth it to go up -- a burnt-offering whole to YHWH; and Samuel crieth unto YHWH for Israel, and YHWH answereth him;
1 Samuel 7:10 and Samuel is causing the burnt-offering to go up -- and the Philistines have drawn nigh to battle against Israel -- and YHWH doth thunder with a great noise, on that day, upon the Philistines, and troubleth them, and they are smitten before Israel.
7:11 And the men of Israel go out from Mizpeh, and pursue the Philistines, and smite them unto the place of Beth-Car.
7:12 And Samuel taketh a stone, and setteth [it] between Mizpeh and Shen, and calleth its name Eben-Ezer, saying, `Hitherto hath YHWH helped us.'
7:13 And the Philistines are humbled, and have not added any more to come into the border of Israel, and the hand of YHWH is on the Philistines all the days of Samuel.
7:14 And the cities which the Philistines have taken from Israel are restored to Israel -- from Ekron even unto Gath -- and their border hath Israel delivered out of the hand of the Philistines; and there is peace between Israel and the Amorite.
7:15 And Samuel judgeth Israel all the days of his life,
7:16 and he hath gone from year to year, and gone round Beth-El, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel [in] all these places;
7:17 and his returning [is] to Ramath, for there [is] his house, and there he hath judged Israel, and he buildeth there an altar to YHWH.

1 SAMUEL CHAPTER 8

1 Samuel 8:1 And it cometh to pass, when Samuel [is] aged, that he maketh his sons judges over Israel.
8:2 And the name of his first-born son is Joel, and the name of his second Abiah, judges in Beer-Sheba:
8:3 and his sons have not walked in his ways, and turn aside after the dishonest gain, and take a bribe, and turn aside judgment.
8:4 And all the elders of Israel gather themselves together, and come in unto Samuel to Ramath,
8:5 and say unto him, `Lo, thou hast become aged, and thy sons have not walked in thy ways; now, appoint to us a king, to judge us, like all the nations.'
8:6 And the thing is evil in the eyes of Samuel, when they have said, `Give to us a king to judge us;' and Samuel prayeth unto YHWH.
8:7 And YHWH saith unto Samuel, `Hearken to the voice of the people, to all that they say unto thee, for thee they have not rejected, but Me they have rejected, from reigning over them.
8:8 According to all the works that they have done from the day of My bringing them up out of Egypt, even unto this day, when they forsake Me, and serve other gods -- so they are doing also to thee.
8:9 And now, hearken to their voice; only, surely thou dost certainly protest to them, and hast declared to them the custom of the king who doth reign over them.'
1 Samuel 8:10 And Samuel speaketh all the words of YHWH unto the people who are asking from him a king,
8:11 and saith, `This is the custom of the king who doth reign over you: Your sons he doth take, and hath appointed for himself among his chariots, and among his horsemen, and they have run before his chariots;
8:12 also to appoint for himself heads of thousands, and heads of fifties; also to plow his plowing, and to reap his reaping; and to make instruments of his war, and instruments of his charioteer.
8:13 `And your daughters he doth take for perfumers, and for cooks, and for bakers;
8:14 and your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive-yards -- the best -- he doth take, and hath given to his servants.
8:15 And your seed and your vineyards he doth tithe, and hath given to his eunuchs, and to his servants.
8:16 And your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your young men -- the best, and your asses, he doth take, and hath prepared for his own work;
8:17 your flock he doth tithe, and ye are to him for servants.
8:18 And ye have cried out in that day because of the king whom ye have chosen for yourselves, and YHWH doth not answer you in that day.'
8:19 And the people refuse to hearken to the voice of Samuel, and say, `Nay, but a king is over us,
1 Samuel 8:20 and we have been, even we, like all the nations; and our king hath judged us, and gone out before us, and fought our battles.'
8:21 And Samuel heareth all the words of the people, and speaketh them in the ears of YHWH;
8:22 and YHWH saith unto Samuel, `Hearken to their voice, and thou hast caused to reign over them a king.' And Samuel saith unto the men of Israel, `Go ye each to his city.'

1 SAMUEL CHAPTER 9

1 Samuel 9:1 And there is a man of Benjamin, and his name [is] Kish, son of Abiel, son of Zeror, son of Bechorath, son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, mighty of valour,
9:2 and he hath a son, and his name [is] Saul, a choice youth and goodly, and there is not a man among the sons of Israel goodlier than he -- from his shoulder and upward, higher than any of the people.
9:3 And the asses of Kish, father of Saul, are lost, and Kish saith unto Saul his son, `Take, I pray thee, with thee, one of the young men, and rise, go, seek the asses.'
9:4 And he passeth over through the hill-country of Ephraim, and passeth over through the land of Shalisha, and they have not found; and they pass over through the land of Shaalim, and they are not; and he passeth over through the land of Benjamin, and they have not found.
9:5 They have come in unto the land of Zuph, and Saul hath said to his young man who [is] with him, `Come, and we turn back, lest my father leave off from the asses, and hath been sorrowful for us.'
9:6 And he saith to him, `Lo, I pray thee, a man of God [is] in this city, and the man is honoured; all that he speaketh doth certainly come; now, we go there, it may be he doth declare to us our way on which we have gone.'
9:7 And Saul saith to his young man, `And lo, we go, and what do we bring in to the man? for the bread hath gone from our vessels, and a present there is not to bring in to the man of God -- what [is] with us?'
9:8 And the young man addeth to answer Saul, and saith, `Lo, there is found with me a fourth of a shekel of silver: and I have given to the man of God, and he hath declared to us our way.'
9:9 Formerly in Israel, thus said the man in his going to seek God, `Come and we go unto the seer,' for the `prophet' of to-day is called formerly `the seer.'
1 Samuel 9:10 And Saul saith to his young man, `Thy word [is] good; come, we go;' and they go unto the city where the man of God [is].
9:11 They are going up in the ascent of the city, and have found young women going out to draw water, and say to them, `Is the seer in this [place]?'
9:12 And they answer them and say, `He is; lo, before thee! haste, now, for to-day he hath come in to the city, for the people hath a stated sacrifice in a high place.
9:13 At your going in to the city so ye do find him, before he doth go up in to the high place to eat; for the people do not eat till his coming, for he doth bless the sacrifice; afterwards they eat, who are called, and now, go up, for at this time ye find him.'
9:14 And they go up in to the city; they are coming in to the midst of the city, and lo, Samuel is coming out to meet them, to go up to the high place;
9:15 and YHWH had uncovered the ear of Samuel one day before the coming of Saul, saying,
9:16 `At this time tomorrow, I send unto thee a man out of the land of Benjamin -- and thou hast anointed him for leader over My people Israel, and he hath saved My people out of the hand of the Philistines; for I have seen My people, for its cry hath come in unto Me.'
9:17 When Samuel hath seen Saul, then hath YHWH answered him, `Lo, the man of whom I have spoken unto thee; this [one] doth restrain My people.'
9:18 And Saul draweth nigh to Samuel in the midst of the gate, and saith, `Declare, I pray thee, to me, where [is] this -- the seer's house?'
9:19 And Samuel answereth Saul and saith, `I [am] the seer; go up before me into the high place, and ye have eaten with me to-day, and I have sent thee away in the morning, and all that [is] in thy heart I declare to thee.
1 Samuel 9:20 As to the asses which are lost to thee this day three days, set not thy heart to them, for they have been found; and to whom [is] all the desire of Israel?' is it not to thee and to all thy father's house?'
9:21 And Saul answereth and saith, `Am not I a Benjamite -- of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? and why hast thou spoken unto me according to this word?'
9:22 And Samuel taketh Saul, and his young man, and bringeth them in to the chamber, and giveth to them a place at the head of those called; and they [are] about thirty men.
9:23 And Samuel saith to the cook, `Give the portion which I gave to thee, of which I said unto thee, `Set it by thee?'
9:24 (and the cook lifteth up the leg, and that which [is] on it, and setteth before Saul), and he saith, `Lo, that which is left; set [it] before thee -- eat, for to this appointed season it is kept for thee, saying, The people I have called;' and Saul eateth with Samuel on that day.
9:25 And they come down from the high place to the city, and he speaketh with Saul on the roof.
9:26 And they rise early, and it cometh to pass, at the ascending of the dawn, that Samuel calleth unto Saul, on the roof, saying, `Rise, and I send thee away;' and Saul riseth, and they go out, both of them -- he and Samuel, without.
9:27 They are going down in the extremity of the city, and Samuel hath said unto Saul, `Say to the young man that he pass on before us (and he passeth on), and thou, stand at this time, and I cause thee to hear the word of God.'

1 SAMUEL CHAPTER 10

1 Samuel 10:1 And Samuel taketh the vial of the oil, and poureth on his head, and kisseth him, and saith, `Is it not because YHWH hath appointed thee over His inheritance for leader?
10:2 In thy going to-day from me -- then thou hast found two men by the grave of Rachel, in the border of Benjamin, at Zelzah, and they have said unto thee, The asses have been found which thou hast gone to seek; and lo, thy father hath left the matter of the asses, and hath sorrowed for you, saying, What do I do for my son?
10:3 `And thou hast passed on thence, and beyond, and hast come in unto the oak of Tabor, and found thee there have three men going up unto God to Beth-El, one bearing three kids, and one bearing three cakes of bread, and one bearing a bottle of wine,
10:4 and they have asked of thee of welfare, and given to thee two loaves, and thou hast received from their hand.
10:5 `Afterwards thou dost come unto the hill of God, where the garrison of the Philistines [is], and it cometh to pass, at thy coming in thither to the city, that thou hast met a band of prophets coming down from the high place, and before them psaltery, and tabret, and pipe, and harp, and they are prophesying;
10:6 and prospered over thee hath the Spirit of YHWH, and thou hast prophesied with them, and hast been turned to another man;
10:7 and it hath been, when these signs come to thee -- do for thyself as thy hand findeth, for God [is] with thee.
10:8 `And thou hast gone down before me to Gilgal, and lo, I am going down unto thee, to cause to ascend burnt-offerings, to sacrifice sacrifices of peace-offerings; seven days thou dost wait till my coming in unto thee, and I have made known to thee that which thou dost do.'
10:9 And it hath been, at his turning his shoulder to go from Samuel, that God turneth to him another heart, and all these signs come on that day,
1 Samuel 10:10 and they come in thither to the height, and lo, a band of prophets -- to meet him, and prosper over him doth the Spirit of God, and he prophesieth in their midst.
10:11 And it cometh to pass, all his acquaintance heretofore, see, and lo, with prophets he hath prophesied, and the people say one unto another, `What [is] this hath happened to the son of Kish? is Saul also among the prophets?'
10:12 And a man thence answereth and saith, `And who [is] their father?' therefore it hath been for a simile, `Is Saul also among the prophets?'
10:13 And he ceaseth from prophesying, and cometh in to the high place,
10:14 and the uncle of Saul saith unto him, and unto his young man, `Whither went ye?' and he saith, `To seek the asses; and we see that they are not, and we come in unto Samuel.'
10:15 And the uncle of Saul saith, `Declare, I pray thee, to me, what Samuel said to you?'
10:16 And Saul saith unto his uncle, `He certainly declared to us that the asses were found;' and of the matter of the kingdom he hath not declared to him that which Samuel said.
10:17 And Samuel calleth the people unto YHWH to Mizpeh,
10:18 and saith unto the sons of Israel, `Thus said YHWH, God of Israel, I have brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I deliver you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all the kingdoms who are oppressing you;
10:19 and ye to-day have rejected your God, who [is] Himself your saviour out of all your evils and your distresses, and ye say, `Nay, but -- a king thou dost set over us; and now, station yourselves before YHWH, by your tribes, and by your thousands.'
1 Samuel 10:20 And Samuel bringeth near the whole tribes of Israel, and the tribe of Benjamin is captured,
10:21 and he bringeth near the tribe of Benjamin by its families, and the family of Matri is captured, and Saul son of Kish is captured, and they seek him, and he hath not been found.
10:22 And they ask again at YHWH, `Hath the man yet come hither?' and YHWH saith, `Lo, he hath been hidden near the vessels.'
10:23 And they run and bring him thence, and he stationed himself in the midst of the people, and he is higher than any of the people from his shoulder and upward.
10:24 And Samuel saith unto all the people, `Have ye seen him on whom YHWH hath fixed, for there is none like him among all the people?' And all the people shout, and say, `Let the king live!'
10:25 And Samuel speaketh unto the people the right of the kingdom, and writeth in a book, and placeth before YHWH; and Samuel sendeth all the people away, each to his house.
10:26 And also Saul hath gone to his house, to Gibeah, and the force go with him whose heart God hath touched;
10:27 and the sons of worthlessness have said, `What! this one doth save us!' and they despise him, and have not brought to him a present; and he is as one deaf.

1 SAMUEL CHAPTER 11

1 Samuel 11:1 And Nahash the Ammonite cometh up, and encampeth against Jabesh-Gilead, and all the men of Jabesh say unto Nahash, `Make with us a covenant, and we serve thee.'
11:2 And Nahash the Ammonite saith unto them, `For this I covenant with you, by picking out to you every right eye -- and I have put it a reproach on all Israel.'
11:3 And the elders of Jabesh say to him, `Let us alone seven days, and we send messengers into all the border of Israel: and if there is none saving us -- then we have come out unto thee.'
11:4 And the messengers come to Gibeah of Saul, and speak the words in the ears of the people, and all the people lift up their voice and weep;
11:5 and lo, Saul hath come after the herd out of the field, and Saul saith, `What -- to the people, that they weep?' and they recount to him the words of the men of Jabesh.
11:6 And the Spirit of God doth prosper over Saul, in his hearing these words, and his anger burneth greatly,
11:7 and he taketh a couple of oxen, and cutteth them in pieces, and sendeth through all the border of Israel, by the hand of the messengers, saying, `He who is not coming out after Saul and after Samuel -- thus it is done to his oxen;' and the fear of YHWH falleth on the people, and they come out as one man.
11:8 And he inspecteth them in Bezek, and the sons of Israel are three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
11:9 And they say to the messengers who are coming, `Thus do ye say to the men of Jabesh-Gilead: To-morrow ye have safety -- by the heat of the sun;' and the messengers come and declare to the men of Jabesh, and they rejoice;
1 Samuel 11:10 and the men of Jabesh say [to the Ammonites], `To-morrow we come out unto you, and ye have done to us according to all that [is] good in your eyes.'
11:11 And it cometh to pass, on the morrow, that Saul putteth the people in three detachments, and they come into the midst of the camp in the morning-watch, and smite Ammon till the heat of the day; and it cometh to pass that those left are scattered, and there have not been left of them two together.
11:12 And the people say unto Samuel, `Who is he that saith, Saul doth reign over us! give ye up the men, and we put them to death.'
11:13 And Saul saith, `There is no man put to death on this day, for to-day hath YHWH wrought salvation in Israel.'
11:14 And Samuel saith unto the people, `Come and we go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there;'
11:15 and all the people go to Gilgal, and cause Saul to reign there before YHWH in Gilgal, and sacrifice there sacrifices of peace-offerings before YHWH, and there Saul rejoiceth -- and all the men of Israel -- very greatly.

1 SAMUEL CHAPTER 12

1 Samuel 12:1 And Samuel saith unto all Israel, `Lo, I have hearkened to your voice, to all that ye said to me, and I cause to reign over you a king,
12:2 and now, lo, the king is walking habitually before you, and I have become aged and gray-headed, and my sons, lo, they [are] with you, and I have walked habitually before you from my youth till this day.
12:3 `Lo, here [am] I; testify against me, over-against YHWH, and over-against His anointed; whose ox have I taken, and whose ass have I taken, and whom have I oppressed; whom have I bruised, and of whose hand have I taken a ransom, and hide mine eyes with it? -- and I restore to you.'
12:4 And they say, `Thou hast not oppressed us, nor hast thou crushed us, nor hast thou taken from the hand of any one anything.'
12:5 And he saith unto them, `A witness [is] YHWH against you: and a witness [is] His anointed this day, that ye have not found anything in my hand;' and they say, `A witness.'
12:6 And Samuel saith unto the people, `YHWH -- He who made Moses and Aaron, and who brought up your fathers out of the land of Egypt!
12:7 and, now, station yourselves, and I judge you before YHWH, with all the righteous acts of YHWH, which He did with you, and with your fathers.
12:8 `When Jacob hath come in to Egypt, and your fathers cry unto YHWH, then YHWH sendeth Moses and Aaron, and they bring out your fathers from Egypt, and cause them to dwell in this place,
12:9 and they forget YHWH their God, and He selleth them into the hand of Sisera, head of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fight against them,
1 Samuel 12:10 and they cry unto YHWH, and say, We have sinned, because we have forsaken YHWH, and serve the Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and now, deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we serve Thee.
12:11 `And YHWH sendeth Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivereth you out of the hand of your enemies round about, and ye dwell confidently.
12:12 `And ye see that Nahash king of the Bene-Ammon hath come against you, and ye say to me, Nay, but a king doth reign over us; and YHWH your God [is] your king!
12:13 And, now, lo, the king whom ye have chosen -- whom ye have asked! and lo, YHWH hath placed over you a king.
12:14 `If ye fear YHWH, and have served Him, and hearkened to His voice, then ye do not provoke the mouth of YHWH, and ye have been -- both ye and the king who hath reigned over you -- after YHWH your God.
12:15 `And if ye do not hearken to the voice of YHWH -- then ye have provoked the mouth of YHWH, and the hand of YHWH hath been against you, and against your fathers.
12:16 `Also now, station yourselves and see this great thing which YHWH is doing before your eyes;
12:17 is it not wheat-harvest to-day? I call unto YHWH, and He doth give voices and rain; and know ye and see that your evil is great which ye have done in the eyes of YHWH, to ask for you a king.'
12:18 And Samuel calleth unto YHWH, and YHWH giveth voices and rain, on that day, and all the people greatly fear YHWH and Samuel;
12:19 and all the people say unto Samuel, `Pray for thy servants unto YHWH thy God, and we do not die, for we have added to all our sins evil to ask for us a king.'
1 Samuel 12:20 And Samuel saith unto the people, `Fear not; ye have done all this evil; only, turn not aside from after YHWH -- and ye have served YHWH with all your heart,
12:21 and ye do not turn aside after the vain things which do not profit nor deliver, for they [are] vain,
12:22 for YHWH doth not leave His people, on account of His great name; for YHWH hath been pleased to make you to Him for a people.
12:23 `I, also, far be it from me to sin against YHWH, by ceasing to pray for you, and I have directed you in the good and upright way;
12:24 only, fear ye YHWH, and ye have served Him in truth with all your heart, for see that which He hath made great with you;
12:25 and if ye really do evil, both ye and your king are consumed.'

1 SAMUEL CHAPTER 13

1 Samuel 13:1 A son of a year [is] Saul in his reigning, yea, two years he hath reigned over Israel,
13:2 and Saul chooseth for himself three thousand [men] out of Israel; and two thousand are with Saul in Michmash, and in the hill-country of Beth-El; and a thousand have been with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin; and the remnant of the people he hath sent each to his tents.
13:3 And Jonathan smiteth the garrison of the Philistines which [is] in Geba, and the Philistines hear, and Saul hath blown with a trumpet through all the land, saying, `Let the Hebrews hear.'
13:4 And all Israel have heard, saying, `Saul hath smitten the garrison of the Philistines,' and also, `Israel hath been abhorred by the Philistines;' and the people are called after Saul to Gilgal.
13:5 And the Philistines have been gathered to fight with Israel; thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and a people as the sand which [is] on the sea-shore for multitude; and they come up and encamp in Michmash, east of Beth-Aven.
13:6 And the men of Israel have seen that they are distressed, that the people hath been oppressed, and the people hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.
13:7 And Hebrews have passed over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead; and Saul [is] yet in Gilgal, and all the people have trembled after him.
13:8 And he waiteth seven days, according to the appointment with Samuel, and Samuel hath not come to Gilgal, and the people are scattered from off him.
13:9 And Saul saith, `Bring nigh unto me the burnt-offering, and the peace-offerings;' and he causeth the burnt-offering to ascend.
1 Samuel 13:10 And it cometh to pass at his completing to cause the burnt-offering to ascend, that lo, Samuel hath come, and Saul goeth out to meet him, to bless him;
13:11 and Samuel saith, `What hast thou done?' And Saul saith, `Because I saw that the people were scattered from off me, and thou hadst not come at the appointment of the days, and the Philistines are gathered to Michmash,
13:12 and I say, Now do the Philistines come down unto me to Gilgal, and the face of YHWH I have not appeased; and I force myself, and cause the burnt-offering to ascend.'
13:13 And Samuel saith unto Saul, `Thou hast been foolish; thou hast not kept the command of YHWH thy God, which He commanded thee, for now had YHWH established thy kingdom over Israel unto the age;
13:14 and, now, thy kingdom doth not stand, YHWH hath sought for Himself a man according to His own heart, and YHWH chargeth him for leader over His people, for thou hast not kept that which YHWH commanded thee.'
13:15 And Samuel riseth, and goeth up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin; and Saul inspecteth the people who are found with him, about six hundred men,
13:16 and Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people who are found with them, are abiding in Gibeah of Benjamin, and the Philistines have encamped in Michmash.
13:17 And the destroyer goeth out from the camp of the Philistines -- three detachments; the one detachment turneth unto the way of Ophrah, unto the land of Shual;
13:18 and the one detachment turneth the way of Beth-Horon, and the one detachment turneth the way of the border which is looking on the valley of the Zeboim, toward the wilderness.
13:19 And an artificer is not found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, `Lest the Hebrews make sword or spear;'
1 Samuel 13:20 and all Israel go down to the Philistines, to sharpen each his ploughshare, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock;
13:21 and there hath been the file for mattocks, and for coulters, and for three-pronged rakes, and for the axes, and to set up the goads.
13:22 And it hath been, in the day of battle, that there hath not been found sword and spear in the hand of any of the people who [are] with Saul and with Jonathan -- and there is found to Saul and to Jonathan his son.
13:23 And the station of the Philistines goeth out unto the passage of Michmash.

1 SAMUEL CHAPTER 14

1 Samuel 14:1 And the day cometh that Jonathan son of Saul saith unto the young man bearing his weapons, `Come, and we pass over unto the station of the Philistines, which [is] on the other side of this;' and to his father he hath not declared [it].
14:2 And Saul is abiding at the extremity of Gibeah, under the pomegranate which [is] in Migron, and the people who [are] with him, about six hundred men,
14:3 and Ahiah, son of Ahitub, brother of I-Chabod, son of Phinehas son of Eli priest of YHWH in Shiloh, bearing an ephod; and the people knew not that Jonathan hath gone.
14:4 And between the passages where Jonathan sought to pass over unto the station of the Philistines [is] the edge of a rock on the one side, and the edge of a rock on the other side, and the name of the one is Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.
14:5 The one edge [is] fixed on the north over-against Michmash, and the one on the south over-against Gibeah.
14:6 And Jonathan saith unto the young man bearing his weapons, `Come, and we pass over unto the station of these uncircumcised; it may be YHWH doth work for us, for there is no restraint to YHWH to save by many or by few.'
14:7 And the bearer of his weapons saith to him, `Do all that [is] in thy heart; turn for thee; lo, I [am] with thee, as thine own heart.'
14:8 And Jonathan saith, `Lo, we are passing over unto the men, and are revealed unto them;
14:9 if thus they say unto us, `Stand still till we have come unto you,' then we have stood in our place, and do not go up unto them;
1 Samuel 14:10 and if thus they say, `Come up against us,' then we have gone up, for YHWH hath given them into our hand, and this to us [is] the sign.
14:11 And revealed are both of them unto the station of the Philistines, and the Philistines say, `Lo, Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they have hid themselves.'
14:12 And the men of the station answer Jonathan, and the bearer of his weapons, and say, `Come up unto us, and we cause you to know something.' And Jonathan saith unto the bearer of his weapons, `Come up after me, for YHWH hath given them into the hand of Israel.'
14:13 And Jonathan goeth up on his hands, and on his feet, and the bearer of his weapons after him; and they fall before Jonathan, and the bearer of his weapons is putting to death after him.
14:14 And the first smiting which Jonathan and the bearer of his weapons have smitten is of about twenty men, in about half a furrow of a yoke of a field,
14:15 and there is a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people, the station and the destroyers have trembled -- even they, and the earth shaketh, and it becometh a trembling of God.
14:16 And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin see, and lo, the multitude hath melted away, and it goeth on, and is beaten down.
14:17 And Saul saith to the people who [are] with him, `Inspect, I pray you, and see; who hath gone from us?' and they inspect, and lo, Jonathan and the bearer of his weapons are not.
14:18 And Saul saith to Ahiah, `Bring nigh the ark of God;' for the ark of God hath been on that day with the sons of Israel.
14:19 And it cometh to pass, while Saul spake unto the priest, that the noise which [is] in the camp of the Philistines goeth on, going on and becoming great, and Saul saith unto the priest, `Remove thy hand.'
1 Samuel 14:20 And Saul is called, and all the people who [are] with him, and they come in unto the battle, and, lo, the sword of each hath been against his neighbour -- a very great destruction.
14:21 And the Hebrews [who] have been for the Philistines as heretofore, who had gone up with them into the camp, have turned round, even they, to be with Israel who [are] with Saul and Jonathan,
14:22 and all the men of Israel, who are hiding themselves in the hill-country of Ephraim, have heard that the Philistines have fled, and they pursue -- even they -- after them in battle.
14:23 And YHWH saveth Israel on that day, and the battle hath passed over to Beth-Aven.
14:24 And the men of Israel have been distressed on that day, and Saul adjureth the people, saying, `Cursed [is] the man who eateth food till the evening, and I have been avenged of mine enemies;' and none of the people hath tasted food.
14:25 And all [they of] the land have come into a forest, and there is honey on the face of the field;
14:26 and the people come in unto the forest, and lo, the honey dropped, and none is moving his hand unto his mouth, for the people feared the oath.
14:27 And Jonathan hath not heard of his father's adjuring the people, and putteth forth the end of the rod, which [is] in his hand, and dippeth it in the honeycomb, and bringeth back his hand unto his mouth -- and his eyes see!
14:28 And a man of the people answereth and saith, `Thy father certainly adjured the people, saying, Cursed [is] the man who eateth food to-day; and the people are weary.'
14:29 And Jonathan saith, `My father hath troubled the land; see, I pray you, that mine eyes have become bright because I tasted a little of this honey.
1 Samuel 14:30 How much more if the people had well eaten to-day of the spoil of its enemies which it hath found, for now, the smiting hath not been great among the Philistines.'
14:31 And they smite on that day among the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon, and the people are very weary,
14:32 and the people make unto the spoil, and take sheep, and oxen, and sons of the herd, and slaughter on the earth, and the people eat with the blood.
14:33 And they declare to Saul, saying, `Lo, the people are sinning against YHWH, to eat with the blood.' And he saith, `Ye have dealt treacherously, roll unto me to-day a great stone.'
14:34 And Saul saith, `Be ye scattered among the people, and ye have said to them, Bring ye nigh unto me each his ox, and each his sheep; and ye have slain [them] in this place, and eaten, and ye do not sin against YHWH to eat with the blood.' And all the people bring nigh each his ox, in his hand, that night, and slaughter [them] there.
14:35 And Saul buildeth an alter to YHWH; with it he hath begun to build altars to YHWH.
14:36 And Saul saith, `Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and we prey upon them till the light of the morning, and leave not a man of them.' And they say, `All that is good in thine eyes do.' And the priest saith, `Let us draw near hither unto God.'
14:37 And Saul asketh of God, `Do I go down after the Philistines? dost Thou give them into the hand of Israel?' and He hath not answered him on that day.
14:38 And Saul saith, `Draw ye nigh hither all, the chiefs of the people, and know and see in what this sin hath been to-day;
14:39 for, YHWH liveth, who is saving Israel: surely if it be in Jonathan my son, surely he doth certainly die;' and none is answering him out of all the people.
1 Samuel 14:40 And he saith unto all Israel, `Ye -- ye are on one side, and I and Jonathan my son are on another side;' and the people say unto Saul, `That which is good in thine eyes do.'
14:41 And Saul saith unto YHWH, God of Israel, `Give perfection;' and Jonathan and Saul are captured, and the people went out.
14:42 And Saul saith, `Cast between me and Jonathan my son;' and Jonathan is captured.
14:43 And Saul saith unto Jonathan, `Declare to me, what hast thou done?' and Jonathan declareth to him, and saith, `I certainly tasted with the end of the rod that [is] in my hand a little honey; lo, I die!'
14:44 And Saul saith, `Thus doth God do, and thus doth He add, for thou dost certainly die, Jonathan.'
14:45 And the people say unto Saul, `Doth Jonathan die who wrought this great salvation in Israel? -- a profanation! YHWH liveth, if there falleth from the hair of his head to the earth, for with God he hath wrought this day;' and the people rescue Jonathan, and he hath not died.
14:46 And Saul goeth up from after the Philistines, and the Philistines have gone to their place;
14:47 and Saul captured the kingdom over Israel, and he fighteth round about against all his enemies, against Moab, and against the Bene-Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines, and whithersoever he turneth he doth vex [them].
14:48 And he maketh a force, and smiteth Amalek, and delivereth Israel out of the hand of its spoiler.
14:49 And the sons of Saul are Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchi-Shua; as to the name of his two daughters, the name of the first-born [is] Merab, and the name of the younger Michal;
1 Samuel 14:50 and the name of the wife of Saul [is] Ahinoam, daughter of Ahimaaz; and the name of the head of his host [is] Abner son of Ner, uncle of Saul;
14:51 and Kish [is] father of Saul, and Ner father of Abner [is] son of Ahiel.
14:52 And the war is severe against the Philistines all the days of Saul; when Saul hath seen any mighty man, and any son of valour, then he doth gather him unto himself.

1 SAMUEL CHAPTER 15

1 Samuel 15:1 And Samuel saith unto Saul, `Me did YHWH send to anoint thee for king over His people, over Israel; and now, hearken to the voice of the words of YHWH:
15:2 `Thus said YHWH of Hosts, I have looked after that which Amalek did to Israel, that which he laid for him in the way in his going up out of Egypt.
15:3 Now, go, and thou hast smitten Amalek, and devoted all that it hath, and thou hast no pity on it, and hast put to death from man unto woman, from infant unto suckling, from ox unto sheep, from camel unto ass.'
15:4 And Saul summoneth the people, and inspecteth them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand [are] men of Judah.
15:5 And Saul cometh in unto a city of Amalek, and layeth wait in a valley;
15:6 and Saul saith unto the Kenite, `Go, turn aside, go down from the midst of Amalek, lest I consume thee with it, and thou didst kindness with all the sons of Israel, in their going up out of Egypt;' and the Kenite turneth aside from the midst of Amalek.
15:7 And Saul smiteth Amalek from Havilah -- thy going in to Shur, which [is] on the front of Egypt,
15:8 and he catcheth Agag king of Amalek alive, and all the people he hath devoted by the mouth of the sword;
15:9 and Saul hath pity -- also the people -- on Agag, and on the best of the flock, and of the herd, and of the seconds, and on the lambs, and on all that [is] good, and have not been willing to devote them; and all the work, despised and wasted -- it they devoted.
1 Samuel 15:10 And the word of YHWH is unto Samuel, saying,
15:11 `I have repented that I caused Saul to reign for king, for he hath turned back from after Me, and My words he hath not performed;' and it is displeasing to Samuel, and he crieth unto YHWH all the night.
15:12 And Samuel riseth early to meet Saul in the morning, and it is declared to Samuel, saying, `Saul hath come in to Carmel, and lo, he is setting up to himself a monument, and goeth round, and passeth over, and goeth down to Gilgal.'
15:13 And Samuel cometh in unto Saul, and Saul saith to him, `Blessed [art] thou of YHWH; I have performed the word of YHWH.'
15:14 And Samuel saith, `And what [is] the noise of this flock in mine ears -- and the noise of the herd which I am hearing?'
15:15 And Saul saith, `From Amalek they have brought them, because the people had pity on the best of the flock, and of the herd, in order to sacrifice to YHWH thy God, and the remnant we have devoted.'
15:16 And Samuel saith unto Saul, `Desist, and I declare to thee that which YHWH hath spoken unto me to-night;' and he saith to him, `Speak.'
15:17 And Samuel saith, `Art not thou, if thou [art] little in thine own eyes, head of the tribes of Israel? and YHWH doth anoint thee for king over Israel,
15:18 and YHWH sendeth thee in the way, and saith, Go, and thou hast devoted the sinners, the Amalekite, and fought against them till they are consumed;
15:19 and why hast thou not hearkened to the voice of YHWH -- and dost fly unto the spoil, and dost do the evil thing in the eyes of YHWH?'
1 Samuel 15:20 And Saul saith unto Samuel, `Because -- I have hearkened to the voice of YHWH, and I go in the way which YHWH hath sent me, and bring in Agag king of Amalek, and Amalek I have devoted;
15:21 and the people taketh of the spoil of the flock and herd, the first part of the devoted thing, for sacrifice to YHWH thy God in Gilgal.'
15:22 And Samuel saith, `Hath YHWH had delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices as [in] hearkening to the voice of YHWH? lo, hearkening than sacrifice is better; to give attention than fat of rams;
15:23 for a sin of divination [is] rebellion, and iniquity and teraphim [is] stubbornness; because thou hast rejected the word of YHWH, He also doth reject thee from [being] king.'
15:24 And Saul saith unto Samuel, `I have sinned, for I passed over the command of YHWH, and thy words; because I have feared the people, I also hearken to their voice;
15:25 and now, bear, I pray thee, with my sin, and turn back with me, and I bow myself to YHWH.'
15:26 And Samuel saith unto Saul, `I do not turn back with thee; for thou hast rejected the word of YHWH, and YHWH doth reject thee from being king over Israel.'
15:27 And Samuel turneth round to go, and he layeth hold on the skirt of his upper robe -- and it is rent!
15:28 And Samuel saith unto him, `YHWH hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee to-day, and given it to thy neighbour who is better than thou;
15:29 and also, the Pre-eminence of Israel doth not lie nor repent, for He [is] not a man to be penitent.'
1 Samuel 15:30 And he saith, `I have sinned; now, honour me, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn back with me; and I have bowed myself to YHWH thy God.'
15:31 And Samuel turneth back after Saul, and Saul boweth himself to YHWH;
15:32 and Samuel saith, `Bring ye nigh unto me Agag king of Amalek,' and Agag cometh unto him daintily, and Agag saith, `Surely the bitterness of death hath turned aside.'
15:33 And Samuel saith, `As thy sword bereaved women -- so is thy mother bereaved above women;' and Samuel heweth Agag in pieces before YHWH in Gilgal.
15:34 And Samuel goeth to Ramath, and Saul hath gone unto his house -- to Gibeah of Saul.
15:35 And Samuel hath not added to see Saul till the day of his death, for Samuel mourned for Saul, and YHWH repented that He had caused Saul to reign over Israel.

Ruth - 1 Samuel 16-31