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So Achish believed David, saying, "He has surely made himself odious among his people Israel; therefore he will become my servant forever."

And David said to Achish, "Very well, you shall know what your servant can do." So Achish said to David, "Very well, I will make you my bodyguard for life."

So the Philistines gathered together and came and camped in Shunem; and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they camped in Gilboa.

So Saul asked of Yahweh, but Yahweh did not answer him, either by dreams or by Urim or by prophets.

So Saul said to his servants, "Seek for me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her." And his servants said to him, "Behold, there is a woman who is a medium at En-dor."

So Yahweh has done accordingly as He spoke by my hand, for Yahweh has torn the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbor, to David.

As you did not listen to the voice of Yahweh and did not execute His burning anger on Amalek, so Yahweh has done this thing to you this day.

So now also, please listen to the voice of your servant-woman, and let me set a piece of bread before you that you may eat and have strength when you go on your way."

But he refused and said, "I will not eat." However, his servants together with the woman urged him, and he listened to them. So he arose from the ground and sat on the bed.

So now, return and go in peace, that you may not do evil in the sight of the lords of the Philistines."

So now, arise early in the morning with the servants of your lord who have come with you, and as soon as you have arisen early in the morning and have light, go."

So David arose early, he and his men, to go in the morning to return to the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

So David and the people who were with him lifted their voices and wept until there was no strength in them to weep.

Then David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, "Please bring the ephod near to me." So Abiathar brought the ephod near to David.

So David went, he and the six hundred men who were with him, and they came to the brook Besor, where those left behind remained.

So he brought him down, and behold, they were spread over all the land, eating and drinking and celebrating because of all the great spoil that they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.

So David delivered all that the Amalekites had taken and delivered his two wives.

Then David said, "You must not do so, my brothers, with what Yahweh has given us, who has kept us and given into our hand the band that came against us.

And who will listen to you in this matter? For as is the portion of the one who goes down to the battle, so shall the portion be of the one who remains by the baggage; they shall be apportioned together."

So it has been from that day forward, that he made it a statute and a judgment for Israel to this day.