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For, as Yahweh lives, who saves Israel, though it is in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there wasn't a man among all the people that answered him.

And Saul said, God do so and more also; for you shall surely die, Jonathan.

And the people said to Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who has wrought this great salvation in Israel? Far from it: as Yahweh lives, not one hair of his head shall fall to the ground; for he has wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he did not die.

And Saul said to the Kenites, Go, depart, go down from among the Amalekites, or else I will destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the sons of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

It repents me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments. And Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.

And Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, look, he set up for himself a monument, and turned, and passed on, and went down to Gilgal.

And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God; and the rest we have completely destroyed.

For rebellion is as the sin of fortune-telling, and stubbornness is as idolatry and talismans. Because you have rejected the word of Yahweh, he has also rejected you from being king.

And Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

And Samuel said to Saul, I will not return with you; for you have rejected the word of Yahweh, and Yahweh has rejected you from being king over Israel.

And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not man, that he should repent.

And Samuel didn't come to see Saul anymore until the day of his death; for Samuel mourned for Saul: and Yahweh repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.

And Yahweh said to Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from being king over Israel? fill your horn with oil, and go: I will send you to Jesse the Beth-lehemite; for I have provided myself a king among his sons.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, Don't look on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for [it is] not [a matter of] what man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks on the heart.

And Samuel said to Jesse, Are all your lads here? And he said, There remains yet the youngest, and, look, he is keeping the sheep. And Samuel said to Jesse, Send and fetch him; for we will not sit down until he comes here.

And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and as well of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look at. And Yahweh said, Arise, anoint him; for this is he.

And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray you, stand before me; for he has found favor in my sight.

And he stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them, Why do you come out to set your battle in array? am I not a Philistine, and you slaves to Saul? choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.

And Jesse said to David his son, Now take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry [them] quickly to the camp to your brothers;

And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the place of the wagons, as the host which was going forth to the fight shouted for the battle.