These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
1 Samuel 27
Tanakh 12 verses
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And said in his : ‘I shall now be swept away one day by the hand of ; there is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of ; so shall I escape out of his hand.’
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1 Samuel 16:1 1 Samuel 16:13 1 Samuel 28:1-2 Isaiah 51:12 Proverbs 13:12 Lamentations 3:26-27 Proverbs 3:5-6 1 Samuel 21:10-15 Psalm 116:11 Mark 4:40 Isaiah 30:15-16 2 Corinthians 7:5 Numbers 14:3 Matthew 14:31 1 Samuel 22:5 Isaiah 40:27-31 1 Samuel 23:17 1 Samuel 29:2 1 Samuel 25:30 Exodus 14:12 1 Samuel 27:10-11 -
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And arose, and passed over, he and the six hundred men that were with him, unto Achish the son of Maoch, of Gath.
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And dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal’s wife.
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And it was told that was fled to Gath; and he sought no more again for him.
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And said unto Achish: ‘If now I have found favour in thine eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there; for why should thy dwell in the royal city with thee?’
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- 6 Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day; wherefore Ziklag belongeth unto the kings of unto this day.
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And the number of the days that dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.
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- 8 And and his men went up, and made a raid upon the Geshurites, and the Gizrites, and the Amalekites; for those were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of .
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And smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel. And he returned, and came to Achish.
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- 10 And Achish said: ‘Whither have ye made a raid to-day?’ And said: ‘Against the South of , and against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites.’
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And left neither man nor woman alive, to bring them to Gath, saying: ‘Lest they should tell on us, saying: So did , and so hath been his manner all the while he hath dwelt in the country of the Philistines.’
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And Achish believed , saying: ‘He hath made his people utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my for ever.’
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