H9023–הוּ–hu

And David said, [ergänzt: As] Jehovah liveth, Jehovah will surely smite him; either his day shall come to die, or he shall descend into battle and perish.

יוֹמ֤וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

Jehovah forbid that I should stretch forth my hand against Jehovah's anointed! But now take, I pray thee, the spear that is at his head, and the cruse of water, and let us go.

מְרַאֲשֹׁתָ֛יו (ו) v “his”

This thing is not good which thou hast done. As Jehovah liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have not guarded your master, Jehovah's anointed. And now see where the king's spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his head.

מְרַאֲשֹׁתָֽיו׃ (ו) v “his”

And he said, Why does my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in my hand?

עַבְדּ֑וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

And now, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If Jehovah have moved thee against me, let him accept an oblation; but if the sons of men, cursed be they before Jehovah; for they have driven me out this day from adhering to the inheritance of Jehovah, saying, Go, serve other gods.

עַבְדּ֑וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

And Jehovah will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; for Jehovah gave thee into [ergänzt: my] hand this day, and I would not stretch forth my hand against Jehovah's anointed.

צִדְקָת֖וֹ (וֹ) o “his”אֱמֻנָת֑וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

And Saul said to David, Blessed be thou, my son David: thou shalt certainly do [ergänzt: great things], and shalt certainly prevail. And David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.

לְדַרְכּ֔וֹ (וֹ) o “his”לִמְקוֹמֽוֹ׃ (וֹ) o “his”

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 will despair of me to seek me any more within all the limits of Israel, and I shall escape out of his hand.

לִבּ֔וֹ (וֹ) o “his”מִיָּדֽוֹ׃ (וֹ) o “his”

And David abode with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household; David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jizreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.

וַאֲנָשָׁ֖יו (ו) v “his”וּבֵית֑וֹ (וֹ) o “his”נָשָׁ֔יו (ו) v “his”

And David and his men went up and made a raid upon the Geshurites, and the Gerzites, and the Amalekites: for those were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, and as far as the land of Egypt.

וַֽאֲנָשָׁ֔יו (ו) v “his”

And David left neither man nor woman alive, to bring [ergänzt: them] to Gath, for he said, Lest they should tell of us, saying, So did David. And such was his custom as long as he abode in the country of the Philistines.

מִשְׁפָּט֔וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

And Achish trusted David, saying, He has made himself utterly odious among his people Israel; and he shall be my servant for ever.

בְּעַמּ֣וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

(Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and they had buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away the necromancers and the soothsayers out of the land.)

וּבְעִיר֑וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

And when Saul saw the camp of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled.

לִבּ֖וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

Then said Saul to his servants, Seek me a woman that has a spirit of Python, that I may go to her and inquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman who has a spirit of Python at En-dor.

לַעֲבָדָ֗יו (ו) v “his”עֲבָדָיו֙ (ו֙) v “his”

And he said to her, What is his form? And she said, An old man comes up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul knew that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself.

תָּאֳר֔וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

Because thou didst not hearken to the voice of Jehovah, and didst not execute his fierce anger upon Amalek, therefore has Jehovah done this thing to thee this day.

אַפּ֖וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

And Saul fell straightway his full length on the earth, and was sore afraid because of the words of Samuel; and there was no strength in him, for he had eaten no bread all the day nor all the night.

קֽוֹמָתוֹ֙ (וֹ֙) o “his”

But he refused and said, I will not eat. Then his servants, and the woman also, compelled him, and he hearkened to their voice; and he arose from the earth and sat on the bed.

עֲבָדָיו֙ (ו֙) v “his”

and she brought it near before Saul, and before his servants, and they ate. And they rose up and went away that night.

עֲבָדָ֖יו (ו) v “his”

And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds and by thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rearward with Achish.

וַאֲנָשָׁ֗יו (ו) v “his”

But the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines said to him, Make the man return, that he may go again to his place where thou hast appointed him, that he go not down with us to the battle, that in the battle he be not an adversary to us; for wherewith should this [ergänzt: fellow] reconcile himself to his master? should it not be with the heads of these men?

מְקוֹמוֹ֙ (וֹ֙) o “his”אֲדֹנָ֔יו (ו) v “his”

Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul smote his thousands, and David his ten thousands?

בַּֽאֲלָפָ֔יו (ו) v “his”בְּרִבְבֹתָֽיו׃ (ו) v “his”

And David rose up early, he and his men, to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jizreel.

וַֽאֲנָשָׁיו֙ (ו֙) v “his”

And it came to pass, when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had made a raid upon the south, and upon Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag and burned it with fire;

וַאֲנָשָׁ֛יו (ו) v “his”