1 Samuel 24:2

Saul also went to his house to Gibeah; and the army went with him, whose hearts God had touched.

Samuel arose, and went from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. Saul counted the people who were present with him, about six hundred men.

For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

The hyraxes are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks.

They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven.

Samuel said, “What have you done?” Saul said, “Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn’t come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves together at Michmash;

They struck the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. The people were very faint;

“Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?

Yahweh’s voice makes the deer calve, and strips the forests bare. In his temple everything says, “Glory!”

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me.

He has come to Aiath. He has passed through Migron. At Michmash he stores his baggage.

They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him.

The garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.

Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.

How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down, like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

But those who seek my soul to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘An evil animal has devoured him.’ We will see what will become of his dreams.”

She laid up his garment by her, until his master came home.

The hyrax, because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean to you.

When Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, he didn’t go, as at the other times, to use divination, but he set his face toward the wilderness.

the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the chamois.

Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof split: the camel, the hare, and the rabbit. Because they chew the cud but don’t part the hoof, they are unclean to you.

Zelah, Eleph, the Jebusite (also called Jerusalem), Gibeath, and Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.

His master said to him, “We won’t enter into the city of a foreigner that is not of the children of Israel; but we will pass over to Gibeah.”

He said, “This will be the way of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them as his servants, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they will run before his chariots.

Saul chose for himself three thousand men of Israel, of which two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in the Mount of Bethel, and one thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. He sent the rest of the people to their own tents.

Now it fell on a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come! Let’s go over to the Philistines’ garrison that is on the other side.” But he didn’t tell his father.

The one crag rose up on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south in front of Geba.

There was severe war against the Philistines all the days of Saul; and when Saul saw any mighty man, or any valiant man, he took him into his service.

Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.

David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely; and Saul set him over the men of war. It was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul’s servants.

Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David, “You shall today be my son-in-law a second time.”

Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain; and David hurried to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men surrounded David and his men to take them.

He said to David, “You are more righteous than I; for you have done good to me, whereas I have done evil to you.

The Philistines overtook Saul and on his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.

let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang them up to Yahweh in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of Yahweh.” The king said, “I will give them.”

Now these are the last words of David. David the son of Jesse says, the man who was raised on high says, the anointed of the God of Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel:

Therefore he sent horses, chariots, and a great army there. They came by night, and surrounded the city.

The king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.

All these were men of war, who could order the battle array, and came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel; and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.

David said to all the assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if it is of Yahweh our God, let’s send word everywhere to our brothers who are left in all the land of Israel, with whom the priests and Levites are in their cities that have pasture lands, that they may gather themselves to us.

The children of Judah carried away ten thousand alive, and brought them to the top of the rock, and threw them down from the top of the rock, so that they all were broken in pieces.

Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come! Let’s meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono.” But they intended to harm me.

Then I sent to him, saying, “There are no such things done as you say, but you imagine them out of your own heart.”

He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net.

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to kill him.

They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

My enemies speak evil against me: “When will he die, and his name perish?”

You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever.

For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven’t set God before them.

They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life.

For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.

The high mountains are for the wild goats. The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.

because he didn’t remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.

The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes.

The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.

if it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, when men rose up against us;

those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.

Don’t lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don’t destroy his resting place;

They have gone over the pass. They have taken up their lodging at Geba. Ramah trembles. Gibeah of Saul has fled.

Yes, the doe in the field also calves and forsakes her young, because there is no grass.

Let a cry be heard from their houses when you bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me and hidden snares for my feet.

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

In that day,” says Yahweh, “I will strike every horse with terror, and his rider with madness; and I will open my eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.

While he was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and elders of the people.

In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, “Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me.

They sent some of the Pharisees and the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words.

All testified about him, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth, and they said, “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?”

The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against him.

lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.

When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.

They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this.

but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,