1╙┴ 23:1 ╘HEN THEY TOLD ─AVID, SAYING, ┬EHOLD, THE ╨HILISTINES FIGHT AGAINST ╦EILAH, AND THEY ROB THE THRESHINGFLOORS.
1╙┴ 23:2 ╘HEREFORE ─AVID ENQUIRED OF THE ╠╧╥─, SAYING, ╙HALL ╔ GO AND SMITE THESE ╨HILISTINES? ┴ND THE ╠╧╥─ SAID UNTO ─AVID, ╟O, AND SMITE THE ╨HILISTINES, AND SAVE ╦EILAH.
1╙┴ 23:3 ┴ND ─AVID'S MEN SAID UNTO HIM, ┬EHOLD, WE BE AFRAID HERE IN ╩UDAH: HOW MUCH MORE THEN IF WE COME TO ╦EILAH AGAINST THE ARMIES OF THE ╨HILISTINES?
1╙┴ 23:4 ╘HEN ─AVID ENQUIRED OF THE ╠╧╥─ YET AGAIN. ┴ND THE ╠╧╥─ ANSWERED HIM AND SAID, ┴RISE, GO DOWN TO ╦EILAH; FOR ╔ WILL DELIVER THE ╨HILISTINES INTO THINE HAND.
1╙┴ 23:5 ╙O ─AVID AND HIS MEN WENT TO ╦EILAH, AND FOUGHT WITH THE ╨HILISTINES, AND BROUGHT AWAY THEIR CATTLE, AND SMOTE THEM WITH A GREAT SLAUGHTER. ╙O ─AVID SAVED THE INHABITANTS OF ╦EILAH.
1╙┴ 23:6 ┴ND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN ┴BIATHAR THE SON OF ┴HIMELECH FLED TO ─AVID TO ╦EILAH, THAT HE CAME DOWN WITH AN EPHOD IN HIS HAND.
1╙┴ 23:7 ┴ND IT WAS TOLD ╙AUL THAT ─AVID WAS COME TO ╦EILAH. ┴ND ╙AUL SAID, ╟OD HATH DELIVERED HIM INTO MINE HAND; FOR HE IS SHUT IN, BY ENTERING INTO A TOWN THAT HATH GATES AND BARS.
1╙┴ 23:8 ┴ND ╙AUL CALLED ALL THE PEOPLE TOGETHER TO WAR, TO GO DOWN TO ╦EILAH, TO BESIEGE ─AVID AND HIS MEN.
1╙┴ 23:9 ┴ND ─AVID KNEW THAT ╙AUL SECRETLY PRACTISED MISCHIEF AGAINST HIM; AND HE SAID TO ┴BIATHAR THE PRIEST, ┬RING HITHER THE EPHOD.
1╙┴ 23:10 ╘HEN SAID ─AVID, ╧ ╠╧╥─ ╟OD OF ╔SRAEL, THY SERVANT HATH CERTAINLY HEARD THAT ╙AUL SEEKETH TO COME TO ╦EILAH, TO DESTROY THE CITY FOR MY SAKE.
1╙┴ 23:11 ╫ILL THE MEN OF ╦EILAH DELIVER ME UP INTO HIS HAND? WILL ╙AUL COME DOWN, AS THY SERVANT HATH HEARD? ╧ ╠╧╥─ ╟OD OF ╔SRAEL, ╔ BESEECH THEE, TELL THY SERVANT. ┴ND THE ╠╧╥─ SAID, ╚E WILL COME DOWN.
1╙┴ 23:12 ╘HEN SAID ─AVID, ╫ILL THE MEN OF ╦EILAH DELIVER ME AND MY MEN INTO THE HAND OF ╙AUL? ┴ND THE ╠╧╥─ SAID, ╘HEY WILL DELIVER THEE UP.
1╙┴ 23:13 ╘HEN ─AVID AND HIS MEN, WHICH WERE ABOUT SIX HUNDRED, AROSE AND DEPARTED OUT OF ╦EILAH, AND WENT WHITHERSOEVER THEY COULD GO. ┴ND IT WAS TOLD ╙AUL THAT ─AVID WAS ESCAPED FROM ╦EILAH; AND HE FORBARE TO GO FORTH.
1╙┴ 23:14 ┴ND ─AVID ABODE IN THE WILDERNESS IN STRONG HOLDS, AND REMAINED IN A MOUNTAIN IN THE WILDERNESS OF ┌IPH. ┴ND ╙AUL SOUGHT HIM EVERY DAY, BUT ╟OD DELIVERED HIM NOT INTO HIS HAND.
1╙┴ 23:15 ┴ND ─AVID SAW THAT ╙AUL WAS COME OUT TO SEEK HIS LIFE: AND ─AVID WAS IN THE WILDERNESS OF ┌IPH IN A WOOD.
1╙┴ 23:16 ┴ND ╩ONATHAN ╙AUL'S SON AROSE, AND WENT TO ─AVID INTO THE WOOD, AND STRENGTHENED HIS HAND IN ╟OD.
1╙┴ 23:17 ┴ND HE SAID UNTO HIM, ╞EAR NOT: FOR THE HAND OF ╙AUL MY FATHER SHALL NOT FIND THEE; AND THOU SHALT BE KING OVER ╔SRAEL, AND ╔ SHALL BE NEXT UNTO THEE; AND THAT ALSO ╙AUL MY FATHER KNOWETH.
1╙┴ 23:18 ┴ND THEY TWO MADE A COVENANT BEFORE THE ╠╧╥─: AND ─AVID ABODE IN THE WOOD, AND ╩ONATHAN WENT TO HIS HOUSE.
1╙┴ 23:19 ╘HEN CAME UP THE ┌IPHITES TO ╙AUL TO ╟IBEAH, SAYING, ─OTH NOT ─AVID HIDE HIMSELF WITH US IN STRONG HOLDS IN THE WOOD, IN THE HILL OF ╚ACHILAH, WHICH IS ON THE SOUTH OF ╩ESHIMON?
1╙┴ 23:20 ╬OW THEREFORE, ╧ KING, COME DOWN ACCORDING TO ALL THE DESIRE OF THY SOUL TO COME DOWN; AND OUR PART SHALL BE TO DELIVER HIM INTO THE KING'S HAND.
1╙┴ 23:21 ┴ND ╙AUL SAID, ┬LESSED BE YE OF THE ╠╧╥─; FOR YE HAVE COMPASSION ON ME.
1╙┴ 23:22 ╟O, ╔ PRAY YOU, PREPARE YET, AND KNOW AND SEE HIS PLACE WHERE HIS HAUNT IS, AND WHO HATH SEEN HIM THERE: FOR IT IS TOLD ME THAT HE DEALETH VERY SUBTILLY.
1╙┴ 23:23 ╙EE THEREFORE, AND TAKE KNOWLEDGE OF ALL THE LURKING PLACES WHERE HE HIDETH HIMSELF, AND COME YE AGAIN TO ME WITH THE CERTAINTY, AND ╔ WILL GO WITH YOU: AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, IF HE BE IN THE LAND, THAT ╔ WILL SEARCH HIM OUT THROUGHOUT ALL THE THOUSANDS OF ╩UDAH.
1╙┴ 23:24 ┴ND THEY AROSE, AND WENT TO ┌IPH BEFORE ╙AUL: BUT ─AVID AND HIS MEN WERE IN THE WILDERNESS OF ═AON, IN THE PLAIN ON THE SOUTH OF ╩ESHIMON.
1╙┴ 23:25 ╙AUL ALSO AND HIS MEN WENT TO SEEK HIM. ┴ND THEY TOLD ─AVID; WHEREFORE HE CAME DOWN INTO A ROCK, AND ABODE IN THE WILDERNESS OF ═AON. ┴ND WHEN ╙AUL HEARD THAT, HE PURSUED AFTER ─AVID IN THE WILDERNESS OF ═AON.
1╙┴ 23:26 ┴ND ╙AUL WENT ON THIS SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN, AND ─AVID AND HIS MEN ON THAT SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN: AND ─AVID MADE HASTE TO GET AWAY FOR FEAR OF ╙AUL; FOR ╙AUL AND HIS MEN COMPASSED ─AVID AND HIS MEN ROUND ABOUT TO TAKE THEM.
1╙┴ 23:27 ┬UT THERE CAME A MESSENGER UNTO ╙AUL, SAYING, ╚ASTE THEE, AND COME; FOR THE ╨HILISTINES HAVE INVADED THE LAND.
1╙┴ 23:28 ╫HEREFORE ╙AUL RETURNED FROM PURSUING AFTER ─AVID, AND WENT AGAINST THE ╨HILISTINES: THEREFORE THEY CALLED THAT PLACE ╙ELAHAMMAHLEKOTH.
1╙┴ 23:29 ┴ND ─AVID WENT UP FROM THENCE, AND DWELT IN STRONG HOLDS AT ┼NGEDI.
