Old Testament

1 Samuel 22-23

^22:1David therefore departed there, and escaped to the cave of Adullam: and when his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him. ^22:2Everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented, gathered themselves to him; and he became captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men. ^22:3David went there to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said to the king of Moab, Please let my father and my mother come forth, and be with you, until I know what God will do for me. ^22:4He brought them before the king of Moab: and they lived with him all the while that David was in the stronghold. ^22:5The prophet Gad said to David, Don't stay in the stronghold; depart, and get you into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hereth. ^22:6Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men who were with him: now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree in Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him. ^22:7Saul said to his servants who stood about him, Hear now, you Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give everyone of you fields and vineyards, will he make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, ^22:8that all of you have conspired against me, and there is none who discloses to me when my son makes a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day? ^22:9Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. ^22:10He inquired of Yahweh for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine. ^22:11Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests who were in Nob: and they came all of them to the king. ^22:12Saul said, Hear now, you son of Ahitub. He answered, Here I am, my lord. ^22:13Saul said to him, Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day? ^22:14Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and is taken into your council, and is honorable in your house? ^22:15Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? be it far from me: don't let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knows nothing of all this, less or more. ^22:16The king said, You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you, and all your father's house. ^22:17The king said to the guard who stood about him, Turn, and kill the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn't disclose it to me. But the servants of the king wouldn't put forth their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh. ^22:18The king said to Doeg, Turn you, and fall on the priests. Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell on the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five persons who wore a linen ephod. ^22:19Nob, the city of the priests, struck he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and nursing babies, and oxen and donkeys and sheep, with the edge of the sword. ^22:20One of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David. ^22:21Abiathar told David that Saul had slain Yahweh's priests. ^22:22David said to Abiathar, I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned the death of all the persons of your father's house. ^22:23Abide you with me, don't be afraid; for he who seeks my life seeks your life: for with me you shall be in safeguard.

^23:1They told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors. ^23:2Therefore David inquired of Yahweh, saying, Shall I go and strike these Philistines? Yahweh said to David, Go, and strike the Philistines, and save Keilah. ^23:3David's men said to him, Behold, we are afraid here in Judah: how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines? ^23:4Then David inquired of Yahweh yet again. Yahweh answered him, and said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into your hand. ^23:5David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and killed them with a great slaughter. So David save the inhabitants of Keilah. ^23:6It happened, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand. ^23:7It was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. Saul said, God has delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that has gates and bars. ^23:8Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men. ^23:9David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring here the ephod. ^23:10Then said David, O Yahweh, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake. ^23:11Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? Yahweh, the God of Israel, I beg you, tell your servant. Yahweh said, He will come down. ^23:12Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver up to me and my men into the hand of Saul? Yahweh said, They will deliver you up. ^23:13Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went wherever they could go. It was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he gave up going there. ^23:14David abode in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill-country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn't deliver him into his hand. ^23:15David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the wood. ^23:16Jonathan, Saul's son, arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God. ^23:17He said to him, Don't be afraid; for the hand of Saul my father shall not find you; and you shall be king over Israel, and I shall be next to you; and that also Saul my father knows. ^23:18They two made a covenant before Yahweh: and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house. ^23:19Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doesn't David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert? ^23:20Now therefore, O king, come down, according to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him up into the king's hand. ^23:21Saul said, Blessed be you of Yahweh; for you have had compassion on me. ^23:22Plesease go make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who has seen him there; for it is told me that he deals very subtly. ^23:23See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking-places where he hides himself, and come you again to me of a certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall happen, if he be in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah. ^23:24They arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of the desert. ^23:25Saul and his men went to seek him. They told David: why he came down to the rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon. ^23:26Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take them. ^23:27But there came a messenger to Saul, saying, Haste you, and come; for the Philistines have made a raid on the land. ^23:28So Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines: therefore they called that place Sela Hammahlekoth. ^23:29David went up from there, and lived in the strongholds of En Gedi.

New Testament

Galatians 3-4

^3:1Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth among you as crucified? ^3:2I just want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith? ^3:3Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh? ^3:4Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain? ^3:5He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you, and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith? ^3:6Even as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness." ^3:7Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are sons of Abraham. ^3:8The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you all the nations will be blessed." ^3:9So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham. ^3:10For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who doesn't continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them." ^3:11Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, "The righteous will live by faith." ^3:12The law is not of faith, but, "The man who does them will live by them."

^3:13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree," ^3:14that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. ^3:15Brothers, I speak like men. Though it is only a man's covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it. ^3:16Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He doesn't say, "To seeds," as of many, but as of one, "To your seed," which is Christ. ^3:17Now I say this. A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect. ^3:18For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.

^3:19What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator. ^3:20Now a mediator is not between one, but God is one. ^3:21Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most assuredly righteousness would have been of the law. ^3:22But the Scriptures shut up all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. ^3:23But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, shut up to the faith which should afterwards be revealed. ^3:24So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. ^3:25But now that faith is come, we are no longer under a tutor. ^3:26For you are all sons of God, through faith in Christ Jesus. ^3:27For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. ^3:28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. ^3:29If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise.

^4:1But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all; ^4:2but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father. ^4:3So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elements of the world. ^4:4But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law, ^4:5that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. ^4:6And because you are sons, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, "Abba, Father!" ^4:7So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. ^4:8However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods. ^4:9But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elements, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again? ^4:10You observe days, months, seasons, and years. ^4:11I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you. ^4:12I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong, ^4:13but you know that because of weakness of the flesh I preached the gospel to you the first time. ^4:14That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn't despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

^4:15What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me. ^4:16So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth? ^4:17They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them. ^4:18But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.

^4:19My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you-- ^4:20but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you. ^4:21Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don't you listen to the law? ^4:22For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the free woman. ^4:23However, the son by the handmaid was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise. ^4:24These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar. ^4:25For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children. ^4:26But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all. ^4:27For it is written,

 "Rejoice, you barren who don't bear.
      Break forth and shout, you that don't travail.
      For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband."

^4:28Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise. ^4:29But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now. ^4:30However what does the Scripture say? "Throw out the handmaid and her son, for the son of the handmaid will not inherit with the son of the free woman." ^4:31So then, brothers, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the free woman.