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22 Therefore, David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. And when his brethren and all his father’s House heard it, they went down there to him.
2 And there, all men who were troubled gathered to him, and all men who were in debt, and all those whose souls were embittered. And he was their prince. And there were about four hundred men with him.
3 And David went there to Mizpah in Moab, and said to the king of Moab, “Please, let my father and my mother come and stay with you until I know what God will do for me.”
4 And he brought them before the king of Moab, and they dwelt with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.
5 And the Prophet Gad said to David, “Do not stay in the stronghold. Depart and go into the land of Judah.” Then David departed and came into the forest of Hereth.
6 And Saul heard that David and the men who were with him had been discovered. And Saul remained in Gibeah, under a tree in Ramah, having his spear in his hand. And all his servants stood around him.
7 And Saul said to his servants who stood around him, “Hear now, sons of Benjamin! Will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards? Will he make you all captains over thousands and captains over hundreds,
8 “so that all of you have conspired against me? And there is not one who tells me that my son has made a covenant with the son of Jesse? And there is not one of you who is sorry for me or tells me that my son has stirred up my servant to lie in wait against me, as it is this day?”
9 Then Doeg the Edomite (who was appointed over the servants of Saul) answered and said, “I saw the son of Jesse when he came to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub,
10 “who asked counsel of the LORD for him and gave him provisions. And he also gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”
11 Then 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 all came to the king.
12 And Saul said, “Hear now, you son of Ahitub.” And he answered, “I am here, my lord.”
13 Then Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him provision, and a sword, and have asked counsel of God for him, so that he could rise against me and lie in wait, as it is this day?”
14 And Ahimelech answered the king, and said, “Who is so faithful among all your servants as David (being also the king’s son-in-law) and goes at your commandment and is honorable in your House?
15 “Have I this day first begun to ask counsel of God for him? Far be it from me. Do not let the king impute anything to his servant or to all the House of my father. For your servant knew nothing of all this, neither less nor more.”
16 Then the king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s House!”
17 And the king said to the sergeants who stood around him, “Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, because their hand is also with David and because they knew when he fled and did not tell me!” But the servants of the king would not move their hands to fall upon the priests of the LORD.
18 Then the king said to Doeg, “Turn yourselves and fall upon the priests!” And Doeg the Edomite turned and ran upon the priests and that same day killed eighty-five people who wore a linen ephod.
19 He also struck Nob, the city of the priests, with the edge of the sword, both man and woman, child and suckling, ox and donkey and sheep with the edge of the sword.
20 But one of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub (whose name was Abiathar) escaped and fled after David.
21 And Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the LORD’s priests.
22 And David said to Abiathar, “I knew it the same day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would tell Saul. I am the cause of the death of all the people of your father’s House.
23 “Stay with me. Do not fear. For he who seeks my life shall also seek your life. For you shall be safe with me.”
23 Then they told David, saying, “Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and plunder the barns.”
2 Therefore, David asked counsel of the LORD, saying, “Shall I go and strike these Philistines?” And the LORD answered David, “Go and strike the Philistines and save Keilah.”
3 And David’s men said to him, “Behold, we are afraid here in Judah. How much more if we come to Keilah against the army of the Philistines?”
4 Then David asked counsel of the LORD again. And the LORD answered him, and said: “Arise, go down to Keilah. For I will deliver the Philistines into your hand.”
5 So David and his men went to Keilah and fought with the Philistines and brought away their cattle and struck them with a great slaughter. Thus David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
6 And when Abiathar, the son of Ahimelech, fled to David, to Keilah, he brought an ephod with him.
7 And it was told to Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, “God has delivered him into my hand; for he is closed in, seeing he has come into a city that has gates and bars.”
8 Then Saul called all the people together to war, to go down to Keilah and to besiege David and his men.
9 And David, having knowledge that Saul devised mischief against him, said to Abiathar the Priest, “Bring the ephod.”
10 Then David said, “O LORD God of Israel! Your servant has heard that Saul is about to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.
11 “Will the lords of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? And will Saul come down, as Your servant has heard? O LORD God of Israel, I pray, tell Your servant!” And the LORD said: “He will come down.”
12 Then David said, “Will the lords of Keilah deliver me up, and the men who are with me, into the hand of Saul?” And the LORD said: “They will deliver you up.”
13 Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah and went wherever they could. And it was told to Saul that David had fled from Keilah. And he ceased his journey.
14 And David stayed in the wilderness, in the strongholds, and remained on a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day; but God did not deliver him into his hand.
15 And David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. And David was in the wilderness of Ziph, in the forest.
16 And Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose and went to David, into the forest, and comforted him in God,
17 and said to him, “Do not fear. 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 also, Saul, my father, knows it.”
18 So the two of them made a covenant before the LORD. And David remained in the forest; but Jonathan went to his house.
19 Then, the Ziphites came up to Saul, to Gibeah, saying, “Does not David hide himself with us in strongholds in the forest, on the hill of Hachilah, which is on the right side of Jeshimon?
20 “Now, therefore, O king, come down according to all that your heart can desire. And our part shall be to deliver him into the king’s hands.”
21 Then Saul said, “Be blessed of the LORD! For you have had compassion on me.
22 “Please go and find out more. Know and see this place that he haunts and who has seen him there. For it is said to me, ‘He is subtle and crafty.’
23 “See, therefore, and know all the secret places where he hides himself. And come back to me with certainty, and I will go with you. And if he is in the land, I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.”
24 Then they arose and went to Ziph before Saul. But David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain, to the right of Jeshimon.
25 When Saul and his men went to seek him, they told David. Therefore, he came down to a rock and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he followed after David in the wilderness of Maon.
26 And Saul and his men went to one side of the mountain, and David and his men to the other side of the mountain. And David hurried to get away from the presence of Saul (for Saul and his men surrounded David and his men, to take them).
27 But a messenger came to Saul, saying, “Hurry and come! For the Philistines have invaded the land!”
28 Therefore, Saul returned from pursuing David and went against the Philistines. So they called that place: Sela Hammahlekoth.
10 “Truly, truly I say to you, the one who does not enter in by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up another way, he is a thief and a robber.
2 “But the one who goes in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
3 “To him the doorkeeper opens. And the sheep hear his voice. And he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
4 “And when he has sent forth his own sheep, he goes before them. And the sheep follow him. For they know his voice.
5 “And they will not follow a stranger. But they flee from him. For they do not know the voice of strangers.”
6 Jesus spoke this parable to them. But they did not understand what it was He was saying to them.
7 Then Jesus said to them again, “Truly, truly I say to you, I am that Door of the sheep.
8 “All that ever came before Me are thieves and robbers. But the sheep did not hear them.
9 “I am that Door. If anyone enters in by Me, he shall be saved, and shall go in, and go out, and find pasture.
10 “The thief does not come, if not to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they might have life and have it in abundance.
11 “I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd gives His life for His sheep.
12 “But the hired servant (who is not the shepherd, nor are the sheep his own) sees the wolf coming and he leaves the sheep and flees. And the wolf catches them and scatters the sheep.
13 “So the hired servant flees because he is a hired servant and does not care for the sheep.
14 “I am the Good Shepherd, and know My own, and am known by My own.
15 “As the Father knows Me, so I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep.
16 “I have other sheep also, which are not of this fold. I must also bring them. And they shall hear My voice. And there shall be one sheepfold, with one Shepherd.
17 “Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life, that I might take it again.
18 “No one takes it from Me. But I lay it down on My own. I have authority to lay it down and have authority to take it again. I have received this Commandment from My Father.”
19 Again, there was a dissension among the Jews because of these sayings.
20 And many of them said, ‘He has a demon, and is insane. Why listen to Him?’
21 Others said, ‘These are not the words of one who has a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?’
115 Not to us, O LORD, not to us; but to Your Name give the glory, for Your loving mercy and for Your truth’s sake.
2 Why shall the heathen say, “Where is their God, now?”
3 But our God is in Heaven. He does whatever He will.
4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
5 They have a mouth and do not speak. They have eyes and do not see.
6 They have ears and do not hear. They have noses and do not smell.
7 They have hands and do not touch. They have feet and do not walk; nor do they make a sound with their throat.
8 Those who make them are like them. So are all who trust in them.
9 O Israel, trust in the LORD! He is their help and their shield.
10 O House of Aaron, trust in the LORD! He is their help and their shield.
11 You who fear the LORD, trust in the LORD. He is their helper and their shield.
12 The LORD has been mindful of us. He will bless. He will bless the House of Israel. He will bless the House of Aaron.
13 He will bless those who fear the LORD, both small and great.
14 The LORD will increase toward you, toward you and toward your children.
15 You are blessed by the LORD, Who made Heaven and Earth.
16 The heavens, even the heavens are the LORD’s; but He has given the Earth to the sons of men.
17 The dead do not praise the LORD, nor any who go down into the silence.
18 But we will praise the LORD from henceforth and forever. Praise the LORD!
18 An angry man stirs up strife. But the slow to anger appeases strife.
19 The way of the slothful is as a hedge of thorns. But the way of the righteous is plain.
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