While He was still speaking, behold, a crowd came, and he who is called Judas, one of the twelve, was going before them and drew near to Jesus to kiss Him.

But Jesus said to him, Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?

And those around Him, seeing what would happen, said, Lord, shall we strike with the sword?

And a certain one of them struck the slave of the high priest and took off his right ear.

But Jesus answered and said,  ¹Let them go this far. And touching his ear, He healed him.

And Jesus said to the chief priests and officers of the temple and elders who had come up against Him, Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs?

While I was with you day by day in the  ¹temple, you did not stretch out your hands against Me. But this is your hour and the authority of darkness.

And having arrested Him, they led Him away, and brought Him into the house of the high priest.

But Peter followed at a distance.

And when they had lit a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat among them.

And a certain servant girl, seeing him seated in the light of the fire, looked intently at him and said, This man was with Him too.

But he denied it, saying, I do not know Him, woman.

And after a short time, another person, seeing him, said, You also are one of them. But Peter said, Man, I am not!

And after about one hour had passed,  ¹another one insisted, saying, Surely this man was also with Him, for he is also a Galilean.

But Peter said, Man, I do not know what you are saying. And instantly, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.

And the Lord turned and looked at Peter, and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had said to him, Before a rooster crows today, you will deny Me three times.

And he went outside and wept bitterly.

And the men who were holding Him mocked Him and beat Him.

And they blindfolded Him and questioned Him, saying,  ¹Prophesy! Who is the one who hit You?

And they said many other things against Him, blaspheming.

And when it became day, the assembly of the elders of the people, both chief priests and scribes, were gathered together, and they led Him away to their  ¹Sanhedrin, saying,

If You are the Christ, tell us. But He said to them, If I tell you, you shall by no means believe;

And if I ask you, you shall by no means answer.

But from now on the  ¹Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.

And they all said, Are You then the  ¹Son of God? And He said to them, You say rightly that I am.

And they said, What further need do we have of testimony? For we have heard it ourselves from His mouth.

And David said in his heart, I will now one day perish at the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape into the land of the Philistines; then Saul will despair of seeking me any longer within all the territory of Israel. Thus I will escape from his hand.

So David rose up and  ¹crossed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, the king of Gath.

And David and his men remained with Achish in Gath, he and his men, each man with his household: David and his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelite and Abigail the wife of Nabal, the Carmelite.

And it was told Saul that David had fled to Gath, so he no longer sought him.

And David said to Achish, If now I have found favor in your sight, let me be given a place in one of the country towns; and I will dwell there. For why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?

So Achish gave him Ziklag that day; therefore Ziklag belongs to the kings of Judah to this day.

And the length of time that David remained in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months.

Now David and his men went up and attacked the Geshurites and the Girzites and the Amalekites, for they were the inhabitants of the land from of old, as you go to Shur and unto the land of Egypt.

And David struck the land; and he left neither man nor woman alive but took the sheep and the oxen and the asses and the camels and the clothing. Then he returned and came to Achish.

Then Achish said,  ¹Against whom have you conducted an attack today? And David said, Against the south of Judah and against the south of the Jerahmeelites and against the south of the Kenites.

Now David left neither man nor woman alive to be brought to Gath, for he said, Perhaps they will tell of us, saying, Thus did David do. And such was his custom as long as he dwelt in the country of the Philistines.

And Achish trusted David, saying, He has made himself utterly odious to his people Israel; therefore he shall be my servant forever.

Then in those days the Philistines gathered their camps together for war to fight against Israel. And Achish said to David, Know assuredly that you shall go out with me into the camp, you and your men.

And David said to Achish, This being so, you will know what your servant can do. And Achish said to David, Therefore I will make you my bodyguard for life.

Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had mourned for him; and they had buried him in Ramah, that is, in his own city. And Saul had the mediums and the soothsayers put out of the land.

And the Philistines gathered together, and they came and encamped in Shunem; and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they encamped in Gilboa.

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

And Saul inquired of Jehovah; but Jehovah did not answer him, not by dreams or by the Urim or by the prophets.

Then said Saul to his servants, Seek for me a woman who is a  ¹medium that I may go to her and inquire of her. And his servants said to him, There is now a woman who is a medium at En-dor.

Then Saul disguised himself and put on other clothes. And he and two men with him went, and they came to the woman by night. And he said, Consult a departed spirit for me, and bring up to me the one whom I tell you.

But the woman said to him, Look, you know what Saul has done, that he has cut off the mediums and the soothsayers from the land. Why then do you lay a snare for my life to make me die?

Then Saul swore to her by Jehovah, saying, As Jehovah lives, no punishment shall happen to you for this thing.

So the woman said, Whom shall I bring up to you? And he said, Bring up Samuel to me.

Now when the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice; and the woman spoke to Saul, saying, Why have you deceived me? For you are Saul.

And the king said to her, Do not be afraid. But what do you see? And the woman said to Saul, I see  ¹some divine being coming up out of the earth.

And he said to her, What is his appearance? And she said, An old man is coming up; and he is wrapped in a cloak. Then Saul knew that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground and paid him homage.

And Samuel said to Saul, Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up? And Saul said, I am greatly distressed; for the Philistines wage war against me, and God has turned away from me and answers me no more, neither through the prophets nor by dreams. Therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I shall do.

And Samuel said, Why then have you inquired of me? For Jehovah has turned away from you and become your adversary.

And Jehovah has done for Himself just as He spoke through me, for Jehovah has torn the kingdom out from your hand and given it to an associate of yours, to David.

Because you did not listen to the voice of Jehovah and did not execute His burning anger upon the Amalekites, therefore Jehovah has done this thing to you this day.

And Jehovah will also give Israel with you into the hand of the Philistines, and tomorrow  ¹you and your sons will be with me; Jehovah will also give the camp of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.

Then immediately Saul fell his full length to the ground, and he was very afraid because of Samuel's words. And there was no strength in him, for he had not eaten food all day and all night.

And the woman came to Saul and saw that he was very troubled. And she said to him, Indeed, your servant has listened to your voice; and I have put my life in my hand and have listened to your words which you spoke to me.

Now therefore, you listen also to the voice of your servant, and let me set a morsel of bread before you; and eat, that you may have strength when you go on your way.

But he refused and said, I will not eat. Then his servants, as well as the woman, compelled him, and he listened to their voice; and he rose up from the ground and sat on the bed.

And the woman had a fattened calf in the house; and she hurried and killed it, and took flour and kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread with it.

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

And the Philistines gathered all their camps together at Aphek; and Israel encamped by the spring that is in Jezreel.

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

And the princes of the Philistines said, What are these Hebrews doing here? And Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, Is this not David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me these days, or even these years? And I have found nothing wrong in him since the day he deserted to me to this day.

But the princes of the Philistines were angry with him. And the princes of the Philistines said to him,  ¹Make the man go back, that he may return to his place that you have assigned him, so that he does not go down with us into the battle and does not become our adversary in the battle. For with what might this man reconcile himself to his master? Will it not be with the heads of these men?

Is this not David, of whom they sang to one another in dances, saying,
Saul has struck down his thousands;
But David, his ten thousands?

And Achish called David and said to him, As Jehovah lives, you are upright, and it is acceptable in my sight that you go forth and come in with me in the camp; for I have not found evil in you since the day you came to me to this day. But you are not acceptable to the lords.

Now therefore return and go in peace, so that you do not do anything displeasing to the lords of the Philistines.

And David said to Achish, But what have I done? And what wrong have you found in your servant since the day I began to be with you to this day, that I should not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?

And Achish answered and said to David, I know that you are as acceptable to me as an angel of God; nevertheless the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us into the battle.

Now therefore rise up early in the morning with your master's servants who came with you; indeed rise up early in the morning, and when you have daylight, go.

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

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

And they had taken the women and all who were in it captive, both small and great; they had killed none, but had carried them off, and had gone on their way.

And David and his men came to the city; and there it was, burned with fire. And their wives and their sons and their daughters had been taken captive.

And David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept until they had no strength to weep.

And David's two wives had been taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelite and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

And David was very distressed because the people spoke of stoning him, for the soul of all the people was bitter, every man because of his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in Jehovah his God.

And David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, Bring the ephod to me. So Abiathar brought the ephod to David.

And David  ¹inquired of Jehovah, saying, Shall I pursue after this band? Will I overtake them? And He said to him, Pursue, for you will certainly overtake them, and you will certainly deliver them.

So David went, he and the six hundred men who were with him; and they came to the brook Besor, where those who were left stayed behind.

And David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were too exhausted to cross over the brook Besor.

And they found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David. And they gave him food, and he ate; and they gave him water to drink.

And they gave him a piece of fig cake and two raisin cakes; and he ate, and his spirit returned to him; for he had eaten no food and had drunk no water for three days and three nights.

And David said to him, To whom do you belong and where are you from? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, the servant of an Amalekite man; and my master abandoned me because I fell sick three days ago.

We attacked the south of the Cherethites and what belongs to Judah and the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.

And David said to him, Can you lead me down to this band? And he said, Swear to me by God that you will neither kill me nor deliver me into the hand of my master, and I will lead you down to this troop.

And he led him down; and there they were, spread over the whole land, eating and drinking and celebrating because of all the great spoil that they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.

And David struck them from twilight until the evening of the next day; and not a man of them escaped except for four hundred young men, who rode upon camels and fled.

And David delivered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David delivered his two wives.

And nothing was missed by them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil nor anything that they had taken; David brought everything back.

And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before the other cattle and of which they said, This is David's  ¹spoil.

Then David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow David and who had been left behind at the brook Besor. And they went forth to meet David and to meet the people who were with him; and David came near to the people and greeted them.

And all the wicked and worthless men among the men that had gone with David responded; and they said, Because they did not go with us, we will not give them anything of the spoil that we have delivered, except every man his wife and his children that they may lead them off and go away.

Then said David, You shall not do so, my brothers, with that which Jehovah has given us, who has kept us and given this band that came against us into our hand.

And who will listen to you in this matter? For as his share is who goes down to the battle, so shall his share be who stays by the baggage; they shall share alike.

And from that day forward he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.

And David came to Ziklag, and he sent some of the spoil to the elders of Judah, to his companions, saying, Here is a present for you from the spoil of the enemies of Jehovah:

For those in Bethel, and for those in Ramoth of the south, and for those in Jattir,

For those in Bethel, and for those in Ramoth of the south, and for those in Jattir,

And for those in Racal, and for those in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and for those in the cities of the Kenites,

And for those in Hormah, and for those in Bor-ashan, and for those in Athach,

And for those in Hebron, and for all the places where David himself and his men had gone about.

Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.

And the Philistines chased Saul and his sons; and the Philistines struck down  ¹Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua, Saul's sons.

And the battle bore heavily against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was badly wounded by the archers.

Then Saul said to his armor bearer, Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through and abuse me. But his armor bearer would not, for he was very afraid. So Saul took his sword and fell on it.

And when his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword and died with him.

So Saul and his three sons and his armor bearer, as well as all his men,  ¹died that day together.

And when the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley and who were on the other side of the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.

And the next day the Philistines came to strip the slain, and they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

And they cut off his head and stripped off his armor; and they sent them all around, throughout the land of the Philistines in order to announce the good news in the houses of their idols and to the people.

And they put his armor in the house of Ashtaroth; and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.

And when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,

All the valiant men rose up and went all night and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan; and they came to Jabesh and burned them there.

And they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk at Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.