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 \v 5 When Saul saw the army of Philistia, he became so afraid that his heart pounded.
-\v 6 He prayed to Yahweh, but Yahweh did not answer him. Yahweh did not tell Saul what he should do by giving him a dream, or by having the priest throw the marked stones in his sacred pouch, or by giving a message about Saul to any prophet.
-\v 7 Then Saul said to his servants, "Find for me a woman who talks to the spirits of dead people, in order that I can ask her what will happen." His servants replied, "There is a woman in the town of Endor who does that."
+\v 6 He prayed to Yahweh, but Yahweh did not answer him. Yahweh did not tell Saul what he should do by giving him a dream or by having the priest throw the marked stones in his sacred pouch or by giving a message about Saul to any prophet.
+\v 7 Then Saul said to his servants, "Find for me a woman who talks to the spirits of dead people so that I can ask her what will happen." His servants replied, "There is a woman in the town of Endor who does that."
 
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 \v 8 So Saul took off the clothes that showed that he was the king, and he put on ordinary clothes to disguise himself. Then he and two of his men went during the night to talk to that woman. Saul said to her, "I want you to talk to a spirit of someone who has died. Cause to appear the person whose name I will give to you."
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-\v 9 But the woman replied, "You surely know what Saul has done. He expelled from this land all the people who talk to spirits of dead people and all fortune tellers. I think that you are trying to trap me, in order that I will be executed for doing something that is not permitted."
+\v 9 But the woman replied, "You surely know what Saul has done. He expelled from this land all the people who talk to spirits of dead people and all fortune tellers. I think that you are trying to trap me so that I will be executed for doing something that is not permitted."
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 \v 10 Saul replied, solemnly asking Yahweh to listen to what he was saying, "Just as surely as Yahweh is alive, you will not be punished for doing this."
 
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 \v 11 Then the woman said, "Whom do you want me to cause to appear?"
 \p Saul replied, "Cause Samuel to appear."
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-\v 12 So the woman did that. But when she saw Samuel, she screamed. She said, "You have tricked me ! You are Saul! You will execute me for doing this!"
+\v 12 So the woman did that. But when she saw Samuel, she screamed. She said, "You have tricked me! You are Saul! You will execute me for doing this!"
 
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-\v 20 Saul immediately fell flat on the ground. He was so afraid because of what Samuel had said that he lost all his strength. He was also very weak because he had not eaten anything all that day and night.
+\v 20 Saul immediately fell flat on the ground. He was so afraid because of what Samuel had said that he lost all of his strength. He was also very weak because he had not eaten anything all that day and night.
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 \v 21 The woman saw that he was very worried. She said to him, "Listen to me! I have done what you requested me to do. I could be executed for doing that.
 
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-\v 22 So now please pay attention to what I say. Allow me to give you some food, in order that you will eat it and get enough strength to go back to your army."
+\v 22 So now please pay attention to what I say. Allow me to give you some food so that you will eat it and get enough strength to go back to your army."
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 \v 23 But Saul refused. He said, "No, I will not eat anything." Then Saul's servants also urged him to eat something, and finally he listened to them. He got up from the ground and sat on the bed.
 
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-\v 24 The woman had a fat calf close to her house. She quickly slaughtered it and cooked it. She took some flour and mixed it with olive oil, and baked it without putting in any yeast.
+\v 24 The woman had a fat calf close to her house. She quickly slaughtered it and cooked it. She took some flour and mixed it with olive oil and baked it without putting in any yeast.
 \v 25 She placed the food in front of Saul and his servants, and they ate some of it. Then that same night they got up and left.
 
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 \v 1 The Philistine army gathered at the Valley of Aphek. The Israelites set up their tents at the city of Jezreel, which was in the same valley.
-\v 2 The kings of Philistia divided their men into groups; some groups had one hundred soldiers and some groups had one thousand soldiers. David and his men were marching behind, with King Achish.
+\v 2 The kings of Philistia divided their men into groups; some groups had one hundred soldiers and some groups had one thousand soldiers. David and his men were marching behind them with King Achish.
 
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 \v 3 But the Philistine commanders asked, "What are these Hebrews doing here, marching with us to battle?"
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-\v 6 So Achish summoned David, and said to him, "Just as surely as Yahweh is alive, you have been loyal to me. I would like very much for you to fight along with my army. Since the day that you came to me, I have not found that you have any faults. But the other kings do not trust you.
+\v 6 So Achish summoned David and said to him, "Just as surely as Yahweh is alive, you have been loyal to me. I would like very much for you to fight along with my army. Since the day that you came to me, I have not found that you have any faults. But the other kings do not trust you.
 \v 7 So all of you go back home, and I hope to do anything that the other kings of Philistia will not be pleased with."
 
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 \v 9 Achish replied, "I know I can trust you as much as I could trust an angel from God. But the commanders of my army have said, 'We will not allow David and his men to go with us into the battle.'
 
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-\v 10 So early tomorrow morning you and your men must leave. Get up as soon as it gets light and leave."
+\v 10 So early tomorrow morning, you and your men must leave. Get up as soon as it gets light and leave."
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 \v 11 So David and his men got up early the following morning and returned to the area where the Philistine people lived. But the Philistine army went up to the city of Jezreel.
 
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 \v 1 Three days later, when David and his men arrived at Ziklag, they discovered that men of the Amalek people had raided Ziklag and some towns in the southern Judean wilderness. They had destroyed Ziklag and burned down all the buildings.
-\v 2 They had captured the women and the children and everyone else, and had taken them away. But they had not killed anyone.
+\v 2 They had captured the women and the children and everyone else and had taken them away. But they had not killed anyone.
 
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-\v 3 When David and his men came to Ziklag, they saw that the town had been burned, and that their wives and sons and daughters had been captured and taken away.
+\v 3 When David and his men came to Ziklag, they saw that the town had been burned and that their wives and sons and daughters had been captured and taken away.
 \v 4 David and his men cried loudly, until they were so weak that they could not cry anymore.
 
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 \v 5 David's two wives, Ahinoam and Abigail, had also been taken away.
-\v 6 David's men were threatening to kill him by throwing stones at him, because they were very angry because their sons and daughters had been taken away. David was very distressed, but Yahweh his God gave him strength.
+\v 6 David's men were threatening to kill him by throwing stones at him because they were very angry because their sons and daughters had been taken away. David was very distressed, but Yahweh his God gave him strength.
 
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 \v 9 So David and the six hundred men who were with him left, and they came to the ravine of Besor. Some of his men stayed there with some of their supplies.
-\v 10 David and four hundred men continued to pursue the men who captured their families. The other two hundred men stayed there at the ravine, because they were so exhausted that they could not cross the ravine.
+\v 10 David and four hundred men continued to pursue the men who captured their families. The other two hundred men stayed there at the ravine because they were so exhausted that they could not cross the ravine.
 
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-\v 11 As David and the four hundred men were going, they saw a man from Egypt in a field; so they took him to David. They gave the man some water to drink and some food to eat.
+\v 11 As David and the four hundred men were going, they saw a man from Egypt in a field, so they took him to David. They gave the man some water to drink and some food to eat.
 \v 12 They also gave him a piece of fig cake and two clusters of raisins. The man had not had anything to eat or drink for three days and nights, but after he ate and drank he felt refreshed.
 
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 \v 13 David asked him, "Who is your master? And where do you come from?"
-\p He replied, "I am from Egypt. I am a slave of a man from the Amalek people. Three days ago my master left me here, because I was sick and I was not able to go with them.
-\v 14 We had raided the southern Judean wilderness of the Kerethites, and some other towns in Judah, and the southern Judean wilderness of the Calebites. We also burned Ziklag."
+\p He replied, "I am from Egypt. I am a slave of a man from the Amalek people. Three days ago my master left me here because I was sick and I was not able to go with them.
+\v 14 We had raided the southern Judean wilderness of the Kerethites and some other towns in Judah and the southern Judean wilderness of the Calebites. We also burned Ziklag."
 
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 \v 18 David rescued his two wives, and he and his men got back everything else that the men of the Amalek people had taken.
-\v 19 Nothing was missing. They took all their people back to Ziklag—young people and old people, their wives, their sons and their daughters. They also recovered all the other things that the men of the Amalek people had taken from Ziklag.
+\v 19 Nothing was missing. They took all their people back to Ziklag—young people and old people, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. They also recovered all the other things that the men of the Amalek people had taken from Ziklag.
 \v 20 They took with them the sheep and cattle that had been captured, and his men caused these animals to go in front of the rest of the cattle; they said, "These are animals that we captured in the battle; they belong to David!"
 
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 \v 28 Aroer, Siphmoth, Eshtemoa.
 
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-\v 29 Also Rakal, the cities where the descendants of Jehrameel and the cities where the Kenite people live,
+\v 29 Also Rakal, the cities where the descendants of Jerahmeel and the cities where the Kenite people live,
 \v 30 Hormah, Bor Ashan, Athak,
 \v 31 Hebron, and all the other places where David and his men had often gone.
 
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-\v 4 Saul said to the man who was carrying his weapons, "Take out your sword and kill me with it, in order that these heathen Philistines will not be able to thrust their swords into me and make fun of me while I am dying."
-\p But the man who was carrying Saul's weapons was terrified, and refused to do that. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it. The sword pierced his body, and he died.
+\v 4 Saul said to the man who was carrying his weapons, "Take out your sword and kill me with it so that these heathen Philistines will not be able to thrust their swords into me and make fun of me while I am dying."
+\p But the man who was carrying Saul's weapons was terrified and refused to do that. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it. The sword pierced his body, and he died.
 \v 5 When the man carrying his weapons saw that Saul was dead, he also threw himself on his own sword and died.
-\v 6 So Saul, three of his sons, and the man who carried Saul's weapons, all died on that same day.
+\v 6 So Saul, three of his sons, and the man who carried Saul's weapons all died on that same day.
 
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 \v 8 The next day, when the Philistines came to take away the weapons of the dead Israelite soldiers, they found the bodies of Saul and his three sons on Mount Gilboa.
 
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-\v 9 They cut off Saul's head and took his weapons. Then they sent messengers throughout their land to proclaim the news in the temples, where they kept their idols, and to the other people, that their army had defeated the Israelites.
+\v 9 They cut off Saul's head and took his weapons. Then they sent messengers throughout their land to proclaim the news in the temples where they kept their idols and to the other people that their army had defeated the Israelites.
 \v 10 They put Saul's weapons in the temple of their goddess Asherah. They also fastened the bodies of Saul and his sons to the wall that surrounded the city of Beth Shan.
 
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