Saul took three thousand picked men from all Israel and went in search of David and his men in the ­direction of the wild goat crags.

When David and Saul approached (on David’s return after slaying the Philistine), women came out from each of the cities of Israel to meet King Saul, singing and dancing, with tambourines, joyful songs, and sistrums.

David spoke to Saul: “Let your majesty not lose courage.

The Lord said to Samuel: “How long will you grieve for Saul, whom I have rejected as king of Israel?

Samuel said to Saul: “Stop!

Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, to the church of God that is in Corinth, to you who have been ­sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be holy, with all those everywhere who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours.

The Lord said to me: You are my servant,/ Israel, through whom I show my glory./ Now the Lord has spoken/ who formed me as his servant from the womb,/ that Jacob may be brought back to him/ and Israel gathered to him;/ and I am made glorious in the sight of the Lord,/ and my God is now my strength!/ It is too little, the Lord says, for you to be my servant,/ to raise up the tribes of Jacob,/ and restore the survivors of Israel;/ I will make you a light to the nations,/ that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.

There was a stalwart man from Benjamin named Kish, who was the son of Abiel, son of Zeror, son of Becorath, son of Aphiah, a Benjaminite.

Samuel was displeased when they asked for a king to judge them.

The Philistines gathered for an attack on Israel.