therefore David rose up and went out, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines. And David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full count to the king, that he might become the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter as a wife.

And his servants came near and spoke to him, and said, My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you, Wash, and be clean?

A soft answer turns away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger.

And he said, Why does my lord thus pursue his servant? For what have I done, or what evil is in my hand?

O Jehovah my God, if I have done this: if there is iniquity in my hands;

if I have repaid evil to one who was at peace with me, or if I have plundered my enemy without cause;

For without cause they have hidden their net for me in a pit; without cause they have dug for my soul.

Moreover, that the Word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, They hated Me without a cause.

And David stayed in strongholds in the wilderness, and remained in the mountains in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God did not deliver him into his hand.

See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides; and come back to me with certainty, and I shall go with you. And it shall be, if he is in the land, that I shall search for him throughout all the thousands of Judah.

So now, do not let my blood fall to the earth before the face of Jehovah. For the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains.

If I am exalted, You hunt me like a lion, and return to show Yourself wondrously to me.

Let not a man who speaks evil be established in the earth; evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

They have hunted our steps to keep us from going in our streets; our end was near, our days were fulfilled, for our end has come.

and say, Thus says the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the women who sew amulets on their sleeves and make veils for the heads of people of every height, to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of My people, and save the souls alive to yourselves?

The good man has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among mankind. All of them lie in wait for blood; each one hunts his brother with a net.