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David Again Lets Saul Live
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|1 Samuel 26:1| b Once again, 154 some people from Ziph went to Gibeah to talk with Saul. “David has a hideout on Mount Hachilah near Jeshimon out in the desert,” they told him.
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|1 Samuel 26:2| Saul took 3,000 of Israel's best soldiers and went to look for David there in Ziph Desert.
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|1 Samuel 26:3| Saul set up camp on Mount Hachilah, which is across the road from Jeshimon. But David was hiding out in the desert. When David heard that Saul was following him,
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|1 Samuel 26:4| he sent some spies to find out if it was true.
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|1 Samuel 26:5| Then he sneaked up to Saul's camp. He noticed that Saul and his army commander Abner the son of Ner were sleeping in the middle of the camp, with soldiers sleeping all around them.
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|1 Samuel 26:6| David asked Ahimelech the Hittite and Joab's brother Abishai, 155 “Which one of you will go with me into Saul's camp?” “I will!” Abishai answered.
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|1 Samuel 26:7| That same night, David and Abishai crept into the camp. Saul was sleeping, and his spear was stuck in the ground not far from his head. Abner and the soldiers were sound asleep all around him.
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|1 Samuel 26:8| Abishai whispered, “This time God has let you get your hands on your enemy! I'll pin him to the ground with one thrust of his own spear.”
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|1 Samuel 26:9| “Don't kill him!” David whispered back. “The LORD will punish anyone who kills his chosen king.
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|1 Samuel 26:10| As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD will kill Saul, or Saul will die a natural death or be killed in battle.
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