1 Samuel
1 Samuel 1
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.He had two wives. The name of one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. Peninnah...
1 Samuel 2
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Hannah prayed, and said, “My heart exults in the LORD! My horn is exalted in the LORD. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.There is no one as holy as the LORD, for there is no one besides you, nor is there any rock like our God.“Don’t keep talking...
1 Samuel 3
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The child Samuel ministered to the LORD before Eli. The LORD’s word was rare in those days. There were not many visions, then.At that time, when Eli was laid down in his place (now his eyes had begun to grow dim, so that he could not see),and God’s lamp hadn’t yet gone out, and Samuel...
1 Samuel 4
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and encamped beside Ebenezer; and the Philistines encamped in Aphek.The Philistines put themselves in array against Israel. When they joined battle, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men of the army in the...
1 Samuel 5
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now the Philistines had taken God’s ark, and they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.The Philistines took God’s ark, and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it by Dagon.When the people of Ashdod arose early on the next day, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before the LORD’s...
1 Samuel 6
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The LORD’s ark was in the country of the Philistines seven months.The Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, “What shall we do with the LORD’s ark? Show us how we should send it to its place.”They said, “If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, don’t send it empty;...
1 Samuel 7
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The men of Kiriath Jearim came and took the LORD’s ark, and brought it into Abinadab’s house on the hill, and consecrated Eleazar his son to keep the LORD’s ark.From the day that the ark stayed in Kiriath Jearim, the time was long–for it was twenty years; and all the house of Israel lamented after...
1 Samuel 8
Last Updated: October 10, 2026When Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel.Now the name of his firstborn was Joel, and the name of his second, Abijah. They were judges in Beersheba.His sons didn’t walk in his ways, but turned away after dishonest gain, took bribes, and perverted justice.Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together...
1 Samuel 9
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah, the son of a Benjamite, a mighty man of valor.He had a son whose name was Saul, an impressive young man; and there was not among the children...
1 Samuel 10
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then Samuel took the vial of oil and poured it on his head, then kissed him and said, “Hasn’t the LORD anointed you to be prince over his inheritance?When you have departed from me today, then you will find two men by Rachel’s tomb, on the border of Benjamin at Zelzah. They will tell you,...
1 Samuel 11
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then Nahash the Ammonite came up and encamped against Jabesh Gilead; and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make a covenant with us, and we will serve you.”Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “On this condition I will make it with you, that all your right eyes be gouged out. I will make...
1 Samuel 12
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Samuel said to all Israel, “Behold, I have listened to your voice in all that you said to me, and have made a king over you.Now, behold, the king walks before you. I am old and gray-headed. Behold, my sons are with you. I have walked before you from my youth to this day.Here I...
1 Samuel 13
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Saul was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned over Israel forty-two years.Saul chose for himself three thousand men of Israel, of which two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in the Mount of Bethel, and one thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. He sent the rest of the...
1 Samuel 14
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now it happened on a day that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come! Let’s go over to the Philistines’ garrison that is on the other side.” But he didn’t tell his father.Saul stayed in the uttermost part of Gibeah under the pomegranate tree which is in...
1 Samuel 15
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Samuel said to Saul, “The LORD sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel. Now therefore listen to the voice of the LORD’s words.The LORD of Armies says, ‘I remember what Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way when he came up out of...
1 Samuel 16
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The LORD said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided a king for myself among his sons.”Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul...
1 Samuel 17
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle; and they were gathered together at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah in Ephesdammim.Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and encamped in the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.The Philistines stood on...
1 Samuel 18
Last Updated: October 10, 2026When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.Saul took him that day, and wouldn’t let him go home to his father’s house any more.Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own...
1 Samuel 19
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, greatly delighted in David.Jonathan told David, saying, “Saul my father seeks to kill you. Now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, live in a secret place, and hide yourself.I will go out...
1 Samuel 20
Last Updated: October 10, 2026David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said to Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?”He said to him, “Far from it; you will not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses...
1 Samuel 21
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no man with you?”David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has commanded me to do something, and has said to me, ‘Let no one know anything about the business about...
1 Samuel 22
Last Updated: October 10, 2026David therefore departed from there and escaped to Adullam’s cave. When his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him.Everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented gathered themselves to him; and he became captain over them. There were with him about...
1 Samuel 23
Last Updated: October 10, 2026David was told, “Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors.”Therefore David inquired of the LORD, saying, “Shall I go and strike these Philistines?” The LORD said to David, “Go strike the Philistines, and save Keilah.”David’s men said to him, “Behold, we are afraid here in Judah. How much more...
1 Samuel 24
Last Updated: October 10, 2026When Saul had returned from following the Philistines, he was told, “Behold, David is in the wilderness of En Gedi.”Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men on the rocks of the wild goats.He came to the sheep pens by the way, where there...
1 Samuel 25
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together and mourned for him, and buried him at his house at Ramah. Then David arose and went down to the wilderness of Paran.There was a man in Maon whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great. He had three thousand sheep and a thousand...
1 Samuel 26
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, “Doesn’t David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert?”Then Saul arose and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah,...
1 Samuel 27
Last Updated: October 10, 2026David said in his heart, “I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So I will escape out...
1 Samuel 28
Last Updated: October 10, 2026In those days, the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. Achish said to David, “Know assuredly that you will go out with me in the army, you and your men.”David said to Achish, “Therefore you will know what your servant can do.” Achish said to David, “Therefore I will make...
1 Samuel 29
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek; and the Israelites encamped by the spring which is in Jezreel.The lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds and by thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rear with Achish.Then the princes of the Philistines said, “What about these Hebrews?” Achish...
1 Samuel 30
Last Updated: October 10, 2026When David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid on the South and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag and burned it with fire,and had taken captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great. They didn’t kill any, but carried...
1 Samuel 31
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.The Philistines overtook Saul and his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was greatly...