Alpet 2022
King James Version
1. Now it happened, when Saul had returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, "Take note! David is in the Wilderness of En Gedi." 2. Then Saul took three thousand chosen men from all Israel, and went to seek David and his men on the Rocks of the Wild Goats. 3. So he came to the sheepfolds by the road, where there was a cave; and Saul went in to attend to his needs. (David and his men were staying in the recesses of the cave.) 4. Then the men of David said to him, "This is the day of which the LORD said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, that you may do to him as it seems good to you.’" And David arose and secretly cut off a corner of Saul’s robe. 5. Now it happened afterward that David’s heart troubled him because he had cut Saul’s robe. 6. And he said to his men, "The LORD forbid that I should do this thing to my master, the LORD’S anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the LORD." 7. So David restrained his servants with these words, and did not allow them to rise against Saul. And Saul got up from the cave and went on his way. 8. David also arose afterward, went out of the cave, and called out to Saul, saying, "My lord the king!" And when Saul looked behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed down. 9. And David said to Saul: "Why do you listen to the words of men who say, ‘Indeed David seeks your harm’? 10. "Look, this day your eyes have seen that the LORD delivered you today into my hand in the cave, and someone urged me to kill you. But my eye spared you, and I said, ‘I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, for he is the LORD’S anointed.’ 11. "Moreover, my father, see! Yes, see the corner of your robe in my hand! For in that I cut off the corner of your robe, and did not kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor rebellion in my hand, and I have not sinned against you. Yet you hunt my life to take it. 12. "Let the LORD judge between you and me, and let the LORD avenge me on you. But my hand shall not be against you. 13. "As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Wickedness proceeds from the wicked.’ But my hand shall not be against you. 14. "After whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea? 15. "Therefore let the LORD be judge, and judge between you and me, and see and plead my case, and deliver me out of your hand." 16. So it was, when David had finished speaking these words to Saul, that Saul said, " Is this your voice, my son David?" And Saul lifted up his voice and wept. 17. Then he said to David: "You are more righteous than I; for you have rewarded me with good, whereas I have rewarded you with evil. 18. "And you have shown this day how you have dealt well with me; for when the LORD delivered me into your hand, you did not kill me. 19. "For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him get away safely? Therefore may the LORD reward you with good for what you have done to me this day. 20. "And now I know indeed that you shall surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in your hand. 21. "Therefore swear now to me by the LORD that you will not cut off my descendants after me, and that you will not destroy my name from my father’s house." 22. So David swore to Saul. And Saul went home, but David and his men went up to the stronghold.
1. Then Samuel died; and the Israelites gathered together and lamented for him, and buried him at his home in Ramah. And David arose and went down to the Wilderness of Paran.
1. "Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!" says the LORD. 2. Therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel against the shepherds who feed My people: "You have scattered My flock, driven them away, and not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your doings," says the LORD. 3. "But I will gather the remnant of My flock out of all countries where I have driven them, and bring them back to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase. 4. "I will set up shepherds over them who will feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, nor shall they be lacking," says the LORD. 5. "Behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "That I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness; A King shall reign and prosper, And execute judgment and righteousness in the earth. 6. In His days Judah will be saved, And Israel will dwell safely; Now this is His name by which He will be called: THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. 7. "Therefore, behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "that they shall no longer say, ‘As the LORD lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,’ 8. "but, ‘As the LORD lives who brought up and led the descendants of the house of Israel from the north country and from all the countries where I had driven them.’ And they shall dwell in their own land." 9. My heart within me is broken Because of the prophets; All my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, And like a man whom wine has overcome, Because of the LORD, And because of His holy words. 10. For the land is full of adulterers; For because of a curse the land mourns. The pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up. Their course of life is evil, And their might is not right. 11. "For both prophet and priest are profane; Yes, in My house I have found their wickedness," says the LORD. 12. "Therefore their way shall be to them Like slippery ways ; In the darkness they shall be driven on And fall in them; For I will bring disaster on them, The year of their punishment," says the LORD. 13. "And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: They prophesied by Baal And caused My people Israel to err. 14. Also I have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem: They commit adultery and walk in lies; They also strengthen the hands of evildoers, So that no one turns back from his wickedness. All of them are like Sodom to Me, And her inhabitants like Gomorrah. 15. "Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets: ‘Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, And make them drink the water of gall; For from the prophets of Jerusalem Profaneness has gone out into all the land.’" 16. Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They make you worthless; They speak a vision of their own heart, Not from the mouth of the LORD. 17. They continually say to those who despise Me, ‘The LORD has said, "You shall have peace"’; And to everyone who walks according to the dictates of his own heart, they say, ‘No evil shall come upon you.’" 18. For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD, And has perceived and heard His word? Who has marked His word and heard it ? 19. Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD has gone forth in fury––A violent whirlwind! It will fall violently on the head of the wicked. 20. The anger of the LORD will not turn back Until He has executed and performed the thoughts of His heart. In the latter days you will understand it perfectly. 21. "I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. 22. But if they had stood in My counsel, And had caused My people to hear My words, Then they would have turned them from their evil way And from the evil of their doings. 23. " Am I a God near at hand," says the LORD, "And not a God afar off? 24. Can anyone hide himself in secret places, So I shall not see him?" says the LORD; "Do I not fill heaven and earth?" says the LORD. 25. "I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in My name, saying, ‘I have dreamed, I have dreamed!’ 26. "How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies? Indeed they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart, 27. "who try to make My people forget My name by their dreams which everyone tells his neighbor, as their fathers forgot My name for Baal. 28. "The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; And he who has My word, let him speak My word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat?" says the LORD. 29. " Is not My word like a fire?" says the LORD, "And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces? 30. "Therefore behold, I am against the prophets," says the LORD, "who steal My words every one from his neighbor. 31. "Behold, I am against the prophets," says the LORD, "who use their tongues and say, ‘He says.’ 32. "Behold, I am against those who prophesy false dreams," says the LORD, "and tell them, and cause My people to err by their lies and by their recklessness. Yet I did not send them or command them; therefore they shall not profit this people at all," says the LORD. 33. "So when these people or the prophet or the priest ask you, saying, ‘What is the oracle of the LORD?’ you shall then say to them, ‘What oracle?’ I will even forsake you," says the LORD. 34. "And as for the prophet and the priest and the people who say, ‘The oracle of the LORD!’ I will even punish that man and his house. 35. "Thus every one of you shall say to his neighbor, and every one to his brother, ‘What has the LORD answered?’ and, ‘What has the LORD spoken?’ 36. "And the oracle of the LORD you shall mention no more. For every man’s word will be his oracle, for you have perverted the words of the living God, the LORD of hosts, our God. 37. "Thus you shall say to the prophet, ‘What has the LORD answered you?’ and, ‘What has the LORD spoken?’ 38. "But since you say, ‘The oracle of the LORD!’ therefore thus says the LORD: ‘Because you say this word, "The oracle of the LORD!" and I have sent to you, saying, "Do not say, ‘The oracle of the LORD!’" 39. ‘therefore behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you and forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and will cast you out of My presence. 40. ‘And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.’"
1. Then He called His twelve disciples together and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases. 2. He sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick. 3. And He said to them, "Take nothing for the journey, neither staffs nor bag nor bread nor money; and do not have two tunics apiece. 4. "Whatever house you enter, stay there, and from there depart. 5. "And whoever will not receive you, when you go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet as a testimony against them." 6. So they departed and went through the towns, preaching the gospel and healing everywhere. 7. Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by Him; and he was perplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead, 8. and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the old prophets had risen again. 9. Herod said, "John I have beheaded, but who is this of whom I hear such things?" So he sought to see Him. 10. And the apostles, when they had returned, told Him all that they had done. Then He took them and went aside privately into a deserted place belonging to the city called Bethsaida. 11. But when the multitudes knew it , they followed Him; and He received them and spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and healed those who had need of healing. 12. When the day began to wear away, the twelve came and said to Him, "Send the multitude away, that they may go into the surrounding towns and country, and lodge and get provisions; for we are in a deserted place here." 13. But He said to them, "You give them something to eat." And they said, "We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we go and buy food for all these people." 14. For there were about five thousand men. Then He said to His disciples, "Make them sit down in groups of fifty." 15. And they did so, and made them all sit down. 16. Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude. 17. So they all ate and were filled, and twelve baskets of the leftover fragments were taken up by them.