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Now Saul heard that David and the men who were with him had been located. Saul was sitting at Gibeah under the tamarisk tree at Ramah. Now his spear was in his hand and all his servants were stationed around him. Then Saul said to the servants who were standing around him, “Please listen, Benjaminites![a] Will the son of Jesse give you all fields and vineyards? Will he make all of you commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds? For all of you have conspired against me, and no one discloses to me[b] the making[c] of an agreement between my son and the son of Jesse! None of you have had sympathy for me or disclosed to me[d] that my son commissioned my servant against me to ambush me[e] as has been done this day!”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 22:7 Literally “children of Benjamin”
  2. 1 Samuel 22:8 Literally “there is no one revealing to my ear”
  3. 1 Samuel 22:8 Literally “cutting”
  4. 1 Samuel 22:8 Literally “revealing to my ear”
  5. 1 Samuel 22:8 Literally “my son has raised my servant against me to an ambush”