Then Saul heard that David and the men who were with him had been discovered. Now (A)Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree on the height with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing around him. Saul said to his servants who stood around him, “Hear now, O Benjamites! Will the son of Jesse also give to all of you fields and vineyards? (B)Will he make you all commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds? For all of you have conspired against me so that there is no one who [a]discloses to me (C)when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you (D)who is sorry for me or [b]discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me to lie in ambush, as it is this day.”

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  1. 1 Samuel 22:8 Lit uncovers my ear
  2. 1 Samuel 22:8 Lit uncovers my ear