In 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.” 1Sa 17:11Sa 29:1-31Sa 13:51Sa 27:121Sa 7:7Jdg 3:1-4
David said to Achish, “Therefore you will know what your servant can do.” 1Sa 27:102Sa 16:16-19Rom 12:9
Achish said to David, “Therefore I will make you my bodyguard forever.”
Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. Saul had sent away those who had familiar spirits and the wizards out of the land. Lev 19:311Sa 25:1Lev 20:27Exo 22:18Deu 18:10-111Sa 15:231Sa 28:91Sa 7:17
The Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and encamped in Shunem; and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they encamped in Gilboa. 1Sa 31:1Jos 19:182Ki 4:82Sa 1:212Sa 1:62Sa 21:12 When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly. Dan 5:6Isa 21:3-4Isa 57:20-21Isa 7:2Job 18:11Pro 10:24Psa 48:5-6Psa 73:19 When Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD didn’t answer him by dreams, by Urim, or by prophets. Num 12:61Sa 14:37Lam 2:9Num 27:21Ezk 20:1-3Jas 4:3Deu 33:8Exo 28:30 Then Saul said to his servants, “Seek for me a woman who has a familiar spirit, that I may go to her and inquire of her.” Act 16:161Ch 10:13Jos 17:11Psa 83:10Hab 2:3Isa 8:19-20Lev 19:312Ki 1:2-3
His servants said to him, “Behold, there is a woman who has a familiar spirit at Endor.”
Saul disguised himself and put on other clothing, and went, he and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night. Then he said, “Please consult for me by the familiar spirit, and bring me up whomever I shall name to you.” 1Ch 10:13Isa 8:191Ki 22:302Ch 18:292Ch 35:22Deu 18:10-111Ki 14:2-3Jer 23:24
The woman said to him, “Behold, you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off those who have familiar spirits and the wizards out of the land. Why then do you lay a snare for my life, to cause me to die?” 1Sa 28:32Ki 5:72Sa 18:13
Saul swore to her by the LORD, saying, “As the LORD lives, no punishment will happen to you for this thing.” 2Sa 14:111Sa 14:391Sa 19:6Deu 18:10-12Exo 20:7Gen 3:5Mat 26:72Mrk 6:23
Then the woman said, “Whom shall I bring up to you?”
He said, “Bring Samuel up for me.”
When the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice; and the woman spoke to Saul, saying, “Why have you deceived me? For you are Saul!” 1Ki 14:51Sa 28:3
The king said to her, “Don’t be afraid! What do you see?” Exo 22:28Exo 4:16Jhn 10:34-35Psa 82:6-7
The woman said to Saul, “I see a god coming up out of the earth.”
He said to her, “What does he look like?” 1Sa 15:271Sa 24:82Ki 2:13-142Ki 2:8
She said, “An old man comes up. He is covered with a robe.” Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground, and showed respect.
Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me, to bring me up?” Luk 16:23-261Sa 28:61Sa 18:121Sa 16:13-14Hos 9:12Jer 2:17-18Pro 14:141Sa 23:2
Saul answered, “I am very distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God has departed from me, and answers me no more, by prophets, or by dreams. Therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I shall do.”
Samuel said, “Why then do you ask me, since the LORD has departed from you and has become your adversary? 2Ki 6:27Lam 2:5Psa 68:1-3Rev 18:20Rev 18:24Jdg 5:31 The LORD has done to you as he spoke by me. The LORD has torn the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbor, even to David. 1Sa 15:27-291Sa 24:201Sa 13:13-141Sa 16:13Pro 16:4 Because you didn’t obey the LORD’s voice, and didn’t execute his fierce wrath on Amalek, therefore the LORD has done this thing to you today. 1Ki 20:421Sa 15:9Jer 48:101Ch 10:131Sa 13:91Sa 15:201Sa 15:23-26Psa 50:21-22 Moreover the LORD will deliver Israel also with you into the hand of the Philistines; and tomorrow you and your sons will be with me. The LORD will deliver the army of Israel also into the hand of the Philistines.” 1Ki 22:201Ki 22:281Sa 12:251Sa 31:1-6Act 5:5Act 5:9-10Exo 9:18Jer 28:16-17
Then Saul fell immediately his full length on the earth, and was terrified, because of Samuel’s words. There was no strength in him, for he had eaten no bread all day long or all night long. 1Sa 25:371Sa 28:5Job 15:20-24Job 26:2Psa 50:21-22
The woman came to Saul and saw that he was very troubled, and said to him, “Behold, your servant has listened to your voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have listened to your words which you spoke to me. Jdg 12:31Sa 19:5Job 13:14 Now therefore, please listen also to the voice of your servant, and let me set a morsel of bread before you. Eat, that you may have strength when you go on your way.”
But he refused, and said, “I will not eat.” But his servants, together with the woman, constrained him; and he listened to their voice. So he arose from the earth and sat on the bed. 1Ki 21:42Co 5:142Ki 4:82Ki 5:13Act 16:15Luk 14:23Luk 24:29Pro 25:20 The woman had a fattened calf in the house. She hurried and killed it; and she took flour and kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread of it. Luk 15:23Gen 18:7-8 She brought it before Saul and before his servants, and they ate. Then they rose up and went away that night.