![7 Therefore now let your hands be strengthened, and be ye valiant: for your master Saul is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them. - Holy Bible | Evangelium Of Grace 5 And David sent messengers unto the men of Jayesh–gilead, and said unto them, Blessed [be] ye of the Lord, that ye have shewed this kindness unto your lord, [even] unto Saul, and have buried him.](https://evangeliumofgrace.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/MTR0424-768x768.jpg)
And there was a very sore battle that day; and Abner was beaten,
And there was a very sore battle that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David. 2 Samuel 2:1 – 2:32
![7 Therefore now let your hands be strengthened, and be ye valiant: for your master Saul is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them. - Holy Bible | Evangelium Of Grace 5 And David sent messengers unto the men of Jayesh–gilead, and said unto them, Blessed [be] ye of the Lord, that ye have shewed this kindness unto your lord, [even] unto Saul, and have buried him.](https://evangeliumofgrace.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/MTR0424-768x768.jpg)
And there was a very sore battle that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David. 2 Samuel 2:1 – 2:32

And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the Lord, and for the house of

And when the men of Israel that were on the other side of the valley, and they that were on the other side Jordan, saw that the men
![6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God. - Holy Bible | Evangelium Of Grace 4 Then David and the people that [were] with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.](https://evangeliumofgrace.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/MTR0508-768x768.jpg)
Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the Lord hath given us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the company that came
![4 And the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines said unto him, Make this fellow return, that he may go again to his place which thou hast appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he be an adversary to us: for wherewith should he reconcile himself unto his master? [should it] not [be] with the heads of these men? - Holy Bible | Evangelium Of Grace 2 And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rereward with Achish.](https://evangeliumofgrace.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/EOG0779-768x768.jpg)
So David and his men rose up early to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me,
![2 And David arose, and he passed over with the six hundred men that [were] with him unto Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath. - Holy Bible | Evangelium Of Grace 1 And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: [there is] nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.](https://evangeliumofgrace.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/MTR0351-768x768.jpg)
And David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace in thine eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I

And Saul knew David’s voice, and said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And David said, It is my voice, my lord, O king. 1 Samuel 26:1

For in very deed, as the Lord God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me,