- 1 Samuel 29
  
  1 Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites encamped by the spring which is in Jezreel.
  
  2 The lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rear with Achish.
  
  3 Then the princes of the Philistines said, "What about these Hebrews?" Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, "Isn't this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me these days, or rather these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell away to this day?"
  
  4 But the princes of the Philistines were angry with him; and the princes of the Philistines said to him, "Make the man return, that he may go back to his place where you have appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us. For with what should this fellow reconcile himself to his lord? Should it not be with the heads of these men?
  
  5 Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, 'Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands?'"
  
  6 Then Achish called David, and said to him, "As Yahweh lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my sight; for I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords don't favor you.
  
  7 Therefore now return, and go in peace, that you not displease the lords of the Philistines."
  
  8 David said to Achish, "But what have I done? What have you found in your servant so long as I have been before you to this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?"
  
  9 Achish answered David, "I know that you are good in my sight, as an angel of God. Notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, 'He shall not go up with us to the battle.'
  
  10 Therefore now rise up early in the morning with the servants of your lord who have come with you; and as soon as you are up early in the morning, and have light, depart."
  
  11 So David rose up early, he and his men, to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. The Philistines went up to Jezreel.
  
  1 Samuel 30
  
  1 It happened, when David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had made a raid on the South, and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag, and burned it with fire,
  
  2 and had taken captive the women and all who were therein, both small and great. They didn't kill any, but carried them off, and went their way.
  
  3 When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captive.
  
  4 Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
  
  5 David's two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
  
  6 David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.
  
  7 David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, "Please bring me here the ephod." Abiathar brought the ephod to David.
  
  8 David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "If I pursue after this troop, shall I overtake them?" He answered him, "Pursue; for you shall surely overtake them, and shall without fail recover all."
  
  9 So David went, he and the six hundred men who were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those who were left behind stayed.
  
  10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they couldn't go over the brook Besor.
  
  11 They found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he ate; and they gave him water to drink.
  
  12 They gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins. when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him; for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.
  
  13 David asked him, "To whom do you belong? Where are you from?" He said, "I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I fell sick.
  
  14 We made a raid on the South of the Cherethites, and on that which belongs to Judah, and on the South of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire."
  
  15 David said to him, "Will you bring me down to this troop?" He said, "Swear to me by God that you will neither kill me, nor deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this troop."
  
  16 When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
  
  17 David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped from there, except four hundred young men, who rode on camels and fled.
  
  18 David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives.
  
  19 There was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor anything that they had taken to them. David brought back all.
  
  20 David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other livestock, and said, "This is David's spoil."
  
  21 David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom also they had made to stay at the brook Besor; and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people who were with him. When David came near to the people, he greeted them.
  
  22 Then all the wicked men and base fellows, of those who went with David, answered and said, "Because they didn't go with us, we will not give them anything of the spoil that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that he may lead them away, and depart."
  
  23 Then David said, "You shall not do so, my brothers, with that which Yahweh has given to us, who has preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.
  
  24 Who will listen to you in this matter? For as his share is who goes down to the battle, so shall his share be who tarries by the baggage: they shall share alike."
  
  25 It was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day.
  
  26 When David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil to the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, "Behold, a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of Yahweh."
  
  27 He sent it to those who were in Bethel, and to those who were in Ramoth of the South, and to those who were in Jattir,
  
  28 and to those who were in Aroer, and to those who were in Siphmoth, and to those who were in Eshtemoa,
  
  29 and to those who were in Racal, and to those who were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to those who were in the cities of the Kenites,
  
  30 and to those who were in Hormah, and to those who were in Borashan, and to those who were in Athach,
  
  31 and to those who were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men used to stay.
  
  Ezéchiel 8
  
  1 It happened in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord Yahweh fell there on me.
  
  2 Then I saw, and behold, a likeness as the appearance of fire; from the appearance of his waist and downward, fire; and from his waist and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as it were glowing metal.
  
  3 He put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court that looks toward the north; where there was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.
  
  4 Behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the appearance that I saw in the plain.
  
  5 Then he said to me, Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up my eyes the way toward the north, and see, northward of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.
  
  6 He said to me, Son of man, do you see what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel do commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? But you shall again see yet other great abominations.
  
  7 He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall.
  
  8 Then he said to me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had dug in the wall, behold, a door.
  
  9 He said to me, Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here.
  
  10 So I went in and saw; and see, every form of creeping things, and abominable animals, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed around on the wall.
  
  11 There stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel; and in their midst stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, every man with his censer in his hand; and the odor of the cloud of incense went up.
  
  12 Then he said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? for they say, Yahweh doesn't see us; Yahweh has forsaken the land.
  
  13 He said also to me, You shall again see yet other great abominations which they do.
  
  14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of Yahweh's house which was toward the north; and see, there sat the women weeping for Tammuz.
  
  15 Then he said to me, Have you seen this, son of man? You shall again see yet greater abominations than these.
  
  16 He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh's house; and see, at the door of Yahweh's temple, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward Yahweh's temple, and their faces toward the east; and they were worshipping the sun toward the east.
  
  17 Then he said to me, Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger: and behold, they put the branch to their nose.
  
  18 Therefore will I also deal in wrath; my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
  
  1 Corinthiens 10
  
  1 Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
  
  2 and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
  
  3 and all ate the same spiritual food;
  
  4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.
  
  5 However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
  
  6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
  
  7 Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."
  
  8 Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.
  
  9 Neither let us test the Lord, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.
  
  10 Neither grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.
  
  11 Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.
  
  12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn't fall.
  
  13 No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
  
  14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
  
  15 I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.
  
  16 The cup of blessing which we bless, isn't it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn't it a sharing of the body of Christ?
  
  17 Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread.
  
  18 Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don't those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?
  
  19 What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
  
  20 But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don't desire that you would have fellowship with demons.
  
  21 You can't both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can't both partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.
  
  22 Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
  
  23 "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are profitable. "All things are lawful for me," but not all things build up.
  
  24 Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor's good.
  
  25 Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,
  
  26 for "the earth is the Lord's, and its fullness."
  
  27 But if one of those who don't believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.
  
  28 But if anyone says to you, "This was offered to idols," don't eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For "the earth is the Lord's, and all its fullness."
  
  29 Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other's conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?
  
  30 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced for that for which I give thanks?
  
  31 Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
  
  32 Give no occasions for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;
  
  33 even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

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