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1 Samuel

• 1 Samuel 22:9 אֶל prep Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
• 1 Samuel 22:11 אֶל prep Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests who were in Nob: and they came all of them to the king.
• 1 Samuel 22:13 אל/ו אֵלָי/ו֙ אֵלַ֛/י prep + sfx pers 3ms prep + sfx pers 3ms prep + sfx pers 1cs Saul said to him, Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
• 1 Samuel 22:14 אֶל prep Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and is taken into your council, and is honorable in your house?
• 1 Samuel 23:2 אֶל prep Therefore David inquired of Yahweh, saying, Shall I go and strike these Philistines? Yahweh said to David, Go, and strike the Philistines, and save Keilah.
• 1 Samuel 23:3 אֵלָ֔י/ו אֶל prep + sfx pers 3ms prep David's men said to him, Behold, we are afraid here in Judah: how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?
• 1 Samuel 23:6 אֶל prep It happened, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand.
• 1 Samuel 23:8 אֶל וְ/אֶל prep conj + prep Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
• 1 Samuel 23:9 אֶל prep David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring here the ephod.
• 1 Samuel 23:10 אֶל prep Then said David, O Yahweh, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.
• 1 Samuel 23:16 אֶל prep Jonathan, Saul's son, arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.
• 1 Samuel 23:17 אֵלָ֜י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms He said to him, Don't be afraid; for the hand of Saul my father shall not find you; and you shall be king over Israel, and I shall be next to you; and that also Saul my father knows.
• 1 Samuel 23:19 אֶל prep Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doesn't David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?
• 1 Samuel 23:22 אֵלַ֔/י prep + sfx pers 1cs Please go make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, [and] who has seen him there; for it is told me that he deals very subtly.
• 1 Samuel 23:23 אֵלַ/י֙ אֶל prep + sfx pers 1cs prep See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking-places where he hides himself, and come you again to me of a certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall happen, if he be in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.
• 1 Samuel 23:24 אֶ֖ל prep They arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of the desert.
• 1 Samuel 23:26 אֶל וְ/אֶל prep conj + prep Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take them.
• 1 Samuel 23:27 אֶל prep But there came a messenger to Saul, saying, Haste you, and come; for the Philistines have made a raid on the land.
• 1 Samuel 24:3 אֶל prep He came to the sheep pens by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet. Now David and his men were abiding in the innermost parts of the cave.
• 1 Samuel 24:4 אֵלָ֗י/ו אֵלֶ֗י/ךָ prep + sfx pers 3ms prep + sfx pers 2ms The men of David said to him, Behold, the day of which Yahweh said to you, Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe secretly.
• 1 Samuel 24:7 אֶל prep So David checked his men with these words, and didn't allow them to rise against Saul. Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.
• 1 Samuel 24:16 אֶל prep It came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words to Saul, that Saul said, Is this your voice, my son David? Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.
• 1 Samuel 24:17 אֶל prep He said to David, You are more righteous than I; for you have rendered to me good, whereas I have rendered to you evil.
• 1 Samuel 24:22 אֶל prep David swore to Saul. Saul went home; but David and his men got them up to the stronghold.
• 1 Samuel 25:1 אֶל prep Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
• 1 Samuel 25:5 אֶל prep David sent ten young men, and David said to the young men, Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:
• 1 Samuel 25:9 אֶל prep When David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.
• 1 Samuel 25:17 אֶל אֵלָֽי/ו prep prep + sfx pers 3ms Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house: for he is such a worthless fellow that one can't speak to him.
• 1 Samuel 25:25 אֶל prep Please don't let my lord regard this worthless fellow, even Nabal; for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I your handmaid didn't see the young men of my lord, whom you did send.
• 1 Samuel 25:26 אֶל prep Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, seeing Yahweh has withheld you from blood guiltiness, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
• 1 Samuel 25:36 אֶל prep Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
• 1 Samuel 25:40 אֶל אֵלֶ֨י/הָ֙ אֵלַ֔יִ/ךְ prep prep + sfx pers 3fs prep + sfx pers 2fs When the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, David has sent us to you, to take you to him as wife.
• 1 Samuel 26:1 אֶל prep The Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doesn't David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert?
• 1 Samuel 26:2 אֶל prep Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.
• 1 Samuel 26:4 אֶל prep David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come of a certainty.
• 1 Samuel 26:5 אֶֽל prep David arose, and came to the place where Saul had encamped; and David saw the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay within the place of the wagons, and the people were encamped round about him.
• 1 Samuel 26:6 אֶל וְ/אֶל אֶל אֶל prep conj + prep prep prep Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? Abishai said, I will go down with you.
• 1 Samuel 26:7 אֶל prep So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the place of the wagons, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people lay round about him.
• 1 Samuel 26:8 אֶל prep Then said Abishai to David, God has delivered up your enemy into your hand this day: now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time.
• 1 Samuel 26:9 אֶל prep David said to Abishai, Don't destroy him; for who can put forth his hand against Yahweh's anointed, and be guiltless?
• 1 Samuel 26:14 אֶל וְ/אֶל אֶל prep conj + prep prep and David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, Don't you answer, Abner? Then Abner answered, Who are you who cries to the king?
• 1 Samuel 26:15 אֶל אֶל prep prep David said to Abner, Aren't you a [valiant] man? and who is like you in Israel? why then have you not kept watch over your lord, the king? for there came one of the people in to destroy the king your lord.
• 1 Samuel 26:25 אֶל prep Then Saul said to David, Blessed be you, my son David: you shall both do mightily, and shall surely prevail. So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place.
• 1 Samuel 27:1 אֶל אֶל prep prep 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 escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
• 1 Samuel 27:2 אֶל prep David arose, and passed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.
• 1 Samuel 27:5 אֶל prep David said to Achish, If now I have found favor in your eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?
• 1 Samuel 27:8 אֶל prep David and his men went up, and made a raid on the Geshurites, and the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those [nations] were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, as you go to Shur, even to the land of Egypt.
• 1 Samuel 27:9 אֶל prep David struck the land, and saved neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the donkeys, and the camels, and the clothing; and he returned, and came to Achish.
• 1 Samuel 27:10 וְ/אֶל conj + prep Achish said, Against whom have you made a raid today? David said, Against the South of Judah, and against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites.
• 1 Samuel 28:1 אֶל prep It happened in those days, that the Philistines gathered their hosts together for warfare, to fight with Israel. Achish said to David, Know you assuredly, that you shall go out with me in the host, you and your men.
• 1 Samuel 28:2 אֶל אֶל prep prep David said to Achish, Therefore you shall know what your servant will do. Achish said to David, Therefore will I make you keeper of my head for ever.
• 1 Samuel 28:7 אֵלֶ֖י/הָ אֵלָ֔י/ו prep + sfx pers 3fs prep + sfx pers 3ms Then said Saul to his servants, Seek me a woman who has a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her. His servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman who has a familiar spirit at En-dor.
• 1 Samuel 28:8 אֶל אֵלָֽיִ/ךְ prep prep + sfx pers 2fs Saul disguised himself, and put on other clothing, and went, he and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, Please divine to me by the familiar spirit, and bring me up whoever I shall name to you.
• 1 Samuel 28:9 אֵלָ֗י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms 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 lay you a snare for my life, to cause me to die?
• 1 Samuel 28:12 אֶל prep 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.
• 1 Samuel 28:13 אֶל prep The king said to her, Don't be afraid: for what do you see? The woman said to Saul, I see a god coming up out of the earth.
• 1 Samuel 28:15 אֶל prep Samuel said to Saul, Why have you disquieted me, to bring me up? Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answers me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I shall do.
• 1 Samuel 28:21 אֶל אֵלָ֗י/ו אֵלָֽ/י prep prep + sfx pers 3ms prep + sfx pers 1cs The woman came to Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and said to him, Behold, your handmaid 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.
• 1 Samuel 28:23 אֶל prep 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.
• 1 Samuel 29:3 אֶל prep Then said the princes of the Philistines, What [do] these Hebrews [here]? 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 me] to this day?
• 1 Samuel 29:4 אֶל אֶל prep prep 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?
• 1 Samuel 29:6 אֶל אֵ֠לָי/ו אֵלַ֖/י prep prep + sfx pers 3ms prep + sfx pers 1cs 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 host 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.
• 1 Samuel 29:8 אֶל prep David said to Achish, But what have I done? and 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?
• 1 Samuel 29:9 אֶל prep 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.
• 1 Samuel 29:11 אֶל prep 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 אֶל וְ/אֶל prep conj + prep It happened, when David and his men were 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,
• 1 Samuel 30:3 אֶל prep 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.
• 1 Samuel 30:7 אֶל אֶל prep prep David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, Please bring me here the ephod. Abiathar brought there the ephod to David.
• 1 Samuel 30:11 אֶל prep 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.
• 1 Samuel 30:12 אֵלָ֑י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms They gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and 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.
• 1 Samuel 30:15 אֵלָי/ו֙ אֶל אֶל prep + sfx pers 3ms prep prep 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.
• 1 Samuel 30:21 אֶל prep David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom also they had made to abide at the brook Besor; and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people who were with him: and when David came near to the people, he greeted them.
• 1 Samuel 30:26 אֶל prep 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:
• 1 Samuel 31:3 אֶל prep The battle went sore against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was greatly distressed by reason of the archers.
• 1 Samuel 31:11 אֵלָ֔י/ו prep + sfx pers 3ms When the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard concerning him that which the Philistines had done to Saul,