Psalm 52:5-9   New International Version     5 Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin:     He will snatch you up and pluck you from your tent;     he will uproot you from the land of the living. 6 The righteous will see and fear;     they will laugh at...

Psalm 52:1-4   New International Version For the director of music of David. When Doeg the Edomite had gone to Saul and told him: “David has gone to the house of Ahimelek.” 1 Why do you boast of evil, you mighty hero?     Why do you boast all day long,     you who are...

1 Samuel 22:20   New International Version     20 But one son of Ahimelek son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled to join David. Abiathar escaped to David. Saul, in his rage, had killed all the priests, except one. Abiathar joined David. They had maybe thought...

1 Samuel 22:17-21   New International Version     17 Then the king ordered the guards at his side: “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, because they too have sided with David. They knew he was fleeing, yet they did not tell me.” But the king’s officials were...

1 Chronicles 12:15-18   New International Version     15 It was they who crossed the Jordan in the first month when it was overflowing all its banks, and they put to flight everyone living in the valleys, to the east and to the west. 16 Other Benjamites and some men...

Psalm 142   New International Version   When David was in the cave. A prayer. 1 I cry aloud to the Lord;     I lift up my voice to the Lord for mercy. 2 I pour out before him my complaint;     before him I tell my trouble. 3 When my spirit grows faint within me,...

Psalm 57:5-11   New International Version     5 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens;     let your glory be over all the earth. 6 They spread a net for my feet—     I was bowed down in distress. They dug a pit in my path—     but they have fallen into it themselves....