1 Samuel 20

1 Samuel 20:2

So every man of Israel went up from after David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri.

So the men of Israel, taking advantage of that emulation which was betwixt them and the men of Judah, fell off from their lawful king, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri.

1 Samuel 20:18

Then she spake, saying, They were wont to speak in old time saying, They shall surely ask counsel at Abel: and so they ended the matter.

They said in the beginning of this war; Surely they will treat with the men of Abel, for peace, according to the charge which God hath given in his Law; which if you had done, this business had been at an end.

1 Samuel 20:26

He is not clean; surely he is not clean.

Some legal uncleanness hath happened unto him, that hinders him from this holy feast; for the law forbids any unclean person to eat of these holy sacrifices.

1 Samuel 20:30

Thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the confusion of thy mother’s nakedness.

This thy favour to David shall be to thine own wrong and shame; since, by this means, thou shalt be defeated of the kingdom, as if thou wert base born, and therefore uncapable to succeed me: and to the shame of thy mother, who shall by this act be proclaimed an adultress, and a dishonourer of my bed.