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Saul therefore sent for the high priest, and for all his kindred;
and said to them, "What terrible or ungrateful tiring hast thou suffered
from me, that thou hast received the son of Jesse, and hast bestowed on
him both food and weapons, when he was contriving to get the kingdom? And
further, why didst thou deliver oracles to him concerning futurities? For
thou couldst not be unacquainted that he was fled away from me, and that
he hated my family." But the high priest did not betake himself to
deny what he had done, but confessed boldly that he had supplied him with
these things, not to gratify David, but Saul himself: and he said, "I
did not know that he was thy adversary, but a servant of thine, who was
very faithful to thee, and a captain over a thousand of thy soldiers, and,
what is more than these, thy son-in-law, and kinsman. Men do not choose
to confer such favors on their adversaries, but on those who are esteemed
to bear the highest good-will and respect to them. Nor is this the first
time that I prophesied for him, but I have done it often, and at other
times as well as now. And when he told me that he was sent by thee in great
haste to do somewhat, if I had furnished him with nothing that he desired
I should have thought that it was rather in contradiction to thee than
to him; wherefore do not thou entertain any ill opinion of me, nor do thou
have a suspicion of what I then thought an act of humanity, from what is
now told thee of David's attempts against thee, for I did then to him as
to thy friend and son-in-law, and captain of a thousand, and not as to
thine adversary."
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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