20. Immediately Saul fell full length on the ground, filled with fear because of Samuel’s words. His strength was gone, for he had eaten nothing all that day and all that night.
21. When the woman came to Saul and saw that he was greatly shaken, she said, ‘Look, your servant has obeyed you. I took my life in my hands and did what you told me to do.
22. Now please listen to your servant and let me give you some food so that you may eat and have the strength to go on your way.’
23. He refused and said, ‘I will not eat.’But his men joined the woman in urging him, and he listened to them. He got up from the ground and sat on the couch.
24. The woman had a fattened calf at the house, which she slaughtered at once. She took some flour, kneaded it and baked bread without yeast.