1 Samuel 18

About 1 Samuel 1 Samuel tells of Samuel the prophet, Israel's first king Saul, and the rise of young David.

And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.Selected1 Samuel 18:1Ask

And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father’s house.Selected1 Samuel 18:2Ask

Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.Selected1 Samuel 18:3Ask

And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.Selected1 Samuel 18:4Ask

And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul’s servants.Selected1 Samuel 18:5Ask

And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick.Selected1 Samuel 18:6Ask

And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.Selected1 Samuel 18:7Ask

And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?Selected1 Samuel 18:8Ask

And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.Selected1 Samuel 18:9Ask

And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as at other times: and there was a javelin in Saul’s hand.Selected1 Samuel 18:10Ask

And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice.Selected1 Samuel 18:11Ask

And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and was departed from Saul.Selected1 Samuel 18:12Ask

Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.Selected1 Samuel 18:13Ask

And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the LORD was with him.Selected1 Samuel 18:14Ask

Wherefore when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he was afraid of him.Selected1 Samuel 18:15Ask

But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out and came in before them.Selected1 Samuel 18:16Ask

And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD’s battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.Selected1 Samuel 18:17Ask

And David said unto Saul, Who am I? and what is my life, or my father’s family in Israel, that I should be son in law to the king?Selected1 Samuel 18:18Ask

But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul’s daughter should have been given to David, that she was given unto Adriel the Meholathite to wife.Selected1 Samuel 18:19Ask

And Michal Saul’s daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.Selected1 Samuel 18:20Ask

And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in the one of the twain.Selected1 Samuel 18:21Ask

And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king’s son in law.Selected1 Samuel 18:22Ask

And Saul’s servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king’s son in law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?Selected1 Samuel 18:23Ask

And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David.Selected1 Samuel 18:24Ask

And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.Selected1 Samuel 18:25Ask

And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son in law: and the days were not expired.Selected1 Samuel 18:26Ask

Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king’s son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.Selected1 Samuel 18:27Ask

And Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal Saul’s daughter loved him.Selected1 Samuel 18:28Ask

And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David’s enemy continually.Selected1 Samuel 18:29Ask

Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it came to pass, after they went forth, that David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much set by.Selected1 Samuel 18:30Ask

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