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1SA-18:1 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.
1SA-18:2 And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no
more
home to his father's house.
1SA-18:3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he
loved
him as his own soul.
1SA-18:4 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.
1SA-18:5 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.
1SA-18:6 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 music.
1SA-18:7 And the women answered [one another] as they played,
and
said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.
1SA-18:8 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?
1SA-18:9 And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.
1SA-18:10 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.
1SA-18:11 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.
1SA-18:12 And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was
with
him, and was departed from Saul.
1SA-18:13 Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his
captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the
people.
1SA-18:14 And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and
the
LORD [was] with him.
1SA-18:15 Wherefore when Saul saw that he behaved himself very
wisely, he was afraid of him.
1SA-18:16 But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went
out
and came in before them.
1SA-18:17 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.
1SA-18:18 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?
1SA-18:19 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.
1SA-18:20 And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told
Saul,
and the thing pleased him.
1SA-18:21 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.
1SA-18:22 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.
1SA-18:23 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?
1SA-18:24 And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this
manner
spake David.
1SA-18:25 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.
1SA-18:26 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.
1SA-18:27 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.
1SA-18:28 And Saul saw and knew that the LORD [was] with David,
and
[that] Michal Saul's daughter loved him.
1SA-18:29 And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul
became
David's enemy continually.
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