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.

1SA-18:30  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.



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