1Samuel:18-19
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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 .
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And Saul took him that day ,
and would let him go no more home to his father '
s house .
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Then Jonathan and David made a covenant ,
because he loved him as his own soul .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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And the women answered one another as they played ,
and said ,
Saul hath slain his thousands ,
and David his ten thousands .
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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 ?
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And Saul eyed David from that day and forward .
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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 .
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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 .
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And Saul was afraid of David ,
because the LORD was with him ,
and was departed from Saul .
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Therefore Saul removed him from him ,
and made him his captain over a thousand ;
and he went out and came in before the people .
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And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways ;
and the LORD was with him .
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Wherefore when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely ,
he was afraid of him .
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But all Israel and Judah loved David ,
because he went out and came in before them .
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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 .
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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 ?
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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 .
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And Michal Saul '
s daughter loved David :
and they told Saul ,
and the thing pleased him .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 ?
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And the servants of Saul told him ,
saying ,
On this manner spake David .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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And Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David ,
and that Michal Saul '
s daughter loved him .
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And Saul was yet the more afraid of David ;
and Saul became David '
s enemy continually .
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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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And Saul spake to Jonathan his son ,
and to all his servants ,
that they should kill David .
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But Jonathan Saul '
s son delighted much in David :
and Jonathan told David ,
saying ,
Saul my father seeketh to kill thee :
now therefore ,
I pray thee ,
take heed to thyself until the morning ,
and abide in a secret place ,
and hide thyself :
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And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou art ,
and I will commune with my father of thee ;
and what I see ,
that I will tell thee .
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And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father ,
and said unto him ,
Let not the king sin against his servant ,
against David ;
because he hath not sinned against thee ,
and because his works have been to thee-ward very good :
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For he did put his life in his hand ,
and slew the Philistine ,
and the LORD wrought a great salvation for all Israel :
thou sawest it ,
and didst rejoice :
wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood ,
to slay David without a cause ?
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And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan :
and Saul sware ,
As the LORD liveth ,
he shall not be slain .
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And Jonathan called David ,
and Jonathan shewed him all those things .
And Jonathan brought David to Saul ,
and he was in his presence ,
as in times past .
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And there was war again :
and David went out ,
and fought with the Philistines ,
and slew them with a great slaughter ;
and they fled from him .
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And the evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul ,
as he sat in his house with his javelin in his hand :
and David played with his hand .
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And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin ;
but he slipped away out of Saul '
s presence ,
and he smote the javelin into the wall :
and David fled ,
and escaped that night .
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Saul also sent messengers unto David '
s house ,
to watch him ,
and to slay him in the morning :
and Michal David '
s wife told him ,
saying ,
If thou save not thy life to night ,
to morrow thou shalt be slain .
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So Michal let David down through a window :
and he went ,
and fled ,
and escaped .
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And Michal took an image ,
and laid it in the bed ,
and put a pillow of goats '
hair for his bolster ,
and covered it with a cloth .
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And when Saul sent messengers to take David ,
she said ,
He is sick .
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And Saul sent the messengers again to see David ,
saying ,
Bring him up to me in the bed ,
that I may slay him .
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And when the messengers were come in ,
behold ,
there was an image in the bed ,
with a pillow of goats '
hair for his bolster .
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And Saul said unto Michal ,
Why hast thou deceived me so ,
and sent away mine enemy ,
that he is escaped ?
And Michal answered Saul ,
He said unto me ,
Let me go ;
why should I kill thee ?
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So David fled ,
and escaped ,
and came to Samuel to Ramah ,
and told him all that Saul had done to him .
And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth .
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And it was told Saul ,
saying ,
Behold ,
David is at Naioth in Ramah .
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And Saul sent messengers to take David :
and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying ,
and Samuel standing as appointed over them ,
the Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul ,
and they also prophesied .
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And when it was told Saul ,
he sent other messengers ,
and they prophesied likewise .
And Saul sent messengers again the third time ,
and they prophesied also .
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Then went he also to Ramah ,
and came to a great well that is in Sechu :
and he asked and said ,
Where are Samuel and David ?
And one said ,
Behold ,
they be at Naioth in Ramah .
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And he went thither to Naioth in Ramah :
and the Spirit of God was upon him also ,
and he went on ,
and prophesied ,
until he came to Naioth in Ramah .
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And he stripped off his clothes also ,
and prophesied before Samuel in like manner ,
and lay down naked all that day and all that night .
Wherefore they say ,
Is Saul also among the prophets ?
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And David fled from Naioth in Ramah ,
and came and said before Jonathan ,
What have I done ?
what is mine iniquity ?
and what is my sin before thy father ,
that he seeketh my life ?