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kjv@1Samuel:16:13 @ Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
kjv@1Samuel:16:19 @ Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep.
kjv@1Samuel:16:20 @ And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul.
kjv@1Samuel:16:21 @ And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armourbearer.
kjv@1Samuel:16:23 @ And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.
kjv@1Samuel:17:12 @ Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehemjudah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.
kjv@1Samuel:17:14 @ And David was the youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul.
kjv@1Samuel:17:15 @ But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.
kjv@1Samuel:17:17 @ And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren;
kjv@1Samuel:17:20 @ And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle.
kjv@1Samuel:17:22 @ And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.
kjv@1Samuel:17:23 @ And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard them.
kjv@1Samuel:17:26 @ And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
kjv@1Samuel:17:29 @ And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?
kjv@1Samuel:17:31 @ And when the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul: and he sent for him.
kjv@1Samuel:17:32 @ And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.
kjv@1Samuel:17:34 @ And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:
kjv@1Samuel:17:37 @ David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the LORD be with thee.
kjv@1Samuel:17:38 @ And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail.
kjv@1Samuel:17:39 @ And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And David put them off him.
kjv@1Samuel:17:43 @ And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
kjv@1Samuel:17:45 @ Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
kjv@1Samuel:17:48 @ And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.
kjv@1Samuel:17:49 @ And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
kjv@1Samuel:17:50 @ So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.
kjv@1Samuel:17:51 @ Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled.
kjv@1Samuel:17:54 @ And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armour in his tent.
kjv@1Samuel:17:55 @ And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this youth? And Abner said, As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.
kjv@1Samuel:17:57 @ And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.
kjv@1Samuel:17:58 @ And Saul said to him, Whose son art thou, thou young man? And David answered, I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.
kjv@1Samuel:18:3 @ Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
kjv@1Samuel: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.
kjv@1Samuel: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 musick.
kjv@1Samuel:18:7 @ And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.
kjv@1Samuel: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?
kjv@1Samuel:18:9 @ And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.
kjv@1Samuel: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.
kjv@1Samuel: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.
kjv@1Samuel:18:14 @ And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the LORD was with him.
kjv@1Samuel: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?
kjv@1Samuel: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.
kjv@1Samuel: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?
kjv@1Samuel: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.
kjv@1Samuel: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.
kjv@1Samuel: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.
kjv@1Samuel: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.
kjv@1Samuel:19:4 @ 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:
kjv@1Samuel:19:5 @ 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?
kjv@1Samuel:19:7 @ 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.
kjv@1Samuel:19:8 @ 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.
kjv@1Samuel:19:9 @ 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.
kjv@1Samuel:19:10 @ 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.
kjv@1Samuel:19:12 @ So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
kjv@1Samuel:19:18 @ 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.
kjv@1Samuel:19:19 @ And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.
kjv@1Samuel:20:1 @ 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?
kjv@1Samuel:20:3 @ And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.
kjv@1Samuel:20:5 @ And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to morrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field unto the third day at even.
kjv@1Samuel:20:6 @ If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city: for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.
kjv@1Samuel:20:10 @ Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what if thy father answer thee roughly?
kjv@1Samuel:20:15 @ But also thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house for ever: no, not when the LORD hath cut off the enemies of David every one from the face of the earth.
kjv@1Samuel:20:17 @ And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
kjv@1Samuel:20:24 @ So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat meat.
kjv@1Samuel:20:28 @ And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem:
kjv@1Samuel:20:39 @ But the lad knew not any thing: only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
kjv@1Samuel:20:41 @ And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of a place toward the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.
kjv@1Samuel:21:1 @ Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?
kjv@1Samuel:21:2 @ And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place.
kjv@1Samuel:21:5 @ And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel.
kjv@1Samuel:21:8 @ And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thine hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste.
kjv@1Samuel:21:9 @ And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me.
kjv@1Samuel:21:10 @ And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.
kjv@1Samuel:21:11 @ And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
kjv@1Samuel:21:12 @ And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
kjv@1Samuel:22:1 @ David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him.
kjv@1Samuel:22:3 @ And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said unto the king of Moab, Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, and be with you, till I know what God will do for me.
kjv@1Samuel:22:4 @ And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the hold.
kjv@1Samuel:22:5 @ And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth.
kjv@1Samuel:22:6 @ When Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that were with him, (now Saul abode in Gibeah under a tree in Ramah, having his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him;)
kjv@1Samuel:22:21 @ And Abiathar shewed David that Saul had slain the LORD'S priests.
kjv@1Samuel:22:22 @ And David said unto Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father's house.
kjv@1Samuel:23:2 @ Therefore David enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go and smite these Philistines? And the LORD said unto David, Go, and smite the Philistines, and save Keilah.
kjv@1Samuel:23:4 @ Then David enquired of the LORD yet again. And the LORD answered him and said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into thine hand.
kjv@1Samuel:23:5 @ So David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and smote them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
kjv@1Samuel:23:6 @ And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand.
kjv@1Samuel:23:7 @ And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And Saul said, God hath delivered him into mine hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that hath gates and bars.
kjv@1Samuel:23:8 @ And Saul called all the people together to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
kjv@1Samuel:23:9 @ And David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.
kjv@1Samuel:23:13 @ Then David and his men, which were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he forbare to go forth.
kjv@1Samuel:23:14 @ And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.
kjv@1Samuel:23:15 @ And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.
kjv@1Samuel:23:16 @ And Jonathan Saul's son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.
kjv@1Samuel:23:18 @ And they two made a covenant before the LORD: and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.
kjv@1Samuel:23:19 @ Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?
kjv@1Samuel:23:24 @ And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain on the south of Jeshimon.
kjv@1Samuel:23:25 @ Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.
kjv@1Samuel:23:26 @ And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take them.
kjv@1Samuel:23:29 @ And David went up from thence, and dwelt in strong holds at Engedi.
kjv@1Samuel:24:1 @ And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David is in the wilderness of Engedi.
kjv@1Samuel:24:2 @ Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats.
kjv@1Samuel:24:3 @ And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave.
kjv@1Samuel:24:4 @ And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of which the LORD said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily.
kjv@1Samuel:24:7 @ So David stayed his servants with these words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul. But Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.
kjv@1Samuel:24:8 @ David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed himself.
kjv@1Samuel:24:9 @ And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?
kjv@1Samuel:24:16 @ And it came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words unto Saul, that Saul said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.
kjv@1Samuel:24:22 @ And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his men gat them up unto the hold.
kjv@1Samuel:25:1 @ And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
kjv@1Samuel:25:4 @ And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.
kjv@1Samuel:25:5 @ And David sent out ten young men, and David said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:
kjv@1Samuel:25:13 @ And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.
kjv@1Samuel:25:14 @ But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them.
kjv@1Samuel:25:20 @ And it was so, as she rode on the ass, that she came down by the covert of the hill, and, behold, David and his men came down against her; and she met them.
kjv@1Samuel:25:21 @ Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good.
kjv@1Samuel:25:23 @ And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,
kjv@1Samuel:25:32 @ And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which sent thee this day to meet me:
kjv@1Samuel:25:35 @ So David received of her hand that which she had brought him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to thine house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.
kjv@1Samuel:25:39 @ And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.
kjv@1Samuel:25:40 @ And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to take thee to him to wife.
kjv@1Samuel:25:43 @ David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives.
kjv@1Samuel:26:1 @ And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon?
kjv@1Samuel:26:2 @ Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.
kjv@1Samuel:26:3 @ And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.
kjv@1Samuel:26:4 @ David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come in very deed.
kjv@1Samuel:26:5 @ And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched: and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round about him.
kjv@1Samuel:26:6 @ Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.
kjv@1Samuel:26:7 @ So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.
kjv@1Samuel:26:9 @ And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the LORD'S anointed, and be guiltless?
kjv@1Samuel:26:10 @ David said furthermore, As the LORD liveth, the LORD shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish.
kjv@1Samuel:26:12 @ So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked: for they were all asleep; because a deep sleep from the LORD was fallen upon them.
kjv@1Samuel:26:13 @ Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of an hill afar off; a great space being between them:
kjv@1Samuel:26:14 @ And David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, Answerest thou not, Abner? Then Abner answered and said, Who art thou that criest to the king?
kjv@1Samuel:26:15 @ And David said to Abner, Art not thou a valiant man? and who is like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast thou not kept thy lord the king? for there came one of the people in to destroy the king thy lord.
kjv@1Samuel:26:17 @ And Saul knew David's voice, and said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And David said, It is my voice, my lord, O king.
kjv@1Samuel:26:22 @ And David answered and said, Behold the king's spear! and let one of the young men come over and fetch it.
kjv@1Samuel:26:25 @ Then Saul said to David, Blessed be thou, my son David: thou shalt both do great things, and also shalt still prevail. So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.
kjv@1Samuel:27:1 @ And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
kjv@1Samuel:27:2 @ And David arose, and he passed over with the six hundred men that were with him unto Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.
kjv@1Samuel:27:3 @ And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.
kjv@1Samuel:27:4 @ And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him.
kjv@1Samuel:27:5 @ And David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace in thine eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?
kjv@1Samuel:27:7 @ And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.
kjv@1Samuel:27:8 @ And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.
kjv@1Samuel:27:9 @ And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.
kjv@1Samuel:27:10 @ And Achish said, Whither have ye made a road to day? And David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites.
kjv@1Samuel:27:11 @ And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring tidings to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on us, saying, So did David, and so will be his manner all the while he dwelleth in the country of the Philistines.
kjv@1Samuel:28:2 @ And David said to Achish, Surely thou shalt know what thy servant can do. And Achish said to David, Therefore will I make thee keeper of mine head for ever.
kjv@1Samuel:29:2 @ And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rereward with Achish.
kjv@1Samuel:29:5 @ Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
kjv@1Samuel:29:8 @ And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee unto this day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king?
kjv@1Samuel:29:11 @ So David and his men rose up early to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.
kjv@1Samuel:30:1 @ And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;
kjv@1Samuel:30:3 @ So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.
kjv@1Samuel:30:4 @ Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
kjv@1Samuel:30:6 @ And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
kjv@1Samuel:30:7 @ And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David.
kjv@1Samuel:30:8 @ And David enquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.
kjv@1Samuel:30:9 @ So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.
kjv@1Samuel:30:10 @ But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred abode behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor.
kjv@1Samuel:30:13 @ And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.
kjv@1Samuel:30:15 @ And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this company? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this company.
kjv@1Samuel:30:17 @ And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.
kjv@1Samuel:30:18 @ And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives.
kjv@1Samuel:30:19 @ And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any thing that they had taken to them: David recovered all.
kjv@1Samuel:30:20 @ And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.
kjv@1Samuel:30:21 @ And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted them.
kjv@1Samuel:30:26 @ And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of the LORD;
kjv@1Samuel:30:31 @ And to them which were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt.
kjv@2Samuel:1:1 @ Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag;
kjv@2Samuel:1:3 @ And David said unto him, From whence comest thou? And he said unto him, Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped.
kjv@2Samuel:1:4 @ And David said unto him, How went the matter? I pray thee, tell me. And he answered, That the people are fled from the battle, and many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.
kjv@2Samuel:1:5 @ And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?
kjv@2Samuel:1:11 @ Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him:
kjv@2Samuel:1:13 @ And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite.
kjv@2Samuel:1:14 @ And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?
kjv@2Samuel:1:15 @ And David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall upon him. And he smote him that he died.
kjv@2Samuel:1:16 @ And David said unto him, Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the LORD'S anointed.
kjv@2Samuel:1:17 @ And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:
kjv@2Samuel:2:1 @ And it came to pass after this, that David enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah? And the LORD said unto him, Go up. And David said, Whither shall I go up? And he said, Unto Hebron.
kjv@2Samuel:2:2 @ So David went up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail Nabal's wife the Carmelite.
kjv@2Samuel:2:3 @ And his men that were with him did David bring up, every man with his household: and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron.
kjv@2Samuel:2:4 @ And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, saying, That the men of Jabeshgilead were they that buried Saul.
kjv@2Samuel:2:5 @ And David sent messengers unto the men of Jabeshgilead, and said unto them, Blessed be ye of the LORD, that ye have shewed this kindness unto your lord, even unto Saul, and have buried him.
kjv@2Samuel:2:11 @ And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.
kjv@2Samuel:2:31 @ But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, so that three hundred and threescore men died.
kjv@2Samuel:3:1 @ Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.
kjv@2Samuel:3:2 @ And unto David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;
kjv@2Samuel:3:5 @ And the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah David's wife. These were born to David in Hebron.
kjv@2Samuel:3:10 @ To translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba.
kjv@2Samuel:3:12 @ And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, Whose is the land? saying also, Make thy league with me, and, behold, my hand shall be with thee, to bring about all Israel unto thee.
kjv@2Samuel:3:14 @ And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth Saul's son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred foreskins of the Philistines.
kjv@2Samuel:3:17 @ And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, Ye sought for David in times past to be king over you:
kjv@2Samuel:3:18 @ Now then do it: for the LORD hath spoken of David, saying, By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.
kjv@2Samuel:3:19 @ And Abner also spake in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and that seemed good to the whole house of Benjamin.
kjv@2Samuel:3:20 @ So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. And David made Abner and the men that were with him a feast.
kjv@2Samuel:3:21 @ And Abner said unto David, I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel unto my lord the king, that they may make a league with thee, and that thou mayest reign over all that thine heart desireth. And David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.
kjv@2Samuel:3:22 @ And, behold, the servants of David and Joab came from pursuing a troop, and brought in a great spoil with them: but Abner was not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he was gone in peace.
kjv@2Samuel:3:26 @ And when Joab was come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, which brought him again from the well of Sirah: but David knew it not.
kjv@2Samuel:3:28 @ And afterward when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before the LORD for ever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner:
kjv@2Samuel:3:31 @ And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.
kjv@2Samuel:3:35 @ And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.
kjv@2Samuel:4:8 @ And they brought the head of Ishbosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ishbosheth the son of Saul thine enemy, which sought thy life; and the LORD hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.
kjv@2Samuel:4:9 @ And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
kjv@2Samuel:4:12 @ And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.
kjv@2Samuel:5:1 @ Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
kjv@2Samuel:5:3 @ So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the LORD: and they anointed David king over Israel.
kjv@2Samuel:5:4 @ David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
kjv@2Samuel:5:6 @ And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spake unto David, saying, Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither: thinking, David cannot come in hither.
kjv@2Samuel:5:7 @ Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David.
kjv@2Samuel:5:8 @ And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, that are hated of David's soul, he shall be chief and captain. Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.
kjv@2Samuel:5:9 @ So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.
kjv@2Samuel:5:10 @ And David went on, and grew great, and the LORD God of hosts was with him.
kjv@2Samuel:5:11 @ And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an house.
kjv@2Samuel:5:12 @ And David perceived that the LORD had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel's sake.
kjv@2Samuel:5:13 @ And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron: and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.
kjv@2Samuel:5:17 @ But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines came up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went down to the hold.
kjv@2Samuel:5:19 @ And David enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up to the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the LORD said unto David, Go up: for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into thine hand.
kjv@2Samuel:5:20 @ And David came to Baalperazim, and David smote them there, and said, The LORD hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baalperazim.
kjv@2Samuel:5:21 @ And there they left their images, and David and his men burned them.
kjv@2Samuel:5:23 @ And when David enquired of the LORD, he said, Thou shalt not go up; but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.
kjv@2Samuel:5:25 @ And David did so, as the LORD had commanded him; and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gazer.
kjv@2Samuel:6:1 @ Again, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.
kjv@2Samuel:6:2 @ And David arose, and went with all the people that were with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose name is called by the name of the LORD of hosts that dwelleth between the cherubims.
kjv@2Samuel:6:5 @ And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.
kjv@2Samuel:6:8 @ And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place Perezuzzah to this day.
kjv@2Samuel:6:9 @ And David was afraid of the LORD that day, and said, How shall the ark of the LORD come to me?
kjv@2Samuel:6:10 @ So David would not remove the ark of the LORD unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite.
kjv@2Samuel:6:12 @ And it was told king David, saying, The LORD hath blessed the house of Obededom, and all that pertaineth unto him, because of the ark of God. So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obededom into the city of David with gladness.
kjv@2Samuel:6:14 @ And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
kjv@2Samuel:6:15 @ So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
kjv@2Samuel:6:16 @ And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.
kjv@2Samuel:6:17 @ And they brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in his place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it: and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.
kjv@2Samuel:6:18 @ And as soon as David had made an end of offering burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of hosts.
kjv@2Samuel:6:20 @ Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!
kjv@2Samuel:6:21 @ And David said unto Michal, It was before the LORD, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the LORD, over Israel: therefore will I play before the LORD.
kjv@2Samuel:7:18 @ Then went king David in, and sat before the LORD, and he said, Who am I, O Lord GOD? and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?
kjv@2Samuel:7:20 @ And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord GOD, knowest thy servant.
kjv@2Samuel:7:26 @ And let thy name be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God over Israel: and let the house of thy servant David be established before thee.
kjv@2Samuel:8:1 @ And after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them: and David took Methegammah out of the hand of the Philistines.
kjv@2Samuel:8:3 @ David smote also Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his border at the river Euphrates.
kjv@2Samuel:8:4 @ And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for an hundred chariots.
kjv@2Samuel:8:5 @ And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
kjv@2Samuel:8:6 @ Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought gifts. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.
kjv@2Samuel:8:7 @ And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
kjv@2Samuel:8:8 @ And from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass.
kjv@2Samuel:8:9 @ When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer,
kjv@2Samuel:8:11 @ Which also king David did dedicate unto the LORD, with the silver and gold that he had dedicated of all nations which he subdued;
kjv@2Samuel:8:13 @ And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men.
kjv@2Samuel:8:14 @ And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he garrisons, and all they of Edom became David's servants. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.
kjv@2Samuel:8:15 @ And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgment and justice unto all his people.
kjv@2Samuel:9:1 @ And David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan's sake?
kjv@2Samuel:9:5 @ Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, from Lodebar.
kjv@2Samuel:9:6 @ Now when Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, was come unto David, he fell on his face, and did reverence. And David said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold thy servant!
kjv@2Samuel:9:7 @ And David said unto him, Fear not: for I will surely shew thee kindness for Jonathan thy father's sake, and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy father; and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually.