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. Pro 18:241Sa 20:171Sa 18:32Sa 1:26Col 2:2Gen 44:301Sa 19:2Deu 13:6 And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father’s house. 1Sa 17:151Sa 16:21-23 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul. 1Sa 20:421Sa 20:8-172Sa 21:72Sa 9:1-31Sa 23:18 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. Gen 41:42Est 6:8-9Isa 61:10Luk 15:222Co 5:21Php 2:7-8
¶ 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. 1 1Sa 18:301Sa 18:14-15Col 4:5Act 7:10Eph 5:171Sa 13:2Mat 10:16Psa 1:3
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. 2 3 Exo 15:20Jdg 11:34Psa 68:25Jer 31:11-13 And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands. 1Sa 21:111Sa 29:5Exo 15:21Psa 24:7-8 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? 4 1Sa 15:28Pro 13:101Sa 20:31Est 3:5Jas 4:5Pro 27:41Ki 2:221Sa 13:14 And Saul eyed David from that day and forward. Eph 4:27Gen 31:2Gen 4:5-6Jas 5:9Mat 20:15Mrk 7:22
¶ 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. 2Th 2:111Ki 18:291Sa 19:91Ki 22:20-231Sa 16:14-161Sa 16:23Act 16:161Ki 22:12 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 20:33Isa 54:17Jhn 10:39Jhn 8:59Luk 4:30Psa 37:32-33Pro 27:41Sa 19:9-10
¶ And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and was departed from Saul. 1Sa 18:151Sa 18:291Sa 16:13-141Sa 28:151Sa 16:18Act 24:25Act 7:91Sa 16:4 Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people. 2Sa 5:2Psa 121:81Sa 18:16-171Sa 18:251Sa 22:71Sa 8:12Num 27:16-17 And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the LORD was with him. 5 Gen 39:231Sa 16:18Jos 6:27Mat 28:20Gen 39:2-31Sa 10:7Act 18:10Mat 1:23 Wherefore when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he was afraid of him. Col 4:5Dan 6:4-5Jas 1:5Jas 3:17Psa 112:5 But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out and came in before them. 1Sa 18:51Ki 3:72Sa 5:2Luk 19:48Luk 20:19Num 27:17
¶ 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. 6 1Sa 17:251Sa 18:251Sa 25:281Sa 18:211Sa 17:472Sa 11:152Sa 12:9Deu 17:7 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? 2Sa 7:181Sa 18:231Sa 9:21Exo 3:11Rut 2:10Jer 1:6Pro 15:33Pro 18:12 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. 2Sa 21:8Jdg 7:22Jdg 14:20 And Michal Saul’s daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. 7 1Sa 18:28 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 18:171Sa 18:261Sa 19:11-12Exo 10:7Jer 9:8Jer 5:26Pro 26:24-26Pro 29:5
¶ 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. 2Sa 13:28-29Psa 36:1-3Psa 55:21Pro 29:12 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? 1Jn 3:11Sa 9:21Ecc 9:15-16Pro 14:20Pro 19:6-7Psa 119:141 And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David. 8 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 14:241Sa 18:17Gen 34:121Sa 17:261Sa 17:362Sa 17:8-11Exo 22:16-17Gen 17:11-14 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. 9 1Sa 18:21 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. 2Sa 3:141Sa 18:13Jdg 14:19
¶ And Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal Saul’s daughter loved him. 1Sa 24:201Sa 26:25Gen 30:27Gen 37:8-11Gen 39:3Rev 3:9 And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David’s enemy continually. Ecc 4:41Jn 3:12-151Sa 18:121Sa 18:15Gen 4:4-8Jas 2:19Jhn 11:53Psa 37:12-14 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. 10 1Sa 18:52Sa 11:11Pe 2:41Pe 2:71Sa 2:30Dan 1:20Eph 5:15Luk 21:15