When he had finished speaking to Saul, 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 Saul took him that day, and wouldn’t let him go home to his father’s house any more. 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 Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David with his clothing, even including his sword, his bow, and his sash. Gen 41:42Est 6:8-9Isa 61:10Luk 15:222Co 5:21Php 2:7-8
David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely; and Saul set him over the men of war. It was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul’s servants. 1Sa 18:301Sa 18:14-15Col 4:5Act 7:10Eph 5:171Sa 13:2Mat 10:16Psa 1:3
As they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul with tambourines, with joy, and with instruments of music. Exo 15:20Jdg 11:34Psa 68:25Jer 31:11-13 The women sang to one another as they played, and said, 1Sa 21:111Sa 29:5Exo 15:21Psa 24:7-8
“Saul has slain his thousands,
and David his ten thousands.”
Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said, “They have credited David with ten thousands, and they have only credited me with thousands. What can he have more but the kingdom?” 1Sa 15:28Pro 13:101Sa 20:31Est 3:5Jas 4:5Pro 27:41Ki 2:221Sa 13:14 Saul watched David from that day and forward. Eph 4:27Gen 31:2Gen 4:5-6Jas 5:9Mat 20:15Mrk 7:22 On the next day, an evil spirit from God came mightily on Saul, and he prophesied in the middle of the house. David played with his hand, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand; 2Th 2:111Ki 18:291Sa 19:91Ki 22:20-231Sa 16:14-161Sa 16:23Act 16:161Ki 22:12 and Saul threw the spear, for he said, “I will pin David to the wall!” David escaped from his presence twice. 1Sa 20:33Isa 54:17Jhn 10:39Jhn 8:59Luk 4:30Psa 37:32-33Pro 27:41Sa 19:9-10 Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and had 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 his presence, 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
David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the LORD was with him. Gen 39:231Sa 16:18Jos 6:27Mat 28:20Gen 39:2-31Sa 10:7Act 18:10Mat 1:23 When Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he stood in awe of him. Col 4:5Dan 6:4-5Jas 1:5Jas 3:17Psa 112:5 But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them. 1Sa 18:51Ki 3:72Sa 5:2Luk 19:48Luk 20:19Num 27:17 Saul said to David, “Behold, my elder daughter Merab. I will give her to you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight the LORD’s battles.” For Saul said, “Don’t let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him.” 1Sa 17:251Sa 18:251Sa 25:281Sa 18:211Sa 17:472Sa 11:152Sa 12:9Deu 17:7
David said to 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 at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as wife. 2Sa 21:8Jdg 7:22Jdg 14:20
Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. 1Sa 18:28 Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David a second time, “You shall today be my son-in-law.” 1Sa 18:171Sa 18:261Sa 19:11-12Exo 10:7Jer 9:8Jer 5:26Pro 26:24-26Pro 29:5
Saul commanded his servants, “Talk with David secretly, and say, ‘Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore be the king’s son-in-law.’” 2Sa 13:28-29Psa 36:1-3Psa 55:21Pro 29:12
Saul’s servants spoke those words in the ears of David. David said, “Does it seem to you a light thing to be the king’s son-in-law, since I am a poor man and little known?” 1Jn 3:11Sa 9:21Ecc 9:15-16Pro 14:20Pro 19:6-7Psa 119:141
The servants of Saul told him, saying, “David spoke like this.”
Saul said, “Tell David, ‘The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies.’” Now Saul thought he would 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 When his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son-in-law. Before the deadline, 1Sa 18:21 David arose and went, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines. Then David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might be the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him Michal his daughter as wife. 2Sa 3:141Sa 18:13Jdg 14:19 Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David; and Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved him. 1Sa 24:201Sa 26:25Gen 30:27Gen 37:8-11Gen 39:3Rev 3:9 Saul was even more afraid of David; and Saul was 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 out; and as often as they went out, David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul, so that his name was highly esteemed. 1Sa 18:52Sa 11:11Pe 2:41Pe 2:71Sa 2:30Dan 1:20Eph 5:15Luk 21:15