1It happened, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.stylusProverbs 18:24, 1 Samuel 20:17, Proverbs 18:24, 1 Samuel 20:17, 2 Samuel 1:262Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house.stylus1 Samuel 17:15, 1 Samuel 17:15, 1 Samuel 16:21, 1 Samuel 16:23, 1 Samuel 16:213Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.stylus1 Samuel 20:8, 1 Samuel 20:17, 1 Samuel 20:42, 1 Samuel 20:8, 1 Samuel 20:174Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him, and gave it to David, and his clothing, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his sash.stylusGenesis 41:42, Genesis 41:42, Isaiah 61:10, Luke 15:22, Esther 6:85David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and it was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants.stylus1 Samuel 18:30, 1 Samuel 18:30, 1 Samuel 18:14, 1 Samuel 18:15, 1 Samuel 18:146It happened as they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that 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.stylusJudges 11:34, Exodus 15:20, Judges 11:34, Exodus 15:20, Psalms 68:257The women sang one to another as they played, and said, "Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands."stylus1 Samuel 21:11, 1 Samuel 21:11, Exodus 15:21, 1 Samuel 29:5, Exodus 15:218Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him; and he said, "They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands. What can he have more but the kingdom?"stylus1 Samuel 15:28, 1 Samuel 15:28, Proverbs 13:10, Proverbs 13:10, 1 Samuel 20:319Saul eyed David from that day and forward.stylusMark 7:22, Matthew 20:15, Genesis 31:2, Genesis 4:5, Genesis 4:610It happened on the next day, that an evil spirit from God came mightily on Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house. David played with his hand, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand;stylus1 Samuel 19:9, 1 Kings 18:29, 2 Thessalonians 2:11, 1 Samuel 19:9, 1 Kings 18:2911and Saul threw the spear; for he said, "I will pin David even to the wall!" David escaped from his presence twice.stylus1 Samuel 20:33, 1 Samuel 20:33, Isaiah 54:17, Isaiah 54:17, Psalms 37:3212Saul was afraid of David, because the Lord was with him, and was departed from Saul.stylus1 Samuel 18:15, 1 Samuel 18:29, 1 Samuel 18:15, 1 Samuel 18:29, 1 Samuel 28:1513Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.stylus2 Samuel 5:2, 2 Samuel 5:2, Psalms 121:8, Psalms 121:8, 1 Samuel 18:2514David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the Lord was with him.stylusGenesis 39:23, Genesis 39:23, Joshua 6:27, Matthew 28:20, 1 Samuel 16:1815When Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he stood in awe of him.stylusPsalms 112:5, James 1:5, Daniel 6:4, Daniel 6:5, James 3:1716But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them.stylus1 Samuel 18:5, 1 Samuel 18:5, 1 Kings 3:7, Luke 19:48, 2 Samuel 5:217Saul 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, "Do not let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him."stylus1 Samuel 18:25, 1 Samuel 17:25, 1 Samuel 25:28, 1 Samuel 18:25, 1 Samuel 17:2518David 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?"stylus2 Samuel 7:18, 2 Samuel 7:18, 1 Samuel 9:21, 1 Samuel 18:23, 1 Samuel 9:2119But it happened at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David, that she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as wife.stylusJudges 7:22, 2 Samuel 21:8, Judges 7:22, 2 Samuel 21:8, Judges 14:2020Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.stylus1 Samuel 18:28, 1 Samuel 18:2821Saul 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, "You shall this day be my son-in-law a second time."stylus1 Samuel 18:17, 1 Samuel 18:17, Exodus 10:7, Jeremiah 9:8, 1 Samuel 18:2622Saul 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.'"stylusPsalms 55:21, 2 Samuel 13:28, 2 Samuel 13:29, Psalms 36:1, Psalms 36:323Saul's servants spoke those words in the ears of David. David said, "Does it seems to you a light thing to be the king's son-in-law, since I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?"stylusProverbs 14:20, Psalms 119:141, 1 Samuel 9:21, Proverbs 19:6, Proverbs 19:724The servants of Saul told him, saying, "David spoke like this."stylus25Saul said, "You shall 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 to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.stylusGenesis 34:12, 1 Samuel 14:24, 1 Samuel 18:17, Genesis 34:12, 1 Samuel 14:2426When his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law. The days were not expired;stylus1 Samuel 18:21, 1 Samuel 18:2127and David arose and went, he and his men, and killed of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might be the king's son-in-law. Saul gave him Michal his daughter as wife.stylus2 Samuel 3:14, 2 Samuel 3:14, Judges 14:19, 1 Samuel 18:13, Judges 14:1928Saul saw and knew that the Lord was with David; and Michal, Saul's daughter, loved him.stylusGenesis 30:27, Genesis 37:8, Genesis 37:11, 1 Samuel 26:25, Genesis 39:329Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul was David's enemy continually.stylusEcclesiastes 4:4, Ecclesiastes 4:4, John 11:53, 1 Samuel 18:12, James 2:1930Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it happened, as often as they went forth, that David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was highly esteemed.stylus1 Samuel 18:5, 2 Samuel 11:1, 1 Samuel 18:5, 2 Samuel 11:1, Psalms 119:99