NITHYAM SONGS1 Samuel 18
World English Bible (WEB) • 30 verses
1When 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.
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2Saul took him that day, and wouldn’t let him go home to his father’s house any more.
3Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
4Jonathan 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.
RelatedGenesis 41:42 · Isaiah 61:10 · Luke 15:22 · Esther 6:8-9 · Philippians 2:7-8 · 2 Corinthians 5:21
5David 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.
Related1 Samuel 18:30 · 1 Samuel 18:14-15 · Colossians 4:5 · Ephesians 5:17 · Acts 7:10 · 1 Samuel 13:2
6As 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.
7The women sang to one another as they played, and said, “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.”
8Saul 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?”
9Saul watched David from that day and forward.
10On 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;
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11and Saul threw the spear, for he said, “I will pin David to the wall!” David escaped from his presence twice.
12Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and had departed from Saul.
Related1 Samuel 18:15 · 1 Samuel 18:29 · 1 Samuel 28:15 · 1 Samuel 16:13-14 · 1 Samuel 16:18 · Acts 24:25
13Therefore Saul removed him from his presence, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.
Related2 Samuel 5:2 · Psalms 121:8 · 1 Samuel 18:25 · 1 Samuel 8:12 · Numbers 27:16-17 · 1 Samuel 18:16-17
14David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the LORD was with him.
RelatedGenesis 39:23 · Joshua 6:27 · 1 Samuel 16:18 · Matthew 28:20 · Genesis 39:2-3 · 1 Samuel 10:7
15When Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he stood in awe of him.
16But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them.
17Saul 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.”
Related1 Samuel 18:25 · 1 Samuel 17:25 · 1 Samuel 25:28 · 1 Samuel 18:21 · 1 Samuel 17:47 · Psalms 12:2
18David 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?”
19But at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as wife.
20Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
Related1 Samuel 18:28
21Saul 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.”
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22Saul 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.’”
23Saul’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?”
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24The servants of Saul told him, saying, “David spoke like this.”
25Saul 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.
Related1 Samuel 14:24 · Genesis 34:12 · 1 Samuel 18:17 · 2 Samuel 17:8-11 · Joshua 5:3 · 1 Samuel 17:26
26When his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son-in-law. Before the deadline,
Related1 Samuel 18:21
27David 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.
28Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David; and Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved him.
RelatedGenesis 39:3 · Genesis 37:8-11 · 1 Samuel 24:20 · Revelation 3:9 · 1 Samuel 26:25 · Genesis 30:27
29Saul was even more afraid of David; and Saul was David’s enemy continually.
RelatedEcclesiastes 4:4 · John 11:53 · Psalms 37:12-14 · 1 John 3:12-15 · 1 Samuel 18:12 · Genesis 4:4-8
30Then 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.
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Translation: World English Bible (public domain) and the Tamil Old Version (BSI) — 1957.