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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData 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. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his apparel, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle. |
| 5 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And David went out whithersoever 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. |
| 6 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And it came to pass 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 timbrels, with joy, and with instruments of music. |
| 7 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And the women sang one to another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands. |
| 8 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And Saul was very wroth, and this 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? |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And Saul eyed David from that day and forward. |
| 10 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And it came to pass on the morrow, that an evil spirit from God came mightily upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as he did day by day. And Saul had his spear in his hand; |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData and Saul cast the spear; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall. And David avoided out of his presence twice. |
| 12 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And Saul was afraid of David, because Jehovah was with him, and was departed from Saul. |
| 13 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people. |
| 14 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and Jehovah was with him. |
| 15 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he stood in awe of him. |
| 16 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them. |
| 17 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData 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 Jehovah's battles. For Saul said, Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData 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? |
| 19 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData 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. |
| 20 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData 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 a second time. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData 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. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be the king's son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed? |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but a 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. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData 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; |
| 27 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData and 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 number to the king, that he might be the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And Saul saw and knew that Jehovah was with David; and Michal, Saul's daughter, loved him. |
| 29 |
fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul was David's enemy continually. |
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fjrigjwwe9r2AmerStd_Bible_EN:TextData Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it came to pass, as often as they went forth, that David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much set by. |
