1 Samuel 18

¹And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 18:241 Sam 20:171 Sam 18:32 Sam 1:26Col 2:2Gen 44:301 Sam 19:2Deut 13:61 Chr 12:17Judg 20:11

²And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father’s house. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 17:151 Sam 16:21-23

³Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 20:421 Sam 20:8-172 Sam 21:72 Sam 9:1-31 Sam 23:18

⁴And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 41:42Esth 6:8-9Isa 61:10Luke 15:222 Cor 5:21Phil 2:7-8

⁵And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 18:301 Sam 18:14-15Col 4:5Acts 7:10Eph 5:171 Sam 13:2Matt 10:16Ps 1:3Gen 39:2-3Gen 39:23

⁶And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Exod 15:20Judg 11:34Ps 68:25Jer 31:11-13

⁷And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 21:111 Sam 29:5Exod 15:21Ps 24:7-8

⁸And 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? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 15:28Prov 13:101 Sam 20:31Esth 3:5Jas 4:5Prov 27:41 Kgs 2:221 Sam 13:141 Sam 16:13Eccl 4:4

⁹And Saul eyed David from that day and forward. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eph 4:27Gen 31:2Gen 4:5-6Jas 5:9Mark 7:22Matt 20:15

¹⁰And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 18:291 Sam 19:92 Thess 2:111 Kgs 22:20-231 Sam 16:14-161 Sam 16:23Acts 16:161 Kgs 22:121 Sam 19:23-241 Sam 26:19

¹¹And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 20:33Isa 54:17John 10:39John 8:59Luke 4:30Ps 37:32-33Prov 27:41 Sam 19:9-10

¹²And Saul was afraid of David, because the Lord was with him, and was departed from Saul. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 18:151 Sam 18:291 Sam 16:13-141 Sam 28:151 Sam 16:18Acts 24:25Acts 7:91 Sam 16:41 Sam 18:201 Sam 22:13

¹³Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 5:2Ps 121:81 Sam 18:16-171 Sam 18:251 Sam 22:71 Sam 8:12Num 27:16-17

¹⁴And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the Lord was with him. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 39:231 Sam 16:18Josh 6:27Matt 28:20Gen 39:2-31 Sam 10:7Acts 18:10Matt 1:23

¹⁵Wherefore when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he was afraid of him. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Col 4:5Dan 6:4-5Jas 1:5Jas 3:17Ps 112:5

¹⁶But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out and came in before them. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 18:51 Kgs 3:72 Sam 5:2Luke 19:48Luke 20:19Num 27:17

¹⁷And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 17:251 Sam 18:251 Sam 25:281 Sam 18:211 Sam 17:472 Sam 11:152 Sam 12:9Deut 17:7Num 21:14Num 32:20

¹⁸And 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? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 7:181 Sam 18:231 Sam 9:21Exod 3:11Ruth 2:10Jer 1:6Prov 15:33Prov 18:12

¹⁹But 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 21:8Judg 7:22Judg 14:20

²⁰And Michal Saul’s daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 18:28

²¹And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 18:171 Sam 18:261 Sam 19:11-12Exod 10:7Jer 9:8Jer 5:26Prov 26:24-26Prov 29:5Ps 38:12Ps 7:14-16

²²And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 13:28-29Ps 36:1-3Ps 55:21Prov 29:12

²³And 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? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 John 3:11 Sam 9:21Eccl 9:15-16Prov 14:20Prov 19:6-7Ps 119:141

²⁴And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

²⁵And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 14:241 Sam 18:17Gen 34:121 Sam 17:261 Sam 17:362 Sam 17:8-11Exod 22:16-17Gen 17:11-14Gen 29:18Josh 5:3

²⁶And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 18:21

²⁷Wherefore 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Sam 3:141 Sam 18:13Judg 14:19

²⁸And Saul saw and knew that the Lord was with David, and that Michal Saul’s daughter loved him. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 24:201 Sam 26:25Gen 30:27Gen 37:8-11Gen 39:3Rev 3:9

²⁹And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David’s enemy continually. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eccl 4:41 John 3:12-151 Sam 18:121 Sam 18:15Gen 4:4-8Jas 2:19John 11:53Ps 37:12-14

³⁰Then 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 18:52 Sam 11:11 Pet 2:41 Pet 2:71 Sam 2:30Dan 1:20Eph 5:15Luke 21:15Ps 119:991 Sam 26:21