1 Samuel 18:7 The women sang one to another as they played, and said, "Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 18:8 Saul 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?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 18:9 Saul eyed David from that day and forward. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 18:10 It 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; (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 18:11 and Saul threw the spear; for he said, "I will pin David even to the wall!" David escaped from his presence twice. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 18:12 Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, and was departed from Saul. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 18:13 Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people. (See NIV)
1 Samuel 18:14 David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and Yahweh was with him. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
1 Samuel 18:16 But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 18:17 Saul said to David, "Behold, my elder daughter Merab, I will give her to you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh's battles." For Saul said, "Don't let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 18:18 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?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 18:19 But 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. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 18:20 Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 18:21 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, "You shall this day be my son-in-law a second time." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 18:22 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.'" (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 18:23 Saul'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, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 18:24 The servants of Saul told him, saying, "David spoke like this." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 18:25 Saul 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. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 18:26 When his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law. The days were not expired; (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 18:27 and 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. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 18:28 Saul saw and knew that Yahweh was with David; and Michal, Saul's daughter, loved him. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 18:29 Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul was David's enemy continually. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
1 Samuel 18:30 Then 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. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 19:1 Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 19:2 Jonathan told David, saying, "Saul my father seeks to kill you. Now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, and live in a secret place, and hide yourself. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
1 Samuel 19:4 Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, "Don't let the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you; (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 19:5 for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 19:6 Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan: and Saul swore, "As Yahweh lives, he shall not be put to death." (See NIV)
1 Samuel 19:7 Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things. Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as before. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 19:8 There was war again. David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter; and they fled before him. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 19:9 An evil spirit from Yahweh was on Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand; and David was playing with his hand. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 19:10 Saul sought to pin David even to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled, and escaped that night. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 19:11 Saul sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, "If you don't save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 19:12 So Michal let David down through the window. He went, fled, and escaped. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 19:14 When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, "He is sick." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 19:15 Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, "Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 19:18 Now David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went and lived in Naioth. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 19:19 It was told Saul, saying, "Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 19:20 Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, the Spirit of God came on the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
1 Samuel 19:22 Then went he also to Ramah, and came to the great well that is in Secu: and he asked, "Where are Samuel and David?" One said, "Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 20:1 David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, "What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 20:3 David swore moreover, and said, "Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says,'Don't let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved:' but truly as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 20:4 Then said Jonathan to David, "Whatever your soul desires, I will even do it for you." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 20:5 David said to Jonathan, "Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to dine with the king; but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field to the third day at evening. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 20:6 If your father miss me at all, then say,'David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city; for it is the yearly sacrifice there for all the family.' (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 20:10 Then said David to Jonathan, "Who shall tell me if perchance your father answers you roughly?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 20:11 Jonathan said to David, "Come, and let us go out into the field." They both went out into the field. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
1 Samuel 20:12 Jonathan said to David, "Yahweh, the God of Israel, be witness : when I have sounded my father about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if there be good toward David, shall I not then send to you, and disclose it to you? (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 20:15 but also you shall not cut off your kindness from my house forever; no, not when Yahweh has cut off the enemies of David everyone from the surface of the earth." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 20:16 So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, "Yahweh will require it at the hand of David's enemies." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 20:17 Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had to him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 20:18 Then Jonathan said to David, To morrow is the new moon: and thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty. (KJV WBS NIV)
1 Samuel 20:24 So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat food. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 20:26 Nevertheless Saul didn't say anything that day: for he thought, "Something has happened to him. He is not clean. Surely he is not clean." (See NIV)
1 Samuel 20:28 Jonathan answered Saul, "David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 20:33 Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 20:34 So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and ate no food the second day of the month; for he was grieved for David, because his father had done him shame. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 20:35 It happened in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little boy with him. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 20:39 But the boy didn't know anything. Only Jonathan and David knew the matter. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 20:41 As soon as the boy was gone, David arose out of a place toward the South, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times. They kissed one another, and wept one with another, and David wept the most. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 20:42 Jonathan said to David, "Go in peace, because we have both sworn in the name of Yahweh, saying,'Yahweh shall be between me and you, and between my seed and your seed, forever.'" He arose and departed; and Jonathan went into the city. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 21:1 Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said to him, "Why are you alone, and no man with you?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 21:2 David said to Ahimelech the priest, "The king has commanded me a business, and has said to me,'Let no man know anything of the business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you; and I have appointed the young men to such and such a place.' (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 21:4 The priest answered David, and said, "There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 21:5 David answered the priest, and said to him, "Truly, women have been kept from us about these three days. When I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was but a common journey. How much more then today shall their vessels be holy?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 21:8 David said to Ahimelech, "Isn't there here under your hand spear or sword? For I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 21:9 The priest said, "The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you will take that, take it; for there is no other except that here." David said, "There is none like that. Give it to me." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 21:10 David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 21:11 The servants of Achish said to him, "Isn't this David the king of the land? Didn't they sing one to another about him in dances, saying,'Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands?'" (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 21:12 David laid up these words in his heart, and was very afraid of Achish the king of Gath. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 22:1 David therefore departed there, and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 22:3 David went there to Mizpeh of Moab, and he said to the king of Moab, "Please let my father and my mother come out with you, until I know what God will do for me." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 22:4 He brought them before the king of Moab; and they lived with him all the while that David was in the stronghold. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 22:5 The prophet Gad said to David, "Don't stay in the stronghold. Depart, and go into the land of Judah." Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hereth. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 22:6 Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men who were with him. Now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree in Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 22:14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, "Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and is taken into your council, and is honorable in your house? (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 22:17 The king said to the guard who stood about him, "Turn, and kill the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn't disclose it to me." But the servants of the king wouldn't put forth their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 22:20 One of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 22:21 Abiathar told David that Saul had slain Yahweh's priests. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 22:22 David said to Abiathar, "I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I am responsible for the death of all the persons of your father's house. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 23:1 David was told, "Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 23:2 Therefore David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "Shall I go and strike these Philistines?" Yahweh said to David, "Go strike the Philistines, and save Keilah." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
1 Samuel 23:4 Then David inquired of Yahweh yet again. Yahweh answered him, and said, "Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into your hand." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 23:5 David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their livestock, and killed them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 23:6 It happened, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 23:7 It was told Saul that David had come to Keilah. Saul said, "God has delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that has gates and bars." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 23:8 Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 23:9 David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, "Bring the ephod here." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 23:10 Then David said, "O Yahweh, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 23:12 Then said David, "Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?" Yahweh said, "They will deliver you up." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 23:13 Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went wherever they could go. It was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he gave up going there. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 23:14 David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn't deliver him into his hand. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 23:15 David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the wood. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 23:16 Jonathan, Saul's son, arose, and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 23:18 They both made a covenant before Yahweh: and David stayed in the woods, and Jonathan went to his house. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 23:19 Then the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, "Doesn't David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert? (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 23:22 Please go make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who has seen him there; for it is told me that he deals very subtly. (See NIV)
1 Samuel 23:24 They arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of the desert. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 23:25 Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told, he went down to the rock, and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 23:26 Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men surrounded David and his men to take them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)