1 Samuel 23:28 So Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines: therefore they called that place Sela Hammahlekoth. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 23:29 David went up from there, and lived in the strongholds of En Gedi. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 24:1 It happened, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, "Behold, David is in the wilderness of En Gedi." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 24:2 Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men on the rocks of the wild goats. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 24:3 He came to the sheep pens by the way, where there was a cave; and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were abiding in the innermost parts of the cave. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 24:4 The men of David said to him, "Behold, the day of which Yahweh said to you,'Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.'" Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe secretly. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 24:5 It happened afterward, that David's heart struck him, because he had cut off Saul's skirt. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 24:6 And David said to his men, Before the Lord, never let it be said that my hand was lifted up against my lord, the man of the Lord's selection, for the Lord's holy oil has been put on him. (BBE)
1 Samuel 24:7 So David checked his men with these words, and didn't allow them to rise against Saul. Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 24:8 David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, "My lord the king!" When Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth, and did obeisance. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 24:9 David said to Saul, "Why do you listen to men's words, saying,'Behold, David seeks your hurt?' (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 24:16 It came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words to Saul, that Saul said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" Saul lifted up his voice, and wept. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 24:17 He said to David, "You are more righteous than I; for you have done good to me, whereas I have done evil to you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
1 Samuel 24:22 David swore to Saul. Saul went home; but David and his men went up to the stronghold. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 25:1 Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 25:4 David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 25:5 David sent ten young men, and David said to the young men, "Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
1 Samuel 25:8 Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore, let the young men find favor in your eyes; for we come in a good day. Please give whatever comes to your hand, to your servants, and to your son David.'" (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 25:9 When David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 25:10 Nabal answered David's servants, and said, "Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants who break away from their masters these days. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 25:12 So David's young men turned on their way, and went back, and came and told him according to all these words. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 25:13 David said to his men, "Every man put on his sword!" Every man put on his sword. David also put on his sword. About four hundred men followed David; and two hundred stayed by the baggage. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 25:14 But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, "Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to Greet our master; and he railed at them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 25:20 It was so, as she rode on her donkey, and came down by the covert of the mountain, that behold, David and his men came down toward her; and she met them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 25:21 Now David had said, "Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. He has returned me evil for good. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 25:22 God do so to the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave of all that belongs to him by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall. " (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 25:23 When Abigail saw David, she hurried, and alighted from her donkey, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 25:32 David said to Abigail, "Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me! (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 25:35 So David received of her hand that which she had brought him: and he said to her, "Go up in peace to your house. Behold, I have listened to your voice, and have granted your request." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 25:39 When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, "Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head." David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to him as wife. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 25:40 When the servants of David had come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, "David has sent us to you, to take you to him as wife." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 25:42 Abigail hurried, and arose, and rode on a donkey, with five ladies of hers who followed her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 25:43 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they both became his wives. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 25:44 Now Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 26:1 The Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, "Doesn't David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 26:2 Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 26:3 Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert, by the way. But David stayed in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 26:4 David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul had certainly come. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
1 Samuel 26:5 David arose, and came to the place where Saul had encamped; and David saw the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his army: and Saul lay within the place of the wagons, and the people were encamped around him. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 26:6 Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, "Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp?" Abishai said, "I will go down with you." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 26:7 So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the place of the wagons, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people lay around him. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 26:8 Then said Abishai to David, "God has delivered up your enemy into your hand this day. Now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 26:9 David said to Abishai, "Don't destroy him; for who can put forth his hand against Yahweh's anointed, and be guiltless?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 26:10 David said, "As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
1 Samuel 26:12 So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul's head; and they went away: and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from Yahweh was fallen on them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 26:13 Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of the mountain afar off; a great space being between them; (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 26:14 and David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, "Don't you answer, Abner?" Then Abner answered, "Who are you who cries to the king?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
1 Samuel 26:15 David said to Abner, "Aren't you a man? Who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not kept watch over your lord, the king? For one of the people came in to destroy the king your lord. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 26:17 Saul knew David's voice, and said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" David said, "It is my voice, my lord, O king." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 26:21 Then said Saul, "I have sinned. Return, my son David; for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes this day. Behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 26:22 David answered, "Behold the spear, O king! Then let one of the young men come over and get it. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 26:25 Then Saul said to David, "You are blessed, my son David. You shall both do mightily, and shall surely prevail." So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 27:1 David said in his heart, "I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape out of his hand." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 27:2 David arose, and passed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 27:3 David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 27:4 It was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 27:5 David said to Achish, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, let them give me a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there. For why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 27:7 The number of the days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 27:8 David and his men went up, and made a raid on the Geshurites, and the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those nations were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, as you go to Shur, even to the land of Egypt. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 27:9 David struck the land, and saved neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the cattle, and the donkeys, and the camels, and the clothing; and he returned, and came to Achish. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 27:10 Achish said, "Against whom have you made a raid today?" David said, "Against the South of Judah, against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 27:11 David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring them to Gath, saying, "Lest they should tell of us, saying,'So did David, and so has been his manner all the while he has lived in the country of the Philistines.'" (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 27:12 Achish believed David, saying, "He has made his people Israel utterly to abhor him. Therefore he shall be my servant forever." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 28:1 It happened in those days, that the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. Achish said to David, "Know assuredly that you shall go out with me in the army, you and your men." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 28:2 David said to Achish, "Therefore you shall know what your servant will do." Achish said to David, "Therefore will I make you my bodyguard for ever." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 28:17 Yahweh has done to you as he spoke by me. Yahweh has torn the kingdom out of your hand, and given it to your neighbor, even to David. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 29:2 The lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rearward with Achish. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 29:3 Then said the princes of the Philistines, "What about these Hebrews?" Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, "Isn't this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me these days, or rather these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell away to this day?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 29:5 Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another 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 29:6 Then Achish called David, and said to him, "As Yahweh lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my sight; for I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords don't favor you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 29:8 David said to Achish, "But what have I done? What have you found in your servant so long as I have been before you to this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 29:9 Achish answered David, "I know that you are good in my sight, as an angel of God. Notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said,'He shall not go up with us to the battle.' (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
1 Samuel 29:11 So David rose up early, he and his men, to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. The Philistines went up to Jezreel. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 30:1 It happened, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had made a raid on the South, and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag, and burned it with fire, (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 30:3 When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captive. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 30:4 Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 30:5 David's two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 30:6 David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 30:7 David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, "Please bring me here the ephod." Abiathar brought the ephod to David. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 30:8 David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "If I pursue after this troop, shall I overtake them?" He answered him, "Pursue; for you shall surely overtake them, and shall without fail recover all." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 30:9 So David went, he and the six hundred men who were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those who were left behind stayed. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 30:10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they couldn't go over the brook Besor. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 30:11 They found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he ate; and they gave him water to drink. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 30:13 David asked him, "To whom do you belong? Where are you from?" He said, "I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I fell sick. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 30:15 David said to him, "Will you bring me down to this troop?" He said, "Swear to me by God that you will neither kill me, nor deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this troop." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 30:16 When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah. (See NIV)
1 Samuel 30:17 David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped from there, except four hundred young men, who rode on camels and fled. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 30:18 David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 30:19 There was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor anything that they had taken to them. David brought back all. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 30:20 David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other livestock, and said, "This is David's spoil." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 30:21 David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom also they had made to stay at the brook Besor; and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people who were with him. When David came near to the people, he greeted them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 30:22 Then all the wicked men and base fellows, of those who went with David, answered and said, "Because they didn't go with us, we will not give them anything of the spoil that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that he may lead them away, and depart." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 30:23 Then said David, "You shall not do so, my brothers, with that which Yahweh has given to us, who has preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 30:26 When David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil to the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, "Behold, a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of Yahweh." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Samuel 30:31 and to those who were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men used to stay. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Samuel 1:1 It happened after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag; (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Samuel 1:2 it happened on the third day, that behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul, with his clothes torn, and earth on his head: and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Samuel 1:3 David said to him, "Where do you come from?" He said to him, "I have escaped out of the camp of Israel." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Samuel 1:4 David said to him, "How did it go? Please tell me." He answered, "The people have fled from the battle, and many of the people also have fallen and are dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
2 Samuel 1:5 David said to the young man who told him, "How do you know that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)