Verse 8
1 Samuel 18:8
World English Bible, British Edition
8
Saul 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?”
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּ֨חַר לְ/שָׁא֜וּל מְאֹ֗ד וַ/יֵּ֤רַע בְּ/עֵינָי/ו֙ הַ/דָּבָ֣ר הַ/זֶּ֔ה וַ/יֹּ֗אמֶר נָתְנ֤וּ לְ/דָוִד֙ רְבָב֔וֹת וְ/לִ֥/י נָתְנ֖וּ הָ/אֲלָפִ֑ים וְ/ע֥וֹד ל֖/וֹ אַ֥ךְ הַ/מְּלוּכָֽה
English Translation
And Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him, and he said, “They have given David ten thousands, and to me they have given thousands, and yet there is only his kingship left for him.”
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Chapter 18 Context
1
When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with
the soul of David, and Jon...
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2
Saul took him that day, and wouldn’t let him go home to his father’s
house any more.
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3
Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his
own soul.
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4
Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to
David with his clothing, even i...
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5
David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely;
and Saul set him over the men of...
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6
As they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine,
the women came out of all th...
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7
The women sang to one another as they played, and said,
“Saul has slain his thousands,
and David his...
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8
Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said,
“They have credited David with ten tho...
9
Saul watched David from that day and forward.
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10
On the next day, an evil spirit from God (Elohim) came mightily on Saul, and
he prophesied in the mi...
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11
and Saul threw the spear, for he said, “I will pin David to the wall!”
David escaped from his presen...
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12
Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and had departed
from Saul.
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13
Therefore Saul removed him from his presence, and made him his captain
over a thousand; and he went...
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14
David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the LORD was
with him.
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15
When Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he stood in awe
of him.
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16
But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before
them.
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17
Saul said to David, “Behold, my elder daughter Merab. I will give her
to you as wife. Only be valian...
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18
David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my life, or my father’s
family in Israel, that I should b...
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19
But at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been
given to David, she was given to Adrie...
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20
Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David; and they told Saul, and
the thing pleased him.
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21
Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him and
that the hand of the Philistin...
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22
Saul commanded his servants, “Talk with David secretly, and
say, ‘Behold, the king has delight in yo...
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23
Saul’s servants spoke those words in the ears of David. David
said, “Does it seem to you a light thi...
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24
The servants of Saul told him, saying, “David spoke like this.”
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25
Saul said, “Tell David, ‘The king desires no dowry except one
hundred foreskins of the Philistines,...
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26
When his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to
be the king’s son-in-law. Before...
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27
David arose and went, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of
the Philistines. Then David brou...
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28
Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David; and Michal, Saul’s
daughter, loved him.
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29
Saul was even more afraid of David; and Saul was David’s enemy continually.
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30
Then the princes of the Philistines went out; and as often as
they went out, David behaved himself m...
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