Verse 3
1 Samuel 18:3
Geneva Bible
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Then Ionathan and Dauid made a couenant: for he loued him as his owne soule.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּכְרֹ֧ת יְהוֹנָתָ֛ן וְ/דָוִ֖ד בְּרִ֑ית בְּ/אַהֲבָת֥/וֹ אֹת֖/וֹ כְּ/נַפְשֽׁ/וֹ
English Translation
And Jonathan and David made a covenant because of their love for each other, like their own souls.
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Chapter 18 Context
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And when he had made an ende of speaking vnto Saul, the soule of Ionathan was knit with the soule of...
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And Saul tooke him that day, and woulde not let him returne to his fathers house.
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Then Ionathan and Dauid made a couenant: for he loued him as his owne soule.
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And Ionathan put off the robe that was vpon him, and gaue it Dauid, and his garments, euen to his sw...
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And Dauid went out whithersoeuer Saul sent him, and behaued himselfe wisely: so that Saul set him ou...
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When they came againe, and Dauid returned from the slaughter of the Philistim, the women came out of...
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And the women sang by course in their play, and sayd, Saul hath slayne his thousand, and Dauid his t...
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Therefore Saul was exceeding wroth, and the saying displeased him, and he sayde, They haue ascribed...
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Wherefore Saul had an eye on Dauid from that day forward.
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And on the morowe, the euill spirite of God (Elohim) came vpon Saul, and he prophecied in the middes...
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And Saul tooke the speare, and sayd, I will smite Dauid through to the wall. But Dauid auoyded twise...
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And Saul was afrayd of Dauid, because the Lord was with him, and was departed from Saul.
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Therefore Saul put him from him, and made him a captaine ouer a thousand, and he went out and in bef...
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And Dauid behaued himselfe wisely in all his wayes: for the Lord was with him.
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Wherefore when Saul saw that he was very wise, he was afrayde of him.
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For all Israel and Iudah loued Dauid, because he went out and in before them.
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Then Saul sayd to Dauid, Beholde mine eldest daughter Merab, her I will giue thee to wife: onely be...
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18
And Dauid answered Saul, What am I? and what is my life, or the family of my father in Israel, that...
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Howbeit when Merab Sauls daughter should haue bene giuen to Dauid, she was giuen vnto Adriel a Mehol...
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Then Michal Sauls daughter loued Dauid: and they shewed Saul, and the thing pleased him.
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Therefore Saul said, I wil giue him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Ph...
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And Saul commanded his seruants, Speake with Dauid secretly, and say, Behold, ye King hath a fauour...
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And Sauls seruantes spake these wordes in the eares of Dauid. And Dauid sayd, Seemeth it to you a li...
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And then Sauls seruats brought him word againe, saying, Such wordes spake Dauid.
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And Saul sayd, This wise shall ye say to Dauid, The King desireth no dowrie, but an hundred foreskin...
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And when his seruantes tolde Dauid these wordes, it pleased Dauid well, to be the Kings sonne in law...
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Afterwarde Dauid arose with his men, and went and slewe of the Philistims two hundreth men: and Daui...
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Then Saul sawe, and vnderstoode that the Lord was with Dauid, and that Michal the daughter of Saul l...
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Then Saul was more and more afrayde of Dauid, and Saul became alway Dauids enemie.
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And when the Princes of the Philistims went forth, at their going forth Dauid behaued himselfe more...
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