Verse 21
1 Samuel 18:21
Geneva Bible
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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 Philistims may bee against him. Wherefore Saul sayde to Dauid, Thou shalt this day be my sonne in law in the one of the twayne.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר שָׁא֜וּל אֶתְּנֶ֤/נָּה לּ/וֹ֙ וּ/תְהִי ל֣/וֹ לְ/מוֹקֵ֔שׁ וּ/תְהִי ב֖/וֹ יַד פְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר שָׁאוּל֙ אֶל דָּוִ֔ד בִּ/שְׁתַּ֛יִם תִּתְחַתֵּ֥ן בִּ֖/י הַ/יּֽוֹם
English Translation
And Saul said, "I will give her to him as a snare, and she will be for him a trap in the hand of the Philistines." And Saul said to David, "Today you shall be married to her."
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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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10
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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12
And Saul was afrayd of Dauid, because the Lord was with him, and was departed from Saul.
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13
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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19
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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21
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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