Verse 24
1 Samuel 18:24
King James Version
24
And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יַּגִּ֜דוּ עַבְדֵ֥י שָׁא֛וּל ל֖/וֹ לֵ/אמֹ֑ר כַּ/דְּבָרִ֥ים הָ/אֵ֖לֶּה דִּבֶּ֥ר דָּוִֽד
English Translation
And the servants of Saul told him, saying, “These words David has spoken.”
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Chapter 18 Context
1
And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was kn...
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2
And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father’s house.
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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
And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that
was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments,...
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5
And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him,
and behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over th...
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6
And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that...
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7
And the women answered
one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and Davi...
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8
And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David t...
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9
And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.
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10
And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God (Elohim) came upon Saul, and he pro...
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11
And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall
with it. And David avoid...
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12
And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and was departed from Saul.
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13
Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and c...
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14
And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the LORD
was with him.
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15
Wherefore when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he was afraid of him.
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16
But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out and came in before them.
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17
And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou v...
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18
And David said unto Saul, Who
am I? and what
is
my life,
or my father’s family in Israel, that I sh...
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19
But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul’s daughter should have been given to David, that she...
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20
And Michal Saul’s daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
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21
And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philist...
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22
And Saul commanded his servants,
saying, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath...
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23
And Saul’s servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you
a ligh...
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24
And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David.
25
And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins...
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26
And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son in law: and...
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27
Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and Dav...
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And Saul saw and knew that the LORD
was with David, and
that Michal Saul’s daughter loved him.
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29
And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David’s enemy continually.
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30
Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it came to pass, after they went forth,
that Dav...
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