Verse 12
1 Samuel 18:12
World English Bible
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Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, and had departed from Saul.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּרָ֥א שָׁא֖וּל מִ/לִּ/פְנֵ֣י דָוִ֑ד כִּֽי הָיָ֤ה יְהוָה֙ עִמּ֔/וֹ וּ/מֵ/עִ֥ם שָׁא֖וּל סָֽר
English Translation
And Saul was afraid of David because the Lord was with him and had departed from Saul.
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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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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
Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him, and gave it to David, and his clothing, even...
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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 ascribed to David ten thous...
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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 even to the wall!” David escaped from his p...
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12
Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, and had departed from Saul.
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 Yahweh 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 Philisti...
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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 Yahweh 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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