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- Ruth 4:17
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The neighbor women said, “A son has been born to Naomi,” and they named him Obed. He became the father of Jesse, the father of David.
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- Ruth 4:22
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Obed was the father of Jesse, and Jesse was the father of David.
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- 1 Samuel 16:13
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So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon David from that day forward. Then Samuel set out and went to Ramah.
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- 1 Samuel 16:19
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So Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, “Send me your son David, who is with the sheep.”
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- 1 Samuel 16:20
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And Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a skin of wine, and one young goat and sent them to Saul with his son David.
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- 1 Samuel 16:21
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When David came to Saul and entered his service, Saul loved him very much, and David became his armor-bearer.
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- 1 Samuel 16:22
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Then Saul sent word to Jesse, saying, “Let David remain in my service, for I am pleased with him.”
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- 1 Samuel 16:23
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And whenever the spirit from God came upon Saul, David would pick up his harp and play. Then Saul would find relief and feel better, and the spirit of distress would depart from him.
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- 1 Samuel 17:12
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Now David was the son of a man named Jesse, an Ephrathite from Bethlehem of Judah who had eight sons. And in the days of Saul, Jesse was old and well along in years.
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- 1 Samuel 17:14
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And David was the youngest. The three oldest had followed Saul,
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- 1 Samuel 17:15
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but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s sheep in Bethlehem.
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- 1 Samuel 17:17
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One day Jesse said to his son David, “Take this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers and hurry to their camp.
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- 1 Samuel 17:20
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So David got up early in the morning, left the flock with a keeper, loaded up, and set out as Jesse had instructed him. He reached the camp as the army was marching out to its position and shouting the battle cry.
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- 1 Samuel 17:22
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Then David left his supplies in the care of the quartermaster and ran to the battle line. When he arrived, he asked his brothers how they were doing.
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- 1 Samuel 17:23
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And as he was speaking with them, suddenly the champion named Goliath, the Philistine from Gath, came forward from the ranks of the Philistines and shouted his usual words, which David also heard.
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- 1 Samuel 17:26
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David asked the men who were standing with him, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Just who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”
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- 1 Samuel 17:28
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Now when David’s oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, his anger burned against David. “Why have you come down here?” he asked. “And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and wickedness of heart—you have come down to see the battle!”
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- 1 Samuel 17:29
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“What have I done now?” said David. “Was it not just a question?”
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- 1 Samuel 17:31
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Now David’s words were overheard and reported to Saul, who sent for him.
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- 1 Samuel 17:32
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And David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail on account of this Philistine. Your servant will go and fight him!”
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- 1 Samuel 17:33
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But Saul replied, “You cannot go out against this Philistine to fight him. You are just a boy, and he has been a warrior from his youth.”
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- 1 Samuel 17:34
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David replied, “Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep, and whenever a lion or a bear came and carried off a lamb from the flock,
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- 1 Samuel 17:37
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David added, “The LORD, who delivered me from the claws of the lion and the bear, will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” “Go,” said Saul, “and may the LORD be with you.”
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- 1 Samuel 17:38
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Then Saul clothed David in his own tunic, put a bronze helmet on his head, and dressed him in armor.
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- 1 Samuel 17:39
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David strapped his sword over the tunic and tried to walk, but he was not accustomed to them. “I cannot walk in these,” David said to Saul. “I am not accustomed to them.” So David took them off.
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- 1 Samuel 17:41
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Now the Philistine came closer and closer to David, with his shield-bearer before him.
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- 1 Samuel 17:42
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When the Philistine looked and saw David, he despised him because he was just a boy, ruddy and handsome.
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- 1 Samuel 17:43
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“Am I a dog,” he said to David, “that you come at me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
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- 1 Samuel 17:44
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“Come here,” he called to David, “and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!”
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- 1 Samuel 17:45
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But David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD of Hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
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- 1 Samuel 17:48
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As the Philistine started forward to attack him, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him.
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- 1 Samuel 17:49
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Then David reached into his bag, took out a stone, and slung it, striking the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown on the ground.
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- 1 Samuel 17:50
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Thus David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed him.
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- 1 Samuel 17:51
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David ran and stood over him. He grabbed the Philistine’s sword and pulled it from its sheath and killed him, and he cut off his head with the sword. When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran.
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- 1 Samuel 17:54
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David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, and he put Goliath’s weapons in his own tent.
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- 1 Samuel 17:55
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As Saul had watched David going out to confront the Philistine, he said to Abner the commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is this young man?” “As surely as you live, O king,” Abner replied, “I do not know.”
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- 1 Samuel 17:57
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So when David returned from killing the Philistine, still holding his head in his hand, Abner took him and brought him before Saul.
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- 1 Samuel 17:58
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“Whose son are you, young man?” asked Saul. “I am the son of your servant Jesse of Bethlehem,” David replied.
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- 1 Samuel 18:1
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After David had finished speaking with Saul, the souls of Jonathan and David were knit together, and Jonathan loved him as himself.
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- 1 Samuel 18:3
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Then Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself.
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- 1 Samuel 18:4
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And Jonathan removed the robe he was wearing and gave it to David, along with his tunic, his sword, his bow, and his belt.
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- 1 Samuel 18:5
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So David marched out and prospered in everything Saul sent him to do, and Saul set him over the men of war. And this was pleasing in the sight of all the people, and of Saul’s officers as well.
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- 1 Samuel 18:6
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As the troops were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs, and with tambourines and other instruments.
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- 1 Samuel 18:7
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And as the women danced, they sang out: “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands.”
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- 1 Samuel 18:8
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And Saul was furious and resented this song. “They have ascribed tens of thousands to David,” he said, “but only thousands to me. What more can he have but the kingdom?”
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- 1 Samuel 18:9
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And from that day forward Saul kept a jealous eye on David.
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- 1 Samuel 18:10
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The next day a spirit of distress sent from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied inside the house while David played the harp as usual. Now Saul was holding a spear,
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- 1 Samuel 18:11
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and he hurled it, thinking, “I will pin David to the wall.” But David eluded him twice.
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- 1 Samuel 18:12
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So Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with David but had departed from Saul.
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- 1 Samuel 18:14
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and he continued to prosper in all his ways, because the LORD was with him.
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