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- 1 Samuel 20:6
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If your father misses me at all, tell him, ‘David urgently requested my permission to hurry to Bethlehem, his hometown, because there is an annual sacrifice for his whole clan.’
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- 1 Samuel 20:19
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When you have stayed three days, hurry down to the place you hid on the day this trouble began, and remain beside the stone Ezel.
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- 1 Samuel 20:26
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Saul said nothing that day because he thought, “Something has happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean—surely he is unclean.”
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- 1 Samuel 20:27
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But on the day after the New Moon, the second day, David’s place was still empty, and Saul asked his son Jonathan, “Why hasn’t the son of Jesse come to the meal either yesterday or today?”
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- 1 Samuel 20:31
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For as long as the son of Jesse lives on this earth, neither you nor your kingdom shall be established. Now send for him and bring him to me, for he must surely die!”
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- 1 Samuel 20:34
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Jonathan got up from the table in fierce anger and did not eat any food that second day of the month, for he was grieved by his father’s shameful treatment of David.
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- 1 Samuel 21:5
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David answered, “Women have indeed been kept from us, as is usual when I set out. And the bodies of the young men are holy even on common missions. How much more so today!”
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Source alternate reference: 21.6
- 1 Samuel 21:6
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So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there but the Bread of the Presence, which had been removed from before the LORD and replaced with hot bread on the day it was taken away.
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Source alternate reference: 21.7
- 1 Samuel 21:7
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Now one of Saul’s servants was there that day, detained before the LORD. And his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief shepherd for Saul.
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Source alternate reference: 21.8
- 1 Samuel 21:10
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That day David fled from Saul and went to Achish king of Gath.
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Source alternate reference: 21.11
- 1 Samuel 22:4
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So he left them in the care of the king of Moab, and they stayed with him the whole time David was in the stronghold.
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- 1 Samuel 22:8
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Is that why all of you have conspired against me? Not one of you told me that my own son had made a covenant with the son of Jesse. Not one of you has shown concern for me or revealed to me that my son has stirred up my own servant to lie in wait against me, as is the case today.”
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- 1 Samuel 22:13
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And Saul asked him, “Why have you and the son of Jesse conspired against me? You gave him bread and a sword and inquired of God for him so that he could rise up against me to lie in wait, as he is doing today.”
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- 1 Samuel 22:15
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Was that day the first time I inquired of God for him? Far be it from me! Let not the king accuse your servant or any of my father’s household, for your servant knew nothing of this whole affair—not in part or in whole.”
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- 1 Samuel 22:18
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So the king ordered Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests!” And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests himself. On that day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.
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- 1 Samuel 22:22
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Then David said to Abiathar, “I knew that Doeg the Edomite was there that day, and that he was sure to tell Saul. I myself am responsible for the lives of everyone in your father’s house.
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- 1 Samuel 23:14
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And David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God would not deliver David into his hand.
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- 1 Samuel 24:4
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So David’s men said to him, “This is the day about which the LORD said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, that you may do with him as you wish.’” Then David crept up and stealthily cut off a corner of Saul’s robe.
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Source alternate reference: 24.5
- 1 Samuel 24:10
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Behold, this day you have seen with your own eyes that the LORD delivered you into my hand in the cave. I was told to kill you, but I spared you and said, ‘I will not lift my hand against my lord, since he is the LORD’s anointed.’
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Source alternate reference: 24.11
- 1 Samuel 24:18
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And you have declared this day how you have treated me well, for when the LORD delivered me into your hand, you did not kill me.
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Source alternate reference: 24.19
- 1 Samuel 24:19
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When a man finds his enemy, does he let him go away unharmed? May the LORD reward you with good for what you have done for me this day.
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Source alternate reference: 24.20
- 1 Samuel 25:7
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Now I hear that it is time for shearing. When your shepherds were with us, we did not harass them, and nothing of theirs was missing the whole time they were in Carmel.
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- 1 Samuel 25:8
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Ask your young men, and they will tell you. So let my young men find favor with you, for we have come on the day of a feast. Please give whatever you can spare to your servants and to your son David.’”
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- 1 Samuel 25:10
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But Nabal asked them, “Who is David? Who is this son of Jesse? Many servants these days are breaking away from their masters.
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- 1 Samuel 25:15
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Yet these men were very good to us. When we were in the field, we were not harassed, and nothing of ours went missing the whole time we lived among them.
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- 1 Samuel 25:16
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They were a wall around us, both day and night, the whole time we were herding our sheep near them.
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- 1 Samuel 25:28
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Please forgive your servant’s offense, for the LORD will surely make a lasting dynasty for my lord, because he fights the LORD’s battles. May no evil be found in you as long as you live.
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- 1 Samuel 25:32
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Then David said to Abigail, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who sent you to meet me this day!
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- 1 Samuel 25:33
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Blessed is your discernment, and blessed are you, because today you kept me from bloodshed and from avenging myself by my own hand.
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- 1 Samuel 25:38
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About ten days later, the LORD struck Nabal dead.
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- 1 Samuel 26:8
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Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand. Now, therefore, please let me thrust the spear through him into the ground with one stroke. I will not need to strike him twice!”
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- 1 Samuel 26:10
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David added, “As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD Himself will strike him down; either his day will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.
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- 1 Samuel 26:19
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Now please, may my lord the king hear the words of his servant: If the LORD has stirred you up against me, then may He accept an offering. But if men have done it, may they be cursed in the presence of the LORD! For today they have driven me away from sharing in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’
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- 1 Samuel 26:21
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Then Saul replied, “I have sinned. Come back, David my son. I will never harm you again, because today you considered my life precious. I have played the fool and have committed a grave error!”
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- 1 Samuel 26:23
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May the LORD repay every man for his righteousness and faithfulness. For the LORD delivered you into my hand today, but I would not extend my hand against the LORD’s anointed.
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- 1 Samuel 26:24
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As surely as I valued your life today, so may the LORD value my life and rescue me from all trouble.”
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- 1 Samuel 27:1
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David, however, said to himself, “One of these days now I will be swept away by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will stop searching for me all over Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.”
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- 1 Samuel 27:6
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That day Achish gave him Ziklag, and to this day it still belongs to the kings of Judah.
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- 1 Samuel 27:7
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And the time that David lived in Philistine territory amounted to a year and four months.
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- 1 Samuel 27:10
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who would ask him, “What have you raided today?” And David would reply, “The Negev of Judah,” or “The Negev of Jerahmeel,” or “The Negev of the Kenites.”
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- 1 Samuel 27:11
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David did not leave a man or woman alive to be brought to Gath, for he said, “Otherwise they will report us, saying, ‘This is what David did.’” And this was David’s custom the whole time he lived in Philistine territory.
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- 1 Samuel 28:1
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Now in those days the Philistines gathered their forces for warfare against Israel. So Achish said to David, “You must understand that you and your men are to go out to battle with me.”
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- 1 Samuel 28:2
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David replied, “Then you will come to know what your servant can do.” “Very well,” said Achish. “I will make you my bodyguard for life.”
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- 1 Samuel 28:18
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Because you did not obey the LORD or carry out His burning anger against Amalek, the LORD has done this to you today.
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- 1 Samuel 28:20
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Immediately Saul fell flat on the ground, terrified by the words of Samuel. And his strength was gone, because he had not eaten anything all that day and night.
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- 1 Samuel 29:3
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Then the commanders of the Philistines asked, “What about these Hebrews?” Achish replied, “Is this not David, the servant of King Saul of Israel? He has been with me all these days, even years, and from the day he defected until today I have found no fault in him.”
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- 1 Samuel 29:6
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So Achish summoned David and told him, “As surely as the LORD lives, you have been upright, and it seems right in my sight that you should march in and out with me in the army, because I have found no fault in you from the day you came to me until this day. But you are not good in the sight of the leaders.
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- 1 Samuel 29:8
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“But what have I done?” David replied. “What have you found against your servant, from the day I came to you until today, to keep me from going along to fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”
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- 1 Samuel 30:1
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On the third day David and his men arrived in Ziklag, and the Amalekites had raided the Negev, attacked Ziklag, and burned it down.
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- 1 Samuel 30:12
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a piece of a fig cake and two clusters of raisins. So he ate and was revived, for he had not had any food or water for three days and three nights.
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