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- 1 Samuel 18:18
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And David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my family or my father’s clan in Israel, that I should become the son-in-law of the king?”
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- 1 Samuel 18:21
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“I will give her to David,” Saul thought, “so that she may be a snare to him, and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David, “For a second time now you can be my son-in-law.”
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- 1 Samuel 18:22
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Then Saul ordered his servants, “Speak to David privately and tell him, ‘Behold, the king is pleased with you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore, become his son-in-law.’”
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- 1 Samuel 18:23
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But when Saul’s servants relayed these words to David, he replied, “Does it seem trivial in your sight to be the son-in-law of the king? I am a poor man and lightly esteemed.”
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- 1 Samuel 18:24
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And the servants told Saul what David had said.
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- 1 Samuel 18:25
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Saul replied, “Say to David, ‘The king desires no other dowry but a hundred Philistine foreskins as revenge on his enemies.’” But Saul intended to cause David’s death at the hands of the Philistines.
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- 1 Samuel 19:2
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so he warned David, saying, “My father Saul intends to kill you. Be on your guard in the morning; find a secret place and hide there.
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- 1 Samuel 19:4
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Then Jonathan spoke well of David to his father Saul and said to him, “The king should not sin against his servant David; he has not sinned against you. In fact, his actions have been highly beneficial to you.
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- 1 Samuel 19:11
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Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and kill him in the morning. But David’s wife Michal warned him, “If you do not run for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”
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- 1 Samuel 19:14
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When Saul sent the messengers to seize David, Michal said, “He is ill.”
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- 1 Samuel 19:15
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But Saul sent the messengers back to see David and told them, “Bring him up to me in his bed so I can kill him.”
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- 1 Samuel 19:17
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And Saul said to Michal, “Why did you deceive me like this? You sent my enemy away, and he has escaped!” Michal replied, “He said to me, ‘Help me get away, or I will kill you!’”
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- 1 Samuel 19:19
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When Saul was told that David was at Naioth in Ramah,
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- 1 Samuel 19:22
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Finally, Saul himself left for Ramah and came to the large cistern at Secu, where he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” “At Naioth in Ramah,” he was told.
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- 1 Samuel 19:24
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Then Saul stripped off his robes and also prophesied before Samuel. And he collapsed and lay naked all that day and night. That is why it is said, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”
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- 1 Samuel 20:1
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Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah. He came to Jonathan and asked, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? How have I sinned against your father, that he wants to take my life?”
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- 1 Samuel 20:2
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“Far from it!” Jonathan replied. “You will not die. Indeed, my father does nothing, great or small, without telling me. So why would he hide this matter from me? This cannot be true!”
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- 1 Samuel 20:3
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But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”
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- 1 Samuel 20:4
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Then Jonathan said to David, “Whatever you desire, I will do for you.”
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- 1 Samuel 20:5
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So David told him, “Look, tomorrow is the New Moon, and I am supposed to dine with the king. Instead, let me go and hide in the field until the third evening from now.
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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 20:7
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If he says, ‘Good,’ then your servant is safe, but if he is enraged, you will know he has evil intentions.
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- 1 Samuel 20:9
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“Never!” Jonathan replied. “If I ever found out that my father had evil intentions against you, would I not tell you?”
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- 1 Samuel 20:10
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Then David asked Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?”
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- 1 Samuel 20:11
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“Come,” he replied, “let us go out to the field.” So the two of them went out into the field,
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- 1 Samuel 20:12
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and Jonathan said, “By the LORD, the God of Israel, I will sound out my father by this time tomorrow or the next day. If he is favorable toward you, will I not send for you and tell you?
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- 1 Samuel 20:18
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Then Jonathan said to David, “Tomorrow is the New Moon, and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty.
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- 1 Samuel 20:21
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Then I will send a boy and say, ‘Go, find the arrows!’ Now, if I expressly say to him, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; bring them,’ then come, because as surely as the LORD lives, it is safe for you, and there is no danger.
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- 1 Samuel 20:22
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But if I say to the young man, ‘Look, the arrows are beyond you,’ then you must go, for the LORD has sent you away.
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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 20:29
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saying, ‘Please let me go, because our clan is holding a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has told me to be there. So now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go and see my brothers.’ That is why he has not come to the king’s table.”
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- 1 Samuel 20:30
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Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of the mother who bore you?
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- 1 Samuel 20:32
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“Why must he be put to death?” Jonathan replied. “What has he done?”
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- 1 Samuel 20:36
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He said to the boy, “Run and find the arrows I shoot.” And as the boy ran, Jonathan shot an arrow beyond him.
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- 1 Samuel 20:37
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When the boy reached the place where Jonathan’s arrow had fallen, Jonathan called to him, “Isn’t the arrow beyond you?”
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- 1 Samuel 20:40
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Then Jonathan gave his equipment to the boy and said, “Go, take it back to the city.”
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- 1 Samuel 20:42
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And Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, for the two of us have sworn in the name of the LORD, saying, ‘May the LORD be a witness between you and me, and between your descendants and mine forever.’” Then David got up and departed, and Jonathan went back into the city.
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- 1 Samuel 21:1
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Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And when Ahimelech met David, he trembled and asked him, “Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?”
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Source alternate reference: 21.2
- 1 Samuel 21:2
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“The king has given me a mission,” David replied. “He told me no one is to know about the mission on which I am sending you. And I have directed my young men to meet me at a certain place.
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Source alternate reference: 21.3
- 1 Samuel 21:4
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“There is no common bread on hand,” the priest replied, “but there is some consecrated bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.”
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Source alternate reference: 21.5
- 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 21:8
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Then David asked Ahimelech, “Is there not a spear or sword on hand here? For I have brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s mission was urgent.”
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Source alternate reference: 21.9
- 1 Samuel 21:9
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The priest replied, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here; it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want, you may take it. For there is no other but this one here.” And David said, “There is none like it; give it to me.”
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Source alternate reference: 21.10
- 1 Samuel 21:11
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But the servants of Achish said to him, “Is this not David, the king of the land? Did they not sing about him in their dances, saying: ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands’?”
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Source alternate reference: 21.12
- 1 Samuel 21:14
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Then Achish said to his servants, “Look, you can see that the man is insane! Why have you brought him to me?
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Source alternate reference: 21.15
- 1 Samuel 22:3
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From there David went to Mizpeh of Moab, where he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and mother stay with you until I learn what God will do for me.”
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- 1 Samuel 22:5
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Then the prophet Gad said to David, “Do not stay in the stronghold. Depart and go into the land of Judah.” So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.
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- 1 Samuel 22:7
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Then Saul said to his servants, “Listen, men of Benjamin! Is the son of Jesse giving all of you fields and vineyards and making you commanders of thousands or hundreds?
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- 1 Samuel 22:9
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But Doeg the Edomite, who had stationed himself with Saul’s servants, answered: “I saw the son of Jesse come to Ahimelech son of Ahitub at Nob.
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