Ruth 4:17 mention
The women, her neighbors, gave him a name, saying, “A son is born to Naomi”. They named him Obed. He is the father of Je
Ruth 4:22 mention
and Obed became the father of Jesse, and Jesse became the father of David.
1 Samuel 16:13 event
Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the middle of his brothers. Then Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on
1 Samuel 16:19 event
Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, “Send me David your son, who is with the sheep.”
1 Samuel 16:20 event
Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a young goat, and sent them by David his son to Saul.
1 Samuel 16:21 event
David came to Saul, and stood before him. He loved him greatly; and he became his armor bearer.
1 Samuel 16:22 event
Saul sent to Jesse, saying, “Please let David stand before me; for he has found favor in my sight.”
1 Samuel 16:23 event
When the spirit from God was on Saul, David took the harp, and played with his hand; so Saul was refreshed, and was well
1 Samuel 17:12 mention
Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons. The man was an
1 Samuel 17:14 event
David was the youngest; and the three oldest followed Saul.
1 Samuel 17:15 event
Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.
1 Samuel 17:17 event
Jesse said to David his son, “Now take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry
1 Samuel 17:20 event
David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took and went, as Jesse had commanded him. He
1 Samuel 17:22 event
David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage, and ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers.
1 Samuel 17:23 event
As he talked with them, behold, the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, came up out of the ranks of the P
1 Samuel 17:26 event
David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, “What shall be done to the man who kills this Philistine, and takes awa
1 Samuel 17:28 event
Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burned against David, and he said, “Why have
1 Samuel 17:29 event
David said, “What have I now done? Is there not a cause?”
1 Samuel 17:31 event
When the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul; and he sent for him.
1 Samuel 17:32 event
David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.”
1 Samuel 17:33 event
Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are but a youth, and he a
1 Samuel 17:34 event
David said to Saul, “Your servant was keeping his father’s sheep; and when a lion or a bear came, and took a lamb out of
1 Samuel 17:37 event
David said, “Yahweh who delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out
1 Samuel 17:38 mention
Saul dressed David with his clothing. He put a helmet of brass on his head, and he clad him with a coat of mail.
1 Samuel 17:39 event
David strapped his sword on his clothing, and he tried to move; for he had not tested it. David said to Saul, “I can’t g
1 Samuel 17:41 event
The Philistine walked and came near to David; and the man who bore the shield went before him.
1 Samuel 17:42 event
When the Philistine looked around, and saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and had a good lo
1 Samuel 17:43 event
The Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” The Philistine cursed David by his gods.
1 Samuel 17:44 event
The Philistine said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the sky, and to the animals of the
1 Samuel 17:45 event
Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin; but I come to you in
1 Samuel 17:48 event
When the Philistine arose, and walked and came near to meet David, David hurried, and ran toward the army to meet the Ph
1 Samuel 17:49 event
David put his hand in his bag, took a stone, and slung it, and struck the Philistine in his forehead. The stone sank int
1 Samuel 17:50 event
So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and struck the Philistine, and killed him; but the
1 Samuel 17:51 event
Then David ran, stood over the Philistine, took his sword, drew it out of its sheath, killed him, and cut off his head w
1 Samuel 17:54 event
David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armor in his tent.
1 Samuel 17:55 event
When Saul saw David go out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the captain of the army, “Abner, whose son is this
1 Samuel 17:57 event
As David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul with the head of the
1 Samuel 17:58 mention
Saul said to him, “Whose son are you, you young man?” David answered, “I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemi
1 Samuel 18:1 event
When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as h
1 Samuel 18:3 event
Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
1 Samuel 18:4 event
Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him, and gave it to David, and his clothing, even including his sword,
1 Samuel 18:5 event
David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely; and Saul set him over the men of war. It was good in
1 Samuel 18:6 event
As they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel,
1 Samuel 18:7 event
The women sang to one another as they played, and said, “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.”
1 Samuel 18:8 event
Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said, “They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they
1 Samuel 18:9 mention
Saul watched David from that day and forward.
1 Samuel 18:10 event
On the next day, an evil spirit from God came mightily on Saul, and he prophesied in the middle of the house. David play
1 Samuel 18:11 event
and Saul threw the spear, for he said, “I will pin David even to the wall!” David escaped from his presence twice.
1 Samuel 18:12 event
Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, and had departed from Saul.
1 Samuel 18:14 mention
David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and Yahweh was with him.
1 Samuel 18:16 event
But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them.
1 Samuel 18:17 event
Saul said to David, “Behold, my elder daughter Merab, I will give her to you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight
1 Samuel 18:18 event
David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my life, or my father’s family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the
1 Samuel 18:19 mention
But at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as
1 Samuel 18:20 mention
Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
1 Samuel 18:21 event
Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against h
1 Samuel 18:22 event
Saul commanded his servants, “Talk with David secretly, and say, ‘Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his serva
1 Samuel 18:23 event
Saul’s servants spoke those words in the ears of David. David said, “Does it seem to you a light thing to be the king’s
1 Samuel 18:24 event
The servants of Saul told him, saying, “David spoke like this.”
1 Samuel 18:25 event
Saul said, “Tell David, ‘The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the
1 Samuel 18:26 mention
When his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son-in-law. Before the deadline,
1 Samuel 18:27 event
David arose and went, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines. Then David brought their foreskins,
1 Samuel 18:28 event
Saul saw and knew that Yahweh was with David; and Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved him.
1 Samuel 18:29 mention
Saul was even more afraid of David; and Saul was David’s enemy continually.
1 Samuel 18:30 event
Then the princes of the Philistines went out; and as often as they went out, David behaved himself more wisely than all
1 Samuel 19:1 event
Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, greatly
1 Samuel 19:2 mention
Jonathan told David, saying, “Saul my father seeks to kill you. Now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morni
1 Samuel 19:4 event
Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, “Don’t let the king sin against his servant, against D
1 Samuel 19:5 event
for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it
1 Samuel 19:7 event
Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things. Then Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his
1 Samuel 19:8 event
There was war again. David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter; and they f
1 Samuel 19:9 mention
An evil spirit from Yahweh was on Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand; and David was playing with hi
1 Samuel 19:10 event
Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he stuck the spear
1 Samuel 19:11 event
Saul sent messengers to David’s house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David’s wife, told him, say
1 Samuel 19:12 event
So Michal let David down through the window. He went away, fled, and escaped.
1 Samuel 19:14 event
When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”
1 Samuel 19:15 event
Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.”
1 Samuel 19:18 event
Now David fled and escaped, and came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went
1 Samuel 19:19 mention
Saul was told, saying, “Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.”
1 Samuel 19:20 event
Saul sent messengers to seize David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as h