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 Jesse, the father of David.
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and Obed became the father of Jesse, and Jesse became the father of David.
Preview context 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 David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.
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Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, “Send me David your son, who is with the sheep.”
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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.
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David came to Saul, and stood before him. He loved him greatly; and he became his armor bearer.
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Saul sent to Jesse, saying, “Please let David stand before me; for he has found favor in my sight.”
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When the spirit from God was on Saul, David took the harp, and played with his hand; so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.
Preview context 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 elderly old man in the days of Saul.
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David was the youngest; and the three oldest followed Saul.
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Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.
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Jesse said to David his son, “Now take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers;
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David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took and went, as Jesse had commanded him. He came to the place of the wagons, as the army which was going out to the fight shouted for the battle.
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David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage, and ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers.
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As he talked with them, behold, the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, came up out of the ranks of the Philistines, and said the same words; and David heard them.
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David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, “What shall be done to the man who kills this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”
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Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burned against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.”
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David said, “What have I now done? Is there not a cause?”
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When the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul; and he sent for him.
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David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.”
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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 man of war from his youth.”
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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 the flock,
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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 of the hand of this Philistine.” Saul said to David, “Go! Yahweh will be with you.”
Preview context 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.
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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 go with these; for I have not tested them.” Then David took them off.
Preview context 1 Samuel 17:41 event
The Philistine walked and came near to David; and the man who bore the shield went before him.
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When the Philistine looked around, and saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and had a good looking face.
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The Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” The Philistine cursed David by his gods.
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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 field.”
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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 the name of Yahweh of Armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
Preview context 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 Philistine.
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David put his hand in his bag, took a stone, and slung it, and struck the Philistine in his forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth.
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So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and struck the Philistine, and killed him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.
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Then David ran, stood over the Philistine, took his sword, drew it out of its sheath, killed him, and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.
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David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armor in his tent.
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When Saul saw David go out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the captain of the army, “Abner, whose son is this youth?” Abner said, “As your soul lives, O king, I can’t tell.”
Preview context 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 Philistine in his hand.
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Saul said to him, “Whose son are you, you young man?” David answered, “I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.”
Preview context 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 his own soul.
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Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
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Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him, and gave it to David, and his clothing, even including his sword, his bow, and his sash.
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David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely; and Saul set him over the men of war. It was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul’s servants.
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As they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tambourines, with joy, and with instruments of music.
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The women sang to one another as they played, and said, “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.”
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Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said, “They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed only thousands. What can he have more but the kingdom?”
Preview context 1 Samuel 18:9 mention
Saul watched David from that day and forward.
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On the next day, an evil spirit from God came mightily on Saul, and he prophesied in the middle of the house. David played with his hand, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand;
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and Saul threw the spear, for he said, “I will pin David even to the wall!” David escaped from his presence twice.
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Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, and had departed from Saul.
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David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and Yahweh was with him.
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But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them.
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Saul said to David, “Behold, my elder daughter Merab, I will give her to you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh’s battles.” For Saul said, “Don’t let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him.”
Preview context 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 king?”
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But at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as wife.
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Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
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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 him. Therefore Saul said to David, “You shall today be my son-in-law a second time.”
Preview context 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 servants love you. Now therefore be the king’s son-in-law.’”
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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 son-in-law, since I am a poor man, and little known?”
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The servants of Saul told him, saying, “David spoke like this.”
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Saul said, “Tell David, ‘The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies.’” Now Saul thought he would make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
Preview context 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,
Preview context 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, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might be the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him Michal his daughter as wife.
Preview context 1 Samuel 18:28 event
Saul saw and knew that Yahweh was with David; and Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved him.
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Saul was even more afraid of David; and Saul was David’s enemy continually.
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Then the princes of the Philistines went out; and as often as they went out, David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul, so that his name was highly esteemed.
Preview context 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 delighted in David.
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Jonathan told David, saying, “Saul my father seeks to kill you. Now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, and live in a secret place, and hide yourself.
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Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, “Don’t let the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you;
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for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?”
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Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things. Then Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as before.
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There was war again. David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter; and they fled before him.
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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 his hand.
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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 into the wall. David fled, and escaped that night.
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Saul sent messengers to David’s house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you don’t save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”
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So Michal let David down through the window. He went away, fled, and escaped.
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When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”
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Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.”
Preview context 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 and lived in Naioth.
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Saul was told, saying, “Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.”
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Saul sent messengers to seize David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, God’s Spirit came on Saul’s messengers, and they also prophesied.
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