1 Samuel 24:9

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And David said to Saul, Why do you listen to men's words, saying, Behold, David seeks your harm?

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  • Lev 19:16 : 16 You shall not go around as a talebearer among your people; nor shall you stand against the life of your neighbor: I am the LORD.
  • 1 Sam 26:19 : 19 Now, therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD has stirred you up against me, let Him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, cursed are they before the LORD, for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, 'Go, serve other gods.'
  • Ps 101:5 : 5 Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him will I cut off: him that has a haughty look and a proud heart I will not endure.
  • Ps 141:6 : 6 When their judges are overthrown in rocky places, they shall hear my words, for they are sweet.
  • Prov 16:28 : 28 A perverse man sows strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.
  • Prov 17:4 : 4 A wicked doer listens to false lips, and a liar gives ear to a deceitful tongue.
  • Prov 18:8 : 8 The words of a talebearer are like wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the body.
  • Prov 25:23 : 23 The north wind brings forth rain, and a backbiting tongue, an angry countenance.
  • Prov 26:20-22 : 20 Where there is no wood, the fire goes out; so where there is no gossip, strife ceases. 21 As coals to burning coals, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindle strife. 22 The words of a gossip are like wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
  • Prov 26:28 : 28 A lying tongue hates those it hurts, and a flattering mouth works ruin.
  • Prov 29:12 : 12 If a ruler listens to lies, all his servants are wicked.
  • Eccl 7:21-22 : 21 Also, do not take to heart everything people say, lest you hear your servant curse you. 22 For often your own heart knows that you yourself have cursed others.
  • Jas 3:6 : 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so the tongue is among our members, that it defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.

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  • 1 Sam 24:10-11
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    10 Behold, this day your eyes have seen how the LORD delivered you today into my hand in the cave: and some urged me to kill you: but my eye spared you; and I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord; for he is the LORD'S anointed.

    11 Moreover, my father, see, yes, see the edge of your robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the edge of your robe and killed you not, know and see that there is neither evil nor rebellion in my hand, and I have not sinned against you; yet you hunt my soul to take it.

  • 1 Sam 24:3-8
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    3 And he came to the sheepfolds by the way, where there was a cave; and Saul went in to relieve himself. And David and his men remained in the sides of the cave.

    4 And the men of David said to him, Behold, the day of which the LORD said to you, Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, that you may do to him as it seems good to you. Then David arose and cut off the edge of Saul's robe secretly.

    5 And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart struck him, because he had cut off Saul's robe.

    6 And he said to his men, The LORD forbid that I should do this thing unto my master, the LORD'S anointed, to stretch forth my hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the LORD.

    7 So David restrained his servants with these words and did not allow them to rise against Saul. But Saul rose up out of the cave and went on his way.

    8 David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth and showed respect.

  • 1 Sam 18:24
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    24 And the servants of Saul told him, saying, This is what David spoke.

  • 1 Sam 17:31-32
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    31 When the words that David spoke were heard, they repeated them before Saul, and he sent for him.

    32 David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him; your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.

  • 1 Sam 26:17-18
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    17 And Saul recognized David's voice and said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" And David said, "It is my voice, my lord, O king."

    18 And he said, "Why does my lord pursue after his servant? What have I done? Or what evil is in my hand?

  • 1 Sam 23:9-12
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    9 And David knew that Saul secretly planned mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring here the ephod.

    10 Then David said, O LORD God of Israel, your servant has certainly heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.

    11 Will the men of Keilah deliver me into his hand? Will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? O LORD God of Israel, I beg you, tell your servant. And the LORD said, He will come down.

    12 Then David said, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul? And the LORD said, They will deliver you up.

  • 1 Sam 24:15-17
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    15 The LORD therefore be judge and judge between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.

    16 And it came to pass, when David had finished speaking these words to Saul, that Saul said, Is this your voice, my son David? And Saul lifted up his voice and wept.

    17 And he said to David, You are more righteous than I: for you have rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded you evil.

  • 1 Sam 22:13
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    13 And Saul said to him, Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have enquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?

  • 1 Sam 27:1
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    1 And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should quickly escape into the land of the Philistines; then Saul will despair of me, to seek me any longer in any territory of Israel. Thus I will escape out of his hand.

  • 1 Sam 19:1-2
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    1 And Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David.

    2 But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted greatly in David; and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeks to kill you; now therefore, I pray you, be on guard until the morning, and stay in a secret place, and hide yourself:

  • 1 Sam 24:22
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    22 And David swore to Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his men went up to the stronghold.

  • 2 Sam 1:14
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    14 And David said to him, How are you not afraid to stretch forth your hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?

  • 1 Sam 26:21-22
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    21 Then Saul said, "I have sinned. Return, my son David, for I will harm you no more because my life was precious in your eyes this day. Behold, I have played the fool and have erred exceedingly."

    22 And David answered and said, "Behold the king's spear! Let one of the young men come over and get it."

  • 1 Sam 17:29
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    29 David said, What have I done now? Is there not a cause?

  • 2 Sam 1:16
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    16 And David said to him, Your blood be upon your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, I have slain the LORD'S anointed.

  • 1 Sam 19:17
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    17 And Saul said to Michal, Why have you deceived me so, and sent away my enemy, so that he has escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said to me, Let me go; why should I kill you?

  • 1 Sam 23:25-26
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    25 Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David; therefore, he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.

    26 And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain; and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men surrounded David and his men, intending to capture them.

  • 1 Sam 22:8
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    8 That all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that shows me that my son has made a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or shows to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?

  • 1 Sam 26:9
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    9 And David said to Abishai, "Do not destroy him, for who can stretch out his hand against the LORD's anointed and be guiltless?"

  • 1 Sam 23:15
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    15 And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life; and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a forest.

  • 1 Sam 21:10
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    10 And David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.

  • 1 Sam 26:25
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    25 Then Saul said to David, "Blessed are you, my son David. You shall do great things, and also shall still prevail." So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.

  • 1 Sam 19:4-5
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    4 And Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father, and said to him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his deeds have been very good toward you:

    5 For he put his life in his hand, and killed the Philistine, and the LORD worked a great salvation for all Israel; you saw it, and rejoiced; why then will you sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?

  • 1 Sam 29:8
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    8 And David said to Achish, But what have I done? and what have you found in your servant since I have been with you until this day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king?

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    5 And David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants.

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    19 Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, Send me David your son, who is with the sheep.

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    10 And Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the javelin, but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he drove the javelin into the wall; and David fled and escaped that night.

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    32 And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, Why should he be slain? What has he done?

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    11 And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will strike David even to the wall with it. And David avoided his presence twice.

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    2 Therefore David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go and strike these Philistines? And the LORD said to David, Go and strike the Philistines, and save Keilah.

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    22 And David said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be adversaries unto me? Shall any man be put to death this day in Israel? For do not I know that I am this day king over Israel?

  • 2 Sam 22:1
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    1 And David spoke to the LORD the words of this song on the day that the LORD had delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul:

  • 1 Sam 22:23
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    23 Stay with me, fear not: for he that seeks my life seeks your life: but with me you shall be safe.