1 Samuel 25:44

KJV1611 – Modern English

But Saul had given Michal, his daughter, David's wife, to Palti, the son of Laish, who was from Gallim.

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  • 1 Sam 18:27 : 27 Therefore David arose and went, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full count to the king, that he might be the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter as a wife.
  • 2 Sam 3:14 : 14 And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul's son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I espoused to me for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.
  • Isa 10:30 : 30 Lift up your voice, O daughter of Gallim; cause it to be heard to Laish, O poor Anathoth.
  • 1 Sam 18:20 : 20 And Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.

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  • 2 Sam 3:13-15
    3 verses
    77%

    13And he said, Well; I will make a league with you. But one thing I require of you, and that is, You shall not see my face, except you first bring Michal, Saul's daughter, when you come to see my face.

    14And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul's son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I espoused to me for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.

    15And Ishbosheth sent and took her from her husband, from Phaltiel the son of Laish.

  • 1 Sam 18:24-29
    6 verses
    76%

    24And the servants of Saul told him, saying, This is what David spoke.

    25And Saul said, Thus shall you say to David, The king desires no dowry, but a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

    26And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law: and before the days had expired,

    27Therefore David arose and went, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full count to the king, that he might be the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter as a wife.

    28And Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal, Saul's daughter, loved him.

    29And Saul was yet more afraid of David; and Saul became David's enemy continually.

  • 1 Sam 18:17-22
    6 verses
    76%

    17And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give you as your wife: only be valiant for me, and fight the LORD'S battles. For Saul said, Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.

    18And 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?

    19But it came to pass at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David, that she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as a wife.

    20And Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.

    21And 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, Today you shall be my son-in-law in one of the two.

    22And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Speak with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king delights in you, and all his servants love you: now therefore be the king's son-in-law.

  • 1 Sam 25:42-43
    2 verses
    75%

    42And Abigail hurried and arose, and rode on a donkey, with five maids accompanying her; so she followed the messengers of David, and became his wife.

    43David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and so both of them were his wives.

  • 1 Sam 19:11-14
    4 verses
    71%

    11Saul also sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning; and Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you shall be killed.

    12So Michal let David down through a window; and he went, and fled, and escaped.

    13And Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair for its head, and covered it with a cloth.

    14And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.

  • 1 Sam 14:49-50
    2 verses
    69%

    49The sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchishua; and the names of his two daughters were these: the name of the firstborn was Merab, and the name of the younger was Michal.

    50The name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam, the daughter of Ahimaaz. The name of the commander of his army was Abner, the son of Ner, Saul's uncle.

  • 2 Sam 6:23
    69%

    23Therefore Michal, the daughter of Saul, had no child to the day of her death.

  • 1 Sam 19:17
    69%

    17And 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?

  • 2 Sam 6:20-21
    2 verses
    69%

    20Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal, the daughter of Saul, came out to meet David and said, How glorious was the king of Israel today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of the maids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!

    21And David said to Michal, It was before the LORD, who chose me before your father and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the LORD, over Israel; therefore will I play before the LORD.

  • 1 Sam 27:2-4
    3 verses
    68%

    2And David arose, and he passed over with the six hundred men who were with him to Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

    3And David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, each man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelite, and Abigail the Carmelite, Nabal's wife.

    4And it was told to Saul that David had fled to Gath, and he sought no more for him.

  • 2 Sam 21:8
    67%

    8But the king took the two sons of Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal, the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel, the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:

  • 1 Sam 25:40
    67%

    40And when the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, David sent us to you, to take you to him as a wife.

  • 1 Sam 17:25
    66%

    25The men of Israel said, Have you seen this man that has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel. The king will enrich the man who kills him with great riches, will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel.

  • 1 Sam 30:5
    66%

    5And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelite, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

  • 1 Chr 15:29
    66%

    29And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, that Michal, the daughter of Saul, looking out at a window, saw King David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart.

  • 2 Sam 11:27
    66%

    27And when her mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.

  • 2 Sam 6:16
    66%

    16And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal, Saul's daughter, looked through a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.

  • 1 Sam 27:11
    65%

    11And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring news to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell on us, saying, Thus did David, and so will be his way all the time he dwells in the country of the Philistines.

  • 1 Chr 14:3
    65%

    3And David took more wives in Jerusalem, and David fathered more sons and daughters.

  • 1 Sam 22:14
    65%

    14Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all your servants as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and goes at your bidding, and is honorable in your house?

  • 1 Sam 24:22
    65%

    22And David swore to Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his men went up to the stronghold.

  • 1 Chr 18:1
    65%

    1Now after this, it came to pass that David struck the Philistines and subdued them, and took Gath and its towns out of the hand of the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 23:28
    65%

    28Therefore, Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines; therefore, they called that place Selahammahlekoth.

  • 1 Sam 25:21
    65%

    21Now David had said, Surely in vain have I protected all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missing of all that belonged to him, and he has repaid me evil for good.

  • 2 Sam 5:13
    64%

    13And David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem after he came from Hebron, and more sons and daughters were born to David.

  • 1 Sam 21:10
    64%

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

  • 2 Chr 8:11
    64%

    11And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David to the house he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD has come.

  • 1 Sam 25:35
    63%

    35So David received from her hand what she had brought him, and said to her, Go up in peace to your house; see, I have listened to your voice and respected your person.

  • 1 Sam 13:23
    63%

    23And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.