1 Samuel 18:26

World English Bible (2000)

When his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law. The days were not expired;

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  • 1 Sam 18:21 : 21 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 this day be my son-in-law a second time."

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  • 1 Sam 18:27-30
    4 verses
    86%

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

    28 Saul saw and knew that Yahweh was with David; and Michal, Saul's daughter, loved him.

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

    30 Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it happened, as often as they went forth, that David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was highly esteemed.

  • 1 Sam 18:16-25
    10 verses
    85%

    16 But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them.

    17 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."

    18 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?"

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

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

    21 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 this day be my son-in-law a second time."

    22 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.'"

    23 Saul's servants spoke those words in the ears of David. David said, "Does it seems to you a light thing to be the king's son-in-law, since I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?"

    24 The servants of Saul told him, saying, "David spoke like this."

    25 Saul said, "You shall 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 to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

  • 2 Sam 3:13-14
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    77%

    13 He said, "Good; I will make a treaty with you; but one thing I require of you. That is, you shall not see my face, unless you first bring Michal, Saul's daughter, when you come to see my face."

    14 David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul's son, saying, "Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I pledged to be married to me for one hundred foreskins of the Philistines."

  • 1 Sam 22:14
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    14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, "Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and is taken into your council, and is honorable in your house?

  • 1 Sam 25:39-40
    2 verses
    73%

    39 When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, "Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head." David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to him as wife.

    40 When the servants of David had come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, "David has sent us to you, to take you to him as wife."

  • 2 Sam 11:27
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    27 When the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased Yahweh.

  • 1 Sam 25:43-44
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    72%

    43 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they both became his wives.

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

  • 2 Sam 6:20-21
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    72%

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

    21 David said to Michal, "It was before Yahweh, who chose me above your father, and above all his house, to appoint me prince over the people of Yahweh, over Israel. Therefore will I celebrate before Yahweh.

  • 1 Sam 17:25
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    25 The men of Israel said, "Have you seen this man who is come up? He has surely come up to defy Israel. It shall be, that the man who kills him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel."

  • 1 Sam 18:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

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

    6 It happened as they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that 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.

  • 1 Sam 26:25
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    25 Then Saul said to David, "You are blessed, my son David. You shall both do mightily, and shall surely prevail." So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place.

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

  • 1 Chr 14:3
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    3 David took more wives at Jerusalem; and David became the father of more sons and daughters.

  • 1 Sam 17:31
    69%

    31 When the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul; and he sent for him.

  • 1 Sam 25:35
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    35 So David received of her hand that which she had brought him: and he said to her, "Go up in peace to your house. Behold, I have listened to your voice, and have granted your request."

  • 1 Sam 17:56-58
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    69%

    56 The king said, "Inquire whose son the young man is!"

    57 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.

    58 Saul said to him, "Whose son are you, you young man?" David answered, "I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite."

  • 1 Sam 24:4
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    4 The men of David said to him, "Behold, the day of which Yahweh said to you, 'Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.'" Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe secretly.

  • 1 Sam 19:11
    69%

    11 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."

  • 1 Sam 29:3
    69%

    3 Then the princes of the Philistines said, "What about these Hebrews?" Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, "Isn't this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me these days, or rather these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell away to this day?"

  • 1 Sam 16:21-22
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    21 David came to Saul, and stood before him. He loved him greatly; and he became his armor bearer.

    22 Saul sent to Jesse, saying, "Please let David stand before me; for he has found favor in my sight."

  • 2 Sam 5:12-13
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    12 David perceived that Yahweh had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel's sake.

    13 David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron; and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.

  • 2 Sam 3:36
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    36 All the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; as whatever the king did pleased all the people.

  • 2 Sam 1:1
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    1 It happened after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag;

  • 1 Sam 18:1
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    1 It happened, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

  • 1 Sam 25:9
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    9 When David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.

  • 2 Sam 12:24
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    24 David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her. She bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. Yahweh loved him;

  • 1 Sam 24:16
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    16 It came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words to Saul, that Saul said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.

  • 1 Sam 25:30
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    30 It shall come to pass, when Yahweh has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and shall have appointed you prince over Israel,

  • 2 Sam 6:23
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    23 Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.