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matched their music with the refrain, By Saul’s hand a thousand, by David’s ten thousand fell. (1 Samuel 18, 7)
And at this Saul was much displeased; it was no song to win his favour. What, he said, ten thousand for David, and but a thousand for me? What lies now between him and the kingship? (1 Samuel 18, 8)
So ever after, Saul eyed him askance. (1 Samuel 18, 9)
Next day, the evil mood had come upon Saul, divinely sent, and a frenzy took him, there in his house;✻ David was playing, as he ever did, upon the harp, and Saul, who had a lance in his hand, (1 Samuel 18, 10)
Saul, then, began to fear David, as the heir to that divine favour he had lost; (1 Samuel 18, 12)
and Saul, seeing how well he prospered, began to be afraid of him; (1 Samuel 18, 15)
Saul, therefore, promised him the hand of his elder daughter, Merob, in marriage, if he would play a man’s part in fighting the Lord’s battles; No need for me to touch him, Saul thought to himself, let the Philistines rid me of him. (1 Samuel 18, 17)
And sure enough, when the time came that David should have wedded Saul’s daughter Merob, her hand was given to Hadriel the Molathite instead. (1 Samuel 18, 19)
Meanwhile, David had fallen in love with his younger daughter, Michol; and Saul was well pleased when he heard of it. (1 Samuel 18, 20)
I will promise her, thought Saul, in such a way as to entrap him; the Philistines shall rid me of him. And he told David, I have a second condition for thee to fulfil, and thereupon thou shalt have my daughter.✻ (1 Samuel 18, 21)
Meanwhile, Saul had bidden his servants encourage David, when he himself was not by, telling him what favour the king, what love the king’s servants bore him; it was time he became the king’s son-in-law. (1 Samuel 18, 22)
Saul bade them tell David, The king claims no bridal gifts, if thou wilt bring him the foreskins of a hundred Philistines, to give him a royal revenge on his enemies. In this way, Saul thought to betray David into the power of the Philistines; (1 Samuel 18, 25)
