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took off his robe and all his gear, even to sword and bow and belt, and gave them to David to wear. (1 Samuel 18, 4)
This way and that David went at Saul’s bidding, and his skill never failed him; when Saul put him at the head of his army, he earned the good will of the whole people, and of Saul’s servants above the rest. (1 Samuel 18, 5)
But when David returned from slaying the Philistine, the women who came out from every part of Israel to meet Saul, singing and dancing merrily with tambour and cymbal, (1 Samuel 18, 6)
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)
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)
threw it at him, thinking to pin David to the wall. Twice David must needs flee from his presence, thus threatened. (1 Samuel 18, 11)
Saul, then, began to fear David, as the heir to that divine favour he had lost; (1 Samuel 18, 12)
David’s skill never failed him in his enterprises, and the Lord was ever at his side; (1 Samuel 18, 14)
Why, David answered, who am I, what rank have I, what place does my father’s kindred hold in Israel, that I should become the king’s son-in-law? (1 Samuel 18, 18)
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)
