43 And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

44 And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.

45 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and

and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by cir. 1063. the way to Shaaraim, even unto Gath,

and unto Ekron.

53 And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they spoiled their tents.

54 And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem: but he put his armour in his tent.

t Josh. 15. 36.

55 And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, "whose son is this youth? And Abner See ch. 16. said, As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.

56 And the king said, Enquire thou whose son the stripling is.

21, 22.

57 And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with ver. 54 the head of the Philistine in his hand.

58 And Saul said to him, Whose son art thou, thou young man? And David answered, I am the son of thy servant y ver. 12. Jesse the Beth-lehemite.

CHAP. XVIII.

33, 35. Ps.

1. 2 Cor. 10.

Hebr.. hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast m defied.

33, 34

m ver. 10.

+ Heb. shut thee up.

26.

46 This day will the LORD + deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and Deut. 28. I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; Josh. 4. 24. that all the earth may know that there

1 Kings 8.43. & 18. 36.

2 Kings 19.

19. Isai. 52.

10.

p. Ps. 44.6,7.

Hos. 1. 7.

Zech. 4. 6.

92 Chron.

90. 15.

r ch. 21.9.

Ecclus. 47.

4. 1 Mac. 4.

30. See Judg.

3. 31. & 15.

15. ch. 23. 21.

is a God in Israel.

47 And all this assembly shall know

that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hands.

48 And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.

49 And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.

50 So 'David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David. 51 Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw

Heb. 11.34. their champion was dead, they fled.

7 And the women

e

* answered

one an

22.

• Exod. 15 f ch. 21. 205

other as they played, and said, Saul hath Ecclus

ch. 19. 10.

420. 13.

11 And Saul cast the javelin; for he Prov. 17. said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice.

12 And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and was departed from Saul.

13 Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.

14 And David behaved ed himself wisely d. ver.5 in all his ways; and 'the LORD was with

r Gea. 39 2, 3,23. Josh, him. 67.

ver. 5.

of calour.

15 Wherefore when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he was afraid of him.

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

171 And Saul said to David, Behold 1 ch. 17.25. my elder daughter Merab, her will I give Heba sou thee to wife: only be thou + valiant for Numb. 32. me, and fight "the LORD's battles. For 21, 27, 29 Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon * ver. 21, 25. him, but let the hand of the Philistines

ch. 25. 28.

Sam. 12. 9.

See ver. 23.

921.

be upon him.

18 And David said unto Saul, Who 2.7.18. am I? and what is my life, or my father's family in Israel, that I should be son in law to the king?

8.

1 Sam. 91.

Judg. 7.92.

b ver. 28

+ Heb. was right in his yes.

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

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

21 And Saul said, I will give him her, Exod. 10.7. that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to

d ver. 17.

• See ver. 26. David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in the one of the twain.

22 And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king's son in law.

David obtaineth Saul's daughter.

Before CHRIST

23 And Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David cir. 1063. said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king's son in law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?

† Heb. according to

these words. Gen. 34.12.

24 And the servants of Saul told him, saying, † On this manner spake David. 25 And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies, & ch. 14. 24. But Saul thought to make David fall by h ver. 17: the hand of the Philistines.

Exod. 22. 17.

26 And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son in law: and the days were i See ver. 21. not + expired.

+ Heb. fülfilled.

14

27 Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philis k ver. 13. tines two hundred men; and David 1 2 Sam. 3. brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.

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

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

Michal's wile to save David.

CHRIST

Before and slew the Philistine, and the LORD cir. 1063. wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice: "wherefore then wilt thou hsin against innocent

e ch. 17. 49, 50. fi Sam. 11.

11. 14.

13. 1 Chron. blood, to slay David without a cause? 6 And Saul hearkened unto the voice h Matt. 27. of Jonathan: and Saul sware, As the

g ch.20. 32.

4

i ch. 16. 21.

& 18. 2, 13.

+ Heb. yesterday third

day.

cir. 1062.

Heb. his

face.

k ch. 16. 14.

& 18. 10, 11.

1 Ps. 59. title.

m So Josh.

2. 15. Acts 9. 24, 25

+ Heb. teraphim. Gen.

LORD liveth, he shall not be slain.

7 And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan shewed him all those things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, das in times past.

8 And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled from + him.

9 And the evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his javelin in his hand: and David played with his hand.

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

11Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.

12 So Michal mlet David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.

13 And Michal took an image, and 31. 19. Judg. laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth.

17.5.

22.

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

15 And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.

16 And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster.

17 And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said unto me,

#2 Sam. 2. Let me go; "why should I kill thee? 181 So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth.

David consulteth with Jonathan.

Before

21 And when it was told Saul, he sent CHRIST other messengers, and they prophesied cir. 1062, likewise. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they prophesied also.

*22 Then went he also to Ramah, and came to a great well that is in Sechu: and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? And one said, Behold, they be at Naioth in Ramah.

23 And he went thither to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God was upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah.

2 And he said unto him, God forbid; thou shalt not die: behold, my father will do nothing either great or small, but that he will + shew it me: and why should + Heb. my father hide this thing from me? it is not so.

3 And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.

6 If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Beth-lehem his city: for there is a yearly || sacrifice there forestall the family.

1. 23. 2 Sam.

7 d If he say thus, It is well; thy servant d See Deut. shall have peace: but if he be very wroth, 17.4 then be sure that evil is determined an by him.

e ch. 45 17

Josh. 2. 14 ch. 18. 3. &&

E ver. 16. 23. 18. h 2 Sam. 14.

8 Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the LORD with thee: notwithstanding, if there be 32.

Jonathan's kindness to David.

Before CHRIST

in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why cir. 1062 shouldest thou bring me to thy father? 9 And Jonathan said, Far be it from thee: for if I knew certainly that evil were determined by my father to come upon thee, then would not I tell it thee?

+ Heb wurched.

+ Heb. uncover thine

car. ver. 2.

i Ruth 1. 17.

ch. 17-37

10 Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what if thy father answer thee roughly?

11 And Jonathan said unto David, Come, and let us go out into the field. And they went out both of them into the

field.

12 And Jonathan said unto David, O LORD God of Israel, when I have + sounded my father about to morrow any time, or the third day, and, behold, if there be good toward David, and I then send not unto thee, and † shew it thee;

13 The LORD do so and much more to Jonathan: but if it please my father to do thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace: and the LORD be with thee, as

Josh. 1.51 Chron. 22. he hath been with my father.

11, 16.

12 Sam. 9.

437.&21.

+ Heb. cut.

14 And thou shalt not only while yet I live shew me the kindness of the LORD, that I die not:

15 But also thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house for ever: no, not when the LORD hath cut off the enemies of David every one from the face of the earth.

16 So Jonathan + made a covenant with the house of David, saying, "Let Sam 47- the Lord even require it at the hand of

See ch. 31.2.

& 21. 8.

David's enemies.

+ Heb. той any thing. q Jer. 42.

mark.

21 And, behold, I will send a lad, saying, Go, find out the arrows. If I expressly say unto the lad, Behold, the arrows are on this side of thee, take them; then come thou: for there is peace to thee, and † no hurt; as the LORD liveth. 22 But if I say thus unto the young man, Behold, the arrows are beyond thee; go thy way: for the Lord hath sent thee away.

23 And as touching the matter which thou and I have spoken of, behold, the LORD be between thee and me for ever.

Saul seeketh to kill Jonathan.

Before CHRIST

24 So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the cir. 1062, king sat him down to eat meat.

25 And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, even upon a seat by the wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul's side, and David's place was empty.

26 Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not clean; surely he is not clean.

27 And it came to pass on the morrow, which was the second day of the month, that David's place was empty: and Saul said unto Jonathan his son, Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse to meat, neither yesterday, nor to day?

30 Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him, || + Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou hast cho- rebel. sen the son of Jesse to thine own confu- of perverse sion, and unto the confusion of thy mother's nakedness?

31 For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he + shall surely die..

+ Heb. Som rebellion.

+Heb. is the son of death.

32 And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, "Wherefore Matt. 13. shall he be slain? what hath he done?

k

u ch. 5. Luke 23. 22. x ch. 18. 11.

33 And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew ver. 7. that it was determined of his father to slay David.

34 So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and did eat no meat the second day of the month: for he was grieved for David, because his father had done him shame.

35 And it came to pass in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little lad with him.

36 And he said unto his lad, Run, find out now the arrows which I shoot. And as the lad ran, he shot an arrow+be-He yond him.

37 And when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, and said, Is not the arrow beyond thee?

38 And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed, haste, stay not. And Jona

pass over him.