These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
1 Samuel 18
Tanakh 30 verses
- 1 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto , that the of was knit with the of , and loved him as his own .
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And took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father’s house.
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Then made a with , because he loved him as his own .
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And stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to , and his apparel, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.
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- 5 And went out; whithersoever sent him, he had good success; and 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.
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And it came to pass as they came, when returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of , singing and dancing, to meet , with timbrels, with joy, and with three-stringed instruments.
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And the women sang one to another in their play, and said: hath slain his thousands, And his ten thousands.
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- 8 And was very wroth, and this saying displeased him; and he said: ‘They have ascribed unto ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands; and all he lacketh is the !’
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And eyed from that day and forward.
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- 10 And it came to pass on the morrow, that an evil from came mightily upon , and he raved in the midst of the house; and played with his hand, as he did day by day; and had his spear in his hand.
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And cast the spear; for he said: ‘I will smite even to the wall.’ And stepped aside out of his presence twice.
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- 12 And was afraid of , because was with him, and was departed from .
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Therefore removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.
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And had great success in all his ways; and was with him.
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And when saw that he had great success, he stood in awe of him.
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But all and loved ; for he went out and came in before them.
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- 17 And said to : ‘Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife; only be thou valiant for me, and fight Yahweh’S battles.’ For said: ‘Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.’
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And said unto : ‘Who am I, and what is my life, or my father’s family in , that I should be son-in- to the ?’
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But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul’s daughter should have been given to , that she was given unto Adriel the Meholathite to wife.
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And Michal Saul’s daughter loved ; and they told , and the thing pleased him.
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- 21 And said: ‘I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.’ Wherefore said to : ‘Thou shalt this day be my son-in- through the one of the twain.’
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And commanded his servants: ‘Speak with secretly, and say: Behold, the hath delight in thee, and all his servants thee; now therefore be the king’s son-in-.’
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And Saul’s servants spoke those words in the ears of . And said: ‘Seemeth it to you a light thing to be the king’s son-in-, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?’
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- 24 And the servants of told him, saying: ‘On this manner spoke .’
- 25 And said: ‘Thus shall ye say to : The desireth not any dowry, but a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies.’ For thought to make fall by the hand of the Philistines.
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And when his servants told these words, it pleased well to be the king’s son-in-. And the days were not expired;
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and arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the , that he might be the king’s son-in-. And gave him Michal his daughter to wife.
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And saw and knew that was with ; and Michal Saul’s daughter loved him.
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And was yet the more afraid of ; and was David’s enemy continually.
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- 30 Then the princes of the Philistines went forth; and it came to pass, as often as they went forth, that prospered more than all the servants of ; so that his was much set by.