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Ferrar Fentons 'Holy Bible in Modern English. All spelling, punctuation and formatting maintained through-out. Verse ordering follows the King James version for clarity and necessary organization of the verses.

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RF SA1 18:1 (B.C. 1062.) Jonathan's admiration of David.
And as he finished speaking with Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan admired him like his own self.
RF SA1 18:2 Saul also took to him at that time, and would not permit him to return to his father's house.
RF SA1 18:3 Then Jonathan and David made a treaty to love each other as their own life.
RF SA1 18:4 And Jonathan took off the cloak that he had on him, and put it upon David with his armour, and sword, and bow, and belt.
RF SA1 18:5 And David went wherever Saul sent him, and was successful, and pleasing to Saul above all the officers of the army, and he was delightful in the eyes of all the people, and also in the eyes of the ministers of Saul.
RF SA1 18:6 (B.C. 1060.) David's triumph and Saul's jealousy.
It happened, however, that once when David was returning from defeating the Philishtim, that women came out from all the towns of Israel with song and dances to meet King Saul, with tambourines, tom-toms and triangles,
RF SA1 18:7 when the women answered to the music, and sung, "Saul has defeated his thousands, And David his ten thousands."
RF SA1 18:8 But Saul was very angry, and the refrain was hateful in his ears, so he exclaimed, "They have given the ten thousands to David and the thousands to me! What is there more for him except the Leadership?"
RF SA1 18:9 Saul consequently became irritable with David from that time forward.
RF SA1 18:10 Then some time after the Evil Spirit from GOD seized upon Saul, as he was walking through his palace, and David was playing on his harp as he did daily, and Saul had javelins in his hand;
RF SA1 18:11 so Saul threw javelins, exclaiming, "I will pin David to the wall!" But David escaped them twice,
RF SA1 18:12 Then Saul became frightened at the presence of David, for the EVER-LIVING had come to him, and gone away from Saul.
RF SA1 18:13 Therefore Saul removed him from near himself, and appointed him colonel of a regiment, and he went out and came in with the forces.
RF SA1 18:14 David, however, went on his way successfully, for the EVER-LIVING was with him.
RF SA1 18:15 And Saul saw that he was very successful, and was afraid of him;
RF SA1 18:16 for all Israel and Judah admired David, for he went out and came back before them.
RF SA1 18:17 (B.C. 1060.) Saul plots to get David killed.
Saul consequently said to David, "You know my elder daughter Merab; I will give her to you for a wife, and you shall become my most powerful son, and fight the battles of the EVER-LIVING." But Saul intended, not that he should become powerful, but that he might be brought into the power of the Philishtim.
RF SA1 18:18 David, however, replied to Saul, "Who am I? And what is the clan of my father in Israel, that I should become son-in-law to the Chieftain?"
RF SA1 18:19 But when the time came for giving Merab, Saul's daughter, to David, she was given in marriage to Adrial the Mikholathite.
RF SA1 18:20 (B.C. 1060.) Mikal falls in love with David.
But Mikal, Saul's daughter, loved David, and told it to Saul, and it seemed right in his opinion,
RF SA1 18:21 so Saul said, "I will promise her to him, and she shall be a trap for him, that he, may be got into the hands of the Philishtim." Saul therefore said to David, a second time, "You shall be my son-in-law now."
RF SA1 18:22 Saul also ordered his ministers to speak to David privately, and say, "The Leader is now your friend; and all his ministers like you,—so now become son-in-law to the Chieftain!"
RF SA1 18:23 Therefore the ministers of Saul whispered their ideas to David. But David replied, "Is it a little matter in your sight to be son-in-law to the Leader? when I am a common and ordinary man?"
RF SA1 18:24 So his ministers reported to Saul himself how David had replied about the matter.
RF SA1 18:25 Saul accordingly answered, "Say this to David, The Leader does not care for a dowry, but wishes for a hundred foreskins of the Philishtim, as a revenge on the king's enemies!" (But Saul was plotting to throw David into the hands of the Philishtim.)
RF SA1 18:26 His ministers therefore reported this speech to David, and the idea to be son-in-law to the Chieftain was capital in David's view; but the opportunity did not arrive.
RF SA1 18:27 Therefore David prepared and marched, he and his men, and killed two hundred persons of the Philishtim, and David brought their foreskins, thus satisfying the Leader, and thus justifying his being made his son-in-law. Saul then gave him Mikal his daughter as a wife.
RF SA1 18:28 Saul also saw, and acknowledged that the EVER-LIVING was with David, and that Mikal, his daughter, loved him.
RF SA1 18:29 Saul, however, still continued to be afraid of David; and Saul was an enemy to David all the time.
RF SA1 18:30 When the Philishtim generals advanced, David's strategy was more skilful against them than that of any of the officers of Saul, so his name became famous.
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2 V. 7 Or, And the women answering the music sang, "Defeated has Saul His thousands, And David His ten thousands."—H. B.




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AKJV ROM 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?



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