1 Samuel 17:44   (Read all of 1 Samuel 17)

"Come here," he said, "and I'll give your flesh to the birds and the wild animals!"

1 Samuel 17:45   (Read all of 1 Samuel 17)

David said to the Philistine, "You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.

1 Samuel 17:46   (Read all of 1 Samuel 17)

This day the Lord will deliver you into my hands, and I'll strike you down and cut off your head. This very day I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds and the wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.

1 Samuel 17:47   (Read all of 1 Samuel 17)

All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves; for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give all of you into our hands."

1 Samuel 17:55   (Read all of 1 Samuel 17)

As Saul watched David going out to meet the Philistine, he said to Abner, commander of the army, "Abner, whose son is that young man?" Abner replied, "As surely as you live, Your Majesty, I don't know."

1 Samuel 17:56   (Read all of 1 Samuel 17)

The king said, "Find out whose son this young man is."

1 Samuel 17:58   (Read all of 1 Samuel 17)

"Whose son are you, young man?" Saul asked him. David said, "I am the son of your servant Jesse of Bethlehem."

1 Samuel 18:17   (Read all of 1 Samuel 18)

Saul said to David, "Here is my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you in marriage; only serve me bravely and fight the battles of the Lord." For Saul said to himself, "I will not raise a hand against him. Let the Philistines do that!"

1 Samuel 18:21   (Read all of 1 Samuel 18)

"I will give her to him," he thought, "so that she may be a snare to him and so that the hand of the Philistines may be against him." So Saul said to David, "Now you have a second opportunity to become my son-in-law."

1 Samuel 18:22   (Read all of 1 Samuel 18)

Then Saul ordered his attendants: "Speak to David privately and say, 'Look, the king likes you, and his attendants all love you; now become his son-in-law.' "

1 Samuel 18:23   (Read all of 1 Samuel 18)

They repeated these words to David. But David said, "Do you think it is a small matter to become the king's son-in-law? I'm only a poor man and little known."

1 Samuel 19:2   (Read all of 1 Samuel 19)

and warned him, "My father Saul is looking for a chance to kill you. Be on your guard tomorrow morning; go into hiding and stay there.

1 Samuel 19:3   (Read all of 1 Samuel 19)

I will go out and stand with my father in the field where you are. I'll speak to him about you and will tell you what I find out."

1 Samuel 19:4   (Read all of 1 Samuel 19)

Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father and said to him, "Let not the king do wrong to his servant David; he has not wronged you, and what he has done has benefited you greatly.

1 Samuel 19:5   (Read all of 1 Samuel 19)

He took his life in his hands when he killed the Philistine. The Lord won a great victory for all Israel, and you saw it and were glad. Why then would you do wrong to an innocent man like David by killing him for no reason?"

1 Samuel 19:11   (Read all of 1 Samuel 19)

Saul sent men to David's house to watch it and to kill him in the morning. But Michal, David's wife, warned him, "If you don't run for your life tonight, tomorrow you'll be killed."

1 Samuel 19:17   (Read all of 1 Samuel 19)

Saul said to Michal, "Why did you deceive me like this and send my enemy away so that he escaped?" Michal told him, "He said to me, 'Let me get away. Why should I kill you?' "

1 Samuel 20:1   (Read all of 1 Samuel 20)

Then David fled from Naioth at Ramah and went to Jonathan and asked, "What have I done? What is my crime? How have I wronged your father, that he is trying to kill me?"

1 Samuel 20:2   (Read all of 1 Samuel 20)

"Never!" Jonathan replied. "You are not going to die! Look, my father doesn't do anything, great or small, without letting me know. Why would he hide this from me? It isn't so!"

1 Samuel 20:3   (Read all of 1 Samuel 20)

But David took an oath and said, "Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said to himself, 'Jonathan must not know this or he will be grieved.' Yet as surely as the Lord lives and as you live, there is only a step between me and death."

1 Samuel 20:4   (Read all of 1 Samuel 20)

Jonathan said to David, "Whatever you want me to do, I'll do for you."

1 Samuel 20:6   (Read all of 1 Samuel 20)

If your father misses me at all, tell him, 'David earnestly asked my permission to hurry to Bethlehem, his hometown, because an annual sacrifice is being made there for his whole clan.'

1 Samuel 20:7   (Read all of 1 Samuel 20)

If he says, 'Very well,' then your servant is safe. But if he loses his temper, you can be sure that he is determined to harm me.

1 Samuel 20:8   (Read all of 1 Samuel 20)

As for you, show kindness to your servant, for you have brought him into a covenant with you before the Lord. If I am guilty, then kill me yourself! Why hand me over to your father?"