1 Samuel 18:15   (Read all of 1 Samuel 18)

When Saul saw how successful he was, he was afraid of him.

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 18:18   (Read all of 1 Samuel 18)

But David said to Saul, "Who am I, and what is my family or my clan in Israel, that I should become the king's son-in-law?"

1 Samuel 18:19   (Read all of 1 Samuel 18)

So when the time came for Merab, Saul's daughter, to be given to David, she was given in marriage to Adriel of Meholah.

1 Samuel 18:20   (Read all of 1 Samuel 18)

Now Saul's daughter Michal was in love with David, and when they told Saul about it, he was pleased.

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 18:24   (Read all of 1 Samuel 18)

When Saul's servants told him what David had said,

1 Samuel 18:25   (Read all of 1 Samuel 18)

Saul replied, "Say to David, 'The king wants no other price for the bride than a hundred Philistine foreskins, to take revenge on his enemies.' " Saul's plan was to have David fall by the hands of the Philistines.

1 Samuel 18:27   (Read all of 1 Samuel 18)

David took his men with him and went out and killed two hundred Philistines and brought back their foreskins. They counted out the full number to the king so that David might become the king's son-in-law. Then Saul gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.

1 Samuel 18:28   (Read all of 1 Samuel 18)

When Saul realized that the Lord was with David and that his daughter Michal loved David,

1 Samuel 18:29   (Read all of 1 Samuel 18)

Saul became still more afraid of him, and he remained his enemy the rest of his days.

1 Samuel 18:30   (Read all of 1 Samuel 18)

The Philistine commanders continued to go out to battle, and as often as they did, David met with more success than the rest of Saul's officers, and his name became well known.

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

Saul told his son Jonathan and all the attendants to kill David. But Jonathan had taken a great liking to David

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 19:4   (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 19:6   (Read all of 1 Samuel 19)

Saul listened to Jonathan and took this oath: "As surely as the Lord lives, David will not be put to death."

1 Samuel 19:7   (Read all of 1 Samuel 19)

So Jonathan called David and told him the whole conversation. He brought him to Saul, and David was with Saul as before.

1 Samuel 19:9   (Read all of 1 Samuel 19)

But an evil spirit from the Lord came on Saul as he was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand. While David was playing the lyre,

1 Samuel 19:10   (Read all of 1 Samuel 19)

Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear, but David eluded him as Saul drove the spear into the wall. That night David made good his escape.

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 19:14   (Read all of 1 Samuel 19)

When Saul sent the men to capture David, Michal said, "He is ill."

1 Samuel 19:15   (Read all of 1 Samuel 19)

Then Saul sent the men back to see David and told them, "Bring him up to me in his bed so that I may kill him."

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?' "