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First Book of Samuel, Chapter 18

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1 Samuel 18 NASB - New American Standard Bible1 Samuel 18 NASB - New American Standard Bible

Chapter 18 of 1 Samuel—New American Standard Bible (NASB)

  1. ¶ Now it came about when he had finished speaking to Saul, that 1the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and 2Jonathan loved him as himself.
  2. Saul took him that day and 3did not let him return to his father’s house.
  3. Then 4Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself.
  4. 5Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David, with his armor, including his sword and his bow and his belt.
  5. So David went out wherever Saul sent him, and [a]prospered; and Saul set him over the men of war. And it was pleasing in the sight of all the people and also in the sight of Saul’s servants.
  6. ¶ It happened as they were coming, when David returned from killing the Philistine, that 6the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with joy and with [b]musical instruments.
  7. The women 7sang as they [c]played, and said,
    ¶ “8Saul has slain his thousands,
    9And David his ten thousands.”
  8. ¶ Then Saul became very angry, for this saying [d]displeased him; and he said, “They have ascribed to David ten thousands, but to me they have ascribed thousands. Now 10what more can he have but the kingdom?”
  9. Saul looked at David with suspicion from that day on.
  10. ¶ Now it came about on the next day that 11an evil spirit from God came mightily upon Saul, and 12he raved in the midst of the house, while David was playing the harp with his hand, [e]13as usual; and [f]14a spear was in Saul’s hand.
  11. 15Saul hurled the spear for he thought, “I will [g]pin David to the wall.” But David [h]escaped from his presence twice.
  12. ¶ Now 16Saul was afraid of David, 17for the LORD was with him but 18had departed from Saul.
  13. Therefore Saul removed him from [i]his presence and appointed him as his commander of a thousand; and 19he went out and came in before the people.
  14. David was [j]prospering in all his ways for 20the LORD was with him.
  15. When Saul saw that he was [k]prospering greatly, he dreaded him.
  16. But 21all Israel and Judah loved David, and he went out and came in before them.
  17. ¶ Then Saul said to David, “22Here is my older daughter Merab; I will give her to you as a wife, only be a valiant man for me and fight 23the LORD’S battles.” For Saul thought, “My hand shall not be against him, but 24let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”
  18. But David said to Saul, “25Who am I, and what is my life or my father’s family in Israel, that I should be the king’s son-in-law?”
  19. So it came about at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David, that she was given to 26Adriel 27the Meholathite for a wife.
  20. ¶ Now 28Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David. When they told Saul, the thing was agreeable [l]to him.
  21. Saul thought, “I will give her to him that she may become a snare to him, and 29that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” Therefore Saul said to David, “30For a second time you may be my son-in-law today.”
  22. Then Saul commanded his servants, “Speak to David secretly, saying, ‘Behold, the king delights in you, and all his servants love you; now therefore, become the king’s son-in-law.’”
  23. So Saul’s servants spoke these words [m]to David. But David said, “Is it trivial in your sight to become the king’s son-in-law, 31since I am a poor man and lightly esteemed?”
  24. The servants of Saul reported to him [n]according to these words which David spoke.
  25. Saul then said, “Thus you shall say to David, ‘The king does not desire any 32dowry except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, 33to take vengeance on the king’s enemies.’” Now 34Saul planned to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
  26. When his servants told David these words, [o]it pleased David to become the king’s son-in-law. [p]35Before the days had expired
  27. David rose up and went, 36he and his men, and struck down two hundred men among the Philistines. Then 37David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might become the king’s son-in-law. So Saul gave him Michal his daughter for a wife.
  28. When Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved him,
  29. then Saul was even more afraid of David. Thus Saul was David’s enemy continually.
  30. ¶ Then the commanders of the Philistines 38went out to battle, and it happened as often as they went out, that David 39behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul. So his name was highly esteemed.

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Or acted wisely
  2. ^ I.e. triangles; or three-stringed instruments
  3. ^ Or danced
  4. ^ Lit was evil in his eyes
  5. ^ Lit day by day
  6. ^ Lit the
  7. ^ Lit strike David and the wall
  8. ^ Lit turned about
  9. ^ Lit with him
  10. ^ Or acting wisely
  11. ^ Or acting very wisely
  12. ^ Lit in his sight
  13. ^ Lit in the ears of
  14. ^ Lit by saying according
  15. ^ Lit it was agreeable in the sight of
  16. ^ Lit And the days had not expired

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Ge 44:30
  2. ^ De 13:6; 1Sa 20:17; 2Sa 1:26
  3. ^ 1Sa 17:15
  4. ^ 1Sa 20:8-17
  5. ^ Ge 41:42; 1Sa 17:38; Es 6:8
  6. ^ Ex 15:20, 21; Jg 11:34; Ps 68:25; 149:3
  7. ^ Ex 15:21; 1Sa 21:11; 29:5
  8. ^ 1Sa 21:11
  9. ^ 2Sa 18:3
  10. ^ 1Sa 15:28
  11. ^ 1Sa 16:14
  12. ^ 1Sa 19:23, 24
  13. ^ 1Sa 16:23
  14. ^ 1Sa 19:9
  15. ^ 1Sa 19:10; 20:33
  16. ^ 1Sa 18:15, 29
  17. ^ 1Sa 16:13, 18
  18. ^ 1Sa 16:14; 28:15
  19. ^ Nu 27:17; 1Sa 18:16; 2Sa 5:2
  20. ^ Ge 39:2, 3, 23; Jos 6:27; 1Sa 16:18
  21. ^ 1Sa 18:5
  22. ^ 1Sa 17:25
  23. ^ Nu 21:14; 1Sa 17:36, 47; 25:28
  24. ^ 1Sa 18:21, 25
  25. ^ 1Sa 9:21; 18:23; 2Sa 7:18
  26. ^ 2Sa 21:8
  27. ^ Jg 7:22; 1Ki 19:16
  28. ^ 1Sa 18:28
  29. ^ 1Sa 18:17
  30. ^ 1Sa 18:26
  31. ^ Ge 29:20; 34:12
  32. ^ Ge 34:12; Ex 22:17
  33. ^ 1Sa 14:24
  34. ^ 1Sa 18:17
  35. ^ 1Sa 18:21
  36. ^ 1Sa 18:17
  37. ^ 2Sa 3:14
  38. ^ 2Sa 11:1
  39. ^ 1Sa 18:5

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Comments

  1. Kiamia DoelKiamia Doel
    Jan 9, 2025 23:00 GMT

    The NWT adds words to the text that are not in the greek Manuscripts to fit it's own doctrinal position for example

    Compare the wording of the NWT and the NKJV at Colossians 1:15-17

    NKJV says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

    NWT says

    15 He is the image of the invisible God,the firstborn OF all creation;16 because by means of him all OTHER things were created in the heavens and on the earth, the things visible and the things invisible,whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All OTHER things have been created through him and for him. 17 Also, he is before all OTHER things,and by means of him all OTHER things were made to exist,

    The word “other” is not in the Greek but they add it Why? So they can decieve their followers into thinking that Christ was created by the Father and that he then created other things, that is not what the Greek says.

    1. SmeSme
      Feb 27, 2025 11:17 GMT

      Truth is from God and those that follow him. As for lies? John8:44

      Kiamia, I noticed you used a modern version of kjv to make your point about the nwt.

      Why didn’t you use the original kjv of col1:15?

      Is it because it disproves your point? It proves the opposite of what you wrote?

      Here is kjv col1:15 ¶” Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn OF every creature:“

      Now I appeal to your Christian nature to correct your mistake as God is watching each of us, and let us bless the God of Jesus his father.

      Kjv 1Pe 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ….

  2. YanekYanek
    Dec 24, 2024 22:18 GMT

    Joshua, Jehovah’s Witnesses have never denied the deity of the Messiah in his prehuman existence. While on Earth he was fully 100% human. I do not mean he was a mere human, he was not affected by Adam’s unfaithful behavior, he was sinless.

  3. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  4. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  5. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  6. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  7. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  8. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  9. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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