Persons

Saul

Male · b. 1054 BC · d. 1004 BC

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Family

Parents

Kish

Children

AbinadabArmoniIsh-boshethJonathanMalchi-shuaMephiboshethMerabMichal

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Named in 265 verses

• 1 Samuel 9:2 He had a son whose name was Saul, an impressive young man; and there was not among the children of Israel a more handsome person than he. From his shoulders and
• 1 Samuel 9:3 The donkeys of Kish, Saul’s father, were lost. Kish said to Saul his son, “Now take one of the servants with you, and arise, go look for the donkeys.”
• 1 Samuel 9:5 When they had come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, “Come! Let’s return, lest my father stop caring about the donkeys and be anxi
• 1 Samuel 9:7 Then Saul said to his servant, “But behold, if we go, what should we bring the man? For the bread is spent in our sacks, and there is not a present to bring to
• 1 Samuel 9:8 The servant answered Saul again and said, “Behold, I have in my hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver. I will give that to the man of God, to tell us our w
• 1 Samuel 9:10 Then Saul said to his servant, “Well said. Come! Let’s go.” So they went to the city where the man of God was.
• 1 Samuel 9:15 Now Yahweh had revealed to Samuel a day before Saul came, saying,
• 1 Samuel 9:17 When Samuel saw Saul, Yahweh said to him, “Behold, the man of whom I spoke to you! He will have authority over my people.”
• 1 Samuel 9:18 Then Saul approached Samuel in the gateway, and said, “Please tell me where the seer’s house is.”
• 1 Samuel 9:19 Samuel answered Saul and said, “I am the seer. Go up before me to the high place, for you are to eat with me today. In the morning I will let you go and will te
• 1 Samuel 9:21 Saul answered, “Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? And my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? Why then do
• 1 Samuel 9:22 Samuel took Saul and his servant and brought them into the guest room, and made them sit in the best place among those who were invited, who were about thirty p
• 1 Samuel 9:24 The cook took up the thigh, and that which was on it, and set it before Saul. Samuel said, “Behold, that which has been reserved! Set it before yourself and eat
• 1 Samuel 9:25 When they had come down from the high place into the city, he talked with Saul on the housetop.
• 1 Samuel 9:26 They arose early; and about daybreak, Samuel called to Saul on the housetop, saying, “Get up, that I may send you away.” Saul arose, and they both went outside,
• 1 Samuel 9:27 As they were going down at the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, “Tell the servant to go on ahead of us.” He went ahead, then Samuel said, “But stand still
• 1 Samuel 10:11 When all who knew him before saw that, behold, he prophesied with the prophets, then the people said to one another, “What is this that has come to the son of K
• 1 Samuel 10:12 One from the same place answered, “Who is their father?” Therefore it became a proverb, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”
• 1 Samuel 10:14 Saul’s uncle said to him and to his servant, “Where did you go?” He said, “To seek the donkeys. When we saw that they were not found, we came to Samuel.”
• 1 Samuel 10:15 Saul’s uncle said, “Please tell me what Samuel said to you.”
• 1 Samuel 10:16 Saul said to his uncle, “He told us plainly that the donkeys were found.” But concerning the matter of the kingdom, of which Samuel spoke, he didn’t tell him.
• 1 Samuel 10:21 He brought the tribe of Benjamin near by their families and the family of the Matrites was chosen. Then Saul the son of Kish was chosen; but when they looked fo
• 1 Samuel 10:26 Saul also went to his house in Gibeah; and the army went with him, whose hearts God had touched.
• 1 Samuel 11:4 Then the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, and spoke these words in the ears of the people, then all the people lifted up their voice and wept.
• 1 Samuel 11:5 Behold, Saul came following the oxen out of the field; and Saul said, “What ails the people that they weep?” They told him the words of the men of Jabesh.
• 1 Samuel 11:6 God’s Spirit came mightily on Saul when he heard those words, and his anger burned hot.
• 1 Samuel 11:7 He took a yoke of oxen and cut them in pieces, then sent them throughout all the borders of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, “Whoever doesn’t come out
• 1 Samuel 11:11 On the next day, Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the middle of the camp in the morning watch, and struck the Ammonites until the heat
• 1 Samuel 11:12 The people said to Samuel, “Who is he who said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Bring those men, that we may put them to death!”
• 1 Samuel 11:13 Saul said, “No man shall be put to death today; for today Yahweh has rescued Israel.”
• 1 Samuel 11:15 All the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before Yahweh in Gilgal. There they offered sacrifices of peace offerings before Yahweh; and there
• 1 Samuel 13:1 Saul was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned over Israel forty-two years.
• 1 Samuel 13:2 Saul chose for himself three thousand men of Israel, of which two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in the Mount of Bethel, and one thousand were with Jon
• 1 Samuel 13:3 Jonathan struck the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, “Let t
• 1 Samuel 13:4 All Israel heard that Saul had struck the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel was considered an abomination to the Philistines. The people were ga
• 1 Samuel 13:7 Now some of the Hebrews had gone over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead; but as for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling
• 1 Samuel 13:9 Saul said, “Bring the burnt offering to me here, and the peace offerings.” He offered the burnt offering.
• 1 Samuel 13:10 It came to pass that as soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might greet him.
• 1 Samuel 13:11 Samuel said, “What have you done?” Saul said, “Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn’t come within the days appointed, and tha
• 1 Samuel 13:13 Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you; for now Yahweh would have establish
• 1 Samuel 13:15 Samuel arose, and went from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. Saul counted the people who were present with him, about six hundred men.
• 1 Samuel 13:16 Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people who were present with them, stayed in Geba of Benjamin; but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.
• 1 Samuel 13:22 So it came to pass in the day of battle that neither sword nor spear was found in the hand of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan; but Saul and Jo
• 1 Samuel 14:1 Now it happened on a day that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come! Let’s go over to the Philistines’ garrison that is on th
• 1 Samuel 14:2 Saul stayed in the uttermost part of Gibeah under the pomegranate tree which is in Migron; and the people who were with him were about six hundred men,
• 1 Samuel 14:16 The watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and behold, the multitude melted away and scattered.
• 1 Samuel 14:17 Then Saul said to the people who were with him, “Count now, and see who is missing from us.” When they had counted, behold, Jonathan and his armor bearer were n
• 1 Samuel 14:18 Saul said to Ahijah, “Bring God’s ark here.” For God’s ark was with the children of Israel at that time.
• 1 Samuel 14:19 While Saul talked to the priest, the tumult that was in the camp of the Philistines went on and increased; and Saul said to the priest, “Withdraw your hand!”
• 1 Samuel 14:20 Saul and all the people who were with him were gathered together, and came to the battle; and behold, they were all striking each other with their swords in ver
• 1 Samuel 14:21 Now the Hebrews who were with the Philistines before and who went up with them into the camp from all around, even they also turned to be with the Israelites wh
• 1 Samuel 14:24 The men of Israel were distressed that day; for Saul had adjured the people, saying, “Cursed is the man who eats any food until it is evening, and I am avenged
• 1 Samuel 14:33 Then they told Saul, saying, “Behold, the people are sinning against Yahweh, in that they eat meat with the blood.” He said, “You have dealt treacherously. Roll
• 1 Samuel 14:34 Saul said, “Disperse yourselves among the people, and tell them, ‘Every man bring me here his ox, and every man his sheep, and kill them here, and eat; and don’
• 1 Samuel 14:35 Saul built an altar to Yahweh. This was the first altar that he built to Yahweh.
• 1 Samuel 14:36 Saul said, “Let’s go down after the Philistines by night, and take plunder among them until the morning light. Let’s not leave a man of them.” They said, “Do wh
• 1 Samuel 14:37 Saul asked counsel of God: “Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel?” But he didn’t answer him that day.
• 1 Samuel 14:38 Saul said, “Draw near here, all you chiefs of the people, and know and see in whom this sin has been today.
• 1 Samuel 14:40 Then he said to all Israel, “You be on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side.” The people said to Saul, “Do what seems good to you.”
• 1 Samuel 14:41 Therefore Saul said to Yahweh, the God of Israel, “Show the right.” Jonathan and Saul were chosen, but the people escaped.
• 1 Samuel 14:42 Saul said, “Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son.” Jonathan was selected.
• 1 Samuel 14:43 Then Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you have done!” Jonathan told him, and said, “I certainly did taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in
• 1 Samuel 14:44 Saul said, “God do so and more also; for you shall surely die, Jonathan.”
• 1 Samuel 14:45 The people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head
• 1 Samuel 14:46 Then Saul went up from following the Philistines; and the Philistines went to their own place.
• 1 Samuel 14:47 Now when Saul had taken the kingdom over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side: against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against E
• 1 Samuel 14:49 Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchishua; and the names of his two daughters were these: the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the y
• 1 Samuel 14:50 The name of Saul’s wife was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz. The name of the captain of his army was Abner the son of Ner, Saul’s uncle.
• 1 Samuel 14:51 Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
• 1 Samuel 14:52 There was severe war against the Philistines all the days of Saul; and when Saul saw any mighty man or any valiant man, he took him into his service.
• 1 Samuel 15:1 Samuel said to Saul, “Yahweh sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel. Now therefore listen to the voice of Yahweh’s words.
• 1 Samuel 15:4 Saul summoned the people, and counted them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen and ten thousand men of Judah.
• 1 Samuel 15:5 Saul came to the city of Amalek, and set an ambush in the valley.
• 1 Samuel 15:6 Saul said to the Kenites, “Go, depart, go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the children of Israel wh
• 1 Samuel 15:7 Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, which is before Egypt.
• 1 Samuel 15:9 But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, of the cattle, of the fat calves, of the lambs, and all that was good, and were not willing to ut
• 1 Samuel 15:11 “It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king, for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” Samuel was angry; and he cr
• 1 Samuel 15:12 Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and Samuel was told, saying, “Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself, turned, passed o
• 1 Samuel 15:13 Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, “You are blessed by Yahweh! I have performed the commandment of Yahweh.”
• 1 Samuel 15:15 Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the cattle, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God. We have
• 1 Samuel 15:16 Then Samuel said to Saul, “Stay, and I will tell you what Yahweh said to me last night.” He said to him, “Say on.”
• 1 Samuel 15:20 Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed Yahweh’s voice, and have gone the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly d
• 1 Samuel 15:24 Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.
• 1 Samuel 15:26 Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you; for you have rejected Yahweh’s word, and Yahweh has rejected you from being king over Israel.”
• 1 Samuel 15:31 So Samuel went back with Saul; and Saul worshiped Yahweh.
• 1 Samuel 15:34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.
• 1 Samuel 15:35 Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death, but Samuel mourned for Saul. Yahweh grieved that he had made Saul king over Israel.
• 1 Samuel 16:1 Yahweh said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send yo
• 1 Samuel 16:2 Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me.” Yahweh said, “Take a heifer with you, and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh.’
• 1 Samuel 16:14 Now Yahweh’s Spirit departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from Yahweh troubled him.
• 1 Samuel 16:15 Saul’s servants said to him, “See now, an evil spirit from God troubles you.
• 1 Samuel 16:17 Saul said to his servants, “Provide me now a man who can play well, and bring him to me.”
• 1 Samuel 16:19 Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, “Send me David your son, who is with the sheep.”
• 1 Samuel 16:20 Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a container of wine, and a young goat, and sent them by David his son to Saul.
• 1 Samuel 16:21 David came to Saul and stood before him. He loved him greatly; and he became his armor bearer.
• 1 Samuel 16:22 Saul sent to Jesse, saying, “Please let David stand before me, for he has found favor in my sight.”
• 1 Samuel 16:23 When the spirit from God was on Saul, David took the harp and played with his hand; so Saul was refreshed and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.
• 1 Samuel 17:2 Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and encamped in the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.
• 1 Samuel 17:8 He stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them, “Why have you come out to set your battle in array? Am I not a Philistine, and you servants to Sau
• 1 Samuel 17:11 When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.
• 1 Samuel 17:12 Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons. The man was an elderly old man in the days of Saul.
• 1 Samuel 17:13 The three oldest sons of Jesse had gone after Saul to the battle; and the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next to h
• 1 Samuel 17:14 David was the youngest; and the three oldest followed Saul.
• 1 Samuel 17:15 Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.
• 1 Samuel 17:19 Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
• 1 Samuel 17:31 When the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul; and he sent for him.
• 1 Samuel 17:32 David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.”
• 1 Samuel 17:33 Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.”
• 1 Samuel 17:34 David said to Saul, “Your servant was keeping his father’s sheep; and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock,
• 1 Samuel 17:37 David said, “Yahweh, who delivered me out of the paw of the lion and out of the paw of the bear, will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.” Saul said
• 1 Samuel 17:38 Saul dressed David with his clothing. He put a helmet of bronze on his head, and he clad him with a coat of mail.
• 1 Samuel 17:39 David strapped his sword on his clothing and he tried to move, for he had not tested it. David said to Saul, “I can’t go with these, for I have not tested them.
• 1 Samuel 17:55 When Saul saw David go out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the captain of the army, “Abner, whose son is this youth?” Abner said, “As your soul lives,
• 1 Samuel 17:57 As David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.
• 1 Samuel 17:58 Saul said to him, “Whose son are you, you young man?” David answered, “I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.”
• 1 Samuel 18:1 When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
• 1 Samuel 18:2 Saul took him that day, and wouldn’t let him go home to his father’s house any more.
• 1 Samuel 18:5 David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely; and Saul set him over the men of war. It was good in the sight of all the people, and also in
• 1 Samuel 18:6 As they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul w
• 1 Samuel 18:7 The women sang to one another as they played, and said, “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.”
• 1 Samuel 18:8 Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said, “They have credited David with ten thousands, and they have only credited me with thousands. What
• 1 Samuel 18:9 Saul watched David from that day and forward.
• 1 Samuel 18:10 On the next day, an evil spirit from God came mightily on Saul, and he prophesied in the middle of the house. David played with his hand, as he did day by day.
• 1 Samuel 18:11 and Saul threw the spear, for he said, “I will pin David to the wall!” David escaped from his presence twice.
• 1 Samuel 18:12 Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, and had departed from Saul.
• 1 Samuel 18:13 Therefore Saul removed him from his presence, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.
• 1 Samuel 18:15 When Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he stood in awe of him.
• 1 Samuel 18:17 Saul said to David, “Behold, my elder daughter Merab. I will give her to you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh’s battles.” For Saul said, “Don’t
• 1 Samuel 18:18 David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my life, or my father’s family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?”
• 1 Samuel 18:19 But at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as wife.
• 1 Samuel 18:20 Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
• 1 Samuel 18:21 Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David a second
• 1 Samuel 18:22 Saul commanded his servants, “Talk with David secretly, and say, ‘Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore be the king’
• 1 Samuel 18:23 Saul’s servants spoke those words in the ears of David. David said, “Does it seem to you a light thing to be the king’s son-in-law, since I am a poor man and li
• 1 Samuel 18:24 The servants of Saul told him, saying, “David spoke like this.”
• 1 Samuel 18:25 Saul said, “Tell David, ‘The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies.’” Now Saul thought he w
• 1 Samuel 18:27 David arose and went, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines. Then David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to th
• 1 Samuel 18:28 Saul saw and knew that Yahweh was with David; and Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved him.
• 1 Samuel 18:29 Saul was even more afraid of David; and Saul was David’s enemy continually.
• 1 Samuel 18:30 Then the princes of the Philistines went out; and as often as they went out, David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul, so that his name w
• 1 Samuel 19:1 Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, greatly delighted in David.
• 1 Samuel 19:2 Jonathan told David, saying, “Saul my father seeks to kill you. Now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, live in a secret place, and hide you
• 1 Samuel 19:4 Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, “Don’t let the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against
• 1 Samuel 19:6 Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan; and Saul swore, “As Yahweh lives, he shall not be put to death.”
• 1 Samuel 19:7 Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things. Then Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence as before.
• 1 Samuel 19:9 An evil spirit from Yahweh was on Saul as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand; and David was playing music with his hand.
• 1 Samuel 19:10 Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence; and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled and escaped th
• 1 Samuel 19:11 Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you don’t save your life tonight,
• 1 Samuel 19:14 When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”
• 1 Samuel 19:15 Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.”
• 1 Samuel 19:17 Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me like this and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?” Michal answered Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go! Why sho
• 1 Samuel 19:18 Now David fled and escaped, and came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went and lived in Naioth.
• 1 Samuel 19:19 Saul was told, saying, “Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.”
• 1 Samuel 19:20 Saul sent messengers to seize David; and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, God’s Spirit came on Saul
• 1 Samuel 19:21 When Saul was told, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied.
• 1 Samuel 19:24 He also stripped off his clothes. He also prophesied before Samuel and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Therefore they say, “Is Saul also among t
• 1 Samuel 20:25 The king sat on his seat, as at other times, even on the seat by the wall; and Jonathan stood up, and Abner sat by Saul’s side, but David’s place was empty.
• 1 Samuel 20:26 Nevertheless Saul didn’t say anything that day, for he thought, “Something has happened to him. He is not clean. Surely he is not clean.”
• 1 Samuel 20:27 On the next day after the new moon, the second day, David’s place was empty. Saul said to Jonathan his son, “Why didn’t the son of Jesse come to eat, either yes
• 1 Samuel 20:28 Jonathan answered Saul, “David earnestly asked permission of me to go to Bethlehem.
• 1 Samuel 20:30 Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don’t I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to yo
• 1 Samuel 20:32 Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”
• 1 Samuel 20:33 Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.
• 1 Samuel 21:7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Yahweh; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the best of the herdsmen who belonged t
• 1 Samuel 21:10 David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.
• 1 Samuel 21:11 The servants of Achish said to him, “Isn’t this David the king of the land? Didn’t they sing to one another about him in dances, saying, ‘Saul has slain his tho
• 1 Samuel 22:6 Saul heard that David was discovered, with the men who were with him. Now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree in Ramah, with his spear in his ha
• 1 Samuel 22:7 Saul said to his servants who stood around him, “Hear now, you Benjamites! Will the son of Jesse give everyone of you fields and vineyards? Will he make you all
• 1 Samuel 22:9 Then Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, answered and said, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
• 1 Samuel 22:12 Saul said, “Hear now, you son of Ahitub.” He answered, “Here I am, my lord.”
• 1 Samuel 22:13 Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him,
• 1 Samuel 22:21 Abiathar told David that Saul had slain Yahweh’s priests.
• 1 Samuel 22:22 David said to Abiathar, “I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I am responsible for the death of all the persons
• 1 Samuel 23:7 Saul was told that David had come to Keilah. Saul said, “God has delivered him into my hand, for he is shut in by entering into a town that has gates and bars.”
• 1 Samuel 23:8 Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah to besiege David and his men.
• 1 Samuel 23:9 David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him. He said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod here.”
• 1 Samuel 23:10 Then David said, “O Yahweh, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah to destroy the city for my sake.
• 1 Samuel 23:11 Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? Will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? Yahweh, the God of Israel, I beg you, tell your servant.” Ya
• 1 Samuel 23:12 Then David said, “Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?” Yahweh said, “They will deliver you up.”
• 1 Samuel 23:13 Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah and went wherever they could go. Saul was told that David had escaped from
• 1 Samuel 23:14 David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn’t deliver
• 1 Samuel 23:15 David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the woods.
• 1 Samuel 23:16 Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.
• 1 Samuel 23:17 He said to him, “Don’t be afraid, for the hand of Saul my father won’t find you; and you will be king over Israel, and I will be next to you; and Saul my father
• 1 Samuel 23:19 Then the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, “Doesn’t David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the woods, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on t
• 1 Samuel 23:21 Saul said, “You are blessed by Yahweh, for you have had compassion on me.
• 1 Samuel 23:24 They arose, and went to Ziph before Saul; but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of the desert.
• 1 Samuel 23:25 Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told, he went down to the rock, and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard that, he pursued David i
• 1 Samuel 23:26 Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain; and David hurried to get away for fear of Saul, for Saul and his men
• 1 Samuel 23:27 But a messenger came to Saul, saying, “Hurry and come, for the Philistines have made a raid on the land!”
• 1 Samuel 23:28 So Saul returned from pursuing David, and went against the Philistines. Therefore they called that place Sela Hammahlekoth.
• 1 Samuel 24:1 When Saul had returned from following the Philistines, he was told, “Behold, David is in the wilderness of En Gedi.”
• 1 Samuel 24:2 Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men on the rocks of the wild goats.
• 1 Samuel 24:3 He came to the sheep pens by the way, where there was a cave; and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were staying in the innermost parts of
• 1 Samuel 24:4 David’s men said to him, “Behold, the day of which Yahweh said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall se
• 1 Samuel 24:5 Afterward, David’s heart struck him because he had cut off Saul’s skirt.
• 1 Samuel 24:7 So David checked his men with these words, and didn’t allow them to rise against Saul. Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.
• 1 Samuel 24:8 David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave and cried after Saul, saying, “My lord the king!” When Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to
• 1 Samuel 24:9 David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you’?
• 1 Samuel 24:16 It came to pass, when David had finished speaking these words to Saul, that Saul said, “Is that your voice, my son David?” Saul lifted up his voice and wept.
• 1 Samuel 24:22 David swore to Saul. Saul went home, but David and his men went up to the stronghold.
• 1 Samuel 25:44 Now Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.
• 1 Samuel 26:1 The Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, “Doesn’t David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert?”
• 1 Samuel 26:2 Then Saul arose and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.
• 1 Samuel 26:3 Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert, by the way. But David stayed in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the
• 1 Samuel 26:4 David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul had certainly come.
• 1 Samuel 26:5 Then David arose and came to the place where Saul had encamped; and David saw the place where Saul lay, with Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his army. Saul
• 1 Samuel 26:6 Then David answered and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab, saying, “Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp
• 1 Samuel 26:7 So David and Abishai came to the people by night; and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the place of the wagons, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head;
• 1 Samuel 26:12 So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul’s head, and they went away. No man saw it, or knew it, nor did any awake; for they were all asleep, becau
• 1 Samuel 26:17 Saul recognized David’s voice, and said, “Is this your voice, my son David?” David said, “It is my voice, my lord, O king.”
• 1 Samuel 26:21 Then Saul said, “I have sinned. Return, my son David; for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes today. Behold, I have played the
• 1 Samuel 26:25 Then Saul said to David, “You are blessed, my son David. You will both do mightily, and will surely prevail.” So David went his way, and Saul returned to his pl
• 1 Samuel 27:1 David said in his heart, “I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistin
• 1 Samuel 27:4 Saul was told that David had fled to Gath, so he stopped looking for him.
• 1 Samuel 28:3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. Saul had sent away those who had familiar spirits and the
• 1 Samuel 28:4 The Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and encamped in Shunem; and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they encamped in Gilboa.
• 1 Samuel 28:5 When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly.
• 1 Samuel 28:6 When Saul inquired of Yahweh, Yahweh didn’t answer him by dreams, by Urim, or by prophets.
• 1 Samuel 28:7 Then Saul said to his servants, “Seek for me a woman who has a familiar spirit, that I may go to her and inquire of her.” His servants said to him, “Behold, the
• 1 Samuel 28:8 Saul disguised himself and put on other clothing, and went, he and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night. Then he said, “Please consult for me b
• 1 Samuel 28:9 The woman said to him, “Behold, you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off those who have familiar spirits and the wizards out of the land. Why then do you
• 1 Samuel 28:10 Saul swore to her by Yahweh, saying, “As Yahweh lives, no punishment will happen to you for this thing.”
• 1 Samuel 28:12 When the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice; and the woman spoke to Saul, saying, “Why have you deceived me? For you are Saul!”
• 1 Samuel 28:13 The king said to her, “Don’t be afraid! What do you see?” The woman said to Saul, “I see a god coming up out of the earth.”
• 1 Samuel 28:14 He said to her, “What does he look like?” She said, “An old man comes up. He is covered with a robe.” Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his f
• 1 Samuel 28:15 Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me, to bring me up?” Saul answered, “I am very distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God has dep
• 1 Samuel 28:20 Then Saul fell immediately his full length on the earth, and was terrified, because of Samuel’s words. There was no strength in him, for he had eaten no bread a
• 1 Samuel 28:21 The woman came to Saul and saw that he was very troubled, and said to him, “Behold, your servant has listened to your voice, and I have put my life in my hand,
• 1 Samuel 28:25 She brought it before Saul and before his servants, and they ate. Then they rose up and went away that night.
• 1 Samuel 29:3 Then the princes of the Philistines said, “What about these Hebrews?” Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, “Isn’t this David, the servant of Saul the
• 1 Samuel 29:5 Isn’t this David, of whom people sang to one another in dances, saying, ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands’?”
• 1 Samuel 31:2 The Philistines overtook Saul and his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.
• 1 Samuel 31:3 The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was greatly distressed by reason of the archers.
• 1 Samuel 31:4 Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through and abuse me!” But his
• 1 Samuel 31:5 When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died with him.
• 1 Samuel 31:6 So Saul died with his three sons, his armor bearer, and all his men that same day together.
• 1 Samuel 31:7 When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, and those who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled and that Saul and his son
• 1 Samuel 31:8 On the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
• 1 Samuel 31:11 When the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,
• 1 Samuel 31:12 all the valiant men arose, went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan; and they came to Jabesh and burned t
• 2 Samuel 1:1 After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag,
• 2 Samuel 1:2 on the third day, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul, with his clothes torn and earth on his head. When he came to David, he fell to the earth and sho
• 2 Samuel 1:4 David said to him, “How did it go? Please tell me.” He answered, “The people have fled from the battle, and many of the people also have fallen and are dead. Sa
• 2 Samuel 1:5 David said to the young man who told him, “How do you know that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?”
• 2 Samuel 1:6 The young man who told him said, “As I happened by chance on Mount Gilboa, behold, Saul was leaning on his spear; and behold, the chariots and the horsemen foll
• 2 Samuel 1:12 They mourned, wept, and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh, and for the house of Israel, because they had fall
• 2 Samuel 1:17 David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son
• 2 Samuel 1:21 You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain on you, and no fields of offerings; for there the shield of the mighty was defiled and cast away, the shiel
• 2 Samuel 1:22 From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, Jonathan’s bow didn’t turn back. Saul’s sword didn’t return empty.
• 2 Samuel 1:23 Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives. In their death, they were not divided. They were swifter than eagles. They were stronger than lions.
• 2 Samuel 1:24 You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you delicately in scarlet, who put ornaments of gold on your clothing.
• 2 Samuel 2:4 The men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. They told David, “The men of Jabesh Gilead were those who buried Saul.”
• 2 Samuel 2:5 David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh Gilead, and said to them, “Blessed are you by Yahweh, that you have shown this kindness to your lord, even to Saul, a
• 2 Samuel 2:7 Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant; for Saul your lord is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them.”
• 2 Samuel 2:8 Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul’s army, had taken Ishbosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim.
• 2 Samuel 2:10 Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.
• 2 Samuel 3:13 David said, “Good. I will make a treaty with you, but one thing I require of you. That is, you will not see my face unless you first bring Michal, Saul’s daught
• 2 Samuel 3:14 David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, saying, “Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I was given to marry for one hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”
• 2 Samuel 4:1 When Saul’s son heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.
• 2 Samuel 4:2 Saul’s son had two men who were captains of raiding bands. The name of one was Baanah and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, of th
• 2 Samuel 4:4 Now Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the news came about Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel; and his nurse pic
• 2 Samuel 6:16 As Yahweh’s ark came into David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out through the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before Yahweh; and she
• 2 Samuel 9:9 Then the king called to Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said to him, “All that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master’s son.
• 1 Chronicles 12:2 They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow. They were of Saul’s relatives