1 Samuel 18:16 - Tree of Life Version

¹⁶ But all Israel and Judah loved David, for he went out and came in before them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out and came in before them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ But all Israel and Judah loved David, for he went out and came in before them.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Everyone in Israel and Judah loved David because he led them out in war and back again.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ But all of Israel and Judah loved David. For he entered and departed before them.

1 Samuel 18:16 Cross References

2 Samuel 5:2

Even before, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led Israel out and back. Also Adonai said to you, ‘You will shepherd My people Israel and be ruler over Israel.’”

1 Kings 3:7

So now, Adonai my God, You have made Your servant king in my father David’s place. I am but a youth. I don’t know how to go out or come in.

Esther 10:3

For Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Ahasuerus, preeminent among the Jews, and held in high esteem by the multitude of his people. He sought their good and spoke for the welfare of his descendants.

Numbers 27:17

to go out and come in before them, who will lead them out and bring them out so that the people of Adonai will not be like sheep without a shepherd.”

Luke 19:48

but they could not find any way to do it, because all the people were hanging on His words.

Luke 20:19

The Torah scholars and the ruling kohanim tried to grab Him that very hour, because they realized that He spoke this parable against them—but they feared the people.

1 Samuel 18:13

Therefore Saul removed him from his entourage by appointing him as a captain of a thousand. So David went out and came in before the troops.

1 Samuel 18:15

When Saul saw that he had great success, he dreaded him.

1 Samuel 18:5

So David went out wherever Saul sent him and had success, so Saul set him over the men of war. It was pleasing in the eyes of all the people as well as in the eyes of Saul’s courtiers.