1 Samuel 18:17

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And Saul said to David: Behold my elder daughter Merob: her will I give thee to wife. Only be a valiant man, and fight the battles of the Lord. Now Saul said within himself: Let not my hand be upon him; but let the hands of the Philistines be upon him.

Cross References

1 Samuel 25:28

Forgive the iniquity of thy handmaid: for the Lord will surely make for my lord a faithful house, because thou, my lord, fightest the battles of the Lord. Let not evil therefore be found in thee all the days of thy life.

1 Samuel 18:25

And Saul said: Speak thus to David: The king desireth not any dowry, but only a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. Now Saul thought to deliver David into the hands of the Philistines.

1 Samuel 17:25

And some one of Israel said: Have you seen this man that is come up, for he is come up to defy Israel? And the man that shall slay him, the king will enrich with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and will make his father's house free from tribute in Israel.

1 Samuel 18:21

And Saul said: I will give her to him, that she may be a stumbling-block to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be upon him. And Saul said to David: In two things thou shalt be my son-in-law this day.

1 Samuel 17:47

And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear: for it is his battle; and he will deliver you into our hands.

Psalm 12:2

How long shall I take counsels in my soul, sorrow in my heart all the day?

2 Samuel 12:9

Why therefore hast thou despised the word of the Lord, to do evil in my sight? Thou hast killed Urias the Hethite with the sword; and hast taken his wife to be thy wife; and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

2 Samuel 11:15

Writing in the letter: Set ye Urias in the front of the battle, where the fight is strongest: and leave ye him, that he may be wounded and die.

Deuteronomy 17:7

The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to kill him: and afterwards the hands of the rest of the people: That thou mayst take away the evil out of the midst of thee.

Numbers 32:29

If the children of Gad, and the children of Ruben pass with you over the Jordan, all armed for war before the Lord, and the land be made subject to you: give them Galaad in possession.

Numbers 32:27

And we thy servants all well appointed will march on to the war, as thou, my lord, speakest.

Numbers 32:20

And Moses said to them: If you do what you promise, go on well appointed for war before the Lord.

Numbers 21:14

Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the Lord: As he did in the Red Sea, so will he do in the streams of Arnon.

1 Samuel 14:49

And the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Jessui, and Melchisua. And the names of his two daughters, the name of the firstborn was Merob, and the name of the younger Michol.

1 Samuel 17:36

For I thy servant have killed both a lion and a bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be also as one of them. I will go now, and take away the reproach of the people. For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, who hath dared to curse the army of the living God?

1 Samuel 18:27

And after a few days David rose up, and went with the men that were under him. And he slew of the Philistines two hundred men, and brought their foreskins and numbered them out to the king, that he might be his son-in-law. Saul therefore gave him Michol his daughter to wife.

1 Samuel 30:26

Then David came to Siceleg, and sent presents of the prey to the ancients of Juda his neighbours, saying: Receive a blessing of the prey of the enemies of the Lord.

2 Samuel 6:16

And when the ark of the Lord was come into the city of David, Michol the daughter of Saul, looking out through a window, saw king David leaping and dancing before the Lord: and she despised him in her heart.

Proverbs 26:24

An enemy is known by his lips, when in his heart he entertaineth deceit.

Proverbs 26:25

When he shall speak low, trust him not: because there are seven mischiefs in his heart.

Proverbs 26:26

He that covereth hatred deceitfully, his malice shall be laid open in the public assembly.