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1 Samuel 18:30

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Then the commanders of the Philistines went out to make war. And when they went out David was more successful than all the servants of Saul, so that his name was highly honored.

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In the spring of the year, the time when the kings go out to battle, David sent out Joab and his officers, all of Israel with him. They brought to ruin the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah, but David remained in Jerusalem.

I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all of your enemies before you. I will make your name great, like the great ones across the land.

Then again the king sent a third captain of fifty with his fifty men. The third captain of fifty went up, came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and pleaded with him, “Man of God, may my life and the life of these fifty servants of yours be precious in your sight.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints.

I have more understanding than all my teachers, for Your testimonies are my meditation.

According to his wisdom will a man be praised, but the perverse of heart will be despised.

In all matters of wisdom and understanding which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm.

For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your opponents will be able to neither refute nor resist.

See then that you walk carefully, not as fools, but as wise men,

Coming to Him as to a living stone who is rejected by men, but chosen by God and precious,

Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious. But to those who are disobedient, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,”

Saul was yet the more afraid of David, and Saul became the enemy of David continually.

David went out wherever Saul sent him, and he was successful. So 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 the servants of Saul.

Then there was war again, and David went out and fought with the Philistines. He slew them with a great slaughter and they fled from him.

“Therefore the Lord God of Israel says, ‘I surely said that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before Me forever,’ but now the Lord says, ‘Far be it from Me to do so, for those who honor Me, I will honor, and those that despise Me will be humbled.

Then said Saul, “I have sinned. Return, my son David, for I will not harm you again, because my soul was precious in your eyes this day. And behold, I have acted foolishly, and have seriously gone astray.”

Behold, as your life was highly valued in my eyes this day, so may my life be highly valued in the eyes of the Lord, and may He rescue me out of all distress.”




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