1 Samuel 18:17

New American Bible - revised edition

Saul said to David, “Look, I will give you my older daughter, Merob, in marriage if you become my warrior and fight the battles of the Lord.” Saul thought, “I will not lay a hand on him. Let the hand of the Philistines strike him.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 11:15

This is what he wrote in the letter: “Place Uriah up front, where the fighting is fierce. Then pull back and leave him to be struck down dead.”

2 Samuel 12:9

Why have you despised the Lord and done what is evil in his sight? You have cut down Uriah the Hittite with the sword; his wife you took as your own, and him you killed with the sword of the Ammonites.

2 Samuel 6:16

As the ark of the Lord was entering the City of David, Michal, daughter of Saul, looked down from her window, and when she saw King David jumping and dancing before the Lord, she despised him in her heart.

Psalm 12:2

Help, Lord, for no one loyal remains; the faithful have vanished from the children of men.

Psalm 55:21

He stretched out his hand at his friends and broke his covenant.

Proverbs 26:24

With their lips enemies pretend, but inwardly they maintain deceit;

Proverbs 26:25

When they speak graciously, do not trust them, for seven abominations are in their hearts.

Proverbs 26:26

Hatred can be concealed by pretense, but malice will be revealed in the assembly.

Numbers 21:14

Hence it is said in the “Book of the Wars of the Lord”: “Waheb in Suphah and the wadies,

Numbers 32:20

Moses said to them in reply: “If you do this—if you march as troops before the Lord into battle

Numbers 32:27

all your servants will go across as armed troops before the Lord to battle, just as my lord says.”

Numbers 32:29

He said to them, “If all the Gadites and Reubenites cross the Jordan with you in full force before the Lord into battle, the land will be subdued before you, and you will give them Gilead as a possession.

Deuteronomy 17:7

The hands of the witnesses shall be the first raised to put the person to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst. Judges.

1 Samuel 14:49

The sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchishua; the name of his firstborn daughter was Merob; the name of the younger was Michal.

1 Samuel 17:25

The Israelites had been saying: “Do you see this man coming up? He comes up to insult Israel. The king will make whoever kills him a very wealthy man. He will give his daughter to him and declare his father’s family exempt from taxes in Israel.”

1 Samuel 17:36

Your servant has killed both a lion and a bear. This uncircumcised Philistine will be as one of them, because he has insulted the armies of the living God.”

1 Samuel 17:47

All this multitude, too, shall learn that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves. For the battle belongs to the Lord, who shall deliver you into our hands.”

1 Samuel 18:21

He thought, “I will offer her to him as a trap, so that the hand of the Philistines may strike him.” So for the second time Saul said to David, “You shall become my son-in-law today.”

1 Samuel 18:25

Saul commanded them, “Say this to David: The king desires no other price for the bride than the foreskins of one hundred Philistines, that he may thus take vengeance on his enemies.” Saul intended to have David fall into the hands of the Philistines.

1 Samuel 18:27

David arose and went with his men and slew two hundred Philistines. He brought back their foreskins and counted them out before the king that he might become the king’s son-in-law. So Saul gave him his daughter Michal as wife.

1 Samuel 25:28

Please forgive the offense of your maidservant, for the Lord shall certainly establish a lasting house for my lord, because my lord fights the battles of the Lord. Let no evil be found in you your whole life long.

1 Samuel 30:26

When David came to Ziklag, he sent part of the plunder to his friends, the elders of Judah, saying, “This is a gift to you from the plunder of the enemies of the Lord,” namely,