1 Samuel 18:30

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Then the commanders of the Philistines came out to battle, and as often as they came out, David had more success than all the servants of Saul, so that his fame became very great.

Cross References

2 Samuel 11:1

In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab with his officers and all Israel with him; they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 7:9

and I have been with you wherever you went and have cut off all your enemies from before you, and I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of the earth.

2 Kings 1:13

Again the king sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. So the third captain of fifty went up and came and fell on his knees before Elijah and entreated him, “O man of God, please let my life and the life of these fifty servants of yours be precious in your sight.

Psalm 116:15

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his faithful ones.

Psalm 119:99

I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your decrees are my meditation.

Proverbs 12:8

One is commended for good sense, but a perverse mind is despised.

Daniel 1:20

In every matter of wisdom and understanding concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters in his whole kingdom.

Luke 21:15

for I will give you words and a wisdom that none of your opponents will be able to withstand or contradict.

Ephesians 5:15

Be careful, then, how you live, not as unwise people but as wise,

1 Peter 2:4

Come to him, a living stone, though rejected by mortals yet chosen and precious in God’s sight, and

1 Peter 2:7

This honor, then, is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the very head of the corner,”

1 Samuel 18:29

Saul was still more afraid of David. So Saul was David’s enemy from that time forward.

1 Samuel 18:5

David went out and was successful wherever Saul sent him; as a result, Saul set him over the army. And all the people, even the servants of Saul, approved.

1 Samuel 19:8

Again there was war, and David went out to fight the Philistines. He launched a heavy attack on them, so that they fled before him.

1 Samuel 2:30

Therefore the Lord the God of Israel declares: I promised that your family and the family of your ancestor should go in and out before me forever, but now the Lord declares: Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be treated with contempt.

1 Samuel 26:21

Then Saul said, “I have done wrong; come back, my son David, for I will never harm you again, because my life was precious in your sight today; I have been a fool and have made a great mistake.”

1 Samuel 26:24

As your life was precious today in my sight, so may my life be precious in the sight of the Lord, and may he rescue me from all tribulation.”