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1 Samuel 18:22

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Then Saul ordered his servants, “Speak to David privately and tell him, ‘Behold, the king is pleased with you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore, become his son-in-law.’”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king’s son-in-law.

KJV

And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king’s son in law.

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This verse in 1 Samuel 18

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Speak to David privately

on 1 Samuel 18:22-25

Saul has his servants speak to David privately. Saul names his price, "a hundred Philistine foreskins," intending David’s death "at the hands of the Philistines" in the attempt. Barnes reads the payment as a jab at the people Scripture calls uncircumcised, the label fixed on them at 14:6.

The record, by era

The Medieval Church1 voice

A commentator

Symeon the New Theologian

DISCOURSES 4.2 · Written before 1022.

proposed

Why did Saul seek to apprehend and kill David whom he had formerly honored as himself and greatly loved as a benefactor? Was it by nature or out of an evil will? Obviously it was out of ill will. No one is born evil by …

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And Saul commanded his servants, saying, commune with David secretly,....

The words behind it

19 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיְצַ֨וand he commanded

    vaytzavH6680 →494 times

  • שָׁא֜וּלSaul

    shaulH7586 →402 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • עֲבָדָ֗יוservants his

    ʾavadavH5650 →799 times

  • דַּבְּר֨וּspeak

    daberuH1696 →1141 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • דָּוִ֤דDavid

    davidH1732 →999 times

  • בַּלָּט֙in <the> secrecy

    balatH3909 →

  • לֵאמֹ֔ר<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

  • הִנֵּ֨הhere!

    hinehH2009 →843 times

  • חָפֵ֤ץhe delights

    chafetzH2654 →74 times

  • בְּךָ֙in <the> you

    bekha

  • הַמֶּ֔לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • וְכָל־and all

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • עֲבָדָ֖יוservants his

    ʾavadavH5650 →799 times

  • אֲהֵב֑וּךָthey love you

    ʾahevukhaH157 →211 times

  • וְעַתָּ֖הand therefore

    veatahH6258 →433 times

  • הִתְחַתֵּ֥ןbe son-in-law

    hitchatenH2859 →33 times

  • בַּמֶּֽלֶךְ׃to the king

    bamelekhH4428 →2525 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Psalms 55:21

    His speech is smooth as butter, but war is in his heart. His words are softer than oil, yet they are swords unsheathed.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 57:4

      My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts— with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.

    • Proverbs 5:3–4

      Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,

    • Psalms 28:3

      Do not drag me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors while malice is in their hearts.

    • Proverbs 26:28

      A lying tongue hates those it crushes, and a flattering mouth causes ruin.

    • Psalms 12:2

      They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.

  • Through

    Proverbs 29:12

    If a ruler listens to lies, all his officials will be wicked.

    it leads to

    • Proverbs 20:8

      A king who sits on a throne to judge sifts out all evil with his eyes.

    • 2 Kings 10:6–7

      Then Jehu wrote them a second letter and said: “If you are on my side, and if you will obey me, then bring the heads of your master’s sons to me at Jezreel by…

    • Psalms 52:2–4

      Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Samuel

Saul Attempts to Kill David — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Saul Attempts to Kill David — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
1 Samuel: the study guide →Read 1 Samuel 18 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Symeon the New Theologian, DISCOURSES 4.2.

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