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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>1 Samuel 18 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_samuel/18.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/1_samuel/18-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > 1 Samuel 18</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_samuel/17.htm" title="1 Samuel 17">◄</a> 1 Samuel 18 <a href="../1_samuel/19.htm" title="1 Samuel 19">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><p class="par"><span class="v9_18_1"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.18.1" class="v9_18_1">1</span>Saul and David finished their conversation. After that, Saul's son Jonathan was deeply attracted to David and came to love him as much as he loved himself. </span><span class="v9_18_2"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.18.2" class="v9_18_2">2</span>Saul kept David with him from that day on and did not let him go back home. </span><span class="v9_18_3"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.18.3" class="v9_18_3">3</span>Jonathan swore eternal friendship with David because of his deep affection for him. </span><span class="v9_18_4"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.18.4" class="v9_18_4">4</span>He took off the robe he was wearing and gave it to David, together with his armor and also his sword, bow, and belt. </span><span class="v9_18_5"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.18.5" class="v9_18_5">5</span>David was successful in all the missions on which Saul sent him, and so Saul made him an officer in his army. This pleased all of Saul's officers and men.</span></p><h3 class="s">Saul Becomes Jealous of David</h3><p class="par"><span class="v9_18_6"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.18.6" class="v9_18_6">6</span>As David was returning after killing Goliath and as the soldiers were coming back home, women from every town in Israel came out to meet King Saul. They were singing joyful songs, dancing, and playing tambourines and lyres. </span><span class="v9_18_7"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.18.7" class="v9_18_7">7</span><a href="#fn" id="link_1Sam.18.7!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> In their celebration the women sang, “Saul has killed thousands, but David tens of thousands.” </span><span class="v9_18_8"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.18.8" class="v9_18_8">8</span>Saul did not like this, and he became very angry. He said, “For David they claim tens of thousands, but only thousands for me. They will be making him king next!” </span><span class="v9_18_9"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.18.9" class="v9_18_9">9</span>And so he was jealous and suspicious of David from that day on.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_18_10"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.18.10" class="v9_18_10">10</span>The next day an evil spirit from God suddenly took control of Saul, and he raved in his house like a madman. David was playing the harp, as he did every day, and Saul was holding a spear. </span><span class="v9_18_11"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.18.11" class="v9_18_11">11</span>“I'll pin him to the wall,” Saul said to himself, and he threw the spear at him twice; but David dodged each time.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_18_12"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.18.12" class="v9_18_12">12</span>Saul was afraid of David because the <span class="nd">Lord</span> was with David but had abandoned him. </span><span class="v9_18_13"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.18.13" class="v9_18_13">13</span>So Saul sent him away and put him in command of a thousand men. David led his men in battle </span><span class="v9_18_14"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.18.14" class="v9_18_14">14</span>and was successful in all he did, because the <span class="nd">Lord</span> was with him. </span><span class="v9_18_15"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.18.15" class="v9_18_15">15</span>Saul noticed David's success and became even more afraid of him. </span><span class="v9_18_16"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.18.16" class="v9_18_16">16</span>But everyone in Israel and Judah loved David because he was such a successful leader.</span></p><h3 class="s">David Marries Saul's Daughter</h3><p class="par"><span class="v9_18_17"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.18.17" class="v9_18_17">17</span>Then Saul said to David, “Here is my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you as your wife on condition that you serve me as a brave and loyal soldier, and fight the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s battles.” (Saul was thinking that in this way the Philistines would kill David, and he would not have to do it himself.)</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_18_18"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.18.18" class="v9_18_18">18</span>David answered, “Who am I and what is my family that I should become the king's son-in-law?” </span><span class="v9_18_19"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.18.19" class="v9_18_19">19</span>But when the time came for Merab to be given to David, she was given instead to a man named Adriel from Meholah.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_18_20"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.18.20" class="v9_18_20">20</span>Saul's daughter Michal, however, fell in love with David, and when Saul heard of this, he was pleased. </span><span class="v9_18_21"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.18.21" class="v9_18_21">21</span>He said to himself, “I'll give Michal to David; I will use her to trap him, and he will be killed by the Philistines.” So for the second time Saul said to David, “You will be my son-in-law.” </span><span class="v9_18_22"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.18.22" class="v9_18_22">22</span>He ordered his officials to speak privately with David and tell him, “The king is pleased with you and all his officials like you; now is a good time for you to marry his daughter.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_18_23"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.18.23" class="v9_18_23">23</span>So they told this to David, and he answered, “It's a great honor to become the king's son-in-law, too great for someone poor and insignificant like me.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_18_24"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.18.24" class="v9_18_24">24</span>The officials told Saul what David had said, </span><span class="v9_18_25"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.18.25" class="v9_18_25">25</span>and Saul ordered them to tell David: “All the king wants from you as payment for the bride are the foreskins of a hundred dead Philistines, as revenge on his enemies.” (This was how Saul planned to have David killed by the Philistines.) </span><span class="v9_18_26"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.18.26" class="v9_18_26">26</span>Saul's officials reported to David what Saul had said, and David was delighted with the thought of becoming the king's son-in-law. Before the day set for the wedding, </span><span class="v9_18_27"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.18.27" class="v9_18_27">27</span>David and his men went and killed two hundred Philistines. He took their foreskins to the king and counted them all out to him, so that he might become his son-in-law. So Saul had to give his daughter Michal in marriage to David.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_18_28"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.18.28" class="v9_18_28">28</span>Saul realized clearly that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> was with David and also that his daughter Michal loved him. </span><span class="v9_18_29"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.18.29" class="v9_18_29">29</span>So he became even more afraid of David and was his enemy as long as he lived.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_18_30"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.18.30" class="v9_18_30">30</span>The Philistine armies would come and fight, but in every battle David was more successful than any of Saul's other officers. As a result David became very famous.</span></p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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