017:050 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and
with a stone, and struck the Philistine, and killed him;
but there was no sword in the hand of David.
017:051 Then David ran, and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword,
and drew it out of the sheath of it, and killed him,
and cut off his head therewith. When the Philistines saw
that their champion was dead, they fled.
017:052 The men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued
the Philistines, until you come to Gai, and to the gates of Ekron.
The wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim,
even to Gath, and to Ekron.
017:053 The children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines,
and they plundered their camp.
017:054 David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem;
but he put his armor in his tent.
017:055 When Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said to Abner,
the captain of the army, Abner, whose son is this youth?
Abner said, As your soul lives, O king, I can't tell.
017:056 The king said, "Inquire whose son the young man is!"
017:057 As David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner
took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of
the Philistine in his hand.
017:058 Saul said to him, Whose son are you, you young man?
David answered, I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.
018:001 It happened, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul,
that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David,
and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
018:002 Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home
to his father's house.
018:003 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him
as his own soul.
018:004 Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him,
and gave it to David, and his clothing, even to his sword,
and to his bow, and to his sash.
018:005 David went out wherever Saul sent him, [and] behaved himself wisely:
and Saul set him over the men of war, and it was good in the sight
of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants.
018:006 It happened as they came, when David returned from the slaughter
of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities
of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul,
with tambourines, with joy, and with instruments of music.
018:007 The women sang one to another as they played, and said,
Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands.
018:008 Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him;
and he said, They have ascribed to David ten thousands,
and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can
he have more but the kingdom?
018:009 Saul eyed David from that day and forward.
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