David

All 233 verses in 1 Samuel, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

1 Samuel

• 1 Samuel 16:13

  So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon David from that day forward. Then Samuel set out and went to Ramah.

• 1 Samuel 16:19

  So Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, “Send me your son David, who is with the sheep.”

• 1 Samuel 16:20

  And Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a skin of wine, and one young goat, and sent them to Saul with his son David.

• 1 Samuel 16:21

  When David came to Saul and entered his service, Saul admired him greatly, and David became his armor-bearer.

• 1 Samuel 16:22

  Then Saul sent word to Jesse, saying, “Let David remain in my service, for I am pleased with him.”

• 1 Samuel 16:23

  And whenever the spirit from God came upon Saul, David would pick up his harp and play, and Saul would become well, and the spirit of distress would depart from him.

• 1 Samuel 17:12

  Now David was the son of a man named Jesse, an Ephrathite from Bethlehem of Judah who had eight sons in the days of Saul. And Jesse was old and well along in years.

• 1 Samuel 17:14

  And David was the youngest. The three oldest had followed Saul,

• 1 Samuel 17:15

  but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s sheep in Bethlehem.

• 1 Samuel 17:17

  One day Jesse said to his son David, “Take this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers and hurry to their camp.

• 1 Samuel 17:20

  So David got up early in the morning, left the flock with a keeper, loaded up, and set out as Jesse had instructed him. He reached the camp as the army was marching out to its position and shouting the battle cry.

• 1 Samuel 17:22

  Then David left his supplies in the care of the quartermaster and ran to the battle line. When he arrived, he asked his brothers how they were doing.

• 1 Samuel 17:23

  And as he was speaking with them, suddenly the champion named Goliath, the Philistine from Gath, came forward from the Philistines and shouted his usual words, which David also heard.

• 1 Samuel 17:26

  David asked the men who were standing with him, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Just who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”

• 1 Samuel 17:28

  Now when David’s oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, his anger burned against David. “Why have you come down here?” he asked. “And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and wickedness of heart—you have come down to see the battle!”

• 1 Samuel 17:29

  “What have I done now?” said David. “Was it not just a question?”

• 1 Samuel 17:31

  Now David’s words were overheard and reported to Saul, who called for him.

• 1 Samuel 17:32

  And David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail on account of this Philistine. Your servant will go and fight him!”

• 1 Samuel 17:33

  But Saul replied, “You cannot go out against this Philistine to fight him. You are just a boy, and he has been a warrior from his youth.”

• 1 Samuel 17:34

  David replied, “Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep, and whenever a lion or a bear came and carried off a lamb from the flock,

• 1 Samuel 17:37

  David added, “The LORD, who delivered me from the claws of the lion and the bear, will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” “Go,” said Saul, “and may the LORD be with you.”

• 1 Samuel 17:38

  Then Saul clothed David in his own tunic, put a bronze helmet on his head, and dressed him in armor.

• 1 Samuel 17:39

  David strapped his sword over the tunic and tried to walk, but he was not accustomed to them. “I cannot walk in these,” David said to Saul. “I am not accustomed to them.” So David took them off.

• 1 Samuel 17:41

  Now the Philistine came closer and closer to David, with his shield-bearer before him.

• 1 Samuel 17:42

  When the Philistine looked and saw David, he despised him because he was just a boy, ruddy and handsome.

• 1 Samuel 17:43

  “Am I a dog,” he said to David, “that you come at me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

• 1 Samuel 17:44

  “Come here,” he called to David, “and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!”

• 1 Samuel 17:45

  But David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD of Hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.

• 1 Samuel 17:48

  As the Philistine started forward to attack him, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him.

• 1 Samuel 17:49

  Then David reached into his bag, took out a stone, and slung it, striking the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown on the ground.

• 1 Samuel 17:50

  Thus David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed him.

• 1 Samuel 17:51

  David ran and stood over him. He grabbed the Philistine’s sword and pulled it from its sheath and killed him; and he cut off his head with the sword. When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran.

• 1 Samuel 17:54

  David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, and he put Goliath’s weapons in his own tent.

• 1 Samuel 17:55

  As Saul had watched David going out to confront the Philistine, he said to Abner the commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is this young man?” “As surely as you live, O king,” Abner replied, “I do not know.”

• 1 Samuel 17:57

  So when David returned from killing the Philistine, still holding his head in his hand, Abner took him and brought him before Saul.

• 1 Samuel 17:58

  “Whose son are you, young man?” asked Saul. “I am the son of your servant Jesse of Bethlehem,” David replied.

• 1 Samuel 18:1

  After David had finished speaking with Saul, the souls of Jonathan and David were knit together, and Jonathan loved him as himself.

• 1 Samuel 18:3

  Then Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself.

• 1 Samuel 18:4

  And Jonathan removed the robe he was wearing and gave it to David, along with his tunic, his sword, his bow, and his belt.

• 1 Samuel 18:5

  So David marched out and prospered in everything Saul sent him to do, and Saul set him over the men of war. And this was pleasing in the sight of all the people, and of Saul’s officers as well.

• 1 Samuel 18:6

  As the troops were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs, and with tambourines and other instruments.

• 1 Samuel 18:7

  And as the women danced, they sang out: “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands.”

• 1 Samuel 18:8

  And Saul was furious and resented this song. “They have ascribed tens of thousands to David,” he said, “but only thousands to me. What more can he have but the kingdom?”

• 1 Samuel 18:9

  And from that day forward Saul kept a jealous eye on David.

• 1 Samuel 18:10

  The next day a spirit of distress sent from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied inside the house while David played the harp as usual. Now Saul was holding a spear,

• 1 Samuel 18:11

  and he hurled it, thinking, “I will pin David to the wall.” But David eluded him twice.

• 1 Samuel 18:12

  So Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with David but had departed from Saul.

• 1 Samuel 18:14

  and he continued to prosper in all his ways, because the LORD was with him.

• 1 Samuel 18:16

  But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he was leading them out to battle and back.

• 1 Samuel 18:17

  Then Saul said to David, “Here is my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you in marriage. Only be valiant for me and fight the LORD’s battles.” But Saul was thinking, “I need not raise my hand against him; let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”

• 1 Samuel 18:18

  And David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my family or my father’s clan in Israel, that I should become the son-in-law of the king?”

• 1 Samuel 18:19

  So when it was time to give Saul’s daughter Merab to David, she was given in marriage to Adriel of Meholah.

• 1 Samuel 18:20

  Now Saul’s daughter Michal loved David, and when this was reported to Saul, it pleased him.

• 1 Samuel 18:21

  “I will give her to David,” Saul thought, “so that she may be a snare to him, and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David, “For a second time now you can be my son-in-law.”

• 1 Samuel 18:22

  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.’”

• 1 Samuel 18:23

  But when Saul’s servants relayed these words to David, he replied, “Does it seem trivial in your sight to be the son-in-law of the king? I am a poor man and lightly esteemed.”

• 1 Samuel 18:24

  And the servants told Saul what David had said.

• 1 Samuel 18:25

  Saul replied, “Say to David, ‘The king desires no other dowry but a hundred Philistine foreskins as revenge on his enemies.’” But Saul intended to cause David’s death at the hands of the Philistines.

• 1 Samuel 18:26

  When the servants reported these terms to David, he was pleased to become the king’s son-in-law. Before the wedding day arrived,

• 1 Samuel 18:27

  David and his men went out and killed two hundred Philistines. He brought their foreskins and presented them as payment in full to become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave his daughter Michal to David in marriage.

• 1 Samuel 18:28

  When Saul realized that the LORD was with David and that his daughter Michal loved David,

• 1 Samuel 18:29

  he grew even more afraid of David. So from then on Saul was David’s enemy.

• 1 Samuel 18:30

  Every time the Philistine commanders came out for battle, David was more successful than all of Saul’s officers, so that his name was highly esteemed.

• 1 Samuel 19:1

  Then Saul ordered his son Jonathan and all his servants to kill David. But Jonathan delighted greatly in David,

• 1 Samuel 19:2

  so he warned David, saying, “My father Saul intends to kill you. Be on your guard in the morning; find a secret place and hide there.

• 1 Samuel 19:4

  Then Jonathan spoke well of David to his father Saul and said to him, “The king should not sin against his servant David; he has not sinned against you. In fact, his actions have been highly beneficial to you.

• 1 Samuel 19:5

  He took his life in his hands when he struck down the Philistine, and the LORD worked a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced, so why would you sin against innocent blood by killing David for no reason?”

• 1 Samuel 19:7

  So Jonathan summoned David and told him all these things. Then Jonathan brought David to Saul to serve him as he had before.

• 1 Samuel 19:8

  When war broke out again, David went out and fought the Philistines and struck them with such a mighty blow that they fled before him.

• 1 Samuel 19:9

  But as Saul was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand, a spirit of distress from the LORD came upon him. While David was playing the harp,

• 1 Samuel 19:10

  Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear. But the spear struck the wall and David eluded him, ran away, and escaped that night.

• 1 Samuel 19:11

  Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and kill him in the morning. But David’s wife Michal warned him, “If you do not run for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”

• 1 Samuel 19:12

  So Michal lowered David from the window, and he ran away and escaped.

• 1 Samuel 19:14

  When Saul sent the messengers to seize David, Michal said, “He is ill.”

• 1 Samuel 19:15

  But Saul sent the messengers back to see David and told them, “Bring him up to me in his bed so I can kill him.”

• 1 Samuel 19:18

  So David ran away and escaped. And he went to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went to Naioth and stayed there.

• 1 Samuel 19:19

  When Saul was told that David was at Naioth in Ramah,

• 1 Samuel 19:20

  he sent messengers to capture him. But when they saw the group of prophets prophesying, with Samuel leading them, the Spirit of God came upon them, and Saul’s messengers also began to prophesy.

• 1 Samuel 19:22

  Finally, Saul himself left for Ramah and came to the large cistern at Secu, where he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” “At Naioth in Ramah,” he was told.

• 1 Samuel 20:1

  Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah. He came to Jonathan and asked, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? How have I sinned against your father, that he wants to take my life?”

• 1 Samuel 20:3

  But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”

• 1 Samuel 20:4

  Then Jonathan said to David, “Whatever you desire, I will do for you.”

• 1 Samuel 20:5

  So David told him, “Look, tomorrow is the New Moon, and I am supposed to dine with the king. Instead, let me go and hide in the field until the third evening from now.

• 1 Samuel 20:6

  If your father misses me at all, tell him, ‘David urgently requested my permission to hurry to Bethlehem, his hometown, because there is an annual sacrifice for his whole clan.’

• 1 Samuel 20:10

  Then David asked Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?”

• 1 Samuel 20:11

  “Come,” he replied, “let us go out to the field.” So the two of them went out into the field,

• 1 Samuel 20:12

  and Jonathan said, “By the LORD, the God of Israel, I will sound out my father by this time tomorrow or the next day. If he is favorable toward you, will I not send for you and tell you?

• 1 Samuel 20:15

  and do not ever cut off your loving devotion from my household—not even when the LORD cuts off every one of David’s enemies from the face of the earth.”

• 1 Samuel 20:16

  So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, “May the LORD hold David’s enemies accountable.”

• 1 Samuel 20:17

  And Jonathan had David reaffirm his vow out of love for him, for Jonathan loved David as he loved himself.

• 1 Samuel 20:18

  Then Jonathan said to David, “Tomorrow is the New Moon, and you will be missed if your seat is empty.

• 1 Samuel 20:24

  So David hid in the field, and when the New Moon had come, the king sat down to eat.

• 1 Samuel 20:25

  He sat in his usual place by the wall, opposite Jonathan and beside Abner, but David’s place was empty.

• 1 Samuel 20:27

  But on the day after the New Moon, the second day, David’s place was still empty, and Saul asked his son Jonathan, “Why hasn’t the son of Jesse come to the meal either yesterday or today?”

• 1 Samuel 20:28

  Jonathan answered, “David urgently requested my permission to go to Bethlehem,

• 1 Samuel 20:33

  Then Saul hurled his spear at Jonathan to kill him; so Jonathan knew that his father was determined to kill David.

• 1 Samuel 20:34

  Jonathan got up from the table in fierce anger and did not eat any food that second day of the month, for he was grieved by his father’s shameful treatment of David.

• 1 Samuel 20:35

  In the morning Jonathan went out to the field for the appointment with David, and a small boy was with him.

• 1 Samuel 20:39

  But the boy did not know anything; only Jonathan and David knew the arrangement.

• 1 Samuel 20:41

  When the young man had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone, fell facedown, and bowed three times. Then he and Jonathan kissed each other and wept together—though David wept more.

• 1 Samuel 20:42

  And Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, for the two of us have sworn in the name of the LORD, saying, ‘May the LORD be a witness between you and me, and between your descendants and mine forever.’” Then David got up and departed, and Jonathan went back into the city.

• 1 Samuel 21:1

  Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And when Ahimelech met David, he trembled and asked him, “Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?”

• 1 Samuel 21:2

  “The king has given me a mission,” David replied. “He told me no one is to know about the mission or charge. And I have directed my young men to meet me at a certain place.

• 1 Samuel 21:4

  “There is no common bread on hand,” the priest replied, “but there is some consecrated bread—provided that the young men have kept themselves from women.”

• 1 Samuel 21:5

  David answered, “Women have indeed been kept from us, as is usual when I set out. And the equipment of the young men is holy, as it is even on common missions, and all the more at this time.”

• 1 Samuel 21:8

  Then David asked Ahimelech, “Is there not a spear or sword on hand here? For I have brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business was urgent.”

• 1 Samuel 21:9

  The priest replied, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here; it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want, you may take it. For there is no other but this one.” And David said, “There is none like it; give it to me.”

• 1 Samuel 21:10

  That day David fled from Saul and went to Achish king of Gath.

• 1 Samuel 21:11

  But the servants of Achish said to him, “Is this not David, the king of the land? Did they not sing about him in their dances, saying: ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands’?”

• 1 Samuel 21:12

  Now David took these words to heart and was very much afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

• 1 Samuel 22:1

  So David left Gath and took refuge in the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his father’s household heard about it, they went down to him there.

• 1 Samuel 22:3

  From there David went to Mizpeh of Moab, where he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and mother stay with you until I learn what God will do for me.”

• 1 Samuel 22:4

  So he left them in the care of the king of Moab, and they stayed with him the whole time David was in the stronghold.

• 1 Samuel 22:5

  Then the prophet Gad said to David, “Do not stay in the stronghold. Depart and go into the land of Judah.” So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.

• 1 Samuel 22:6

  Soon Saul learned that David and his men had been discovered. At that time Saul was in Gibeah, sitting under the tamarisk tree on the hill at Gibeah, with his spear in hand and all his servants standing around him.

• 1 Samuel 22:14

  Ahimelech answered the king, “Who among all your servants is as faithful as David, the king’s son-in-law, the captain of your bodyguard who is honored in your house?

• 1 Samuel 22:17

  Then the king ordered the guards at his side, “Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, because they too sided with David. For they knew he was fleeing, but they did not tell me.” But the king’s servants would not lift a hand to strike the priests of the LORD.

• 1 Samuel 22:20

  But one of the sons of Ahimelech son of Ahitub escaped. His name was Abiathar, and he fled to David.

• 1 Samuel 22:21

  And Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the priests of the LORD.

• 1 Samuel 22:22

  Then David said to Abiathar, “I knew that Doeg the Edomite was there that day, and that he was sure to tell Saul. I myself am responsible for the lives of everyone in your father’s house.

• 1 Samuel 23:1

  Now it was reported to David, “Look, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah and looting the threshing floors.”

• 1 Samuel 23:2

  So David inquired of the LORD, “Should I go and attack these Philistines?” And the LORD said to David, “Go and attack the Philistines and save Keilah.”

• 1 Samuel 23:3

  But David’s men said to him, “Look, we are afraid here in Judah; how much more if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?”

• 1 Samuel 23:4

  Once again, David inquired of the LORD, and the LORD answered him: “Go at once to Keilah, for I will deliver the Philistines into your hand.”

• 1 Samuel 23:5

  Then David and his men went to Keilah, fought against the Philistines, and carried off their livestock, striking them with a mighty blow. So David saved the people of Keilah.

• 1 Samuel 23:6

  (Now Abiathar son of Ahimelech had brought the ephod with him when he fled to David at Keilah.)

• 1 Samuel 23:7

  When Saul was told that David had gone to Keilah, he said, “God has delivered him into my hand, for he has trapped himself by entering a town with gates and bars.”

• 1 Samuel 23:8

  Then Saul summoned all his troops to go to war at Keilah and besiege David and his men.

• 1 Samuel 23:9

  When David learned that Saul was plotting evil against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod.”

• 1 Samuel 23:10

  And David said, “O LORD, God of Israel, Your servant has heard that Saul intends to come to Keilah and destroy the city on my account.

• 1 Samuel 23:12

  So David asked, “Will the citizens of Keilah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul?” “They will,” said the LORD.

• 1 Samuel 23:13

  Then David and his men, about six hundred strong, set out and departed from Keilah, moving from place to place. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he declined to go forth.

• 1 Samuel 23:14

  And David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God would not deliver David into his hand.

• 1 Samuel 23:15

  While David was in Horesh in the Wilderness of Ziph, he saw that Saul had come out to take his life.

• 1 Samuel 23:16

  And Saul’s son Jonathan came to David in Horesh and strengthened his hand in God,

• 1 Samuel 23:18

  So the two of them made a covenant before the LORD. And David remained in Horesh, while Jonathan went home.

• 1 Samuel 23:19

  Then the Ziphites came up to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah south of Jeshimon?

• 1 Samuel 23:24

  So they set out and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the Wilderness of Maon in the Arabah south of Jeshimon,

• 1 Samuel 23:25

  and Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told about it, he went down to the rock and stayed in the Wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard of this, he pursued David there.

• 1 Samuel 23:26

  Saul was proceeding along one side of the mountain, and David and his men along the other side. Even though David was hurrying to get away, Saul and his men were closing in on David and his men to capture them.

• 1 Samuel 23:28

  So Saul broke off his pursuit of David and went to meet the Philistines. That is why that place is called Sela-hammahlekoth.

• 1 Samuel 23:29

  And David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of En-gedi.

• 1 Samuel 24:1

  After Saul had returned from pursuing the Philistines, he was told, “David is in the wilderness of En-gedi.”

• 1 Samuel 24:2

  So Saul took three thousand chosen men from all Israel and went to look for David and his men in the region of the Rocks of the Wild Goats.

• 1 Samuel 24:3

  Soon Saul came to the sheepfolds along the road, where there was a cave, and he went in to relieve himself. And David and his men were hiding in the recesses of the cave.

• 1 Samuel 24:4

  So David’s men said to him, “This is the day about which the LORD said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, that you may do with him as you wish.’” Then David crept up secretly and cut off a corner of Saul’s robe.

• 1 Samuel 24:5

  Afterward, David’s conscience was stricken because he had cut off the corner of Saul’s robe.

• 1 Samuel 24:7

  With these words David restrained his men, and he did not let them rise up against Saul. Then Saul left the cave and went on his way.

• 1 Samuel 24:8

  After that, David got up, went out of the cave, and called out to Saul, “My lord the king!” When Saul looked behind him, David bowed facedown in reverence

• 1 Samuel 24:9

  and said to Saul, “Why do you listen to the words of men who say, ‘Look, David intends to harm you’?

• 1 Samuel 24:16

  When David had finished saying these things, Saul called back, “Is that your voice, David my son?” Then Saul wept aloud

• 1 Samuel 24:17

  and said to David, “You are more righteous than I, for you have rewarded me with good, though I have rewarded you with evil.

• 1 Samuel 24:22

  So David gave his oath to Saul. Then Saul returned home, but David and his men went up to the stronghold.

• 1 Samuel 25:1

  When Samuel died, all Israel gathered to mourn for him; and they buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David set out and went down to the Wilderness of Paran.

• 1 Samuel 25:4

  While David was in the wilderness, he heard that Nabal was shearing sheep.

• 1 Samuel 25:5

  So David sent ten young men and instructed them, “Go up to Nabal at Carmel. Greet him in my name

• 1 Samuel 25:8

  Ask your young men, and they will tell you. So let my young men find favor with you, for we have come on the day of a feast. Please give whatever you can afford to your servants and to your son David.’”

• 1 Samuel 25:9

  When David’s young men arrived, they relayed all these words to Nabal on behalf of David. Then they waited.

• 1 Samuel 25:10

  But Nabal asked them, “Who is David? Who is this son of Jesse? Many servants these days are breaking away from their masters.

• 1 Samuel 25:12

  So David’s men turned around and went back, and they relayed to him all these words.

• 1 Samuel 25:13

  And David said to his men, “Strap on your swords!” So David and all his men put on their swords, and about four hundred men followed David, while two hundred stayed with the supplies.

• 1 Samuel 25:14

  Meanwhile, one of Nabal’s young men informed Nabal’s wife Abigail, “Look, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, but he scolded them.

• 1 Samuel 25:20

  As Abigail came riding her donkey into a mountain ravine, she saw David and his men coming down toward her, and she met them.

• 1 Samuel 25:21

  Now David had just finished saying, “In vain I have protected all that belonged to this man in the wilderness. Nothing that belongs to him has gone missing, yet he has paid me back evil for good.

• 1 Samuel 25:22

  May God punish David, and ever so severely, if I let one of Nabal’s men survive until morning.”

• 1 Samuel 25:23

  When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off the donkey, fell facedown, and bowed before him.

• 1 Samuel 25:32

  Then David said to Abigail, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who sent you to meet me this day!

• 1 Samuel 25:35

  Then David accepted from her hand what she had brought him, and he said to her, “Go home in peace. See, I have heeded your voice and granted your request.”

• 1 Samuel 25:39

  On hearing that Nabal was dead, David said, “Blessed be the LORD, who has upheld my cause against the reproach of Nabal and has restrained His servant from evil. For the LORD has brought the wickedness of Nabal down upon his own head.” Then David sent word to Abigail, asking for her in marriage.

• 1 Samuel 25:40

  When his servants came to Abigail at Carmel, they said, “David has sent us to take you as his wife.”

• 1 Samuel 25:42

  So Abigail hurried and got on a donkey, and attended by five of her maidens, she followed David’s messengers and became his wife.

• 1 Samuel 25:43

  David had also married Ahinoam of Jezreel. So she and Abigail were both his wives.

• 1 Samuel 25:44

  But Saul had given his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Palti son of Laish, who was from Gallim.

• 1 Samuel 26:1

  Then the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding on the hill of Hachilah, opposite Jeshimon?”

• 1 Samuel 26:2

  So Saul, accompanied by three thousand chosen men of Israel, went down to the Wilderness of Ziph to search for David there.

• 1 Samuel 26:3

  Saul camped beside the road at the hill of Hachilah opposite Jeshimon, but David was living in the wilderness. When he realized that Saul had followed him there,

• 1 Samuel 26:4

  David sent out spies to verify that Saul had arrived.

• 1 Samuel 26:5

  Then David set out and went to the place where Saul had camped. He saw the place where Saul and Abner son of Ner, the general of his army, had lain down. Saul was lying inside the inner circle of the camp, with the troops camped around him.

• 1 Samuel 26:6

  And David asked Ahimelech the Hittite and Abishai son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, “Who will go down with me to Saul in the camp?” “I will go with you,” answered Abishai.

• 1 Samuel 26:7

  That night David and Abishai came to the troops, and Saul was lying there asleep in the inner circle of the camp, with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. And Abner and the troops were lying around him.

• 1 Samuel 26:8

  Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand. Now, therefore, please let me thrust the spear through him into the ground with one stroke. I will not need to strike him twice!”

• 1 Samuel 26:9

  But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can lift a hand against the LORD’s anointed and be guiltless?”

• 1 Samuel 26:10

  David added, “As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD Himself will strike him down; either his day will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.

• 1 Samuel 26:12

  So David took the spear and water jug by Saul’s head, and they departed. No one saw them or knew about it, nor did anyone wake up; they all remained asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen on them.

• 1 Samuel 26:13

  Then David crossed to the other side and stood atop the mountain at a distance; there was a wide gulf between them.

• 1 Samuel 26:14

  And David shouted to the troops and to Abner son of Ner, “Will you not answer me, Abner?” “Who calls to the king?” Abner replied.

• 1 Samuel 26:15

  So David said to Abner, “You are a man, aren’t you? And who in Israel is your equal? Why then did you not protect your lord the king when one of the people came to destroy him?

• 1 Samuel 26:17

  Then Saul recognized David’s voice and asked, “Is that your voice, David my son?” “It is my voice, my lord and king,” David said.

• 1 Samuel 26:21

  Then Saul replied, “I have sinned. Come back, David my son. I will never harm you again, because today you considered my life precious. I have played the fool and have committed a grave error!”

• 1 Samuel 26:22

  “Here is the king’s spear,” David answered. “Let one of the young men come over and get it.

• 1 Samuel 26:25

  Saul said to him, “May you be blessed, David my son. You will accomplish great things and will surely prevail.” So David went on his way, and Saul returned home.

• 1 Samuel 27:1

  David, however, said to himself, “One of these days now I will be swept away by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will stop searching for me all over Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.”

• 1 Samuel 27:2

  So David set out with his six hundred men and went to Achish son of Maoch, the king of Gath.

• 1 Samuel 27:3

  David and his men settled in Gath with Achish. Each man had his family with him, and David had his two wives: Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail of Carmel, the widow of Nabal.

• 1 Samuel 27:4

  And when Saul learned that David had fled to Gath, he no longer searched for him.

• 1 Samuel 27:5

  Then David said to Achish, “If I have found favor in your eyes, let me be assigned a place in one of the outlying towns, so I can live there. For why should your servant live in the royal city with you?”

• 1 Samuel 27:7

  And the time that David lived in Philistine territory amounted to a year and four months.

• 1 Samuel 27:8

  Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these people had inhabited the land extending to Shur and Egypt.)

• 1 Samuel 27:9

  Whenever David attacked a territory, he did not leave a man or woman alive, but he took the flocks and herds, the donkeys, camels, and clothing. Then he would return to Achish,

• 1 Samuel 27:10

  who would ask him, “What have you raided today?” And David would reply, “The Negev of Judah,” or “The Negev of Jerahmeel,” or “The Negev of the Kenites.”

• 1 Samuel 27:11

  David did not leave a man or woman alive to be brought to Gath, for he said, “Otherwise they will report us, saying, ‘This is what David did.’” And this was David’s custom the whole time he lived in Philistine territory.

• 1 Samuel 27:12

  So Achish trusted David, thinking, “Since he has made himself an utter stench to his people Israel, he will be my servant forever.”

• 1 Samuel 28:1

  Now in those days the Philistines gathered their forces for warfare against Israel. So Achish said to David, “You must understand that you and your men are to go out to battle with me.”

• 1 Samuel 28:2

  David replied, “Then you will come to know what your servant can do.” “Very well,” said Achish. “I will make you my bodyguard for life.”

• 1 Samuel 28:17

  He has done exactly what He spoke through me: The LORD has torn the kingship out of your hand and given it to your neighbor David.

• 1 Samuel 29:2

  As the Philistine leaders marched out their units of hundreds and thousands, David and his men marched behind them with Achish.

• 1 Samuel 29:3

  Then the commanders of the Philistines asked, “What about these Hebrews?” Achish replied, “Is this not David, the servant of King Saul of Israel? He has been with me all these days, even years, and from the day he defected until today I have found no fault in him.”

• 1 Samuel 29:5

  Is this not the David about whom they sing in their dances: ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands’?”

• 1 Samuel 29:6

  So Achish summoned David and told him, “As surely as the LORD lives, you have been upright in my sight, and it seems right that you should march in and out with me in the army, because I have found no fault in you from the day you came to me until this day. But you have no favor in the sight of the leaders.

• 1 Samuel 29:8

  “But what have I done?” David replied. “What have you found against your servant, from the day I came to you until today, to keep me from going along to fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”

• 1 Samuel 29:9

  Achish replied, “I know that you are as pleasing in my sight as an angel of God. But the commanders of the Philistines have said, ‘He must not go into battle with us.’

• 1 Samuel 29:11

  So David and his men got up early in the morning to return to the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

• 1 Samuel 30:1

  On the third day David and his men arrived in Ziklag, and the Amalekites had raided the Negev, attacked Ziklag, and burned it down.

• 1 Samuel 30:3

  When David and his men came to the city, they found it burned down and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.

• 1 Samuel 30:4

  So David and the troops with him lifted up their voices and wept until they had no strength left to weep.

• 1 Samuel 30:5

  David’s two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel, had been taken captive.

• 1 Samuel 30:6

  And David was greatly distressed because the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of every man grieved for his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the LORD his God.

• 1 Samuel 30:7

  Then David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, “Bring me the ephod.” So Abiathar brought it to him,

• 1 Samuel 30:8

  and David inquired of the LORD: “Should I pursue these raiders? Will I overtake them?” “Pursue them,” the LORD replied, “for you will surely overtake them and rescue the captives.”

• 1 Samuel 30:9

  So David and his six hundred men went to the Brook of Besor, where some stayed behind

• 1 Samuel 30:10

  because two hundred men were too exhausted to cross the brook. But David and four hundred men continued in pursuit.

• 1 Samuel 30:11

  Now his men found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David. They gave the man water to drink and food to eat—

• 1 Samuel 30:13

  Then David asked him, “To whom do you belong, and where are you from?” “I am an Egyptian,” he replied, “the slave of an Amalekite. My master abandoned me three days ago when I fell ill.

• 1 Samuel 30:15

  “Will you lead me to these raiders?” David asked. And the man replied, “Swear to me by God that you will not kill me or deliver me into the hand of my master, and I will lead you to them.”

• 1 Samuel 30:17

  And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man escaped, except four hundred young men who fled, riding off on camels.

• 1 Samuel 30:18

  So David recovered everything the Amalekites had taken, including his two wives.

• 1 Samuel 30:19

  Nothing was missing, young or old, son or daughter, or any of the plunder the Amalekites had taken. David brought everything back.

• 1 Samuel 30:20

  And he recovered all the flocks and herds, which his men drove ahead of the other livestock, calling out, “This is David’s plunder!”

• 1 Samuel 30:21

  When David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow him from the Brook of Besor, they came out to meet him and the troops with him. As David approached the men, he greeted them,

• 1 Samuel 30:22

  but all the wicked and worthless men among those who had gone with David said, “Because they did not go with us, we will not share with them the plunder we recovered, except for each man’s wife and children. They may take them and go.”

• 1 Samuel 30:23

  But David said, “My brothers, you must not do this with what the LORD has given us. He has protected us and delivered into our hands the raiders who came against us.

• 1 Samuel 30:26

  When David arrived in Ziklag, he sent some of the plunder to his friends, the elders of Judah, saying, “Here is a gift for you from the plunder of the LORD’s enemies.”

• 1 Samuel 30:31

  and to those in Hebron and in all the places where David and his men had roamed.

Events the dataset lists David as taking part in. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

1. c. 1067 BC
   David Kills Goliath1 Samuel 17:1–58
2. c. 1055 BC
   Reign of David2 Samuel 2:1–24:25 · at Hebron, Jerusalem
3. c. 1015 BC
   Death of David1 Kings 2:10–11 · at Jerusalem

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.