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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."

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."

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.

So he became even more afraid of David and was his enemy as long as he lived.

and so he told him, "My father is trying to kill you. Please be careful tomorrow morning; hide in some secret place and stay there.

So Jonathan called David and told him everything; then he took him to Saul, and David served the king as he had before.

War with the Philistines broke out again. David attacked them and defeated them so thoroughly that they fled.

so he sent some men to arrest him. They saw the group of prophets dancing and shouting, with Samuel as their leader. Then the spirit of God took control of Saul's men, and they also began to dance and shout.

Jonathan answered, "God forbid that you should die! My father tells me everything he does, important or not, and he would not hide this from me. It just isn't so!"

"Let's go out to the fields," Jonathan answered. So they went,

The day after tomorrow your absence will be noticed even more; so go to the place where you hid yourself the other time, and hide behind the pile of stones there.

So David hid in the fields. At the New Moon Festival, King Saul came to the meal

‘Please let me go,' he said, ‘because our family is celebrating the sacrificial feast in town, and my brother ordered me to be there. So then, if you are my friend, let me go and see my relatives.' That is why he isn't in his place at your table."

So the priest gave David the sacred bread, because the only bread he had was the loaves offered to God, which had been removed from the sacred table and replaced by fresh bread.

So David left, fleeing from Saul, and went to King Achish of Gath.

So whenever David was around them, he pretended to be insane and acted like a madman when they tried to restrain him; he would scribble on the city gates and let spit drool down his beard.

So Achish said to his officials, "Look! The man is crazy! Why did you bring him to me?

So David left his parents with the king of Moab, and they stayed there as long as David was hiding out in the cave.

Then the prophet Gad came to David and said, "Don't stay here; go at once to the land of Judah." So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.

So King Saul sent for the priest Ahimelech and all his relatives, who were also priests in Nob, and they came to him.