1 Depois de Davi ter falado com Saul, a alma de Jônatas se ligou com a de Davi numa profunda amizade. E Jônatas o amou como à sua própria alma. 2 Naquele dia, Saul reteve Davi e não permitiu que ele voltasse para a casa de seu pai. 3 Jônatas e Davi fizeram uma aliança, porque Jônatas o amava como à sua própria alma. 4 Jônatas tirou a capa que vestia e a deu a Davi. Deu também a sua armadura, inclusive a espada, o arco e o cinto. 5 Davi saía aonde quer que Saul o enviava e tinha êxito, de modo que Saul o pôs sobre tropas do seu exército. E Davi era benquisto de todo o povo e até dos próprios servos de Saul.

6 E aconteceu que, quando eles estavam voltando para casa, depois de Davi ter matado o filisteu, as mulheres de todas as cidades de Israel saíram ao encontro do rei Saul, cantando e dançando, com tamborins, com alegria e com instrumentos musicais. 7 As mulheres se alegravam e, cantando alternadamente, diziam:

Saul matou os seus milhares,

porém Davi, os seus dez milhares.

8 Saul se indignou muito, pois estas palavras lhe desagradaram em extremo. Ele disse:

— Para Davi elas deram dez milhares, mas para mim apenas milhares. Na verdade, o que lhe falta, a não ser o reino?

9 Daquele dia em diante, Saul não via Davi com bons olhos.

10 No dia seguinte, um espírito mau, vindo da parte de Deus, se apossou de Saul, que teve uma crise de raiva em sua casa. Davi, como nos outros dias, dedilhava a harpa. Saul, porém, tinha na mão uma lança, 11 que ele atirou, pensando assim:

— Encravarei Davi na parede.

Porém Davi se desviou dele por duas vezes.

12 Saul tinha medo de Davi, porque o Senhor estava com este e tinha abandonado Saul. 13 Por isso Saul o afastou de si e o pôs por chefe de mil. Davi fazia saídas e entradas militares diante do povo. 14 Davi tinha êxito em todos os seus empreendimentos, pois o Senhor estava com ele. 15 Vendo que Davi tinha êxito, Saul ficou com medo dele. 16 Porém todo o Israel e Judá amavam Davi, porque fazia saídas e entradas militares diante deles.

17 Saul disse a Davi:

— Aqui está Merabe, a minha filha mais velha. Eu a darei a você em casamento, com a condição de que você seja um filho valente e trave as batalhas do Senhor.

Porque Saul pensava assim: "Não seja contra ele a minha mão, e sim a dos filisteus." 18 Mas Davi respondeu a Saul:

— Quem sou eu, e quem são os meus parentes, a família de meu pai em Israel, para que eu seja genro do rei?

19 Mas aconteceu que, na época em que Merabe, filha de Saul, devia ser dada em casamento a Davi, foi dada por mulher a Adriel, meolatita.

20 Mas Mical, a outra filha de Saul, amava Davi. Contaram isso a Saul, e isso agradou a ele. 21 Saul pensava assim: "Eu a darei em casamento a Davi, para que ela lhe sirva de armadilha e para que a mão dos filisteus venha a ser contra ele." Por isso Saul disse a Davi:

— Com esta segunda você será hoje o meu genro.

22 Saul ordenou que os seus servos falassem confidencialmente com Davi, dizendo:

— O rei tem afeição por você, e todos os servos dele amam você. Sendo assim, concorde em ser genro do rei.

23 Os servos de Saul falaram estas palavras a Davi, o qual respondeu:

— Vocês acham que é pouca coisa ser genro do rei, sendo eu um homem pobre e sem importância?

24 Os servos de Saul lhe contaram isto, dizendo:

— Estas foram as palavras que Davi falou.

25 Então Saul ordenou que dissessem a Davi:

— O rei não deseja dote algum, mas cem prepúcios de filisteus, como vingança contra os seus inimigos.

Porque Saul tentava fazer com que Davi fosse morto pelos filisteus. 26 Quando os servos de Saul relataram estas palavras a Davi, este gostou da ideia de vir a ser genro do rei. Antes de vencido o prazo, 27 Davi se levantou e partiu com os seus homens, e mataram duzentos filisteus. Trouxe os seus prepúcios e os entregou todos ao rei, para que assim se tornasse seu genro. Então Saul lhe deu a sua filha Mical em casamento. 28 Saul viu e reconheceu que o Senhor estava com Davi; e Mical, filha de Saul, o amava. 29 Então Saul ficou com mais medo ainda de Davi e continuamente foi seu inimigo.

30 Cada vez que os chefes dos filisteus saíam à batalha, Davi obtinha mais êxito do que todos os servos de Saul. E assim o nome de Davi se tornou muito estimado.

1 And it came to pass, 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.

2 And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father' house.

3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

4 And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.

5 And David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul' servants.

6 And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of music.

7 And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.

8 And Saul was very wroth, and the 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?

9 And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.

10 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came on Saul, and he prophesied in the middle of the house: and David played with his hand, as at other times: and there was a javelin in Saul' hand.

11 And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice.

12 And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and was departed from Saul.

13 Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.

14 And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the LORD was with him.

15 Why when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he was afraid of him.

16 But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out and came in before them.

17 And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give you to wife: only be you valiant for me, and fight the LORD' battles. For Saul said, Let not my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him.

18 And David said to Saul, Who am I? and what is my life, or my father' family in Israel, that I should be son in law to the king?

19 But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul' daughter should have been given to David, that she was given to Adriel the Meholathite to wife.

20 And Michal Saul' daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.

21 And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Why Saul said to David, You shall this day be my son in law in the one of the two.

22 And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you: now therefore be the king' son in law.

23 And Saul' servants spoke those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seems it to you a light thing to be a king' son in law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?

24 And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spoke David.

25 And Saul said, Thus shall you say to David, The king desires not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king' enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

26 And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king' son in law: and the days were not expired.

27 Why David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king' son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.

28 And Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal Saul' daughter loved him.

29 And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David' enemy continually.

30 Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it came to pass, after they went forth, that David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much set by.