1Efter at David havde talt med Saul, mødte han kongens søn, Jonatan. Straks opstod der et varmt venskab mellem de to.2Fra den dag blev David hos Saul hele tiden, og han fik ikke længere lov at vende tilbage til sit hjem i Betlehem.3Jonatan og David blev så gode venner, at de sluttede en ubrydelig venskabspagt.4Jonatan beseglede pagten ved at give David sin kappe og tunika, og endda sit sværd, sin bue og sit bælte.5Enhver opgave, David fik betroet, løste han med succes, så Saul udnævnte ham senere til officer i hæren, en udnævnelse, som både Sauls tjenere og folket bifaldt.6Nogen tid efter at David havde slået filisteren ihjel, vendte hæren hjem efter en sejr,* og en masse kvinder fra alle byerne i Israel gik ud for at hylde kong Saul med sang og dans til lyden fra tamburiner og triangler.7„Saul har besejret tusinder,” sang de, „men David har besejret titusinder.”8Det blev Saul rigtig vred over. „De giver jo David større ære end mig,” tænkte han. „Hvem ved, måske de vil gøre ham til konge i stedet for mig.”9Fra da af så han skævt til David.10Næste dag plagede den onde ånd Saul, og han opførte sig helt utilregneligt. Som sædvanlig tog David sin lyre og spillede for at berolige ham. Saul sad med sit spyd i hånden,11og pludselig kastede han det mod David, idet han mumlede: „Nu spidder jeg ham til væggen.” Men David sprang til side og undgik med nød og næppe at blive dræbt. Det skete to gange.12Saul blev nu bange for David, for det var helt klart, at Herren var med David og ikke med ham.13Derefter frigjorde Saul ham fra tjenesten ved hoffet og gjorde ham til anfører for 1000 mand. David ledte dem i kamp, og alt, hvad han foretog sig, lykkedes for ham, for Herren var med ham.15Saul kunne ikke undgå at lægge mærke til, hvordan David altid havde lykken med sig, og det gjorde ham endnu mere bange. Men hele Israel og Juda elskede David, fordi han var sådan en god leder.17En dag sagde Saul til David: „Jeg har overvejet at give dig min ældste datter, Merab, til kone. Men først må du bevise din tapperhed i Herrens krige.” Saul tænkte nemlig ved sig selv: „Hvis jeg sender ham mod filistrene, og de dræber ham, slipper jeg selv for at gøre det.”18„Jamen, jeg kommer jo fra en ubetydelig slægt,” indvendte David. „Hvordan skulle jeg kunne blive kongens svigersøn?”19Men da tiden for brylluppet nærmede sig, gav Saul sin datter til en mand ved navn Adriel fra Mehola i stedet for.20I mellemtiden var Sauls anden datter, Mikal, blevet forelsket i David. Det passede Saul udmærket.21„Så er der endnu en anledning til at få ham dræbt af filistrene,” tænkte han. Men til David sagde han: „Nu har du alligevel en chance for at blive min svigersøn.”22Derefter gav Saul sine tjenestefolk besked på i al fortrolighed at sige til David: „Kongen sætter stor pris på dig, og det gør vi andre også. Du bør tage imod tilbuddet om at blive hans svigersøn.”23Men David svarede: „Jeg er en fattig mand, og jeg kommer fra en ukendt slægt. Jeg har ikke råd til at betale brudeprisen for en prinsesse.”24Da Saul fik at vide, hvad David havde svaret,25sagde han: „Sig til David, at det eneste, jeg forlanger som brudepris, er forhuden af 100 filistre. Det eneste, jeg ønsker, er hævn over mine fjender.” Saul håbede naturligvis, at David ville falde i kampen mod filistrene.26Mændene fortalte så David, hvad Saul havde sagt, og han gik ind på betingelserne for at blive kongens svigersøn.27Kort efter drog David og hans mænd af sted og slog 200 filistre ihjel. Deres forhuder overbragte han fuldtalligt til Saul, og han blev derefter gift med Mikal.28Da Saul så, hvor meget Herren velsignede David, og hvor meget Mikal* holdt af ham,29blev han endnu mere bange, og resten af livet var han fjendtlig overfor ham.30Hver gang filistrene gik til angreb, vandt David større sejre end nogen anden af Sauls mænd. Sådan blev David efterhånden en folkehelt.
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David and Jonathan’s Friendship
1As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.2And Saul took him that day and would not let him return to his father’s house.3Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul.4And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David, and his armor, and even his sword and his bow and his belt.5And David went out and was successful wherever Saul sent him, so that Saul set him over the men of war. And this was good in the sight of all the people and also in the sight of Saul’s servants.
Saul’s Jealousy of David
6As they were coming home, when David returned from striking down the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with songs of joy, and with musical instruments.*7And the women sang to one another as they celebrated, “Saul has struck down his thousands, and David his ten thousands.”8And Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said, “They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed thousands, and what more can he have but the kingdom?”9And Saul eyed David from that day on.10The next day a harmful spirit from God rushed upon Saul, and he raved within his house while David was playing the lyre, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand.11And Saul hurled the spear, for he thought, “I will pin David to the wall.” But David evaded him twice.12Saul was afraid of David because the Lord was with him but had departed from Saul.13So Saul removed him from his presence and made him a commander of a thousand. And he went out and came in before the people.14And David had success in all his undertakings, for the Lord was with him.15And when Saul saw that he had great success, he stood in fearful awe of him.16But all Israel and Judah loved David, for he went out and came in before them.
David Marries Michal
17Then Saul said to David, “Here is my elder daughter Merab. I will give her to you for a wife. Only be valiant for me and fight the Lord’s battles.” For Saul thought, “Let not my hand be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”18And David said to Saul, “Who am I, and who are my relatives, my father’s clan in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?”19But at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite for a wife.20Now Saul’s daughter Michal loved David. And they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.21Saul thought, “Let me give her to him, that she may be a snare for him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” Therefore Saul said to David a second time,* “You shall now be my son-in-law.”22And Saul commanded his servants, “Speak to David in private and say, ‘Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now then become the king’s son-in-law.’”23And Saul’s servants spoke those words in the ears of David. And David said, “Does it seem to you a little thing to become the king’s son-in-law, since I am a poor man and have no reputation?”24And the servants of Saul told him, “Thus and so did David speak.”25Then Saul said, “Thus shall you say to David, ‘The king desires no bride-price except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, that he may be avenged of the king’s enemies.’” Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.26And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son-in-law. Before the time had expired,27David arose and went, along with his men, and killed two hundred of the Philistines. And David brought their foreskins, which were given in full number to the king, that he might become the king’s son-in-law. And Saul gave him his daughter Michal for a wife.28But when Saul saw and knew that the Lord was with David, and that Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved him,29Saul was even more afraid of David. So Saul was David’s enemy continually.30Then the commanders of the Philistines came out to battle, and as often as they came out David had more success than all the servants of Saul, so that his name was highly esteemed.
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