1 En nadat hy sy gesprek met Saul beëindig het, het die siel van Jonatan verkleef geraak aan die siel van Dawid, en Jonatan het hom liefgekry soos sy eie siel.
2 En Saul het hom die dag geneem en hom nie na sy familie laat teruggaan nie.
3 Toe sluit Jonatan met Dawid 'n verbond, omdat hy hom liefgehad het soos sy eie siel.
4 Daarby trek Jonatan sy mantel uit wat hy aangehad het, en gee dit aan Dawid; ook sy klere, ja, selfs sy swaard en sy boog en sy gordel.
5 En Dawid het uitgetrek. Oral waar Saul hom gestuur het, was hy voorspoedig, sodat Saul hom oor die krygsmanne aangestel het; en dit was goed in die oë van die hele volk en ook in die oë van die dienaars van Saul.
6 En toe hulle tuis kom, en ook Dawid terug was nadat hy die Filistyn verslaan het, het die vroue uitgegaan uit al die stede van Israel met sang en koordanse, met tamboeryne, met vreugdegeroep en met triangels koning Saul tegemoet.
7 En die vroue wat vrolik was, het gesing en gesê: Saul het sy duisende verslaan, maar Dawid sy tien duisende!
8 En Saul het baie kwaad geword, want hierdie woord was verkeerd in sy oë. En hy sê: Hulle het Dawid die tien duisende gegee, maar my die duisende gegee; hy moet nou nog net die koningskap kry!
9 En van die dag af en verder het Saul die oog op Dawid gehad.
10 Die volgende dag het die bose gees van God oor Saul vaardig geword, sodat hy rasend was binne-in die huis terwyl Dawid soos elke dag met sy hand speel, en Saul 'n spies in sy hand hou.
11 Toe gooi Saul die spies en sê: Ek wil Dawid teen die muur vassteek! Maar Dawid het twee maal vir hom padgegee.
12 En Saul was bevrees vir Dawid, omdat die HERE met hom was en van Saul gewyk het.
13 Daarom het Saul hom uit sy teenwoordigheid verwyder en hom aangestel as sy owerste oor duisend, sodat hy voor die manskappe uit-- en ingegaan het.
14 En Dawid was voorspoedig in al sy weë, want die HERE was met hom.
15 Toe Saul sien dat hy baie voorspoedig was, het hy vir hom bang geword.
16 Maar die hele Israel en Juda het Dawid liefgehad, want hy het voor hulle uit-- en ingegaan.
17 Verder het Saul vir Dawid gesê: Hier is my oudste dogter Merab, haar sal ek aan jou as vrou gee; wees net vir my 'n dapper man en voer die oorloë van die HERE. Want Saul het gedink: Laat my hand nie teen hom wees nie, maar laat die hand van die Filistyne teen hom wees.
18 Maar Dawid het vir Saul gesê: Wie is ek, en wat is my familie, die geslag van my vader in Israel, dat ek 'n skoonseun van die koning sou word?
19 Maar teen die tyd dat Merab, die dogter van Saul, aan Dawid moes gegee word, is sy aan Adriël, die Meholatiet, as vrou gegee.
20 Maar Migal, die dogter van Saul, het Dawid liefgekry; en toe hulle dit aan Saul meedeel, was die saak in sy oë reg.
21 Want Saul het gedink: Ek sal haar aan hom gee, dat sy vir hom 'n strik kan wees en dat die hand van die Filistyne teen hom kan wees. Daarom het Saul vir Dawid gesê: Vir die tweede keer kan jy vandag my skoonseun word!
22 En Saul het sy dienaars bevel gegee: Spreek met Dawid in die geheim en sê: Kyk, die koning hou van jou, en al sy dienaars het jou lief: word nou maar die koning se skoonseun.
23 Die dienaars van Saul het toe hierdie woorde voor die ore van Dawid gespreek; maar Dawid het gevra: Is dit 'n kleinigheid in julle oë om die skoonseun van die koning te word, terwyl ek 'n arm en geringe man is?
24 En die dienaars van Saul het hom dit meegedeel: Sulke woorde het Dawid gespreek.
25 Toe sê Saul: So moet julle aan Dawid sê: Die koning het behae in geen ander bruidsprys as honderd voorhuide van Filistyne nie, as wraakneming op die vyande van die koning. Saul het naamlik daarop gereken om Dawid te laat val deur die hand van die Filistyne.
26 Toe sy dienaars hierdie woorde aan Dawid meedeel, was die saak reg in die oë van Dawid om skoonseun van die koning te word. En voordat die dae verstreke was,
27 het Dawid hom klaargemaak en met sy manne uitgetrek, en hulle het twee honderd man onder die Filistyne doodgeslaan; en Dawid het hulle voorhuide gebring en dit is voltallig aan die koning afgegee, sodat hy die koning se skoonseun kon word. Daarop het Saul aan hom sy dogter Migal as vrou gegee.
28 Toe Saul sien en merk dat die HERE met Dawid was, en dat Migal, die dogter van Saul, hom liefhet,
29 het Saul nog meer bevrees geword vir Dawid, en Saul het Dawid se vyand geword al die dae.
30 En die vorste van die Filistyne het uitgetrek; en so dikwels as hulle uittrek, het Dawid meer voorspoed gehad as al die dienaars van Saul, sodat sy naam hooggeëerd was.
1 Now after David's talk with Saul was ended, the soul of Jonathan was joined with the soul of David, and David became as dear to him as his very life.
2 And that day Saul took David and would not let him go back to his father's house.
3 Then Jonathan and David made an agreement together, because of Jonathan's love for David.
4 And Jonathan took off the robe he had on and gave it to David, with all his military dress, even to his sword and his bow and the band round his body.
5 And David went wherever Saul sent him, and did wisely: and Saul put him at the head of his men of war, and this was pleasing to all the people as well as to Saul's servants.
6 Now on their way, when David came back after the destruction of the Philistine, the women came out of all the towns of Israel, with songs and dances, meeting David with melody and joy and instruments of music.
7 And the women, answering one another in their song, said, Saul has put to death his thousands and David his tens of thousands.
8 And Saul was very angry and this saying was unpleasing to him; and he said, They have given David credit for tens of thousands, and to me for only thousands: what more is there for him but the kingdom?
9 And from that day Saul was looking with envy on David.
10 Now on the day after, an evil spirit from God came on Saul with great force and he was acting like a prophet among the men of his house, while David was making music for him, as he did day by day: and Saul had his spear in his hand.
11 And Saul, balancing the spear in his hand, said, I will give David a blow, pinning him to the wall. And David got away from him twice.
12 And Saul went in fear of David, because the Lord was with David and had gone away from Saul.
13 So Saul sent him away, and made him a captain over a thousand; and he went about his business before the people.
14 And in all his undertakings David did wisely; and the Lord was with him.
15 And when Saul saw how wisely he did, he was in fear of him.
16 But David was loved by all Israel and Judah, for he went out and came in before them.
17 And Saul said to David, Here is my oldest daughter Merab, whom I will give you for your wife: only be strong for me, fighting in the Lord's wars. For Saul said, Let it not be through me that his fate comes to him, but through the Philistines.
18 And David said to Saul, Who am I, and what is my father's family in Israel, that I am to be son-in-law to the king?
19 But when the time came to give Merab, Saul's daughter, to David, she was given to Adriel of Meholath.
20 And Saul's daughter Michal was in love with David: and Saul had word of it and was pleased.
21 And Saul said, I will give her to him, so that she may be a cause of danger to him, and so that the hands of the Philistines may be against him. So Saul said to David, Today you are to become my son-in-law for the second time.
22 And Saul gave his servants orders saying, Have talk with David secretly and say to him, See how the king has delight in you, and how you are loved by all his servants: then be the king's son-in-law.
23 And Saul's servants said these things to David. And David said, Does it seem to you a small thing to be the king's son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man, of no great name?
24 And the servants of Saul gave him an account of what David had said.
25 And Saul said, Then say to David, The king has no desire for any bride-price, but only for the private parts of a hundred Philistines so that the king may get the better of his haters. But it was in Saul's mind that David might come to his end by the hands of the Philistines.
26 And when his servants said these words to David, he was well pleased to be the son-in-law of the king. And the days were still not past.
27 So David and his men got up and went, and put to death two hundred of the Philistines; and David took their private parts and gave the full number of them to the king, so that he might be the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him his daughter Michal for his wife.
28 And it was clear to Saul that the Lord was with David; and he was loved by all Israel.
29 And Saul's fear of David became all the greater, and he went on hating him, day by day.
30 Then the rulers of the Philistines went out to war: and whenever they went out, David did more wisely than all the other servants of Saul, so that his name became greatly honoured.