1 Depois dessa conversa de Davi com Saul, surgiu tão grande amizade entre Jônatas e Davi que Jônatas tornou-se o seu melhor amigo.
2 Daquele dia em diante, Saul manteve Davi consigo e não o deixou voltar à casa de seu pai.
3 E Jônatas fez um acordo de amizade com Davi, pois se tornara o melhor amigo de Davi.
4 Jônatas tirou o manto que estava vestindo e deu-o a Davi, junto com sua túnica, e até sua espada, seu arco e seu cinturão.
5 Tudo que Saul lhe ordenava fazer, Davi fazia com tanta habilidade que Saul lhe deu um posto elevado no exército. Isto agradou a todo o povo, bem como aos conselheiros de Saul.
6 Quando os soldados voltavam para casa, depois de Davi ter matado o filisteu, as mulheres saíram de todas as cidades de Israel ao encontro do rei Saul com cânticos e danças, com tamborins, com músicas alegres e instrumentos de três cordas.
7 Enquanto dançavam, as mulheres cantavam: "Saul matou milhares, e Davi, dezenas de milhares".
8 Saul ficou muito irritado, com esse refrão e, aborrecido disse: "Atribuíram a Davi dezenas de milhares, mas a mim apenas milhares. O que mais lhe falta senão o reino? "
9 Daí em diante Saul olhava com inveja para Davi.
10 No dia seguinte, um espírito maligno mandado por Deus apoderou-se de Saul e ele entrou em transe profético em sua casa, enquanto Davi tocava harpa, como costumava fazer. Saul estava com uma lança na mão
11 e a atirou, dizendo: "Encravarei Davi na parede". Mas Davi desviou-se duas vezes.
12 Saul tinha medo de Davi porque o Senhor o havia abandonado e agora estava com Davi.
13 Então afastou Davi de sua presença e deu-lhe o comando de uma tropa de mil soldados, e Davi a conduzia em suas campanhas.
14 Ele tinha êxito em tudo o que fazia, pois o Senhor estava com ele.
15 Quando Saul como ele tinha habilidade, teve muito medo dele.
16 Todo Israel e Judá, porém, gostava de Davi, pois ele os conduzia em suas batalhas.
17 Saul disse a Davi: "Aqui está a minha filha mais velha, Merabe. Eu a darei em casamento a você; apenas sirva-me com bravura e lute as batalhas do Senhor". Pois Saul pensou: "Não o matarei. Deixo isso para os filisteus! "
18 Mas Davi disse a Saul: "Quem sou eu, e o que é minha família ou o clã de meu pai em Israel para que eu me torne genro do rei? "
19 Por isso, quando chegou a época de Merabe, a filha de Saul, ser dada em casamento a Davi, ela foi dada a Adriel, de Meolá.
20 Mical, a outra filha de Saul, gostava de Davi. Quando disseram isto a Saul, ele ficou contente e pensou:
21 "Eu a darei a ele, para que lhe sirva de armadilha, fazendo-o cair nas mãos dos filisteus". Então Saul disse a Davi: "Hoje você tem uma segunda oportunidade de tornar-se meu genro".
22 Então Saul ordenou aos seus conselheiros que falassem em particular com Davi, dizendo: "O rei está satisfeito com você, e todos os seus conselheiros o estimam. Torne-se, agora, seu genro".
23 Quando falaram com Davi, ele disse: "Vocês acham que tornar-se genro do rei é fácil? Sou homem pobre e sem recursos".
24 Quando os conselheiros de Saul lhe contaram o que Davi tinha dito,
25 Saul ordenou que dissessem a Davi: "O rei não quer outro preço pela noiva além de cem prepúcios de filisteus, para vingar-se de seus inimigos". O plano de Saul era que Davi fosse morto pelos filisteus.
26 Quando os conselheiros falaram novamente com Davi, ele gostou da idéia de tornar-se genro do rei. Por isso, antes de terminar o prazo estipulado,
27 Davi e seus soldados saíram e mataram duzentos filisteus. Ele trouxe os prepúcios e apresentou-os ao rei para que se tornasse seu genro. Então Saul lhe deu em casamento sua filha Mical.
28 Quando Saul viu claramente que o Senhor estava com Davi e que sua filha Mical o amava,
29 temeu-o ainda mais e continuou seu inimigo pelo resto de sua vida.
30 Os comandantes filisteus continuaram saindo para a batalha, e, todas as vezes que o faziam, Davi tinha mais habilidade do que os outros oficiais de Saul, e ele tornou-se ainda mais famoso.
1 When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. 2 Saul took him that day, and wouldn’t let him go home to his father’s house any more. 3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul. 4 Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David with his clothing, even including his sword, his bow, and his sash.
5 David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely; and Saul set him over the men of war. It was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul’s servants.
6 As they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul with tambourines, with joy, and with instruments of music. 7 The women sang to one another as they played, and said,
"Saul has slain his thousands,
and David his ten thousands."
8 Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said, "They have credited David with ten thousands, and they have only credited me with thousands. What can he have more but the kingdom?" 9 Saul watched David from that day and forward. 10 On the next day, an evil spirit from God came mightily on Saul, and he prophesied in the middle of the house. David played with his hand, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand; 11 and Saul threw the spear, for he said, "I will pin David to the wall!" David escaped from his presence twice. 12 Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, and had departed from Saul. 13 Therefore Saul removed him from his presence, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.
14 David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and Yahweh was with him. 15 When Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he stood in awe of him. 16 But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them. 17 Saul said to David, "Behold, my elder daughter Merab. I will give her to you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh’s battles." For Saul said, "Don’t let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him."
18 David said to Saul, "Who am I, and what is my life, or my father’s family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?"
19 But at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as wife.
20 Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. 21 Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David a second time, "You shall today be my son-in-law."
22 Saul commanded his servants, "Talk with David secretly, and say, ‘Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore be the king’s son-in-law.’"
23 Saul’s servants spoke those words in the ears of David. David said, "Does it seem to you a light thing to be the king’s son-in-law, since I am a poor man and little known?"
24 The servants of Saul told him, saying, "David spoke like this."
25 Saul said, "Tell David, ‘The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies.’" Now Saul thought he would make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. 26 When his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son-in-law. Before the deadline, 27 David arose and went, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines. Then David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might be the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him Michal his daughter as wife. 28 Saul saw and knew that Yahweh was with David; and Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved him. 29 Saul was even more afraid of David; and Saul was David’s enemy continually.
30 Then the princes of the Philistines went out; and as often as they went out, David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul, so that his name was highly esteemed.