“When you saw that King Nahash of the Ammonites was advancing against you, you said to me, ‘No! A king will rule over us’ – even though the Lord your God is your king!

Now look! Here is the king you have chosen – the one that you asked for! Look, the Lord has given you a king!

Now at your own discretion, ¹  O king, come down. Delivering him into the king’s hand will be our responsibility.”

Ahimelech replied to the king, “Who among all your servants is faithful like David? He is the king’s son-in-law, the leader of your bodyguard, and honored in your house!

But if you continue to do evil, both you and your king will be swept away.”

The king said, “Find out whose son this boy is!”

So Samuel spoke all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king.

But the people refused to heed Samuel’s warning. ¹  Instead they said, “No! There will be a king over us!

We will be like all the other nations. Our king will judge us and lead us ¹  and fight our battles.”

He captured King Agag of the Amalekites alive, but he executed all Agag’s people ¹  with the sword.

So David hid in the field. When the new moon came, the king sat down to eat his meal.

So he had them stay with the king of Moab; they stayed with him the whole time ¹  that David was in the stronghold.

But the king said, “You will surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s house!

David replied, “Here is the king’s spear! Let one of your servants cross over and get it.

Then Saul instructed his servants, “Tell David secretly, ‘The king is pleased with you, and all his servants like you. So now become the king’s son-in-law.”

Saul replied, “Here is what you should say to David: ‘There is nothing that the king wants as a price for the bride except a hundred Philistine foreskins, so that he can be avenged of his ¹  enemies.’” (Now Saul was thinking that he could kill David by the hand of the Philistines.)

when David, along with his men, went out ¹  and struck down two hundred Philistine men. David brought their foreskins and presented all of them to the king so he could become the king’s son-in-law. Saul then gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.

Then the king arranged for a meeting with the priest Ahimelech son of Ahitub and all the priests of his father’s house who were at Nob. They all came to the king.

David said to Abner, “Aren’t you a man? After all, who is like you in Israel? Why then haven’t you protected your lord the king? One of the soldiers came to kill your lord the king.

The Lord shatters ¹  his adversaries; ²  he thunders against them from ³  the heavens. The Lord executes judgment to the ends of the earth. He will strengthen ⁴  his king and exalt the power ⁵  of his anointed one.” ⁶