RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

shepherd's bag which he had, even in a pouch; and his
sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Plishti.
41 And the Plishti came on and drew near to Dawid; and
the man that bore the shield went before him.
42 And when the Plishti looked around, and saw Dawid,
he despised him: for he was but a youth, and dark-skinned
and ruddy, and of a handsome appearance.
43 And the Plishti said to Dawid, Am I a dog; that you
come to me with sticks? And the Plishti cursed Dawid by
his pagan elohim.
44 And the Plishti said to Dawid, Come to me, and I will
give your flesh to the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of
the field.
45 Then said Dawid to the Plishti, You come to me with a
sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to
you in the Name of vuvh tzevaoth, the Elohim of the
armies of Yisrael, whom you have defied. 782
46 This day will vuvh deliver you into my hand; and I
will smite you, and take your head from you; and I will
give the dead bodies of the armies of the Plishtim this day
to the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth;
that all the earth may know that Yisrael has Elohim.
47 And all this congregation 783 shall know that vuvh
saves not with sword and spear: for the battle is vuvh's,
and He will give you into our hands.
48 And it came to pass, when the Plishti arose, and came
and drew near to meet Dawid, that Dawid hurried, and ran
toward the army to meet the Plishti.
49 And Dawid put his hand in his bag, and took a stone,
and slung it, and smote the Plishti in his forehead, that the
stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to
the earth.
50 So Dawid prevailed over the Plishti with a sling and
with a stone, and smote the Plishti, and killed him; but
there was no sword in the hand of Dawid.
51 Therefore Dawid ran, and stood over the Plishti, and
took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath, and killed
him, and cut off his head with it. And when the Plishtim
saw that their champion was dead, they fled.
52 And the men of Yisrael and of Yahudah arose, 784 and
shouted, and pursued the Plishtim, as far as the valley, to
the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Plishtim fell
down by the way to Shaaraim, even to Gat, and to Ekron.
53 And the children of Yisrael returned from chasing after
the Plishtim, and they plundered their tents.
54 And Dawid took the head of the Plishti, and brought it
to Yahrushalayim; but he put his armor in his tent.
55 And when Shaul saw Dawid go forth against the
Plishti, he said to Avner, the leader of the army, Avner,
whose son is this youth? And Avner said, As your chayim
lives, O melech, I cannot tell.
56 And the melech said, Find out whose son the young
man is.
57 And as Dawid returned from the slaughter of the
Plishti, Avner took him, and brought him before Shaul
with the head of the Plishti in his hand.
58 And Shaul said to him, Whose son are you, young
man? And Dawid answered, Iam the son of your eved
Yishai the Beth-Lechemite.
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And it came to pass, when he had made an end of
speaking to Shaul, that the chayim of Yonathan was knit
with the chayim of Dawid, and Yonathan loved him as his
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own chayim.
2 And Shaul took him that day, and would not let him go
home to his abba's bayit.
3 Then Yonathan and Dawid made a brit, because he
loved him as his own chayim.
4 And Yonathan stripped himself of the robe that was
upon him, and gave it to Dawid, and his garments, even to
his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.
5 And Dawid went out wherever Shaul sent him, and
behaved himself wisely: and Shaul set him over the men
of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people,
and also in the sight of Shaul's avadim.
6 And it came to pass as they came, when Dawid had
returned from the slaughter of the Plishti, that the women
came out of all cities of Yisrael, singing and dancing, to
meet melech Shaul, with tambourines, with simcha, and
with instruments of music.
7 And the women sang as they played, and said, Shaul has
killed his thousands, and Dawid his ten of thousands.
8 And Shaul was very angry, and the saying displeased
him; and he said, They have ascribed to Dawid ten
thousands, and to me they have ascribed only thousands:
and what can he have more but the malchut itself?
9 And Shaul eyed Dawid carefully from that day and
forward.
10 And it came to pass the next day, that the evil ruach
from Elohim came upon Shaul, and he prophesied evil in
the midst of the bayit: and Dawid played the harp with his
hand, as at other times: and there was a javelin in Shaul's
hand.
11 And Shaul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite
Dawid even to the wall with it. And Dawid withdrew
from his presence twice.
12 And Shaul was afraid of Dawid, because vuvh was
with him, and had departed from Shaul.
13 Therefore Shaul removed Dawid from his presence,
and made him his leader over a thousand; and he went out
and came in before the people.
14 And Dawid behaved himself wisely in all his halachot;
and vuvh was with him.
15 So when Shaul saw that Dawid behaved himself very
wisely, he was afraid of him.
16 But kol Yisrael and Yahudah loved Dawid, 785 because
he went out and came in before them.
17 And Shaul said to Dawid, See my eldest daughter
Merav, I will give her to you as a wife: only be brave for
me, and fight vuvh's battles. For Shaul said, Let not my
hand kill him, but let the hand of the Plishtim kill him.
18 And Dawid said to Shaul, Who am I? And what is my
chayim, or my abba's mishpacha in Yisrael, that I should
be son-in-law to the melech?
19 But it came to pass at the time when Merav Shaul's
daughter should have been given to Dawid, that she was
given to Adriel the Meholathite as his wife.
20 And Michal Shaul's daughter loved Dawid: and they
told Shaul, and the thing pleased him.
21 And Shaul said, I will give him to her, that she may be
a trap to him, and that the hand of the Plishtim may be
against him. So Shaul said to Dawid a second time, You
shall this day be my son-in-law.
22 And Shaul commanded his avadim, saying, Commune
with Dawid secretly, and say, See, the melech delights in
you, and all his avadim love you: now therefore be the