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Lexicon :: Strong's H4428 - meleḵ

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מֶלֶךְ
Transliteration
meleḵ
Pronunciation
meh'-lek
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1199a

Strong’s Definitions

מֶלֶךְ melek, meh'-lek; from H4427; a king:—king, royal.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2,523x

The KJV translates Strong's H4428 in the following manner: king (2,518x), royal (2x), Hammelech (1x), Malcham (1x), Moloch (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2,523x
The KJV translates Strong's H4428 in the following manner: king (2,518x), royal (2x), Hammelech (1x), Malcham (1x), Moloch (1x).

  1. king

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מֶלֶךְ melek, meh'-lek; from H4427; a king:—king, royal.
STRONGS H4428: Abbreviations
I. מֶ֫לֶךְ 2513 noun masculine king (Late Hebrew id.; MI1, 5, 10, 18, 23 מלך; l4 המלכן; Phoenician מלך; Zinjirli מלך DHMSendsch. 60; Assyrian maliku, malku, prince (Assyrian šarru = king); Arabic bdb057301 king (original Hebrew *מַלִח inferred, LagBN 73 BaNB § 112 WMMAs. u. Europ. 76); Sabean מלכן Sab DenkmNo. 1; construct מלך, plural אמלך CISiv 37; compare Ethiopic bdb057302 God (and Nöl.c.); Aramaic bdb057303, מְלֵיךְ; Palmyrene מלך מלכא VogNo. 28; Nabataean מלכא EutNab. 1); — מ׳ absolute Genesis 14:7 + (insert also 2 Samuel 13:17 Greek Version of the LXX Th We Dr Kit Bu, and 2 Samuel 13:34 Greek Version of the LXX We Dr Kit Bu); in p. always מֶ֑לֶךְ Genesis 49:20 + 238 times (so also proper name in מֶלֶךְ -); construct Genesis 14:1 +; suffix מַלְכִּי 2 Samuel 19:4 (twice in verse) + 6 times, etc.; plural מְלָכִים Genesis 14:9 +; מְלָכִין Proverbs 31:3; construct מַלְכֵי Genesis 17:16 +; suffix מְלָכֶיהָ Isaiah 7:16 + 3 times; מַלְכֵיהֶם Deuteronomy 7:24 + 16 times, etc.; —
1. king: of Egypt Genesis 39:20f.; Exodus 1:8f.; Deuteronomy 11:3; 1 Kings 3:1; of Mesopotamia, Shinar, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, etc. Judges 3:8, 10; Genesis 14:1f.; 2 Kings 15:19, 20, 29; 2 Kings 17:3f.; 2 Kings 18:13f.; 2 Kings 24:1, 11f.; Ezra 1:1f.; Ezra 4:3f.; Esther 1:2 +, 1 Kings 11:18, 40; 1 Kings 14:25; 2 Kings 17:4f.; 2 Kings 23:29 +; of Canaan, Philistia, Edom, Moab, etc. (often of single city): Genesis 14:2f.; Genesis 14:18; Genesis 20:2; Genesis 26:1, 8; Genesis 36:31; Numbers 20:14; Numbers 21:1f.; Numbers 22:4, 10; Deuteronomy 1:4; Deuteronomy 3:1f.; Joshua 2:2 (often in Joshua), Judges 1:7; Judges 5:19; Judges 8:5, 12; Judges 11:12f.; 2 Kings 3:4f. +; of Aram, Hamath, etc. 2 Samuel 8:3f.; 2 Samuel 8:9; 1 Kings 15:18; 1 Kings 20:1f.; 1 Kings 22:3; 2 Kings 5:1f.; 2 Kings 8:7f.; 2 Kings 8:29; 2 Kings 9:14, 15; 2 Kings 15:37; 2 Kings 16:5f. +; of Tyre, etc. 2 Samuel 5:11; 1 Kings 5:15; 1 Kings 9:11, 16 +, etc.; especially of Israel (undivided, and of both divisions) Genesis 36:31; Numbers 23:21; Numbers 24:7; Deuteronomy 17:14f.; Judges 17:6; Judges 18:1; Judges 19:1; Judges 21:25; 1 Samuel 2:10; 1 Samuel 8:5f.; 2 Samuel 2:4f.; 1 Kings 1:33, 34f. + very often; compare also Judges 9:5. — 2 Samuel 18:29b strike out הַמּ׳ We Klo Dr Kit Bu. Note that in early books המלך דוד is nearly always said; in late books usually המלך שׁלמה וגו׳) דוד; compare Aramaic כּוֺרֶשׁ מַלְכָּא, etc.
2. of Davidic king, as under divine protection, 1 Samuel 2:10 (|| מְשִׁיחוֺ), Psalm 2:6; Psalm 18:51; Psalm 89:19; Psalm 61:7, compare Psalm 99:4; so in (Messianic) prediction Hosea 3:5; Isaiah 32:1; Jeremiah 23:5; Ezekiel 37:22, 24; Zechariah 9:9.
3. used of י׳ as king of Israel 1 Samuel 12:12; in poetry Deuteronomy 33:5 compare Psalm 5:3; Psalm 10:16; Psalm 29:10; Psalm 44:5; Psalm 48:3; Psalm 68:25; Psalm 74:12; Psalm 84:4; Psalm 145:1; Psalm 149:2; Isaiah 41:21; Isaiah 43:15; Isaiah 44:6; Zephaniah 3:15; מֶלֶךְ הַכָּבוֺד Psalm 24:7; Psalm 24:8; Psalm 24:9; Psalm 24:10 (twice in verse); universal king Psalm 47:3; Psalm 47:8; Psalm 95:3; Psalm 98:6; Jeremiah 10:7, 10, compare Jeremiah 46:18; Jeremiah 48:15; Jeremiah 51:57; Zechariah 14:9, 16, 17; Malachi 1:14; of false god Amos 5:26.
4. in fable, king of trees Judges 9:8, 15 figurative of crocodile Job 41:26; אֵין לָאַרְבֶּה מ׳ Proverbs 30:27; of death, מֶלֶךְ בַּלָּהוֺת Job 18:14.
5. combinations are: —
a. הַגָּדוֺל הַמּ׳ 2 Kings 18:19, 28 = Isaiah 36:4, 13 (of Assyrian king: compare Assyrian šarru rabu); גָּדוֺל מ׳ Ecclesiastes 9:14 (indefinite); of י׳ Malachi 1:14, עַלכֿלאֿלהים ג׳ מ׳ Psalm 95:3; מ׳ עוֺלָם Jeremiah 10:10 (of י׳); מְלָכִים מ׳ Ezekiel 26:7 (king of Babylon)
b. יְחִי הַמֶּלֶךְ 1 Samuel 10:24; 2 Samuel 16:16 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 1:34, 39; 2 Kings 11:12; 2 Chronicles 23:11; מֶלֶךְ בירושׁלם Ecclesiastes 1:1, compare Eccl 15:26; 2 Samuel 5:2; 1 Kings 14:2; 1 Chronicles 29:25; 2 Samuel 2:11 (בחברון עלהֿיה מ׳) 1 Kings 11:37; 2 Chronicles 28:4; Ecclesiastes 1:12.
c. following a verb (one or two accusative) על שִׂים מ׳ Deuteronomy 17:14, 15 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 10:19; שִׂים לָנוּ מ׳ 1 Samuel 8:5; שִׂים לְמ׳ 1 Kings 10:9; לְ נָתַן מ׳ 1 Samuel 8:6; Hosea 13:10, 11; נָתַן עַל 1 Samuel 12:13; 2 Chronicles 2:10; Nehemiah 9:37; Nehemiah 13:26; הִמְלִיךְ לְמֶלֶךְ Judges 9:6; 1 Samuel 15:11; על הִמְלִיךְ מ׳ 1 Samuel 12:1; לְ הִמְלִיךְ מ׳ 1 Samuel 8:22; מָשַׁח מ׳ עַל Judges 9:8; מָשַׁח לְמ׳ 1 Kings 1:45; עַל מָשַׁךְ לְמ׳ Judges 9:15; 1 Samuel 15:1, 17; 2 Samuel 2:4; 2 Samuel 5:3, 12; 2 Samuel 12:7; 1 Kings 1:34; 1 Chronicles 11:3; 1 Chronicles 14:8; יִהְיֶה על מ׳ 1 Samuel 8:19; על בִּקֵּשׁ למ׳ 2 Samuel 3:17; הֵכִין לְמ׳ על 2 Samuel 5:12; 1 Chronicles 14:2; על הֵקִים מ׳ 1 Kings 14:14; Deuteronomy 28:36; תַּחַת וגו׳ לְמ׳ יָשַׁב עַלכִּֿסֵּא י׳ 1 Chronicles 29:23, compare Proverbs 20:8; אלהיך לְי׳ נָתַן עַלכִּֿסֵּא לְמ׳ 2 Chronicles 9:8.
d. מַעֲדַנֵּימֶֿלךְ Genesis 49:20 royal dainties, figurative; מִשְׁתֵּה הַמּ׳ 1 Samuel 25:36 royal feast (in simile); אֶבֶן הַמּ׳ 2 Samuel 14:26 king's weight; יַדהַֿמּ׳ 1 Kings 10:13 royal bounty (in simile); גִּזֵּי הַמּ׳ Amos 7:1 king's mowings; מִקְדַּשׁ מ׳ Amos 7:13 royal sanctuary; עֲטֶרֶת מַלְכָּם 2 Samuel 12:30 crown of their king = 1 Chronicles 20:2 (but read מִלְכֹּם Greek Version of the LXX We Klo Dr Kit Kau — not Bu KitChr. Hpt); compare also בַּיִת, עֵמֶק, גַּן, שָׁוֵה, etc. — proper name אבימלך, אחימלך, אלימלך, מלך, נתן, מלך, עבד, see below אב, אח, etc.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

14:1; 14:1; 14:2; 14:7; 14:9; 14:18; 17:16; 20:2; 26:1; 26:8; 36:31; 36:31; 39:20; 49:20; 49:20

Exodus

1:8

Numbers

20:14; 21:1; 22:4; 22:10; 23:21; 24:7

Deuteronomy

1:4; 3:1; 7:24; 11:3; 17:14; 17:14; 17:15; 28:36; 33:5

Joshua

2:2

Judges

1:7; 3:8; 3:10; 5:19; 8:5; 8:12; 9:5; 9:6; 9:8; 9:8; 9:15; 9:15; 11:12; 17:6; 18:1; 19:1; 21:25

1 Samuel

2:10; 2:10; 8:5; 8:5; 8:6; 8:19; 8:22; 10:19; 10:24; 12:1; 12:12; 12:13; 15:1; 15:11; 15:17; 25:36

2 Samuel

2:4; 2:4; 2:11; 3:17; 5:2; 5:3; 5:11; 5:12; 5:12; 8:3; 8:9; 12:7; 12:30; 13:17; 13:34; 14:26; 16:16; 18:29; 19:4

1 Kings

1:33; 1:34; 1:34; 1:34; 1:39; 1:45; 3:1; 5:15; 9:11; 9:16; 10:9; 10:13; 11:18; 11:37; 11:40; 14:2; 14:14; 14:25; 15:18; 20:1; 22:3

2 Kings

3:4; 5:1; 8:7; 8:29; 9:14; 9:15; 11:12; 15:19; 15:20; 15:29; 15:37; 16:5; 17:3; 17:4; 18:13; 18:19; 18:28; 23:29; 24:1; 24:11

1 Chronicles

11:3; 14:2; 14:8; 20:2; 29:23; 29:25

2 Chronicles

2:10; 9:8; 23:11; 28:4

Ezra

1:1; 4:3

Nehemiah

9:37; 13:26

Esther

1:2

Job

18:14; 41:26

Psalms

2:6; 5:3; 10:16; 24:7; 24:8; 24:9; 24:10; 29:10; 44:5; 47:3; 47:8; 48:3; 61:7; 68:25; 74:12; 84:4; 89:19; 95:3; 95:3; 98:6; 99:4; 145:1; 149:2

Proverbs

20:8; 30:27; 31:3

Ecclesiastes

1:1; 1:12; 9:14

Isaiah

7:16; 32:1; 36:4; 36:13; 41:21; 43:15; 44:6

Jeremiah

10:7; 10:10; 10:10; 23:5; 46:18; 48:15; 51:57

Ezekiel

26:7; 37:22; 37:24

Hosea

3:5; 13:10; 13:11

Amos

5:26; 7:1; 7:13

Zephaniah

3:15

Zechariah

9:9; 14:9; 14:16; 14:17

Malachi

1:14; 1:14

H4428

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Strong's Number H4428 matches the Hebrew מֶלֶךְ (meleḵ),
which occurs 86 times in 75 verses in '1Sa' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (1Sa 2:10–1Sa 21:11)

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:10 - The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken in pieces;
From heaven He will thunder against them.
The LORD will judge the ends of the earth.

“He will give strength to His king,
And exalt the horn of His anointed.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 8:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:5 - and said to him, “Look, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 8:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:6 - But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” So Samuel prayed to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 8:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:9 - “Now therefore, heed their voice. However, you shall solemnly forewarn them, and show them the behavior of the king who will reign over them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 8:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:10 - So Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who asked him for a king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 8:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:11 - And he said, “This will be the behavior of the king who will reign over you: He will take your sons and appoint them for his own chariots and to be his horsemen, and some will run before his chariots.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 8:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:18 - “And you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, and the LORD will not hear you in that day.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 8:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:19 - Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No, but we will have a king over us,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 8:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:20 - “that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 8:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:22 - So the LORD said to Samuel, “Heed their voice, and make them a king.” And Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Every man go to his city.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:19 - “But you have today rejected your God, who Himself saved you from all your adversities and your tribulations; and you have said to Him, ‘No, set a king over us!’ Now therefore, present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and by your clans.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:24 - And Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see him whom the LORD has chosen, that there is no one like him among all the people?” So all the people shouted and said, “Long live the king!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:1 - Now Samuel said to all Israel: “Indeed I have heeded your voice in all that you said to me, and have made a king over you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:2 - “And now here is the king, walking before you; and I am old and grayheaded, and look, my sons are with you. I have walked before you from my childhood to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:9 - “And when they forgot the LORD their God, He sold them into the hand of Sisera, commander of the army of Hazor, into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab; and they fought against them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:12 - “And when you saw that Nahash king of the Ammonites came against you, you said to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us,’ when the LORD your God was your king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:13 - “Now therefore, here is the king whom you have chosen and whom you have desired. And take note, the LORD has set a king over you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:14 - “If you fear the LORD and serve Him and obey His voice, and do not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then both you and the king who reigns over you will continue following the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:17 - “Is today not the wheat harvest? I will call to the LORD, and He will send thunder and rain, that you may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking a king for yourselves.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:19 - And all the people said to Samuel, “Pray for your servants to the LORD your God, that we may not die; for we have added to all our sins the evil of asking a king for ourselves.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:25 - “But if you still do wickedly, you shall be swept away, both you and your king.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:47

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:47 - So Saul established his sovereignty over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, against the people of Ammon, against Edom, against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines. Wherever he turned, he harassed them.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:1 - Samuel also said to Saul, “The LORD sent me to anoint you king over His people, over Israel. Now therefore, heed the voice of the words of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:8 - He also took Agag king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:11 - “I greatly regret that I have set up Saul as king, for he has turned back from following Me, and has not performed My commandments.” And it grieved Samuel, and he cried out to the LORD all night.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:17 - So Samuel said, “When you were little in your own eyes, were you not head of the tribes of Israel? And did not the LORD anoint you king over Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:20 - And Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and gone on the mission on which the LORD sent me, and brought back Agag king of Amalek; I have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:23 - For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft,
And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the LORD,
He also has rejected you from being king.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:26 - But Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you, for you have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:32 - Then Samuel said, “Bring Agag king of the Amalekites here to me.” So Agag came to him cautiously. And Agag said, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 16:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:1 - Now the LORD said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go; I am sending you to Jesse the Bethlehemite. For I have provided Myself a king among his sons.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:25 - So the men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel; and it shall be that the man who kills him the king will enrich with great riches, will give him his daughter, and give his father’s house exemption from taxes in Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:55

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:55 - When Saul saw David going out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is this youth?” And Abner said, “As your soul lives, O king, I do not know.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:56

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:56 - So the king said, “Inquire whose son this young man is.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 18:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:6 - Now it had happened as they were coming home, when David was returning from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women had come out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with joy, and with musical instruments.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 18:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:18 - So 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?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:22 - And Saul commanded his servants, “Communicate with David secretly, and say, ‘Look, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore, become the king’s son-in-law.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 18:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:23 - So Saul’s servants spoke those words in the hearing of David. And David said, “Does it seem to you a light thing to be a king’s son-in-law, seeing I am a poor and lightly esteemed man?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 18:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:25 - Then Saul said, “Thus you shall say to David: ‘The king does not desire any dowry but one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to take vengeance on the king’s enemies.’ ” But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 18:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:26 - So when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to become the king’s son-in-law. Now the days had not expired;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 18:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:27 - therefore David arose and went, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines. And David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full count to the king, that he might become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him Michal his daughter as a wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 19:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:4 - Thus Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father, and said to him, “Let not the king sin against his servant, against David, because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 20:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:5 - And David said to Jonathan, “Indeed tomorrow is the New Moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king to eat. But let me go, that I may hide in the field until the third day at evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 20:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:24 - Then David hid in the field. And when the New Moon had come, the king sat down to eat the feast.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 20:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:25 - Now the king sat on his seat, as at other times, on a seat by the wall. And Jonathan arose,[fn] and Abner sat by Saul’s side, but David’s place was empty.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 20:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:29 - “And he said, ‘Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has commanded me to be there. And now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me get away and see my brothers.’ Therefore he has not come to the king’s table.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 21:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:2 - So David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has ordered me on some business, and said to me, ‘Do not let anyone know anything about the business on which I send you, or what I have commanded you.’ And I have directed my young men to such and such a place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 21:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:8 - And David said to Ahimelech, “Is there not here on hand a spear or a sword? For I have brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 21:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:10 - Then David arose and fled that day from before Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 21:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:11 - And the servants of Achish said to him, “Is this not David the king of the land? Did they not sing of him to one another in dances, saying:

‘Saul has slain his thousands,
And David his ten thousands’?”[fn]

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