דָּוִד
da.vid
A king of the tribe of Judah living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at Rut.4.17;
son of: Jesse (H3448) and Nahash (H5176I);
brother of: Eliab (H0446I), Abinadab (H0041I), Shimeah (H8093), Zeruiah (H6870), Abigail (H0026H)(?), Nethanel (H5417H), Raddai (H7288), Ozem (H0684) and Elihu (H0453J); married to Michal (H4324), Abigail (H0026), Ahinoam (H0293H), Maacah (H4601I), Haggith (H2294), Abital (H0037), Eglah (H5698) and Bathsheba (H1339);
father of: Amnon (H0550), Chileab (H3609), Absalom (H0053), Adonijah (H0138), Shephatiah (H8203), Ithream (H3507), Shammua (H8051H), Shobab (H7727), Nathan (H5416), Solomon (H8010), Ibhar (H2984), Elishua (H0474), Nepheg (H5298H), Japhia (H3309I), Elishama (H0476H), Eliada (H0450), Eliphelet (H0467), Tamar (H8559H), Elpelet (H0467I), Nogah (H5052) and Jerimoth (H3406N)
Also named: Daueid, Dauid, Dabid (Δαυείδ, Δαυίδ, Δαβίδ "David" G1138)
§ David = "beloved"
youngest son of Jesse and second king of Israel
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
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Concordance 910 verses
- 1 Samuel 18:16 דָּוִ֑ד
But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he was leading them out to battle and back.
- 1 Samuel 18:17 דָּוִ֗ד
Then Saul said to David, “Here is my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you in marriage. Only be valiant for me and fight the LORD’s battles.” But Saul was thinking, “I need not raise my hand against him; let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”
- 1 Samuel 18:18 דָּוִ֜ד
And David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my family or my father’s clan in Israel, that I should become the son-in-law of the king?”
- 1 Samuel 18:19 לְדָוִ֑ד
So when it was time to give Saul’s daughter Merab to David, she was given in marriage to Adriel of Meholah.
- 1 Samuel 18:20 דָּוִ֑ד
Now Saul’s daughter Michal loved David, and when this was reported to Saul, it pleased him.
- 1 Samuel 18:21 דָּוִ֔ד
“I will give her to David,” Saul thought, “so that she may be a snare to him, and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David, “For a second time now you can be my son-in-law.”
- 1 Samuel 18:22 דָּוִ֤ד
Then Saul ordered his servants, “Speak to David privately and tell him, ‘Behold, the king is pleased with you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore, become his son-in-law.’”
- 1 Samuel 18:23 דָוִ֔דדָּוִ֗ד
But when Saul’s servants relayed these words to David, he replied, “Does it seem trivial in your sight to be the son-in-law of the king? I am a poor man and lightly esteemed.”
- 1 Samuel 18:24 דָּוִֽד׃פ
And the servants told Saul what David had said.
- 1 Samuel 18:25 לְדָוִ֗דדָּוִ֖ד
Saul replied, “Say to David, ‘The king desires no other dowry but a hundred Philistine foreskins as revenge on his enemies.’” But Saul intended to cause David’s death at the hands of the Philistines.
- 1 Samuel 18:26 לְדָוִד֙דָוִ֔ד
When the servants reported these terms to David, he was pleased to become the king’s son-in-law. Before the wedding day arrived,
- 1 Samuel 18:27 דָּוִ֜דדָוִד֙
David and his men went out and killed two hundred Philistines. He brought their foreskins and presented them as payment in full to become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave his daughter Michal to David in marriage.
- 1 Samuel 18:28 דָּוִ֑ד
When Saul realized that the LORD was with David and that his daughter Michal loved David,
- 1 Samuel 18:29 דָוִ֖דדָּוִ֖ד
he grew even more afraid of David. So from then on Saul was David’s enemy.
- 1 Samuel 18:30 דָּוִד֙
Every time the Philistine commanders came out for battle, David was more successful than all of Saul’s officers, so that his name was highly esteemed.
- 1 Samuel 19:1 דָּוִ֑דבְּדָוִ֖ד
Then Saul ordered his son Jonathan and all his servants to kill David. But Jonathan delighted greatly in David,
- 1 Samuel 19:2 לְדָוִ֣ד
so he warned David, saying, “My father Saul intends to kill you. Be on your guard in the morning; find a secret place and hide there.
- 1 Samuel 19:4 בְּדָוִד֙בְדָוִ֗ד
Then Jonathan spoke well of David to his father Saul and said to him, “The king should not sin against his servant David; he has not sinned against you. In fact, his actions have been highly beneficial to you.
- 1 Samuel 19:5 דָּוִ֖ד
He took his life in his hands when he struck down the Philistine, and the LORD worked a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced, so why would you sin against innocent blood by killing David for no reason?”
- 1 Samuel 19:7 לְדָוִ֔דדָּוִד֙
So Jonathan summoned David and told him all these things. Then Jonathan brought David to Saul to serve him as he had before.
- 1 Samuel 19:8 דָוִ֜ד
When war broke out again, David went out and fought the Philistines and struck them with such a mighty blow that they fled before him.
- 1 Samuel 19:9 וְדָוִ֖ד
But as Saul was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand, a spirit of distress from the LORD came upon him. While David was playing the harp,
- 1 Samuel 19:10 בְּדָוִ֣דוְדָוִ֛ד
Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear. But the spear struck the wall and David eluded him, ran away, and escaped that night.
- 1 Samuel 19:11 דָּוִד֙לְדָוִ֗ד
Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and kill him in the morning. But David’s wife Michal warned him, “If you do not run for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”
- 1 Samuel 19:12 דָּוִ֖ד
So Michal lowered David from the window, and he ran away and escaped.
- 1 Samuel 19:14 דָּוִ֑ד
When Saul sent the messengers to seize David, Michal said, “He is ill.”
- 1 Samuel 19:15 דָּוִ֖ד
But Saul sent the messengers back to see David and told them, “Bring him up to me in his bed so I can kill him.”
- 1 Samuel 19:18 וְדָוִ֨ד
So David ran away and escaped. And he went to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went to Naioth and stayed there.
- 1 Samuel 19:19 דָוִ֔ד
When Saul was told that David was at Naioth in Ramah,
- 1 Samuel 19:20 דָּוִד֒
he sent messengers to capture him. But when they saw the group of prophets prophesying, with Samuel leading them, the Spirit of God came upon them, and Saul’s messengers also began to prophesy.
- 1 Samuel 19:22 וְדָוִ֑ד
Finally, Saul himself left for Ramah and came to the large cistern at Secu, where he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” “At Naioth in Ramah,” he was told.
- 1 Samuel 20:1 דָּוִ֔ד
Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah. He came to Jonathan and asked, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? How have I sinned against your father, that he wants to take my life?”
- 1 Samuel 20:3 דָּוִ֗ד
But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”
- 1 Samuel 20:4 דָּוִ֑ד
Then Jonathan said to David, “Whatever you desire, I will do for you.”
- 1 Samuel 20:5 דָּוִ֜ד
So David told him, “Look, tomorrow is the New Moon, and I am supposed to dine with the king. Instead, let me go and hide in the field until the third evening from now.
- 1 Samuel 20:6 דָוִד֙
If your father misses me at all, tell him, ‘David urgently requested my permission to hurry to Bethlehem, his hometown, because there is an annual sacrifice for his whole clan.’
- 1 Samuel 20:10 דָּוִד֙
Then David asked Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?”
- 1 Samuel 20:11 דָּוִ֔ד
“Come,” he replied, “let us go out to the field.” So the two of them went out into the field,
- 1 Samuel 20:12 דָּוִ֗דדָּוִ֑ד
and Jonathan said, “By the LORD, the God of Israel, I will sound out my father by this time tomorrow or the next day. If he is favorable toward you, will I not send for you and tell you?
- 1 Samuel 20:15 דָוִ֔ד
and do not ever cut off your loving devotion from my household—not even when the LORD cuts off every one of David’s enemies from the face of the earth.”
- 1 Samuel 20:16 דָּוִ֑דדָוִֽד׃
So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, “May the LORD hold David’s enemies accountable.”
- 1 Samuel 20:17 דָּוִ֔ד
And Jonathan had David reaffirm his vow out of love for him, for Jonathan loved David as he loved himself.
- 1 Samuel 20:24 דָּוִ֖ד
So David hid in the field, and when the New Moon had come, the king sat down to eat.
- 1 Samuel 20:25 דָּוִֽד׃
He sat in his usual place by the wall, opposite Jonathan and beside Abner, but David’s place was empty.
- 1 Samuel 20:27 דָּוִ֑דס
But on the day after the New Moon, the second day, David’s place was still empty, and Saul asked his son Jonathan, “Why hasn’t the son of Jesse come to the meal either yesterday or today?”
- 1 Samuel 20:28 דָּוִ֛ד
Jonathan answered, “David urgently requested my permission to go to Bethlehem,
- 1 Samuel 20:33 דָּוִֽד׃ס
Then Saul hurled his spear at Jonathan to kill him; so Jonathan knew that his father was determined to kill David.
- 1 Samuel 20:34 דָּוִ֔ד
Jonathan got up from the table in fierce anger and did not eat any food that second day of the month, for he was grieved by his father’s shameful treatment of David.
- 1 Samuel 20:35 דָּוִ֑ד
In the morning Jonathan went out to the field for the appointment with David, and a small boy was with him.
- 1 Samuel 20:39 וְדָוִ֔ד
But the boy did not know anything; only Jonathan and David knew the arrangement.