שָׁאוּל

sha.ul

Hebrew H7586 Personal name, masculine 406 occurrences in 335 verses
שָׁאוּל Saul

A king of the tribe of Benjamin living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Sa.9.2;

son of: Kish (H7027); married to Ahinoam (H0293) and Rizpah (H7532);

father of: Jonathan (H3083H), Abinadab (H0041H), Malchi-shua (H4444), Merab (H4764), Michal (H4324), Ish-bosheth (H0378), Armoni (H0764), Mephibosheth (H4648H)

§ Saul or Shaul = "desired"

1. a Benjamite, son of Kish, and the 1st king of Israel

2. an early king of Edom and a successor of Samlah

3. a son of Simeon

4. a Levite, son of Uzziah

Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)

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Concordance 335 verses

  1. 1 Samuel 19:9 שָׁא֔וּל

    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,

  2. 1 Samuel 19:10 שָׁא֜וּלשָׁא֔וּל

    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.

  3. 1 Samuel 19:11 שָׁא֨וּל

    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!”

  4. 1 Samuel 19:14 שָׁא֛וּל

    When Saul sent the messengers to seize David, Michal said, “He is ill.”

  5. 1 Samuel 19:15 שָׁאוּל֙

    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.”

  6. 1 Samuel 19:17 שָׁא֜וּלשָׁא֔וּל

    And Saul said to Michal, “Why did you deceive me like this? You sent my enemy away and he has escaped!” Michal replied, “He said to me, ‘Help me get away, or I will kill you!’”

  7. 1 Samuel 19:18 שָׁא֑וּל

    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.

  8. 1 Samuel 19:19 לְשָׁא֖וּל

    When Saul was told that David was at Naioth in Ramah,

  9. 1 Samuel 19:20 שָׁא֣וּלשָׁאוּל֙

    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.

  10. 1 Samuel 19:21 לְשָׁא֗וּלשָׁא֗וּל

    When this was reported to Saul, he sent more messengers, but they began to prophesy as well. So Saul tried again and sent messengers a third time, and even they began to prophesy.

  11. 1 Samuel 19:24 שָׁא֖וּל

    Then Saul stripped off his robes and also prophesied before Samuel. And he collapsed and lay naked all that day and night. That is why it is said, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”

  12. 1 Samuel 20:25 שָׁא֑וּל

    He sat in his usual place by the wall, opposite Jonathan and beside Abner, but David’s place was empty.

  13. 1 Samuel 20:26 שָׁא֛וּל

    Saul said nothing that day because he thought, “Something has happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean—surely he is unclean.”

  14. 1 Samuel 20:27 שָׁאוּל֙

    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?”

  15. 1 Samuel 20:28 שָׁא֑וּל

    Jonathan answered, “David urgently requested my permission to go to Bethlehem,

  16. 1 Samuel 20:30 שָׁאוּל֙

    Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the disgrace of the mother who bore you?

  17. 1 Samuel 20:32 שָׁא֖וּל

    “Why must he be put to death?” Jonathan replied. “What has he done?”

  18. 1 Samuel 20:33 שָׁא֧וּל

    Then Saul hurled his spear at Jonathan to kill him; so Jonathan knew that his father was determined to kill David.

  19. 1 Samuel 21:7 שָׁא֜וּללְשָׁאֽוּל׃

    Now one of Saul’s servants was there that day, detained before the LORD. And his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief shepherd for Saul.

  20. 1 Samuel 21:10 שָׁא֑וּל

    That day David fled from Saul and went to Achish king of Gath.

  21. 1 Samuel 21:11 שָׁאוּל֙

    But the servants of Achish said to him, “Is this not David, the king of the land? Did they not sing about him in their dances, saying: ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands’?”

  22. 1 Samuel 22:6 שָׁא֔וּלוְשָׁאוּל֩

    Soon Saul learned that David and his men had been discovered. At that time Saul was in Gibeah, sitting under the tamarisk tree on the hill at Gibeah, with his spear in hand and all his servants standing around him.

  23. 1 Samuel 22:7 שָׁא֗וּל

    Then Saul said to his servants, “Listen, men of Benjamin! Is the son of Jesse giving all of you fields and vineyards and making you commanders of thousands or hundreds?

  24. 1 Samuel 22:9 שָׁא֖וּל

    But Doeg the Edomite, who had stationed himself with Saul’s servants, answered: “I saw the son of Jesse come to Ahimelech son of Ahitub at Nob.

  25. 1 Samuel 22:12 שָׁא֔וּל

    “Listen now, son of Ahitub,” said Saul. “Here I am, my lord,” he replied.

  26. 1 Samuel 22:13 שָׁא֔וּל

    And Saul asked him, “Why have you and the son of Jesse conspired against me? You gave him bread and a sword and inquired of God for him so that he could rise up against me to lie in wait, as he is doing today.”

  27. 1 Samuel 22:21 שָׁא֔וּל

    And Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the priests of the LORD.

  28. 1 Samuel 22:22 לְשָׁא֑וּל

    Then David said to Abiathar, “I knew that Doeg the Edomite was there that day, and that he was sure to tell Saul. I myself am responsible for the lives of everyone in your father’s house.

  29. 1 Samuel 23:7 לְשָׁא֔וּלשָׁא֗וּל

    When Saul was told that David had gone to Keilah, he said, “God has delivered him into my hand, for he has trapped himself by entering a town with gates and bars.”

  30. 1 Samuel 23:8 שָׁא֛וּל

    Then Saul summoned all his troops to go to war at Keilah and besiege David and his men.

  31. 1 Samuel 23:9 שָׁא֖וּל

    When David learned that Saul was plotting evil against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod.”

  32. 1 Samuel 23:10 שָׁא֖וּל

    And David said, “O LORD, God of Israel, Your servant has heard that Saul intends to come to Keilah and destroy the city on my account.

  33. 1 Samuel 23:11 שָׁא֗וּל

    Will the citizens of Keilah surrender me into his hand? Will Saul come down, as Your servant has heard? O LORD, God of Israel, please tell Your servant.” “He will,” said the LORD.

  34. 1 Samuel 23:12 שָׁא֑וּל

    So David asked, “Will the citizens of Keilah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul?” “They will,” said the LORD.

  35. 1 Samuel 23:13 וּלְשָׁא֣וּל

    Then David and his men, about six hundred strong, set out and departed from Keilah, moving from place to place. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he declined to go forth.

  36. 1 Samuel 23:14 שָׁאוּל֙

    And David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God would not deliver David into his hand.

  37. 1 Samuel 23:15 שָׁא֖וּל

    While David was in Horesh in the Wilderness of Ziph, he saw that Saul had come out to take his life.

  38. 1 Samuel 23:16 שָׁא֔וּל

    And Saul’s son Jonathan came to David in Horesh and strengthened his hand in God,

  39. 1 Samuel 23:17 שָׁא֣וּלשָׁא֥וּל

    saying, “Do not be afraid, for my father Saul will never lay a hand on you. And you will be king over Israel, and I will be your second-in-command. Even my father Saul knows this is true.”

  40. 1 Samuel 23:19 שָׁא֔וּל

    Then the Ziphites came up to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah south of Jeshimon?

  41. 1 Samuel 23:21 שָׁא֔וּל

    “May you be blessed by the LORD,” replied Saul, “for you have had compassion on me.

  42. 1 Samuel 23:24 שָׁא֑וּל

    So they set out and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the Wilderness of Maon in the Arabah south of Jeshimon,

  43. 1 Samuel 23:25 שָׁא֣וּלשָׁא֔וּל

    and Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told about it, he went down to the rock and stayed in the Wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard of this, he pursued David there.

  44. 1 Samuel 23:26 שָׁא֜וּלשָׁא֔וּלוְשָׁא֣וּל

    Saul was proceeding along one side of the mountain, and David and his men along the other side. Even though David was hurrying to get away, Saul and his men were closing in on David and his men to capture them.

  45. 1 Samuel 23:27 שָׁא֖וּל

    Then a messenger came to Saul, saying, “Come quickly, for the Philistines have raided the land!”

  46. 1 Samuel 23:28 שָׁא֗וּל

    So Saul broke off his pursuit of David and went to meet the Philistines. That is why that place is called Sela-hammahlekoth.

  47. 1 Samuel 24:1 שָׁא֔וּל

    After Saul had returned from pursuing the Philistines, he was told, “David is in the wilderness of En-gedi.”

  48. 1 Samuel 24:2 שָׁא֗וּל

    So Saul took three thousand chosen men from all Israel and went to look for David and his men in the region of the Rocks of the Wild Goats.

  49. 1 Samuel 24:3 שָׁא֖וּל

    Soon Saul came to the sheepfolds along the road, where there was a cave, and he went in to relieve himself. And David and his men were hiding in the recesses of the cave.

  50. 1 Samuel 24:4 לְשָׁא֖וּל

    So David’s men said to him, “This is the day about which the LORD said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, that you may do with him as you wish.’” Then David crept up secretly and cut off a corner of Saul’s robe.

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