Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version When Saul’s servants told him what David had said, New Living Translation When Saul’s men reported this back to the king, English Standard Version And the servants of Saul told him, “Thus and so did David speak.” Berean Standard Bible And the servants told Saul what David had said. King James Bible And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David. New King James Version And the servants of Saul told him, saying, “In this manner David spoke.” New American Standard Bible Then Saul’s servants reported to him, saying, “These are the words David spoke.” NASB 1995 The servants of Saul reported to him according to these words which David spoke. NASB 1977 And the servants of Saul reported to him according to these words which David spoke. Legacy Standard Bible And the servants of Saul told to him according to these words which David spoke. Amplified Bible The servants of Saul told him what David said. Christian Standard Bible The servants reported back to Saul, “These are the words David spoke.” Holman Christian Standard Bible The servants reported back to Saul, “These are the words David spoke.” American Standard Version And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David. Contemporary English Version The officials went back to Saul and told him exactly what David had said. English Revised Version And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David. GOD'S WORD® Translation When the officers told Saul what David had said, Good News Translation The officials told Saul what David had said, International Standard Version Saul's officials reported to him: "This is what David said." Majority Standard Bible And the servants told Saul what David had said. NET Bible When Saul's servants reported what David had said, New Heart English Bible The servants of Saul told him, saying, "David spoke like this." Webster's Bible Translation And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spoke David. World English Bible The servants of Saul told him, saying, “David spoke like this.” Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionAnd the servants of Saul declare [it] to him, saying, “David has spoken according to these words.” Young's Literal Translation And the servants of Saul declare to him, saying, 'According to these words hath David spoken.' Smith's Literal Translation And Saul's servants will announce to him, saying, According to these words spake David. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleAnd the servants of Saul told him, saying: Such words as these hath David spoken. Catholic Public Domain Version And the servants reported to Saul, saying, “David has spoken words in this manner.” New American Bible When his servants reported David’s answer to him, New Revised Standard Version The servants of Saul told him, “This is what David said.” Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleAnd the servants of Saul told him, saying, These are the words which David spoke. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated And his Servants told Shaul, and they told him these words that David said OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917And the servants of Saul told him, saying: 'On this manner spoke David.' Brenton Septuagint Translation And the servants of Saul reported to him according to these words, which David spoke. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context David Marries Michal…23But 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.” 24And the servants told Saul what David had said. 25Saul 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.… Cross References 1 Samuel 17:25 Now the men of Israel had been saying, “Do you see how this man keeps coming out to defy Israel? To the man who kills him the king will give great riches. And he will give him his daughter in marriage and exempt his father’s house from taxation in Israel.” 1 Samuel 18:20-21 Now Saul’s daughter Michal loved David, and when this was reported to Saul, it pleased him. / “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 18:26-27 When the servants reported these terms to David, he was pleased to become the king’s son-in-law. Before the wedding day arrived, / 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 19:11-17 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!” / So Michal lowered David from the window, and he ran away and escaped. / Then Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment. ... 1 Samuel 25:44 But Saul had given his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Palti son of Laish, who was from Gallim. 2 Samuel 3:14 Then David sent messengers to say to Ish-bosheth son of Saul, “Give me back my wife, Michal, whom I betrothed to myself for a hundred Philistine foreskins.” 2 Samuel 6:16 As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart. 2 Samuel 6:20-23 When David returned home to bless his own household, Saul’s daughter Michal came out to meet him. “How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today!” she said. “He has uncovered himself today in the sight of the maidservants of his subjects, like a vulgar person would do.” / But David said to Michal, “I was dancing before the LORD, who chose me over your father and all his house when He appointed me ruler over the LORD’s people Israel. I will celebrate before the LORD, / and I will humiliate and humble myself even more than this. Yet I will be honored by the maidservants of whom you have spoken.” ... 2 Samuel 21:8 But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons whom Rizpah daughter of Aiah had borne to Saul, as well as the five sons whom Merab daughter of Saul had borne to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite. 1 Kings 11:1-3 King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women. / These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love. / He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines—and his wives turned his heart away. 1 Chronicles 15:29 As the ark of the covenant of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David dancing and celebrating, and she despised him in her heart. Psalm 45:10-11 Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father’s house, / and the king will desire your beauty; bow to him, for he is your lord. Matthew 22:2-4 “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. / He sent his servants to call those he had invited to the banquet, but they refused to come. / Again, he sent other servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and fattened cattle have been killed, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.’ Matthew 22:11-13 But when the king came in to see the guests, he spotted a man who was not dressed in wedding clothes. / ‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But the man was speechless. / Then the king told the servants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ Luke 14:16-24 But Jesus replied, “A certain man prepared a great banquet and invited many guests. / When it was time for the banquet, he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’ / But one after another they all began to make excuses. The first one said, ‘I have bought a field, and I need to go see it. Please excuse me.’ ... Treasury of Scripture And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spoke David. Jump to Previous Account David Declare Manner Reported Saul Saul's Servants Speak WordsJump to Next Account David Declare Manner Reported Saul Saul's Servants Speak Words1 Samuel 18 1. Jonathan befriends David5. Saul envies his praise 10. seeks to kill him in his fury 12. fears him for his good success 17. offers him his daughters for snare 23. David persuaded to be the king's son-in-law, 25. gives two hundred foreskins of the Philistines for Michal's dowry 28. Saul's hatred and David's glory increase And the servants of Saul The phrase "servants of Saul" refers to the officials or attendants who served King Saul. In the Hebrew context, the word for "servants" is "עֲבָדִים" (avadim), which can also mean "slaves" or "workers." These individuals were part of Saul's court and played a crucial role in the administration of his kingdom. Historically, the role of royal servants was significant, as they were often the intermediaries between the king and the people. Their loyalty and actions could greatly influence the king's decisions, as seen in this passage. told him saying This is what David said Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew And the servantsעַבְדֵ֥י (‘aḇ·ḏê) Noun - masculine plural construct Strong's 5650: Slave, servant told וַיַּגִּ֜דוּ (way·yag·gi·ḏū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 5046: To be conspicuous Saul שָׁא֛וּל (šā·’ūl) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 7586: Saul -- first king of Israel, also an Edomite and two Israelites what הָאֵ֖לֶּה (hā·’êl·leh) Article | Pronoun - common plural Strong's 428: These, those David דָּוִֽד׃ (dā·wiḏ) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 1732: David -- perhaps 'beloved one', a son of Jesse had said. דִּבֶּ֥ר (dib·ber) Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue Links 1 Samuel 18:24 NIV1 Samuel 18:24 NLT 1 Samuel 18:24 ESV 1 Samuel 18:24 NASB 1 Samuel 18:24 KJV 1 Samuel 18:24 BibleApps.com 1 Samuel 18:24 Biblia Paralela 1 Samuel 18:24 Chinese Bible 1 Samuel 18:24 French Bible 1 Samuel 18:24 Catholic Bible OT History: 1 Samuel 18:24 The servants of Saul told him saying (1Sa iSam 1 Sam i sa) |