1 Samuel 18 vs. 29 – And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David’s enemy continually.
1 Samuel 22 vs. 14 – Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king’s son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?
Saul make seventeenth attempt to kill David
Saul is a typical case of a stubborn pursuer and a household enemy.
- 1 Samuel 18 vs. 11 – And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice. The first two attempts Saul made to kill David was when he tried to smite him to the wall with a javelin, but David escaped.
2. 1 Samuel 18 vs. 25 – And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. The third attempts Saul made to kill David was when he asked him to get hundred fore skins of the Philistines as a condition for marrying the King’s daughter Michal. Saul taught David will die in the army of the Philistines, but the reverse was the case.
3. The fourth attempts Saul made to kill David was when he instructed Jonathan and all his servants to kill David. However, Jonathan became the best friend of David.
4. 1 Samuel 19 vs. 10 – And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night. The fifth attempt Saul made to kill David was again unsuccessful as David escape from the javelin of Saul at night.
5. 1 Samuel 19 vs. 11 – Saul also sent messengers unto David’s house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David’s wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life tonight, tomorrow thou shalt be slain. Saul sent hired assassins to kill David in his house in the morning, but David escaped through the window with the aid of his wife Michal.
6. 1 Samuel 19 vs. 15 – And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him. King Saul sent messenger again to go and kill David, but David had escaped.
7. 1 Samuel 19 vs. 20-21 – 20 And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as appointed over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.21. And when it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they prophesied likewise. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they prophesied also. The eight attempts by King Saul to kill David was when he sent messengers three times to kill David in Ramah. Instead, the Spirit of God fell upon the messenger and they prophesied.
8. 1 Samuel 19 vs. 22-24 – 22. Then went he also to Ramah, and came to a great well that is in Sechu: and he asked and said, where are Samuel and David? And one said, Behold, they be at Naioth in Ramah. 23. And he went thither to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God was upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah. 24. And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets? When the messenger of King Saul refused to kill David, King Saul went to Ramah himself looking for David making it eleventh he sought to kill David. However, God turned King Saul into a mad prophet who stripped himself naked and prophesied throughout that night.
9. Samuel 20 vs. 31 – For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die. The twelfth attempts King Saul made to kill David was during the second day of the new moon, when King Saul ordered Jonathan to bring David should be brought before his presence do that he can kill him. When Jonathan refused, Saul tried to kill Jonathan.
10. 1 Samuel 22 vs. 17-18 – 17. And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD. 18. And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod. The thirteenth time King Saul wanted to kill David was when he traced him to Ahimelech the priest in Lob but when he could not find David, King Saul ordered the summary execution of Ahimelech and eighty five other priests of the Lord.
11. 1 Samuel 23 vs. 18 – And they two made a covenant before the LORD: and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house. The fourteenth attempts King Saul made to kill David was when he went to lay an ambush for him at Keilah, but David was able to escape.
12. 1 Samuel 23 vs. 25 – Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon. The fifteenth attempts King Saul made to kill David was when he pursued David to the wilderness of Ziph where David was hidden in the rock, but God caused Saul to hear bad news
which caused him to stop pursuing David, but rather pursue the Philistine who has invaded the land.
13. 1 Samuel 24 vs. 2 – Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats. The sixteenth attempts King Saul made to kill David was when he pursued David to the wilderness of En-gedi where David was hidden in the cave. However, God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Saul and his life was in David’s hands that refused to kill him.
14. 1 Samuel 26 vs. 2 – Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph. The seventeenth attempts King Saul made to kill David was when he pursued David with three thousand men to the wilderness of Ziph where David was hidden. But God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Saul, and his life was in David’s hands that again refuse to kill him. 1 Samuel 26 vs. 12 – So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul’s bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked: for they were all asleep; because a deep sleep from the LORD was fallen upon them.
15. 1 Samuel 31 vs. 6 – So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together. King Saul and his three sons and his amour bearer eventually died in the wilderness.
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