1   And it came to passe, when he had finished to speake vnto Saul, the soule of Ionathas was ioyned fast to the soule of Dauid, & Ionathas loued him as his soule.

2   And Saul tooke him in that day, and did not grant vnto him to returne into his fathers house.

3   And Dauid and Ionathas entered a league, for he loued him as his soule.

4   For Ionathas stripped himself of the cote wherwith he was clothed, and gaue it to Dauid, and the rest of his garments, vnto his sword, & bowe, & vnto his belt.

5   Dauid also went forth to al thinges wheretosoeuer Saul sent him, & he behaued himself wisely: and Saul placed him ouer the men of warre, and he was accepted in the eies of al the people, and specially in the eies of Saules seruantes.

6   Moreouer ^note when Dauid returned, after he stroke the Philistian, the wemen came forth from al the tribes of Israel, singing and dancing to Saul the King, in timbrels of ioy, and in cornettes.

7   And the wemen sang, playing, and saying: Saul stroke a thousand, and Dauid ten thousand.

8   And Saul was ^note exceding angrie, and this word was displeasant in his eies: and he sayd: They haue geuen Dauid ten thousand,

Saul. Dauid. and to me they haue geuen a thousand: what remayneth for him but only the kingdom?

9   Therefore Saul did not looke vpon Dauid with right eies from that day and afterward.

10   And a day after, the euil spirit of God inuaded Saul, and he prophecied in the middes of his house. And Dauid played with his hand as euery day. And Saul held a speare,

11   and threw it, thinking that he could naile Dauid to the wal, and Dauid declined from his face the second time.

12   And Saul feared Dauid because our Lord was with him, and was departed from himself.

13   Saul therefore remoued him from him, and made him a tribune ouer a thousand men, and he went out and came in before al the people.

14   Also in al his wayes, Dauid delt wisely, and our Lord was with him.

15   Saul therefore saw that he was exceding wise, and he beganne to beware of him.

16   But al Israel, and Iuda loued Dauid, for he came in and went out before them.

17   And Saul sayd to Dauid: Behold my elder daughter Merob, her wil I geue thee to wife, only be thou a valyant man, and fight the battels of our Lord. And Saul thought saying: Be not my hand vpon him, but let the handes of the Philistians be vpon him.

18   And Dauid sayd to Saul: What am I, or what is my life, or the kindred of my father in Israel, that I should be made the sonne in lawe of the king?

19   And it came to passe, at what time, Merob the daughter of Saul should haue beene geuen to Dauid, she was geuen to Hadriel the Molathite to wife.

20   But Dauid loued Michol the other daughter of Saul. And it was told Saul, and it pleased him.

21   And Saul sayd: I wil geue her to him, that she may be a scandal vnto him, and that the hand of the Philistians may be vpon him. And Saul sayd to Dauid: In two thinges thou shalt be my sonne in lawe this day.

22   And Saul commanded his seruantes: Speake to Dauid secretly out of my presence, saying: Behold thou pleasest the King, and al his seruantes loue thee. Now therefore be thou the kinges sonne in lawe.

23   And the seruantes of Saul spake al these wordes in the eares of Dauid. And Dauid sayd: Doth it seme vnto you a smal matter to be the sonne in lawe of a King? But I am a poore man, and of smal ability.

24   And the seruantes of Saul reported, saying: These maner of wordes hath Dauid spoken.

25   And Saul sayd: Speake thus to Dauid: The king nedeth no dowrie, but only an hundred prepuces of the Philistians, that reuenge may be made of the kinges

enemies. Moreouer Saul thought to deliuer Dauid into the handes of the Philistians.

26   And when his seruantes had reported to Dauid the wordes that Saul had sayd, the word was liked in the eies of Dauid, to be made the kings sonne in lawe.

27   And after fewe days Dauid rising vp, went with the men that were vnder him, and he stroke of the Philistijms two hundred men, and brought their prepuces, and numbered them to the King, that he might be his sonne in law, Saul therefore gaue him Michol his daughter to wife.

28   And Saul saw, and vnderstood that our Lord was with Dauid. And Michol the daughter of Saul loued him.

29   And Saul began more to feare Dauid: and Saul became enemie to Dauid al daies.

30   And the princes of the Philistians went forth: and from the beginning of their going forth, Dauid behaued him self more wisely, then al the seruantes of Saul, and his name was made renowmed excedingly.

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