Treasury of Scripture
removed
1 Samuel 18:17,25 And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give you to wife: only be you valiant for me...
1 Samuel 8:12 And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground...
1 Samuel 22:7 Then Saul said to his servants that stood about him, Hear now, you Benjamites...
he went out
1 Samuel 18:16 But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out and came in before them.
Numbers 27:16,17 Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation...
2 Samuel 5:2 Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, you were he that led out and brought in Israel: and the LORD said to you...
Psalm 121:8 The LORD shall preserve your going out and your coming in from this time forth, and even for ever more.
Saul was sensible that the Lord was departed from him; while he perceived, with evident sorrow of heart, that the Lord had given David peculiar wisdom, and that he was with him to prosper all his undertakings. This increased the disquietude of his malevolent mind, and his dread of David as a prevailing rival: he therefore removed him from his presence. This impolitic step, however, served the more to ingratiate David with the people, by affording him the opportunity of leading them forth to victory over their enemies.