Son Of Saul

And Saul died, and Baalhanan the Son of Achbor reigned in his stead.

And he had a Son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.

And the asses of Kish Saul's father were lost. And Kish said to Saul his Son, Take now one of the servants with thee, and arise, go seek the asses.

And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said one to another, What is this that is come unto the Son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?

When he had caused the tribe of Benjamin to come near by their families, the family of Matri was taken, and Saul the Son of Kish was taken: and when they sought him, he could not be found.

And Saul, and Jonathan his Son, and the people that were present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.

So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his Son was there found.

Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the Son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on the other side. But he told not his father.

• Commander-in-chief
• Armies

And the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam, the daughter of Ahimaaz: and the name of the captain of his host was Abner, the Son of Ner, Saul's uncle.

And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the Son of Abiel.

And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his Son unto Saul.

Now David was the Son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehemjudah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.

And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose Son is this youth? And Abner said, As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.

And Saul said to him, Whose Son art thou, thou young man? And David answered, I am the Son of thy servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.

And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my Son in law in the one of the twain.

And Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king's Son in law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?

Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's Son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.

And it came to pass on the morrow, which was the second day of the month, that David's place was empty: and Saul said unto Jonathan his Son, Wherefore cometh not the Son of Jesse to meat, neither yesterday, nor to day?

Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him, Thou Son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the Son of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the confusion of thy mother's nakedness?

Then Saul said unto his servants that stood about him, Hear now, ye Benjamites; will the Son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, and make you all captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds;

Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the Son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the Son of Ahitub.

And Saul said unto him, Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the Son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, and a sword, and hast inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?

And it came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words unto Saul, that Saul said, Is this thy voice, my Son David? And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.

But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the Son of Laish, which was of Gallim.

And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched: and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the Son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round about him.

Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the Son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.

And David said unto him, How went the matter? I pray thee, tell me. And he answered, That the people are fled from the battle, and many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his Son are dead also.

• Fasting
• Fasting
• Fasting

And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his Son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.

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• Armies

But Abner the Son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ishbosheth the Son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;

Ishbosheth Saul's Son was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.

And Abner the Son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the Son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.

Then there arose and went over by number twelve of Benjamin, which pertained to Ishbosheth the Son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.

And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth Saul's Son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred foreskins of the Philistines.

And Saul's Son had two men that were captains of bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin: (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin:

And Jonathan, Saul's Son, had a Son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.

And they brought the head of Ishbosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ishbosheth the Son of Saul thine enemy, which sought thy life; and the LORD hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.

• Mephibosheth
• Orphan

And the king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may shew the kindness of God unto him? And Ziba said unto the king, Jonathan hath yet a Son, which is lame on his feet.

• Prostration
• King

Now when Mephibosheth, the Son of Jonathan, the Son of Saul, was come unto David, he fell on his face, and did reverence. And David said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold thy servant!

• Blasphemy
• Shimei
• Imprecation

And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the Son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came.

The LORD hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the LORD hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy Son: and, behold, thou art taken in thy mischief, because thou art a bloody man.

And Mephibosheth the Son of Saul came down to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in peace.

• Covenant

But the king spared Mephibosheth, the Son of Jonathan the Son of Saul, because of the LORD'S oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the Son of Saul.

But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the Son of Barzillai the Meholathite:

And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his Son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:

And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his Son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.

And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his Son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land.

Now these are they that came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the Son of Kish: and they were among the mighty men, helpers of the war.

And all that Samuel the seer, and Saul the Son of Kish, and Abner the Son of Ner, and Joab the Son of Zeruiah, had dedicated; and whosoever had dedicated any thing, it was under the hand of Shelomith, and of his brethren.

And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the Son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.