1 Samuel 18:5
David was successful in doing everything Saul asked him to do, so Saul made him an officer in the army. This pleased everyone, including Saul's other officers.
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Genesis 39:2The Lord was with Joseph and made him successful. He lived in his Egyptian master's house.
Judges 1:19The Lord was with Judah, and they took over the hill country, but they could not drive out the people living on the plain because they had iron chariots.
1 Samuel 13:2Saul had chosen three thousand men of Israel. Two thousand of them were with Saul in Michmash and the hill country of Bethel, and another thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. He sent the rest of the army home.
1 Samuel 18:14David was very successful in everything he did, because the Lord was with him.
2 Samuel 5:10David became increasingly powerful, for the Lord God Almighty was with him.
Psalms 1:3They're like trees growing by flowing rivers, producing fruit every season. Their leaves never wither, and they are successful in all they do.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 18:2-6
Jonathan's Love to David. ( b. c. 1060.) 1 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. 2 And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house. 3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul. 4 And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and… Read the whole commentary →