Quotes About Courage

So when David returned from killing the Philistine, still holding his head in his hand, Abner took him and brought him before Saul.

“Whose son are you, young man?” asked Saul. “I am the son of your servant Jesse of Bethlehem,” David replied.

And from that day Saul kept David with him and did not let him return to his fatherís house.

And Jonathan removed the robe he was wearing and gave it to David, along with his tunic, his sword, his bow, and his belt.

and he hurled it, thinking, “I will pin David to the wall.” But David eluded him twice.

So Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with David but had departed from Saul.

Therefore Saul sent David away and gave him command of a thousand men. David led the troops out to battle and back,

and he continued to prosper in all his ways, because the LORD was with him.

But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he was leading them out to battle and back.

Then Saul said to David, “Here is my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you in marriage. Only be valiant for me and fight the LORDís battles.” But Saul was thinking, “I need not raise my hand against him; let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”

Saul replied, “Say to David, ëThe king desires no other dowry but a hundred Philistine foreskins as revenge on his enemies.í” But Saul intended to cause Davidís death at the hands of the Philistines.

David and his men went out and killed two hundred Philistines. He brought their foreskins and presented them as payment in full to become the kingís son-in-law. Then Saul gave his daughter Michal to David in marriage.

he grew even more afraid of David. So from then on Saul was Davidís enemy.

Then Saul ordered his son Jonathan and all his servants to kill David. But Jonathan delighted greatly in David,

I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, so I can ask about you. And if I find out anything, I will tell you.”

He took his life in his hands when he struck down the Philistine, and the LORD worked a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced, so why would you sin against innocent blood by killing David for no reason?”

So Jonathan summoned David and told him all these things. Then Jonathan brought David to Saul to serve him as he had before.

When war broke out again, David went out and fought the Philistines and struck them with such a mighty blow that they fled before him.

Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear. But the spear struck the wall and David eluded him, ran away, and escaped that night.

Then Saul sent messengers to Davidís house to watch him and kill him in the morning. But Davidís wife Michal warned him, “If you do not run for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”

So Michal lowered David from the window, and he ran away and escaped.

So David ran away and escaped. And he went to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went to Naioth and stayed there.

“Far from it!” Jonathan replied. “You will not die. Indeed, my father does nothing, great or small, without telling me. So why would he hide this matter from me? This cannot be true!”

But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ëJonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.í As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”