KJV King James Version
And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father’s house.
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1 Samuel 18:2
And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father’s house.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
And from that day Saul kept David with him and did not let him return to his father’s house.
WEB World English Bible
Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father’s house.
ASV American Standard Version
And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father’s house.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And Saul taketh him on that day, and hath not permitted him to turn back to the house of his father.
Surrounding context — 1 Samuel 18
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 to his girdle.
5 And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him, [and] behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul’s servants.
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