1 Samuel 18:28

28 And Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal Saul's daughter loved him.

1 Samuel 18:28 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 18:28

And Saul saw and knew that the Lord [was] with David
This he perceived by the favour he gave him among men, by overruling all the steps Saul took to do him hurt, for his good, and in giving him success in all that he engaged in; the Targum is,

``that the Word of the Lord was for the help of David:''

and [that] Michal, Saul's daughter, loved him;
and therefore could entertain no hope of making use of her as an instrument of his ruin, but, on the contrary, would, out of her great affection to her husband, betray the designs of her father against him, and do all she could to preserve him.

1 Samuel 18:28 In-Context

26 And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son in law : and the days were not expired .

27 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.

28 And Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal Saul's daughter loved him.

29 And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David's enemy continually.

30 Then the princes of the Philistines went forth : and it came to pass, after they went forth , that David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much set by .