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# 1 Samuel 18 General Notes #

#### Structure and formatting ####
 
This is the first chapter of a section explaining why Saul wants to kill David. 

Some translations indent each line of poetry to make it easier to read. The ULB does this with the poetic song in 18:7.

#### Special concepts in this chapter ####

##### Saul is jealous of David's popularity #####
Saul's son, Jonathan, loves David. David is successful in battling the Philistines, and Saul is happy until the women give David more attention than they give him. He fears that David will replace him as king. This is potentially confusing because the author has already established that David will be the next king. It is probably that Saul feared David would kill him in order to be the next king sooner, or that he did not really believe David would be the next king. (See: [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/love]])

##### Jonathan's love of David #####
Some scholars believe Jonathan loved David as a man loves his wife. There is no reason to translate this as if Jonathan were a homosexual. Instead, treat this as a brotherly type of love.

## Links: ##

* __[1 Samuel 18:01 Notes](./01.md)__

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initial v6 rc conversion 2017-06-21 20:50:04 +00:00			`# 1 Samuel 18 General Notes #`

			`#### Structure and formatting ####`

			`This is the first chapter of a section explaining why Saul wants to kill David.`

Fixed ch intros with "indent". 2017-09-27 20:06:04 +00:00			`Some translations indent each line of poetry to make it easier to read. The ULB does this with the poetic song in 18:7.`
initial v6 rc conversion 2017-06-21 20:50:04 +00:00
			`#### Special concepts in this chapter ####`

			`##### Saul is jealous of David's popularity #####`
			Saul's son, Jonathan, loves David. David is successful in battling the Philistines, and Saul is happy until the women give David more attention than they give him. He fears that David will replace him as king. This is potentially confusing because the author has already established that David will be the next king. It is probably that Saul feared David would kill him in order to be the next king sooner, or that he did not really believe David would be the next king. (See: [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/love]])

			`##### Jonathan's love of David #####`
			`Some scholars believe Jonathan loved David as a man loves his wife. There is no reason to translate this as if Jonathan were a homosexual. Instead, treat this as a brotherly type of love.`

			`## Links: ##`

			`* __[1 Samuel 18:01 Notes](./01.md)__`
Moves navigation of into out of bullet list 2017-07-24 15:51:42 +00:00
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