# 1 Samuel 18

## Verse Summary

NIV2011 verse same as 1984 | 20 | 66.67%
NIV2011 verse same as tNIV | 10 | 33.33%
NIV2011 rejected tNIV, reverted to NIV1984 |  | %
NIV2011 verse verse is new | 0 | %

## Word Summary

NIV2011 words same as 1984 | 317 | 92.02%
NIV2011 changed words | 28 | 7.98%
NIV2011 removed words | 27 |
NIV2011 added words | 28 |

## Changes

| Result | NIV1984 | tNIV(2005) | NIV2011
18:2 | tNIV | From that day Saul kept David with him and did not let him return to his father’s house. | From that day Saul kept David with him and did not let him return home to his father’s house family. | From that day Saul kept David with him and did not let him return home to his father’s house family.
18:5 | tNIV | Whatever Saul sent him to do, David did it so successfully that Saul gave him a high rank in the army. This pleased all the people, and Saul’s officers as well. | Whatever mission Saul sent him to do on, David did it was so successfully successful that Saul gave him a high rank in the army. This pleased all the people troops, and Saul’s officers as well. | Whatever mission Saul sent him to do on, David did it was so successfully successful that Saul gave him a high rank in the army. This pleased all the people troops, and Saul’s officers as well.
18:6 | tNIV | When the men were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out from all the towns of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs and with tambourines and lutes. | When the men were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out from all the towns of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs and with tambourines timbrels and lutes lyres. | When the men were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out from all the towns of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs and with tambourines timbrels and lutes lyres.
18:8 | tNIV | Saul was very angry; this refrain galled him. “They have credited David with tens of thousands,” he thought, “but me with only thousands. What more can he get but the kingdom?” | Saul was very angry; this refrain galled displeased him greatly. “They have credited David with tens of thousands,” he thought, “but me with only thousands. What more can he get but the kingdom?” | Saul was very angry; this refrain galled displeased him greatly. “They have credited David with tens of thousands,” he thought, “but me with only thousands. What more can he get but the kingdom?”
18:9 | tNIV | And from that time on Saul kept a jealous eye on David. | And from that time on Saul kept a jealous close eye on David. | And from that time on Saul kept a jealous close eye on David.
18:10 | tNIV | The next day an evil spirit from God came forcefully upon Saul. He was prophesying in his house, while David was playing the harp, as he usually did. Saul had a spear in his hand | The next day an evil spirit from God came forcefully upon on Saul. He was prophesying in his house, while David was playing the harp lyre, as he usually did. Saul had a spear in his hand | The next day an evil spirit from God came forcefully upon on Saul. He was prophesying in his house, while David was playing the harp lyre, as he usually did. Saul had a spear in his hand
18:12 | tNIV | Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with David but had left Saul. | Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with David but had left departed from Saul. | Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with David but had left departed from Saul.
18:18 | tNIV | But David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my family or my father’s clan in Israel, that I should become the king’s son-in-law?” | But David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my family or my father’s clan in Israel, that I should become the king’s son-in-law?” | But David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my family or my father’s clan in Israel, that I should become the king’s son-in-law?”
18:22 | tNIV | Then Saul ordered his attendants: “Speak to David privately and say, ‘Look, the king is pleased with you, and his attendants all like you; now become his son-in-law.’” | Then Saul ordered his attendants: “Speak to David privately and say, ‘Look, the king is pleased with likes you, and his attendants all like love you; now become his son-in-law.’” | Then Saul ordered his attendants: “Speak to David privately and say, ‘Look, the king is pleased with likes you, and his attendants all like love you; now become his son-in-law.’”
18:27 | tNIV | David and his men went out and killed two hundred Philistines. He brought their foreskins and presented the full number to the king so that he might become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him his daughter Michal in marriage. | David and took his men with him and went out and killed two hundred Philistines. He and brought back their foreskins and presented . They counted out the full number to the king so that he David might become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him his daughter Michal in marriage. | David and took his men with him and went out and killed two hundred Philistines. He and brought back their foreskins and presented . They counted out the full number to the king so that he David might become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.