“Therefore Saul removed him from his presence, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. 1 Samuel 18 contains 30 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.