“1 And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that
they should kill David. 2 But Jonathan Saul’s son delighted much in
David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill
thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the
morning, and abide in a secret [place], and hide thyself: 3 And I will
go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou [art], and I
will commune with my father of thee; and what I see, that I will tell
thee. 4 And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and said
unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David;
because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works [have
been] to thee-ward very good: 5 For he did put his life in his hand, and
slew the Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great salvation for all
Israel: thou sawest [it], and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou
sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause? 6 And Saul
hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware, [As] the LORD
liveth, he shall not be slain. 7 And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan
shewed him all those things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he
was in his presence, as in times past.”
“8 And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with the
Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled from
him. 9 And the evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat in his
house with his javelin in his hand: and David played with [his] hand. 10
And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he
slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he smote the javelin into the
wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.”
“11 Saul also sent messengers unto David’s house, to watch him, and to
slay him in the morning: and Michal David’s wife told him, saying, If
thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain. 12 So
Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and
escaped. 13 And Michal took an image, and laid [it] in the bed, and put
a pillow of goats’ [hair] for his bolster, and covered [it] with a
cloth. 14 And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He [is]
sick. 15 And Saul sent the messengers [again] to see David, saying,
Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him. 16 And when the
messengers were come in, behold, [there was] an image in the bed, with a
pillow of goats’ [hair] for his bolster. 17 And Saul said unto Michal,
Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he is
escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said unto me, Let me go; why
should I kill thee?”
“18 So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told
him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in
Naioth. 19 And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David [is] at Naioth in
Ramah. 20 And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the
company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing [as] appointed
over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and they
also prophesied. 21 And when it was told Saul, he sent other messengers,
and they prophesied likewise. And Saul sent messengers again the third
time, and they prophesied also. 22 Then went he also to Ramah, and came
to a great well that [is] in Sechu: and he asked and said, Where [are]
Samuel and David? And [one] said, Behold, [they be] at Naioth in Ramah.
23 And he went thither to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God was
upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth
in Ramah. 24 And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before
Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that
night. Wherefore they say, [Is] Saul also among the prophets?” (1 Samuel
19:1-24 AV)
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