1 Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they
should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, delighted much in David.
2 Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeks to kill you: now
therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, and live in a secret
place, and hide yourself: 3 and I will go out and stand beside my father
in the field where you are, and I will commune with my father of you; and if
I see anything, I will tell you. 4 Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul
his father, and said to him, Don’t let the king sin against his servant,
against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his works
have been very good toward you: 5 for he put his life in his hand, and
struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel: you
saw it, and did rejoice; why then will you sin against innocent blood, to
kill David without a cause? 6 Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan: and
Saul swore, As Yahweh lives, he shall not be put to death. 7 Jonathan
called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things. Jonathan brought
David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as before. 8 There was war
again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and killed them
with a great slaughter; and they fled before him. 9 An evil spirit from
Yahweh was on Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand; and
David was playing with his hand. 10 Saul sought to strike David even to
the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he
struck the spear into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.
11 Saul sent messengers to David’s house, to watch him, and to kill him in
the morning: and Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, If you don’t save
your life tonight, tomorrow you will be slain. 12 So Michal let David down
through the window: and he went, and fled, and escaped. 13 Michal took the
teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair at
the head of it, and covered it with the clothes. 14 When Saul sent
messengers to take David, she said, He is sick. 15 Saul sent the
messengers to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may
kill him. 16 When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the
bed, with the pillow of goats’ hair at the head of it. 17 Saul
said to Michal, Why have you deceived me thus, and let my enemy go, so that
he is escaped? Michal answered Saul, He said to me, Let me go; why should I
kill you? 18 Now David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and
told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went and lived in
Naioth. 19 It was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.
20 Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of
the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, the Spirit
of God came on the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied. 21 When
it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. Saul
sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied. 22 Then
went he also to Ramah, and came to the great well that is in Secu: and he
asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? One said, Behold, they are at
Naioth in Ramah. 23 He went there to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of
God came on him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth
in Ramah. 24 He also stripped off his clothes, and he also prophesied
before Samuel, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Therefore
they say, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”
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