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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.
19:2
Waiting
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:
19:3
Waiting
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.
19:4
Waiting
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:
19:5
Waiting
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?
19:6
Waiting
Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan: and Saul swore, As Yahweh lives, he shall not be put to death.
19:7
Waiting
Jonathan called David, and Jonathan shown him all those things. Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as before.
19:8
Waiting
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.
19:9
Waiting
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.
19:10
Waiting
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.
19:11
Waiting
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.
19:12
Waiting
So Michal let David down through the window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
19:13
Waiting
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.
19:14
Waiting
When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.
19:15
Waiting
Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.
19:16
Waiting
When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats' [hair] at the head of it.
19:17
Waiting
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?
19:18
Waiting
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.
19:19
Waiting
It was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.
19:20
Waiting
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.
19:21
Waiting
When it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied.
19:22
Waiting
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.
19:23
Waiting
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.
19:24
Waiting
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?"