1SA-19:1  And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his

servants,

that they should kill David.

1SA-19:2  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:

1SA-19:3  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.

1SA-19:4  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:

1SA-19:5  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?

1SA-19:6  And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul

sware, [As] the LORD liveth, he shall not be slain.

1SA-19:7  And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all

those

things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his

presence, as in times past.

1SA-19:8  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.

1SA-19:9  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.

1SA-19:10  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.

1SA-19:11  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.

1SA-19:12  So Michal let David down through a window: and he

went, and

fled, and escaped.

1SA-19:13  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.

1SA-19:14  And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said,

 He

[is] sick.

1SA-19:15  And Saul sent the messengers [again] to see David,

saying,

Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.

1SA-19:16  And when the messengers were come in, behold, [there

was]

an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' [hair] for his

bolster.

1SA-19:17  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?

1SA-19:18  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.

1SA-19:19  And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David [is] at

Naioth

in Ramah.

1SA-19:20  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.

1SA-19:21  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.

1SA-19:22  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.

1SA-19:23  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.

1SA-19:24  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?

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