Holy Bible
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Samuel: Chapter 19
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 Mi-chal David's wife told him, saying, If
thou save not thy life to-night, to-morrow thou shalt be slain.
12. So Mi-chal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled,
and escaped.
13. And Mi-chal 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 Mi-chal, 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 Nai-oth.
19. And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Nai-oth, 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 Se-chu:
and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? And one said,
Behold, they be at Nai-oth in Ramah.
23. And he went thither to Nai-oth 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?
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