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Chapter 19· Book IX of 39
1Verse 1. Open verse actions.Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, greatly delighted in David. 2Verse 2. Open verse actions.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. 3Verse 3. Open verse actions.I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will talk with my father about you; and if I see anything, I will tell you.” 4Verse 4. Open verse actions.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; 5Verse 5. Open verse actions.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 rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?” 6Verse 6. Open verse actions.Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan: and Saul swore, “As Yahweh lives, he shall not be put to death.” 7Verse 7. Open verse actions.Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things. Then Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as before. 8Verse 8. Open verse actions.There was war again. David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter; and they fled before him. 9Verse 9. Open verse actions.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. 10Verse 10. Open verse actions.Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled, and escaped that night. 11Verse 11. Open verse actions.Saul sent messengers to David’s house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you don’t save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.” 12Verse 12. Open verse actions.So Michal let David down through the window. He went away, fled, and escaped. 13Verse 13. Open verse actions.Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair at its head, and covered it with clothes. 14Verse 14. Open verse actions.When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.” 15Verse 15. Open verse actions.Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.” 16Verse 16. Open verse actions.When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats’ hair at its head. 17Verse 17. Open verse actions.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?’” 18Verse 18. Open verse actions.Now David fled and escaped, and came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went and lived in Naioth. 19Verse 19. Open verse actions.Saul was told, saying, “Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.” 20Verse 20. Open verse actions.Saul sent messengers to seize David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, God’s Spirit came on Saul’s messengers, and they also prophesied. 21Verse 21. Open verse actions.When Saul was told, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied. 22Verse 22. Open verse actions.Then he also went to Ramah, and came to the great well that is in Secu: and he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” One said, “Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah.” 23Verse 23. Open verse actions.He went there to Naioth in Ramah. Then God’s Spirit came on him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah. 24Verse 24. Open verse actions.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?”