1Samuel:19

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* And Saul spoke to Jonathan his son , and to all his servants , that they should kill David . * But Jonathan Saul ' son delighted much in David : and Jonathan told David , saying , Saul my father seeks to kill you : now therefore , I pray you , take heed to yourself until the morning , and abide in a secret place , and hide yourself : * 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 what I see , that I will tell you . * And Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father , and said to him , Let not the king sin against his servant , against David ; because he has not sinned against you , and because his works have been to you-ward very good : * For he did put his life in his hand , and slew the Philistine , and the LORD worked a great salvation for all Israel : you saw it , and did rejoice : why then will you sin against innocent blood , to slay David without a cause ? * And Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan : and Saul swore , As the LORD lives , he shall not be slain . * 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 . * 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 . * And the evil spirit from the LORD was on Saul , as he sat in his house with his javelin in his hand : and David played with his hand . * And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin : but he slipped away out of Saul ' presence , and he smote the javelin into the wall : and David fled , and escaped that night . * Saul also sent messengers to David ' house , to watch him , and to slay him in the morning : and Michal David ' wife told him , saying , If you save not your life to night , to morrow you shall be slain . * So Michal let David down through a window : and he went , and fled , and escaped . * 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 . * And when Saul sent messengers to take David , she said , He is sick . * And Saul sent the messengers again to see David , saying , Bring him up to me in the bed , that I may slay him . * And when the messengers were come in , behold , there was an image in the bed , with a pillow of goats 'hair for his bolster . * And Saul said to Michal , Why have you deceived me so , and sent away my enemy , that he is escaped ? And Michal answered Saul , He said to me , Let me go ; why should I kill you ? * 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 dwelled in Naioth . * And it was told Saul , saying , Behold , David is at Naioth in Ramah . * 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 on the messengers of Saul , and they also prophesied . * 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 . * 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 . * And he went thither to Naioth in Ramah : and the Spirit of God was on him also , and he went on , and prophesied , until he came to Naioth in Ramah . * 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 . Why they say , Is Saul also among the prophets ?

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