1Samuel:19

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* And Saul spake to Jonathan his son , and to all his servants , that they should (note :)Before Saul sought David 's life secretly , but now his hypocrisy grows to open cruelty .(:note ) kill David . * And Ionathan told Dauid , saying , Saul my father goeth about to slay thee : nowe therefore , I pray thee , take heede vnto thy selfe vnto the morning , &amp ; abide in a secret place , &amp ; hide thy selfe . * And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou (note :)That I may warn you what to do .(:note ) [art ], and I will commune with my father of thee ; and what I see , that I will tell thee . * And Ionathan spake good of Dauid vnto Saul his father , &amp ; said vnto him , Let not the King sinne against his seruat , against Dauid : for he hath not sinned against thee , but his works haue bene to thee very good . * For he did put his life in daunger , and slew the Philistim , and the Lord wrought a great saluation for al Israel : thou sawest it , and thou reioycedst : wherefore then wilt thou sinne against innocent blood , and slay Dauid without a cause ? * And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan : and Saul (note :)Whatever he pretended outwardly , yet his heart was full of malice .(:note ) sware , [As ] the LORD liveth , he shall not be slain . * So Ionathan called Dauid , and Ionathan shewed him all those words , &amp ; Ionathan brought Dauid to Saul , and hee was in his presence as in times past . * Againe the warre began , &amp ; Dauid went out &amp ; fought with the Philistims , and slew them with a great slaughter , and they fled from him . * And the evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul , as he sat in his house with his javelin in his hand : and David (note :)He played on his harp to appease the rage of the evil spirit , ( 1Sa_16:23 ).(:note ) played with [his ] hand . * And Saul intended to smite Dauid to the wall with the speare : but hee turned aside out of Sauls presence , &amp ; he smote the speare against the wall : but Dauid fled , &amp ; escaped the same night . * Saul also sent messengers vnto Dauids house , to watch him , and to slay him in the morning : and Michal Dauids wife told it him , saying , If thou saue not thy selfe this night , to morowe thou shalt be slayne . * So Michal (note :)Thus God moved both the son and daughter of this tyrant to favour David against their father .(:note ) let David down through a window : and he went , and fled , and escaped . * Then Michal tooke an image , &amp ; layde it in the bed , &amp ; put a pillow stuffed with goates heare vnder the head of it , &amp ; couered it with a cloth . * And when Saul sent messengers to take Dauid , she sayd , He is sicke . * And Saul sent the messengers [again ] to see David , saying , Bring him up to me in the (note :)Behold , how the tyrants to accomplish their rage , neither regard oath nor friendship , God nor man .(:note ) bed , that I may slay him . * And when the messengers were come in , behold , an image was in the bed , with a pillow of goates heare vnder the head of it . * And Saul said vnto Michal , Why hast thou mocked me so , &amp ; sent away mine enemie , that he is escaped ? And Michal answered Saul , He said vnto me , Let me go , or els I will kill thee . * 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 (note :)Naioth was a school where the word of God was studied , near Ramah .(:note ) Naioth . * But one tolde Saul , saying , Beholde , Dauid 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 (note :)Being their chief instructor .(:note ) [as ] appointed over them , the Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul , and they also Changed their minds and praised God . prophesied . * And when it was tolde Saul , he sent other messengers , and they prophecied likewise : againe Saul sent the third messengers , and they prophecied also . * Then went he himselfe to Ramah , &amp ; came to a great well that is in Sechu , and he asked , and sayd , Where are Samuel and Dauid ? &amp ; one sayd , Behold , they be at Naioth in Ramah . * And he (note :)With a mind to persecute them .(:note ) 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 . * And he stripped off his (note :)His kingly apparel .(:note ) clothes also , and prophesied before Samuel in like manner , and lay He humbled himself as others did . down naked all that day and all that night . Wherefore they say , [Is ] Saul also among the prophets ?

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