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 's son , delighted much in David . * And Jonathan told David , "Saul my father seeks to kill you ; therefore take heed to yourself in the morning , stay 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 speak to my father about you ; and if I learn anything I will tell you ." * And Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father , and said to him , "Let not the king sin against his servant David ; because he has not sinned against you , and because his deeds have been of good service to you ; * for he took his life in his hand and he slew the Philistine , and the LORD wrought a great victory for all Israel . You saw it , and rejoiced ; why then will you sin against innocent blood by killing David without cause ?" * And Saul hearkened to the voice of Jonathan ; Saul swore , "As the LORD lives , he shall not be put to death ." * And Jonathan called David , and Jonathan showed him all these things . And Jonathan brought David to Saul , and he was in his presence as before . * And there was war again ; and David went out and fought with the Philistines , and made a great slaughter among them , so that they fled before him . * Then an evil spirit from the LORD came upon Saul , as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand ; and David was playing the lyre . * And Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear ; but he eluded Saul , so that he struck the spear into the wall . And David fled , and escaped . * That night Saul sent messengers to David 's house to watch him , that he might kill him in the morning . But Michal , David 's wife , told him , "If you do not save your life tonight , tomorrow you will be killed ." * So Michal let David down through the window ; and he fled away and escaped . * Michal took an image and laid it on the bed and put a pillow of goats ' hair at its head , and covered it with the clothes . * And when Saul sent messengers to take David , she said , "He is sick ." * Then Saul sent the messengers to see David , saying , "Bring him up to me in the bed , that I may kill him ." * And when the messengers came in , behold , the image was in the bed , with the pillow of goats ' hair at its head . * Saul said to Michal , "Why have you deceived me thus , and let my enemy go , so that he has escaped ?" And Michal answered Saul , "He said to me , `Let me go ; why should I kill you ?'" * Now David fled and escaped , and he came to Samuel at Ramah , and told him all that Saul had done to him . And he and Samuel went and dwelt at Nai 'oth . * And it was told Saul , "Behold , David is at Nai 'oth in Ramah ." * Then Saul sent messengers to take David ; and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying , and Samuel standing as head over them , the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul , and they also prophesied . * When it was told Saul , he sent other messengers , and they also prophesied . And Saul sent messengers again the third time , and they also prophesied . * Then he himself went to Ramah , and came to the great well that is in Secu ; and he asked , "Where are Samuel and David ?" And one said , "Behold , they are at Nai 'oth in Ramah ." * And he went from there to Nai 'oth in Ramah ; and the Spirit of God came upon him also , and as he went he prophesied , until he came to Nai 'oth in Ramah . * And he too stripped off his clothes , and he too prophesied before Samuel , and lay naked all that day and all that night . Hence it is said , "Is Saul also among the prophets ?"

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