rsv 1Samuel:19:11-24 SEEK
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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 ."
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So Michal let David down through the window ;
and he fled away and escaped .
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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 .
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And when Saul sent messengers to take David ,
she said , "
He is sick ."
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Then Saul sent the messengers to see David ,
saying , "
Bring him up to me in the bed ,
that I may kill him ."
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And when the messengers came in ,
behold ,
the image was in the bed ,
with the pillow of goats '
hair at its head .
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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 ?'"
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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 .
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And it was told Saul , "
Behold ,
David is at Nai '
oth in Ramah ."
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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 .
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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 .
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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 ."
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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 .
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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 ?"