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a secret
place,
and hide thyself:
3
And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where
thou
art,
and I will commune with my father of thee; and what I see, that I will tell thee.
4
And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and said unto him, Let not the king
sin against his servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his
works
have been
to thee-ward very good:
5
For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine,
and the L
ORD
wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest
it,
and didst rejoice: wherefore
then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?
6
And Saul hearkened
unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware,
As
the L
ORD
liveth, he shall not be slain.
7
And Jonathan
called David, and Jonathan shewed him all those things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and
he was in his presence, as in times past.
8
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.
9
And the evil spirit from the L
ORD
was upon Saul,
as he sat in his house with his javelin in his hand: and David played with
his
hand.
10
And Saul
sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence,
and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.
11
Saul also sent
messengers unto David’s house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David’s
wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.
12
So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
13
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.
14
And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He
is
sick.
15
And Saul sent the messengers
again
to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I
may slay him.
16
And when the messengers were come in, behold,
there was
an image in the bed,
with a pillow of goats’
hair
for his bolster.
17
And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived
me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said unto
me, Let me go; why should I kill thee?
18
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 Naioth.
19
And it was told Saul, saying, Behold,
David
is
at Naioth in Ramah.
20
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 upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.
21
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.
22
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.
23
And he 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.
24
And he stript off his
clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and
all that night. Wherefore they say,
Is
Saul also among the prophets?
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