1 Samuel Chapter 19

1 Samuel Chapter 19
1 Then Saul spake to Jonathan his son,
and to all his servants, that they should
kill David: but Jonathan Saul’s son had a
great favor to David. 2 And Jonathan
told David, saying, Saul my father goeth
about to slay thee: now therefore, I pray
thee, take heed unto thyself unto the
morning, and abide in a secret place,
and hide thyself.
3 And I will go out, and stand by my
father in the field where thou art, and
will commune with my father of thee,
and I will see what he saith, and 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: for he hath not sinned
against thee, but his works have been to
thee very good.
5 For he did put his life in danger, and
slew the Philistine, and the Lord
wrought a great salvation for all Israel:
thou sawest it, and thou rejoicest:
wherefore then wilt thou sin against
innocent blood, and slay David without
a cause?
6 Then Saul hearkened unto the voice of
Jonathan, and Saul swear, As the Lord
liveth, he shall not die.
7 So Jonathan called David, and
Jonathan showed him all those words,
and Jonathan brought David to Saul, and
he was in his presence as in times past.
8 Again the war began, 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 of the Lord was
upon Saul, as he sat in his house having
his spear in his hand, and David played
with his hand.
10 And Saul intended to smite David to
the wall with the spear: but he turned
aside out of Saul’s presence, and he
smote the spear against the wall: but
David fled, and escaped the same 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 it him, saying, If thou save not
thyself this night, tomorrow thou shalt be
slain.
12 So Michal let David down through a
window: and he went, and fled, and
escaped.
13 Then Michal took an image, and laid
it in the bed, and put a pillow stuffed
with goats’ hair under the head of it, 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 to me in the bed, that I may
slay him.
16 And when the messengers were come
in, behold, an image was in the bed, with
a pillow of goats’ hair under the head of
it. 17 And Saul said unto Michal, Why
hast thou mocked me so, and sent away
mine enemy, that he is escaped? And
Michal answered Saul, He said unto me,
Let me go, or else I will 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
But one told Saul, saying, Behold, David
is at Naioth in Ramah. 20 And Saul sent
messengers to take David: and when
they saw a company of prophets
prophesying, and Samuel standing as
appointed over them, the Spirit of God
fell upon the messengers of Saul, and
they also prophesied. 21 And when it
was told Saul, he sent other messengers,
and they prophesied likewise: again
Saul sent the third messengers, and they
prophesied also. 22 Then went he
himself 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, even to Naioth
in Ramah, and the Spirit of God came
upon him also, and he went prophesying
until he came to Naioth in Ramah. 24
And he stripped off his clothes, and he
prophesied also before Samuel, and fell
down naked all that day and all that
night: therefore they say, Is Saul also
among the prophets?