1 Samuel 19
1 Saul spoke to his son Jonathan and to all his servants about killing David. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, was very fond of David.
2 Jonathan warned David, “Saul, my father, is trying to kill you. So be careful tomorrow morning; hide in a secluded place and stay there.
3 I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are. I will speak to my father about you, and if I learn anything, I will tell you.”
4 Jonathan spoke well of David to his father Saul and said to him, “May the king not sin against his servant David, for he has not sinned against you, and what he has done has been very good for you.
5 He risked his life and struck down the Philistine, and the LORD brought about a great victory for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced. Why, then, would you sin against innocent blood by killing David for no reason?”
6 Saul listened to Jonathan and swore, “As surely as the LORD lives, he will not be put to death.”
7 Jonathan called David and told him all these things. Then Jonathan brought David to Saul, and David stood before him as before.
8 War broke out again. David went out and fought the Philistines, dealt them a great defeat, and they fled from him.
9 An evil spirit from the LORD came upon Saul as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand, while David was playing music.
10 Saul tried to pin David to the wall with the spear, but David evaded Saul, and the spear struck the wall. David fled and escaped that night.
11 Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and kill him in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife, warned him, “If you don’t save your life tonight, tomorrow you’ll be dead.”
12 Michal lowered David through the window, and he went away, fled, and escaped.
13 Michal took the household idol and put it in the bed. She placed a goats’ hair covering at its head and covered it with a garment.
14 Saul sent messengers to seize David, but she said, “He is sick.”
15 Saul sent the messengers back to see David. “Bring him to me in the bed, so I can kill him.”
16 The messengers went in, and there was the household idol in the bed, with the goats’ hair covering at its head.
17 Saul said to Michal, “Why did you deceive me like this and let my enemy escape?” Michal answered Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go. Why should I kill you?’”
18 David fled and escaped. He went to Samuel at Ramah and told him everything Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went and stayed at Naioth.
19 Saul was told, “David is at Naioth in Ramah.”
20 Saul sent messengers to seize David. When they saw the company of prophets prophesying, with Samuel standing at their head, the Spirit of God came upon Saul’s messengers, and they too prophesied.
21 When this was reported to Saul, he sent other messengers, and they too prophesied. Saul sent messengers a third time, and they too prophesied.
22 Then he himself went to Ramah. When he reached the great cistern at Secu, he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” They answered, “They are at Naioth in Ramah.”
23 He went there, to Naioth in Ramah, and the Spirit of God came upon him too. He kept walking and prophesying until he came to Naioth in Ramah.
24 He too took off his clothes and prophesied before Samuel. He lay there naked all that day and all that night. That is why people say, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”
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