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The First
Book of Samuel 19
And Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants,
that they should kill David. But Jonathan the son of
Saul loved David exceedingly.
And Jonathan told David, saying: Saul my father seeketh
to kill thee: wherefore look to thyself, I beseech thee,
in the morning, and thou shalt abide in a secret place
and shalt be hid.
And I will go out and stand beside my father in the
field where thou art: and I will speak of thee to my
father, and whatsoever I shall see, I will tell thee.
And Jonathan spoke good things of David to Saul his
father: and said to him: Sin not, O king, against thy
servant, David, because he hath not sinned against thee,
and his works are very good towards thee.
And he put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine,
and the Lord wrought great salvation for all Israel.
Thou sawest it and didst rejoice. Why therefore wilt
thou sin against innocent blood by killing David, who
is without fault?
And when Saul heard this he was appeased with the words
of Jonathan, and swore: As the Lord liveth he shall
not be slain.
Then Jonathan called David and told him all these words:
and Jonathan brought in David to Saul, and he was before
him, as he had been yesterday and the day before.
And the war began again, and David went out and fought
against the Philistines, and defeated them with a great
slaughter, and they fled from his face.
And the evil spirit from the Lord came upon Saul, and
he sat in his house, and held a spear in his hand: and
David played with his hand.
And Saul endeavoured to nail David to the wall with
his spear. And David slipt away out of the presence
of Saul: and the spear missed him, and was fastened
in the wall, and David fled and escaped that night.
Saul therefore sent his guards to David's house to watch
him, that he might be killed in the morning. And when
Michol David's wife had told him this, saying: Unless
thou save thyself this night, to morrow thou wilt die,
She let him down through a window. And he went and fled
away and escaped.
And Michol took an image and laid it on the bed, and
put a goat's skin with the hair at the head of it, and
covered it with clothes.
And Saul sent officers to seize David: and it was answered
that he was sick.
And again Saul sent to see David, saying: Bring him
to me in the bed, that he may be slain.
And when the messengers were come in, they found an
image upon the bed, and a goat's skin at its head.
And Saul said to Michol: Why hast thou deceived me so,
and let my enemy go and flee away? And Michol answered
Saul: Because he said to me: Let me go, or else I will
kill thee.
But David fled and escaped, and came to Samuel in Ramatha,
and told him all that Saul had done to him: and he and
Samuel went and dwelt in Najoth.
And it was told Saul by some, saying: Behold David is
in Najoth in Ramatha.
So Saul sent officers to take David: and when they saw
a company of prophets prophesying, and Samuel presiding
over them, the spirit of the Lord came also upon them,
and they likewise began to prophesy.
And when this was told Saul, he sent other messengers:
but they also prophesied. And again Saul sent messengers
the third time: and they prophesied also. And Saul being
exceedingly angry,
Went also himself to Ramatha, and came as far as the
great cistern, which is in Socho, and he asked, and
said: In what place are Samuel and David? And it was
told him: Behold they axe in Najoth in Ramatha.
And he went to Najoth in Ramatha, and the spirit of
the Lord came upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied
till he came to Najoth in Ramatha.
And he stripped himself also of his garments, and prophesied
with the rest before Samuel, and lay down naked all
that day and night. This gave occasion to a proverb:
What! is Saul too among the prophets?
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