1SAUL incited Jonathan his son and all his household to kill David.
2But Jonathan was devoted to David and told him that his father Saul was seeking to kill him. “Be on your guard tomorrow morning,” he said; “conceal yourself, and remain in hiding.
3I shall come out and join my father in the open country where you are and speak to him about you, and if I discover anything I shall tell you.”
4Jonathan spoke up for David to his father Saul and said to him, “Sir, do not wrong your servant David; he has not wronged you; his achievements have all benefited you greatly.
5Did he not take his life in his hands when he killed the Philistine, and the LORD brought about a great victory for all Israel? You saw it and shared in the rejoicing. Why should you wrong an innocent man and put David to death without cause?”
6Saul heeded Jonathan's plea and swore solemnly by the LORD that David should not be put to death.
7Jonathan called David and reported all this; then he brought him to Saul to be in attendance on the king as before.
8When hostilities broke out again and David advanced to the attack, he inflicted such a severe defeat on the Philistines that they fled before him.
9An evil spirit from the LORD came on Saul as he was sitting in the house with a spear in his hand; and David was playing on the lyre.
10Saul tried to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he dodged the king's thrust so that Saul drove the spear into the wall. David escaped and got safely away. That night
11Saul sent servants to keep watch on David's house, intending to kill him in the morning. But David's wife Michal warned him to get away that night, “or tomorrow”, she said, “you will be a dead man”.
12She let David down through a window and he slipped away and escaped.
13Michal then took their household god and put it on the bed; at its head she laid a goat's-hair rug and covered it all with a cloak.
14When the men arrived to arrest David she told them he was ill.
15Saul, however, sent them back to see David for themselves. “Bring him to me, bed and all,” he ordered, “so that I may kill him.”
16When they came, there was the household god on the bed and the goat's-hair rug at its head.
17Saul said to Michal, “Why have you played this trick on me and let my enemy get away?” Michal answered, “He said to me, ‘Help me to escape or I shall kill you.’”
18Meanwhile David made good his escape, and coming to Samuel at Ramah, he described how Saul had treated him. He and Samuel went to Naioth and stayed there.
19When Saul was told that David was at Naioth,
20he sent a party of men to seize him. But at the sight of the company of prophets in a frenzy, with Samuel standing at their head, the spirit of God came upon them and they fell into prophetic frenzy.
21When this was reported to Saul he sent another party; these also fell into a frenzy, and when he sent men a third time, they did the same.
22Saul himself then set out for Ramah and came to the great cistern in Secu. He asked where Samuel and David were and was told that they were at Naioth in Ramah.
23On his way there the spirit of God came upon him too and he went on, in a prophetic frenzy as he went, till he came to Naioth in Ramah.
24There he too stripped off his clothes and like the rest fell into a frenzy before Samuel and lay down naked all that day and throughout that night. That is the reason for the saying, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”
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