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1 Samuel 19 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

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David Protected from Saul

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:1 - Now Saul told Jonathan his son and all his servants to put David to death. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, greatly delighted in David.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:2 - So Jonathan told David saying, “Saul my father is seeking to put you to death. Now therefore, please be on guard in the morning, and stay in a secret place and hide yourself.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:3 - “I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will speak with my father about you; if I [fn]find out anything, then I will tell you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:4 - Then Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father and said to him, “Do not let the king sin against his servant David, since he has not sinned against you, and since his deeds have been very [fn]beneficial to you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:5 - “For he took his life in his hand and struck the Philistine, and the LORD brought about a great deliverance for all Israel; you saw it and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood by putting David to death without a cause?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:6 - Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan, and Saul vowed, “As the LORD lives, he shall not be put to death.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:7 - Then Jonathan called David, and Jonathan told him all these words. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence as formerly.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:8 - When there was war again, David went out and fought with the Philistines and [fn]defeated them with great slaughter, so that they fled before him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:9 - Now there was an evil spirit from the LORD on Saul as he was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand, and David was playing the harp with his hand.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:10 - Saul tried to [fn]pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, so that he [fn]stuck the spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:11 - Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him, in order to put him to death in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be put to death.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:12 - So Michal let David down through a window, and he went out and fled and escaped.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:13 - Michal took the [fn]household idol and laid it on the bed, and put a quilt of goats’ hair at its head, and covered it with clothes.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:14 - When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:15 - Then Saul sent messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me on [fn]his bed, that I may put him to death.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:16 - When the messengers entered, behold, the [fn]household idol was on the bed with the quilt of goats’ hair at its head.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:17 - So Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me like this and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?” And Michal said to Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go! Why should I put you to death?’”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:18 - Now David fled and escaped and came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and stayed in Naioth.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:19 - It was told Saul, saying, “Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:20 - Then Saul sent messengers to take David, but when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, with Samuel standing and presiding over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul; and they also prophesied.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:21 - When it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. So Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:22 - Then he himself went to Ramah and came as far as the large well that is in Secu; and he asked and said, “Where are Samuel and David?” And someone said, “Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:23 - He [fn]proceeded there to Naioth in Ramah; and the Spirit of God came upon him also, so that he went along prophesying continually until he came to Naioth in Ramah.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:24 - He also stripped off his clothes, and he too prophesied before Samuel and [fn]lay down [fn]naked all that day and all that night. Therefore they say, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”
NASB95 Footnotes
Literally: see
Literally: good
Literally: smote
Literally: strike David and the wall
Literally: struck
Hebrew: teraphim
Literally: the
Hebrew: teraphim
Literally: went
Literally: fell
I.e. without outward garments
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