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1 Samuel 19:1-24 — Saul Tries to Kill David

1Sam.19.1-24

¹Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants about putting David to death, but Jonathan son of Saul was very fond of David. ²So Jonathan told David, "Saul my father is seeking to kill you. Now then, be on your guard in the morning, stay in a secret place, and hide yourself. ³I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will speak to my father about you. Then I will see what happens and tell you." ⁴Then Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father and said to him, "Let not the king sin against his servant David, because he has not sinned against you, and because what he has done has been very good for you. ⁵He risked his life and struck down the Philistine, and the LORD brought about a great deliverance for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced. Why then should you sin against innocent blood by putting David to death without cause?" ⁶Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan, and Saul swore, “As the LORD lives, he shall not be put to death.” ⁷Then Jonathan called David and told him all these things, and Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in Saul's presence as before. ⁸And war broke out again, and David went out and fought against the Philistines and struck them with a great blow, so that they fled before him. ⁹Then a harmful spirit from the LORD came upon Saul as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand, while David was playing. ¹⁰Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but David slipped away from Saul, and the spear struck into the wall. Then David fled and escaped that night. ¹¹Then Saul sent messengers to David's house to watch him and to put him to death in the morning. But Michal his wife told David, “If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead.” ¹²So Michal let David down through the window, and he went and fled and escaped. ¹³Then Michal took the teraphim and laid it on the bed, put a goat-hair quilt at its head, and covered it with a garment. ¹⁴When Saul sent messengers to seize David, she said, “He is sick.” ¹⁵Then Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, so that I may put him to death.” ¹⁶When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was on the bed, with the goat-hair quilt at its head. ¹⁷Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me like this and sent my enemy away, so that he has escaped?” Michal said to Saul, “He said to me, 'Let me go. Why should I kill you?'” ¹⁸Now David fled and escaped and came to Samuel at Ramah, and he told him all that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went and stayed in Naioth. ¹⁹And it was told Saul, “Behold, David is in Naioth in Ramah.” ²⁰So Saul sent messengers to seize David. But when they saw the company of prophets prophesying, with Samuel standing over them, the Spirit of God came upon Saul's messengers, and they also prophesied. ²¹When they told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. Then Saul again sent messengers a third time, and they also prophesied. ²²Then he himself also went to Ramah. When he came to the great cistern that is in Secu, he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” And one said, “Behold, they are in Naioth in Ramah.” ²³So he went there, to Naioth in Ramah, and the Spirit of God came upon him also, and he went on prophesying until he came to Naioth in Ramah. ²⁴He too stripped off his garments, and he too prophesied before Samuel, and lay naked all that day and all that night. Therefore people say, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”

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4/11/2026

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