1 Samuel 19

1Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, greatly delighted in David.Cross-references: 1Sam 18:1 · 1Sam 18:9

2Jonathan told David, saying, “Saul my father seeks to kill you. Now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, live in a secret place, and hide yourself.Cross-references: 1Sam 18:1 · 1Sam 20:2 · Ps 16:3 · Prov 17:17 · John 15:17 · Acts 9:24 · +2 more

3I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will talk with my father about you; and if I see anything, I will tell you.”Cross-references: 1Sam 20:9 · 1Sam 20:13

4Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, “Don’t let the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you;Cross-references: Gen 9:6 · Gen 42:22 · 1Sam 2:25 · 1Sam 20:32 · 1Sam 22:14 · 2Chr 6:22 · +8 more

5for he put his life in his hand and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?”Cross-references: Ex 14:13 · Deut 19:10 · Judg 9:17 · Judg 12:3 · 1Sam 11:13 · 1Sam 14:45 · +14 more

6Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan; and Saul swore, “As Yahweh lives, he shall not be put to death.”Cross-references: 1Sam 14:39 · 1Sam 19:10 · 1Sam 28:10 · Ps 15:4 · Prov 26:24 · Jer 5:2

7Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things. Then Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence as before.Cross-references: Gen 31:2 · Ex 4:10 · 1Sam 16:21 · 1Sam 18:2 · 1Sam 18:10 · 1Sam 18:13 · +2 more

8There was war again. David went out and fought with the Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter; and they fled before him.Cross-references: Ps 18:32 · Ps 27:3

9An evil spirit from Yahweh was on Saul as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand; and David was playing music with his hand.Cross-references: 1Sam 16:14 · 1Sam 16:16 · 1Sam 18:10

10Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence; and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled and escaped that night.Cross-references: 1Sam 18:11 · 1Sam 19:6 · 1Sam 20:33 · Job 5:14 · Ps 18:17 · Ps 34:19 · +10 more

11Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you don’t save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”Cross-references: Judg 16:2 · Ps 59:1

12So Michal let David down through the window. He went away, fled, and escaped.Cross-references: Josh 2:15 · Ps 34:19 · Acts 9:24 · 2Cor 11:32

13Michal took the teraphim and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair at its head and covered it with clothes.Cross-references: Gen 31:19 · Judg 17:5 · Judg 18:14 · Judg 18:17 · Hos 3:4

14When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”Cross-references: Josh 2:5 · 2Sam 16:17 · 2Sam 17:20

15Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.”Cross-references: 1Sam 19:6 · Job 31:31 · Ps 37:12 · Prov 27:3 · Rom 3:15

16When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats’ hair at its head.

17Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me like this and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?” Michal answered Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go! Why should I kill you?’”Cross-references: Ex 1:17 · 1Sam 19:14 · 1Sam 22:17 · 1Sam 28:12 · 2Sam 2:22 · 2Sam 17:20 · +3 more

18Now David fled and escaped, and came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went and lived in Naioth.Cross-references: 1Sam 7:17 · 1Sam 15:34 · 1Sam 28:3 · Ps 116:11 · James 5:16

19Saul was told, saying, “Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.”Cross-references: 1Sam 22:9 · 1Sam 23:19 · 1Sam 26:1 · Prov 29:12

20Saul sent messengers to seize David; and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, God’s Spirit came on Saul’s messengers, and they also prophesied.Cross-references: Num 11:25 · 1Sam 10:5 · 1Sam 10:10 · 1Sam 19:11 · 1Sam 19:14 · Joel 2:28 · +4 more

21When Saul was told, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied.Cross-references: 2Ki 1:9 · Prov 27:22 · Jer 13:23 · Joel 2:28

22Then he also went to Ramah, and came to the great well that is in Secu: and he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” One said, “Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah.”

23He went there to Naioth in Ramah. Then God’s Spirit came on him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah.Cross-references: Num 23:5 · Num 24:2 · 1Sam 10:10 · 1Sam 19:20 · Prov 16:9 · Prov 21:1 · +3 more

24He also stripped off his clothes. He also prophesied before Samuel and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Therefore they say, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”Cross-references: Num 24:4 · 1Sam 10:10 · 2Sam 6:14 · 2Sam 6:20 · Isa 20:2 · Mic 1:8 · +1 more