Saul Tells His Servants & Jonathan to Kill David |
1 Samuel 19:1-24 The Book of 1 Samuel [in Smaller Chunks] |
Saul [spoke] to: Jonathan, his son & all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan [was very] delighted in David, & Honathan told David, saying, Saul, my father [seeks] to kill you. I pray [that] you now, [pay careful attention for] yourself until the morning, & hide yourself, & [stay] in a secret place. |
I will go out in the field & stand beside my father, where you [are.] And I will [talk] with my father [about] you; & I will tell you; what I [find out.] And Jonathan [spoke] good [about] David to his father, Saul. |
[Jonathan] said to him, [Don’t] let the king sin against his servant, David, because he [hasn’t] sinned against you, & his [his actions toward you] have been very good. For [David risked] his life, & [killed] the [Philistines.] |
And the Lord [worked] a great [victory] for all Israel. You [saw] it & [rejoiced:] [why] then [will] you sin against innocent blood, & [kill] David without a cause? |
And Saul [listened to] Jonathan: & [swore,] As the Lord [Lives, David] shall not be [killed.] And Jonathan called David, & [declared to] him all [these] things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul & [David] was in [Saul's] presence, [like] in past times. |
And there was war again: & David went out & fought with the Philistines, & [attacked them] with a [large] slaughter, & they fled from [David.] And the [distressing] spirit from the Lord was upon Saul, & David played [the harp] with his [hands,] as [Saul] sat in his house with his [spear] in his hand. |
And Saul [thought to pin] David, even to the wall with the [spear,] but [David] slipped away [from] Saul’s presence, & [Saul] [threw] the [spear] [which] [stuck] into the wall, & David fled, & escaped that night. |
Saul also sent messengers to David’s house, to watch him, & [kill] him in the morning. Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, If you [don’t] save your life tonight, you [shall] be [killed] tomorrow. |
So, Michal let David down through a window: & he went [down,] fled, & escaped. And Michal took a goat’s hair pillow, [& made it to look like David’s] image, [a.k.a. shape of his torso,] & laid it in the bed, & covered it with a cloth. |
And when Saul sent messengers to take David, [Michal] said, He is sick. And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring [David] up to me in the bed, [so] I may [kill] him. [But] when the messengers [came] in, [they] [saw,] there was an image in the bed, with a goat’s hair pillow for his [torso.] |
And Saul said to Michal, Why [have] you deceived me, [this way,] & sent away [my] enemy, [so] that he escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said to me, Let me go. Why should I kill you? |
So, David fled, escaped, & came to Samuel [in] Ramah, & told him all that Saul had done to him. And [David] & Samuel went & [stayed] in Naioth. And Saul [was told, Look,] David is in Naioth in Ramah. |
And Saul sent messengers to take David: & when they saw the [group] of prophets prophesying, & Samuel standing [in charge] over them, the [Holy] Spirit of God was upon [Saul’s] messengers, & they also prophesied. |
And when Saul was told, he sent other messengers, & they prophesied, [too.] And Saul sent messengers again the 3rd time, & they also prophesied, [as well.] Then, [Saul] also went to Ramah, & came to a [large] well in Sechu, & asked, Where are Samuel & David? [Someone] said, [Look,] they are at Naioth in Ramah. |
And [Saul] went [there] to Naioth in Ramah & the [Holy] Spirit of God was also upon [Saul,] & he went on & prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah. |
And [Saul took off] his clothes [too,] & prophesied in [a similar] manner before Samuel, & lay down naked all that: day & night. [For this reason,] they say, Is Saul also among the prophets? |