there wasa javelin in Saul's hand.
11 And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David
avoided out of his presence twice.
12 And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and was departed from Saul.
13 Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he
went out and came in before the people.
14 And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the LORD waswith him.
15 Wherefore when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he was afraid of him.
16 But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out and came in before them.
17 And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be
thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD'S battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him,
but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.
18 And David said unto Saul, Who amI? and what ismy life, ormy father's family in Israel,
that I should be son in law to the king?
19 But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul's daughter should have been given to David,
that she was given unto Adriel the Meholathite to wife.
20 And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
21 And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the
Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in
law in the one ofthe twain.
22 And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold,
the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king's son in
law.
23 And Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to
you alight thingto be a king's son in law, seeing that I ama poor man, and lightly esteemed?
24 And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David.
25 And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred
foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David
fall by the hand of the Philistines.
26 And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son in
law: and the days were not expired.
27 Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred
men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might
be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.
28 And Saul saw and knew that the LORD waswith David, and thatMichal Saul's daughter loved
him.
29 And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David's enemy continually.
30 Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it came to pass, after they went forth,
thatDavid behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was
much set by.
1 And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David.
2 But Jonathan Saul's son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my
father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning,
and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself:
3 And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou art, and I will commune
with my father of thee; and what I see, that I will tell thee.
4 And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin
against his servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his
works have beento thee-ward very good:

5 For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great
salvation for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against
innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?
6 And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware, Asthe LORD liveth, he shall
not be slain.
7 And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan shewed him all those things. And Jonathan brought
David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as in times past.
8 And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them
with a great slaughter; and they fled from him.
9 And the evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his javelin in his
hand: and David played with hishand.
10 And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of
Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.
11 Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning:
and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt
be slain.
12 So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
13 And Michal took an image, and laid itin the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hairfor his
bolster, and covered itwith a cloth.
14 And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He issick.
15 And Saul sent the messengers againto see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that
I may slay him.
16 And when the messengers were come in, behold, there wasan image in the bed, with a
pillow of goats' hairfor his bolster.
17 And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he
is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said unto me, Let me go; why should I kill thee?
18 So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had
done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth.
19 And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David isat Naioth in Ramah.
20 And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets
prophesying, and Samuel standing asappointed over them, the Spirit of God was upon the
messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.
21 And when it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they prophesied likewise. And
Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they prophesied also.
22 Then went he also to Ramah, and came to a great well that isin Sechu: and he asked and
said, Where areSamuel and David? And onesaid, Behold, they beat Naioth in Ramah.
23 And he went thither to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God was upon him also, and he
went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah.
24 And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay
down naked all that day and all that night. Wherefore they say, IsSaul also among the prophets?
1 And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done?
what ismine iniquity? and what ismy sin before thy father, that he seeketh my life?
2 And he said unto him, God forbid; thou shalt not die: behold, my father will do nothing either
great or small, but that he will shew it me: and why should my father hide this thing from me?
it isnot so.
3 And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in
thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly asthe LORD
liveth, and asthy soul liveth, there isbut a step between me and death.
4 Then said Jonathan unto David, Whatsoever thy soul desireth, I will even do itfor thee.

5 And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to morrow isthe new moon, and I should not fail to sit
with the king at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field unto the third dayat
even.
6 If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked leaveof me that he might run to
Bethlehem his city: for there isa yearly sacrifice there for all the family.
7 If he say thus, It iswell; thy servant shall have peace: but if he be very wroth, thenbe sure
that evil is determined by him.
8 Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a
covenant of the LORD with thee: notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for
why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?
9 And Jonathan said, Far be it from thee: for if I knew certainly that evil were determined by
my father to come upon thee, then would not I tell it thee?
10 Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what ifthy father answer thee roughly?
11 And Jonathan said unto David, Come, and let us go out into the field. And they went out both
of them into the field.
12 And Jonathan said unto David, O LORD God of Israel, when I have sounded my father about to
morrow any time, orthe third day, and, behold, if there begood toward David, and I then send
not unto thee, and shew it thee;
13 The LORD do so and much more to Jonathan: but if it please my father to dothee evil, then I
will shew it thee, and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace: and the LORD be with thee,
as he hath been with my father.
14 And thou shalt not only while yet I live shew me the kindness of the LORD, that I die not:
15 But alsothou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house for ever: no, not when the LORD
hath cut off the enemies of David every one from the face of the earth.
16 So Jonathan made a covenantwith the house of David, saying, Let the LORD even require itat
the hand of David's enemies.
17 And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he
loved his own soul.
18 Then Jonathan said to David, To morrow isthe new moon: and thou shalt be missed, because
thy seat will be empty.
19 And whenthou hast stayed three days, thenthou shalt go down quickly, and come to the
place where thou didst hide thyself when the business was in hand, and shalt remain by the
stone Ezel.
20 And I will shoot three arrows on the side thereof, as though I shot at a mark.
21 And, behold, I will send a lad, saying, Go, find out the arrows. If I expressly say unto the lad,
Behold, the arrows areon this side of thee, take them; then come thou: for there ispeace to
thee, and no hurt; asthe LORD liveth.
22 But if I say thus unto the young man, Behold, the arrows arebeyond thee; go thy way: for the
LORD hath sent thee away.
23 And as touchingthe matter which thou and I have spoken of, behold, the LORD bebetween
thee and me for ever.
24 So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down
to eat meat.
25 And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, evenupon a seat by the wall: and Jonathan
arose, and Abner sat by Saul's side, and David's place was empty.
26 Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen him,
he isnot clean; surely he isnot clean.
27 And it came to pass on the morrow, which wasthe second dayof the month, that David's
place was empty: and Saul said unto Jonathan his son, Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse to