1 Samuel chapter 19
Jonathan intercedes for David. Michal saves David’s life. David joins Samuel in Ramah.
JONATHAN INTERCEDES FOR DAVID
VERSE 1. Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, greatly delighted in David.
that they should kill David. Saul wants to murder somebody.
Jonathan … greatly delighted in David. David and Jonathan greatly delighted in each other. They kissed each other. David preferred Jonathan’s love more than love from women. Read more »
VERSE 2. Jonathan told David, saying, “Saul my father seeks to kill you. Now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, and live in a secret place, and hide yourself.
VERSE 3. I 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.”
VERSE 4. Jonathan 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;
VERSE 5. for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and the LORD 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?”
VERSE 6. Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan: and Saul swore, “As the LORD lives, he shall not be put to death.”
VERSE 7. Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things. Then Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as before.
MICHAL SAVES DAVID’S LIFE
VERSE 8. There was war again. David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter; and they fled before him.
VERSE 9. An evil spirit from the LORD was on Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand; and David was playing with his hand.
An evil spirit from the LORD. What does this mean? How is it that the LORD God sends an evil spirit to afflict somebody?
VERSE 10. Saul 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.
VERSE 11. Saul 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.”
VERSE 12. So Michal let David down through the window. He went away, fled, and escaped.
VERSE 13. Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair at its head, and covered it with clothes.
teraphim. These were household idols. They might have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.
In other words, David, “the man after God’s own heart,” kept an idol in his house!
VERSE 14. When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”
VERSE 15. Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.”
VERSE 16. When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats’ hair at its head.
VERSE 17. Saul 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?’ ”
DAVID JOINS SAMUEL IN RAMAH
VERSE 18. Now 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.
VERSE 19. Saul was told, saying, “Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.”
VERSE 20. Saul 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.
VERSE 21. When Saul was told, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied.
VERSE 22. Then 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.”
the great well that is in Secu. The meaning of the word Secu is unknown.
VERSE 23. He 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.
God’s Spirit came on him also. Angry Saul is overcome with Holy Spirit power!
VERSE 24. He also stripped off his clothes, and 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?”
lay down naked. The LORD God called Isaiah to be stark naked, everywhere he went, for three years. Micah also ministered while fully naked. Read more »
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