 Previous Chapter |
 Return to Outline |
 Ask Questions |
 Next Chapter |
Chapter 19 is an account of an effort by Saul to kill David and the efforts of those who loved him to keep him from being killed. Saul had urged his servants and his son Jonathan to kill David but Jonathan loved David and persuaded his father to call off his efforts to kill David. Saul agreed and invited David to come back and live in the Palace.
Shortly after that, war broke out with the Philistines and David led the troops of Israel and defeated the Philistines. Then one day Saul was listening to David play the harp and suddenly the "tormenting spirit" struck him again. He grabbed his spear and hurled it at David. David dodged the spear and ran away to his home in Bethlehem. Saul sent troops after him but by the time they got to Bethlehem David's wife, Michal, had helped him escape and then made a bed to look like he was sleeping in it, and when the soldiers arrived she told them David was sick and in bed. The soldiers decided to take him, bed and all, back with them but when they went to get him, they discovered there was no one in the bed. They returned to the Palace and told Saul and when Saul questioned his daughter she told him that David had threatened to kill her if she had not helped him.
When David left his home he went to Ramah to see Samuel and when he told Samuel what Saul was trying to do, Samuel took him to live at Naioth, a place close to Ramah. Naioth was a sacred place for prophets, even Philistines respected it and would not bother it but Saul, by now, had no respect for anything and 3 times he sent troops to get David and 3 times the troops were indwelt with the "spirit of prophesy" and did not return to Saul.
Finally Saul himself, came, and he to was indwelt with the spirit of prophesy and he stripped off his cloths and laid naked all day and all night and people questioned, "Is Saul a Prophet to?"
Previous Chapter |
Return to Outline |
Ask Questions |
Next Chapter |