1 Samuel 19:8-24 - David Has To Flee Again

⁸ The war continued and David went out to fight against the Philistines. He thoroughly defeated them, and they fled before David.

⁹ The evil spirit from the LORD attacked Saul while he was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand and David was playing the lyre. ¹⁰ Saul tried to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he jumped away from Saul and the spear stuck in the wall. That night David escaped and fled. ¹¹ Saul sent messengers to David's house to watch him so they could kill him in the morning. David's wife, Michal, told him, "If you don't escape with your life tonight, tomorrow you'll be put to death." ¹² So Michal let David down through the window, and he escaped and fled. ¹³ Then Michal took the household idol and laid it on the bed with a cover of goat hair placed at its head. Then she covered it with clothes. ¹⁴ When Saul sent the messengers to take David, Michal said, "He's sick."

¹⁵ Then Saul sent messengers to check on David. He told them, "Bring him to me on the bed so I may kill him." ¹⁶ The messengers went in, and there was the household idol in the bed with the cover of goat hair at its head!

¹⁷ Then Saul told Michal, "Why did you deceive me like this and let my enemy go so he could escape?" Michal told Saul, "He told me, "Let me go or I'll kill you!'"

¹⁸ David escaped and fled. He came to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went and stayed at Naioth.

¹⁹ It was reported to Saul saying, "David is at Naioth in Ramah right now." ²⁰ Saul sent messengers to take David, and they saw a group of prophets caught up in prophetic ecstasy, with Samuel standing beside them leading them. Then the Spirit of God came on Saul's messengers, and they also were caught up in prophetic ecstasy. ²¹ They reported this to Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also were caught up in prophetic ecstasy. ²² Then Saul himself went to Ramah, and he arrived at the large well that is in Secu. He asked, "Where are Samuel and David?"

²³ Someone replied, "They're at Naioth in Ramah." Saul went to Naioth in Ramah, and the Spirit of God came on him also. He continued in prophetic ecstasy until he came to Naioth in Ramah. ²⁴ He also removed his clothes and was caught up in prophetic ecstasy right in front of Samuel! He fell down naked and remained there all that day and all night. That is why people say, "Is Saul also among the prophets?"