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1 Samuel 19 📜 📕 ↷
8 And there was battle raised again, and David going forth, fought against the Philistiims, and struck them with a great slaughter, and they fled from his face.📜💬📚
9 And the evil spirit of our Lord came upon Saul, and he sat in his house, and held a spear: moreover David played with his hand.📜💬📚
10 And Saul endeavoured to nail David to the wall with his spear. And David declined from the face of Saul: and the spear without making wound pierced the wall, & David fled, and was saved that night.📜💬📚
11 Saul therefore sent of his guard into David's house, that they should keep him, & that he might be killed in the morning: Which when Michol his wife had told David, saying: Unless thou save thy self this night, to morrow thou shalt die:📜💬📚
12 she let him down through a window. Moreover he went and fled away, and was saved.📜💬📚
13 And Michol took a statua, and put it upon the bed, and a hairy skin of goats she laid at the head thereof, and covered it with garments.📜💬📚
14 And Saul sent sergeants, that should take away David by force, and it was answered that he was sick.📜💬📚
15 And again Saul sent messengers to see David, saying: Bring him to me in the bed, that he may be slain.📜💬📚
16 And when the messengers were come, there was found a statua upon the bed, & skins of goats at the head thereof.📜💬📚
17 And Saul said to Michol: Why hast thou mocked me, and let go mine enemy that he might fly? And Michol answered Saul: Because he said to me: Let me go, otherwise I will kill thee.📜💬📚
18 But David flying was saved, and came to Samuel in Ramatha, & told him all things that Saul had done to him: and he and Samuel went and abode in Najoth.📜💬📚
19 And it was told Saul by some saying: Behold David is in Najoth in Ramatha.📜💬📚
20 Saul therefore sent sergeants to take away David: who when they had seen a troop of Prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing over them, the spirit of our Lord came also on them, and they also began to prophesy.📜💬📚
21 Which when it was told Saul, he sent other messengers: but they also did prophesy. And again Saul sent the third messengers: who also prophesied. And Saul being wrath for anger,📜💬📚
22 went also himself into Ramatha, and came as far as the great cistern, which is in Socho, and asked, and said: In what place are Samuel and David? And it was told him: Lo they are in Najoth in Ramatha.📜💬📚
23 And he went into Najoth in Ramatha, and the Spirit of our Lord came upon him, and he walked going, and he prophesied till he came into Najoth in Ramatha.📜💬📚
24 And he stripped himself of his garments, and prophesied with the rest before Samuel, and sang naked all that day and night. Whereupon there went out also a proverb: What, is Saul also among the Prophets.📜💬📚
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