And Saul spoke with Jonathan his son and with all his servants to kill David, but Jonathan, son of Saul, delighted much in David.

And Jonathan told David, saying, “Saul my father seeks to kill you. And now, take heed to yourself in the morning, and keep hidden in a secret place.

And I will go out and stand in my father’s presence in the field where you are, and I will speak to my father good things about you. Then I will see whatever [happens] and I will tell you.”

And Jonathan spoke good things about David before Saul his father, and said to him, “Let not the king sin against his servant, against David, because he has not sinned against you and because his deeds have been very good for you.

For he surrendered his life, as if it were on the back [of his hand], to be possibly killed, as he killed the Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it and you rejoiced. Why then would you become guilty against innocent blood by killing David without cause?”

And Saul accepted the speech of Jonathan. Saul swore, “As the LORD is the existing One, he shall not be killed.”

And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan told him all these things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul and he was serving before him as before.

And the wagers of war continued to be, and David went out and waged war with the Philistines, and struck a great strike among them, so that they retreated before him.

And an evil spirit from before the LORD dwelt upon Saul, and he sat in his house with his spear in his hand, while David was playing the lyre with [his] hand.

And Saul sought to hit David with his spear and to pin it to the wall, but he withdrew himself from before Saul, so that he fixed the spear in the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.

And Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and to kill him in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you do not rescue your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”

So Michal let David down from the window; and he went and fled, and he escaped.

Michal took the images and laid them on the bed. She put a goat bag at its head and covered it with clothes.

And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”

Then Saul sent the messengers to examine David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed to kill him.”

And when the messengers came, behold, the images were on the bed and the goat’s bag was at its head.

Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me thus, and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?” And Michal said to Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go. Why should I kill you?’”

Now David fled and escaped, and he came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in the Talmud School.

And it was told Saul, saying, “Behold, David is in the Talmud School in Ramah.”

Then Saul sent messengers to take David. And when they saw the company of scribes praising, and Samuel standing as teacher over them, a prophetic spirit from before the LORD dwelt on them, and they also praised.

When it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also praised. And Saul sent [a] third [group of] messengers again, and they also praised.

Then he also went to Ramah, and came to the great well that is in Secu. And he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” And one said, “Behold, they are in the Talmud School in Ramah.”

And he went thither, to the Talmud School in Ramah; and a prophetic spirit from before the LORD dwelt upon him also, and he went, praising as he went, until he came to the Talmud School in Ramah.

And also he sent off his clothes and also he praised before Samuel. And he fell insane all that day and all night. Hence they say, “Is Saul also among the scribes?”