RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

melech's son-in-law.
23 And Shaul's avadim spoke those words in the ears of
Dawid. And Dawid said, Does it seem to you a small
thing to be a melech's son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor
man, and lightly esteemed?
24 And the avadim of Shaul told him, saying, In this
manner did Dawid react.
25 And Shaul said, This shall you say to Dawid, The
melech desires no dowry, but only a hundred foreskins of
the Plishtim, to be avenged of the melech's enemies. But
Shaul thought to kill Dawid by the hands of the Plishtim.
26 And when his avadim told Dawid these words, it
pleased Dawid well to be the melech's son-in-law: and the
days were not expired.
27 So Dawid arose and went, he and his men, and killed
of the Plishtim two hundred men; and Dawid brought
their foreskins, and they gave them all to the melech, that
he might be the melech's son-in-law. And Shaul gave him
Michal his daughter as a wife.
28 And Shaul saw and knew that vuvh was with Dawid,
and that Michal Shaul's daughter loved him.
29 And Shaul was yet even more afraid of Dawid; and
Shaul became Dawid's enemy continually.
30 Then the rulers of the Plishtim went forth: and it came
to pass, after they went forth, that Dawid behaved himself
more wisely than all the avadim of Shaul; so that his
name came to be very precious.
19 And Shaul spoke to Yonathan his son, and to all his
avadim, that they should kill Dawid.
2 But Yonathan Shaul's son delighted much in Dawid:
and Yonathan told Dawid, saying, Shaul my abba seeks to
kill you: now therefore, I beg you, take heed until the
morning, and stay in a secret place, and hide yourself:
3 And I will go out and stand beside my abba in the field
where you are, and I will commune with my abba about
you, and what I see, that I will tell you.
4 And Yonathan spoke tov of Dawid to Shaul his abba,
and said to him, Let not the melech sin against his eved,
against Dawid, because he has not sinned against you, and
because his works towards you have been very tov:
5 For he did take his chayim into his hands, and killed the
Plishti, and vuvh brought a great deliverance for kol
Yisrael: you saw it, and did gilah: why then will you sin
against innocent dahm, to kill Dawid without a cause?
6 And Shaul listened to the voice of Yonathan: and Shaul
swore, As vuvh lives, he shall not be killed.
7 And Yonathan called Dawid, and Yonathan showed him
all those things. And Yonathan brought Dawid to Shaul,
and he was in his presence, as in times past.
8 And there was war again: and Dawid went out, and
fought with the Plishtim, and killed them with a great
slaughter; and they fled from him.
9 And the evil ruach from vuvh was upon Shaul again, as
he sat in his bayit with his javelin in his hand: and Dawid
played the harp with his hand.
10 And Shaul sought to smite Dawid even to the wall
with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Shaul's
presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and
Dawid fled, and escaped that night.
11 Shaul also sent messengers to Dawid's bayit, to watch
him, and to kill him in the morning: and Michal Dawid's
wife told him, saying, If you save not your chayim
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tonight, tomorrow you shall be killed.
12 So Michal let Dawid down through a window: and he
went, and fled, and escaped.
13 And Michal took a bayit idol, and laid it in the bed,
and put a pillow of goats' hair in place of his head, and
covered it with a cloth.
14 And when Shaul sent messengers to take Dawid, she
said, He is sick.
15 And Shaul sent the messengers again to see Dawid,
saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.
16 And when the messengers had come in, see, there was
an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' hair in place
of his head.
17 And Shaul said to Michal, Why have you deceived me
so, and sent away my enemy, that he has escaped? And
Michal answered Shaul, He said to me, Let me go; why
should I kill you?
18 So Dawid fled, and escaped, and came to Schmuel in
Ramah, and told him all that Shaul had done to him. And
he and Schmuel went and dwelt in Naioth.
19 And it was told Shaul, saying, See, Dawid is at Naioth
in Ramah.
20 And Shaul sent messengers to take Dawid: and when
they saw the group of the neviim prophesying, and
Schmuel standing as appointed over them, the Ruach of
Elohim was upon the messengers of Shaul, and they also
prophesied.
21 And when it was told Shaul, he sent other messengers,
and they prophesied likewise. And Shaul sent messengers
again the third time, and they prophesied also.
22 Then he also went to Ramah, and came to a great well
that is in Sechu: and he asked and said, Where are
Schmuel and Dawid? And one said, See, they are at
Naioth in Ramah.
23 And he went there to Naioth in Ramah: and the Ruach
of Elohim was upon him also, and he went on, and
prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah.
24 And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied
before Schmuel in like manner, and lay down naked all
that day and all that night. Which is why they say, Is
Shaul also among the neviim?
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And Dawid fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came
and said before Yonathan, What have I done? What is my
iniquity? And what is my sin before your abba, that he
seeks my chayim?
2 And he said to him, Elohim forbid; you shall not die:
see, my abba will do nothing either great, or small, but
that he will show it me: and why should my abba hide this
thing from me? It is not so.
3 And Dawid swore moreover, and said, Your abba
certainly knows that I have found favor in your eyes; and
he said, Let not Yonathan know this, lest he be grieved:
but truly as vuvh lives, and as your chayim lives, there is
but a step between me and death.
4 Then said Yonathan to Dawid, Whatever your chayim
desires, I will even do it for you.
5 And Dawid said to Yonathan, See, tomorrow is the
Rosh Chodesh, and I should be sitting with the melech to
eat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field until
the third day at evening.
6 If your abba misses me at all, then say, Dawid earnestly
asked leave of me that he might run to Beth-Lechem his