4. Jonathan then spoke well of David to his father Saul, telling him: “The king should not harm his servant David. He has not harmed you, but has helped you very much by his deeds.
5. When he took his life in his hands and killed the Philistine, and the Lord won a great victory for all Israel, you were glad to see it. Why, then, should you become guilty of shedding innocent blood by killing David without cause?”
6. Saul heeded Jonathan’s plea and swore, “As the Lord lives, he shall not be killed.”
7. So Jonathan summoned David and repeated the whole conversation to him. He then brought David to Saul, and David served him as before.
8. When war broke out again, David went out to fight against the Philistines and inflicted such a great defeat upon them that they fled from him.
9. Then an evil spirit from the Lord came upon Saul as he was sitting in his house with spear in hand while David was playing the harp nearby.
10. Saul tried to pin David to the wall with the spear, but David eluded Saul, and the spear struck only the wall, while David got away safely.
11. The same night, Saul sent messengers to David’s house to guard it, planning to kill him in the morning. David’s wife Michal informed him, “Unless you run for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”
12. Then Michal let David down through a window, and he made his escape in safety.
13. Michal took the teraphim and laid it in the bed, putting a tangle of goat’s hair at its head and covering it with a blanket.
14. When Saul sent officers to arrest David, she said, “He is sick.”
15. Saul, however, sent the officers back to see David and commanded them, “Bring him up to me in his bed, that I may kill him.”