3. I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you will be, and I will speak with my father about you. If I notice anything, I will tell you.”
4. So Jonathan spoke well of David to his father Saul and said to him, “May the king not sin against his servant David, since he has not sinned against you, and since his deeds have been very beneficial for you;
5. For he put his life in his hand and killed the Philistine, and Adonai won a great victory for all Israel—you saw it and rejoiced. So why would you sin against innocent blood by killing David without a cause?”
6. Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan, and Saul swore, “As Adonai lives, he will not be put to death.”
7. So Jonathan called David, and Jonathan told him all these things. Jonathan brought David to Saul and in his presence as before.
8. Once again war broke out, and David marched out and fought the Philistines, and inflicted a great slaughter on them and they fled before him.
9. Yet once again an evil spirit from Adonai came upon Saul as he was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand, as David was playing music with his hand.
10. Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away from Saul’s face, so that he drove the spear into the wall. That night David fled and got away.
11. Then Saul sent agents to David’s house to watch him, in order to kill him in the morning. But David’s wife Michal warned him saying, “If you don’t escape for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”
12. So Michal lowered David down through the window, and thus he went, fled and escaped.
13. Then Michal took a household idol, laid it in the bed, put a quilt of goats’ hair at the head and covered it with a cloth.
14. When Saul sent messengers to arrest David, she said, “He’s sick.”
15. So Saul sent the agents back to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed so I may put him to death.”
16. When the messengers came in, behold, the household idol was in the bed with the quilt of goats’ hair at its head.