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8 And there was war again; and David went out
and fought with the Philistines, and struck them
with a mighty blow, and they fled from him.
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Now the distressing spirit from the LORD 19:23 the Spirit of God was upon him. This
came upon Saul as he sat in his house with his was the last time the Spirit of the Lord would rest
spear in his hand. And David was playing mu- on Saul.God turned Saul’s heart to prophesy and
sic with his hand. Then Saul sought to pin not to harm David.
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David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped
away from Saul’s presence; and he drove the 19:24 stripped off his clothes. Saul removed
spear into the wall. So David fled and escaped his armor and royal garments, prompted by
that night. the Spirit of God,thus signifying God’s rejection
11 Saul also sent messengers to David’s of Saul as king over Israel. lay down naked.
house to watch him and to kill him in the Without the royal garments, Saul was figura-
morning. And Michal, David’s wife, told him, tively “naked,” perhaps so overwhelmed by
the Spirit of God as to be in a deep sleep.
saying, “If you do not save your life tonight, Other than Saul’s utter despair and pitiful
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tomorrow you will be killed.” So Michal let state at the home of the medium at En Dor
David down through a window. And he went (28:20) and his end at Mt. Gilboa (31:4–6), this
and fled and escaped. And Michal took an episode represents one of the severest hum-
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image and laid it in the bed, put a cover of blings in Saul’s life. Is Saul also among the
goats’ hair for his head, and covered it with prophets? This is a final editorial comment
clothes. So when Saul sent messengers to tying together the Spirit of God’s presence at
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take David, she said, “He is sick.” Saul’s inauguration (10:10,11), and the final
15 Then Saul sent the messengers back to see departure of the same at his rejection (19:24).
David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed,
that I may kill him.” And when the messengers
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had come in, there was the image in the bed, Psalm 58:1–11
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with a cover of goats’ hair for his head. Then To the Chief Musician. Set to “Do Not Destroy.”
Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived A Michtam of David.
me like this, and sent my enemy away, so that
And Michal answered Saul, “He said to me, D you silent ones?
he has escaped?” o you indeed speak righteousness,
‘Let me go! Why should I kill you?’ ” Do you judge uprightly, you sons of
18 So David fled and escaped, and went to men?
Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul 2 No, in heart you work wickedness;
had done to him. And he and Samuel went and You weigh out the violence of your
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stayed in Naioth. Now it was told Saul, say- hands in the earth.
ing, “Take note, David is at Naioth in Ramah!” 3 The wicked are estranged from the
20 Then Saul sent messengers to take David. womb;
And when they saw the group of prophets They go astray as soon as they are
prophesying, and Samuel standing as leader born, speaking lies.
over them, the Spirit of God came upon the 4 Their poison is like the poison of a
messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied. serpent;
21 And when Saul was told, he sent other mes- They are like the deaf cobra that stops
sengers, and they prophesied likewise. Then its ear,
Saul sent messengers again the third time, 5 Which will not heed the voice of
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and they prophesied also. Then he also went charmers,
to Ramah, and came to the great well that is at Charming ever so skillfully.
Sechu. So he asked, and said, “Where are
Samuel and David?”
And someone said, “Indeed they are at
Naioth in Ramah.” So he went there to
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Naioth in Ramah. Then the Spirit of God was 58:4 Their poison. The words and actions of
upon him also, and he went on and prophesied these tyrants are like poisonous venom in a
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until he came to Naioth in Ramah. And he serpent’s fangs.deaf cobra. Like a cobra which
also stripped off his clothes and prophesied cannot hear its charmer are these stubborn
before Samuel in like manner, and lay down rulers, who ignore all encouragements to
naked all that day and all that night. Therefore righteousness.
they say, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”

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