sake; for know this, that if my father find thee, thou art a dead man."
So she let him down by a cord out of the window, and saved him: and
after she had done so, she fitted up a bed for him as if he were sick,
and put under the bed-clothes a goat's liver [18] and when her father,
as soon as it was day, sent to seize David, she said to those that were
there, That he had not been well that night, and showed them the bed
covered, and made them believe, by the leaping of the liver, which
caused the bed-clothes to move also, that David breathed like one that
was asthmatic. So when those that were sent told Saul that David had not
been well in the night he ordered him to be brought in that condition,
for he intended to kill him. Now when they came and uncovered the bed,
and found out the woman's contrivance, they told it to the king; and
when her father complained of her that she had saved his enemy, and
had put a trick upon himself, she invented this plausible defense for
herself, and said, That when he had threatened to kill her, she lent
him her assistance for his preservation, out of fear; for which her
assistance she ought to be forgiven, because it was not done of her own
free choice, but out of necessity: "For," said she, "I do not suppose
that thou wast so zealous to kill thy enemy, as thou wast that I should
be saved." Accordingly Saul forgave the damsel; but David, when he had
escaped this danger, came to the prophet Samuel to Ramah, and told him
what snares the king had laid for him, and how he was very near to death
by Saul's throwing a spear at him, although he had been no way guilty
with relation to him, nor had he been cowardly in his battles with his
enemies, but had succeeded well in them all, by God's assistance; which
thing was indeed the cause of Saul's hatred to David.

5. When the prophet was made acquainted with the unjust proceedings of
the king, he left the city Ramah, and took David with him, to a certain
place called Naioth, and there he abode with him. But when it was told
Saul that David was with the prophet, he sent soldiers to him, and
ordered them to take him, and bring him to him: and when they came
to Samuel, and found there a congregation of prophets, they became
partakers of the Divine Spirit, and began to prophesy; which when Saul
heard of, he sent others to David, who prophesying in like manner as did
the first, he again sent others; which third sort prophesying also, at
last he was angry