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slipped away so that Saul drove the spear into the wall; and David fled
and so escaped.

That night Saul sent messengers to David's house to watch him, so as to
kill him in the morning. But Michal, David's wife, told him, "If you do
not save your life to-night, you will be killed to-morrow." So Michal
let David down through the window; and he fled away and escaped. Then
Michal took the household god and laid it in the bed, and she put a
pillow of goat's hair under its head and covered it with a garment. And
when Saul sent messengers to seize David, she said, "He is sick."

Again Saul sent the messengers to the house of David with the command,
"Bring him up to me on the bed, that I may put him to death." When the
messengers came in, there was the household god in the bed with the
pillow of goat's hair under its head. Saul said to Michal, "Why have you
deceived me thus and let my enemy go?" Michal answered Saul, "He said to
me: 'Let me go; why should I kill you?'"

JONATHAN'S LOVE FOR DAVID

Then David went and found Jonathan and said, "What have I done? What is
my guilt, and what is my sin in the mind of your father, that he is
seeking my life?" Jonathan replied, "No, no! You shall not die. You know
that my father does nothing great or small that he does not tell me, and
why should my father hide this from me? He surely will not." David
answered, "Your father well knows that you are fond of me, and he is
saying to himself, 'Do not let Jonathan know this that he may not be
grieved.' But as surely as Jehovah lives and as you live, there is only
a step between me and death."

Then Jonathan said to David, "What do you wish me to do for you?" David
answered, "To-morrow is the festival of the New Moon and I ought to sit
at the table with Saul, but let me go and I will hide myself in the
field until evening. If your father misses me, then say, 'David asked
permission of me to run to Bethlehem, his native town, for the yearly
sacrifice is there for all his family.' If he says, 'Good,' then it is
well with your servant; but if he gets angry, then you will know that he
is planning to harm me. Now show kindness to your servant, for in the
presence of Jehovah you have made a solemn agreement with your servant.
But if I am at all guilty, kill me yourself, for why should you bring me
to your father?" Jonathan said, "That shall never be! If I learn that my
father is planning to do you harm, I will tell you."

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