1 Samuel 19:1–10
19 Saul told his son Jonathanm and all the attendants to killn David. But Jonathan had taken a great liking to David 2 and warned him, “My father Saul is looking for a chance to kill you. Be on your guard tomorrow morning; go into hidingo and stay there. 3 I will go out and stand with my father in the field where you are. I’ll speakp to him about you and will tell you what I find out.”
4 Jonathan spokeq well of David to Saul his father and said to him, “Let not the king do wrongr to his servant David; he has not wronged you, and what he has done has benefited you greatly. 5 He took his lifes in his hands when he killed the Philistine. The Lord won a great victoryt for all Israel, and you saw it and were glad. Why then would you do wrong to an innocentu man like David by killing him for no reason?”
6 Saul listened to Jonathan and took this oath: “As surely as the Lord lives, David will not be put to death.”
7 So Jonathan called David and told him the whole conversation. He brought him to Saul, and David was with Saul as before.v
8 Once more war broke out, and David went out and fought the Philistines. He struck them with such force that they fled before him.
9 But an evila spiritw from the Lord came on Saul as he was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand. While David was playing the lyre,x 10 Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear, but David eludedy him as Saul drove the spear into the wall. That night David made good his escape.