I will go out and stand next to my father in the field where you will be, and I will speak to my father about you. If I learn anything, I will tell you.”
So Jonathan spoke well of David to his father Saul. He said to him, “Let not Your Majesty wrong his servant David, for he has not wronged you; indeed, all his actions have been very much to your advantage.
He took his life in his hands and killed the Philistine, and GOD wrought a great victory for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced. Why then should you incur the guilt of shedding an innocent’s blood, killing David without cause?”
Word-by-Word Analysis
וישם
356
אתנפשו
837
בכפו
108
ויך
36
אתהפלשתי
1226
ויעש
386
יהוה
26
תשועה
781
גדולה
48
לכלישראל
621
ראית
611
ותשמח
754
ולמה
81
תחטא
418
בדם
46
נקי
160
להמית
485
אתדוד
415
חנם
98
I Samuel 19:6
Gematria: 2688
וישמעשאולבקוליהונתןוישבעשאולחייהוהאםיומת
Saul heeded Jonathan’s plea, and Saul swore, “As GOD lives, he shall not be put to death!”
Saul sent messengers to David’s home to keep watch on him and to kill him in the morning. But David’s wife Michal told him, “Unless you run for your life tonight, you will be killed tomorrow.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
וישלח
354
שאול
337
מלאכים
141
אלבית
443
דוד
14
לשמרו
576
ולהמיתו
497
בבקר
304
ותגד
413
לדוד
44
מיכל
100
אשתו
707
לאמר
271
אםאינך
122
ממלט
119
אתנפשך
851
הלילה
80
מחר
248
אתה
406
מומת
486
I Samuel 19:12
Gematria: 1687
ותרדמיכלאתדודבעדהחלוןוילךויברחוימלט
Michal let David down from the window and he escaped and fled.
Michal then took the oracle idol,aoracle idol A figurine, apparently with a human form, used as a medium in divination. laid it on the bed, and covered it with a cloth; and at its head she put a net of goat’s hair.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ותקח
514
מיכל
100
אתהתרפים
1136
ותשם
746
אלהמטה
90
ואת
407
כביר
232
העזים
132
שמה
345
מראשתיו
957
ותכס
486
בבגדס
71
I Samuel 19:14
Gematria: 2547
וישלחשאולמלאכיםלקחתאתדודותאמרחלההואס
Saul sent messengers to seize David; but she said, “He is sick.”
Saul said to Michal, “Why did you play that trick on me and let my enemy get away safely?” “Because,” Michal answered Saul, “he said to me: ‘Help me get away or I’ll kill you.’”
and Saul sent messengers to seize David. TheybThey Heb. “He.” saw a band of prophets speaking in ecstasy,cspeaking in ecstasy Cf. note at 10.5. with Samuel standing by as their leader;das their leader Meaning of Heb. uncertain. and the spirit of God came upon Saul’s messengers and they too began to speak in ecstasy.
When Saul was told about this, he sent other messengers; but they too spoke in ecstasy. Saul sent a third group of messengers; and they also spoke in ecstasy.
So he himself went to Ramah. When he came to the great cistern at Secu,ethe great cistern at Secu Septuagint reads “the cistern of the threshing floor on the bare height.” he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” and was told that they were at Naioth in Ramah.
He was on his way there, to Naioth in Ramah, when the spirit of God came upon him too; and he walked on, speaking in ecstasy, until he reached Naioth in Ramah.
Then he too stripped off his clothes and he too spoke in ecstasy before Samuel; and he lay naked all that day and all night. That is why people say, “Is Saul too among the prophets?”