Saul Tries to Kill David
1Saul told his son Jonathan and all the attendants to kill David. But Jonathan had taken a great liking to David 2and warned him, “My father Saul is looking for a chance to kill you. Be on your guard tomorrow morning; go into hiding and stay there. 3I will go out and stand with my father in the field where you are. I’ll speak to him about you and will tell you what I find out.”
4Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father and said to him, “Let not the king do wrong to his servant David; he has not wronged you, and what he has done has benefited you greatly. 5He took his life in his hands when he killed the Philistine. The Lord won a great victory for all Israel, and you saw it and were glad. Why then would you do wrong to an innocent man like David by killing him for no reason?”
6Saul listened to Jonathan and took this oath: “As surely as the Lord lives, David will not be put to death.”
7So Jonathan called David and told him the whole conversation. He brought him to Saul, and David was with Saul as before.
8Once more war broke out, and David went out and fought the Philistines. He struck them with such force that they fled before him.
9But an evil19:9 Or But a harmful spirit 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, 10Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear, but David eluded him as Saul drove the spear into the wall. That night David made good his escape.
11Saul sent men to David’s house to watch it and to kill him in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife, warned him, “If you don’t run for your life tonight, tomorrow you’ll be killed.” 12So Michal let David down through a window, and he fled and escaped. 13Then Michal took an idol and laid it on the bed, covering it with a garment and putting some goats’ hair at the head.
14When Saul sent the men to capture David, Michal said, “He is ill.”
15Then Saul sent the men back to see David and told them, “Bring him up to me in his bed so that I may kill him.” 16But when the men entered, there was the idol in the bed, and at the head was some goats’ hair.
17Saul said to Michal, “Why did you deceive me like this and send my enemy away so that he escaped?”
Michal told him, “He said to me, ‘Let me get away. Why should I kill you?’ ”
18When David had fled and made his escape, he went to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went to Naioth and stayed there. 19Word came to Saul: “David is in Naioth at Ramah”; 20so he sent men to capture him. But when they saw a group of prophets prophesying, with Samuel standing there as their leader, the Spirit of God came on Saul’s men, and they also prophesied. 21Saul was told about it, and he sent more men, and they prophesied too. Saul sent men a third time, and they also prophesied. 22Finally, he himself left for Ramah and went to the great cistern at Seku. And he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?”
“Over in Naioth at Ramah,” they said.
23So Saul went to Naioth at Ramah. But the Spirit of God came even on him, and he walked along prophesying until he came to Naioth. 24He stripped off his garments, and he too prophesied in Samuel’s presence. He lay naked all that day and all that night. This is why people say, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”
Sauli Ajaribu Kumuua Daudi
119:1 1Sam 18:1-9; Mit 27:4Sauli akamwambia mwanawe Yonathani na watumishi wake wote wamuue Daudi. Lakini Yonathani mwana wa Sauli alimpenda sana Daudi. 219:2 Mdo 23:16Yonathani akamwonya Daudi, akisema, “Baba yangu Sauli anatafuta nafasi ya kukuua. Ujilinde kesho asubuhi, nenda mahali pa siri na ukae huko. 319:3 1Sam 20:12Nitatoka na kukaa na baba yangu shambani mahali uliko. Nitazungumza naye juu yako, nami nitakueleza nitakachogundua.”
419:4 1Sam 20:32; 22:14; Mit 31:8-9; Yer 18:20; 1Sam 25:21; Mit 17:13; Mwa 42:22; 1Nya 6:22; Za 35:12; 109:5; Yer 18:20; 1Kor 8:12; 1Yn 3:15Yonathani akanena mema juu ya Daudi kwa Sauli baba yake na kumwambia, “Mfalme asitende mabaya kwa mtumishi wake Daudi; hajakukosea, aliyoyafanya yamekuwa ya faida sana kwako. 519:5 Amu 9:17; 1Sam 11:13; Mwa 31:36; Kum 19:10-13; 1Sam 17:49-50; 1Nya 11:14; Mt 27:4; Za 119:109; Mt 27:14Alihatarisha maisha yake alipomuua yule Mfilisti. Bwana akajipatia ushindi mkubwa kwa ajili ya Israeli wote, nawe uliuona na ukafurahi. Kwa nini basi utende mabaya kwa mtu asiye na hatia kama Daudi kwa kumuua bila sababu?”
6Sauli akamsikiliza Yonathani na kuapa hivi: “Hakika kama Bwana aishivyo, Daudi hatauawa.”
719:7 1Sam 16:21; 18:10Basi Yonathani akamwita Daudi na kumweleza mazungumzo yote. Akamleta kwa Sauli, naye Daudi akawa pamoja na Sauli kama kwanza.
8Vita vilitokea tena, naye Daudi akatoka na kupigana na Wafilisti. Akawapiga kwa nguvu nyingi hata wakakimbia mbele yake.
919:9 Amu 9:23; 1Sam 10:5; 16:14Lakini roho mbaya iliyoachiwa nafasi na Bwana ikaja juu ya Sauli alipokuwa ameketi katika nyumba yake akiwa na mkuki mkononi mwake. Daudi alipokuwa anampigia kinubi, 1019:10 1Sam 18:11; Ay 5:2; Za 5:6; Mit 1:16; 29:10Sauli akajaribu kumchomea Daudi ukutani kwa huo mkuki wake, lakini Daudi akauhepa huo mkuki wa Sauli ukakita ukutani. Usiku ule ule Daudi akakimbia na kuokoka.
1119:11 Za 59; Amu 16:2Sauli akatuma watu nyumbani mwa Daudi wailinde hiyo nyumba na kumuua asubuhi. Lakini Mikali, mkewe Daudi, akamwonya akisema, “Kama hukukimbia kuokoa maisha yako usiku huu, kesho yake utauawa.” 1219:12 Yos 2:15; Mdo 9:25; 2Kor 11:33Basi Mikali akamteremsha Daudi kupitia dirishani, naye akakimbia na kuokoka. 1319:13 Mwa 31:19; Amu 17:5Kisha Mikali akachukua kinyago, akakilaza kitandani, akakifunika kwa vazi na kukiwekea singa za mbuzi kichwani.
1419:14 Kum 1:19; Yos 2:4Sauli alipotuma watu kumkamata Daudi, Mikali akasema, “Yeye ni mgonjwa.”
15Kisha Sauli akatuma watu tena kumwona Daudi naye akawaambia, “Mleteni kwangu juu ya kitanda chake ili nipate kumuua.” 16Lakini wale watu walipoingia, kumbe ni kinyago tu kilichokuwa kitandani na kwenye kichwa kulikuwepo na singa za mbuzi.
1719:17 2Sam 2:22Sauli akamwambia Mikali, “Kwa nini umenidanganya mimi hivi na kumwacha adui yangu aende zake ili apate kuokoka?”
Mikali akamwambia, “Yeye aliniambia, ‘Niache niende zangu. Kwa nini nikuue?’ ”
1819:18 1Sam 7:17; Mit 17:17; Mal 2:7Daudi alipokuwa amekimbia na kuokoka, alimwendea Samweli huko Rama na kumwambia yale yote Sauli alimfanyia. Ndipo Daudi na Samweli wakaenda Nayothi kukaa huko. 19Habari zikamfikia Sauli kusema: “Daudi yuko Nayothi huko Rama.” 2019:20 Hes 11:25-29; 1Sam 10:5; Yoe 2:28; Yn 7:32, 45; 1Kor 14:3, 24, 25Basi Sauli akatuma watu kumkamata Daudi, lakini walipoona kundi la manabii wakitoa unabii, wakiwa pamoja na Samweli akiwa amesimama hapo kama kiongozi wao, Roho wa Mungu akaja juu ya watu wa Sauli, nao pia wakatoa unabii. 21Sauli akaelezwa juu ya hilo, naye akapeleka watu wengine zaidi, nao wakatoa unabii pia. Sauli akatuma watu mara ya tatu, nao pia wakatoa unabii. 22Mwishowe, yeye mwenyewe akaondoka kwenda Rama na kwenda hadi kwenye kile kisima kikubwa kilichoko huko Seku. Naye akauliza, “Wako wapi Samweli na Daudi?”
Wakasema, “Wako Nayothi huko Rama.”
2319:23 1Sam 10:13; Mwa 31:24; Hes 23:5; 24:2; Mit 21:1; Dan 4:35; Mt 7:22; Yn 11:51; 1Kor 13:2Hivyo Sauli akaenda Nayothi huko Rama. Lakini Roho wa Mungu akaja juu yake hata yeye, akawa anatembea huku anatoa unabii hadi akafika Nayothi. 2419:24 2Sam 6:20; Isa 20:2; 1Sam 15:35; 10:11; Mik 1:8; Mdo 9:21Akavua majoho yake na pia akatoa unabii mbele ya Samweli. Akalala hali hiyo ule mchana kutwa na usiku kucha. Hii ndiyo sababu watu husema, “Je, Sauli pia yumo miongoni mwa manabii?”
