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1 Xas Ws hais rau nws tus tub Yos Nas Thas thiab rau cov thawj tub rog tias nws xav muab Das Vis tua pov tseg. Tab sis Xas Ws tus tub Yos Nas Thas nyiam Das Vis kawg. 2 Nws qhia Das Vis tias : “Kuv txiv Xas Ws nrhiav kev tua koj. Koj yuav ceev faj zoo. Tag kis sawv ntxov koj tsiv nraim nyob twj ywm. 3 Kuv yuav nrog kuv txiv tawm mus nraum daim teb. Kuv yuav hais zoo txog koj rau nws. Saib nws yuav ua dab tsi kuv mam rov los hais qhia koj.”
1 Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, greatly delighted in David. 2 Jonathan told David, saying, “Saul my father seeks to kill you. Now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, live in a secret place, and hide yourself. 3 I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will talk with my father about you; and if I see anything, I will tell you.”
4 Yos Nas Thas hais zoo txog Das Vis rau nws txiv Xas Ws. Yos Nas Thas hais tias : “Tus vaj yuav tsis txhob ua txhaum rau nws tus tub txib Das Vis, vim Das Vis tsis tau ua txhaum dab tsi rau koj. Qhov nws tau ua mas yog ib yam pab koj ntau kawg xwb. 5 Nws muab nws txoj sia mus tiv rog, nws tua tus Fis Lis Tis, ces HUAB TAIS pub kom His Xas Lais yeej loj kawg. Koj pom tias His Xas Lais yeej mas koj yuav zoo siab. Vim li cas koj thiaj yuav ua txhaum ? Ua cas koj yuav ua kom ib tug neeg siab dawb tej ntshav ntws ? Ua cas koj yuav lam tau lam muab Das Vis tua ?”
4 Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, “Don’t let the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you; 5 for he put his life in his hand and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?”
6 Xas Ws mloog Yos Nas Thas, nws cog lus tias : “Yog HUAB TAIS muaj txoj sia tiag, mas Das Vis yuav tsis tuag.”
6 Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan; and Saul swore, “As Yahweh lives, he shall not be put to death.”
7 Ces Yos Nas Thas hu Das Vis tuaj, nws hais tej ntawd qhia Das Vis tib si. Tas ces Yos Nas Thas coj Das Vis mus cuag Xas Ws. Das Vis rov ua nws txoj hauj lwm li qub.
7 Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things. Then Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence as before.
8 There was war again. David went out and fought with the Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter; and they fled before him.
9 An evil spirit from Yahweh was on Saul as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand; and David was playing music with his hand. 10 Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence; and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled and escaped that night. 11 Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you don’t save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.” 12 So Michal let David down through the window. He went away, fled, and escaped. 13 Michal took the teraphim† and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair at its head and covered it with clothes. 14 When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”
15 Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.” 16 When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats’ hair at its head.
17 Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me like this and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?”
Michal answered Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go! Why should I kill you?’ ”
18 Now David fled and escaped, and came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went and lived in Naioth. 19 Saul was told, saying, “Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.”
20 Saul sent messengers to seize David; and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, God’s Spirit came on Saul’s messengers, and they also prophesied. 21 When Saul was told, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied. 22 Then he also went to Ramah, and came to the great well that is in Secu: and he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?”
One said, “Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah.”
23 He went there to Naioth in Ramah. Then God’s Spirit came on him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah. 24 He also stripped off his clothes. He also prophesied before Samuel and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Therefore they say, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”