The women who were playing the music sang, “Saul has struck down his thousands, but David his tens of thousands!”

So Saul was keeping an eye on David from that day onward.

So Saul feared David, because the Lord was with him but had departed from Saul.

But all Israel and Judah loved David, for he was the one leading them out to battle and back.

Now Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David. When they told Saul about this, it pleased him.

When Saul’s servants reported what David had said,

When Saul realized that the Lord was with David and that his daughter Michal loved David,

So Michal lowered David through the window, and he ran away and escaped.

When Saul sent messengers to arrest David, she said, “He’s sick.”

Jonathan replied to David, “Tell me what I can do for you.”

David said to Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?”

Jonathan said to David, “Come on. Let’s go out to the field.” When the two of them had gone out into the field,

Jonathan once again took an oath with David, because he loved him. In fact Jonathan loved him as much as he did his own life.

So David hid in the field. When the new moon came, the king sat down to eat his meal.

Jonathan replied to Saul, “David urgently requested that he be allowed to go to Bethlehem.

The next morning Jonathan, along with a young servant, went out to the field to meet David.

(Now the servant did not understand any of this. Only Jonathan and David knew what was going on.)

So he had them stay with the king of Moab; they stayed with him the whole time that David was in the stronghold.

But one of the sons of Ahimelech son of Ahitub escaped and fled to David. His name was Abiathar.

Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the priests of the Lord.