Saul is starting to get concerned about David’s growing popularity. Everyone knows that David is getting these great military victories all the time and everyone except Saul seems to realize that it’s because God is with him. Saul reacts mostly by yelling at people and throwing his spear at David a couple times.
David went to seek refuge with Samuel for a while and when Saul sent men after him, they ended up prophesying with Samuel there in stead. Twice more Saul sent men, but each time they kept getting caught up in the spirit of the lord and prophesying. Finally Saul came himself. He saw what was going on and started prophesying.
I feel like they mean something different when they say prophesy than I mean when I say prophesy.
All this time David has cultivated an extremely close relationship with Saul’s son Jonathan. Like, it kind of sounds like they’re sleeping together, close. They set up a very Hardy Boys scheme to prove that Saul is out to kill David because Jonathan is having trouble believing it. Their plan works and Jonathan is convinced, but not before Saul throws a spear at him and calls him a “son of a perverse and rebellious woman.”
In the end, David and Jonathan part ways with an oath that there be friendship between their families forever.
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