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Often appears with: samuel · religious persecution and toleration · naioth · madness and disordered mind · divine spirit prophesying · counsel and advisers to rulers
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Samuel takes David to Naioth; Saul sends soldiers to seize him, but the men prophesy in the divine spirit and fail, until Saul himself arrives and is also overcome.
he been cowardly in his battles with his enemies, but had succeeded well in them all, by God's assistance; which thing was indeed the cause of Saul's hatred to David. 5. When the prophet was made acquainted with the unjust proceedings of the king, he left the city Ramah, and took David with him, to a certain place called Naioth, and there he abode with him. But when it was told Saul that David was with the prophet, …