^{14 Ref} Now the spirit of the Lord had gone from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord was troubling him.

¹⁵ And Saul's servants said to him, See now, an evil spirit from God is troubling you.

^{16 Ref} Now give orders to your servants who are here before you to go in search of a man who is an expert player on a corded instrument: and it will be that when the evil spirit from God is on you, he will make music for you on his instrument, and you will get well.

¹⁷ And Saul said to his servants, Then get me a man who is an expert player, and make him come to me.

^{18 Ref} Then one of the servants in answer said, I have seen a son of Jesse, the Beth-lehemite, who is expert at playing, and a strong man and a man of war; and he is wise in his words, and pleasing in looks, and the Lord is with him.

^{19 Ref} So Saul sent his servants to Jesse and said, Send me your son David who is with the sheep.

^{20 Ref} And Jesse took five cakes of bread and a skin of wine and a young goat and sent them to Saul by David.

^{21 Ref} And David came to Saul, waiting before him: and he became very dear to Saul, who made him his servant, giving him the care of his arms.

²² And Saul sent to Jesse saying, Let David be with me, for he is pleasing to me.

²³ And whenever the evil spirit from God came on Saul, David took his instrument and made music: so new life came to Saul, and he got well, and the evil spirit went away from him.