³¹ For while the son of Jesse is living on the earth, your position is unsafe and your kingdom is in danger. So make him come here to me, for it is certainly right for him to be put to death.

⁶ And Saul gave ear to the voice of Jonathan, and said with an oath, By the living Lord, he is not to be put to death.

¹¹ Then in that night Saul sent men to David's house to keep watch on him so as to put him to death in the morning: and David's wife Michal said to him, If you do not go away to a safe place tonight you will be put to death in the morning.

¹² So Michal let David down through the window, and he went in flight and got away.

¹³ Then Michal took the image and put it in the bed, with a cushion of goat's hair at its head, and she put clothing over it.

¹⁴ And when Saul sent men to take David, she said, He is ill.

¹⁵ And Saul sent his men to see David, saying, Do not come back without him, take him in his bed, so that I may put him to death.

⁸ So, then, be kind to your servant; for you have been united with your servant in an agreement made before the Lord: but if there is any wrongdoing in me, put me to death yourself; why take me to your father?

¹⁶ What you have done is not good. By the living Lord, death is the right fate for you, because you have not kept watch over your lord, the man on whom the Lord has put the holy oil. Now see, where is the king's spear, and the vessel of water which was by his head?

²⁸ For all my father's family were only dead men before my lord the king: and still you put your servant among those whose place is at the king's table. What right then have I to say anything more to the king?

¹¹ Let the cry of the prisoner come before you; with your strong arm make free the children of death;