1 Samuel 19:20
And Saul sent messengers to take David. And when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
19And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.
Cross References
Numbers 11:25And LORD came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took from the Spirit that was upon him, and put it upon the seventy elders. And it came to pass, that, when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, but they did so no mor
1 Samuel 10:6And the Spirit of LORD will come mightily upon thee, and thou shall prophesy with them, and shall be turned into another man.
1 Samuel 19:11And Saul sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. And Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, If thou save not thy life tonight, tomorrow thou will be slain.
Joel 2:28And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. Your old men shall dream dreams. Your young men shall see visions.
John 7:45The subordinates therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees. And those men said to them, Why did ye not bring him?
1 Corinthians 14:24But if all prophesy, and some unbelieving or unlearned man comes in, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 19:19-24
Saul Prophesies before Samuel. ( b. c. 1058.) 18 So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth. 19 And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah. 20 And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as appointed over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied. 21 And when it was told Saul, he… Read the whole commentary →