Now David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went and lived in Naioth.
Regarding the school of the prophets which appears at Nairoth, which had been founded and organized by Samuel, we probably have in this the beginning of that class of persons known in later ages as "the scribes" of Israel.  In fact, "The Chaldee Paraphrast calls these prophets `scribes'; and doubtless these persons educated in Samuel's schools held an analogous position to that of the scribes in later days."[20]