It was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.
      II. David's protection in this place: He and Samuel went and dwelt (or lodged) in Naioth, where the school of the prophets was, in Ramah, as in a privileged place, for the Philistines themselves would not disturb that meeting, 1 Samuel 10:10; 1 Samuel 10:10. But Saul, having notice of it by some of his spies (1 Samuel 19:19; 1 Samuel 19:19), sent officers to seize David, 1 Samuel 19:20; 1 Samuel 19:20. When they did not bring him he sent more; when they returned not he sent the third time (1 Samuel 19:21; 1 Samuel 19:21), and, hearing no tidings of these, he went himself, 1 Samuel 19:22; 1 Samuel 19:22. So impatient was he in his thirst after David's blood, so restless to compass his design against him, that, though baffled by one providence after another, he could not perceive that David was under the special protection of Heaven. It was below the king to go himself on such an errand as this; but persecutors will stoop to any thing, and stick at nothing, to gratify their malice. Saul lays aside all public business to hunt David. How was David delivered, now that he was just ready to fall (like his own lamb formerly) into the mouth of the lions? Not as he delivered his lamb, by slaying the lion, or, as Elijah was delivered, by consuming the messengers with fire from heaven, but by turning the lions for the present into lambs.