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When Saul learns David has fled to Samuel at Naioth in Ramah he sends three groups of messengers — each of whom falls into prophetic ecstasy on arrival — and finally goes himself stopping at the great well of Secu only to fall into the same Spirit-induced trance birthing the proverb "Is Saul also among the prophets?"
1 Samuel 19:18-24 narrates the strange episode where Saul's relentless pursuit of David collapses into prophetic ecstasy: "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... Then went he also to Ramah, and came to a great well that is in Sechu: and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? And one said, Behold, they be at Naioth in Ramah. And he went thither to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God was upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah." The great well at Secu functioned as the natural gathering point and information exchange of the Benjaminite-Ephraimite frontier.
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