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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1David fled from Naioth in Ramah. He came to Jonathan and said, "What have I done? What is my crime, and how have I wronged your father so that he's determined to kill me? |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Jonathan told him, "Far from it! You won't die. Look, my father never does anything, great or small, without telling me; so why should my father hide this thing from me? It's not like that!" |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3David again took an oath: "Your father certainly knows that I've found favor with you, and so he told himself, 'Jonathan must not know this so he won't be upset.' But as certainly as the LORD is alive and living, and as certainly as I'm alive and living, too, there is only a step between me and death." |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Jonathan told David, "Whatever you say, I'll do." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5David told Jonathan, "Look, the New Moon is tomorrow, and I'm expected to sit down with the king to eat. Let me go so I can hide in the field until the evening of the day after tomorrow. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6If your father actually notices that I'm not there, then you are to say, 'David urgently requested that I allow him to run to his hometown of Bethlehem because the yearly sacrifice for the entire family was taking place there.' |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7If he says, 'Good,' then your servant will be safe. But if he actually gets angry, you will know that his intentions are evil. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Now, show gracious kindness to your servant because you have entered into a sacred covenant with your servant. If there is iniquity in me, then kill me yourself—why should you bring me to your father?" |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"Nonsense!" Jonathan replied. "If I actually knew that my father intended evil against you, wouldn't I tell you about it?" |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Then David told Jonathan, "Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?" |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Then Jonathan told David, "Come, let's go into the field." So the two of them went into the field. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Jonathan told David, "The LORD God of Israel is my witness that I'll carefully question my father by tomorrow or the next day. And if the response is favorable for David, will I not then send word to you and let you know? |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13But if my father intends to harm you, may the LORD strike me dead if I don't let you know and send you away so you may go safely. May the LORD be with you as he has been with my father. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14If I remain alive, don't fail to show me the LORD's gracious love so that I don't die. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15And don't stop showing your gracious love to my family forever, not even when the LORD eliminates each of David's enemies from the surface of the earth." |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David: "May the LORD punish any violation of this covenant by the hand of David's enemies." |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Jonathan made David vow again out of his love for him, because he loved him as himself. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Jonathan told him, "Tomorrow is the New Moon, and you will be missed because your seat is empty. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19On the third day go down quickly and come to the place where you hid earlier. Remain beside the rock at Ezel. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20I'll shoot three arrows to the side of the rock as though I were shooting at a target. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Then I'll send a servant, saying, 'Go, find the arrows.' If I specifically say to the servant, 'Look, the arrows are on this side of you, get them,' then come out because it's safe for you, and, as surely as the LORD lives, there is no danger. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22But if I say this to the young man: 'Look, the arrows are beyond you,' then go, for the LORD has sent you away. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23As for the matter about which you and I spoke, remember that the LORD is a witness between us forever." |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24David hid in the field. When the New Moon arrived, the king sat down to eat. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25The king sat down at his place as before, in the seat by the wall. Jonathan stood while Abner sat next to Saul, but David's place was empty. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Saul didn't say anything that day because he told himself, "Something has happened; he's unclean; surely he's not clean." |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27But the next day, on the second day of the New Moon, David's place was empty, and so Saul told his son Jonathan, "Why didn't Jesse's son come to the festival, either yesterday or today?" |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Jonathan answered Saul, "David urgently requested that I let him go to Bethlehem. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29He said, 'Please let me go because our family has a sacrifice in the town, and my brother has ordered me to come. Now, if it's acceptable to you, please let me get away so I can see my brothers.' That's the reason he didn't come to the king's table." |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Saul flew into a rage and told Jonathan, "You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Don't I know that you have chosen Jesse's son to your shame and to the shame of your mother who bore you? |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31As long as Jesse's son lives on the earth, neither you nor your kingdom will be established! Now send someone and bring David to me. He's a dead man!" |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Jonathan asked his father Saul, "Why should he be killed? What did he do?" |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33Then Saul threw the spear that was beside him to strike Jonathan down. So Jonathan realized that his father was determined to kill David. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34So on the second day of the New Moon Jonathan angrily got up from the table without eating because he was upset about David, and because his father had humiliated him. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35In the morning Jonathan, accompanied by a servant, went out to the field for the appointment with David. |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36Jonathan told his servant, "Run, find the arrows that I'm shooting." As the servant ran, Jonathan shot the arrow beyond him. |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37The servant came to the place where Jonathan had shot it, and Jonathan called out to him, "The arrow is beyond you, isn't it?" |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38Jonathan called out to the servant, "Hurry, be quick, don't stand around." Jonathan's servant picked up the arrow and brought it to his master. |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39The servant was not aware of anything. Only Jonathan and David understood what had happened. |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40Then Jonathan gave his equipment to the servant who was with him and told him, "Go, take these things to the city." |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41The servant went. Then David came out from the south side of the rock, fell on his face, and bowed down three times. The men kissed each other, and both of them cried, but David even more. |
| 42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42Jonathan told David, "Go in peace since both of us swore in the name of the LORD: 'May the LORD be between me and you, and between my descendants and your descendants forever.'" Then David got up and left, while Jonathan went to the city. |
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