June
13
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Samuel 19, 20
1Sa
19:1 Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that
they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in
David.
1Sa
19:2 Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeks to kill you:
now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, and live
in a secret place, and hide yourself:
1Sa
19:3 and I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where
you are, and I will talk with my father about you; and if I see
anything, I will tell you.
1Sa
19:4 Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to
him, Don't let the king sin against his servant, against David;
because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have
been very good toward you:
1Sa
19:5 for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and
Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel: you saw it, and
rejoiced; why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David
without a cause?
1Sa
19:6 Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan: and Saul swore, As
Yahweh lives, he shall not be put to death.
1Sa
19:7 Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those
things. Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence,
as before.
1Sa
19:8 There was war again: and David went out, and fought with the
Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter; and they fled
before him.
1Sa
19:9 An evil spirit from Yahweh was on Saul, as he sat in his house
with his spear in his hand; and David was playing with his hand.
1Sa
19:10 Saul sought to strike David even to the wall with the spear;
but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he struck the spear
into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.
1Sa
19:11 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 you don't save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be slain.
1Sa
19:12 So Michal let David down through the window: and he went, and
fled, and escaped.
1Sa
19:13 Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a
pillow of goats' hair
at its head, and covered it with the clothes.
1Sa
19:14 When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.
1Sa
19:15 Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, Bring him up to
me in the bed, that I may kill him.
1Sa
19:16 When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the
bed, with the pillow of goats' hair
at its head.
1Sa
19:17 Saul said to Michal, Why have you deceived me thus, and let my
enemy go, so that he is escaped? Michal answered Saul, He said to me,
Let me go; why should I kill you?
1Sa
19:18 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.
1Sa
19:19 It was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.
1Sa
19:20 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 on the messengers of Saul, and they also
prophesied.
1Sa
19:21 When it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also
prophesied. Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also
prophesied.
1Sa
19:22 Then went he also to Ramah, and came to the great well that is
in Secu: and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? One said,
Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah.
1Sa
19:23 He went there to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God came
on him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth
in Ramah.
1Sa
19:24 He also stripped off his clothes, and he also prophesied
before Samuel, and lay down naked all that day and all that night.
Therefore they say, "Is Saul also among the prophets?"
1Sa
20:1 David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before
Jonathan, "What have I done? What is my iniquity?" and
"What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?"
1Sa
20:2 He said to him, "Far from it; you shall not die: behold,
my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses
it to me; and why should my father hide this thing from me? It is not
so."
1Sa
20:3 David swore moreover, and said, "Your father knows well
that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, 'Don't let
Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved:' but truly as Yahweh lives,
and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death."
1Sa
20:4 Then said Jonathan to David, "Whatever your soul desires,
I will even do it for you."
1Sa
20:5 David said to Jonathan, "Behold, tomorrow is the new moon,
and I should not fail to dine with the king; but let me go, that I
may hide myself in the field to the third day at evening.
1Sa
20:6 If your father miss me at all, then say, 'David earnestly asked
leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city; for it is the
yearly sacrifice there for all the family.'
1Sa
20:7 If he says, 'It is well;' your servant shall have peace: but if
he be angry, then know that evil is determined by him.
1Sa
20:8 Therefore deal kindly with your servant; for you have brought
your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you: but if there be in
me iniquity, kill me yourself; for why should you bring me to your
father?"
1Sa
20:9 Jonathan said, "Far be it from you; for if I should at all
know that evil were determined by my father to come on you, then
wouldn't I tell you that?"
1Sa
20:10 Then said David to Jonathan, "Who shall tell me if
perchance your father answers you roughly?"
1Sa
20:11 Jonathan said to David, "Come, and let us go out into the
field." They both went out into the field.
1Sa
20:12 Jonathan said to David, "Yahweh, the God of Israel, be
witness: when I have sounded my father
about this time tomorrow, or
the third day, behold, if there be good toward David, shall I not
then send to you, and disclose it to you?
1Sa
20:13 Yahweh do so to Jonathan, and more also, should it please my
father to do you evil, if I don't disclose it to you, and send you
away, that you may go in peace: and Yahweh be with you, as he has
been with my father.
1Sa
20:14 You shall not only while yet I live show me the loving
kindness of Yahweh, that I not die;
1Sa
20:15 but also you shall not cut off your kindness from my house
forever; no, not when Yahweh has cut off the enemies of David
everyone from the surface of the earth."
1Sa
20:16 So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying,
Yahweh will require it at the hand of David's enemies.
1Sa
20:17 Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had
to him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
1Sa
20:18 Then Jonathan said to him, Tomorrow is the new moon: and you
will be missed, because your seat will be empty.
1Sa
20:19 When you have stayed three days, you shall go down quickly,
and come to the place where you did hide yourself when the business
was in hand, and shall remain by the stone Ezel.
1Sa
20:20 I will shoot three arrows on its side, as though I shot at a
mark.
1Sa
20:21 Behold, I will send the boy, saying,
Go, find the arrows. If I tell the boy, Behold, the arrows are on
this side of you; take them, and come; for there is peace to you and
no hurt, as Yahweh lives.
1Sa
20:22 But if I say thus to the boy, Behold, the arrows are beyond
you; go your way; for Yahweh has sent you away.
1Sa
20:23 As touching the matter which you and I have spoken of, behold,
Yahweh is between you and me forever.
1Sa
20:24 So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was
come, the king sat him down to eat food.
1Sa
20:25 The king sat on his seat, as at other times, even on the seat
by the wall; and Jonathan stood up, and Abner sat by Saul's side: but
David's place was empty.
1Sa
20:26 Nevertheless Saul didn't say anything that day: for he
thought, Something has happened to him. He is not clean. Surely he is
not clean.
1Sa
20:27 It happened on the next day after the new moon, which
was the second day,
that David's place was empty: and Saul said to Jonathan his son, Why
doesn't the son of Jesse come to meat, neither yesterday, nor today?
1Sa
20:28 Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to
go to Bethlehem:
1Sa
20:29 and he said, Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice
in the city; and my brother, he has commanded me to
be there: and now, if I have found favor
in your eyes, let me get away, I pray you, and see my brothers.
Therefore he is not come to the king's table.
1Sa
20:30 Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to
him, You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don't I know that you
have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of
your mother's nakedness?
1Sa
20:31 For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you shall
not be established, nor your kingdom. Therefore now send and bring
him to me, for he shall surely die.
1Sa
20:32 Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, "Why
should he be put to death? What has he done?"
1Sa
20:33 Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan
knew that his father was determined to put David to death.
1Sa
20:34 So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and ate no
food the second day of the month; for he was grieved for David,
because his father had done him shame.
1Sa
20:35 It happened in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the
field at the time appointed with David, and a little boy with him.
1Sa
20:36 He said to his boy, Run, find now the arrows which I shoot. As
the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
1Sa
20:37 When the boy was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan
had shot, Jonathan cried after the boy, and said, Isn't the arrow
beyond you?
1Sa
20:38 Jonathan cried after the boy, Go fast! Hurry! Don't delay!
Jonathan's boy gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.
1Sa
20:39 But the boy didn't know anything: only Jonathan and David knew
the matter.
1Sa
20:40 Jonathan gave his weapons to his boy, and said to him, Go,
carry them to the city.
1Sa
20:41 As soon as the boy was gone, David arose out of a
place toward the South, and fell on his
face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed
one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.
1Sa
20:42 Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, because we have sworn
both of us in the name of Yahweh, saying, Yahweh shall be between me
and you, and between my seed and your seed, forever. He arose and
departed: and Jonathan went into the city.