Jonathan and David – David vs. Saul – The Brick Bible

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David fled the huts in Ramah and came to Jonathan and said, 'How have I wronged your father, that he seeks to take my life?'

1 of 22 1 Samuel 20:1

Jonathan replied, 'It can't be true! My father does nothing great or small without telling me. Why would he hide this from me?'

2 of 22 1 Samuel 20:2

But David vowed, saying, 'Your father knows very well the fact that you like me and thought, "Jonathan must not know of this or he will be grieved." Truly I am a step away from death!'

3 of 22 1 Samuel 20:3

Jonathan said to David, 'Come on, let's go out into the field.' So they both went out into the field.

4 of 22 1 Samuel 20:11

Jonathan said, 'I will sound out my father by this time the day after tomorrow. If my father means to harm you, may Yahweh curse me and worse if I do not let you know and send you away to safety!'

5 of 22 1 Samuel 20:12–13

'But as long as I am alive, never withdraw your faithful love from me. Not even when Yahweh has exterminated all of David's enemies off the face of the earth.'

6 of 22 1 Samuel 20:14–15

Jonathan made David swear again by his love for him, for he loved him with his whole being.

7 of 22 1 Samuel 20:17

Jonathan said to David, 'Tomorrow is the New Moon festival. You will be missed, because your seat will be empty. The day after tomorrow, go to the place where you hid before, and wait by the stone.'

8 of 22 1 Samuel 20:18–19

So David hid in the field, and when the new moon festival came, the king sat down to eat at his usual place, but David's place was empty. But Saul said nothing about it that day, thinking 'Something must have happened to make him unclean.'

9 of 22 1 Samuel 20:24–26

But the next day David's place was empty again and Saul said to his son, 'Why has Jesse's son not come to the meal yesterday or today?'

10 of 22 1 Samuel 20:27–28

Jonathan replied, 'David urgently asked permission to go to Bethlehem, saying, "My family is holding a sacrifice and my brother ordered me to be there." That's why he hasn't come to the king's table.'

11 of 22 1 Samuel 20:29

Saul's anger flared and he said to Jonathan, 'Son of a rebellious whore! Do you think I don't know that you have chosen this son of Jesse to your own disgrace and to the disgrace of your mother’s nakedness?'

12 of 22 1 Samuel 20:30

'As long as this son of Jesse lives, your kingdom will not be established. Now bring him to me, for he is marked for death.'

13 of 22 1 Samuel 20:31

Jonathan asked his father, 'Why must he be put to death? What has he done?'

14 of 22 1 Samuel 20:32

But Saul cast his spear at Jonathan to kill him, and so Jonathan knew that his father was determined to kill David.

15 of 22 1 Samuel 20:33

Blazing with anger, Jonathan got up from the table and ate nothing on the second day of the festival because he was upset that his father had humiliated David.

16 of 22 1 Samuel 20:34

The next morning Jonathan went out to the field to meet with David. David came out from behind the stone and prostrated himself, face to the ground.

17 of 22 1 Samuel 20:35, 41

David bowed himself three times.

18 of 22 1 Samuel 20:41

They kissed each other.

19 of 22 1 Samuel 20:41

And they wept together until David exceeded.

20 of 22 1 Samuel 20:41

Jonathan said to David, 'Go in peace, for we have sworn in the name of Yahweh that Yahweh will bond you and me and your descendants and my descendants forever.'

21 of 22 1 Samuel 20:42

Then David got up and left, and Jonathan went back to the city.

22 of 22 1 Samuel 20:41

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