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1 Samuel 20
1 Samuels 1, 2,
3, 4,
5, 6,
7, 8,
9, 10,
11,12,
13, 14,
15, 16,
17, 18,
19, 20,
21, 22,
23, 24,
25, 26,
27, 28,
29, 30,
31
1 Samuel 20:1 And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before
Jonathan, What have I done? what is mine iniquity? and what is my sin before thy
father, that he seeketh my life?
2 And he said unto him, God forbid; thou shalt not die: behold, my father will
do nothing either great or small, but that he will shew it me: and why should my
father hide this thing from me? it is not so.
3 And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have
found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be
grieved: but truly as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a
step between me and death.
4 Then said Jonathan unto David, Whatsoever thy soul desireth, I will even do it
for thee.
5 And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to morrow is the new moon, and I should
not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in
the field unto the third day at even.
6 If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that
he might run to Beth-lehem his city: for there is a yearly sacrifice there for
all the family.
7 If he say thus, It is well; thy servant shall have peace: but if he be very
wroth, then be sure that evil is determined by him.
8 Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy
servant into a covenant of the Lord with thee: notwithstanding, if there be in
me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?
9 And Jonathan said, Far be it from thee: for if I knew certainly that evil were
determined by my father to come upon thee, then would not I tell it thee?
10 Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what if thy father answer
thee roughly?
11 And Jonathan said unto David, Come, and let us go out into the field. And
they went out both of them into the field.
12 And Jonathan said unto David, O Lord God of Israel, when I have sounded my
father about to morrow any time, or the third day, and, behold, if there be good
toward David, and I then send not unto thee, and shew it thee;
13 The Lord do so and much more to Jonathan: but if it please my father to do
thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send thee away, that thou mayest go in
peace: and the Lord be with thee, as he hath been with my father.
14 And thou shalt not only while yet I live shew me the kindness of the Lord,
that I die not:
15 But also thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house for ever: no, not
when the Lord hath cut off the enemies of David every one from the face of the
earth.
16 So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let the Lord
even require it at the hand of David's enemies.
17 And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved
him as he loved his own soul.
18 Then Jonathan said to David, To morrow is the new moon: and thou shalt be
missed, because thy seat will be empty.
19 And when thou hast stayed three days, then thou shalt go down quickly, and
come to the place where thou didst hide thyself when the business was in hand,
and shalt remain by the stone Ezel.
20 And I will shoot three arrows on the side thereof, as though I shot at a
mark.
21 And, behold, I will send a lad, saying, Go, find out the arrows. If I
expressly say unto the lad, Behold, the arrows are on this side of thee, take
them; then come thou: for there is peace to thee, and no hurt; as the Lord
liveth.
22 But if I say thus unto the young man, Behold, the arrows are beyond thee; go
thy way: for the Lord hath sent thee away.
23 And as touching the matter which thou and I have spoken of, behold, the Lord
be between thee and me for ever.
24 So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king
sat him down to eat meat.
25 And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, even upon a seat by the
wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul's side, and David's place was
empty.
26 Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he thought, Something
hath befallen him, he is not clean; surely he is not clean.
27 And it came to pass on the morrow, which was the second day of the month,
that David's place was empty: and Saul said unto Jonathan his son, Wherefore
cometh not the son of Jesse to meat, neither yesterday, nor to day?
28 And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Beth–lehem:
29 And he said, Let me go, I pray thee; for our family hath a sacrifice in the
city; and my brother, he hath commanded me to be there: and now, if I have found
favour in thine eyes, let me get away, I pray thee, and see my brethren.
Therefore he cometh not unto the king's table.
30 Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him, Thou
son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the
son of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the confusion of thy mother's
nakedness?
31 For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be
established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he
shall surely die.
32 And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore shall he
be slain? what hath he done?
33 And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew that it
was determined of his father to slay David.
34 So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and did eat no meat the
second day of the month: for he was grieved for David, because his father had
done him shame.
35 And it came to pass in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field at
the time appointed with David, and a little lad with him.
36 And he said unto his lad, Run, find out now the arrows which I shoot. And as
the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
37 And when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot,
Jonathan cried after the lad, and said, Is not the arrow beyond thee?
38 And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed, haste, stay not. And Jonathan's
lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.
39 But the lad knew not any thing: only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
40 And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad, and said unto him, Go, carry
them to the city.
41 And as soon as the lad 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.
42 And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of
us in the name of the Lord, saying, The Lord be between me and thee, and between
my seed and thy seed for ever. And he arose and departed: and Jonathan went into
the city.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
•
The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book:
Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh
his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.
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