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         <div class="label">18</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Saul&#8217;s Growing Fear of David</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.18.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After David had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan became one in spirit with David, and he loved him as himself. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.18.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">From that day Saul kept David with him and did not let him return home to his family. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.18.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.18.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Jonathan took off the robe he was wearing and gave it to David, along with his tunic, and even his sword, his bow and his belt.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.18.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.18.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Whatever mission Saul sent him on, David was so successful that Saul gave him a high rank in the army. This pleased all the troops, and Saul&#8217;s officers as well.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.18.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.18.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When the men were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out from all the towns of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs and with timbrels and lyres. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.18.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">As they danced, they sang:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.18.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Saul has slain his thousands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.18.7"><span class="content">and David his tens of thousands.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.18.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.18.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Saul was very angry; this refrain displeased him greatly. &#8220;They have credited David with tens of thousands,&#8221; he thought, &#8220;but me with only thousands. What more can he get but the kingdom?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.18.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">And from that time on Saul kept a close eye on David.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.18.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.18.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The next day an evil</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:10 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">a harmful</span></span></span><span class="content"> spirit from God came forcefully on Saul. He was prophesying in his house, while David was playing the lyre, as he usually did. Saul had a spear in his hand </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.18.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">and he hurled it, saying to himself, &#8220;I&#8217;ll pin David to the wall.&#8221; But David eluded him twice.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.18.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.18.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Saul was afraid of David, because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was with David but had departed from Saul. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.18.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So he sent David away from him and gave him command over a thousand men, and David led the troops in their campaigns. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.18.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">In everything he did he had great success, because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was with him. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.18.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When Saul saw how successful he was, he was afraid of him. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.18.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he led them in their campaigns.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.18.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.18.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Saul said to David, &#8220;Here is my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you in marriage; only serve me bravely and fight the battles of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221; For Saul said to himself, &#8220;I will not raise a hand against him. Let the Philistines do that!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.18.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1SA.18.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But David said to Saul, &#8220;Who am I, and what is my family or my clan in Israel, that I should become the king&#8217;s son-in-law?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1SA.18.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">So</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">18:19 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">However,</span></span></span><span class="content"> when the time came for Merab, Saul&#8217;s daughter, to be given to David, she was given in marriage to Adriel of Meholah.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1SA.18.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1SA.18.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Now Saul&#8217;s daughter Michal was in love with David, and when they told Saul about it, he was pleased. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1SA.18.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will give her to him,&#8221; he thought, &#8220;so that she may be a snare to him and so that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.&#8221; So Saul said to David, &#8220;Now you have a second opportunity to become my son-in-law.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1SA.18.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1SA.18.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then Saul ordered his attendants: &#8220;Speak to David privately and say, &#8216;Look, the king likes you, and his attendants all love you; now become his son-in-law.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1SA.18.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1SA.18.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">They repeated these words to David. But David said, &#8220;Do you think it is a small matter to become the king&#8217;s son-in-law? I&#8217;m only a poor man and little known.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1SA.18.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1SA.18.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">When Saul&#8217;s servants told him what David had said, </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1SA.18.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Saul replied, &#8220;Say to David, &#8216;The king wants no other price for the bride than a hundred Philistine foreskins, to take revenge on his enemies.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; Saul&#8217;s plan was to have David fall by the hands of the Philistines.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1SA.18.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1SA.18.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">When the attendants told David these things, he was pleased to become the king&#8217;s son-in-law. So before the allotted time elapsed, </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1SA.18.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">David took his men with him and went out and killed two hundred Philistines and brought back their foreskins. They counted out the full number to the king so that David might become the king&#8217;s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1SA.18.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1SA.18.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">When Saul realized that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was with David and that his daughter Michal loved David, </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="1SA.18.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Saul became still more afraid of him, and he remained his enemy the rest of his days.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="1SA.18.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="1SA.18.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">The Philistine commanders continued to go out to battle, and as often as they did, David met with more success than the rest of Saul&#8217;s officers, and his name became well known.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">19</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Saul Tries to Kill David</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Saul told his son Jonathan and all the attendants to kill David. But Jonathan had taken a great liking to David </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">and warned him, &#8220;My father Saul is looking for a chance to kill you. Be on your guard tomorrow morning; go into hiding and stay there. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I will go out and stand with my father in the field where you are. I&#8217;ll speak to him about you and will tell you what I find out.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.19.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.19.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father and said to him, &#8220;Let not the king do wrong to his servant David; he has not wronged you, and what he has done has benefited you greatly. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.19.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He took his life in his hands when he killed the Philistine. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> won a great victory for all Israel, and you saw it and were glad. Why then would you do wrong to an innocent man like David by killing him for no reason?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.19.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.19.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Saul listened to Jonathan and took this oath: &#8220;As surely as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> lives, David will not be put to death.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.19.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.19.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So Jonathan called David and told him the whole conversation. He brought him to Saul, and David was with Saul as before.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.19.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Once more war broke out, and David went out and fought the Philistines. He struck them with such force that they fled before him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.19.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But an evil</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">But a harmful</span></span></span><span class="content"> spirit from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came on Saul as he was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand. While David was playing the lyre, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear, but David eluded him as Saul drove the spear into the wall. That night David made good his escape.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.19.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Saul sent men to David&#8217;s house to watch it and to kill him in the morning. But Michal, David&#8217;s wife, warned him, &#8220;If you don&#8217;t run for your life tonight, tomorrow you&#8217;ll be killed.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">So Michal let David down through a window, and he fled and escaped. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then Michal took an idol and laid it on the bed, covering it with a garment and putting some goats&#8217; hair at the head.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.19.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When Saul sent the men to capture David, Michal said, &#8220;He is ill.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.19.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then Saul sent the men back to see David and told them, &#8220;Bring him up to me in his bed so that I may kill him.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.19.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But when the men entered, there was the idol in the bed, and at the head was some goats&#8217; hair.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.19.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Saul said to Michal, &#8220;Why did you deceive me like this and send my enemy away so that he escaped?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.19.17"><span class="content">Michal told him, &#8220;He said to me, &#8216;Let me get away. Why should I kill you?&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.19.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1SA.19.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">When David had fled and made his escape, he went to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went to Naioth and stayed there. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1SA.19.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Word came to Saul: &#8220;David is in Naioth at Ramah&#8221;; </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1SA.19.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">so he sent men to capture him. But when they saw a group of prophets prophesying, with Samuel standing there as their leader, the Spirit of God came on Saul&#8217;s men, and they also prophesied. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1SA.19.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Saul was told about it, and he sent more men, and they prophesied too. Saul sent men a third time, and they also prophesied. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1SA.19.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Finally, he himself left for Ramah and went to the great cistern at Seku. And he asked, &#8220;Where are Samuel and David?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1SA.19.22"><span class="content">&#8220;Over in Naioth at Ramah,&#8221; they said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1SA.19.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1SA.19.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">So Saul went to Naioth at Ramah. But the Spirit of God came even on him, and he walked along prophesying until he came to Naioth. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1SA.19.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">He stripped off his garments, and he too prophesied in Samuel&#8217;s presence. He lay naked all that day and all that night. This is why people say, &#8220;Is Saul also among the prophets?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">20</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">David and Jonathan</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.20.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then David fled from Naioth at Ramah and went to Jonathan and asked, &#8220;What have I done? What is my crime? How have I wronged your father, that he is trying to kill me?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.20.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.20.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Never!&#8221; Jonathan replied. &#8220;You are not going to die! Look, my father doesn&#8217;t do anything, great or small, without letting me know. Why would he hide this from me? It isn&#8217;t so!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.20.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.20.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But David took an oath and said, &#8220;Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said to himself, &#8216;Jonathan must not know this or he will be grieved.&#8217; Yet as surely as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> lives and as you live, there is only a step between me and death.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.20.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.20.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Jonathan said to David, &#8220;Whatever you want me to do, I&#8217;ll do for you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.20.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.20.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So David said, &#8220;Look, tomorrow is the New Moon feast, and I am supposed to dine with the king; but let me go and hide in the field until the evening of the day after tomorrow. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.20.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">If your father misses me at all, tell him, &#8216;David earnestly asked my permission to hurry to Bethlehem, his hometown, because an annual sacrifice is being made there for his whole clan.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.20.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">If he says, &#8216;Very well,&#8217; then your servant is safe. But if he loses his temper, you can be sure that he is determined to harm me. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.20.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">As for you, show kindness to your servant, for you have brought him into a covenant with you before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. If I am guilty, then kill me yourself! Why hand me over to your father?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.20.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.20.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Never!&#8221; Jonathan said. &#8220;If I had the least inkling that my father was determined to harm you, wouldn&#8217;t I tell you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.20.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.20.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">David asked, &#8220;Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.20.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.20.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Come,&#8221; Jonathan said, &#8220;let&#8217;s go out into the field.&#8221; So they went there together.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.20.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.20.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then Jonathan said to David, &#8220;I swear by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, that I will surely sound out my father by this time the day after tomorrow! If he is favorably disposed toward you, will I not send you word and let you know? </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.20.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But if my father intends to harm you, may the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> deal with Jonathan, be it ever so severely, if I do not let you know and send you away in peace. May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> be with you as he has been with my father. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.20.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But show me unfailing kindness like the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s kindness as long as I live, so that I may not be killed, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.20.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">and do not ever cut off your kindness from my family&#8212;not even when the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has cut off every one of David&#8217;s enemies from the face of the earth.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.20.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.20.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, &#8220;May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> call David&#8217;s enemies to account.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.20.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">And Jonathan had David reaffirm his oath out of love for him, because he loved him as he loved himself.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.20.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1SA.20.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then Jonathan said to David, &#8220;Tomorrow is the New Moon feast. You will be missed, because your seat will be empty. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1SA.20.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The day after tomorrow, toward evening, go to the place where you hid when this trouble began, and wait by the stone Ezel. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1SA.20.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">I will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as though I were shooting at a target. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1SA.20.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then I will send a boy and say, &#8216;Go, find the arrows.&#8217; If I say to him, &#8216;Look, the arrows are on this side of you; bring them here,&#8217; then come, because, as surely as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> lives, you are safe; there is no danger. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1SA.20.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But if I say to the boy, &#8216;Look, the arrows are beyond you,&#8217; then you must go, because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has sent you away. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1SA.20.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">And about the matter you and I discussed&#8212;remember, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is witness between you and me forever.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1SA.20.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1SA.20.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">So David hid in the field, and when the New Moon feast came, the king sat down to eat. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1SA.20.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">He sat in his customary place by the wall, opposite Jonathan,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">20:25 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">wall. Jonathan arose</span></span></span><span class="content"> and Abner sat next to Saul, but David&#8217;s place was empty. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1SA.20.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Saul said nothing that day, for he thought, &#8220;Something must have happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean&#8212;surely he is unclean.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1SA.20.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">But the next day, the second day of the month, David&#8217;s place was empty again. Then Saul said to his son Jonathan, &#8220;Why hasn&#8217;t the son of Jesse come to the meal, either yesterday or today?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1SA.20.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1SA.20.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Jonathan answered, &#8220;David earnestly asked me for permission to go to Bethlehem. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="1SA.20.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">He said, &#8216;Let me go, because our family is observing a sacrifice in the town and my brother has ordered me to be there. If I have found favor in your eyes, let me get away to see my brothers.&#8217; That is why he has not come to the king&#8217;s table.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="1SA.20.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="1SA.20.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Saul&#8217;s anger flared up at Jonathan and he said to him, &#8220;You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Don&#8217;t I know that you have sided with the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of the mother who bore you? </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="1SA.20.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">As long as the son of Jesse lives on this earth, neither you nor your kingdom will be established. Now send someone to bring him to me, for he must die!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="1SA.20.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="1SA.20.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">&#8220;Why should he be put to death? What has he done?&#8221; Jonathan asked his father. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="1SA.20.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">But Saul hurled his spear at him to kill him. Then Jonathan knew that his father intended to kill David.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="1SA.20.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="1SA.20.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Jonathan got up from the table in fierce anger; on that second day of the feast he did not eat, because he was grieved at his father&#8217;s shameful treatment of David.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="1SA.20.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="1SA.20.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">In the morning Jonathan went out to the field for his meeting with David. He had a small boy with him, </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="1SA.20.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">and he said to the boy, &#8220;Run and find the arrows I shoot.&#8221; As the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="1SA.20.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">When the boy came to the place where Jonathan&#8217;s arrow had fallen, Jonathan called out after him, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t the arrow beyond you?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="1SA.20.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Then he shouted, &#8220;Hurry! Go quickly! Don&#8217;t stop!&#8221; The boy picked up the arrow and returned to his master. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="1SA.20.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">(The boy knew nothing about all this; only Jonathan and David knew.) </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="1SA.20.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">Then Jonathan gave his weapons to the boy and said, &#8220;Go, carry them back to town.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="1SA.20.40"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="1SA.20.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">After the boy had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone and bowed down before Jonathan three times, with his face to the ground. Then they kissed each other and wept together&#8212;but David wept the most.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="1SA.20.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="1SA.20.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">Jonathan said to David, &#8220;Go in peace, for we have sworn friendship with each other in the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, saying, &#8216;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is witness between you and me, and between your descendants and my descendants forever.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; Then David left, and Jonathan went back to the town.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">20:42 </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts this sentence (20:42b) is numbered 21:1.</span></span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">11</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 11</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. Of David.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> I take refuge.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.11.1"><span class="content">How then can you say to me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.11.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Flee like a bird to your mountain.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.11.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For look, the wicked bend their bows;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.11.2"><span class="content">they set their arrows against the strings</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.11.2"><span class="content">to shoot from the shadows</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.11.2"><span class="content">at the upright in heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.11.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When the foundations are being destroyed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.11.3"><span class="content">what can the righteous do?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.11.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is in his holy temple;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.11.4"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is on his heavenly throne.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.11.4"><span class="content">He observes everyone on earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.11.4"><span class="content">his eyes examine them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.11.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> examines the righteous,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.11.5"><span class="content">but the wicked, those who love violence,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.11.5"><span class="content">he hates with a passion.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.11.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">On the wicked he will rain</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.11.6"><span class="content">fiery coals and burning sulfur;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.11.6"><span class="content">a scorching wind will be their lot.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.11.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is righteous,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.11.7"><span class="content">he loves justice;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.11.7"><span class="content">the upright will see his face.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">59</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 59</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 59:1-17 is numbered 59:2-18.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. To the tune of &#8220;Do Not Destroy.&#8221; Of David. A </span><span class="tl"><span class="content">miktam.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">Title: Probably a literary or musical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> When Saul had sent men to watch David&#8217;s house in order to kill him.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.59.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Deliver me from my enemies, O God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.59.1"><span class="content">be my fortress against those who are attacking me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.59.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.59.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Deliver me from evildoers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.59.2"><span class="content">and save me from those who are after my blood.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.59.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.59.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">See how they lie in wait for me!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.59.3"><span class="content">Fierce men conspire against me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.59.3"><span class="content">for no offense or sin of mine, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.59.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.59.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.59.4"><span class="content">Arise to help me; look on my plight!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.59.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.59.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.59.5"><span class="content">you who are the God of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.59.5"><span class="content">rouse yourself to punish all the nations;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.59.5"><span class="content">show no mercy to wicked traitors.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">59:5 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 13.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.59.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.59.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They return at evening,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.59.6"><span class="content">snarling like dogs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.59.6"><span class="content">and prowl about the city.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.59.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.59.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">See what they spew from their mouths&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.59.7"><span class="content">the words from their lips are sharp as swords,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.59.7"><span class="content">and they think, &#8220;Who can hear us?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.59.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.59.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But you laugh at them, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.59.8"><span class="content">you scoff at all those nations.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.59.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.59.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">You are my strength, I watch for you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.59.9"><span class="content">you, God, are my fortress,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.59.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.59.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">my God on whom I can rely.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.59.10"><span class="content">God will go before me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.59.10"><span class="content">and will let me gloat over those who slander me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.59.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.59.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But do not kill them, Lord our shield,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">59:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">sovereign</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.59.11"><span class="content">or my people will forget.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.59.11"><span class="content">In your might uproot them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.59.11"><span class="content">and bring them down.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.59.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.59.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">For the sins of their mouths,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.59.12"><span class="content">for the words of their lips,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.59.12"><span class="content">let them be caught in their pride.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.59.12"><span class="content">For the curses and lies they utter,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.59.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.59.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">consume them in your wrath,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.59.13"><span class="content">consume them till they are no more.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.59.13"><span class="content">Then it will be known to the ends of the earth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.59.13"><span class="content">that God rules over Jacob.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.59.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.59.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They return at evening,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.59.14"><span class="content">snarling like dogs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.59.14"><span class="content">and prowl about the city.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.59.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.59.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">They wander about for food</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.59.15"><span class="content">and howl if not satisfied.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.59.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.59.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But I will sing of your strength,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.59.16"><span class="content">in the morning I will sing of your love;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.59.16"><span class="content">for you are my fortress,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.59.16"><span class="content">my refuge in times of trouble.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.59.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.59.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">You are my strength, I sing praise to you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.59.17"><span class="content">you, God, are my fortress,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.59.17"><span class="content">my God on whom I can rely.</span></span></div>
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