1Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah. He came to Jonathan and asked, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? How have I sinned against your father, that he wants to take my life?”stylus2 Peter 2:9, 2 Peter 2:9, 1 John 3:21, 2 Corinthians 1:12, 1 John 3:212“Far from it!” Jonathan replied. “You will not die. Indeed, my father does nothing, great or small, without telling me. So why would he hide this matter from me? This cannot be true!”stylusJohn 17:8, 1 Samuel 9:15, John 17:8, 1 Samuel 9:15, 1 Samuel 20:123But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”stylus2 Kings 2:6, 1 Samuel 27:1, Deuteronomy 6:13, 1 Samuel 25:26, 2 Kings 2:64Then Jonathan said to David, “Whatever you desire, I will do for you.”stylus5So David told him, “Look, tomorrow is the New Moon, and I am supposed to dine with the king. Instead, let me go and hide in the field until the third evening from now.stylusNumbers 10:10, Numbers 10:10, 1 Samuel 19:2, Numbers 28:11, 1 Samuel 19:26If your father misses me at all, tell him, ‘David urgently requested my permission to hurry to Bethlehem, his hometown, because there is an annual sacrifice for his whole clan.’stylus1 Samuel 17:58, 1 Samuel 9:12, 1 Samuel 17:58, 1 Samuel 9:12, John 7:427If he says, ‘Good,’ then your servant is safe, but if he is enraged, you will know he has evil intentions.stylus1 Samuel 25:17, 1 Samuel 25:17, Esther 7:7, Esther 7:7, Deuteronomy 1:238Therefore deal faithfully with your servant, for you have brought me into a covenant with you before the LORD. If there is iniquity in me, then kill me yourself; why should you bring me to your father?”stylus1 Samuel 18:3, 2 Samuel 14:32, 1 Samuel 18:3, 2 Samuel 14:32, 1 Samuel 23:189“Never!” Jonathan replied. “If I ever found out that my father had evil intentions against you, would I not tell you?”stylus1 Samuel 20:42, 1 Samuel 20:38, 1 Samuel 19:2, 1 Samuel 20:42, 1 Samuel 20:3810Then David asked Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?”stylusProverbs 18:23, 1 Samuel 25:14, Genesis 42:30, Genesis 42:7, 1 Samuel 20:3011“Come,” he replied, “let us go out to the field.” So the two of them went out into the field,stylus12and Jonathan said, “By the LORD, the God of Israel, I will sound out my father by this time tomorrow or the next day. If he is favorable toward you, will I not send for you and tell you?stylusPsalms 17:3, Joshua 22:22, Psalms 139:1, Psalms 139:4, Proverbs 25:213But if my father intends to bring evil on you, then may the LORD punish me, and ever so severely, if I do not tell you and send you on your way in safety. May the LORD be with you, just as He has been with my father.stylusJoshua 1:5, Ruth 1:17, 1 Samuel 17:37, 1 Chronicles 22:11, 1 Chronicles 22:1614And as long as I live, treat me with the LORD’s loving devotion, that I may not die,stylus2 Samuel 9:3, 2 Samuel 9:3, Ephesians 5:1, Ephesians 5:2, Ephesians 5:115and do not ever cut off your loving devotion from my household—not even when the LORD cuts off every one of David’s enemies from the face of the earth.”stylus2 Samuel 21:7, 2 Samuel 21:7, 1 Samuel 24:21, 2 Samuel 9:1, 2 Samuel 9:716So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, “May the LORD hold David’s enemies accountable.”stylus1 Samuel 25:22, 1 Samuel 25:22, 1 Samuel 18:3, 1 Samuel 18:3, 1 Samuel 31:217And Jonathan had David reaffirm his vow out of love for him, for Jonathan loved David as he loved himself.stylusProverbs 18:24, Proverbs 18:24, 1 Samuel 18:1, 1 Samuel 18:3, 1 Samuel 18:118Then Jonathan said to David, “Tomorrow is the New Moon, and you will be missed if your seat is empty.stylus1 Samuel 20:5, 1 Samuel 20:25, 1 Samuel 20:5, 1 Samuel 20:2519When you have stayed three days, hurry down to the place you hid on the day this trouble began, and remain beside the stone Ezel.stylus1 Samuel 19:2, 1 Samuel 19:2, 1 Samuel 20:5, 1 Samuel 20:520I will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as if I were aiming at a target.stylus21Then I will send a boy and say, ‘Go, find the arrows!’ Now, if I expressly say to him, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; bring them,’ then come, because as surely as the LORD lives, it is safe for you and there is no danger.stylusJeremiah 5:2, Amos 8:14, Jeremiah 12:16, Jeremiah 4:2, Jeremiah 5:222But if I say to the young man, ‘Look, the arrows are beyond you,’ then you must go, for the LORD has sent you away.stylus1 Samuel 20:37, 1 Samuel 20:3723And as for the matter you and I have discussed, the LORD is a witness between you and me forever.”stylus1 Samuel 20:42, 1 Samuel 20:14, 1 Samuel 20:15, 1 Samuel 20:42, 1 Samuel 20:1424So David hid in the field, and when the New Moon had come, the king sat down to eat.stylusProverbs 21:3, Psalms 50:16, Psalms 50:21, Proverbs 17:1, Proverbs 15:1725He sat in his usual place by the wall, opposite Jonathan and beside Abner, but David’s place was empty.stylus1 Samuel 20:18, 1 Samuel 20:18, Judges 16:20, Judges 16:2026Saul said nothing that day because he thought, “Something has happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean—surely he is unclean.”stylusLeviticus 15:5, Leviticus 15:5, Leviticus 11:24, Leviticus 11:27, Leviticus 11:2427But on the day after the New Moon, the second day, David’s place was still empty, and Saul asked his son Jonathan, “Why hasn’t the son of Jesse come to the meal either yesterday or today?”stylus1 Samuel 22:13, 1 Samuel 22:14, Matthew 13:55, 1 Samuel 19:9, 1 Samuel 19:1028Jonathan answered, “David urgently requested my permission to go to Bethlehem,stylus1 Samuel 20:6, 1 Samuel 20:629saying, ‘Please let me go, because our clan is holding a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has told me to be there. So now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go and see my brothers.’ That is why he did not come to the king’s table.”stylus1 Samuel 17:28, 1 Samuel 17:2830Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the disgrace of the mother who bore you?stylusProverbs 21:24, Proverbs 21:24, James 1:19, James 1:20, James 1:1931For as long as the son of Jesse lives on this earth, neither you nor your kingship shall be established. Now send for him and bring him to me, for he must surely die!”stylus1 Samuel 19:6, 1 Samuel 20:8, 1 Samuel 19:6, 1 Samuel 20:8, 2 Samuel 19:2832“Why must he be put to death?” Jonathan replied. “What has he done?”stylusMatthew 27:23, Matthew 27:23, 1 Samuel 19:5, 1 Samuel 19:5, Luke 23:2233Then Saul hurled his spear at Jonathan to kill him; so Jonathan knew that his father was determined to kill David.stylus1 Samuel 20:7, 1 Samuel 18:11, 1 Samuel 20:7, 1 Samuel 18:11, 1 Samuel 19:1034Jonathan got up from the table in fierce anger and did not eat any food that second day of the month, for he was grieved by his father’s shameful treatment of David.stylusMark 3:5, Ecclesiastes 7:20, Ephesians 4:26, Mark 3:5, Ecclesiastes 7:2035In the morning Jonathan went out to the field for the appointment with David, and a small boy was with him.stylus1 Samuel 20:19, 2 Samuel 20:5, 1 Samuel 20:19, 2 Samuel 20:536He said to the boy, “Run and find the arrows I shoot.” And as the boy ran, Jonathan shot an arrow beyond him.stylus1 Samuel 20:20, 1 Samuel 20:22, 1 Samuel 20:20, 1 Samuel 20:2237When the boy reached the place where Jonathan’s arrow had fallen, Jonathan called to him, “Isn’t the arrow beyond you?”stylus1 Samuel 20:22, 1 Samuel 20:2238Then Jonathan cried out, “Hurry! Make haste! Do not delay!” So the boy picked up the arrow and returned to his master.stylusLuke 17:31, Luke 17:32, Matthew 24:16, Matthew 24:18, Mark 13:1439But the boy did not know anything; only Jonathan and David knew the arrangement.stylus40Then Jonathan gave his equipment to the boy and said, “Go, take it back to the city.”stylus41When the young man had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone, fell facedown, and bowed three times. Then he and Jonathan kissed each other and wept together—though David wept more.stylusGenesis 29:11, 1 Samuel 18:3, Genesis 29:11, 1 Samuel 18:3, 2 Samuel 1:2642And Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, for the two of us have sworn in the name of the LORD, saying, ‘May the LORD be a witness between you and me, and between your descendants and mine forever.’” Then David got up and departed, and Jonathan went back into the city.stylus1 Samuel 1:17, 1 Samuel 1:17, 1 Samuel 23:18, 1 Samuel 23:18, 1 Samuel 20:22
