Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
Then
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? ”
And
David fleeth
from Naioth in Ramah ,
and cometh
, and
saith
before
Jonathan,
`
What have I done? what `
is '
mine
iniquity? and
what
my
sin
before
thy
father, that he is
seeking
my life? '
“
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!”
And
he
saith
to
him,
`
Far be
it! thou
dost
not die ;
lo
, my father doth
not
do
anything
great or small and
doth
not
uncover
mine
ear;
and
wherefore
doth
my
father
hide from me this
thing
? this `thing'
is
not.'
But
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. ”
And
David sweareth
again, and
saith,
`Thy
father hath
certainly
known
that I have found grace
in thine
eyes, and he saith
, Let
not Jonathan
know this, lest
he be grieved ;
and yet
, Jehovah
liveth,
and
thy
soul
liveth,
but --
as
a step between me and death. '
Then
Jonathan said
to David, “Whatever
you
desire,
I will
do for you
. ”
And
Jonathan saith
to David, `What
doth
thy
soul
say?
--
and
I do it
for thee
. '
So
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.
And
David saith
unto
Jonathan
, `Lo
, the new moon `is'
to-morrow;
and I do
certainly
sit
with the king to
eat;
and
thou
hast
sent
me away,
and I
have
been
hidden
in a
field till
the third evening ;
If 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
. ’
if thy
father at all look
after
me
, and
thou
hast
said
, David asked
earnestly
of
me
to run
to Beth-Lehem
his city
, for
a
sacrifice of
the
days
`is'
there
for all
the
family
.
If he says,
‘
Good ,’
then
your
servant
is safe,
but
if he
is
enraged,
you
will
know he
has
evil intentions.
If thus
he say:
Good ;
peace
`
is '
for
thy
servant;
and
if it
be
very
displeasing
to
him
--
know that
the
evil hath
been
determined
by
him;
Therefore
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
? ”
and
thou
hast
done
kindness,
to
thy
servant, for into a covenant of
Jehovah
thou
hast
brought
thy
servant
with thee;
--
and
if there is in me iniquity
, put
thou
me to
death
; and
unto
thy
father,
why is
this
--
thou
dost
bring me in
? '
“Never!”
Jonathan replied.
“If
I ever
found
out
that my father had
evil
intentions
against
you
, would
I not tell
you?”
And
Jonathan saith,
`Far
be
it
from
thee!
for
I certainly
do
not
know
that the
evil
hath
been
determined
by
my father to
come
upon
thee
, and
I do
not declare
it
to
thee.'
Then
David asked
Jonathan, “
Who will
tell
me if your
father answers
you
harshly
? ”
And
David saith
unto
Jonathan, `
Who doth
declare
to
me ?
or
what
`
if '
thy
father doth
answer
thee
sharply
? '
“Come
, ”
he
replied
, “let
us
go out to
the field .”
So
the
two
of them went
out
into the field ,
And
Jonathan
saith
unto
David
, `Come
, and
we
go out into
the field ;'
and
they
go
out
both
of them into the field .
and 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?
And Jonathan saith
unto
David
, `Jehovah
, God of Israel --
when
I search
my father ,
about
`
this '
time to-morrow
`
or '
the third
`
day ',
and
lo,
good
`
is '
towards
David
, and
I do
not then
send unto
thee,
and have
uncovered
thine
ear
--
But
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 .
thus
doth
Jehovah
do
to Jonathan,
and
thus
doth
He
add;
when
the
evil concerning
thee
is
good
to
my
father
, then I
have
uncovered
thine
ear
, and sent
thee
away
, and thou
hast
gone
in peace,
and
Jehovah
is
with thee
, as he was
with my father ;
And as
long
as
I live,
treat
me
with the LORD’s
loving
devotion
, that
I may
not
die,
and not
only
while
I am
alive
dost
thou
do
with me
the kindness
of
Jehovah
, and
I die not
,
and
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
. ”
but
thou
dost
not cut off thy
kindness
from my house
unto
the age,
nor
in
Jehovah's
cutting
off the
enemies of
David,
each
one
from off
the face of the ground
. '
So
Jonathan made
a
covenant
with the house of David, saying,
“May
the LORD
hold
David’s
enemies accountable.”
And
Jonathan covenanteth
with the house of David, and
Jehovah
hath
sought
`it'
from
the hand
of
the
enemies of
David;
And Jonathan had
David reaffirm
his
vow
out
of
love
for
him, for Jonathan
loved
David
as
he loved himself
.
and Jonathan addeth
to
cause
David to
swear,
because
he
loveth
him, for with
the
love
of
his
own
soul
he hath
loved him
.
Then
Jonathan said
to David
, “Tomorrow
is the
New Moon, and you
will
be
missed
if
your
seat is empty.
And
Jonathan saith
to him
, `To-morrow
`
is '
new moon, and thou
hast
been
looked
after,
for
thy
seat is looked
after;
When
you
have
stayed
three
days,
hurry
down to
the place you
hid
on
the day this
trouble
began
, and remain
beside
the stone Ezel.
and
on
the
third
day
thou
dost
certainly
come
down ,
and
hast
come
in
unto
the place where
thou
wast
hidden
in
the day of
the
work
, and hast
remained
near
the stone Ezel.
I will
shoot three arrows to
the side of
it
, as
if
I
were
aiming
at a target.
`And
I shoot three of
the
arrows at
the side, sending
out
for
myself
at a mark;
Then
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
.
and lo
, I
send
the
youth:
Go, find the arrows .
If I at
all
say to the
youth
, Lo
, the arrows `
are '
on this side of thee
--
take
them, --
then come thou
, for
peace
`
is '
for thee,
and there is nothing;
Jehovah
liveth
.
But
if I say to the young man, ‘Look
, the arrows are beyond you
, ’
then
you
must
go, for the
LORD
has
sent you
away .
And
if thus
I say to the young man, Lo
, the arrows `
are '
beyond thee
, --
go, for Jehovah
hath
sent thee
away ;
And
as for
the matter
you
and
I
have discussed
, the
LORD
is a
witness
between you
and
me forever
. ”
as to
the thing
which
we
have spoken
, I
and
thou,
lo,
Jehovah
`
is '
between me and
thee
--
unto
the
age
. '
So
David hid
in the field, and when
the New Moon had
come
, the king sat
down to eat .
And
David is
hidden
in the field, and it
is
the new moon, and
the king sitteth
down by
the
food
to eat ,
He
sat
in
his usual
place
by the wall, opposite
Jonathan and beside
Abner, but
David’s
place was
empty
.
and
the
king
sitteth
on
his seat,
as
time
by time,
on
a
seat
by
the wall, and
Jonathan riseth,
and Abner sitteth
at
the
side
of
Saul
, and
David's
place is
looked
after
.
Saul said
nothing
that day because
he thought
, “Something
has
happened
to
David
to
make
him
ceremonially
unclean—surely
he is unclean
. ”
And
Saul hath
not
spoken
anything
on
that day ,
for
he said
, `It
`is'
an
accident;
he is not
clean
--
surely
not
clean
. '
But
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
? ”
And
it
cometh
to
pass
on the second
morrow
of
the new moon, that
David's
place is
looked
after
, and Saul saith
unto
Jonathan
his son, `Wherefore
hath
the son of Jesse not
come in,
either yesterday or to-day,
unto
the
food
? '
Jonathan answered
, “
David urgently
requested
my
permission
to
go
to
Bethlehem
,
And
Jonathan answereth
Saul
, `
David hath
been
earnestly
asked
of
me
unto
Beth-Lehem
,
saying
, ‘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. ”
and
he
saith
, Send
me away
, I
pray
thee,
for
a family
sacrifice we
have
in the city, and my brother himself
hath
given
command
to me,
and
now, if I have found grace
in thine
eyes, let me go away,
I
pray
thee,
and see my brethren;
therefore
he hath
not come unto
the table of
the
king
. '
Then
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
?
And
the
anger of
Saul
burneth
against Jonathan, and he saith
to him, `
Son of a perverse rebellious woman! have
I not known
that thou
art
fixing
on
the son of Jesse to thy
shame ,
and to the shame
of the nakedness
of
thy
mother?
For 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!”
for all
the days
that
the
son of Jesse liveth
on the
ground
thou
art
not
established ,
thou
and
thy
kingdom;
and
now ,
send and bring him unto
me, for he `is'
a
son
of
death.'
“
Why must
he be
put to death? ”
Jonathan
replied.
“
What has
he done? ”
And
Jonathan
answereth
Saul
his
father,
and
saith
unto
him,
`
Why is
he put to death? what hath
he done? '
Then
Saul hurled
his
spear
at Jonathan
to kill
him ;
so
Jonathan knew
that his father was
determined
to kill
David.
And
Saul casteth
the
javelin
at him
to smite
him ,
and
Jonathan knoweth
that it
hath
been
determined
by
his father to put
David to
death
.
Jonathan 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.
And
Jonathan riseth
from the table in the
heat
of
anger ,
and hath
not eaten
food on
the
second day of the new
moon
, for he hath
been
grieved for
David ,
for
his
father
put
him
to
shame
.
In the morning Jonathan went
out to
the field for the appointment with David, and a small
boy
was
with him.
And
it
cometh
to
pass
in the morning ,
that
Jonathan goeth
out into
the field for the appointment with David, and a little
youth
`is'
with him.
He said
to the
boy
, “
Run and
find the arrows I shoot.”
And
as
the boy
ran
, Jonathan
shot an
arrow beyond
him.
And
he saith
to his
youth
, `
Run ,
find ,
I
pray
thee,
the arrows which
I am
shooting;'
the youth
is
running
, and
he
hath
shot the
arrow ,
causing
`it'
to
pass
over
him.
When
the boy
reached
the place where
Jonathan’s
arrow had
fallen
, Jonathan called
to
him
, “Isn’t
the arrow beyond you
? ”
And
the youth
cometh
unto
the place of
the
arrow which
Jonathan
hath
shot
, and
Jonathan calleth
after
the
youth
, and
saith,
`Is
not
the arrow beyond thee
? '
Then
Jonathan cried
out
, “Hurry!
Make
haste !
Do
not delay!”
So
the
boy
picked
up
the arrow
and returned
to
his master
.
and
Jonathan calleth
after
the
youth
, `Speed,
haste ,
stand
not ;'
and
Jonathan's
youth
gathereth
the arrows,
and cometh
unto
his lord
.
But
the boy
did
not know
anything ;
only Jonathan and David knew the arrangement
.
And
the youth
hath
not known
anything ,
only Jonathan and David knew the word
.
Then
Jonathan gave
his equipment
to
the boy
and said
, “
Go, take
it
back
to
the city. ”
And
Jonathan giveth
his weapons
unto
the youth
whom
he
hath,
and saith
to
him
, `
Go, carry
into
the city. '
When
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.
The youth
hath
gone, and
David hath
risen
from Ezel,
at
the south, and
falleth
on
his
face
to
the
earth
, and boweth
himself
three times ,
and they
kiss
one
another,
and they
weep
one
with
another,
till
David exerted
himself;
And 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.
and Jonathan saith
to David, `
Go in peace, in
that
we
have sworn --
we
two
--
in the name of Jehovah
, saying, Jehovah
is
between me and
thee
, and between my
seed
and thy
seed
--
unto
the
age;'
and he
riseth
and goeth;
and
Jonathan hath
gone
in
to
the city.
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