1 Samuel 20:8-17
20:8 You must be loyal
to your servant, for you have made a covenant with your servant in the
Lord’s name.
If I am guilty,
you yourself kill me! Why bother taking me to your father?”
20:9 Jonathan said, “Far be it from you to suggest this! If I were at all aware that my father had decided to harm you, wouldn’t I tell you about it?”
20:10 David said to Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?”
20:11 Jonathan said to David, “Come on. Let’s go out to the field.”
When the two of them had gone out into the field,
20:12 Jonathan said to David, “The Lord God of Israel is my witness. I will feel out my father about this time the day after tomorrow. If he is favorably inclined toward David, will I not then send word to you and let you know?
20:13 But if my father intends to do you harm, may the Lord do all this and more to Jonathan, if I don’t let you know and send word to you so you can go safely on your way. May the Lord be with you, as he was with my father.
20:14 While I am still alive, extend to me the loyalty of the Lord, or else I will die!
20:15 Don’t ever cut off your loyalty to my family, not even when the Lord has cut off every one of David’s enemies from the face of the earth
20:16 and called David’s enemies to account.” So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David.
20:17 Jonathan once again took an oath with David, because he loved him. In fact Jonathan loved him as much as he did his own life.
1 Samuel 20:42
20:42 Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, for the two of us have sworn together in the name of the
Lord saying, ‘The
Lord will be between me and you and between my descendants and your descendants forever.’”
David Goes to Nob
(21:1)
Then David got up and left, while Jonathan went back to the city.
1 Samuel 23:18
23:18 When the two of them had made a covenant before the
Lord, David stayed on at Horesh, but Jonathan went to his house.
1 Samuel 23:2
23:2 So David asked the
Lord, “Should I go and strike down these Philistines?” The
Lord said to David, “Go, strike down the Philistines and deliver Keilah.”
1 Samuel 9:1-3
Samuel Meets with Saul
9:1 There was a Benjaminite man named Kish son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah of Benjamin. He was a prominent person.
9:2 He had a son named Saul, a handsome young man. There was no one among the Israelites more handsome than he was; he stood head and shoulders above all the people.
9:3 The donkeys of Saul’s father Kish wandered off, so Kish said to his son Saul, “Take one of the servants with you and go look for the donkeys.”
1 Samuel 21:7
21:7 (One of Saul’s servants was there that day, detained before the
Lord. His name was Doeg the Edomite, who was in charge of Saul’s shepherds.)