1 Samuel 20 Cross References - ACV

¹ And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? What is my iniquity, and what is my sin before thy father, that he seeks my life? ² And he said to him, Far from it. Thou shall not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it to me, and why should my father hide this thing from me? It is not so. ³ And David swore moreover, and said, Thy father knows well that I have found favor in thine eyes, and he says, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved. But truly as LORD lives, and as thy soul lives, there is but a step between me and death. ⁴ Then Jonathan said to David, Whatever thy soul desires, I will even do it for thee. ⁵ And David said to Jonathan, Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king to eat. But let me go that I may hide myself in the field to the third day at evening. ⁶ If thy father misses me at all, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city, for it is the yearly sacrifice there for all the family. ⁷ If he says thus, It is well. Thy servant shall have peace. But if he is angry, then know that evil is determined by him. ⁸ Therefore deal kindly with thy servant, for thou have brought thy servant into a covenant of LORD with thee. But if there be in me iniquity, kill me thyself, for why should thou bring me to thy father? ⁹ And Jonathan said, Far be it from thee, for if I should at all know that evil were determined by my father to come upon thee, then would I not tell it to thee? ¹⁰ Then David said to Jonathan, Who shall tell me if perchance thy father answers thee roughly? ¹¹ And Jonathan said to David, Come, and let us go out into the field. And they went out both of them into the field. ¹² And Jonathan said to David, LORD, the God of Israel-when I have sounded my father about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if there be good toward David, shall I not then send to thee, and disclose it to thee? ¹³ LORD do so to Jonathan, and more also, should it please my father to do thee evil, if I not disclose it to thee, and send thee away that thou may go in peace. And LORD be with thee as he has been with my father. ¹⁴ And thou shall not only show me the loving kindness of LORD, while I yet live, that I not die, ¹⁵ but also thou shall not cut off thy kindness from my house forever. No, not when LORD has 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, And LORD will require it at the hand of David's enemies. ¹⁷ And Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had to him. For he loved him as he loved his own soul. ¹⁸ Then Jonathan said to him, Tomorrow is the new moon, and thou will be missed because thy seat will be empty. ¹⁹ And when thou have stayed three days, thou shall go down quickly, and come to the place where thou hid thyself when the business was in hand, and shall remain by the stone Ezel. ²⁰ And I will shoot three arrows on the side of it, as though I shot at a mark. ²¹ And, behold, I will send the lad, saying, Go, find the arrows. If I say to the lad, Behold, the arrows are on this side of thee, take them, and come, for there is peace to thee and no hurt, as LORD lives. ²² But if I say thus to the boy, Behold, the arrows are beyond thee, go thy way, for LORD has sent thee away. ²³ And concerning the matter which thou and I have spoken of, behold, LORD is between thee and me forever. ²⁴ So David hid himself in the field. And when the new moon came, the king sat down to eat food. ²⁵ And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, even upon the seat by the wall, and Jonathan stood up, and Abner sat by Saul's side, but David's place was empty. ²⁶ Nevertheless Saul spoke nothing that day, for he thought, Something has befallen him. He is not clean. Surely he is not clean. ²⁷ And it came to pass on the morrow after the new moon, which was the second day, that David's place was empty. And Saul said to Jonathan his son, Why has the son of Jesse not come in to the food, neither yesterday, nor today? ²⁸ And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem. ²⁹ And he said, Let me go, I pray thee, for our family has a sacrifice in the city, and my brother, he has commanded me. And now, if I have found favor in thine eyes, let me get away, I pray thee, and see my brothers. Therefore he has not come to the king's table. ³⁰ Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, Thou son of a perverse rebellious woman, do I not know that thou have chosen the son of Jesse to thine own shame, and to the shame of thy mother's nakedness? ³¹ For as long as the son of Jesse lives upon the ground, thou shall not be established, nor thy kingdom. Therefore now send and fetch him to me, for he shall surely die. ³² And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, Why should he be put to death? What has he done? ³³ And Saul cast his spear at him to smite him. By this Jonathan knew that it was determined by his father to put David to death. ³⁴ So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and ate no food 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 to his lad, Run, now find 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 nothing. Only Jonathan and David knew the matter. ⁴⁰ And Jonathan gave his weapons to his lad, and said to 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 each other, and wept one with another until David surpassed him. ⁴² And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, inasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of LORD, saying, LORD shall be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed, forever. And he arose and departed, and Jonathan went into the city.

³ Here I am. Witness against me before LORD, and before his anointed: Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or of whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? And I will restore it to you.

¹⁹ And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah. ²⁰ And Saul sent messengers to take David. And when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied. ²¹ And when it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied. ²² Then he also went to Ramah, and came to the great well that is in Secu. And he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? And one said, Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah. ²³ And he went there to Naioth in Ramah, and the Spirit of God came upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied until he came to Naioth in Ramah. ²⁴ And he also stripped off his clothes, and he also prophesied before Samuel, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Therefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?

²⁶ And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain. And David made haste to get away for fear of Saul. For Saul and his men encompassed David and his men round about to take them. ²⁷ But there came a messenger to Saul, saying, Hasten thee, and come, for the Philistines have made a raid upon the land. ²⁸ So Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines. Therefore they called that place Sela-hammahlekoth.

⁹ And David said to Saul, Why do thou hearken to men's words, saying, Behold, David seeks thy hurt?

¹¹ Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand, for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not. Know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in my hand, and I have not sinned against thee, though thou hunt after my life to take it.

¹⁷ And he said to David, Thou are more righteous than I, for thou have rendered to me good, whereas I have rendered to thee evil.

³ O LORD my God, if I have done this, if there be iniquity in my hands, ⁴ if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me, (yea, I have delivered him without cause who was my adversary), ⁵ let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it. Yea, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.

²⁰ LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands he has recompensed me. ²¹ For I have kept the ways of LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God. ²² For all his ordinances were before me, and I put not away his statutes from me. ²³ I was also perfect with him, and I kept myself from my iniquity. ²⁴ Therefore LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

⁶ Blessed be LORD, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth. ⁷ Our soul has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers. The snare is broken, and we have escaped. ⁸ Our help is in the name of LORD, who made heaven and earth.

¹² For our pride is this (the testimony from our conscience), that we behave in the world in the simplicity and purity of God, not by fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, and especially toward you.

⁹ the Lord knows how to rescue the pious out of temptation, and to hold in reserve unrighteous men being cut off for a day of judgment.

²¹ Beloved, if our heart should not condemn us, we have confidence toward God,

⁷ And they said to him, Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from thy servants that they should do such a thing.

²⁹ Far be it from us that we should rebel against LORD, and turn away this day from following LORD, to build an altar for burnt offering, for meal offering, or for sacrifice, besides the altar of LORD our God that is before his tabernacle.

¹⁶ And the people answered and said, Far be it from us that we should forsake LORD, to serve other gods.

¹⁵ Now LORD had revealed to Samuel a day before Saul came, saying,

⁴⁵ And the people said to Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who has wrought this great salvation in Israel? Far from it. As LORD lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground, for he has wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he did not die.

¹² And Jonathan said to David, LORD, the God of Israel-when I have sounded my father about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if there be good toward David, shall I not then send to thee, and disclose it to thee?

⁶ Sacrifice and offering thou did not desire, but a body thou have prepared for me. Whole burnt offering and sacrifice for sin thou did not require.

⁵ The lord LORD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, nor turned away backward.

¹⁶ He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others. And having heard it, they said, May it not happen!

¹⁵ I no longer call you bondmen, because the bondman does not know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I made known to you.

⁸ Because the sayings that thou gave to me, I gave to them. And they received them, and knew truly that I came forth from thee, and they believed that thou sent me.

¹³ Thou shall fear LORD thy God, and him thou shall serve, and shall swear by his name.

⁶⁶ And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee, and thou shall fear night and day, and shall have no assurance of thy life.

²⁶ And she said, Oh, my lord, as thy soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by thee here, praying to LORD.

⁵⁵ And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the captain of the army, Abner, whose son is this youth? And Abner said, As thy soul lives, O king, I cannot tell.

²⁶ Now therefore, my lord, as LORD lives, and as thy soul lives, since LORD has withheld thee from blood guiltiness, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now therefore let thine enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

¹ And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines, and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel, so I shall escape out of his hand.

²¹ And Ittai answered the king, and said, As LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, even there thy servant will also be.

² And Elijah said to Elisha, Remain here, I pray thee, for LORD has sent me as far as Bethel. And Elisha said, As LORD lives, and as thy soul lives, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Bethel.

⁴ And Elijah said to him, Elisha, remain here, I pray thee, for LORD has sent me to Jericho. And he said, As LORD lives, and as thy soul lives, I will not leave thee. So they came to Jericho.

⁶ And Elijah said to him, Remain here, I pray thee, for LORD has sent me to the Jordan. And he said, As LORD lives, and as thy soul lives, I will not leave thee. And the two went on.

³ The cords of death encompassed me, and the pains of Sheol got hold upon me. I found trouble and sorrow.

² And thou shall swear, As LORD lives, in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. And the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him they shall glory.

¹⁶ So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, As LORD lives, who made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, nor will I give thee into the hand of these men who seek thy life.

³⁰ And we, why are we in peril every hour? ³¹ By the pride that belongs to you, that I keep in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

⁹ But we ourselves have had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we should not be trusting in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead. ¹⁰ Who rescued us out of so great a death, and does rescue, in whom we have hoped that he will also still rescue.

¹⁶ For men certainly swear by the greater, and of every dispute with them the oath is final for confirmation.

¹⁰ Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings. And they shall be to you for a memorial before your God: I am LORD your God.

¹¹ And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt offering to LORD: two young bullocks, and one ram, seven he-lambs a year old without blemish,

² And Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeks to kill thee. Now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself in the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself.

⁶ If thy father misses me at all, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city, for it is the yearly sacrifice there for all the family.

¹⁹ And when thou have stayed three days, thou shall go down quickly, and come to the place where thou hid thyself when the business was in hand, and shall remain by the stone Ezel.

²³ And he said, Why will thou go to him today? It is neither new moon nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.

¹² For it was not an enemy who reproached me. Then I could have borne it. Neither was it he who hated me that magnified himself against me. Then I would have hid myself from him.

³ Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast-day.

³ A prudent man sees the evil, and hides himself, but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

⁵⁹ Therefore they took up stones so that they might throw at him, but Jesus was hid, and went out of the temple, having passed through the midst of them, and thus passed on.

¹⁴ But then straightaway the brothers sent Paul away to go as far as to the sea, but both Silas and Timothy remained there.

¹⁶ Let not any man therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or in the matter of a festival or a new moon or sabbaths,

⁵ But to the place which LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, even to his habitation ye shall seek, and there thou shall come.

¹² And they answered them, and said, He is. Behold, he is before thee. Make haste now, for he has come today into the city, for the people have a sacrifice today in the high place.

² And Samuel said, How do I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me. And LORD said, Take a heifer with thee, and say, I have come to sacrifice to LORD. ³ And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show thee what thou shall do. And thou shall anoint to me him whom I name to thee. ⁴ And Samuel did that which LORD spoke, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, Do thou come peaceably? ⁵ And he said, Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to LORD. Sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.

⁵⁸ And Saul said to him, Whose son are thou, young man? And David answered, I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.

⁴² Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?

²³ And the thing pleased me well. And I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe.

⁹ And Jonathan said, Far be it from thee, for if I should at all know that evil were determined by my father to come upon thee, then would I not tell it to thee?

¹⁷ Now therefore know and consider what thou will do, for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house. For he is such a worthless fellow that a man cannot speak to him.

⁴ And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.

⁷ And the king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden. And Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen, for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.

⁴⁹ And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. And if not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.

²⁹ And the time drew near that Israel must die. And he called his son Joseph, and said to him, If now I have found favor in thy sight, put thy hand, I pray thee, under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt,

¹⁴ And the men said to her, Our life for yours if ye do not utter this our business. And it shall be, when LORD gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.

²² The Mighty One, God, LORD, the Mighty One, God, LORD, he knows, and Israel he shall know, if it is in rebellion, or if in trespass against LORD (do not save us this day),

⁸ And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each of you to her mother's house. LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.

³ Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

¹⁶ So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, And LORD will require it at the hand of David's enemies.

¹⁸ And those two made a covenant before LORD. And David abode in the forest, and Jonathan went to his house.

³² And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent to thee, saying, Come here, that I may send thee to the king to say, Why have I come from Geshur? It were better for me to still be there. Now therefore let me see the king's face, and if there be iniquity in me, let him kill me.

¹⁷ And David went out to meet them, and answered and said to them, If ye have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart shall be knit to you, but if ye be come to betray me to my adversaries, seeing there is no wrong in my hands, the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it.

¹¹ I said in my haste, All men are liars.

³ Let not kindness and truth forsake thee. Bind them about thy neck, write them upon the tablet of thy heart,

¹¹ For if I am indeed wrong, and have done anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die, but if there is nothing of what these men accuse me, no man can give me to them freely. I appeal Caesar.

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.

⁴² And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, inasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of LORD, saying, LORD shall be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed, forever. And he arose and departed, and Jonathan went into the city.

⁷ And Joseph saw his brothers, and he knew them, but made himself foreign to them, and spoke roughly with them. And he said to them. From where come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.

³⁰ The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.

³⁰ Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, Thou son of a perverse rebellious woman, do I not know that thou have chosen the son of Jesse to thine own shame, and to the shame of thy mother's nakedness? ³¹ For as long as the son of Jesse lives upon the ground, thou shall not be established, nor thy kingdom. Therefore now send and fetch him to me, for he shall surely die. ³² And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, Why should he be put to death? What has he done? ³³ And Saul cast his spear at him to smite him. By this Jonathan knew that it was determined by his father to put David to death. ³⁴ So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and ate no food the second day of the month, for he was grieved for David because his father had done him shame.

¹⁰ And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? And who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants now-a-days who break away every man from his master.

¹⁴ But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master, and he railed at them.

¹³ And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him,

²³ A poor man uses entreaties, but a rich man answers roughly.

⁴ Does he not see my ways, and number all my steps?

³ Thou have proved my heart. Thou have visited me in the night. Thou have tried me, and find nothing. I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

¹ O LORD, thou have searched me, and known. ² Thou know my sitting down and my rising up. Thou understand my thought afar off. ³ Thou search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. ⁴ For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou know it altogether.

⁵ Purpose in the heart of man is deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.

² It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter. ³ As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the heart of kings is unsearchable.

⁵ There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with thee. I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

¹⁷ Where thou die, I will die, and there I will be buried. LORD do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts thee and me.

¹⁷ And he said, What is the thing that LORD has spoken to thee? I pray thee, hide it not from me. God do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide anything from me of all the things that he spoke to thee.

⁷ And let it be, when these signs have come to thee, that thou do as occasion shall serve thee, for God is with thee.

⁶ And the Spirit of God came mightily upon Saul when he heard those words, and his anger was greatly kindled. ⁷ And he took a yoke of oxen, and cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the borders of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, Whoever does not come forth behind Saul and behind Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen. And the dread of LORD fell on the people, and they came out as one man. ⁸ And he numbered them in Bezek, and the sons of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand. ⁹ And they said to the messengers who came, Thus ye shall say to the men of Jabesh-gilead, Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, ye shall have deliverance. And the messengers came and told the men of Jabesh, and they were glad. ¹⁰ Therefore the men of Jabesh said, Tomorrow we will come out to you, and ye shall do with us all that seems good to you. ¹¹ And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three companies. And they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch, and smote the Ammonites until the heat of the day. And it came to pass, that those who remained were scattered so that not two of them were left together. ¹² And the people said to Samuel, Who is he who said, Shall Saul reign over us? Bring the men that we may put them to death. ¹³ And Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day, for today LORD has wrought deliverance in Israel.

⁴⁷ Now when Saul had taken the kingdom over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the sons of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines. And wherever he turned himself, he put them to the worse.

³⁷ And David said, LORD who delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said to David, Go, and LORD shall be with thee.

¹² And Saul was afraid of David because LORD was with him, and was departed from Saul.

²² God do so to the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave of all that pertains to him by the morning light so much as one man-child.

³⁵ And all the people came to cause David to eat bread while it was yet day, but David swore, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or anything else, till the sun is down.

¹⁵ but my loving kindness shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul whom I put away before thee.

¹³ And say ye to Amasa, Are thou not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou not be captain of the army before me continually in the place of Joab.

² Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make thy life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.

¹⁰ And Ben-hadad sent to him, and said, The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.

¹¹ Now, my son, LORD be with thee, and prosper thou, and build the house of LORD thy God as he has spoken concerning thee.

¹⁶ Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number. Arise and be doing, and LORD be with thee.

²⁰ teaching them to observe all things, as many as I commanded you. And lo, I am with you all the days, until the end of the age. Truly.

⁹ And what ye learned and received and heard and saw in me, these things do, and the God of peace will be with you.

³ And the king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul that I may show the kindness of God to him? And Ziba said to the king, Jonathan has yet a son who is lame in his feet.

¹ Become ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. ² And walk in love, as also the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a fragrant aroma.

²¹ Swear now therefore to me by LORD, that thou will not cut off my seed after me, and that thou will not destroy my name out of my father's house.

¹ And David said, Is there yet any who is left of the house of Saul that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake? ² And there was of the house of Saul a servant whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David. And the king said to him, Are thou Ziba? And he said, Thy servant is he. ³ And the king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul that I may show the kindness of God to him? And Ziba said to the king, Jonathan has yet a son who is lame in his feet. ⁴ And the king said to him, Where is he? And Ziba said to the king, Behold, he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, in Lo-debar. ⁵ Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, from Lo-debar. ⁶ And Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, and fell on his face, and did obeisance. And David said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold, thy servant! ⁷ And David said to him, Fear not, for I will surely show thee kindness for Jonathan thy father's sake, and will restore to thee all the land of Saul thy father, and thou shall eat bread at my table continually.

⁷ But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of LORD's oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

¹⁸ In that day LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, To thy seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

² And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons, and the Philistines killed Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.

⁷ Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, they smote him, and killed him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night. ⁸ And they brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold, the head of Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul, thine enemy, who sought thy life. And LORD has avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.

⁸ But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth, and the five sons of Merab the daughter of Saul whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

⁶ If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, who is as thine own soul, entices thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou have not known, thou, nor thy fathers,

¹ And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

²⁶ I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan. Very pleasant thou have been to me. Thy love to me was wonderful, exceeding the love of women.

²⁴ He who makes many friends does it to his own destruction, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

⁵ And David said to Jonathan, Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king to eat. But let me go that I may hide myself in the field to the third day at evening.

²⁵ And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, even upon the seat by the wall, and Jonathan stood up, and Abner sat by Saul's side, but David's place was empty.

² And though they say, As LORD lives, surely they swear falsely.

¹⁶ And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, As LORD lives, even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they shall be built up in the midst of my people.

¹⁴ Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, As thy god, O Dan, lives, and, As the way of Beersheba lives, they shall fall, and never rise up again.

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?

⁵ And Sarai said to Abram, My wrong be upon thee. I gave my handmaid into they bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. LORD judge between me and thee.

⁵⁰ if thou will afflict my daughters, and if thou will take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us, see, God is witness between me and thee.

¹⁴ And thou shall not only show me the loving kindness of LORD, while I yet live, that I not die, ¹⁵ but also thou shall not cut off thy kindness from my house forever. No, not when LORD has cut off the enemies of David every one from the face of the earth.

¹⁶ But to the wicked man God says, What have thou to do to declare my statutes, and that thou have taken my covenant in thy mouth, ¹⁷ since thou hate instruction, and cast my words behind thee? ¹⁸ When thou saw a thief, thou consented with him, and have been partaker with adulterers. ¹⁹ Thou give thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frames deceit. ²⁰ Thou sit and speak against thy brother; thou slander thine own mother's son. ²¹ These things thou have done, and I kept silence. Thou thought that I was altogether such a one as thyself. But I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

¹⁷ For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

¹⁷ Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a fatted ox and hatred with it.

¹ Better is a dry morsel, and quietness with it, than a house full of feasting with strife.

³ To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to LORD than sacrifice.

²⁷ The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination. How much more when he brings it with a wicked mind!

¹¹ What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says LORD. I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts. And I do not delight in the blood of bullocks or of lambs or of he-goats. ¹² When ye come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand-to trample my courts? ¹³ Bring no more vain oblations. Incense is an abomination to me. New moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies-I cannot bear iniquity and the solemn meeting. ¹⁴ Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates. They are a trouble to me. I am weary of bearing them. ¹⁵ And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear; your hands are full of blood.

⁶ And when ye eat, and when ye drink, do ye not eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

²⁸ They lead Jesus therefore from Caiaphas to the Praetorium. And it was early, and they did not enter into the Praetorium, so that they would not be defiled, but that they might eat the Passover.

²⁰ And she said, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free, but he knew not that LORD was departed from him.

¹⁸ Then Jonathan said to him, Tomorrow is the new moon, and thou will be missed because thy seat will be empty.

²⁰ but the soul that eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that pertain to LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from his people. ²¹ And when a soul shall touch any unclean thing, the uncleanness of man, or an unclean beast, or any unclean abomination, and eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which pertain to LORD, that soul shall be cut off from his people.

²⁴ and by these ye shall become unclean. Whoever touches the carcass of them shall be unclean until the evening.

²⁷ And whatever goes upon its paws, among all beasts that go on all fours, they are unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening.

³¹ These are those which are unclean to you among all that creep. Whoever touches them, when they are dead, shall be unclean until the evening.

⁴⁰ And he who eats of the carcass of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening. He also who bears the carcass of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening.

⁵ And whoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

¹⁶ And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening. ¹⁷ And every garment, and every skin, on which is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.

¹⁹ And if a woman has an issue, and her issue in her flesh is blood, she shall be seven days in her impurity, and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening. ²⁰ And everything that she lies upon in her impurity shall be unclean. Also everything that she sits upon shall be unclean. ²¹ And whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

¹⁶ And whoever in the open field touches a man who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

⁵ And he said, Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to LORD. Sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.

¹¹ And Saul cast the spear, for he said, I will smite David even to the wall. And David turned away from his presence twice.

⁹ And an evil spirit from LORD was upon Saul as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand, and David was playing with his hand. ¹⁰ And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the spear into the wall. And David fled, and escaped that night.

¹⁵ And Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.

⁷ And Saul said to his servants who stood about him, Hear now, ye Benjamites. Will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards? Will he make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, ⁸ that all of you have conspired against me, and there is none who discloses to me when my son makes a league with the son of Jesse? And there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day. ⁹ Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.

¹³ And Saul said to him, Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me to lie in wait as at this day? ¹⁴ Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who among all thy servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and is taken into thy council, and is honorable in thy house?

¹ And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse. And a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit. ² And the Spirit of LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of LORD.

⁵⁵ Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brothers, James and Joses and Simon and Judas?

⁴ Coming to whom, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but with God chosen, precious,

²⁸ And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men. And Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why have thou come down? And with whom have thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the mischief of thy heart, for thou have come down that thou might see the battle.

² For vexation kills the foolish man, and jealousy slays the silly one.

²⁹ He who is slow to anger is of great understanding, but he who is hasty of spirit exalts folly.

² The tongue of the wise utters knowledge rightly, but the mouth of fools pours out folly.

¹² The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion, but his favor is as dew upon the grass.

¹⁹ A man of great wrath shall bear the penalty, for if thou deliver him, thou must do it yet again.

²⁴ The proud and haughty man, scoffer is his name. He works in the arrogance of pride.

²⁸ He whose spirit is without restraint is a city that is broken down and without walls.

³ A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty, but a fool's vexation is heavier than both.

²² But I say to you, that every man who is angry at his brother without cause will be liable to the judgment, and whoever speaks an insult to his brother will be liable to the council, and whoever says, Foolish man, will be liable to the hell of fire.

³¹ Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and reviling be taken away from you, with all evil.

⁴ And ye fathers, do not exasperate your children, but rear them in the training and admonition of the Lord.

¹⁹ Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. ²⁰ For the wrath of man does not accomplish the righteousness of God.

⁶ And Saul hearkened to the voice of Jonathan. And Saul swore, As LORD lives, he shall not be put to death.

¹¹ And Saul sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. And Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, If thou save not thy life tonight, tomorrow thou will be slain. ¹² So Michal let David down through the window, and he went, and fled, and escaped. ¹³ And Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair at the head of it, and covered it with the clothes. ¹⁴ And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick. ¹⁵ And Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.

⁸ Therefore deal kindly with thy servant, for thou have brought thy servant into a covenant of LORD with thee. But if there be in me iniquity, kill me thyself, for why should thou bring me to thy father?

¹⁶ This thing is not good that thou have done. As LORD lives, ye are worthy to die because ye have not kept watch over your lord, LORD's anointed. And now see where the king's spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his head.

²⁸ For all my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king. Yet thou set thy servant among those who ate at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more to the king?

¹¹ Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee. According to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those who are appointed to death,

³⁶ And Jacob was angry, and chided with Laban. And Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? What is my sin that thou have hotly pursued after me?

⁵ For he put his life in his hand, and smote the Philistine, and LORD wrought a great victory for all Israel. Thou saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will thou sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?

¹⁰ And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the spear into the wall. And David fled, and escaped that night. ¹¹ And Saul sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. And Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, If thou save not thy life tonight, tomorrow thou will be slain.

⁷ If he says thus, It is well. Thy servant shall have peace. But if he is angry, then know that evil is determined by him.

²⁴ Make no friendship with a man who is given to anger, and thou shall not go with a wrathful man,

¹¹ Deliver those who are carried away to death, and hold thou back those who are ready to be slain. ¹² If thou say, Behold, we did not know this, Does not he who weighs the hearts consider it? And he who keeps thy soul, does he not know it? And shall not he render to every man according to his work?

⁸ Open thy mouth for the mute, in the cause of all such as are left desolate. ⁹ Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and minister justice to the poor and needy.

⁹ Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

³ This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all. Yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

⁹ The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

²³ And the governor said, For what evil has he done? But they cried out even more, saying, He should be crucified.

²² And he said to them a third time, For what evil did this man do? I have found nothing guilty of death in him. I will therefore, having scourged, release him.

⁵¹ Does our law judge a man, unless it first may hear from himself and know what he does?

¹⁰ And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the spear into the wall. And David fled, and escaped that night.

²⁰ Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth that does good, and sins not.

⁵ And having looked around on them with anger, being grieved at the callousness of their heart, he says to the man, Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored as the other.

²⁶ Be ye angry, and sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

⁵ So Amasa went to call the men of Judah together, but he delayed longer than the set time which he had appointed him.

²⁰ And I will shoot three arrows on the side of it, as though I shot at a mark. ²¹ And, behold, I will send the lad, saying, Go, find the arrows. If I say to the lad, Behold, the arrows are on this side of thee, take them, and come, for there is peace to thee and no hurt, as LORD lives. ²² But if I say thus to the boy, Behold, the arrows are beyond thee, go thy way, for LORD has sent thee away.

²² But if I say thus to the boy, Behold, the arrows are beyond thee, go thy way, for LORD has sent thee away.

⁶ And I said, O that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest. ⁷ Lo, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in the wilderness. Selah. ⁸ I would hasten myself to a shelter from the stormy wind and tempest. ⁹ Destroy, O Lord, divide their tongue, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

⁴ Do not give sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids. ⁵ Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

¹⁶ then let those in Judea flee to the mountains. ¹⁷ Let the man on the housetop not go down to take things from his house. ¹⁸ And let the man in the field not return back to take his clothes.

¹⁴ But when ye see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not (let him who reads understand), then let those in Judea flee to the mountains, ¹⁵ and let the man on the housetop not go down into the house, nor enter in to take anything out of his house, ¹⁶ and let the man who is in the field not turn back for the things behind, to take his cloak.

³¹ In that day, he who will be on the housetop, and his vessels in the house, let him not go down to take them up. And let him who is in the field likewise not return for the things behind. ³² Remember Lot's wife.

¹¹ And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

¹³ And it came to pass, when Laban heard the news of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.

²⁸ And they said, Thy servant our father is well; he is yet alive. And they bowed the head, and made obeisance.

¹⁵ And he kissed all his brothers, and wept upon them. And after that his brothers talked with him.

¹ Then Samuel took the vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not that LORD has anointed thee to be prince over his inheritance?

²³ And when Abigail saw David, she hastened, and alighted from her donkey, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground.

⁶ And Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, and fell on his face, and did obeisance. And David said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold, thy servant!

³⁹ And all the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over. And the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him, and he returned to his own place.

³⁷ And there developed considerable weeping of all. And having fallen on Paul's neck, they kissed him much,

²⁶ LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

¹⁷ Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant thy petition that thou have asked of him.

¹⁵ but also thou shall not cut off thy kindness from my house forever. No, not when LORD has cut off the enemies of David every one from the face of the earth.

²² But if I say thus to the boy, Behold, the arrows are beyond thee, go thy way, for LORD has sent thee away. ²³ And concerning the matter which thou and I have spoken of, behold, LORD is between thee and me forever.

⁵⁰ And he said to the woman, Thy faith has saved thee. Go in peace.

³⁶ And the jailor reported these words to Paul: The magistrates have sent out so that ye may be released. Now therefore after coming out, go in peace.