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20 And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? And what sin have I committed before your father, that he seeks my life?”
2 And he said to him, “May it never be! You shall not die. Behold, my father will do nothing great or small before he tells it to me. And why should my father hide this thing from me? He will not do it.”
3 And David swore again and said, “Your father knows that I have found grace in your eyes. Therefore, he thinks, ‘Jonathan shall not know it, lest he is grieved.’ But indeed, as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death!”
4 Then Jonathan said to David, “Whatever your soul requires, that I will do to you.”
5 And David said to Jonathan, “Behold, tomorrow is the first day of the month, and I should sit with the king to eat. But let me go, so that I may hide myself in the fields until the third day at evening.
6 “If your father mentions me, then say, ‘David asked leave of me, so that he might go to Bethlehem, to his own city.’ For there is a yearly sacrifice for that whole family.’
7 “And if he says this: ‘It is well,’ your servant shall have peace. But if he is angry, be sure that wickedness is his conclusion.
8 “So shall you show mercy to your servant. For you have brought your servant into a Covenant of the LORD with you. And if there is iniquity in me, kill me yourself. For why should you bring me to your father?”
9 And Jonathan answered, “God keep you from that! For if I knew that my father had intended to bring wickedness upon you, would I not tell you?”
10 Then David said to Jonathan, “Who shall tell me? How shall I know if your father answers you roughly?”
11 And Jonathan said to David, “Come and let us go out into the field.” And they both went out into the field.
12 Then Jonathan said to David, “O LORD God of Israel, when I have searched my father’s mind tomorrow at this time, within these three days, and if it is well with David, and I then do not send to you and tell you,
13 “the LORD do so and much more to Jonathan! But, if my father has a mind to do you evil, I will also tell you and send you away, so that you may go in peace. and the LORD is with you as He has been with my father.
14 “Likewise, not only you will show me the mercy of the LORD while I live, so that I do not die,
15 “but you will never cut off your mercy from my house ever, not even when the LORD has destroyed the enemies of David, each one from the Earth.”
16 So, Jonathan made a bond with the House of David, saying, “Let the LORD require it at the hands of David’s enemies.”
17 And again, Jonathan swore to David, because he loved him (for he loved him as his own soul).
18 Then Jonathan said to him, “Tomorrow is the first day of the month. And you shall be missed, for your place shall be empty.
19 “Therefore you shall hide yourself for three days. Then, you shall go down quickly and come to the place where you hid yourself when this matter occurred and remain by the stone Ezel.
20 “And I will shoot three arrows to its side, as though I shot at a mark.
21 “And afterward, I will send a boy, saying, ‘Go! Seek the arrows!’ If I say to the boy, ‘See, the arrows are on this side of you. Bring them and come.’ It is well with you and there is no danger, as the LORD lives.
22 “But if I say this to the boy: ‘Behold, the arrows are beyond you,’ go your way. For the LORD has sent you away.
23 “As for the thing which you and I have spoken of, behold, the LORD is between you and me forever.”
24 So David hid himself in the field. And when the first day of the month came, the king sat to eat food.
25 And the king sat, as at other times upon his seat, upon his seat by the wall. And Jonathan arose and Abner sat by Saul’s side. But David’s place was empty.
26 And Saul said nothing that day. For he thought, “Something has befallen him. He is not clean. Surely, he was not purified.”
27 But the next day, which was the second day of the month, David’s place was empty again. And Saul said to Jonathan, his son, “Why does not the son of Jesse come to eat, neither yesterday nor today?”
28 And Jonathan answered Saul, “David earnestly asked permission of me to go to Bethlehem.
29 “For he said, ‘Please let me go. For our family offers a Sacrifice in the city and my brother has sent for me. Therefore, now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go and see my brethren.’ This is why he has not come to the king’s table.”
30 Then Saul was angry with Jonathan, and said to him, “You son of the wicked rebellious woman! Do not I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse, to your shame and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?
31 “For as long as the son of Jesse lives upon the Earth, you shall not be established, nor your kingdom! Therefore, send now and fetch him to me! For he shall surely die!”
32 And Jonathan answered Saul, his father, and said to him, “Why shall he die? What has he done?”
33 And Saul cast a spear at him, to hit him, by which Jonathan knew that his father had determined to kill David.
34 So, Jonathan arose from the table in great anger, and ate no food on the second day of the month; for he was sorry for David because his father had humiliated him.
35 The next morning, therefore, Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David. And a little boy went with him.
36 And he said to his boy, “Run now! Seek the arrows which I shoot!” And as the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
37 And when the boy had come to the place where the arrow was that Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the boy, and said, “Is not the arrow beyond you?”
38 And Jonathan cried after the boy, “Hurry! Make haste! Do not stand still!” And Jonathan’s boy gathered up the arrows and came to his master.
39 But the boy knew nothing. Only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
40 Then, Jonathan gave his bow and arrows to the boy who was with him, and said to him, “Go. Carry them into the city.”
41 As soon as the boy was gone, David arose out of a place that was toward the South and fell on his face to the ground and bowed himself three times. And they kissed one another, and they both wept. But David more so.
42 Therefore, Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace. That which we have sworn, both of us, in the Name of the LORD, saying, ‘The LORD be between me and you, and between my seed and between your seed,’ let it stand forever.”
43 And he arose and departed. And Jonathan went into the city.
21 Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the Priest. And Ahimelech was afraid upon meeting David, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no man with you?”
2 And David said to Ahimelech the Priest, “The king has commanded me a certain thing, and has said to me, ‘Let no man know where I send you, and what I have commanded you, and that I have appointed my servants to such and such places.’
3 “Now, therefore, if you have anything on hand, give me five cakes of bread or whatever there is present.”
4 And the Priest answered David, and said, “There is no common bread on hand, but here is hallowed bread, if the young men have kept themselves, at least from women.”
5 David then answered the Priest, and said to him, “Certainly women have been separated from us for these two or three days since I came out. And the vessels of the young men were holy, though the road was profane. And how much more, then, shall the vessel be sanctified this day?”
6 So the Priest gave him hallowed bread. For there was no bread there, except the showbread that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread there on the day that it was taken away.
7 And there was on the same day, one of the servants of Saul, abiding before the LORD, named Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul’s herdsmen.
8 And David said to Ahimelech, “Is there not here under your hand a spear or a sword? For I have neither brought my sword nor my harness with me, because the king’s business required haste.”
9 And the Priest said, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, behold, it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you will take that for yourself, take it. For there is nothing else except that here.” And David said, “There is nothing like it. Give it to me.”
10 And David arose and fled the same day from the presence of Saul and went to Achish, the king of Gath.
11 And the servants of Achish said to him, “Is not this David, the king of the land? Did they not sing to him in dances, saying, ‘Saul has killed his thousand, and David his ten thousand?’”
12 And David considered these words and was very afraid of Achish, the king of Gath.
13 And he changed his behavior before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scratched on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
14 Then Achish said to his servants, “Lo, you see the man is beside himself. Why have you brought him to me?
15 “Have I need of mad men, that you have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? Shall he come into my house?”
9 And as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from his birth.
2 And His disciples asked Him, saying, “Master, who sinned - this man, or his parents - that he was born blind?”
3 Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents have sinned. But this is so that the works of God would be shown in him.
4 “I must work the works of the One who sent Me, while it is day. The night comes, when no one can work.
5 “As long as I am in the world, I am the Light of the world.”
6 As soon as He had thus spoken, He spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and anointed the eyes of the blind with the clay.
7 And He said to him, “Go. Wash in the pool of Siloam (which is by interpretation, Sent).” Therefore, he went and washed, and came back seeing.
8 Now, the neighbors, and those who had seen him before, when he was blind, said, “Is not this he who sat and begged?”
9 Some said, “This is he.” And others said, “He is like him.” But he himself said, “I am he!”
10 Therefore they said to him, “How were your eyes opened?”
11 He answered, and said, “The Man who is called ‘Jesus’ made clay and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash’. So, I went and washed, and received sight.”
12 Then they said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I cannot tell.”
13 They brought him who was once blind to the Pharisees.
14 And it was the Sabbath when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes.
15 Then, again, the Pharisees also asked him how he had received sight. And he said to them, “He laid clay upon my eyes. And I washed. And now I see.”
16 Then some of the Pharisees said, “This Man is not of God, because He does not keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a Man who is a sinner do such miracles?” And there was a dissension among them.
17 Then they spoke to the blind again, “What do you say about Him, since He has opened your eyes?” And he said, “He is a Prophet.”
18 Then the Jews did not believe him (that he had been blind and received his sight) until they had called the parents of him who had received sight.
19 And they asked them, saying, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How, then, does he now see?”
20 His parents answered them, and said, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind.
21 “But by what means he now sees we do not know. Or, who has opened his eyes we cannot tell. He is old enough. Ask him. He shall answer for himself.”
22 His parents spoke these words because they feared the Jews. For the Jews had already ordained that if anyone confessed that he was Christ, he would be expelled from the synagogue.
23 That is why his parents said, ‘He is old enough. Ask him.’
24 Then again they called the man who had been blind, and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this Man is a sinner.”
25 Then he answered, and said, “Whether He is a sinner or not, I cannot tell. One thing I know: that I was blind, and now I see!”
26 Then they said to him again, “What did He do to you? How did He open your eyes?”
27 He answered them, “I have told you already, and you have not heard it. Why would you hear it again? Do you also wish to be His disciples?
28 Then they reviled him, and said, “You be His disciple! We will be Moses’ disciples!
29 “We know that God spoke with Moses. But we do not know from where this Man is.”
30 The man answered, and said to them, “Doubtless, this is a wondrous thing; that you do not know from where He is, and yet He has opened my eyes.
31 “Now we know that God does not hear sinners. But if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does His will, He does hear him.
32 “Since the world began it has been unheard of for anyone to open the eyes of one born blind.
33 “If this Man were not of God, He could have done nothing.”
34 They answered, and said to him, “You were born entirely in sin, and do you teach us!?” So, they cast him out.
35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out. And when He had found him, He said to him, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”
36 He answered, and said, “Who is He, Lord, that I might believe in Him?”
37 And Jesus said to him, “You have both seen Him, and it is He who is talking with you.”
38 Then he said, “Lord, I believe!” and worshiped Him.
39 And Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see, might see; and that those who see, might be made blind.”
40 And some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these things, and said to Him, “Are we blind also?”
41 Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin. But now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore, your sin remains.
113 Praise, O you servants of the LORD! Praise the Name of the LORD!
2 Blessed be the Name of the LORD from henceforth and forever!
3 The LORD’s Name is praised from the rising of the Sun to the going down of the same.
4 The LORD is high above all nations, His Glory above the heavens.
5 Who is like the LORD our God, Who has His dwelling on High;
6 Who abases Himself to behold things in the heavens and on the Earth?
7 He raises the needy out of the dust, lifts up the poor out of the dung,
8 so that He may set him with the princes, even with the princes of His people.
9 He makes the barren woman dwell with a family, a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD!
114 When Israel went out of Egypt, and the House of Jacob from the barbarous people,
2 Judah was His sanctification, and Israel His dominion.
3 The sea saw it and fled. Jordan was turned back.
4 The mountains leaped like rams, and the hills as lambs!
5 What ailed you, O sea, that you fled? O Jordan, why were you turned back?
6 You mountains, why did you leap like rams, and you hills as lambs?
7 The Earth trembled at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
8 Who turns the rock into standing water, and the flint into a fountain of water.
15 All the days of the afflicted are evil. But a good conscience is a continual feast.
16 Better is a little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.
17 Better is a dinner of green herbs where there is love, than a fatted ox and hatred therewith.
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