1 Samuel 20
1 and to flee David (from Naioth *Qk) in/on/with Ramah and to come (in): come and to say to/for face: before Jonathan what? to make: do what? iniquity: guilt my and what? sin my to/for face: before father your for to seek [obj] soul: life my
David ran from Naioth in Ramah to Jonathan and asked him, “What have I done? What is my wrong have I done? What terrible thing have I done to your father that he wants to kill me?”
2 and to say to/for him forbid not to die behold (not to make: do *QK) father my word: thing great: large or word: thing small and not to reveal: reveal [obj] ear: to ears my and why? to hide father my from me [obj] [the] word: thing [the] this nothing this
“Nothing!” Jonathan replied. “You're not going to die! Listen! My father tells me everything he's planning, whatever it is. Why would my father keep something like this from me? It's not true!”
3 and to swear still David and to say to know to know father your for to find favor in/on/with eye: appearance your and to say not to know this Jonathan lest to hurt and but alive LORD and alive soul your for like/as step between me and between [the] death
But David swore an oath again, saying, “Your father knows very well that I'm your friend, and so he's told himself, ‘Jonathan can't find out about this, otherwise he'll be really upset.’ I swear on the life of the Lord, and on your own life, my life is hanging by a thread.”
4 and to say Jonathan to(wards) David what? to say soul: myself your and to make: do to/for you
“Tell me what you want me to do for you and I'll do it,” Jonathan told David.
5 and to say David to(wards) Jonathan behold month: new moon tomorrow and I to dwell to dwell with [the] king to/for to eat and to send: let go me and to hide in/on/with land: country till [the] evening [the] third
“Well, the New Moon festival is tomorrow, and I'm meant to sit down and eat with the king. But if it's alright with you, I plan to go and hide in the field until the evening three days from now.
6 if to reckon: missing to reckon: missing me father your and to say to ask to ask from me David to/for to run: run Bethlehem Bethlehem city his for sacrifice [the] day: year there to/for all [the] family
If your father does indeed miss me, tell him, ‘David had to urgently ask my permission to hurry down to Bethlehem, his hometown, because of a yearly sacrifice there for his whole family group.’
7 if thus to say pleasant peace: well-being to/for servant/slave your and if to be incensed to be incensed to/for him to know for to end: decides [the] distress: harm from from with him
If he says, ‘That's fine,’ then there's no problem for me, your servant, but if he gets mad, you'll know he intends to do me harm.
8 and to make: do kindness upon servant/slave your for in/on/with covenant LORD to come (in): bring [obj] servant/slave your with you and if there in/on/with me iniquity: guilt to die me you(m. s.) and till father your to/for what? this to come (in): bring me
So please treat me well, as you promised when you made a agreement with me before the Lord. If I've done wrong, then kill me yourself! Why take me to your father for him to do it?”
9 and to say Jonathan forbid to/for you for if: except to know to know for to end: decides [the] distress: harm from from with father my to/for to come (in): come upon you and not [obj] her to tell to/for you
“Absolutely not!” Jonathan replied. “If I knew for certain that if my father had plans to harm you, don't you think I'd tell you?”
10 and to say David to(wards) Jonathan who? to tell to/for me or what? to answer you father your severe
“So who's going to let me know if your father gives you a nasty answer?” David asked.
11 and to say Jonathan to(wards) David to go: come! [emph?] and to come out: come [the] land: country and to come out: come two their [the] land: country
“Come on, let's go out into the countryside,” Jonathan said. So they both of them went out into the countryside.
12 and to say Jonathan to(wards) David LORD God Israel for to search [obj] father my like/as time tomorrow [the] third and behold pleasant to(wards) David and not then to send: depart to(wards) you and to reveal: reveal [obj] ear: to ears your
Jonathan said to David, “I promise by the Lord, the God of Israel, that I will question my father by this time tomorrow or the day after. If things look good for you, I'll send a message to you and let you know.
13 thus to make: do LORD to/for Jonathan and thus to add for be good to(wards) father my [obj] [the] distress: harm upon you and to reveal: reveal [obj] ear: to ears your and to send: depart you and to go: went to/for peace: well-being and to be LORD with you like/as as which to be with father my
But if my father plans to do you harm, then may the Lord punish me very severely, if I don't let you know by sending you a message so you can get away safely. May the Lord be with you, just as he was with my father.
14 and not if still I alive and not to make: do with me me kindness LORD and not to die
While I live, please show me trustworthy love like that of the Lord so I don't die,
15 and not to cut: eliminate [obj] kindness your from from with house: household my till forever: enduring and not in/on/with to cut: eliminate LORD [obj] enemy David man: anyone from upon face: surface [the] land: planet
and please don't ever remove your trustworthy love for my family, even when the Lord has removed every one of your enemies from the earth.”
16 and to cut: make(covenant) Jonathan with house: household David and to seek LORD from hand: to enemy David
Jonathan made a solemn agreement with the family of David, saying, “May the Lord impose retribution on David's enemies.”
17 and to add: again Jonathan to/for to swear [obj] David in/on/with love his [obj] him for love soul his to love: lover him
Jonathan made David swear this once more by making an oath based on David's love for him, for Jonathan already loved David as he loved himself.
18 and to say to/for him Jonathan tomorrow month: new moon and to reckon: missing for to reckon: missing seat your
Then Jonathan said to David, “The New Moon festival is tomorrow. You'll be missed, because your place will be empty.
19 and to do three to go down much and to come (in): towards to(wards) [the] place which to hide there in/on/with day [the] deed and to dwell beside [the] stone [the] Ezel
In three days time, go quickly to where you hid when all this started, and stay there beside the pile of stones.
20 and I three [the] arrow side [to] to shoot to/for to send: depart to/for me to/for guardhouse
I'll shoot three arrows to the side of it as if I were shooting at a target.
21 and behold to send: depart [obj] [the] youth to go: went to find [obj] [the] arrow if to say to say to/for youth behold [the] arrow from you and here/thus to take: take him and to come (in): come [emph?] for peace: well-being to/for you and nothing word: thing alive LORD
Then I'll send a boy and tell him, ‘Go and find the arrows!’ Now, if I say to him specifically, ‘Look, the arrows are this side of you; bring them over here,’ then I swear on the life of the Lord it's safe for you to come out—there's no danger.
22 and if thus to say to/for youth behold [the] arrow from you and further to go: went for to send: depart you LORD
But if I tell the boy, ‘Look, the arrows are way past you,’ then you'll have to leave, for the Lord wants you to go away.
23 and [the] word: thing which to speak: speak I and you(m. s.) behold LORD between me and between you till forever: enduring
As for what you and I talked about, remember that the Lord is a witness between you and me forever.”
24 and to hide David in/on/with land: country and to be [the] month: new moon and to dwell [the] king (to(wards) *QK) [the] food to/for to eat
So David hid himself in the field. When the New Moon festival arrived, the king sat down to eat.
25 and to dwell [the] king upon seat his like/as beat in/on/with beat to(wards) seat [the] wall and to arise: establish Jonathan and to dwell Abner from side Saul and to reckon: missing place David
He sat in his usual place by the wall opposite Jonathan. Abner sat next to Saul, but David's place was empty.
26 and not to speak: speak Saul anything in/on/with day [the] he/she/it for to say accident he/she/it lest pure he/she/it for not pure
Saul didn't say anything that day because he thought, “Something has probably happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean—yes, he must be unclean.”
27 and to be from morrow [the] month: new moon [the] second and to reckon: missing place David and to say Saul to(wards) Jonathan son: child his why? not to come (in): come son: child Jesse also yesterday also [the] day to(wards) [the] food
But the second day, the day after the New Moon, David's place was still empty. Saul asked his son Jonathan, “Why hasn't the son of Jesse come to dinner either yesterday or today?”
28 and to answer Jonathan [obj] Saul to ask to ask David from with me me till Bethlehem Bethlehem
Jonathan answered, “David had to urgently ask my permission to go to Bethlehem.
29 and to say to send: let go me please for sacrifice family to/for us in/on/with city and he/she/it to command to/for me brother: male-sibling my and now if to find favor in/on/with eye: appearance your to escape please and to see: see [obj] brother: male-sibling my upon so not to come (in): come to(wards) table [the] king
He told me, ‘Please let me go, because our family is having a sacrifice in the town and my brother told me I had to be there. If you think well of me, please let me go and see my brothers.’ That's why he's absent from the king's table.”
30 and to be incensed face: anger Saul in/on/with Jonathan and to say to/for him son: child to pervert [the] rebellious not to know for to choose you(m. s.) to/for son: child Jesse to/for shame your and to/for shame nakedness mother your
Saul got very angry with Jonathan and said, “You rebellious son of a whore! Don't you think I know that you prefer the son of Jesse? Shame on you! You're a disgrace to the mother who bore you!
31 for all [the] day which son: child Jesse to live upon [the] land: planet not to establish: establish you(m. s.) and royalty your and now to send: depart and to take: bring [obj] him to(wards) me for son: type of death he/she/it
While the son of Jesse remains alive, you and your kingship are not secure. Now go and bring him here to me, for he has to die!”
32 and to answer Jonathan [obj] Saul father his and to say to(wards) him to/for what? to die what? to make: do
“Why does he have to be put to death?” Jonathan asked. “What has he done?”
33 and to cast Saul [obj] [the] spear upon him to/for to smite him and to know Jonathan for to end: decides he/she/it from from with father his to/for to die [obj] David
Saul threw his spear at Jonathan, trying to kill him, so he knew that his father definitely wanted David dead.
34 and to arise: rise Jonathan from from with [the] table in/on/with burning face: anger and not to eat in/on/with day [the] month [the] second food for to hurt to(wards) David for be humiliated him father his
Jonathan left the table absolutely furious. He would not eat anything on the second day of the festival, for he was so upset by the shameful way his father had treated David.
35 and to be in/on/with morning and to come out: come Jonathan [the] land: country to/for meeting: time appointed David and youth small with him
In the morning Jonathan went to the field to the place he had agreed with David, and a young boy was with him.
36 and to say to/for youth his to run: run to find please [obj] [the] arrow which I to shoot [the] youth to run: run and he/she/it to shoot [the] arrow to/for to pass him
He told the boy, “Run and find the arrows that I shoot.” The boy started running and Jonathan shot an arrow past him.
37 and to come (in): come [the] youth till place [the] arrow which to shoot Jonathan and to call: call to Jonathan after [the] youth and to say not [the] arrow from you and further
When the boy got to the place where Jonathan's arrow had landed, Jonathan shouted to him, “Isn't the arrow farther past you?
38 and to call: call to Jonathan after [the] youth haste to hasten [emph?] not to stand: stand and to gather youth Jonathan [obj] ([the] arrow *QK) and to come (in): come to(wards) lord his
Hurry up! Do it quickly! Don't wait!” The boy picked up the arrows and took them back to his master.
39 and [the] youth not to know anything surely Jonathan and David to know [obj] [the] word: thing
The boy didn't suspect anything—only Jonathan and David knew what it meant.
40 and to give: give Jonathan [obj] article/utensil his to(wards) [the] youth which to/for him and to say to/for him to go: went to come (in): bring [the] city
Jonathan gave his bow and arrows to the boy and said, “Take these back to town.”
41 [the] youth to come (in): come and David to arise: rise from beside [the] south and to fall: fall to/for face his land: soil [to] and to bow three beat and to kiss man: anyone [obj] neighbor his and to weep man: anyone [obj] neighbor his till David to magnify
After the boy had gone, David got up from beside the pile of stones, fell facedown to the ground, and bowed three times. Then he and Jonathan kissed each other and cried together as friends, though David cried the hardest.
42 and to say Jonathan to/for David to go: went to/for peace which to swear two our we in/on/with name LORD to/for to say LORD to be between me and between you and between seed: children my and between seed: children your till forever: enduring and to arise: rise and to go: went and Jonathan to come (in): come [the] city
Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, for the two of us have sworn a solemn oath in the name of the Lord. We said, ‘The Lord will be a witness between me and you, and between my descendants and your descendants forever.’” Then David left, and Jonathan went back to town.
