June 18 – The Power of Words and Loyalty

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in Scripture and relevant
for today, June 18th.

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The power of words and loyalty.
Think about the most impactful

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words that have ever been spoken
to you.

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Maybe they were words of
encouragement from a teacher who

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saw something in you when you
couldn’t see it yourself.

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Maybe they were cruel words from
someone who should have known

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better, words that still echo
sometimes years later.

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Words carry extraordinary
weight.

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They shape how we see ourselves,
how we treat others, and what we

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believe is possible.
Proverbs chapter 18, verses 6

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and seven show the destructive
end of that spectrum.

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A fool’s lips walk into a fight,
and his mouth invites a beating.

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A fool’s mouth is his ruin, and
his lips are a snare to his

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life.
The fool doesn’t just get into

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trouble because of what happens
to them.

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They create their own trouble
through careless, harmful, or

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reckless words.
The mouth becomes a trap, but

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words can also be a lifeline.
In First Samuel chapter 20,

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verse 4, Jonathan says to David,
in one of the most powerful

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expressions of friendship in all
of Scripture, Whatever you say,

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I will do for you.
David was running for his life.

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He didn’t know who he could
trust.

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And Jonathan, who had everything
to lose by choosing his friend

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over his father, the king said
simply, I am with you.

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I’m all in whatever you need.
That’s loyalty.

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And Psalm 71 reminds us that
even as we age, as circumstances

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change, as strength fades, we
can cling to the one who never

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abandons us.
Verse 9 says, do not cast me off

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in the time of old age.
Forsake me.

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Not when my strength is spent.
God’s faithfulness isn’t

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seasonal.
It doesn’t run out.

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Whether you’re 14 or 44, He
holds you.

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Here’s the take away for today.
Be someone whose words build

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rather than break.
Be the person in your friend

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group who speaks life, who
defends rather than gossips, who

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shows up with loyalty when
things get hard.

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That kind of friendship is rare,
and it’s desperately needed.

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And when your own words fail or
people’s words hurt you, God’s

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words about you are the ones
that ultimately define you.

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Let’s pray.
Heavenly Father, thank you for

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the power of words and for the
gift of loyal friendship.

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Help us to speak with care, to
encourage the people around us,

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and to be the kind of friend who
shows up in adversity.

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And in the moments when words
have hurt us or we feel

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abandoned, remind us of your
faithfulness that you will never

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cast us off or forsake us in
Jesus name, Amen.

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meant to be rushed, feared, or

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walked alone?
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before you.

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Proverbs chapter 18 verses six
to seven World English Bible A

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fool’s lips come into strife,
and his mouth invites beatings.

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A fool’s mouth is his
destruction, and his lips are a

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snare to his soul.
Psalm Chapter 71 World English

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Bible In you, Yahweh, I take
refuge.

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Never let me be disappointed.
Deliver me in your righteousness

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and rescue me.
Turn your ear to me and save me.

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Be to me a rock of refuge to
which I may always go.

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Give the command to save me, for
You are my rock and my fortress.

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Rescue me, my God, from the hand
of the wicked, from the hand of

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the unrighteous and cruel man,
for you are my hope.

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Lord Yahweh, my confidence from
my youth I have relied on You

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from the womb.
You are He who took me out of my

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mother’s womb.
I will always praise You.

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I am a marvel to many, but you
are my strong refuge.

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My mouth shall be filled with
your praise, with your honor all

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day long.
Don’t reject me in my old age.

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Don’t forsake me when my
strength fails.

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For my enemies talk about me.
Those who watch for my soul

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conspire together, saying God
has forsaken him.

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Pursue and take him, for no one
will rescue him.

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God, don’t be far from me.
My God, hurry to help me.

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Let my accusers be disappointed
and consumed.

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Let them be covered with
disgrace and scorn who want to

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harm me.
But I will always hope and will

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add to all of your praise.
My mouth will tell about Your

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righteousness and of Your
salvation all day, though I

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don’t know its full measure.
I will come with the mighty acts

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of the Lord Yahweh.
I will make mention of Your

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righteousness, even of yours
alone.

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God, you have taught me from my
youth until now.

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I have declared Your wondrous
works, yes, even when I am old

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and Gray haired.
God, don’t forsake me until I

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have declared your strength to
the next generation.

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You’re might to everyone who is
to come.

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Your righteousness also God
reaches to the heavens.

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You have done great things.
God, who is like you, You who

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have shown us many and bitter
troubles, You will let me live.

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You will bring us up again from
the depths of the earth.

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Increase my honor and comfort me
again.

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I will also praise you with the
harp for your faithfulness.

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My God, I sing praises to you
with a liar, Holy One of Israel,

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My lips shall shout for joy.
My soul which you have redeemed,

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sings praises to you.
My tongue will also talk about

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your righteousness all day long.
For they are disappointed and

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they are confounded who want to
harm me.

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First Samuel chapter 20 World
English Bible David fled from

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Naoth in Rama and came and said
before Jonathan, What have I

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done?
What is my iniquity?

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What is my sin before your
father, that he seeks my life?

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He said to him, far from it, you
will not die.

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Behold, my father does nothing
either great or small, but that

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he discloses it to me.
Why would my father hide this

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thing from me?
It is not so.

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David swore moreover, and said,
Your father knows well that I

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have found favor in your eyes,
and he says, don’t let Jonathan

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know this, lest he be grieved.
But truly, as Yahweh lives and

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as your soul lives, there is but
a step between me and death.

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Then Jonathan said to David,
Whatever your soul desires, I

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will even do it for you.
David said to Jonathan, Behold,

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tomorrow is the new moon, and I
should not fail to dine with the

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king, but let me go, that I may
hide myself in the field to the

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third day at evening.
If your father misses me at all,

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then say David earnestly asked
leave of me, that he might run

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to Bethlehem, his city, for it
is the yearly sacrifice there

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for all the family.
If he says it is well, your

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servant shall have peace.
But if he is angry, then know

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that evil is determined by him.
Therefore deal kindly with your

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servant, for you have brought
your servant into a covenant of

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Yahweh with you.
But if there is iniquity in me,

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kill me yourself, for why should
you bring me to your father?

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Jonathan said.
Far be it from you, for if I

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should at all know that evil
were determined by my father to

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come on you, then wouldn’t I
tell you that?

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Then David said to Jonathan.
Who will tell me if your father

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answers you roughly?
Jonathan said to David.

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Come, let’s go out into the
field.

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They both went out into the
field.

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Jonathan said to David by Yahweh
the God of Israel, when I have

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sounded my father about this
time tomorrow or the third day,

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behold, if there is good toward
David, won’t I then send to you

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and disclose it to you?
Yahweh?

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Do so to Jonathan, and more also
should it please my Father to do

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you evil, if I don’t disclose it
to you and send you away, that

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you may go in peace.
May Yahweh be with you as He has

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been with my Father.
You shall not only show me the

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loving kindness of Yahweh while
I still live that I not die, but

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you shall also not cut off your
kindness from my house forever.

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No, not when Yahweh has cut off
every one of the enemies of

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David from the surface of the
earth.

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So Jonathan made a covenant with
David’s house, saying Yahweh

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will require it at the hand of
David’s enemies.

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Jonathan caused David to swear
again for the love that he had

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to him, for he loved him as he
loved his own soul.

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Then Jonathan said to him,
Tomorrow is the new moon and you

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will be missed because your seat
will be empty.

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When you have stayed three days,
go down quickly and come to the

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place where you hid yourself
when this started and remain by

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the stone Ozil I will shoot 3
arrows on its side as though I

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shot at a mark.
Behold I will send the boy

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saying go find the arrows.
If I tell the boy, behold, the

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arrows are on the side of you,
take them, then come, for there

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is peace to you and no danger as
Yahweh lives.

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But if I say this to the boy,
behold, the arrows are beyond

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you, then go your way, for
Yahweh has sent you away.

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Concerning the matter which you
and I have spoken of.

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Behold, Yahweh is between you
and me forever.

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So David hid himself in the
field.

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When the new moon had come, the
king sat himself down to eat

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food.
The king sat on his seat, as at

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other times, even on the seat by
the wall, and Jonathan stood up,

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and Abner sat by Saul’s side.
But David’s place was empty.

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Nevertheless, Saul didn’t say
anything that day, for he

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thought, something has happened
to him.

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He is not clean.
Surely he is not clean on the

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next day after the new moon, The
second day, David’s place was

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empty.
Saul said to Jonathan, his son,

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Why doesn’t the son of Jesse
come to eat either yesterday or

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today?
Jonathan answered Saul.

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David earnestly asked permission
of me to go to Bethlehem.

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He said, please let me go, for
our family has a sacrifice in

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the city.
My brother has commanded me to

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be there.
Now, if I have found favor in

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your eyes, please let me go away
and see my brothers.

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Therefore he has not come to the
King’s table.

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Then Saul’s anger burned against
Jonathan, and he said to him,

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You son of a perverse rebellious
woman, don’t I know that you

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have chosen the son of Jesse to
your own shame, and to the shame

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of your mother’s nakedness?
For as long as the son of Jesse

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lives on the earth you will not
be established, nor will your

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Kingdom.
Therefore now send and bring him

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to me, for he shall surely die.
Jonathan answered Saul his

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father, and said to him, Why
should he be put to death?

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What has he done?
Saul cast his spear at him to

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strike him.
By this Jonathan knew that his

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father was determined to put
David to death.

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So Jonathan arose from the table
in fierce anger, and ate no food

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the second day of the month, for
he was grieved for David because

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his father had treated him
shamefully.

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In the morning Jonathan went out
into the field at the time

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appointed with David and a
little boy with him.

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He said to his boy, Run, Find
now the arrows which I shoot.

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As the boy ran, he shot an arrow
beyond him.

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When the boy had come to the
place of the arrow which

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Jonathan had shot, Jonathan
cried after the boy and said,

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Isn’t the arrow beyond you?
Jonathan cried after the boy.

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Go fast, hurry, don’t delay.
Jonathan’s boy gathered up the

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arrows and came to his master.
But the boy didn’t know

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anything, only Jonathan and
David knew the matter.

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Jonathan gave his weapons to his
boy and said to him, Go carry

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them to the city.
As soon as the boy was gone,

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David arose out of the South and
fell on his face to the ground

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and bowed himself three times.
They kissed one another and wept

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one with another, and David wept
the most.

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Jonathan said to David, Go in
peace, because we have both

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sworn in Yahweh’s name, saying,
Yahweh is between me and you,

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and between my offspring and
your offspring forever.

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He arose and departed, and
Jonathan went into the city.

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