1 Samuel 20
1 and to flee David (from Naioth *Q(k)*) 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 away from [the] Naioth [section] of Ramah [city]. He went to Jonathan and asked him, “What have I done [to displease your father]? What did I do that was wrong? Why is he trying to kill me?”
2 and to say to/for him forbid not to die behold (not to make: do *Q(K)*) 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
Jonathan replied, “My father is surely not trying to kill you! He always tells me before he does anything that he is planning. He tells me about important things and unimportant things that he plans to do. (Why would he refuse to tell me [if he were planning to kill me]?/I am sure that he would not refuse to tell me [if he were planning to kill you].) [RHQ] So what you are saying cannot be 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
Then David solemnly declared this to Jonathan: “Your father knows very well that you and I are very good friends, so he says to himself, ‘I will not tell Jonathan [what I am going to do]. If I tell Jonathan, he will be upset/distressed, [and then he will tell David].’ But just as certain as Yahweh lives and you live, I am only one step away from being killed.”
4 and to say Jonathan to(wards) David what? to say soul: myself your and to make: do to/for you
Jonathan said to David, “I will do whatever you tell me to do.”
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
David replied, “Tomorrow we will celebrate the Festival of the New Moon. I always eat with the king at that festival. But tomorrow I will hide in the field, and I will stay there for one night. I will stay there until the evening of the day after tomorrow.
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 asks why I am not there at the festival, say to him, ‘David requested me to allow him to go to his home in Bethlehem, where his family will offer the sacrifice that they offer [during this festival] every year.’
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 your father says ‘That is okay’, then I know I will be safe. But if he becomes extremely angry, you will know that he is determined to harm me.
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
Please be kind to me. Yahweh heard you when you made a solemn agreement with me [that you and I will always be loyal friends]. If I deserve to be punished [MTY], kill me yourself. I do not want [RHQ] you to allow your father to punish [IDM] me.”
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
Jonathan replied, “I will never do that! But if I find out that my father is determined to harm/kill you, I will certainly warn you.” [RHQ]
10 and to say David to(wards) Jonathan who? to tell to/for me or what? to answer you father your severe
David asked him, “How will I find out if your father answers you harshly?”
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
Jonathan replied, “Come with me. We will go out into the field.” So they went together out into the field.
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
There Jonathan said to David, “I promise this while Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis [worship], is listening: At this time the day after tomorrow, I will find out what my father [is thinking about you]. If he is saying good things about you, I will certainly send a message to you to tell that to you [RHQ].
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 he is planning to hurt/kill you, I will enable you to know [IDM] that, and enable you to go away safely. I desire that Yahweh will punish me severely if I do not do that [for you]. I desire/hope that Yahweh will be with you [and help you] like he has helped my father.
14 and not if still I alive and not to make: do with me me kindness LORD and not to die
But while I am still alive, please be kind to me in the same way that Yahweh is kind to me, and do not kill me [when you become king].
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
But [if I die, ] never stop being kind to my family, [even] after Yahweh has gotten rid of all your enemies all over the earth.”
16 and to cut: make(covenant) Jonathan with house: household David and to seek LORD from hand: to enemy David
[David agreed]. So Jonathan made a solemn agreement with David. And he said, “I hope/desire that Yahweh will get rid of all your 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
And Jonathan requested David to repeat his solemn promise to be his close friend, because Jonathan loved David as much 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, “Tomorrow we will celebrate the Festival of the New Moon. When you are not sitting at your place when we eat, my father will (miss you/see that you are not there).
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
The day after tomorrow, in the evening, go to the place where you hid before. Wait by 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 will come out and shoot three arrows as though I were trying to shoot at a target. [The arrows will hit the ground] close to the pile of stones.
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 will send a boy to bring the arrows back to me. If you hear me say to him, ‘They are closer to me’, then as surely as Yahweh lives, you will know that everything is fine, [and that Saul will not kill you].
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 him, ‘The arrows are farther away’, you will know that you must leave immediately, because Yahweh wants you to run 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
I hope/desire that Yahweh will watch you and me and enable us to never forget what we have promised each other.”
24 and to hide David in/on/with land: country and to be [the] month: new moon and to dwell [the] king (to(wards) *Q(K)*) [the] food to/for to eat
So David went and hid in the field. When the Festival of the New Moon started, 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 where he usually sat, close to the wall. Jonathan sat across from him, and Abner [the army commander] sat next to Saul. But no one was sitting in the place where David [usually sat].
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
On that day, Saul did not say anything about David, because he was thinking, “Something must have happened that caused David to become unacceptable [to worship God].”
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 next day, when David was not sitting at the place where he usually sat, Saul asked Jonathan, “Why has that son of Jesse not been here to eat with us yesterday and today?”
28 and to answer Jonathan [obj] Saul to ask to ask David from with me me till Bethlehem Bethlehem
Jonathan replied, “David earnestly requested me that I permit him 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 said, ‘Please allow me to go, because our family is going to offer a sacrifice. My [older] brother insisted that I be there. So please allow me to go to be with my [older] brothers.’ [I allowed David to go], and that is the reason that he is not here eating with you.”
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 was (furious/very angry) with Jonathan. He yelled at him, “You stupid bastard [EUP]! I know that you are being loyal to that son of Jesse. By doing that, you will bring shame to yourself and to your mother.
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
As long as Jesse’s son is living, you will never become the king, and you will never rule over a kingdom! So now, summon David, and bring him to me. He must be executed!”
32 and to answer Jonathan [obj] Saul father his and to say to(wards) him to/for what? to die what? to make: do
Jonathan asked his father, “Why should David be executed? What wrong 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
Then Saul threw his spear at Jonathan in order to kill him, [but the spear did not hit him]. So Jonathan knew that his father really wanted to kill David.
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 was very angry, and he left the room. On that second day of the festival, he refused to eat anything. He was disgusted about what his father had done, and he was worried about 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
The following morning Jonathan went out to the field to give a message to David, like he had agreed that he would do. He took a young boy 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
Jonathan said to the boy, “Run and find the arrows that I shoot.” The boy started running, and Jonathan shot an arrow ahead of the boy.
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 ran to the place where the arrow hit the ground, Jonathan called out, “The arrow is further away!” [RHQ]
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 *Q(K)*) and to come (in): come to(wards) lord his
Then he shouted to the boy, “Act quickly; do not wait! Do not stop!” The boy picked up the arrow and brought it back to Jonathan.
39 and [the] youth not to know anything surely Jonathan and David to know [obj] [the] word: thing
But the boy did not understand the meaning of what Jonathan had said; only Jonathan and David knew.
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
Then Jonathan gave his bow and arrows to the boy and told him, “Go back to the 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
When the boy left, David came out from the south side of the pile of stones behind which he had been hiding. He went to Jonathan and bowed [in front of Jonathan] three times, with his face touching the ground. Then David and Jonathan kissed each other [on the cheek/neck], and they cried together. But David cried more than Jonathan.
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, “May things go well for you as you go. Yahweh has heard what we solemnly promised to always do for each other, and what we said that our descendants must do for each other.” Then David left, and Jonathan went back to the town.
