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
Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah and came and said to Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks to take my life?”
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 said to David, “Far from it; you will not die. My father does nothing either great or small without telling it to me. Why should my father hide this thing from me? It is not so.”
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
Yet David vowed again and said, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes. He has said, 'Do not let Jonathan know this, or he will be grieved.' But as truly as Yahweh lives, and as you live, there is but a step between me and death.”
4 and to say Jonathan to(wards) David what? to say soul: myself your and to make: do to/for you
Then Jonathan said to David, “Whatever you say, I will do for you.”
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 said to Jonathan, “Tomorrow is the new moon, and I ought to sit down to eat with the king. But let me go, so that I may hide myself in the field until the third day at evening.
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 misses me at all, then say, 'David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city; because it is the yearly sacrifice there for all the clan.'
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, 'It is well,' your servant will have peace. But if he is very angry, then know that he has decided on evil.
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
Therefore deal kindly with your servant. For you have brought your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you. But if there is sin in me, kill me yourself; for why then should you bring me to your father?”
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 said, “Far be it from you! If I learned my father decided harm to come upon you, would I not tell you?”
10 and to say David to(wards) Jonathan who? to tell to/for me or what? to answer you father your severe
Then David said to Jonathan, “Who will tell me if by chance your father should answer you roughly?”
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 said to David, “Come, let us go out into the field.” So they both went 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
Jonathan said to David, “May Yahweh, the God of Israel, be witness. When I have questioned my father around this time tomorrow, or the third day, see, if there is good will toward David, will I not then send to you and make it known to you?
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
If it pleases my father to do you harm, may Yahweh do to Jonathan and more also if I do not make it known to you and send you away, so that you may go in peace. May Yahweh be with you, as he has been with my father.
14 and not if still I alive and not to make: do with me me kindness LORD and not to die
If I am still alive, will you not show me the covenant faithfulness of Yahweh, that I may not 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
Do not cut off your covenant faithfulness from my house forever—not even when Yahweh cuts off every one of the enemies of David from the face of the earth.”
16 and to cut: make(covenant) Jonathan with house: household David and to seek LORD from hand: to enemy David
So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David and said, “May Yahweh require an accounting from the hand of the enemies of David.”
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 vow again because of the love that he had for him, because he loved him as he loved his own soul.
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 him, “Tomorrow is the new moon. You will be missed because your seat 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
When you have stayed three days, go down quickly and come to the place where you hid yourself when the business was in hand, and stay by the stone Ezel.
20 and I three [the] arrow side [to] to shoot to/for to send: depart to/for me to/for guardhouse
I will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as though 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 will send my young man and say to him, 'Go find the arrows.' If I say to the young boy, 'Look, the arrows are on this side of you; get them,” then come; for there will be safety for you and not harm, as Yahweh lives.
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 say to the young man, 'Look, the arrows are beyond you,' then go your way, for Yahweh has sent you 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 the agreement of which you and I have spoken, see, Yahweh is 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) *Q(K)*) [the] food to/for to eat
So David hid himself in the field. When the new moon came, the king sat down to eat food.
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
The king sat on his seat, as usual, on the seat by the wall. Jonathan stood up, and Abner sat by Saul's side. 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
Yet Saul did not say anything that day, because he thought, “Something has happened to him. He is not clean; surely he is not clean.”
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 on the second day, the day after the new moon, David's place was empty. Saul said to Jonathan his son, “Why has the son of Jesse not come to the meal 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 Saul, “David earnestly asked permission from me 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 let me go. For our family has a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has ordered me to be there. Now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go and see my brothers.' For this reason he has not come to 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
Then Saul's anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse, rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother's nakedness?
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
For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, neither you nor your kingdom will be established. Now then, send and bring him to me, for he must surely 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
Jonathan answered Saul his father, “For what reason should he be put to death? 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
Then Saul threw his spear at him to kill him. So Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.
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 got up from the table in fierce anger and ate no food the second day of the month, for he was grieved over David, because his father had dishonored him.
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 out into the field to the appointment with David, and a young man 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 said to his young man, “Run and find the arrows that I shoot.” As the young man ran, he shot an arrow beyond 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 young man came to the place where the arrow that Jonathan shot had landed, Jonathan called after the young man, and said, “Is not the arrow beyond 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 *Q(K)*) and to come (in): come to(wards) lord his
Then Jonathan called after the young man, “Hurry, be quick, do not stay!” So Jonathan's young man gathered up the arrows and came to his master.
39 and [the] youth not to know anything surely Jonathan and David to know [obj] [the] word: thing
But the young man did not know anything. Only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
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 weapons to his young man and said to him, “Go, take them to the city.”
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
As soon as the young man was gone, David stood up from behind the mound, lay facedown on the ground, and bowed himself three times. They kissed one another and wept together, with David weeping the more.
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, because we have both sworn in the name of Yahweh and said, 'May Yahweh be between you and me, and between my descendants and your descendants, forever.'” Then David stood up and left, and Jonathan returned to the city.
