English Bible Presentation Sharing - 1-Samuel Book, chapter 20, verse 1 in Mkjv Version

1 Samuel 20 : 1 (MKJV)

And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? What is my iniquity, and what my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?

1 Samuel 20 : 2 (MKJV)

And he said to him, Far be it. You shall not die! Behold, my father will do nothing either great or small that he will not show to me. And why should my father hide this thing from me? It is not so.

1 Samuel 20 : 3 (MKJV)

And David swore again and said, Your father certainly knows that I have found grace in your eyes. And he said, Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he be full of sorrow. But truly as Jehovah lives, and as your soul lives, only a step is between me and death.

1 Samuel 20 : 4 (MKJV)

And Jonathan said to David, Whatever your soul desires, I will even do for you.

1 Samuel 20 : 5 (MKJV)

And David said to Jonathan, Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit at table with the king. But let me go so that I may hide myself in the field until the third day at evening.

1 Samuel 20 : 6 (MKJV)

If your father misses me at all, then say, David earnestly asked me that he might run to his city Bethlehem. For there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.

1 Samuel 20 : 7 (MKJV)

If he says so, It is well, peace will be to your servant, but if he is very angry, be sure that evil is determined by him.

1 Samuel 20 : 8 (MKJV)

And you shall deal kindly with your servant, for you have brought your servant into a covenant of Jehovah with you. But if there is any iniquity in me, kill me yourself. For why should you bring me to your father?

1 Samuel 20 : 9 (MKJV)

And Jonathan said, Far be it from you. For if I knew certainly that evil was determined by my father to come on you, then would I not tell you?

1 Samuel 20 : 10 (MKJV)

Then David said to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? Or what if your father answers you roughly?

1 Samuel 20 : 11 (MKJV)

And Jonathan said to David, Come, and let us go into the field. And both of them went out into the field.

1 Samuel 20 : 12 (MKJV)

And Jonathan said to David, By Jehovah, the God of Israel, when I search my father about this time tomorrow or the third day, behold, if there is good toward David, then shall I not send to you and reveal it in your ear?

1 Samuel 20 : 13 (MKJV)

So may Jehovah do to Jonathan and more if it seem good to my father to do you evil, then I will reveal it in your ear and send you away, and you may go in peace. And may Jehovah be with you, as He was with my father.

1 Samuel 20 : 14 (MKJV)

And you shall not only show me the kindness of Jehovah while I still live, so that I do not die,

1 Samuel 20 : 15 (MKJV)

but you shall not cut off your kindness from my house forever, no, not when Jehovah has cut off the enemies of David, every one, from the face of the earth.

1 Samuel 20 : 16 (MKJV)

So Jonathan covenanted with the house of David, saying, Let Jehovah even require it at the hand of David's enemies.

1 Samuel 20 : 17 (MKJV)

And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him. For he loved him as he loved his own soul.

1 Samuel 20 : 18 (MKJV)

And Jonathan said to David, Tomorrow is the new moon. And you shall be missed, because your seat will be empty.

1 Samuel 20 : 19 (MKJV)

And on the third day you shall quickly come down and shall come there to the place where you were hidden in the day of the deed. And you shall remain near the stone Ezel.

1 Samuel 20 : 20 (MKJV)

And I will shoot three arrows on the side, as though I shot at a mark.

1 Samuel 20 : 21 (MKJV)

And behold, I will send a lad, saying, Go find the arrows. If I carefully say to the lad, Behold, the arrows are on this side of you, take them, then you may come, for there is peace to you, and no hurt, as Jehovah lives.

1 Samuel 20 : 22 (MKJV)

But if I say this to the young man, Behold, the arrows are beyond you, go your way, for Jehovah has sent you away.

1 Samuel 20 : 23 (MKJV)

And as to the matter which you and I have spoken of, behold, may Jehovah be between you and me forever.

1 Samuel 20 : 24 (MKJV)

And David hid himself in the field. And when the new moon had come, the king sat down by the food to eat.

1 Samuel 20 : 25 (MKJV)

And the king sat on his seat as at other times, on a seat by the wall. And Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul's side, and David's place was empty.

1 Samuel 20 : 26 (MKJV)

And Saul did not speak anything that day. For he thought, Something has happened to him; he is not clean. Surely he is not clean.

1 Samuel 20 : 27 (MKJV)

And it happened on the next day, the second of the month, David's place was empty. And Saul said to his son Jonathan, Why does the son of Jesse not come to the meal, neither yesterday nor today?

1 Samuel 20 : 28 (MKJV)

And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked of me to go to Bethlehem,

1 Samuel 20 : 29 (MKJV)

and he said, Please send me away, for we have a family sacrifice in the city. And my brother commanded me to be there. And now, if I have found favor in your eyes, I pray you let me get away and see my brothers. And he does not come to the king's table.

1 Samuel 20 : 30 (MKJV)

And Saul's anger was kindled 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 confusion, and to the shame of your mother's nakedness?

1 Samuel 20 : 31 (MKJV)

For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you shall not be established, nor your kingdom. And now send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die.

1 Samuel 20 : 32 (MKJV)

And Jonathan answered Saul his father and said to him, Why shall he be killed? What has he done?

1 Samuel 20 : 33 (MKJV)

And Saul threw a spear at him to strike him, and by this Jonathan knew that his father was determined to kill David.

1 Samuel 20 : 34 (MKJV)

And Jonathan rose from the table in fierce anger, and did not eat food on the second day of the new moon. For he was grieved for David, because his father had put him to shame.

1 Samuel 20 : 35 (MKJV)

And it happened, in the morning Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David. And a little lad was with him.

1 Samuel 20 : 36 (MKJV)

And he said to this lad, Run now, find the arrows which I shoot. As the lad ran, he shot an arrow, causing it to pass over him.

1 Samuel 20 : 37 (MKJV)

And when the lad had come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad and said, Is not the arrow beyond you?

1 Samuel 20 : 38 (MKJV)

And Jonathan cried after the lad, Hurry, make haste, do not stand. And Jonathan's lad gathered the arrow and came to his master.

1 Samuel 20 : 39 (MKJV)

But the lad did not know anything. Only Jonathan and David knew the matter.

1 Samuel 20 : 40 (MKJV)

And Jonathan gave his weapons to his lad and said to him, Go, bring to the city.

1 Samuel 20 : 41 (MKJV)

As soon as the lad had gone, David rose from the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times. And they kissed one another, and wept with one another, until David exceeded.

1 Samuel 20 : 42 (MKJV)

And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace because we have both sworn in the name of Jehovah, saying, The Lord shall be between me and you, and between my seed and your seed, forever. And he rose and went away. And Jonathan went into the city.