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June 18 - The Power of Words and Loyalty · Bible Chat Devotional

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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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  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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