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1 Samuel 20:12 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Jonathan said to David, “By the LORD, the God of Israel, when I have sounded out my father about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if there is good toward David, won’t I then send to you and disclose it to you? "

1 Samuel 20:12

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10 Then David said to Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you roughly?”

11 Jonathan said to David, “Come! Let’s go out into the field.” They both went out into the field.

12 Jonathan said to David, “By the LORD, the God of Israel, when I have sounded out my father about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if there is good toward David, won’t I then send to you and disclose it to you?

13 The LORD do so to Jonathan and more also, should it please my father to do you evil, if I don’t disclose it to you and send you away, that you may go in peace. May the LORD be with you as he has been with my father.

14 You shall not only show me the loving kindness of the LORD while I still live, that I not die;

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1 Samuel 20:1

"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 my life?”"

1 Samuel 20:2

"He said to him, “Far from it; you will not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it to me. Why would my father hide this thing from me? It is not so.”"

1 Samuel 20:3

"David swore moreover, and said, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, ‘Don’t let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved;’ but truly as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.”"

1 Samuel 20:4

"Then Jonathan said to David, “Whatever your soul desires, I will even do it for you.”"

1 Samuel 20:5

"David said to Jonathan, “Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to dine with the king; but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field to the third day at evening."

1 Samuel 20:6

"If your father misses me at all, then say, ‘David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem, his city; for it is the yearly sacrifice there for all the family.’"

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