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David: The Warrior King - Bible Verse List
A Novel of King David
David in 1 Samuel 20
(1 Samuel 20:1) 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) 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) 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) And Jonathan said to David, Whatever your soul desires, I will
even do for you.
(1 Samuel 20:5) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) Then David said to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? Or what if your
father answers you roughly?
(1 Samuel 20:11) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) And I will shoot three arrows on the side, as though I shot at
a mark.
(1 Samuel 20:21) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked of me to go
to Bethlehem,
(1 Samuel 20:29) 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) 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) 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) And Jonathan answered Saul his father and said to him, Why
shall he be killed? What has he done?
(1 Samuel 20:33) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) But the lad did not know anything. Only Jonathan and David knew
the matter.
(1 Samuel 20:40) And Jonathan gave his weapons to his lad and said to him, Go,
bring to the city.
(1 Samuel 20:41) 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) 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.
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A List of the Characters in David: The
Warrior King with records in the Bible
Abner – Saul’s general - influential
cousin.
Achish – Philistine king.
Ahinoam – Saul’s wife.
Eliab – David’s eldest brother.
Jonathan – Saul’s son - eldest prince of Israel.
Michal – Saul’s daughter - David’s wife.
Abiathar – Priest to David who survived Saul’s slaughter at Nob - the son of
Ahimelech.
Abigail from Carmel – David’s second wife - the widow of Nabal.
Abinadab – David’s second eldest brother.
Abishai – Zeruiah’s second son.
Ahimelech – Priest who gave David bread and Goliath’s sword - was murdered
for his actions.
Ahinoam from Jezreel – servant to Abigail - David’s third wife.
Amasa – David’s nephew - his sister Abigail’s only son.
Asahel – Zeruiah’s youngest son
Bathsheba – Beautiful daughter of Eliel.
Doeg – Saul’s henchman.
Ish-bosheth – Saul’s youngest son.
Joab – Zeruiah’s oldest son.
Merab – Saul’s eldest daughter.
Pelet – David’s soldier
Rizpah – Saul’s concubine.
Samuel – Prophet who anoints David king.
Shammah – Daivd’s third eldest brother.
Abigail – David’s sister, her son is Amasa.
Abinadab ben Saul – Saul’s son.
Adriel – Merab’s husband and Saul’s son-in-law.
Hushai – One of David’s guards in the wildernesses.
Jaasiel – Abner’s son.
Malchi-shua – Saul’s son.
Mephibosheth – Jonathan’s only son.
Nethaneel – David’s fourth eldest brother.
Ozem – David’s sixth brother.
Raddai – David’s fifth brother.
Sérèn – Five princes of Philistine (Gath, Gaza, Ekron, Ashkelon, and Ashod).
Zeruiah – David’s sister - mother of Joab, Abishai, and Asahel.
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