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He said, ‘Let me go, because our family is observing a sacrifice in the town and my brother has ordered me to be there. If I have found favor in your eyes, let me get away to see my brothers.’ That is why he has not come to the king’s table.”
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Saul’s anger flared up at Jonathan and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Don’t I know that you have sided with the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of the mother who bore you?
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As long as the son of Jesse lives on this earth, neither you nor your kingdom will be established. Now send someone to bring him to me, for he must die!”
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“Why should he be put to death? What has he done?” Jonathan asked his father.
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But Saul hurled his spear at him to kill him. Then Jonathan knew that his father intended to kill David.
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Jonathan got up from the table in fierce anger; on that second day of the feast he did not eat, because he was grieved at his father’s shameful treatment of David.
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In the morning Jonathan went out to the field for his meeting with David. He had a small boy with him,
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and he said to the boy, “Run and find the arrows I shoot.” As the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
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When the boy came to the place where Jonathan’s arrow had fallen, Jonathan called out after him, “Isn’t the arrow beyond you?”
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Then he shouted, “Hurry! Go quickly! Don’t stop!” The boy picked up the arrow and returned to his master.
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(The boy knew nothing about all this; only Jonathan and David knew.)