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I will shoot three arrows on the side of it, as though I shot at a mark.
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Behold, I will send the boy, [saying], Go, find the arrows. If I tell the boy, Behold, the arrows are on this side of you; take them, and come; for there is shalom to you and no hurt, as the LORD lives.
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But if I say thus to the boy, Behold, the arrows are beyond you; go your way; for the LORD has sent you away.
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As touching the matter which you and I have spoken of, behold, the LORD is between you and me forever.
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So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat food.
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The king sat on his seat, as at other times, even on the seat by the wall; and Yonatan stood up, and Aviner sat by Sha'ul's side: but David's place was empty.
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Nevertheless Sha'ul didn't say anything that day: for he thought, Something has befallen him, he is not clean; surely he is not clean.
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It happened on the next day after the new moon, [which was] the second [day], that David's place was empty: and Sha'ul said to Yonatan his son, Why doesn't the son of Yishai come to meat, neither yesterday, nor today?
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Yonatan answered Sha'ul, David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Beit-Lechem:
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and he said, Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he has commanded me [to be there]: and now, if I have found favor in your eyes, let me get away, I pray you, and see my brothers. Therefore he is not come to the king's table.
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Then Sha'ul's anger was kindled against Yonatan, and he said to him, You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don't I know that you have chosen the son of Yishai to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother's nakedness?