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1 Samuel 20:1

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

David fled from Naioth in Ramah and came to Jonathan and asked, ‘What have I done?  What did I do wrong? How have I sinned against your father so that he wants to take my life? ’

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then the Lord knows how to rescue  the godly from trials and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgement,


Dear friends, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have confidence before God


Indeed, this is our boast: The testimony  of our conscience  is that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially towards you, with godly sincerity and purity, not by human wisdom  but by God’s grace.


and said to David, ‘You are more righteous than I, for you have done what is good to me though I have done what is evil to you.


Look, my father!  Look at the corner of your robe in my hand, for I cut it off, but I didn’t kill you. Recognise  that I’ve committed no crime or rebellion. I haven’t sinned against you even though you are hunting me down to take my life.


David said to Saul, ‘Why do you listen to the words of people who say, “Look, David intends to harm you”?


Here I am. Bring charges against me before the Lord and his anointed: Whose ox or donkey have I taken?  Who have I wronged or mistreated? Who gave me a bribe to overlook something?  , I will return it to you.’


Jonathan said to him, ‘No, you won’t die. Listen, my father doesn’t do anything, great or small, without telling me. So why would he hide this matter from me? This can’t be true.’


Saul ordered his son Jonathan and all his servants to kill David.  But Saul’s son Jonathan liked David very much,


So David fled and escaped and went to Samuel at Ramah  and told him everything Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel left and stayed at Naioth.


Jonathan answered his father, ‘Why is he to be killed? What has he done? ’


‘May the Lord judge between me and you, and may the Lord take vengeance on you for me, but my hand will never be against you.


Then he continued, ‘Why is my lord pursuing his servant? What have I done? What crime have I committed?





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