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1 Samuel 20:1

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David ran from Naioth in Ramah to Jonathan and asked him, “What have I done? What is my wrong have I done? What terrible thing have I done to your father that he wants to kill me?”

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For strangers are coming to attack me—violent men who don't care about God are trying to kill me. Selah.

We take pride in the fact—and our conscience confirms it—that we have acted properly towards people, and especially to you. We have followed God's principles of holiness and sincerity, not according to worldly wisdom but through the grace of God.

As you can see, the Lord is able to rescue from their troubles those who respect him, and to keep the wicked until the day of judgment when their punishment is completed.

Dear friends, if we're reassured we're not in the wrong, we can have confidence before God.

I stand here before you. Bring any charges you have against me in the presence of the Lord and of his anointed one. Have I taken anyone's ox or donkey? Have I wronged anyone? Have I oppressed anyone? Have I accepted a bribe from anyone to turn a blind eye? Tell me, and I will repay you.”

Then Saul instructed his son Jonathan and all his officials to kill David. But Jonathan really liked David,

This is how David got away and escaped. He went to Samuel at Ramah and explained to him everything that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went to stay in Naioth.

“Nothing!” Jonathan replied. “You're not going to die! Listen! My father tells me everything he's planning, whatever it is. Why would my father keep something like this from me? It's not true!”

“Why does he have to be put to death?” Jonathan asked. “What has he done?”

Take a look, my father! You see this piece of your robe I'm holding. Yes, I did cut it off, but I didn't kill you. Now you can see for yourself and you can be sure that I have done nothing evil or rebellious. I have not sinned against you, but you are hunting me down, trying to kill me.

May the Lord decide between you and me as to who of us is right, and may the Lord punish you, but I myself will never try to harm you.

He told David, “You are a better person than I am, because you have repaid me with good, but I have repaid you with evil.

“Why do you pay attention to people who say, ‘Watch out, David wants to harm you’?” David asked.

“Why is my lord hunting me, his servant? What is it that I've done? What crime am I guilty of?” he continued.




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