{"id":1350,"date":"2026-08-18T18:16:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T18:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mtmoriahaoh.org\/index.php\/bible-event\/1samuel20\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T18:16:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T18:16:43","slug":"1samuel20","status":"publish","type":"bible-event-page","link":"https:\/\/mtmoriahaoh.org\/index.php\/bible-event\/1samuel20\/","title":{"rendered":"1 Samuel 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><html><head><meta content=\"text\/html; charset=UTF-8\" http-equiv=\"content-type\"><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">@import url(https:\/\/themes.googleusercontent.com\/fonts\/css?kit=dpiI8CyVsrzWsJLBFKehGpLhv3qFjX7dUn1mYxfCXhI);ol{margin:0;padding:0}table td,table th{padding:0}.c7{background-color:#ffffff;padding-top:12pt;border-bottom-width:0pt;padding-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.15;border-bottom-style:solid;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:justify}.c3{background-color:#ffffff;padding-top:12pt;padding-bottom:12pt;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:justify}.c6{padding-top:0pt;padding-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left;height:11pt}.c9{font-size:7pt;font-family:\"Roboto\";color:#001320;font-weight:400}.c10{color:#001320;font-weight:700;font-size:12pt;font-family:\"Roboto\"}.c2{font-size:8.5pt;font-family:\"Roboto\";color:#008ae6;font-weight:700}.c0{font-size:12pt;font-family:\"Roboto\";color:#001320;font-weight:400}.c4{text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:normal}.c5{color:#008ae6;font-size:8.5pt;font-style:italic}.c8{background-color:#ffffff;max-width:468pt;padding:72pt 72pt 72pt 72pt}.c1{color:inherit;text-decoration:inherit}.title{padding-top:0pt;color:#000000;font-size:26pt;padding-bottom:3pt;font-family:\"Arial\";line-height:1.15;page-break-after:avoid;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left}.subtitle{padding-top:0pt;color:#666666;font-size:15pt;padding-bottom:16pt;font-family:\"Arial\";line-height:1.15;page-break-after:avoid;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left}li{color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:\"Arial\"}p{margin:0;color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:\"Arial\"}h1{padding-top:20pt;color:#000000;font-size:20pt;padding-bottom:6pt;font-family:\"Arial\";line-height:1.15;page-break-after:avoid;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left}h2{padding-top:18pt;color:#000000;font-size:16pt;padding-bottom:6pt;font-family:\"Arial\";line-height:1.15;page-break-after:avoid;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left}h3{padding-top:16pt;color:#434343;font-size:14pt;padding-bottom:4pt;font-family:\"Arial\";line-height:1.15;page-break-after:avoid;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left}h4{padding-top:14pt;color:#666666;font-size:12pt;padding-bottom:4pt;font-family:\"Arial\";line-height:1.15;page-break-after:avoid;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left}h5{padding-top:12pt;color:#666666;font-size:11pt;padding-bottom:4pt;font-family:\"Arial\";line-height:1.15;page-break-after:avoid;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left}h6{padding-top:12pt;color:#666666;font-size:11pt;padding-bottom:4pt;font-family:\"Arial\";line-height:1.15;page-break-after:avoid;font-style:italic;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left}<\/style>\n<p><\/head><body class=\"c8 doc-content\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"c7\"><span class=\"c10 c4\">Jonathan Helps David<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c3\"><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-1.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072213875&amp;usg=AOvVaw0mRDWX079VXqhNgE7-bOBk\">1<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0 c4\">Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah. He came to Jonathan and asked, &ldquo;What have I done? What is my iniquity? How have I sinned against your father, that he wants to take my life?&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c3\"><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-2.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072214411&amp;usg=AOvVaw3f_oaxRkn3DtxwBsdJFdK2\">2<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0 c4\">&ldquo;Far from it!&rdquo; Jonathan replied. &ldquo;You will not die. Indeed, my father does nothing, great or small, without telling me. So why would he hide this matter from me? This cannot be true!&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c3\"><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-3.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072214815&amp;usg=AOvVaw20FkrUQqMFu4EaidGO9Ur7\">3<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0 c4\">But David again vowed, &ldquo;Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, &lsquo;Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.&rsquo; As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c3\"><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-4.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072215623&amp;usg=AOvVaw2IplBfPQTV8OSTa2C8Om5c\">4<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0 c4\">Then Jonathan said to David, &ldquo;Whatever you desire, I will do for you.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c3\"><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-5.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072216039&amp;usg=AOvVaw0Vl-uxDLTA0xsLLir3fFdN\">5<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0\">So David told him, &ldquo;Look, tomorrow is the New Moon,<\/span><span class=\"c5\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20.htm%23fn&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072216315&amp;usg=AOvVaw07rEfI08BsO3LhhAdMzWaC\">a<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0\">&nbsp;and I am supposed to dine with the king. Instead, let me go and hide in the field until the third evening from now. <\/span><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-6.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072216764&amp;usg=AOvVaw3cSL8iFG_VWmU6WBBcokbi\">6<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0\">If your father misses me at all, tell him, &lsquo;David urgently requested my permission to hurry to Bethlehem, his hometown, because there is an annual sacrifice for his whole clan.&rsquo; <\/span><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-7.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072217317&amp;usg=AOvVaw3kzFOsPAqvr_e7enNlQK18\">7<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0\">If he says, &lsquo;Good,&rsquo; then your servant is safe, but if he is enraged, you will know he has evil intentions. <\/span><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-8.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072217761&amp;usg=AOvVaw37syOMjBlehS01k3bSL_H8\">8<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0 c4\">Therefore deal faithfully with your servant, for you have brought me into a covenant with you before the LORD. If there is iniquity in me, then kill me yourself; why should you bring me to your father?&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c3\"><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-9.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072218469&amp;usg=AOvVaw2Mhgv28ywsPhsVsP0xmYDx\">9<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0 c4\">&ldquo;Never!&rdquo; Jonathan replied. &ldquo;If I ever found out that my father had evil intentions against you, would I not tell you?&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c7\"><span class=\"c10 c4\">Jonathan and David Renew Their Covenant<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c3\"><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-10.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072219217&amp;usg=AOvVaw1_ODkW_izSXiXqtMg3Edcn\">10<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0 c4\">Then David asked Jonathan, &ldquo;Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c3\"><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-11.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072219620&amp;usg=AOvVaw0qNNEANg0Vg69z4t1mU7sg\">11<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0 c4\">&ldquo;Come,&rdquo; he replied, &ldquo;let us go out to the field.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c3\"><span class=\"c0\">So the two of them went out into the field, <\/span><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-12.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072220113&amp;usg=AOvVaw0Qvm1ZMhHcL6nRb0DpqT6v\">12<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0\">and Jonathan said, &ldquo;By the LORD, the God of Israel, I will sound out my father by this time tomorrow or the next day. If he is favorable toward you, will I not send for you and tell you? <\/span><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-13.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072220657&amp;usg=AOvVaw3psdE7pdtQawo6OYIme0iw\">13<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0\">But if my father intends to bring evil on you, then may the LORD punish me, and ever so severely, if I do not tell you and send you on your way in safety. May the LORD be with you, just as He has been with my father. <\/span><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-14.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072221409&amp;usg=AOvVaw0n94ztkaugo-rp-eOt1pgB\">14<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0\">And as long as I live, treat me with the LORD&rsquo;s loving devotion,<\/span><span class=\"c5\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20.htm%23fn&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072221797&amp;usg=AOvVaw1ggPGaCabC-31ODSRJdhPt\">b<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0\">&nbsp;that I may not die, <\/span><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-15.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072221988&amp;usg=AOvVaw0vVe4IOu6slsoL5UUQGPAf\">15<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0 c4\">and do not ever cut off your loving devotion from my household&mdash;not even when the LORD cuts off every one of David&rsquo;s enemies from the face of the earth.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c3\"><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-16.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072222633&amp;usg=AOvVaw1iu0uETwn-JT-Kv-p05F51\">16<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0\">So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, &ldquo;May the LORD hold David&rsquo;s enemies accountable.&rdquo; <\/span><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-17.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072223097&amp;usg=AOvVaw2Ql8nxQWcWE6rObDLu0vWS\">17<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0 c4\">And Jonathan had David reaffirm his vow out of love for him, for Jonathan loved David as he loved himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c3\"><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-18.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072223589&amp;usg=AOvVaw0tmxiAwFuCk3rwMvH4sCHB\">18<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0\">Then Jonathan said to David, &ldquo;Tomorrow is the New Moon, and you will be missed if your seat is empty. <\/span><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-19.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072223934&amp;usg=AOvVaw2qbdhAH0bEDo3PmVkVT2Kc\">19<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0\">When you have stayed three days, hurry down to the place you hid on the day this trouble began, and remain beside the stone Ezel.<\/span><span class=\"c5\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20.htm%23fn&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072224384&amp;usg=AOvVaw3UpJlTPYKZgBENZu7qGIAg\">c<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0\">&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-20.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072224547&amp;usg=AOvVaw3MqS4-mM96ufP6m0Og08lf\">20<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0\">I will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as if I were aiming at a target. <\/span><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-21.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072224813&amp;usg=AOvVaw35gBJJlMRCvjcD7bRs36Fr\">21<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0\">Then I will send a boy and say, &lsquo;Go, find the arrows!&rsquo; Now, if I expressly say to him, &lsquo;Look, the arrows are on this side of you; bring them,&rsquo; then come, because as surely as the LORD lives, it is safe for you and there is no danger. <\/span><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-22.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072225462&amp;usg=AOvVaw1Vt28y2UjNHJ5JSxCYhRfX\">22<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0\">But if I say to the young man, &lsquo;Look, the arrows are beyond you,&rsquo; then you must go, for the LORD has sent you away. <\/span><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-23.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072225767&amp;usg=AOvVaw2EqCuAmrHtSOkrfKgZFbay\">23<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0 c4\">And as for the matter you and I have discussed, the LORD is a witness between you and me forever.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c3\"><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-24.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072226101&amp;usg=AOvVaw1Ug62Zxht96XjcDRlJ9cz_\">24<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0\">So David hid in the field, and when the New Moon had come, the king sat down to eat. <\/span><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-25.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072226326&amp;usg=AOvVaw3eNWZOIJAVEDYzX8dKdWvt\">25<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0\">He sat in his usual place by the wall, opposite Jonathan and beside Abner,<\/span><span class=\"c5\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20.htm%23fn&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072226619&amp;usg=AOvVaw32t_b_rVCf41mbXIML87pW\">d<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0\">&nbsp;but David&rsquo;s place was empty. <\/span><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-26.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072226789&amp;usg=AOvVaw3L42cTMGx6mjHzkrFnRYwJ\">26<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0 c4\">Saul said nothing that day because he thought, &ldquo;Something has happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean&mdash;surely he is unclean.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c3\"><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-27.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072227233&amp;usg=AOvVaw0_abwOd9MoTMTDt7cbG2Th\">27<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0 c4\">But on the day after the New Moon, the second day, David&rsquo;s place was still empty, and Saul asked his son Jonathan, &ldquo;Why hasn&rsquo;t the son of Jesse come to the meal either yesterday or today?&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c3\"><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-28.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072227711&amp;usg=AOvVaw3S_BfsMmy9KdELchq1DShY\">28<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0\">Jonathan answered, &ldquo;David urgently requested my permission to go to Bethlehem, <\/span><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-29.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072227956&amp;usg=AOvVaw0s3Yn9OgFc1VlQdCawD7xU\">29<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0 c4\">saying, &lsquo;Please let me go, because our clan is holding a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has told me to be there. So now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go and see my brothers.&rsquo; That is why he did not come to the king&rsquo;s table.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c7\"><span class=\"c4 c10\">Saul Seeks to Kill Jonathan<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c3\"><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-30.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072228616&amp;usg=AOvVaw3gT0oeQ1fEDdDQMDyeHlm1\">30<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0\">Then Saul&rsquo;s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, &ldquo;You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the disgrace of the mother who bore you? <\/span><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-31.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072229068&amp;usg=AOvVaw1nqga-3Ng9Xu_Kfcsvp_re\">31<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0 c4\">For as long as the son of Jesse lives on this earth, neither you nor your kingship shall be established. Now send for him and bring him to me, for he must surely die!&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c3\"><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-32.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072229526&amp;usg=AOvVaw36H6ndiEJiShamMMdLx_k4\">32<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0 c4\">&ldquo;Why must he be put to death?&rdquo; Jonathan replied. &ldquo;What has he done?&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c3\"><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-33.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072229827&amp;usg=AOvVaw2OK7Wrb3N7dk1hqeSMNoux\">33<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0\">Then Saul hurled his spear at Jonathan to kill him; so Jonathan knew that his father was determined to kill David. <\/span><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-34.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072230087&amp;usg=AOvVaw29i76m4t8Z6mpj6sNODARo\">34<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0 c4\">Jonathan got up from the table in fierce anger and did not eat any food that second day of the month, for he was grieved by his father&rsquo;s shameful treatment of David.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c3\"><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-35.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072230467&amp;usg=AOvVaw0Q5h1-WpeIOr0cvktXpVSl\">35<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0\">In the morning Jonathan went out to the field for the appointment with David, and a small boy was with him. <\/span><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-36.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072230878&amp;usg=AOvVaw2mXy-_UO3mpdaAHNS8pb1S\">36<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0 c4\">He said to the boy, &ldquo;Run and find the arrows I shoot.&rdquo; And as the boy ran, Jonathan shot an arrow beyond him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c3\"><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-37.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072231249&amp;usg=AOvVaw2c_AWUgayz6KH0sjWZ8nid\">37<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0\">When the boy reached the place where Jonathan&rsquo;s arrow had fallen, Jonathan called to him, &ldquo;Isn&rsquo;t the arrow beyond you?&rdquo; <\/span><span class=\"c2\"><a class=\"c1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_samuel\/20-38.htm&amp;sa=D&amp;source=editors&amp;ust=1754252072231573&amp;usg=AOvVaw08y9agNY449xUTYEGTMxDj\">38<\/a><\/span><span class=\"c0 c4\">Then Jonathan cried out, &ldquo;Hurry! 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