1╙┴ 20:1 ┴ND ─AVID FLED FROM ╬AIOTH IN ╥AMAH, AND CAME AND SAID BEFORE ╩ONATHAN, ╫HAT HAVE ╔ DONE? WHAT IS MINE INIQUITY? AND WHAT IS MY SIN BEFORE THY FATHER, THAT HE SEEKETH MY LIFE?
1╙┴ 20:1 ┴ND ─AVID FLED FROM ╬AIOTH IN ╥AMAH, AND CAME AND SAID BEFORE ╩ONATHAN, ╫HAT HAVE ╔ DONE? WHAT IS MINE INIQUITY? AND WHAT IS MY SIN BEFORE THY FATHER, THAT HE SEEKETH MY LIFE?
1╙┴ 20:2 ┴ND HE SAID UNTO HIM, ╟OD FORBID; THOU SHALT NOT DIE: BEHOLD, MY FATHER WILL DO NOTHING EITHER GREAT OR SMALL, BUT THAT HE WILL SHEW IT ME: AND WHY SHOULD MY FATHER HIDE THIS THING FROM ME? IT IS NOT SO.
1╙┴ 20:3 ┴ND ─AVID SWARE MOREOVER, AND SAID, ╘HY FATHER CERTAINLY KNOWETH THAT ╔ HAVE FOUND GRACE IN THINE EYES; AND HE SAITH, ╠ET NOT ╩ONATHAN KNOW THIS, LEST HE BE GRIEVED: BUT TRULY AS THE ╠╧╥─ LIVETH, AND AS THY SOUL LIVETH, THERE IS BUT A STEP BETWEEN ME AND DEATH.
1╙┴ 20:4 ╘HEN SAID ╩ONATHAN UNTO ─AVID, ╫HATSOEVER THY SOUL DESIRETH, ╔ WILL EVEN DO IT FOR THEE.
1╙┴ 20:5 ┴ND ─AVID SAID UNTO ╩ONATHAN, ┬EHOLD, TO MORROW IS THE NEW MOON, AND ╔ SHOULD NOT FAIL TO SIT WITH THE KING AT MEAT: BUT LET ME GO, THAT ╔ MAY HIDE MYSELF IN THE FIELD UNTO THE THIRD DAY AT EVEN.
1╙┴ 20:6 ╔F THY FATHER AT ALL MISS ME, THEN SAY, ─AVID EARNESTLY ASKED LEAVE OF ME THAT HE MIGHT RUN TO ┬ETHLEHEM HIS CITY: FOR THERE IS A YEARLY SACRIFICE THERE FOR ALL THE FAMILY.
1╙┴ 20:7 ╔F HE SAY THUS, ╔T IS WELL; THY SERVANT SHALL HAVE PEACE: BUT IF HE BE VERY WROTH, THEN BE SURE THAT EVIL IS DETERMINED BY HIM.
1╙┴ 20:8 ╘HEREFORE THOU SHALT DEAL KINDLY WITH THY SERVANT; FOR THOU HAST BROUGHT THY SERVANT INTO A COVENANT OF THE ╠╧╥─ WITH THEE: NOTWITHSTANDING, IF THERE BE IN ME INIQUITY, SLAY ME THYSELF; FOR WHY SHOULDEST THOU BRING ME TO THY FATHER?
1╙┴ 20:9 ┴ND ╩ONATHAN SAID, ╞AR BE IT FROM THEE: FOR IF ╔ KNEW CERTAINLY THAT EVIL WERE DETERMINED BY MY FATHER TO COME UPON THEE, THEN WOULD NOT ╔ TELL IT THEE?
1╙┴ 20:10 ╘HEN SAID ─AVID TO ╩ONATHAN, ╫HO SHALL TELL ME? OR WHAT IF THY FATHER ANSWER THEE ROUGHLY?
1╙┴ 20:11 ┴ND ╩ONATHAN SAID UNTO ─AVID, ├OME, AND LET US GO OUT INTO THE FIELD. ┴ND THEY WENT OUT BOTH OF THEM INTO THE FIELD.
1╙┴ 20:12 ┴ND ╩ONATHAN SAID UNTO ─AVID, ╧ ╠╧╥─ ╟OD OF ╔SRAEL, WHEN ╔ HAVE SOUNDED MY FATHER ABOUT TO MORROW ANY TIME, OR THE THIRD DAY, AND, BEHOLD, IF THERE BE GOOD TOWARD ─AVID, AND ╔ THEN SEND NOT UNTO THEE, AND SHEW IT THEE;
1╙┴ 20:13 ╘HE ╠╧╥─ DO SO AND MUCH MORE TO ╩ONATHAN: BUT IF IT PLEASE MY FATHER TO DO THEE EVIL, THEN ╔ WILL SHEW IT THEE, AND SEND THEE AWAY, THAT THOU MAYEST GO IN PEACE: AND THE ╠╧╥─ BE WITH THEE, AS HE HATH BEEN WITH MY FATHER.
1╙┴ 20:14 ┴ND THOU SHALT NOT ONLY WHILE YET ╔ LIVE SHEW ME THE KINDNESS OF THE ╠╧╥─, THAT ╔ DIE NOT:
1╙┴ 20:15 ┬UT ALSO THOU SHALT NOT CUT OFF THY KINDNESS FROM MY HOUSE FOR EVER: NO, NOT WHEN THE ╠╧╥─ HATH CUT OFF THE ENEMIES OF ─AVID EVERY ONE FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.
1╙┴ 20:16 ╙O ╩ONATHAN MADE A COVENANT WITH THE HOUSE OF ─AVID, SAYING, ╠ET THE ╠╧╥─ EVEN REQUIRE IT AT THE HAND OF ─AVID'S ENEMIES.
1╙┴ 20:17 ┴ND ╩ONATHAN CAUSED ─AVID TO SWEAR AGAIN, BECAUSE HE LOVED HIM: FOR HE LOVED HIM AS HE LOVED HIS OWN SOUL.
1╙┴ 20:18 ╘HEN ╩ONATHAN SAID TO ─AVID, ╘O MORROW IS THE NEW MOON: AND THOU SHALT BE MISSED, BECAUSE THY SEAT WILL BE EMPTY.
1╙┴ 20:19 ┴ND WHEN THOU HAST STAYED THREE DAYS, THEN THOU SHALT GO DOWN QUICKLY, AND COME TO THE PLACE WHERE THOU DIDST HIDE THYSELF WHEN THE BUSINESS WAS IN HAND, AND SHALT REMAIN BY THE STONE ┼ZEL.
1╙┴ 20:20 ┴ND ╔ WILL SHOOT THREE ARROWS ON THE SIDE THEREOF, AS THOUGH ╔ SHOT AT A MARK.
1╙┴ 20:21 ┴ND, BEHOLD, ╔ WILL SEND A LAD, SAYING, ╟O, FIND OUT THE ARROWS. ╔F ╔ EXPRESSLY SAY UNTO THE LAD, ┬EHOLD, THE ARROWS ARE ON THIS SIDE OF THEE, TAKE THEM; THEN COME THOU: FOR THERE IS PEACE TO THEE, AND NO HURT; AS THE ╠╧╥─ LIVETH.
1╙┴ 20:22 ┬UT IF ╔ SAY THUS UNTO THE YOUNG MAN, ┬EHOLD, THE ARROWS ARE BEYOND THEE; GO THY WAY: FOR THE ╠╧╥─ HATH SENT THEE AWAY.
1╙┴ 20:23 ┴ND AS TOUCHING THE MATTER WHICH THOU AND ╔ HAVE SPOKEN OF, BEHOLD, THE ╠╧╥─ BE BETWEEN THEE AND ME FOR EVER.
1╙┴ 20:24 ╙O ─AVID HID HIMSELF IN THE FIELD: AND WHEN THE NEW MOON WAS COME, THE KING SAT HIM DOWN TO EAT MEAT.
1╙┴ 20:25 ┴ND THE KING SAT UPON HIS SEAT, AS AT OTHER TIMES, EVEN UPON A SEAT BY THE WALL: AND ╩ONATHAN AROSE, AND ┴BNER SAT BY ╙AUL'S SIDE, AND ─AVID'S PLACE WAS EMPTY.
1╙┴ 20:26 ╬EVERTHELESS ╙AUL SPAKE NOT ANY THING THAT DAY: FOR HE THOUGHT, ╙OMETHING HATH BEFALLEN HIM, HE IS NOT CLEAN; SURELY HE IS NOT CLEAN.
1╙┴ 20:27 ┴ND IT CAME TO PASS ON THE MORROW, WHICH WAS THE SECOND DAY OF THE MONTH, THAT ─AVID'S PLACE WAS EMPTY: AND ╙AUL SAID UNTO ╩ONATHAN HIS SON, ╫HEREFORE COMETH NOT THE SON OF ╩ESSE TO MEAT, NEITHER YESTERDAY, NOR TO DAY?
1╙┴ 20:28 ┴ND ╩ONATHAN ANSWERED ╙AUL, ─AVID EARNESTLY ASKED LEAVE OF ME TO GO TO ┬ETHLEHEM:
1╙┴ 20:29 ┴ND HE SAID, ╠ET ME GO, ╔ PRAY THEE; FOR OUR FAMILY HATH A SACRIFICE IN THE CITY; AND MY BROTHER, HE HATH COMMANDED ME TO BE THERE: AND NOW, IF ╔ HAVE FOUND FAVOUR IN THINE EYES, LET ME GET AWAY, ╔ PRAY THEE, AND SEE MY BRETHREN. ╘HEREFORE HE COMETH NOT UNTO THE KING'S TABLE.
1╙┴ 20:30 ╘HEN ╙AUL'S ANGER WAS KINDLED AGAINST ╩ONATHAN, AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, ╘HOU SON OF THE PERVERSE REBELLIOUS WOMAN, DO NOT ╔ KNOW THAT THOU HAST CHOSEN THE SON OF ╩ESSE TO THINE OWN CONFUSION, AND UNTO THE CONFUSION OF THY MOTHER'S NAKEDNESS?
1╙┴ 20:31 ╞OR AS LONG AS THE SON OF ╩ESSE LIVETH UPON THE GROUND, THOU SHALT NOT BE ESTABLISHED, NOR THY KINGDOM. ╫HEREFORE NOW SEND AND FETCH HIM UNTO ME, FOR HE SHALL SURELY DIE.
1╙┴ 20:32 ┴ND ╩ONATHAN ANSWERED ╙AUL HIS FATHER, AND SAID UNTO HIM, ╫HEREFORE SHALL HE BE SLAIN? WHAT HATH HE DONE?
1╙┴ 20:33 ┴ND ╙AUL CAST A JAVELIN AT HIM TO SMITE HIM: WHEREBY ╩ONATHAN KNEW THAT IT WAS DETERMINED OF HIS FATHER TO SLAY ─AVID.
1╙┴ 20:34 ╙O ╩ONATHAN AROSE FROM THE TABLE IN FIERCE ANGER, AND DID EAT NO MEAT THE SECOND DAY OF THE MONTH: FOR HE WAS GRIEVED FOR ─AVID, BECAUSE HIS FATHER HAD DONE HIM SHAME.
1╙┴ 20:35 ┴ND IT CAME TO PASS IN THE MORNING, THAT ╩ONATHAN WENT OUT INTO THE FIELD AT THE TIME APPOINTED WITH ─AVID, AND A LITTLE LAD WITH HIM.
1╙┴ 20:36 ┴ND HE SAID UNTO HIS LAD, ╥UN, FIND OUT NOW THE ARROWS WHICH ╔ SHOOT. ┴ND AS THE LAD RAN, HE SHOT AN ARROW BEYOND HIM.
1╙┴ 20:37 ┴ND WHEN THE LAD WAS COME TO THE PLACE OF THE ARROW WHICH ╩ONATHAN HAD SHOT, ╩ONATHAN CRIED AFTER THE LAD, AND SAID, ╔S NOT THE ARROW BEYOND THEE?
1╙┴ 20:38 ┴ND ╩ONATHAN CRIED AFTER THE LAD, ═AKE SPEED, HASTE, STAY NOT. ┴ND ╩ONATHAN'S LAD GATHERED UP THE ARROWS, AND CAME TO HIS MASTER.
1╙┴ 20:39 ┬UT THE LAD KNEW NOT ANY THING: ONLY ╩ONATHAN AND ─AVID KNEW THE MATTER.
1╙┴ 20:40 ┴ND ╩ONATHAN GAVE HIS ARTILLERY UNTO HIS LAD, AND SAID UNTO HIM, ╟O, CARRY THEM TO THE CITY.
1╙┴ 20:41 ┴ND AS SOON AS THE LAD WAS GONE, ─AVID AROSE OUT OF A PLACE TOWARD THE SOUTH, AND FELL ON HIS FACE TO THE GROUND, AND BOWED HIMSELF THREE TIMES: AND THEY KISSED ONE ANOTHER, AND WEPT ONE WITH ANOTHER, UNTIL ─AVID EXCEEDED.
1╙┴ 20:42 ┴ND ╩ONATHAN SAID TO ─AVID, ╟O IN PEACE, FORASMUCH AS WE HAVE SWORN BOTH OF US IN THE NAME OF THE ╠╧╥─, SAYING, ╘HE ╠╧╥─ BE BETWEEN ME AND THEE, AND BETWEEN MY SEED AND THY SEED FOR EVER. ┴ND HE AROSE AND DEPARTED: AND ╩ONATHAN WENT INTO THE CITY.
