1 Samuel 20:10   (Read all of 1 Samuel 20)

David asked, "Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?"

1 Samuel 20:12   (Read all of 1 Samuel 20)

Then Jonathan said to David, "I swear by the Lord, the God of Israel, that I will surely sound out my father by this time the day after tomorrow! If he is favorably disposed toward you, will I not send you word and let you know?

1 Samuel 20:13   (Read all of 1 Samuel 20)

But if my father intends to harm you, may the Lord deal with Jonathan, be it ever so severely, if I do not let you know and send you away in peace. May the Lord be with you as he has been with my father.

1 Samuel 20:15   (Read all of 1 Samuel 20)

and do not ever cut off your kindness from my family-not even when the Lord has cut off every one of David's enemies from the face of the earth."

1 Samuel 20:18   (Read all of 1 Samuel 20)

Then Jonathan said to David, "Tomorrow is the New Moon feast. You will be missed, because your seat will be empty.

1 Samuel 20:19   (Read all of 1 Samuel 20)

The day after tomorrow, toward evening, go to the place where you hid when this trouble began, and wait by the stone Ezel.

1 Samuel 20:21   (Read all of 1 Samuel 20)

Then I will send a boy and say, 'Go, find the arrows.' If I say to him, 'Look, the arrows are on this side of you; bring them here,' then come, because, as surely as the Lord lives, you are safe; there is no danger.

1 Samuel 20:22   (Read all of 1 Samuel 20)

But if I say to the boy, 'Look, the arrows are beyond you,' then you must go, because the Lord has sent you away.

1 Samuel 20:23   (Read all of 1 Samuel 20)

And about the matter you and I discussed-remember, the Lord is witness between you and me forever."

1 Samuel 20:29   (Read all of 1 Samuel 20)

He said, 'Let me go, because our family is observing a sacrifice in the town and my brother has ordered me to be there. If I have found favor in your eyes, let me get away to see my brothers.' That is why he has not come to the king's table."

1 Samuel 20:30   (Read all of 1 Samuel 20)

Saul's anger flared up at Jonathan and he said to him, "You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Don't I know that you have sided with the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of the mother who bore you?

1 Samuel 20:31   (Read all of 1 Samuel 20)

As long as the son of Jesse lives on this earth, neither you nor your kingdom will be established. Now send someone to bring him to me, for he must die!"

1 Samuel 20:37   (Read all of 1 Samuel 20)

When the boy came to the place where Jonathan's arrow had fallen, Jonathan called out after him, "Isn't the arrow beyond you?"

1 Samuel 20:42   (Read all of 1 Samuel 20)

Jonathan said to David, "Go in peace, for we have sworn friendship with each other in the name of the Lord, saying, 'The Lord is witness between you and me, and between your descendants and my descendants forever.' " Then David left, and Jonathan went back to the town.

1 Samuel 21:1   (Read all of 1 Samuel 21)

David went to Nob, to Ahimelek the priest. Ahimelek trembled when he met him, and asked, "Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?"

1 Samuel 21:2   (Read all of 1 Samuel 21)

David answered Ahimelek the priest, "The king sent me on a mission and said to me, 'No one is to know anything about the mission I am sending you on.' As for my men, I have told them to meet me at a certain place.

1 Samuel 21:3   (Read all of 1 Samuel 21)

Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever you can find."

1 Samuel 21:8   (Read all of 1 Samuel 21)

David asked Ahimelek, "Don't you have a spear or a sword here? I haven't brought my sword or any other weapon, because the king's mission was urgent."

1 Samuel 21:9   (Read all of 1 Samuel 21)

The priest replied, "The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here; it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want it, take it; there is no sword here but that one." David said, "There is none like it; give it to me."

1 Samuel 21:15   (Read all of 1 Samuel 21)

Am I so short of madmen that you have to bring this fellow here to carry on like this in front of me? Must this man come into my house?"

1 Samuel 22:3   (Read all of 1 Samuel 22)

From there David went to Mizpah in Moab and said to the king of Moab, "Would you let my father and mother come and stay with you until I learn what God will do for me?"

1 Samuel 22:7   (Read all of 1 Samuel 22)

He said to them, "Listen, men of Benjamin! Will the son of Jesse give all of you fields and vineyards? Will he make all of you commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds?

1 Samuel 22:8   (Read all of 1 Samuel 22)

Is that why you have all conspired against me? No one tells me when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse. None of you is concerned about me or tells me that my son has incited my servant to lie in wait for me, as he does today."

1 Samuel 22:13   (Read all of 1 Samuel 22)

Saul said to him, "Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, giving him bread and a sword and inquiring of God for him, so that he has rebelled against me and lies in wait for me, as he does today?"