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1 Then David fled from Naioth at Ramah and went to Jonathan and asked, “What have I done? What is my crime? How have I wronged your father, that he is trying to kill me?”
2 “Never!” Jonathan replied. “It isn’t so!”
16 So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, “May the Lord call David’s enemies to account.” 17 And Jonathan had David reaffirm his oath out of love for him, because he loved him as he loved himself.
18 Then Jonathan said to David, “Tomorrow is the New Moon feast. You will be missed, because your seat will be empty. 19 The day after tomorrow, toward evening, go to the place where you hid when this trouble began, and wait by the stone Ezel. 20 I will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as though I were shooting at a target. 21 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. 22 But if I say to the boy, ‘Look, the arrows are beyond you,’ then you must go, because the Lord has sent you away.”
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1 by MICHAEL FARRAR-BELL
St Mary's Church, Fittleworth, West Sussex, England
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2 LOCKWOOD and MAWSON
“David and Jonathan”
West Park United Reformed Church, Harrogate, England
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3 “David”
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27 Saul said to his son Jonathan, “Why hasn’t the son of Jesse come to the meal, either yesterday or today?”
28 Jonathan answered, “David earnestly asked me for permission to go to Bethlehem.”
30 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? 31 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!”
32 “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?” Jonathan asked his father. 33 But Saul hurled his spear at him to kill him. Then Jonathan knew that his father intended to kill David.
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by JAMES TISSOT
“Saul Casts a Javelin at Jonathan”
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35 In the morning Jonathan went out to the field for his meeting with David. He had a small boy with him, 36 and he said to the boy, “Run and find the arrows I shoot.” As the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him. 37 When the boy came to the place where Jonathan’s arrow had fallen, Jonathan called out after him, “Isn’t the arrow beyond you?” 38 Then he shouted, “Hurry! Go quickly! Don’t stop!” The boy picked up the arrow and returned to his master. 39 (The boy knew nothing about all this; only Jonathan and David knew.) 40 Then Jonathan gave his weapons to the boy and said, “Go, carry them back to town.”
41 After the boy had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone and bowed down before Jonathan three times, with his face to the ground. Then they kissed each other and wept together—but David wept the most.
42 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.
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8 by ARTHUR S. MAXWELL
“Jonathan Warns David with Arrows”
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9 by NC WYETH
“David and Jonathan”
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10 “Jonathan Warns David”
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14 by REMBRANDT
“Separation of David and Jonathan”
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15 by JULIUS SCHNORR VON CAROLSFELD
“Jonathan Lovingly Taketh His Leave of David”
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16 by CASPAR LUIKEN
“Jonathan Embraces David”
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17 by FREDERIC LEIGHTON
“Jonathan's Token to David”
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18 “David and Jonathan”
16th century silver medal. David and Jonathan in military garb, shaking hands: "WAS IC UND DU MITEINANDER GEREDT HABEN" – German translation of “Why should he be put to death?” Samuel 20:32. The reverse features an impressive relief of a tree, with David shooting arrows and Jonathan sitting by; with German text, "Don't forget your friend". Signed by artist I.R.
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CHAPTER 21
1 David went to Nob, to Ahimelek the priest. 3 “Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever you can find.”
4 But the priest answered David, “I don’t have any ordinary bread on hand; however, there is some consecrated bread here.” 6 So the priest gave him the consecrated bread.
7 Now one of Saul’s servants was there that day, detained before the Lord; he was Doeg the Edomite, Saul’s chief shepherd.
8 David asked Ahimelek, “Don’t you have a spear or a sword here? I haven’t brought my sword or any other weapon.”
9 The priest replied, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here. 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.”
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19 by JOSEF A. WINTERHALDER
“David Receives Sacral Bread from the Priest Ahimelech”
Hradisko Monastery, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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22 by JUAN ANTONIO FRIAS Y ESCALANTE
“The Priest Ahimelech Delivering Bread and the Sword to David”
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“Ahimelech Giving the Sword of Goliath”
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25 by CASPAR LUIKEN
“David and Ahimelech”
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26 by David Martin
“David and Ahimelech”
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27 by BENEDETTO DA MARONE
“King David Receiving the Holy Bread from Ahimelech the Priest”
Fresco, Chiesa del Santissimo Corpo di Cristo, Brescia, Italy
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28 by JAMES TISSOT
“David and Ahimelech”
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10 That day David fled from Saul and went to Achish king of Gath. 12 David was very much afraid of Achish. 13 So he pretended to be insane in their presence; and while he was in their hands he acted like a madman, making marks on the doors of the gate and letting saliva run down his beard.
14 Achish said to his servants, “Look at the man! He is insane! Why bring him to me? 15 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?”
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29 “David feigning madness before Achish”
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CHAPTER 22
1 David left Gath and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and his father’s household heard about it, they went down to him there. 2 All those who were in distress or in debt or discontented gathered around him, and he became their commander. About four hundred men were with him.
6 Now Saul heard that David and his men had been discovered. 8 “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.”
9 But Doeg the Edomite, who was standing with Saul’s officials, said, “I saw the son of Jesse come to Ahimelek son of Ahitub at Nob. 10 Ahimelek inquired of the Lord for him; he also gave him provisions and the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”
11 Then the king sent for the priest Ahimelek son of Ahitub and all the men of his family, who were the priests at Nob, and they all came to the king.
13 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? 16 You will surely die, Ahimelek, you and your whole family.”
17 Then the king ordered the guards at his side: “Turn and kill the priests of the Lord, because they too have sided with David. They knew he was fleeing, yet they did not tell me.”
But the king’s officials were unwilling to raise a hand to strike the priests of the Lord.
18 The king then ordered Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests.” So Doeg the Edomite turned and struck them down. That day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod. 19 He also put to the sword Nob, the town of the priests, with its men and women, its children and infants, and its cattle, donkeys and sheep.
20 But one son of Ahimelek son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled to join David. 21 He told David that Saul had killed the priests of the Lord. 22 Then David said to Abiathar, “That day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, I knew he would be sure to tell Saul. I am responsible for the death of your whole family. 23 Stay with me; don’t be afraid. The man who wants to kill you is trying to kill me too. You will be safe with me.”
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“Saul Commands Doeg to Slay the Priests”
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St Thomas's church, Noak Hill, Essex
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SAUL’S LIFE – TWICE!!
that you read ahead, we'll be in 1ST SAMUEL 24 & 26
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which yielded most of the works above, here is the link:
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Works are numbered to facilitate your commenting
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241 wood engravings for
La Grande Bible de Tours
180 watercolors depicting Bible scenes
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this is The Bible in Paintings, not “Great Paintings” nor even “Good Paintings.” So, works need not be masterpieces to qualify for inclusion here—they don’t need to be housed at the Louvre nor auctioned by Sotheby’s. They only need to illustrate successfully some aspect of the Biblical text or, frankly, just tickle my fancy, which I'm asking the Holy Spirit to guide. Often, artists misrepresent the Scripture, but unless the error is material, licentious or heretical I usually include the artwork, trusting that the Spirit is perfectly capable of defending Himself. So, with such forgiving filters, it means that you're seeing practically everything I'm finding.
love, joy, peace, patience kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control is a fruit of the Spirit!
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