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1 Samuel 19

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Samuel (with Nathan and Gad contributing) · c. 1010 BC
Chapter the Nineteenth
And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David.
But Jonathan Saul’s son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself:
And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou art, and I will commune with my father of thee; and what I see, that I will tell thee.
And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works have been to thee-ward very good:
For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?
And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware, As the LORD liveth, he shall not be slain.
And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan shewed him all those things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as in times past.
And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled from him.
And the evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his javelin in his hand: and David played with his hand.
And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.
Saul also sent messengers unto David’s house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David’s wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.
So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth.
And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.
And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.
And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster.
And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said unto me, Let me go; why should I kill thee?
So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth.
And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.
And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as appointed over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.
And when it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they prophesied likewise. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they prophesied also.
Then went he also to Ramah, and came to a great well that is in Sechu: and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? And one said, Behold, they be at Naioth in Ramah.
And he went thither to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God was upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah.
And he stript off his clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?
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Chuck Smith on 1 Samuel 19

Verse by verse, the C2000 series. Permission granted by The Word For Today.
Verses 1-6 Chapter 19 Now in the nineteenth, we find Saul's third attempt to kill David. Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, to all of his servants, and he told him that they should kill David. But Jonathan because of his love for David: said to his father, or he said to David, David my dad seeks to kill you: I pray, take heed to yourself until the morning, and abide in a secret place, hide: And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I'll commune with my father of thee; and what I see, I'll tell you. [In other words, "Hide yourself until I can find out really what my dad is thinking."] So Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said, Let not the king sin against his servant, and against David; because he hath not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good towards you: For he did put his life in his own hand, and he slew the Philistine, and the Lord wrought a great salvation for all Israel: you saw it, and you did rejoice: why then will you sin against innocent blood, and slay David without a cause? So hearken to the voice of Jonathan, and Saul swear, As the Lord liveth, he shall not be slain ( 1 Samuel 19:1-6 ). So there was an apparent change of attitude for a moment. Now Saul does manifest almost a schizophrenia. I would imagine if a psychiatrist would read the case history on Saul here, he would probably be classified as a schizophrenic. He would have these periods of great depression. He would have periods of remorse and periods of change. "Oh David, my son. You're like a son to me." And he'd speak great words of love, and then next day try to ram him through with a javelin again. So he was very vacillating. Now Jonathan speaking these kind words to his dad about David, Saul responded and he said, "As the Lord liveth he'll not be slain." So Jonathan called David, and Jonathan shewed him all of those things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in Saul's presence as in times past. And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled from him. And the evil spirit from the Lord was upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his javelin in his hand: and David played with his hand on the harp. And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but David slipped out of Saul's presence, and the javelin went into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night. So Saul sent out messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him saying, Now if you don't save your life tonight, tomorrow you're gonna be dead. So Michal let David down through a window: and he fled, and escaped. And then she took the bed and put pillows under the blankets, so it looked like someone was lying there. And so in the morning when the messengers were gonna kill David, she said, Oh he's sick. [They said, "We want to bring him to Saul." They said, He's sick he's in bed. So they went to Saul and they said, "We can't bring him, the guy's sick in bed."] He said, Bring him with the bed and all so we can slay him. So they went back to get David, and then they found out that it was just the pillows under the blankets, [David was gone.] So he got angry with his daughter Michal, he said, What are you doing turning against your own father, your own flesh and blood to protect David? So Michal said to her dad, he said, Let me go or I'm going to kill you. [So she lied her way out of it.] So David fled, and he came to Samuel there in Ramah, and he told him all that Saul had done to him. And Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth. And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah. And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel stand as appointed over them, the spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, and they all prophesied ( 1 Samuel 19:7-20 ). Verses 7-20 So here is an interesting thing Samuel was there at Naioth, and David was there, and so they sent these guys out to take David in, and God's Spirit just came on them. They just started prophesying. So he sent out another group of messengers to get David, and as they came near where the spirit of God was working, the spirit of God came on them, they started prophesying. So he sent out a third company of messengers to get David, [and when they came into the scene, and all this going on] they began to prophesy. So Saul came down himself, and the spirit came on Saul, and he took off his clothes, and he lay there naked all night prophesying. So that they began to say, Is Saul among the prophets ( 1 Samuel 19:21-24 )? Verse 21 Again that proverb that came out early in Saul's career. Chapter 19 Now in the nineteenth, we find Saul's third attempt to kill David. Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, to all of his servants, and he told him that they should kill David. But Jonathan because of his love for David: said to his father, or he said to David, David my dad seeks to kill you: I pray, take heed to yourself until the morning, and abide in a secret place, hide: And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I'll commune with my father of thee; and what I see, I'll tell you. [In other words, "Hide yourself until I can find out really what my dad is thinking."] So Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said, Let not the king sin against his servant, and against David; because he hath not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good towards you: For he did put his life in his own hand, and he slew the Philistine, and the Lord wrought a great salvation for all Israel: you saw it, and you did rejoice: why then will you sin against innocent blood, and slay David without a cause? So hearken to the voice of Jonathan, and Saul swear, As the Lord liveth, he shall not be slain ( 1 Samuel 19:1-6 ). Verse 22 So there was an apparent change of attitude for a moment. Now Saul does manifest almost a schizophrenia. I would imagine if a psychiatrist would read the case history on Saul here, he would probably be classified as a schizophrenic. He would have these periods of great depression. He would have periods of remorse and periods of change. "Oh David, my son. You're like a son to me." And he'd speak great words of love, and then next day try to ram him through with a javelin again. So he was very vacillating. Now Jonathan speaking these kind words to his dad about David, Saul responded and he said, "As the Lord liveth he'll not be slain." So Jonathan called David, and Jonathan shewed him all of those things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in Saul's presence as in times past. And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled from him. And the evil spirit from the Lord was upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his javelin in his hand: and David played with his hand on the harp. And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but David slipped out of Saul's presence, and the javelin went into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night. So Saul sent out messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him saying, Now if you don't save your life tonight, tomorrow you're gonna be dead. So Michal let David down through a window: and he fled, and escaped. And then she took the bed and put pillows under the blankets, so it looked like someone was lying there. And so in the morning when the messengers were gonna kill David, she said, Oh he's sick. [They said, "We want to bring him to Saul." They said, He's sick he's in bed. So they went to Saul and they said, "We can't bring him, the guy's sick in bed."] He said, Bring him with the bed and all so we can slay him. So they went back to get David, and then they found out that it was just the pillows under the blankets, [David was gone.] So he got angry with his daughter Michal, he said, What are you doing turning against your own father, your own flesh and blood to protect David? So Michal said to her dad, he said, Let me go or I'm going to kill you. [So she lied her way out of it.] So David fled, and he came to Samuel there in Ramah, and he told him all that Saul had done to him. And Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth. And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah. And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel stand as appointed over them, the spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, and they all prophesied ( 1 Samuel 19:7-20 ). Verse 23 So here is an interesting thing Samuel was there at Naioth, and David was there, and so they sent these guys out to take David in, and God's Spirit just came on them. They just started prophesying. So he sent out another group of messengers to get David, and as they came near where the spirit of God was working, the spirit of God came on them, they started prophesying. So he sent out a third company of messengers to get David, [and when they came into the scene, and all this going on] they began to prophesy. So Saul came down himself, and the spirit came on Saul, and he took off his clothes, and he lay there naked all night prophesying. So that they began to say, Is Saul among the prophets ( 1 Samuel 19:21-24 )?

Commentary on 1 Samuel 19

Whosoever Will · the Seven Threads Commentary

1 Samuel 19:1

The years between David's anointing and his coronation are the years of the fugitive: hunted by Saul, protected by Jonathan, living in caves and among Israel's enemies. The contrast runs through the whole final section of 1 Samuel: the LORD was with David and had departed from Saul. Jonathan is the sacrifice that the story requires. As Saul's eldest son he is the natural heir to his father's throne. He knows David has been anointed. He makes a covenant with David: gives him his robe, his armor, his sword, his bow, his belt. He strips himself of everything that marks him as crown prince and gives it to the man God has chosen instead. The soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David. Saul's descent is the mirror. He throws a spear at David twice. He sends him into dangerous battle hoping the Philistines will kill him. He pursues him through the wilderness of Ziph and En-gedi. Twice David has Saul in his power and refuses to strike. The LORD's anointed, he says, cannot be touched by my hand. The restraint is not weakness; it is faith that the throne does not need to be seized, only received. Thread 3 is the long wait for what the anointing guaranteed: Thread 3 operating across time, through suffering, to its appointed arrival. Thread 4 is David's genuine choices not to take the throne by force even when he could. Thread 1 is in Jonathan's selfless covenant love, the God who cannot stop reaching using the love of a friend to protect the anointed king through the years when the kingdom had not yet come.
The LORD was with David and was departed from Saul. The two sentences side by side describe the dispensational shift that the anointing enacted; Saul has the throne but not the Spirit; David has the Spirit but not yet the throne.
וְנֶפֶשׁ יְהוֹנָתָן נִקְשְׁרָה בְּנֶפֶשׁ דָּוִד (ve-nefesh Yehonatan niqsherah be-nefesh David): the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David: niqsherah (was knit, bound, Niphal of qashar, to bind, tie together; the binding is complete and passive, it happened to Jonathan's soul; the covenant friendship that follows is one of the most extraordinary in the OT, a model of selfless love that sacrifices dynastic ambition for genuine covenant loyalty)
threads t1 · t3 · t4 · see 1 Samuel 20:17 · 1 Samuel 26:9-11 · Proverbs 17:17

1 Samuel 19:2

The years between David's anointing and his coronation are the years of the fugitive: hunted by Saul, protected by Jonathan, living in caves and among Israel's enemies. The contrast runs through the whole final section of 1 Samuel: the LORD was with David and had departed from Saul. Jonathan is the sacrifice that the story requires. As Saul's eldest son he is the natural heir to his father's throne. He knows David has been anointed. He makes a covenant with David: gives him his robe, his armor, his sword, his bow, his belt. He strips himself of everything that marks him as crown prince and gives it to the man God has chosen instead. The soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David. Saul's descent is the mirror. He throws a spear at David twice. He sends him into dangerous battle hoping the Philistines will kill him. He pursues him through the wilderness of Ziph and En-gedi. Twice David has Saul in his power and refuses to strike. The LORD's anointed, he says, cannot be touched by my hand. The restraint is not weakness; it is faith that the throne does not need to be seized, only received. Thread 3 is the long wait for what the anointing guaranteed: Thread 3 operating across time, through suffering, to its appointed arrival. Thread 4 is David's genuine choices not to take the throne by force even when he could. Thread 1 is in Jonathan's selfless covenant love, the God who cannot stop reaching using the love of a friend to protect the anointed king through the years when the kingdom had not yet come.
The LORD was with David and was departed from Saul. The two sentences side by side describe the dispensational shift that the anointing enacted; Saul has the throne but not the Spirit; David has the Spirit but not yet the throne.
וְנֶפֶשׁ יְהוֹנָתָן נִקְשְׁרָה בְּנֶפֶשׁ דָּוִד (ve-nefesh Yehonatan niqsherah be-nefesh David): the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David: niqsherah (was knit, bound, Niphal of qashar, to bind, tie together; the binding is complete and passive, it happened to Jonathan's soul; the covenant friendship that follows is one of the most extraordinary in the OT, a model of selfless love that sacrifices dynastic ambition for genuine covenant loyalty)
threads t1 · t3 · t4 · see 1 Samuel 20:17 · 1 Samuel 26:9-11 · Proverbs 17:17

1 Samuel 19:3

The years between David's anointing and his coronation are the years of the fugitive: hunted by Saul, protected by Jonathan, living in caves and among Israel's enemies. The contrast runs through the whole final section of 1 Samuel: the LORD was with David and had departed from Saul. Jonathan is the sacrifice that the story requires. As Saul's eldest son he is the natural heir to his father's throne. He knows David has been anointed. He makes a covenant with David: gives him his robe, his armor, his sword, his bow, his belt. He strips himself of everything that marks him as crown prince and gives it to the man God has chosen instead. The soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David. Saul's descent is the mirror. He throws a spear at David twice. He sends him into dangerous battle hoping the Philistines will kill him. He pursues him through the wilderness of Ziph and En-gedi. Twice David has Saul in his power and refuses to strike. The LORD's anointed, he says, cannot be touched by my hand. The restraint is not weakness; it is faith that the throne does not need to be seized, only received. Thread 3 is the long wait for what the anointing guaranteed: Thread 3 operating across time, through suffering, to its appointed arrival. Thread 4 is David's genuine choices not to take the throne by force even when he could. Thread 1 is in Jonathan's selfless covenant love, the God who cannot stop reaching using the love of a friend to protect the anointed king through the years when the kingdom had not yet come.
The LORD was with David and was departed from Saul. The two sentences side by side describe the dispensational shift that the anointing enacted; Saul has the throne but not the Spirit; David has the Spirit but not yet the throne.
וְנֶפֶשׁ יְהוֹנָתָן נִקְשְׁרָה בְּנֶפֶשׁ דָּוִד (ve-nefesh Yehonatan niqsherah be-nefesh David): the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David: niqsherah (was knit, bound, Niphal of qashar, to bind, tie together; the binding is complete and passive, it happened to Jonathan's soul; the covenant friendship that follows is one of the most extraordinary in the OT, a model of selfless love that sacrifices dynastic ambition for genuine covenant loyalty)
threads t1 · t3 · t4 · see 1 Samuel 20:17 · 1 Samuel 26:9-11 · Proverbs 17:17

1 Samuel 19:4

The years between David's anointing and his coronation are the years of the fugitive: hunted by Saul, protected by Jonathan, living in caves and among Israel's enemies. The contrast runs through the whole final section of 1 Samuel: the LORD was with David and had departed from Saul. Jonathan is the sacrifice that the story requires. As Saul's eldest son he is the natural heir to his father's throne. He knows David has been anointed. He makes a covenant with David: gives him his robe, his armor, his sword, his bow, his belt. He strips himself of everything that marks him as crown prince and gives it to the man God has chosen instead. The soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David. Saul's descent is the mirror. He throws a spear at David twice. He sends him into dangerous battle hoping the Philistines will kill him. He pursues him through the wilderness of Ziph and En-gedi. Twice David has Saul in his power and refuses to strike. The LORD's anointed, he says, cannot be touched by my hand. The restraint is not weakness; it is faith that the throne does not need to be seized, only received. Thread 3 is the long wait for what the anointing guaranteed: Thread 3 operating across time, through suffering, to its appointed arrival. Thread 4 is David's genuine choices not to take the throne by force even when he could. Thread 1 is in Jonathan's selfless covenant love, the God who cannot stop reaching using the love of a friend to protect the anointed king through the years when the kingdom had not yet come.
The LORD was with David and was departed from Saul. The two sentences side by side describe the dispensational shift that the anointing enacted; Saul has the throne but not the Spirit; David has the Spirit but not yet the throne.
וְנֶפֶשׁ יְהוֹנָתָן נִקְשְׁרָה בְּנֶפֶשׁ דָּוִד (ve-nefesh Yehonatan niqsherah be-nefesh David): the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David: niqsherah (was knit, bound, Niphal of qashar, to bind, tie together; the binding is complete and passive, it happened to Jonathan's soul; the covenant friendship that follows is one of the most extraordinary in the OT, a model of selfless love that sacrifices dynastic ambition for genuine covenant loyalty)
threads t1 · t3 · t4 · see 1 Samuel 20:17 · 1 Samuel 26:9-11 · Proverbs 17:17

1 Samuel 19:5

The years between David's anointing and his coronation are the years of the fugitive: hunted by Saul, protected by Jonathan, living in caves and among Israel's enemies. The contrast runs through the whole final section of 1 Samuel: the LORD was with David and had departed from Saul. Jonathan is the sacrifice that the story requires. As Saul's eldest son he is the natural heir to his father's throne. He knows David has been anointed. He makes a covenant with David: gives him his robe, his armor, his sword, his bow, his belt. He strips himself of everything that marks him as crown prince and gives it to the man God has chosen instead. The soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David. Saul's descent is the mirror. He throws a spear at David twice. He sends him into dangerous battle hoping the Philistines will kill him. He pursues him through the wilderness of Ziph and En-gedi. Twice David has Saul in his power and refuses to strike. The LORD's anointed, he says, cannot be touched by my hand. The restraint is not weakness; it is faith that the throne does not need to be seized, only received. Thread 3 is the long wait for what the anointing guaranteed: Thread 3 operating across time, through suffering, to its appointed arrival. Thread 4 is David's genuine choices not to take the throne by force even when he could. Thread 1 is in Jonathan's selfless covenant love, the God who cannot stop reaching using the love of a friend to protect the anointed king through the years when the kingdom had not yet come.
The LORD was with David and was departed from Saul. The two sentences side by side describe the dispensational shift that the anointing enacted; Saul has the throne but not the Spirit; David has the Spirit but not yet the throne.
וְנֶפֶשׁ יְהוֹנָתָן נִקְשְׁרָה בְּנֶפֶשׁ דָּוִד (ve-nefesh Yehonatan niqsherah be-nefesh David): the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David: niqsherah (was knit, bound, Niphal of qashar, to bind, tie together; the binding is complete and passive, it happened to Jonathan's soul; the covenant friendship that follows is one of the most extraordinary in the OT, a model of selfless love that sacrifices dynastic ambition for genuine covenant loyalty)
threads t1 · t3 · t4 · see 1 Samuel 20:17 · 1 Samuel 26:9-11 · Proverbs 17:17

1 Samuel 19:6

The years between David's anointing and his coronation are the years of the fugitive: hunted by Saul, protected by Jonathan, living in caves and among Israel's enemies. The contrast runs through the whole final section of 1 Samuel: the LORD was with David and had departed from Saul. Jonathan is the sacrifice that the story requires. As Saul's eldest son he is the natural heir to his father's throne. He knows David has been anointed. He makes a covenant with David: gives him his robe, his armor, his sword, his bow, his belt. He strips himself of everything that marks him as crown prince and gives it to the man God has chosen instead. The soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David. Saul's descent is the mirror. He throws a spear at David twice. He sends him into dangerous battle hoping the Philistines will kill him. He pursues him through the wilderness of Ziph and En-gedi. Twice David has Saul in his power and refuses to strike. The LORD's anointed, he says, cannot be touched by my hand. The restraint is not weakness; it is faith that the throne does not need to be seized, only received. Thread 3 is the long wait for what the anointing guaranteed: Thread 3 operating across time, through suffering, to its appointed arrival. Thread 4 is David's genuine choices not to take the throne by force even when he could. Thread 1 is in Jonathan's selfless covenant love, the God who cannot stop reaching using the love of a friend to protect the anointed king through the years when the kingdom had not yet come.
The LORD was with David and was departed from Saul. The two sentences side by side describe the dispensational shift that the anointing enacted; Saul has the throne but not the Spirit; David has the Spirit but not yet the throne.
וְנֶפֶשׁ יְהוֹנָתָן נִקְשְׁרָה בְּנֶפֶשׁ דָּוִד (ve-nefesh Yehonatan niqsherah be-nefesh David): the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David: niqsherah (was knit, bound, Niphal of qashar, to bind, tie together; the binding is complete and passive, it happened to Jonathan's soul; the covenant friendship that follows is one of the most extraordinary in the OT, a model of selfless love that sacrifices dynastic ambition for genuine covenant loyalty)
threads t1 · t3 · t4 · see 1 Samuel 20:17 · 1 Samuel 26:9-11 · Proverbs 17:17

1 Samuel 19:7

The years between David's anointing and his coronation are the years of the fugitive: hunted by Saul, protected by Jonathan, living in caves and among Israel's enemies. The contrast runs through the whole final section of 1 Samuel: the LORD was with David and had departed from Saul. Jonathan is the sacrifice that the story requires. As Saul's eldest son he is the natural heir to his father's throne. He knows David has been anointed. He makes a covenant with David: gives him his robe, his armor, his sword, his bow, his belt. He strips himself of everything that marks him as crown prince and gives it to the man God has chosen instead. The soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David. Saul's descent is the mirror. He throws a spear at David twice. He sends him into dangerous battle hoping the Philistines will kill him. He pursues him through the wilderness of Ziph and En-gedi. Twice David has Saul in his power and refuses to strike. The LORD's anointed, he says, cannot be touched by my hand. The restraint is not weakness; it is faith that the throne does not need to be seized, only received. Thread 3 is the long wait for what the anointing guaranteed: Thread 3 operating across time, through suffering, to its appointed arrival. Thread 4 is David's genuine choices not to take the throne by force even when he could. Thread 1 is in Jonathan's selfless covenant love, the God who cannot stop reaching using the love of a friend to protect the anointed king through the years when the kingdom had not yet come.
The LORD was with David and was departed from Saul. The two sentences side by side describe the dispensational shift that the anointing enacted; Saul has the throne but not the Spirit; David has the Spirit but not yet the throne.
וְנֶפֶשׁ יְהוֹנָתָן נִקְשְׁרָה בְּנֶפֶשׁ דָּוִד (ve-nefesh Yehonatan niqsherah be-nefesh David): the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David: niqsherah (was knit, bound, Niphal of qashar, to bind, tie together; the binding is complete and passive, it happened to Jonathan's soul; the covenant friendship that follows is one of the most extraordinary in the OT, a model of selfless love that sacrifices dynastic ambition for genuine covenant loyalty)
threads t1 · t3 · t4 · see 1 Samuel 20:17 · 1 Samuel 26:9-11 · Proverbs 17:17

1 Samuel 19:8

The years between David's anointing and his coronation are the years of the fugitive: hunted by Saul, protected by Jonathan, living in caves and among Israel's enemies. The contrast runs through the whole final section of 1 Samuel: the LORD was with David and had departed from Saul. Jonathan is the sacrifice that the story requires. As Saul's eldest son he is the natural heir to his father's throne. He knows David has been anointed. He makes a covenant with David: gives him his robe, his armor, his sword, his bow, his belt. He strips himself of everything that marks him as crown prince and gives it to the man God has chosen instead. The soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David. Saul's descent is the mirror. He throws a spear at David twice. He sends him into dangerous battle hoping the Philistines will kill him. He pursues him through the wilderness of Ziph and En-gedi. Twice David has Saul in his power and refuses to strike. The LORD's anointed, he says, cannot be touched by my hand. The restraint is not weakness; it is faith that the throne does not need to be seized, only received. Thread 3 is the long wait for what the anointing guaranteed: Thread 3 operating across time, through suffering, to its appointed arrival. Thread 4 is David's genuine choices not to take the throne by force even when he could. Thread 1 is in Jonathan's selfless covenant love, the God who cannot stop reaching using the love of a friend to protect the anointed king through the years when the kingdom had not yet come.
The LORD was with David and was departed from Saul. The two sentences side by side describe the dispensational shift that the anointing enacted; Saul has the throne but not the Spirit; David has the Spirit but not yet the throne.
וְנֶפֶשׁ יְהוֹנָתָן נִקְשְׁרָה בְּנֶפֶשׁ דָּוִד (ve-nefesh Yehonatan niqsherah be-nefesh David): the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David: niqsherah (was knit, bound, Niphal of qashar, to bind, tie together; the binding is complete and passive, it happened to Jonathan's soul; the covenant friendship that follows is one of the most extraordinary in the OT, a model of selfless love that sacrifices dynastic ambition for genuine covenant loyalty)
threads t1 · t3 · t4 · see 1 Samuel 20:17 · 1 Samuel 26:9-11 · Proverbs 17:17

1 Samuel 19:9

The years between David's anointing and his coronation are the years of the fugitive: hunted by Saul, protected by Jonathan, living in caves and among Israel's enemies. The contrast runs through the whole final section of 1 Samuel: the LORD was with David and had departed from Saul. Jonathan is the sacrifice that the story requires. As Saul's eldest son he is the natural heir to his father's throne. He knows David has been anointed. He makes a covenant with David: gives him his robe, his armor, his sword, his bow, his belt. He strips himself of everything that marks him as crown prince and gives it to the man God has chosen instead. The soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David. Saul's descent is the mirror. He throws a spear at David twice. He sends him into dangerous battle hoping the Philistines will kill him. He pursues him through the wilderness of Ziph and En-gedi. Twice David has Saul in his power and refuses to strike. The LORD's anointed, he says, cannot be touched by my hand. The restraint is not weakness; it is faith that the throne does not need to be seized, only received. Thread 3 is the long wait for what the anointing guaranteed: Thread 3 operating across time, through suffering, to its appointed arrival. Thread 4 is David's genuine choices not to take the throne by force even when he could. Thread 1 is in Jonathan's selfless covenant love, the God who cannot stop reaching using the love of a friend to protect the anointed king through the years when the kingdom had not yet come.
The LORD was with David and was departed from Saul. The two sentences side by side describe the dispensational shift that the anointing enacted; Saul has the throne but not the Spirit; David has the Spirit but not yet the throne.
וְנֶפֶשׁ יְהוֹנָתָן נִקְשְׁרָה בְּנֶפֶשׁ דָּוִד (ve-nefesh Yehonatan niqsherah be-nefesh David): the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David: niqsherah (was knit, bound, Niphal of qashar, to bind, tie together; the binding is complete and passive, it happened to Jonathan's soul; the covenant friendship that follows is one of the most extraordinary in the OT, a model of selfless love that sacrifices dynastic ambition for genuine covenant loyalty)
threads t1 · t3 · t4 · see 1 Samuel 20:17 · 1 Samuel 26:9-11 · Proverbs 17:17

1 Samuel 19:10

The years between David's anointing and his coronation are the years of the fugitive: hunted by Saul, protected by Jonathan, living in caves and among Israel's enemies. The contrast runs through the whole final section of 1 Samuel: the LORD was with David and had departed from Saul. Jonathan is the sacrifice that the story requires. As Saul's eldest son he is the natural heir to his father's throne. He knows David has been anointed. He makes a covenant with David: gives him his robe, his armor, his sword, his bow, his belt. He strips himself of everything that marks him as crown prince and gives it to the man God has chosen instead. The soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David. Saul's descent is the mirror. He throws a spear at David twice. He sends him into dangerous battle hoping the Philistines will kill him. He pursues him through the wilderness of Ziph and En-gedi. Twice David has Saul in his power and refuses to strike. The LORD's anointed, he says, cannot be touched by my hand. The restraint is not weakness; it is faith that the throne does not need to be seized, only received. Thread 3 is the long wait for what the anointing guaranteed: Thread 3 operating across time, through suffering, to its appointed arrival. Thread 4 is David's genuine choices not to take the throne by force even when he could. Thread 1 is in Jonathan's selfless covenant love, the God who cannot stop reaching using the love of a friend to protect the anointed king through the years when the kingdom had not yet come.
The LORD was with David and was departed from Saul. The two sentences side by side describe the dispensational shift that the anointing enacted; Saul has the throne but not the Spirit; David has the Spirit but not yet the throne.
וְנֶפֶשׁ יְהוֹנָתָן נִקְשְׁרָה בְּנֶפֶשׁ דָּוִד (ve-nefesh Yehonatan niqsherah be-nefesh David): the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David: niqsherah (was knit, bound, Niphal of qashar, to bind, tie together; the binding is complete and passive, it happened to Jonathan's soul; the covenant friendship that follows is one of the most extraordinary in the OT, a model of selfless love that sacrifices dynastic ambition for genuine covenant loyalty)
threads t1 · t3 · t4 · see 1 Samuel 20:17 · 1 Samuel 26:9-11 · Proverbs 17:17

1 Samuel 19:11

The years between David's anointing and his coronation are the years of the fugitive: hunted by Saul, protected by Jonathan, living in caves and among Israel's enemies. The contrast runs through the whole final section of 1 Samuel: the LORD was with David and had departed from Saul. Jonathan is the sacrifice that the story requires. As Saul's eldest son he is the natural heir to his father's throne. He knows David has been anointed. He makes a covenant with David: gives him his robe, his armor, his sword, his bow, his belt. He strips himself of everything that marks him as crown prince and gives it to the man God has chosen instead. The soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David. Saul's descent is the mirror. He throws a spear at David twice. He sends him into dangerous battle hoping the Philistines will kill him. He pursues him through the wilderness of Ziph and En-gedi. Twice David has Saul in his power and refuses to strike. The LORD's anointed, he says, cannot be touched by my hand. The restraint is not weakness; it is faith that the throne does not need to be seized, only received. Thread 3 is the long wait for what the anointing guaranteed: Thread 3 operating across time, through suffering, to its appointed arrival. Thread 4 is David's genuine choices not to take the throne by force even when he could. Thread 1 is in Jonathan's selfless covenant love, the God who cannot stop reaching using the love of a friend to protect the anointed king through the years when the kingdom had not yet come.
The LORD was with David and was departed from Saul. The two sentences side by side describe the dispensational shift that the anointing enacted; Saul has the throne but not the Spirit; David has the Spirit but not yet the throne.
וְנֶפֶשׁ יְהוֹנָתָן נִקְשְׁרָה בְּנֶפֶשׁ דָּוִד (ve-nefesh Yehonatan niqsherah be-nefesh David): the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David: niqsherah (was knit, bound, Niphal of qashar, to bind, tie together; the binding is complete and passive, it happened to Jonathan's soul; the covenant friendship that follows is one of the most extraordinary in the OT, a model of selfless love that sacrifices dynastic ambition for genuine covenant loyalty)
threads t1 · t3 · t4 · see 1 Samuel 20:17 · 1 Samuel 26:9-11 · Proverbs 17:17

1 Samuel 19:12

The years between David's anointing and his coronation are the years of the fugitive: hunted by Saul, protected by Jonathan, living in caves and among Israel's enemies. The contrast runs through the whole final section of 1 Samuel: the LORD was with David and had departed from Saul. Jonathan is the sacrifice that the story requires. As Saul's eldest son he is the natural heir to his father's throne. He knows David has been anointed. He makes a covenant with David: gives him his robe, his armor, his sword, his bow, his belt. He strips himself of everything that marks him as crown prince and gives it to the man God has chosen instead. The soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David. Saul's descent is the mirror. He throws a spear at David twice. He sends him into dangerous battle hoping the Philistines will kill him. He pursues him through the wilderness of Ziph and En-gedi. Twice David has Saul in his power and refuses to strike. The LORD's anointed, he says, cannot be touched by my hand. The restraint is not weakness; it is faith that the throne does not need to be seized, only received. Thread 3 is the long wait for what the anointing guaranteed: Thread 3 operating across time, through suffering, to its appointed arrival. Thread 4 is David's genuine choices not to take the throne by force even when he could. Thread 1 is in Jonathan's selfless covenant love, the God who cannot stop reaching using the love of a friend to protect the anointed king through the years when the kingdom had not yet come.
The LORD was with David and was departed from Saul. The two sentences side by side describe the dispensational shift that the anointing enacted; Saul has the throne but not the Spirit; David has the Spirit but not yet the throne.
וְנֶפֶשׁ יְהוֹנָתָן נִקְשְׁרָה בְּנֶפֶשׁ דָּוִד (ve-nefesh Yehonatan niqsherah be-nefesh David): the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David: niqsherah (was knit, bound, Niphal of qashar, to bind, tie together; the binding is complete and passive, it happened to Jonathan's soul; the covenant friendship that follows is one of the most extraordinary in the OT, a model of selfless love that sacrifices dynastic ambition for genuine covenant loyalty)
threads t1 · t3 · t4 · see 1 Samuel 20:17 · 1 Samuel 26:9-11 · Proverbs 17:17

1 Samuel 19:13

The years between David's anointing and his coronation are the years of the fugitive: hunted by Saul, protected by Jonathan, living in caves and among Israel's enemies. The contrast runs through the whole final section of 1 Samuel: the LORD was with David and had departed from Saul. Jonathan is the sacrifice that the story requires. As Saul's eldest son he is the natural heir to his father's throne. He knows David has been anointed. He makes a covenant with David: gives him his robe, his armor, his sword, his bow, his belt. He strips himself of everything that marks him as crown prince and gives it to the man God has chosen instead. The soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David. Saul's descent is the mirror. He throws a spear at David twice. He sends him into dangerous battle hoping the Philistines will kill him. He pursues him through the wilderness of Ziph and En-gedi. Twice David has Saul in his power and refuses to strike. The LORD's anointed, he says, cannot be touched by my hand. The restraint is not weakness; it is faith that the throne does not need to be seized, only received. Thread 3 is the long wait for what the anointing guaranteed: Thread 3 operating across time, through suffering, to its appointed arrival. Thread 4 is David's genuine choices not to take the throne by force even when he could. Thread 1 is in Jonathan's selfless covenant love, the God who cannot stop reaching using the love of a friend to protect the anointed king through the years when the kingdom had not yet come.
The LORD was with David and was departed from Saul. The two sentences side by side describe the dispensational shift that the anointing enacted; Saul has the throne but not the Spirit; David has the Spirit but not yet the throne.
וְנֶפֶשׁ יְהוֹנָתָן נִקְשְׁרָה בְּנֶפֶשׁ דָּוִד (ve-nefesh Yehonatan niqsherah be-nefesh David): the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David: niqsherah (was knit, bound, Niphal of qashar, to bind, tie together; the binding is complete and passive, it happened to Jonathan's soul; the covenant friendship that follows is one of the most extraordinary in the OT, a model of selfless love that sacrifices dynastic ambition for genuine covenant loyalty)
threads t1 · t3 · t4 · see 1 Samuel 20:17 · 1 Samuel 26:9-11 · Proverbs 17:17

1 Samuel 19:14

The years between David's anointing and his coronation are the years of the fugitive: hunted by Saul, protected by Jonathan, living in caves and among Israel's enemies. The contrast runs through the whole final section of 1 Samuel: the LORD was with David and had departed from Saul. Jonathan is the sacrifice that the story requires. As Saul's eldest son he is the natural heir to his father's throne. He knows David has been anointed. He makes a covenant with David: gives him his robe, his armor, his sword, his bow, his belt. He strips himself of everything that marks him as crown prince and gives it to the man God has chosen instead. The soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David. Saul's descent is the mirror. He throws a spear at David twice. He sends him into dangerous battle hoping the Philistines will kill him. He pursues him through the wilderness of Ziph and En-gedi. Twice David has Saul in his power and refuses to strike. The LORD's anointed, he says, cannot be touched by my hand. The restraint is not weakness; it is faith that the throne does not need to be seized, only received. Thread 3 is the long wait for what the anointing guaranteed: Thread 3 operating across time, through suffering, to its appointed arrival. Thread 4 is David's genuine choices not to take the throne by force even when he could. Thread 1 is in Jonathan's selfless covenant love, the God who cannot stop reaching using the love of a friend to protect the anointed king through the years when the kingdom had not yet come.
The LORD was with David and was departed from Saul. The two sentences side by side describe the dispensational shift that the anointing enacted; Saul has the throne but not the Spirit; David has the Spirit but not yet the throne.
וְנֶפֶשׁ יְהוֹנָתָן נִקְשְׁרָה בְּנֶפֶשׁ דָּוִד (ve-nefesh Yehonatan niqsherah be-nefesh David): the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David: niqsherah (was knit, bound, Niphal of qashar, to bind, tie together; the binding is complete and passive, it happened to Jonathan's soul; the covenant friendship that follows is one of the most extraordinary in the OT, a model of selfless love that sacrifices dynastic ambition for genuine covenant loyalty)
threads t1 · t3 · t4 · see 1 Samuel 20:17 · 1 Samuel 26:9-11 · Proverbs 17:17

1 Samuel 19:15

The years between David's anointing and his coronation are the years of the fugitive: hunted by Saul, protected by Jonathan, living in caves and among Israel's enemies. The contrast runs through the whole final section of 1 Samuel: the LORD was with David and had departed from Saul. Jonathan is the sacrifice that the story requires. As Saul's eldest son he is the natural heir to his father's throne. He knows David has been anointed. He makes a covenant with David: gives him his robe, his armor, his sword, his bow, his belt. He strips himself of everything that marks him as crown prince and gives it to the man God has chosen instead. The soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David. Saul's descent is the mirror. He throws a spear at David twice. He sends him into dangerous battle hoping the Philistines will kill him. He pursues him through the wilderness of Ziph and En-gedi. Twice David has Saul in his power and refuses to strike. The LORD's anointed, he says, cannot be touched by my hand. The restraint is not weakness; it is faith that the throne does not need to be seized, only received. Thread 3 is the long wait for what the anointing guaranteed: Thread 3 operating across time, through suffering, to its appointed arrival. Thread 4 is David's genuine choices not to take the throne by force even when he could. Thread 1 is in Jonathan's selfless covenant love, the God who cannot stop reaching using the love of a friend to protect the anointed king through the years when the kingdom had not yet come.
The LORD was with David and was departed from Saul. The two sentences side by side describe the dispensational shift that the anointing enacted; Saul has the throne but not the Spirit; David has the Spirit but not yet the throne.
וְנֶפֶשׁ יְהוֹנָתָן נִקְשְׁרָה בְּנֶפֶשׁ דָּוִד (ve-nefesh Yehonatan niqsherah be-nefesh David): the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David: niqsherah (was knit, bound, Niphal of qashar, to bind, tie together; the binding is complete and passive, it happened to Jonathan's soul; the covenant friendship that follows is one of the most extraordinary in the OT, a model of selfless love that sacrifices dynastic ambition for genuine covenant loyalty)
threads t1 · t3 · t4 · see 1 Samuel 20:17 · 1 Samuel 26:9-11 · Proverbs 17:17

1 Samuel 19:16

The years between David's anointing and his coronation are the years of the fugitive: hunted by Saul, protected by Jonathan, living in caves and among Israel's enemies. The contrast runs through the whole final section of 1 Samuel: the LORD was with David and had departed from Saul. Jonathan is the sacrifice that the story requires. As Saul's eldest son he is the natural heir to his father's throne. He knows David has been anointed. He makes a covenant with David: gives him his robe, his armor, his sword, his bow, his belt. He strips himself of everything that marks him as crown prince and gives it to the man God has chosen instead. The soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David. Saul's descent is the mirror. He throws a spear at David twice. He sends him into dangerous battle hoping the Philistines will kill him. He pursues him through the wilderness of Ziph and En-gedi. Twice David has Saul in his power and refuses to strike. The LORD's anointed, he says, cannot be touched by my hand. The restraint is not weakness; it is faith that the throne does not need to be seized, only received. Thread 3 is the long wait for what the anointing guaranteed: Thread 3 operating across time, through suffering, to its appointed arrival. Thread 4 is David's genuine choices not to take the throne by force even when he could. Thread 1 is in Jonathan's selfless covenant love, the God who cannot stop reaching using the love of a friend to protect the anointed king through the years when the kingdom had not yet come.
The LORD was with David and was departed from Saul. The two sentences side by side describe the dispensational shift that the anointing enacted; Saul has the throne but not the Spirit; David has the Spirit but not yet the throne.
וְנֶפֶשׁ יְהוֹנָתָן נִקְשְׁרָה בְּנֶפֶשׁ דָּוִד (ve-nefesh Yehonatan niqsherah be-nefesh David): the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David: niqsherah (was knit, bound, Niphal of qashar, to bind, tie together; the binding is complete and passive, it happened to Jonathan's soul; the covenant friendship that follows is one of the most extraordinary in the OT, a model of selfless love that sacrifices dynastic ambition for genuine covenant loyalty)
threads t1 · t3 · t4 · see 1 Samuel 20:17 · 1 Samuel 26:9-11 · Proverbs 17:17

1 Samuel 19:17

The years between David's anointing and his coronation are the years of the fugitive: hunted by Saul, protected by Jonathan, living in caves and among Israel's enemies. The contrast runs through the whole final section of 1 Samuel: the LORD was with David and had departed from Saul. Jonathan is the sacrifice that the story requires. As Saul's eldest son he is the natural heir to his father's throne. He knows David has been anointed. He makes a covenant with David: gives him his robe, his armor, his sword, his bow, his belt. He strips himself of everything that marks him as crown prince and gives it to the man God has chosen instead. The soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David. Saul's descent is the mirror. He throws a spear at David twice. He sends him into dangerous battle hoping the Philistines will kill him. He pursues him through the wilderness of Ziph and En-gedi. Twice David has Saul in his power and refuses to strike. The LORD's anointed, he says, cannot be touched by my hand. The restraint is not weakness; it is faith that the throne does not need to be seized, only received. Thread 3 is the long wait for what the anointing guaranteed: Thread 3 operating across time, through suffering, to its appointed arrival. Thread 4 is David's genuine choices not to take the throne by force even when he could. Thread 1 is in Jonathan's selfless covenant love, the God who cannot stop reaching using the love of a friend to protect the anointed king through the years when the kingdom had not yet come.
The LORD was with David and was departed from Saul. The two sentences side by side describe the dispensational shift that the anointing enacted; Saul has the throne but not the Spirit; David has the Spirit but not yet the throne.
וְנֶפֶשׁ יְהוֹנָתָן נִקְשְׁרָה בְּנֶפֶשׁ דָּוִד (ve-nefesh Yehonatan niqsherah be-nefesh David): the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David: niqsherah (was knit, bound, Niphal of qashar, to bind, tie together; the binding is complete and passive, it happened to Jonathan's soul; the covenant friendship that follows is one of the most extraordinary in the OT, a model of selfless love that sacrifices dynastic ambition for genuine covenant loyalty)
threads t1 · t3 · t4 · see 1 Samuel 20:17 · 1 Samuel 26:9-11 · Proverbs 17:17

1 Samuel 19:18

The years between David's anointing and his coronation are the years of the fugitive: hunted by Saul, protected by Jonathan, living in caves and among Israel's enemies. The contrast runs through the whole final section of 1 Samuel: the LORD was with David and had departed from Saul. Jonathan is the sacrifice that the story requires. As Saul's eldest son he is the natural heir to his father's throne. He knows David has been anointed. He makes a covenant with David: gives him his robe, his armor, his sword, his bow, his belt. He strips himself of everything that marks him as crown prince and gives it to the man God has chosen instead. The soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David. Saul's descent is the mirror. He throws a spear at David twice. He sends him into dangerous battle hoping the Philistines will kill him. He pursues him through the wilderness of Ziph and En-gedi. Twice David has Saul in his power and refuses to strike. The LORD's anointed, he says, cannot be touched by my hand. The restraint is not weakness; it is faith that the throne does not need to be seized, only received. Thread 3 is the long wait for what the anointing guaranteed: Thread 3 operating across time, through suffering, to its appointed arrival. Thread 4 is David's genuine choices not to take the throne by force even when he could. Thread 1 is in Jonathan's selfless covenant love, the God who cannot stop reaching using the love of a friend to protect the anointed king through the years when the kingdom had not yet come.
The LORD was with David and was departed from Saul. The two sentences side by side describe the dispensational shift that the anointing enacted; Saul has the throne but not the Spirit; David has the Spirit but not yet the throne.
וְנֶפֶשׁ יְהוֹנָתָן נִקְשְׁרָה בְּנֶפֶשׁ דָּוִד (ve-nefesh Yehonatan niqsherah be-nefesh David): the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David: niqsherah (was knit, bound, Niphal of qashar, to bind, tie together; the binding is complete and passive, it happened to Jonathan's soul; the covenant friendship that follows is one of the most extraordinary in the OT, a model of selfless love that sacrifices dynastic ambition for genuine covenant loyalty)
threads t1 · t3 · t4 · see 1 Samuel 20:17 · 1 Samuel 26:9-11 · Proverbs 17:17

1 Samuel 19:19

The years between David's anointing and his coronation are the years of the fugitive: hunted by Saul, protected by Jonathan, living in caves and among Israel's enemies. The contrast runs through the whole final section of 1 Samuel: the LORD was with David and had departed from Saul. Jonathan is the sacrifice that the story requires. As Saul's eldest son he is the natural heir to his father's throne. He knows David has been anointed. He makes a covenant with David: gives him his robe, his armor, his sword, his bow, his belt. He strips himself of everything that marks him as crown prince and gives it to the man God has chosen instead. The soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David. Saul's descent is the mirror. He throws a spear at David twice. He sends him into dangerous battle hoping the Philistines will kill him. He pursues him through the wilderness of Ziph and En-gedi. Twice David has Saul in his power and refuses to strike. The LORD's anointed, he says, cannot be touched by my hand. The restraint is not weakness; it is faith that the throne does not need to be seized, only received. Thread 3 is the long wait for what the anointing guaranteed: Thread 3 operating across time, through suffering, to its appointed arrival. Thread 4 is David's genuine choices not to take the throne by force even when he could. Thread 1 is in Jonathan's selfless covenant love, the God who cannot stop reaching using the love of a friend to protect the anointed king through the years when the kingdom had not yet come.
The LORD was with David and was departed from Saul. The two sentences side by side describe the dispensational shift that the anointing enacted; Saul has the throne but not the Spirit; David has the Spirit but not yet the throne.
וְנֶפֶשׁ יְהוֹנָתָן נִקְשְׁרָה בְּנֶפֶשׁ דָּוִד (ve-nefesh Yehonatan niqsherah be-nefesh David): the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David: niqsherah (was knit, bound, Niphal of qashar, to bind, tie together; the binding is complete and passive, it happened to Jonathan's soul; the covenant friendship that follows is one of the most extraordinary in the OT, a model of selfless love that sacrifices dynastic ambition for genuine covenant loyalty)
threads t1 · t3 · t4 · see 1 Samuel 20:17 · 1 Samuel 26:9-11 · Proverbs 17:17

1 Samuel 19:20

The years between David's anointing and his coronation are the years of the fugitive: hunted by Saul, protected by Jonathan, living in caves and among Israel's enemies. The contrast runs through the whole final section of 1 Samuel: the LORD was with David and had departed from Saul. Jonathan is the sacrifice that the story requires. As Saul's eldest son he is the natural heir to his father's throne. He knows David has been anointed. He makes a covenant with David: gives him his robe, his armor, his sword, his bow, his belt. He strips himself of everything that marks him as crown prince and gives it to the man God has chosen instead. The soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David. Saul's descent is the mirror. He throws a spear at David twice. He sends him into dangerous battle hoping the Philistines will kill him. He pursues him through the wilderness of Ziph and En-gedi. Twice David has Saul in his power and refuses to strike. The LORD's anointed, he says, cannot be touched by my hand. The restraint is not weakness; it is faith that the throne does not need to be seized, only received. Thread 3 is the long wait for what the anointing guaranteed: Thread 3 operating across time, through suffering, to its appointed arrival. Thread 4 is David's genuine choices not to take the throne by force even when he could. Thread 1 is in Jonathan's selfless covenant love, the God who cannot stop reaching using the love of a friend to protect the anointed king through the years when the kingdom had not yet come.
The LORD was with David and was departed from Saul. The two sentences side by side describe the dispensational shift that the anointing enacted; Saul has the throne but not the Spirit; David has the Spirit but not yet the throne.
וְנֶפֶשׁ יְהוֹנָתָן נִקְשְׁרָה בְּנֶפֶשׁ דָּוִד (ve-nefesh Yehonatan niqsherah be-nefesh David): the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David: niqsherah (was knit, bound, Niphal of qashar, to bind, tie together; the binding is complete and passive, it happened to Jonathan's soul; the covenant friendship that follows is one of the most extraordinary in the OT, a model of selfless love that sacrifices dynastic ambition for genuine covenant loyalty)
threads t1 · t3 · t4 · see 1 Samuel 20:17 · 1 Samuel 26:9-11 · Proverbs 17:17

1 Samuel 19:21

The years between David's anointing and his coronation are the years of the fugitive: hunted by Saul, protected by Jonathan, living in caves and among Israel's enemies. The contrast runs through the whole final section of 1 Samuel: the LORD was with David and had departed from Saul. Jonathan is the sacrifice that the story requires. As Saul's eldest son he is the natural heir to his father's throne. He knows David has been anointed. He makes a covenant with David: gives him his robe, his armor, his sword, his bow, his belt. He strips himself of everything that marks him as crown prince and gives it to the man God has chosen instead. The soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David. Saul's descent is the mirror. He throws a spear at David twice. He sends him into dangerous battle hoping the Philistines will kill him. He pursues him through the wilderness of Ziph and En-gedi. Twice David has Saul in his power and refuses to strike. The LORD's anointed, he says, cannot be touched by my hand. The restraint is not weakness; it is faith that the throne does not need to be seized, only received. Thread 3 is the long wait for what the anointing guaranteed: Thread 3 operating across time, through suffering, to its appointed arrival. Thread 4 is David's genuine choices not to take the throne by force even when he could. Thread 1 is in Jonathan's selfless covenant love, the God who cannot stop reaching using the love of a friend to protect the anointed king through the years when the kingdom had not yet come.
The LORD was with David and was departed from Saul. The two sentences side by side describe the dispensational shift that the anointing enacted; Saul has the throne but not the Spirit; David has the Spirit but not yet the throne.
וְנֶפֶשׁ יְהוֹנָתָן נִקְשְׁרָה בְּנֶפֶשׁ דָּוִד (ve-nefesh Yehonatan niqsherah be-nefesh David): the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David: niqsherah (was knit, bound, Niphal of qashar, to bind, tie together; the binding is complete and passive, it happened to Jonathan's soul; the covenant friendship that follows is one of the most extraordinary in the OT, a model of selfless love that sacrifices dynastic ambition for genuine covenant loyalty)
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1 Samuel 19:22

The years between David's anointing and his coronation are the years of the fugitive: hunted by Saul, protected by Jonathan, living in caves and among Israel's enemies. The contrast runs through the whole final section of 1 Samuel: the LORD was with David and had departed from Saul. Jonathan is the sacrifice that the story requires. As Saul's eldest son he is the natural heir to his father's throne. He knows David has been anointed. He makes a covenant with David: gives him his robe, his armor, his sword, his bow, his belt. He strips himself of everything that marks him as crown prince and gives it to the man God has chosen instead. The soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David. Saul's descent is the mirror. He throws a spear at David twice. He sends him into dangerous battle hoping the Philistines will kill him. He pursues him through the wilderness of Ziph and En-gedi. Twice David has Saul in his power and refuses to strike. The LORD's anointed, he says, cannot be touched by my hand. The restraint is not weakness; it is faith that the throne does not need to be seized, only received. Thread 3 is the long wait for what the anointing guaranteed: Thread 3 operating across time, through suffering, to its appointed arrival. Thread 4 is David's genuine choices not to take the throne by force even when he could. Thread 1 is in Jonathan's selfless covenant love, the God who cannot stop reaching using the love of a friend to protect the anointed king through the years when the kingdom had not yet come.
The LORD was with David and was departed from Saul. The two sentences side by side describe the dispensational shift that the anointing enacted; Saul has the throne but not the Spirit; David has the Spirit but not yet the throne.
וְנֶפֶשׁ יְהוֹנָתָן נִקְשְׁרָה בְּנֶפֶשׁ דָּוִד (ve-nefesh Yehonatan niqsherah be-nefesh David): the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David: niqsherah (was knit, bound, Niphal of qashar, to bind, tie together; the binding is complete and passive, it happened to Jonathan's soul; the covenant friendship that follows is one of the most extraordinary in the OT, a model of selfless love that sacrifices dynastic ambition for genuine covenant loyalty)
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1 Samuel 19:23

The years between David's anointing and his coronation are the years of the fugitive: hunted by Saul, protected by Jonathan, living in caves and among Israel's enemies. The contrast runs through the whole final section of 1 Samuel: the LORD was with David and had departed from Saul. Jonathan is the sacrifice that the story requires. As Saul's eldest son he is the natural heir to his father's throne. He knows David has been anointed. He makes a covenant with David: gives him his robe, his armor, his sword, his bow, his belt. He strips himself of everything that marks him as crown prince and gives it to the man God has chosen instead. The soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David. Saul's descent is the mirror. He throws a spear at David twice. He sends him into dangerous battle hoping the Philistines will kill him. He pursues him through the wilderness of Ziph and En-gedi. Twice David has Saul in his power and refuses to strike. The LORD's anointed, he says, cannot be touched by my hand. The restraint is not weakness; it is faith that the throne does not need to be seized, only received. Thread 3 is the long wait for what the anointing guaranteed: Thread 3 operating across time, through suffering, to its appointed arrival. Thread 4 is David's genuine choices not to take the throne by force even when he could. Thread 1 is in Jonathan's selfless covenant love, the God who cannot stop reaching using the love of a friend to protect the anointed king through the years when the kingdom had not yet come.
The LORD was with David and was departed from Saul. The two sentences side by side describe the dispensational shift that the anointing enacted; Saul has the throne but not the Spirit; David has the Spirit but not yet the throne.
וְנֶפֶשׁ יְהוֹנָתָן נִקְשְׁרָה בְּנֶפֶשׁ דָּוִד (ve-nefesh Yehonatan niqsherah be-nefesh David): the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David: niqsherah (was knit, bound, Niphal of qashar, to bind, tie together; the binding is complete and passive, it happened to Jonathan's soul; the covenant friendship that follows is one of the most extraordinary in the OT, a model of selfless love that sacrifices dynastic ambition for genuine covenant loyalty)
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1 Samuel 19:24

The years between David's anointing and his coronation are the years of the fugitive: hunted by Saul, protected by Jonathan, living in caves and among Israel's enemies. The contrast runs through the whole final section of 1 Samuel: the LORD was with David and had departed from Saul. Jonathan is the sacrifice that the story requires. As Saul's eldest son he is the natural heir to his father's throne. He knows David has been anointed. He makes a covenant with David: gives him his robe, his armor, his sword, his bow, his belt. He strips himself of everything that marks him as crown prince and gives it to the man God has chosen instead. The soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David. Saul's descent is the mirror. He throws a spear at David twice. He sends him into dangerous battle hoping the Philistines will kill him. He pursues him through the wilderness of Ziph and En-gedi. Twice David has Saul in his power and refuses to strike. The LORD's anointed, he says, cannot be touched by my hand. The restraint is not weakness; it is faith that the throne does not need to be seized, only received. Thread 3 is the long wait for what the anointing guaranteed: Thread 3 operating across time, through suffering, to its appointed arrival. Thread 4 is David's genuine choices not to take the throne by force even when he could. Thread 1 is in Jonathan's selfless covenant love, the God who cannot stop reaching using the love of a friend to protect the anointed king through the years when the kingdom had not yet come.
The LORD was with David and was departed from Saul. The two sentences side by side describe the dispensational shift that the anointing enacted; Saul has the throne but not the Spirit; David has the Spirit but not yet the throne.
וְנֶפֶשׁ יְהוֹנָתָן נִקְשְׁרָה בְּנֶפֶשׁ דָּוִד (ve-nefesh Yehonatan niqsherah be-nefesh David): the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David: niqsherah (was knit, bound, Niphal of qashar, to bind, tie together; the binding is complete and passive, it happened to Jonathan's soul; the covenant friendship that follows is one of the most extraordinary in the OT, a model of selfless love that sacrifices dynastic ambition for genuine covenant loyalty)
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