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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
