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Samuel 20 from Scroll 4Q51 Samuela
37 When the boy had come
to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the
boy, and said, “Isn’t the arrow beyond you?” 38 Jonathan cried after the boy, “Go fast! Hurry! Don’t delay!” Jonathan’s boy gathered up the
arrows, and came to his master. 39 But the boy didn’t know anything. Only Jonathan
and David knew the matter. 40 Jonathan
gave his weapons to his boy, and said
to him, “Go, carry them to the city.”
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Samuel 20 from Scroll 4Q52 Samuelb
26 Nevertheless
Saul didn’t say anything that day, for he thought, “Something has happened to
him. He is not clean. Surely he is not clean.”
27 On the next day after
the new moon, the second day, David’s place was empty. Saul said to
Jonathan his son, “Why doesn’t the son of Jesse come to eat at the table, either yesterday, or today?”
28 Jonathan
answered Saul,
“David earnestly asked permission of me to go to Bethlehem. 29 He said,
‘Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice in the city. As
for me, my brother has commanded me
to be there. Now please, if I have found
favor in your eyes, please let me go away and see my brothers.’ Therefore he
has not come to the king’s table.”
30 Then Saul’s anger
burned greatly against
Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse
rebellious woman rebellious slave girl,
don’t I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to
the shame of your mother’s nakedness? 31 For as long as the son of
Jesse lives on the earth, you will not be established,
nor will your kingdom. Therefore now send
and bring him to me, for he shall surely die!”
32 Jonathan
answered Saul
his father, and said to him, “Why should
he be put to death? What has he done?”
33 Saul cast his spear
at him to strike him. By this Jonathan
knew that his father was determined to put David to death. 34 So Jonathan arose
shot up from
the table in fierce anger, and ate no food the second day of the month;
for he was grieved for David, because his father had treated him shamefully.
35 In the morning, Jonathan went out
into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little boy with him.
36 He said to his boy, “Run, find now take
the arrows which I shoot.” As the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him toward the city. 37 When the boy had
come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the boy, and said, “Isn’t the arrow
beyond you?” 38 Jonathan cried after the boy lad, “Go fast! Hurry! Don’t delay!” Jonathan’s boy gathered up the arrows, and came
to his master. 39 But the boy didn’t know anything. Only Jonathan and
David knew the matter. 40 Jonathan
gave his weapons to his boy, and said to him, “Go, carry them to the city.”
41 As
soon as the boy was gone, David arose out of the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and
bowed himself three times. They kissed one another,
and wept one with another, and David wept the most. 42 Jonathan said to
David, “Go in peace, because we have both sworn
in Yahweh’s name, saying, ‘Yahweh is between me and you, and between my
offspring and your offspring, forever.’ ” He
David arose and departed; and Jonathan went into
toward the city.