1 Samuel 20:13-17
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[13] Yahweh do so to Jonathan, and more also, should it please my father to do you evil, if I don't disclose it to you, and send you away, that you may go in peace: and Yahweh be with you, as he has been with my father. [14] You shall not only while yet I live show me the loving kindness of Yahweh, that I not die; [15] but also you shall not cut off your kindness from my house forever; no, not when Yahweh has cut off the enemies of David everyone from the surface of the earth. [16] So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, [saying], Yahweh will require it at the hand of David's enemies. [17] Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had to him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
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Get a full Reformed explanation of this passageBethlehem was David’s hometown in Judah, the place he cites as his family’s sacrificial gathering to explain his absence from Saul’s table. Naioth, near Ramah, was the prophetic community where David had previously fled from Saul; though not named in these verses, it forms part of the immediate background to David’s danger.
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1 Samuel 20:13-17 mentions Bethlehem and Naioth.
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