The Covenant Renewed and the Test Planned

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And Jonathan saith unto David, `Jehovah, God of Israel--when I search my father, about this time to-morrow or the third day , and lo, good is towards David, and I do not then send unto thee, and have uncovered thine ear--

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thus doth Jehovah do to Jonathan, and thus doth He add; when the evil concerning thee is good to my father, then I have uncovered thine ear, and sent thee away, and thou hast gone in peace, and Jehovah is with thee, as he was with my father;

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and not only while I am alive dost thou do with me the kindness of Jehovah, and I die not,

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but thou dost not cut off thy kindness from my house unto the age, nor in Jehovah's cutting off the enemies of David, each one from off the face of the ground.'

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And Jonathan covenanteth with the house of David, and Jehovah hath sought it from the hand of the enemies of David;

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and Jonathan addeth to cause David to swear, because he loveth him, for with the love of his own soul he hath loved him.

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And Jonathan saith to him, `To-morrow is new moon, and thou hast been looked after, for thy seat is looked after;

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and on the third day thou dost certainly come down, and hast come in unto the place where thou wast hidden in the day of the work, and hast remained near the stone Ezel.

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`And I shoot three of the arrows at the side, sending out for myself at a mark;

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and lo, I send the youth: Go, find the arrows. If I at all say to the youth, Lo, the arrows are on this side of thee--take them, --then come thou, for peace is for thee, and there is nothing; Jehovah liveth.

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And if thus I say to the young man, Lo, the arrows are beyond thee, --go, for Jehovah hath sent thee away;

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as to the thing which we have spoken, I and thou, lo, Jehovah is between me and thee--unto the age.'

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