1 Samuel 19:1

I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life.

He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net.

Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s life;

Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had to him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn’t kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.

The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to kill him.

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the local governors, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong decree, that whoever asks a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.

When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods”—which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;

Jonathan told David, saying, “Saul my father seeks to kill you. Now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, and live in a secret place, and hide yourself.

Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.

He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.

Jacob saw the expression on Laban’s face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.

The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecuted him:

So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.

The people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God today!” So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn’t die.

When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

He said to David, “You are more righteous than I; for you have done good to me, whereas I have done evil to you.

He said, “Why does my lord pursue his servant? For what have I done? What evil is in my hand?

Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives. In their death, they were not divided. They were swifter than eagles. They were stronger than lions.

David went out to meet them, and answered them, “If you have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if you have come to betray me to my adversaries, since there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers see this and rebuke it.”

The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,

They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.

Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.

They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

He turned their heart to hate his people, to conspire against his servants.

In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.

Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.

Don’t devise evil against your neighbor, since he dwells securely by you.

The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Don’t lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don’t destroy his resting place;

The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’

Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and seize his inheritance.’

Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.

Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

But those farmers said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

Therefore don’t yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse to neither eat nor drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you.”

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

and don’t give place to the devil.

For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you.

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled,

Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

Saul watched David from that day and forward.