📖WEB · 1 Samuel 20:21
What does 1 Samuel 20:21 mean?
"Behold, I will send the boy, saying, ‘Go, find the arrows!’ If I tell the boy, ‘Behold, the arrows are on this side of you. Take them;’ then come; for there is peace to you and no danger, as Yahweh lives."
— 1 Samuel 20:21 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Then Jonathan said to him, “Tomorrow is the new moon, and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty.
When you have stayed three days, go down quickly, and come to the place where you hid yourself when this started, and remain by the stone Ezel.
I will shoot three arrows on its side, as though I shot at a mark.
Behold, I will send the boy, saying, ‘Go, find the arrows!’ If I tell the boy, ‘Behold, the arrows are on this side of you. Take them;’ then come; for there is peace to you and no danger, as Yahweh lives.
But if I say this to the boy, ‘Behold, the arrows are beyond you;’ then go your way; for Yahweh has sent you away.
Concerning the matter which you and I have spoken of, behold, Yahweh is between you and me forever.”
So David hid himself in the field. When the new moon had come, the king sat himself down to eat food.
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