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There are many possible reasons for the significance of the holiday in the story. It could simply be that this seminal story took place on Rosh Chodesh. It was a time when David was expected to be at the king\u2019s side for a feast. But there must have been other occasions for David to go missing. He was Saul\u2019s court musician and one of his warriors. The new moon is also the best time for a secret meeting to take place in a field. During a full moon, the sky is bright and someone could not as easily slip away into the shadows. On Rosh Chodesh, the moon is just a sliver, bathing the land in darkness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Symbolically, Rosh Chodesh matches the story. Rosh Chodesh is the time of the new moon. Similarly, this was the time the new kingship of David was beginning. At the same time, the new moon is also the time when the moon is hardly visible and is not bright in the sky. Saul\u2019s reign is coming to an end, and the light of the first king is the darkest it has ever been. Rosh Chodesh is also a holiday controlled by the people. A series of witnesses must testify to the new moon. This could be a reminder to the people that they chose to have a king and are responsible for the current civil war that is brewing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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David and Jonathan are deeply in love. Except that David knows that Jonathan's father, King Saul, is not happy about Jonathan's relationship with David, who he sees as a threat to his reign.\u00a0 David sends Jonathan to the monthly meal at the palace to discern if Saul really wants to kill David, and heartbreak ensues. Saul calls Jonathan an \u201cembarrassment\u201d; the \u201cson of a perverse, rebellious woman\u201d (20:30). Jonathan bids a final farewell to David, save one more brief encounter they have in Chapter 23.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As much as Jonathan loved David, perhaps the real tragedy is that David never fully reciprocated that love in Jonathan\u2019s lifetime. David\u2019s destiny to become King of Israel came first. David did not invite Jonathan to come along with him when he runs away from Saul, going on to have his own adventures in life, leaving Jonathan behind. Ironically, David\u2019s success comes at Jonathan\u2019s expense. Jonathan is heir apparent to the throne and David\u2019s royal ambitions directly threaten Jonathan\u2019s position, a fact which Saul warns Jonathan about (20:31). But Jonathan does not care, as Ethics of the Fathers Chapter 5 asserts: \u201cWhat is love that is dependent on nothing and will always endure? That is the love between David and Jonathan.\u201d Jonathan sacrifices everything for the sake of seeing David succeed.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This chapter is in many ways a harbinger of Jonathan\u2019s ultimate fate, as he sticks with his father and is soon killed in war. Jonathan\u2019s ultimate demise feels sealed by the end of Chapter 20, if not yet physically, at least emotionally. David goes on to be king but is traumatized by Jonathan\u2019s death, and it is quite telling that David subsequently struggles to have appropriate relationships with women.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For many in the queer community this story is all too familiar. Boy meets boy. One of them is unable to fully actualize their relationship, courting various women and leaving behind his beloved for the sake of his career. The other, who perhaps had a brighter future laid out for him, is rejected by his father and sacrifices his beloved and ultimately his life for the sake of a love he knows will never be fully actualized.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But Saul was wrong. It was never David that was a threat to Jonathan\u2019s future, it was Saul\u2019s inability to accept that his son had found favor in David\u2019s eyes (20:3) that caused this whole tragedy. This story did not have to end in tragedy. Society was not ready for David and Jonathan, arguably why their love is conceived of by the sages as the ultimate love. I pray that families and communities have learned the lessons of the consequences of Saul\u2019s rejection.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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A central moral and political dilemma of the Book of Samuel is rooted in the dynamics of inherited kingship. The logic of dynastic monarchy defines the field of systematic ambiguity in which Samuel\u2019s power-seekers and power-wielders necessarily operate and interact. The monopoly of sovereign authority by a single house or lineage not only gives rise to a lethal winner-take-all struggle for supremacy; it also creates, as we now want to show, the fluid line between innocence and manipulation that David skillfully treads. The Book of Samuel contains a story of two dynasties, Saul\u2019s and David\u2019s, the second replacing the first. In line with the logic of dynastic structures, a usurper of monarchical power cannot permit any members of the previous dynasty to survive. This is a bitter but inescapable rule. If they live, survivors of the ousted dynasty will provide a dangerous rallying point for social forces discontent with the ruling family. Survivors will be resentful troublemakers, constantly conspiring against the upstart family who expropriated their hereditary rights. Any moment of public dissatisfaction with the new king will rekindle their latent hopes for restoration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It is no wonder that Jonathan, Saul\u2019s own son, who loved David and accepted him as the future king, was haunted by the possibility of both his own death and his descendants' extirpation at the hands of David. He even made David swear an oath to alleviate this fear:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cand the LORD shall be with you [David] as He was with my father [Saul]. Would that while I am still alive you may keep the LORD\u2019s faith with me, that I not die, and that you do not cut off your faithfulness from my house for all time\u2026<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For Jonathan had sealed a pact with the house of David and the LORD shall requite it from the hand of David.\u201d (1 Sam 20:13-16)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the end, David kept only the letter but not the spirit of this sacred oath. Yet David\u2019s reputation required its basic violation to be shrouded in ambiguity. Indeed, the detailed account of David\u2019s efforts to control his public image, both before and after he becomes king, is a striking feature in the Book of Samuel. It is no exaggeration to say that the principal question raised by our author\u2019s tale of two warring dynasties is this: How can David replace Saul without being blamed for regicide and without bloodying his hands with the politically unavoidable extinction of Saul\u2019s descendants?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Excerpts from The Beginning of Politics: Power in the Biblical Book of Samuel<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Moshe Halbertal and Stephen Holmes, Princeton University Press, 2017, pp.43-4. 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Were we to read the Torah only, we would have no idea that Rosh \u1e24odesh, the New Moon festival, was celebrated in any fashion beyond the central Sanctuary, whether it be the Tabernacle (as ordained in the Torah) or the Temple (built by King Solomon). There are only two mentions of Rosh \u1e24odesh in the entire Torah, and in both instances the day is marked by sacrifices at the Tabernacle (see Num 10:10, 28:11-15 \u2013 the latter verses are relatively well known since they are included in the Torah reading on Rosh \u1e24odesh).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It comes as a bit of a surprise, then, to read about non-Sanctuary based observances of the New Moon in 1 Samuel 20. First, in v. 5 we learn that King Saul has arranged for a special festive meal. David has been invited to participate, though in light of Saul\u2019s prior attempts to kill him (see chs. 18-19), David wisely stays away.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Next, when the festive meal occurs, and Saul notices David\u2019s absence (vv. 24-25), he says to himself, \u201cHe (must have had an) incident, he is not pure, for he is not pure\u201d (v. 26), with the word <\/span>miqreh<\/span><\/em> \u2018incident\u2019 suggesting that David had had a nocturnal emission (see Deut. 23:11).\u00a0 From this comment we learn that one needed to be in a state of ritual purity in order to participate in such Rosh \u1e24odesh celebrations. From the Torah we know that such was the case for ritual observances in the Tabernacle, but there is no indication that purity concerns extended beyond that domain.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The next verse uses the Hebrew expression, \u201cand on the morrow of the New-Moon, (on) the second (day)\u201d (v. 27), during which the festivities apparently continue, or at least once again Saul expects David to be present for the celebratory meal. This may imply something like the later Jewish custom of a two-day Rosh \u1e24odesh, depending on when the crescent new moon was sighted.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This time Saul says something, as he asks his son Jonathan, \u201cWhy did the son of Jesse not come, neither yesterday nor today, to the meal?\u201d (v. 27).\u00a0 At which point Jonathan explains that David requested to be absent, so that he could attend the <\/span>zeva\u1e25 mishpa\u1e25a<\/span><\/em> \u2018family sacrifice\u2019 in Bethlehem (vv. 28-29) (see earlier v. 6). I have translated the word <\/span>zeva\u1e25<\/em> <\/span>here as \u2018sacrifice\u2019, per its usual meaning, which suggests some sort of local ritual offering, conducted not at the Tabernacle, nor at any other cultic site apparently.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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I carry Jonathan\u2019s flasks of water, arrows and bows.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>At night, as I fall asleep,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>his image stands before my eyes:<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>a loner with a shock of black curls,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>understanding eyes, a calm smile,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>trust in the G-d of Israel emblazoned on his brow.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He shows me untrodden pathways across the hills,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span> where caves are hidden in the fields,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span> which berries to pluck in the valleys.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>When I grow up, I want to be brave like Jonathan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And when he becomes king,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>I shall remain his faithful servant.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This poem appears in Ruth Fogelman\u2019s book, <\/span>Leaving the Garden<\/span><\/i><\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"929 Poetry Corner","tile_main_caption":"Jonathan\u2019s Arms-Bearer","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"And when he becomes king, \/ I shall remain his faithful servant","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":"","tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"I Samuel","chapter":"20","chapter_main_number":"252","date":"20260817","wall_id":"252"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"362","name":"Poetry","old_id":"762"},{"term_id":"891","name":"Jonathan","old_id":"1291"}]},{"order":10,"id":"58482","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Jonathan\u2019s Psy-Ops And Intel Subterfuges ","post_title":"Jonathan\u2019s Psy-Ops And Intel Subterfuges","slug":"jonathans-psy-ops-and-intel-subterfuges","old_id":"58482","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":34243,"post_title":"Moshe Sokolow","slug":"moshe-sokolow","old_id":"34243","first_name":"Moshe","last_name":"Sokolow","description":"Dr. Moshe Sokolow is Associate Dean of the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, Yeshiva University, and teaches a weekly class in parashat hashavu`a at Lincoln Square Synagogue. He is the author of TANAKH: An Owner\u2019s Manual (Jerusalem: Urim\/Ktav, 2015).\r\n\r\n","short_description":"Dr. Moshe Sokolow is Associate Dean of the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, Yeshiva University","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":34244,"alt":"","title":"sokolow","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","width":302,"height":300,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow-300x298.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":298,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","medium_large-width":302,"medium_large-height":300,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","large-width":302,"large-height":300,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","1536x1536-width":302,"1536x1536-height":300,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","2048x2048-width":302,"2048x2048-height":300,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","post_full_size-width":302,"post_full_size-height":300,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sokolow.jpg","home_baner-width":302,"home_baner-height":300}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"252","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"David\u2019s man on the inside...","post_main_content_content":"

A good deal of this chapter may be familiar to some readers as the <\/span>haftarah<\/span><\/em> (additional reading for Sabbaths and festivals) for a Shabbat preceding the start of a new lunar month. It was chosen on account of the words \u201cTomorrow is the month\u201d (<\/span>machar chodesh<\/span><\/em>) with which Jonathan addressed David (18).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A recurring phenomenon in this chapter is how future conduct or behavior is assumed to be revealed through specific actions or words. First, David told Jonathan that he plans to absent himself from the royal table and asked his dear friend to \u201ccover\u201d for him by saying that he was invited home for a family affair. David reasoned that if Saul accepted that excuse for his absence, then he was free and clear, otherwise it signaled that the king\u2019s intentions towards him were malign (5 ff.).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Next, Jonathan and David contrived a way to get the message to David through a subterfuge. David was to secret himself in a particular place; Jonathan would practice archery nearby, and the manner in which he dispatched his lad to retrieve the arrows would alert David to the king\u2019s mood (19 ff.).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These incidents are highly reminiscent of an earlier one in which Jonathan and his armor bearer launched their commando-style attack on the Philistines based on how the sentry would challenge them (<\/span>see our comments to chapter 14<\/span><\/a>), and to Gideon\u2019s predicating his nighttime raid on the Midianites on overhearing the recitation of a dream. In all, the Israelites seem to have been adept at psychologically profiling their adversaries, and using that analysis as a basis for predicting their actions and dealing with them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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And he said to him, \u201cHeaven forbid! You shall not die! Look, my father will do nothing, whether great or small, without revealing it to me, and why should my father hide this thing from me? It cannot be!\u201d (20:2)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Commentary: <\/span>why should my father hide this thing from me\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n

If one considers Saul\u2019s previous behavior and his relationship with Jonathan, this faith in his father\u2019s openness with him seems singularly misplaced. Throughout, Jonathan remains well-meaning and naive, against the wary, calculating David.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From: Robert Alter, <\/span>The Hebrew Bible<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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Chapter 20 of the Book of Samuel ends with a powerful declaration of friendship between David and Jonathan: \u201c<\/span>We have sworn both of us in the name of God, saying, 'May God be between me and you, and between my descendants and your descendants forever.\u201d We have seen this deep friendship between a poor shepherd and the heir to the throne develop over the past few chapters, and now Jonathan cements it not just between him and David but for generations to come.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Though there are other instances of allegiances and partnerships in Tanach, none are representative of a pure unencumbered friendship such as this. Adam and Eve were partners, but then there was no-one else but them. Moses worked closely with his brother Aaron, and Ruth left her people to accompany her mother-in-law, Naomi. But those are relational alliances, which are an entirely different dynamic than \u201cjust friends\u201d. We may have a better understanding of the Torah nature of friendship if we look to the halls of Torah learning, typified by the model in which two people engage in intensive study for the purpose of both partners growing in their breadth and depth of understanding and spirituality. It\u2019s no coincidence that this learning model is called \u2018chavruta\u2019 from the same word meaning \u2018friendship\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi Dan Roth of Aish HaTorah, in his article <\/span>Friends <\/span><\/i>for Life: A Jewish Perspective on Friendship<\/span><\/em>, refers to the commentators on the Mishna who describe the purpose of a friend being to have someone to learn and grow from; someone who encourages us to grow while being honest about our weaknesses; \u201cto expand our personalities and broaden our way of thinking.\u201d Bringing that thinking to today, if we could focus on broadening how we think and how we see the world, rather than embed ourselves in the echo-chamber of our fast-held opinions, we could truly leverage the power of social media for purposeful friendship. The collective growth of spirituality could be exponential with that basis for friendship.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As the song lyrics, of unknown origin say (with apologies for those who will now have this stuck in their heads all day):<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Don\u2019t walk in front of me, I may not follow.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Don\u2019t walk behind me, I may not lead.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Just walk beside me and be my friend,<\/span>
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The daily chapter describes an event that occurred on the day before the new moon, at the beginning of the new month (<\/span>Machar Rosh Chodesh<\/span><\/em>)<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I understand Rosh Chodesh to mean a kind of a beginning, a new chapter, and above all, an opportunity to reroute, fine tune, and reorganize.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Do we take advantage of this opportunity?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Even Shoshan Hebrew dictionary lists two key meanings under the entry \"tomorrow\" (<\/span>machar<\/span><\/em>)<\/span><\/i>:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. \u00a0 <\/span>Tomorrow in the literal sense \u2013 the following day, one day on. (\"Tomorrow<\/span> is a rest day, a holy Sabbath to the Lord\" Ex. 16:23)<\/span>.<\/b><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. \u00a0 <\/span>Tomorrow meaning in the near or distant future (\"<\/span>If your son asks you in time to come\" Deut. 6:20).<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

    Our attitude to the concept of \"tomorrow\" is mixed.\u00a0 Sometimes we consider it to be exact and binding, and at other times, as a general promise or hope for the future (\"No problem, I'll take care of it tomorrow\" or ma\u00f1ana).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Reading this chapter teaches us to incorporate both aspects of \"tomorrow\" when looking ahead.\u00a0 This idea is based on the understanding that a single day is not an independent entity, but rather an act or event that we do or experience tomorrow (in the literal sense) but which contain the seeds of the near or distant future.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The tension between Saul and David, and the secret code that Jonathan devised to let David know what the immediate (tomorrow) and distant future holds was not intended for David alone, but also for future generations. \"<\/span>Behold, the arrows are beyond you\". These words were not only intended for that specific occasion but also, I believe, he was also \"prophesizing\" <\/span>future events about a split in the kingdom of Israel and tribal divisions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Thinking about the concept of \"tomorrow\" and the phrase <\/span>Machar Rosh Chodesh<\/span><\/i> makes me wonder if the Scripture is trying to teach us to view every single tomorrow as if it were a new beginning.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    When Saul celebrated the new month, \"all those who eat at the king's table came on the festive day to the table and no one was absent\" (Rashi: I Sam. 20:18).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    At the beginning of each month, everyone has to be present before the king. This is a day without any excuses for absence - a day of introspection and for coming before Him with all the seriousness that such an event demands.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Taking this idea further, we are given this opportunity, and indeed responsibility, every single day to ask ourselves where we are standing.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    To plan and execute a meaningful tomorrow, both for the day itself, and a tomorrow which has the potential to develop and (positively) influence the future.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    If we understand the dual concept of tomorrow, how will we understand the concept of today?
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    \r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Translated by Chava Wilschanski<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":58471,"alt":"","title":"isam20-sunrise","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam20-sunrise.jpg","width":1920,"height":960,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam20-sunrise-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam20-sunrise-300x150.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":150,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam20-sunrise-768x384.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":384,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam20-sunrise-1024x512.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":512,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam20-sunrise.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":768,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam20-sunrise.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":960,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam20-sunrise-1200x600.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":600,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/isam20-sunrise-840x420.jpg","home_baner-width":840,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"Tomorrow And Tomorrow And Tomorrow\u2026","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"All tomorrows are a new beginning. 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    1. New moon? Par-tay!<\/span><\/i> The new moon is revealed in this chapter to be a full-blown holiday, which, like any festival worthy of the name, is celebrated with a big family feast, including in the royal family.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    2. Well-worn alibi.<\/span><\/i> The family sacrifice in Bethlehem, which serves as the cover story to explain David\u2019s absence from the royal festival meal, is reminiscent of the excuse that God suggested to Samuel, when he went to anoint David in Bethlehem: \u201csay, \u2018I have come to sacrifice to the LORD\u2019\u201d (16:2).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    3. It\u2019s either him or you<\/em>. Saul clarifies to Jonathan the meaning of being loyal to David. \u201cFor as long as the son of Jesse lives on earth, neither you nor your kingship will be secure\u201d (verse 31).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
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    \u201cStanding By and Bystanding\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Tamar Grimm: When is the right time to become involved in a situation?<\/span><\/p>\r\n