...Wilderness of Ziph, with a few friends, who clung to his broken fortunes. " Fear not," said Jonathan, " for the hand of Saul, my father, shall not find thee, and thou shalt be king over Israel ; and that also Saul, my father, knowetn." His words were true. David became king, and Saul, who had so often...

...went to him in the wood of the wilderness of Ziph, and ' strengthened his hand in God,' — ' and he said unto him, Fear not ; for the hand of Saul my...unto thee ; and that also Saul my father knoweth,' xziii.16,17. 124. Thus we have Samuel before his death in close and intimate relations with David,...

...Johathan Saul's son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God. And he said unto him, Fear not: for the hand of Saul my father...and thou shalt be king over Israel, and I shall be Erit unto thee; and that also Saul my father knoweth. And they two made a covenant before the Lord:...

...wood when his father pursued David to take his life? The great-hearted Jonathan ! And what said he ? "Fear not; for the hand of Saul, my father, shall not find thce ; Rnd thou shall U king over Israel, and I shall be n-ext KHtO thce : and that also Saul, my father...

...would rather have the crown upon David's head than his own, as the words intimate, 1 Sam. xxiii. 17, ' Thou shalt be king over Israel, and I shall be next unto thee.' And grieved more for hie father's displeasure against David than against himself. So doth a Christian *...

...narrative ! Here we are told that Jonathan came to David, " and strengthened his hand in God. And he said unto him, Fear not; for the hand of Saul my father...knoweth. And they two made a covenant before the Lord." (1 Sam. xxiii. 16-18.) Where in history shall we find another such scene ? Here the heir-apparent to...

...from Saul by the invasion of the Philistines. not ; for the hand of Saul my father shall not finde thee, and thou shalt be king over Israel, and I shall...knoweth. And they two made a covenant before the LORD : and David abode in the wood, and lonathan went to his house. Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to...

...to his covenant. There is something pathetic in the words which he spoke at their last interview : " Thou shalt be king over Israel, and I shall be next unto thee" (1 Sam. xxiii. 17). He knew that he was to be supplanted, yet he clasped hands with the same loyal...

...David. Yet even when Jonathan learned all that, it did not destroy this so unselfish friendship : ' Thou shalt be king over Israel, and I shall be next unto thee,' he said (xxiii. 17). This, then, distinguishes that classic friendship. It ' smote the chord of Self,...

...to his covenant. There is something pathetic in the words which he spoke at their last interview : " Thou shalt be king over Israel, and I shall be next unto thee" (1 Sam. xxiii. 17). He knew that he was to be supplanted, yet he clasped hands with the same loyal...