1 SAMUEL 19:3 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou art, and I will commune with my father of thee; and what I see, that I will tell thee.”
And Jonathan told David, saying, My father Saul is seeking your life — Jonathan's *va'yagid le'David*, told David, represents an act of dangerous loyalty, the transmission of information that violates his father's confidence but preserves his friend's life. The *naphshi avi Shaul* (my father Saul is seeking your life) is both literal warning and implicit covenant renewal: Jonathan's knowledge of the threat makes his allegiance to David all the more costly and meaningful. The phrase *chaput et nefshecha*, seeking your life, invokes the language of covenant violation, the deliberate breaking of the obligation to preserve life.
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