1 SAMUEL 20:2 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And he said unto him, God forbid; thou shalt not die: behold, my father will do nothing either great or small, but that he will shew it me: and why should my father hide this thing from me? it is not so.”
And he said to him, Far be it from you; you shall not die — Jonathan's *va'yomer lo chililah*, far be it from you, is an oath of protection, an absolute assertion that David will not fall to Saul's hatred. The *lo tamut* (you shall not die) is covenant language, a vow that Jonathan stakes his own honor and life upon. Yet Jonathan acknowledges that his father has not revealed his intentions to him, suggesting that Saul's murderous plans are still not fully transparent, still somehow secret despite their obviousness.
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