Znaleziono 1160 Wyniki dla: Father Of The Nation
and the talk went round among them, Saw you this warrior that went by? He has challenged Israel; and great good fortune awaits the man who overcomes him. The king has promised such a man great riches, and his daughter’s hand in marriage, and for his father’s house, freedom from every tax levied in Israel. (1 Samuel 17, 25)
But David told Saul, My lord, I used to feed my father’s flock; and if lion or bear came and carried off one of my rams, (1 Samuel 17, 34)
So the king bade him find out who the boy’s father was; (1 Samuel 17, 56)
Why, David answered, who am I, what rank have I, what place does my father’s kindred hold in Israel, that I should become the king’s son-in-law? (1 Samuel 18, 18)
told him of the design; My father Saul, he said, means thy death; be on the watch tomorrow, keep apart, and hide thyself. (1 Samuel 19, 2)
Out in the open fields, close to thy hiding-place, I will stand talking to my father and will speak to him of thee; and afterwards I will tell thee what I have learned. (1 Samuel 19, 3)
So Jonathan pleaded David’s cause with his father Saul; Do no wrong he said, to thy servant David, that has done thee no wrong, but is much thy benefactor. (1 Samuel 19, 4)
David meanwhile escaped from the Naioth at Ramatha, and came back to have speech with Jonathan. What is it I have done? he asked. For what wrong, what fault of mine does thy father threaten my life? (1 Samuel 20, 1)
Nay, said he, never that; thy life is safe enough. My father does nothing, of much moment or of little, without telling me first; why should he have kept this one design dark? It cannot be. (1 Samuel 20, 2)
And once again he swore friendship. But David said, Thy father knows well enough what favour I enjoy with thee, and he thinks to himself, Jonathan must not know; this were great grief to him. But, as the Lord is a living God, and thy soul a living soul, there is but a step between me and death. (1 Samuel 20, 3)
and if thy father looks about him and misses me, tell him that David asked leave of thee to go home on a sudden to Bethlehem, where all his clan are holding their yearly sacrifice. (1 Samuel 20, 6)
I am thy servant, and thou hast made me swear a covenant of friendship with thee before the Lord; do me, then, this kindness. And if I am guilty of any fault, do thou thyself slay me, without seeking to reconcile me with thy father. (1 Samuel 20, 8)
