TBESH · H9005
/ל · l · to/for
Prefix lamed: to
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/ל (l) means “to/for” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: l STEP transliteration; pronunciation varies by reading tradition.
/ל · l · to/for
Prefix lamed: to
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Page 90 of 241. 12010 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
Then Saul stripped off his robes and also prophesied before Samuel. And he collapsed and lay naked all that day and night. That is why it is said, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”
Read word by wordThen David fled from Naioth in Ramah. He came to Jonathan and asked, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? How have I sinned against your father, that he wants to take my life?”
Read word by word“Far from it!” Jonathan replied. “You will not die. Indeed, my father does nothing, great or small, without telling me. So why would he hide this matter from me? This cannot be true!”
Read word by wordThen Jonathan said to David, “Whatever you desire, I will do for you.”
Read word by wordSo David told him, “Look, tomorrow is the New Moon, and I am supposed to dine with the king. Instead, let me go and hide in the field until the third evening from now.
Read word by wordIf your father misses me at all, tell him, ‘David urgently requested my permission to hurry to Bethlehem, his hometown, because there is an annual sacrifice for his whole clan.’
Read word by wordIf he says, ‘Good,’ then your servant is safe, but if he is enraged, you will know he has evil intentions.
Read word by wordTherefore show kindness to your servant, for you have brought me into a covenant with you before the LORD. If there is iniquity in me, then kill me yourself; why should you bring me to your father?”
Read word by word“Never!” Jonathan replied. “If I ever found out that my father had evil intentions against you, would I not tell you?”
Read word by wordThen David asked Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?”
Read word by wordBut if my father intends to bring evil on you, then may the LORD punish me, and ever so severely, if I do not tell you and send you on your way in safety. May the LORD be with you, just as He has been with my father.
Read word by wordAnd Jonathan had David reaffirm his vow out of love for him, for Jonathan loved David as he loved himself.
Read word by wordThen Jonathan said to David, “Tomorrow is the New Moon, and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty.
Read word by wordI will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as if I were aiming at a target.
Read word by wordThen I will send a boy and say, ‘Go, find the arrows!’ Now, if I expressly say to him, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; bring them,’ then come, because as surely as the LORD lives, it is safe for you, and there is no danger.
Read word by wordBut if I say to the young man, ‘Look, the arrows are beyond you,’ then you must go, for the LORD has sent you away.
Read word by wordSo David hid in the field, and when the New Moon had come, the king sat down to eat.
Read word by wordsaying, ‘Please let me go, because our clan is holding a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has told me to be there. So now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go and see my brothers.’ That is why he has not come to the king’s table.”
Read word by wordThen Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of the mother who bore you?
Read word by word“Why must he be put to death?” Jonathan replied. “What has he done?”
Read word by wordThen Saul hurled his spear at Jonathan to kill him. So Jonathan knew that his father was determined to kill David.
Read word by wordIn the morning Jonathan went out to the field for the appointment with David, and a small boy was with him.
Read word by wordHe said to the boy, “Run and find the arrows I shoot.” And as the boy ran, Jonathan shot an arrow beyond him.
Read word by wordThen Jonathan gave his equipment to the boy and said, “Go, take it back to the city.”
Read word by wordWhen the young man had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone, fell facedown, and bowed three times. Then he and Jonathan kissed each other and wept together—though David wept more.
Read word by wordAnd Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, for the two of us have sworn in the name of the LORD, saying, ‘May the LORD be a witness between you and me, and between your descendants and mine forever.’” Then David got up and departed, and Jonathan went back into the city.
Read word by wordThen David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And when Ahimelech met David, he trembled and asked him, “Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.2
“The king has given me a mission,” David replied. “He told me no one is to know about the mission on which I am sending you. And I have directed my young men to meet me at a certain place.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.3
David answered, “Women have indeed been kept from us, as is usual when I set out. And the bodies of the young men are holy even on common missions. How much more so today!”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.6
So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there but the Bread of the Presence, which had been removed from before the LORD and replaced with hot bread on the day it was taken away.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.7
Now one of Saul’s servants was there that day, detained before the LORD. And his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief shepherd for Saul.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.8
Then David asked Ahimelech, “Is there not a spear or sword on hand here? For I have brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s mission was urgent.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.9
The priest replied, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here; it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want, you may take it. For there is no other but this one here.” And David said, “There is none like it; give it to me.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.10
But the servants of Achish said to him, “Is this not David, the king of the land? Did they not sing about him in their dances, saying: ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands’?”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.12
Then Achish said to his servants, “Look, you can see that the man is insane! Why have you brought him to me?
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.15
Am I in need of madmen, that you have brought this man to rave in my presence? Must this man come into my house?”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.16
And all who were distressed or indebted or discontented rallied around him, and he became their leader. About four hundred men were with him.
Read word by wordFrom there David went to Mizpeh of Moab, where he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and mother stay with you until I learn what God will do for me.”
Read word by wordThen the prophet Gad said to David, “Do not stay in the stronghold. Depart and go into the land of Judah.” So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.
Read word by wordThen Saul said to his servants, “Listen, men of Benjamin! Is the son of Jesse giving all of you fields and vineyards and making you commanders of thousands or hundreds?
Read word by wordIs that why all of you have conspired against me? Not one of you told me that my own son had made a covenant with the son of Jesse. Not one of you has shown concern for me or revealed to me that my son has stirred up my own servant to lie in wait against me, as is the case today.”
Read word by wordAhimelech inquired of the LORD for him and gave him provisions. He also gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”
Read word by wordThen the king sent messengers to summon Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and his father’s whole family, who were priests at Nob. And all of them came to the king.
Read word by wordAnd Saul asked him, “Why have you and the son of Jesse conspired against me? You gave him bread and a sword and inquired of God for him so that he could rise up against me to lie in wait, as he is doing today.”
Read word by wordWas that day the first time I inquired of God for him? Far be it from me! Let not the king accuse your servant or any of my father’s household, for your servant knew nothing of this whole affair—not in part or in whole.”
Read word by wordThen the king ordered the guards at his side, “Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, because they too sided with David. For they knew he was fleeing, but they did not tell me.” But the king’s servants would not lift a hand to strike the priests of the LORD.
Read word by wordSo the king ordered Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests!” And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests himself. On that day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.
Read word by wordHe also put to the sword Nob, the city of the priests, with its men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep.
Read word by wordBut one of the sons of Ahimelech son of Ahitub escaped. His name was Abiathar, and he fled to David.
Read word by wordAnd Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the priests of the LORD.
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