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Week 7: David and Jonathan

Title: David and Jonathan

Objective: 

  • Godly friendship (David and Jonathan)
  • Jonathan remains loyal to David 
  • David and the Holy bread (preparedness before approaching the holies)
  • David moment of weakness in Gath 

Resources:

Reading:

  • General
    • 1 Samuel 20-23
  • Specific
    • Read and summarize 1 Samuel 20 (The deal between David and Jonathan to reveal his father's intentions)
    • Read and summarize 1 Samuel 21:1-10 (David and the Holy bread)
    • Read and summarize 1 Samuel 21:10-15 (David is fearful, forgetting God's protection)
    • Rad and summarize 1 Samuel 23:14-29 (Saul pursues David in the wilderness)

Key verse(s):

Review questions:

  1. What danger did Jonathan face by defending David?
  2. What did David ask Ahimelech to give him? Was David allowed to take it?
  3. Why did David change his behavior before the servants of Achish, and pretend to be mad in their hands?
  4. How does Saul justify his anger to Jonathan?
  5. Do you think Jonathan did the right thing to remain loyal to David against his father’s wish? Why?
  6. Was it right for David to eat the holy bread? Explain.
  7. Why did David change go to his enemies for safety?
  8. Prove that God guarded David from falling in the hands of Saul.

Homework:

  1. How many arrows did Jonathan use to give David a signal?
  2. Saul tried to kill his own son Jonathan. True or false?
  3. David asked Ahimelech to give him five ______ of ______.
  4. Fill the following statements by the following words: (king, priest, Nob, Gath)
    - Ahimelech was a ________ in _______.
    - Achish was a ________ in ________.
  5.  Jonathan was very faithful to David; write one verse to prove that.
  6. What was Jonathan about to face to defend his friend David in verse 33?
  7. What made Achish the King think that David was insane?
  8. The place where David was nearly captured by Saul was called the __________ of ___________.
  9. How did Jonathan prove his great commitment of friendship to David? 
  10. How were David and his people rescued from the hands of Saul and his people?