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:
- What danger did Jonathan face by defending David?
- What did David ask Ahimelech to give him? Was David allowed to take it?
- Why did David change his behavior before the servants of Achish, and pretend to be mad in their hands?
- How does Saul justify his anger to Jonathan?
- Do you think Jonathan did the right thing to remain loyal to David against his father’s wish? Why?
- Was it right for David to eat the holy bread? Explain.
- Why did David change go to his enemies for safety?
- Prove that God guarded David from falling in the hands of Saul.
Homework:
- How many arrows did Jonathan use to give David a signal?
- Saul tried to kill his own son Jonathan. True or false?
- David asked Ahimelech to give him five ______ of ______.
- Fill the following statements by the following words: (king, priest, Nob, Gath)
- Ahimelech was a ________ in _______.
- Achish was a ________ in ________. - Jonathan was very faithful to David; write one verse to prove that.
- What was Jonathan about to face to defend his friend David in verse 33?
- What made Achish the King think that David was insane?
- The place where David was nearly captured by Saul was called the __________ of ___________.
- How did Jonathan prove his great commitment of friendship to David?
- How were David and his people rescued from the hands of Saul and his people?