Let's Go Out Into The Field

1 Samuel 20:8-15 – As for you, show kindness to your servant, for you have brought him into a covenant with you before the Lord. If I am guilty, then kill me yourself! Why hand me over to your father?” “Never!” Jonathan said. “If I had the least inkling that my father was determined to harm you, wouldn’t I tell you?” David asked, “Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?” “Come,” Jonathan said, “let’s go out into the field.” So they went there together. Then Jonathan said to David, “I swear by the Lord, the God of Israel, that I will surely sound out my father by this time the day after tomorrow! If he is favorably disposed toward you, will I not send you word and let you know? But if my father intends to harm you, may the Lord deal with Jonathan, be it ever so severely, if I do not let you know and send you away in peace. May the Lord be with you as he has been with my father. But show me unfailing kindness like the Lord’s kindness as long as I live, so that I may not be killed, and do not ever cut off your kindness from my family—not even when the Lord has cut off every one of David’s enemies from the face of the earth.”

Genesis 4:8 – Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.” While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

Ruth 1:17 – Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me.”

2 Kings 11:1 – When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to destroy the whole royal family.

Application:

• ·         The first murder was especially monstrous because it was committed with deliberate deceit, against a brother and against a good man—a striking illustration of the awful consequences of the fall.
• ·         Ruth, a non-Israelite, swore her commitment to Naomi in the name of Israel’s God, thus acknowledging Him as her God.
• ·         Athaliah’s attempt to completely destroy the house of David was an attack on God’s redemptive plan—a plan that centered in the Messiah, which the Davidic covenant promised

All Scripture verses taken from NIV