{"id":"01KFXVBPB0VV6NVB7046FZ76C3","cid":"bafkreidjvmlq37qw6a6zdgqphtbkcwvxjyfpg7n22jrk7uuisez2uiohne","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":698,"extracted_at":"2026-01-26T19:09:17.319Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 1","source_file":"01KFXVA454RTKCJEQJMP0QKNKY","start_line":667,"text":" 466\tDavid and Jonathan\n 467\t\n 468\tBy\n 469\tHenry C.\n 470\tPotter, J.\n\n\n 471\t.\n\n\n 472\tDAVID AND JONATHAN\n 473\t\n 474\t![img-0.jpeg](arke:01KFXV84FENT9DQK099KR0TH0W)\n 475\t\n 476\tHE modern traveller in Palestine will find, about three miles south of Hebron, a rounded hill or height of some hundred feet, which the Arabs call *Tell Zif*. It is some three miles northward from Carmel, and half a mile east of it are some ruins, which are those probably of a citadel used by the tribe (the Ziphites) from which the hill takes its name. There are indications that once the place was heavily wooded, and the lay of the land shows that before the forest was burned or cut away it must have been a tolerably secure fastness or retreat.\n 477\t\n 478\tThere were two young men to whom, in an eventful crisis of their lives, it proved to be so. One of them was that youth, a little while before a shepherd boy, than whose history there is nothing more pict-\n\n\n 479\t90\n 480\t\n 481\turesque or romantic in ancient or modern times. A lad in his father's house, he goes one day to bring provisions to his brethren who were serving in King Saul's army. There was no commissariat, as we know the word, in those days. King Saul and his Captain of the host, Abner, would never have dreamed of the huge supply trains which nowadays accompany an army. The soldiers were left largely to shift for themselves, and if they had friends within reach, these were expected to feed them—if they could. And so David goes to the Valley of Elah, where King Saul was encamped with his army. The shepherd-boy has with him an “ephah of parched corn” and ten loaves, and with these he went to find his brethren. The battle had been set in array, and the Israelites waited for a champion who would face the Philistine giant.\n 482\t\n 483\tThey found him, but not where they looked for him, and David found that which, unlike a great many people, he had the vision to see and the courage to\n\n\n 484\t91\n 485\t\n 486\tseize—his opportunity. I may not tell his eventful story here, but there is one feature of it which any one of us who wants to do any worthy work in the world, whether for God or man, may well remember. I suppose that it was not only because the situation was so desperate, but because King Saul saw in David something that somehow made him believe in him, that led the King to say to David, “Go.” But evidently he did not believe in him enough to be willing that he should go as he was. And so he harnessed him with a coat of mail, which David had no sooner tried on than he promptly and most sensibly took off.\n 487\t\n 488\tThat is the difference between David and a great many people to-day. The world is full of men and women who are thinking what a grand fight they could make if they had somebody else’s sword and helmet and coat of mail. A boy looks at a box of tools, and then at a finished piece of work, and says, “Oh yes, I could make that if I had such tools to\n","title":"Chunk 1"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KFXVAZGZZ40G7M2CQSRME0BT","peer_label":"David and Jonathan","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KFXT0KM64XT6K8W52TDEE0YS","peer_label":"More Classics","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"}],"ver":1,"created_at":"2026-01-26T19:09:17.696Z","ts":"2026-01-26T19:09:17.696Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}