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the camp of King Saul, by the Valley of Elah, when David returned with the head of the Philistine, Goliath of Gath. Beside his father when the King challenged the stripling David with the question, “Whose son art thou, thou young man?” stood Jonathan, the heir to the throne. It reveals a very beautiful and very noble nature that at that moment there woke in his heart no other feeling than that of keen and enthusiastic admiration and affection. And David answered the King, “I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.” That was all that he said. But the way he said it, the simple, manly modesty of this young hero for God and his country, conquered the heart of Jonathan as in a moment. “And when David had made an end of speaking unto Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.” And then followed the first sealing of the friendship, after the fashion of those days, by the pledges which Jonathan gave David to bind it—