Shabbat Shalom!
Welcome to Bamidbar / In the Wilderness - this week's Prophetic reading

1 Samuel 20:18-42;

18 And Jonathan said to him, Tomorrow is the new moon, and you shall be expected, for your seat will be empty.
19 And on the third day you shall quickly come down, and shall come there to the place where you were hidden in the day of the deed. And you shall remain near the stone Ezel.
20 And I will shoot three arrows to the side, shooting at a mark for myself.
21 And, behold, I shall send a boy, saying, Find the arrows! If I expressly say to the boy, Behold, the arrows are on this side of you, take them; then you come, for peace shall be to you, and there is nothing, as YAHUVEH lives.
22 But if I say to the young man, Behold, the arrows are away from you and onwards; go, for YAHUVEH has sent you away.
23 As to the thing which we have spoken, you and I; behold, YAHUVEH is between you and me forever.
24 And David was hidden in the field. And it was the new moon. And the king sat down by the food to eat.
25 And the king sat on his seat, as from time to time, on the seat by the wall. And Jonathan rose up, and Abner sat at Saul's side. And David's place was empty.
26 But Saul did not say anything on that day, for he said, It is an accident; he is not clean; he is surely not clean.
27 And it happened on the day after the new moon, David's place was empty. And Saul said to his son Jonathan, Why has the son of Jesse not come to the meal, either yesterday or today?
28 And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked of me to go to Bethlehem.
29 And he said, Please send me away, for we have a family sacrifice in the city, and my brother commanded me. And now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me be released, and to see my brothers. So he has not come to the table of the king.
30 And the anger of Saul glowed against Jonathan. And he said to him, Son of a perverse rebelliousness! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your shame, and to the shame of the nakedness of your mother?
31 For as long as the son of Jesse lives on earth you shall not be established, you and your kingdom. And now send and bring him to me, for he is a son of death.
32 And Jonathan answered his father Saul, and said to him, Why should he die? What has he done?
33 And Saul threw the spear at him, to strike him. And Jonathan knew that it had been determined by his father to kill David.
34 And Jonathan rose up from the table in the heat of anger. And he did not eat food on the second day of the David. For his father had put him to shame.
35 And it happened in the morning that Jonathan went out in the field for the meeting with David. And a little boy was with him.
36 And he said to the boy, Now run and find the arrow which I am shooting. The boy ran, and he shot the arrow, causing it to pass over him.
37 And the boy came to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot. And Jonathan called after the boy and said, Is the arrow not away from you and onwards?
38 And Jonathan called after the boy, Hurry, make haste, do not stand! And Jonathan's boy gathered the arrow and came to his master.
39 And the boy did not know anything. Only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
40 And Jonathan gave his weapons to the boy with him, and said to him, Go, bring them to the city.
41 The boy left, and David rose up from the south side. And he fell on his face to the ground. And he bowed three times. And they each one kissed his friend. And they each wept on his friend, until David was overcome.
42 And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, because we have sworn, the two of us, in the name of YAHUVEH, saying, YAHUVEH shall be between you and me, and between my seed and your seed forever. And he rose up and went. And Jonathan went into the city.

Matthew 4:1-17;

1 Then YAHUSHUA was led up into the wilderness by the Spirit, to be tempted by the Devil.
2 And having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He hungered.
3 And coming near to Him, the accuser said, If You are the Son of Elohim, speak that these stones may become loaves.
4 But answering, He said, It has been written "Man shall not live by bread alone, but on every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of YAHUVEH." (Deut. 8:3)
5 Then the accuser takes Him to the holy city, and he set Him on the pinnacle of the sanctuary.
6 And he said to Him, If You are the Son of Elohim, throw Yourself down; for it has been written "He shall give His cherubs charge concerning You, and they shall bear You on their hands, lest You strike Your foot against a stone." (Psa. 91:11, 12)
7 YAHUSHUA said to him, Again it has been written "You shall not test YAHUVEH your Elohim." (Deut. 6:16)
8 Again the Devil takes Him to a very high mountain, and shows to Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.
9 And said to Him. I will give all these things to You if falling down, You will worship me.
10 Then YAHUSHUA said to him, Go, Satan! For it has been written "You shall worship YAHUVEH your Elohim, and Him only shall you serve." (Deut. 6:13)
11 Then the accuser left Him. And behold! Cherubs came near and ministered to Him.
12 But YAHUSHUA hearing that John was arrested, He withdrew into Galilee.
13 And having left Nazareth, having come He lived at Capernaum, beside the sea in the districts of Zebulun and Naphtali,
14 so that might be fulfilled that spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying
15 "Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, way of the sea, the crossings of the Jordan, Galilee of the nations
16 the people sitting in darkness saw a great Light; and to those sitting in the land and shadow of death, Light sprang up to them." (Isa. 9:1,2)
17 From that time YAHUSHUA began to preach and to say, Repent! For the kingdom of Heaven has drawn near.