1 Samuel 20:13
The LORD do so to Jonathan, and more also, should it please my father to do thee evil, if I disclose it not unto thee, and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace; and the LORD be with thee, as He hath been with my father.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
14And thou shalt not only while yet I live show me the kindness of the LORD, that I die not;
Cross References
Ruth 1:17where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the LORD do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.'
1 Samuel 10:7And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee, that thou do as thy hand shall find; for God is with thee.
1 Samuel 14:47So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines; and whithersoever he turned himself, he put them to the worse.
1 Samuel 18:12And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and was departed from Saul.
2 Samuel 3:35And all the people came to cause David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying: 'God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or aught else, till the sun be down.'
2 Samuel 19:13(19-14) And say ye to Amasa: Art thou not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.'
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 20:10-24
Jonathan's Covenant with David. ( b. c. 1058.) 9 And Jonathan said, Far be it from thee: for if I knew certainly that evil were determined by my father to come upon thee, then would not I tell it thee? 10 Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what if thy father answer thee roughly? 11 And Jonathan said unto David, Come, and let us go out into the field. And they went out both of them into the field. 12 And Jonathan said unto David, O Lord God of Israel, when I have sounded my father about to morrow… Read the whole commentary →