1 Samuel 20:13
thus YHWH does to Jonathan, and thus He adds; when the evil concerning you is good to my father, then I have uncovered your ear, and sent you away, and you have gone in peace, and YHWH is with you, as he was with my father;
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In The King James Version
In Context
14and not only while I am alive do you do the kindness of YHWH with me, and I do not die,
Cross References
Ruth 1:17Where you die I die, and there I am buried; thus does YHWH to me, and thus He adds—for death itself parts between me and you.”
1 Samuel 10:7and it has been, when these signs come to you—do for yourself as your hand finds, for God [is] with you.
1 Samuel 14:47and Saul captured the kingdom over Israel, and he fights all around against all his enemies, against Moab, and against the sons of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines, and wherever he turns he distresses [them].
1 Samuel 18:12And Saul is afraid of the presence of David, for YHWH has been with him, and He has turned aside from Saul;
2 Samuel 3:35And all the people come to cause David to eat bread while yet day, and David swears, saying, “Thus God does to me, and thus He adds, for—before the going in of the sun, I taste no bread or any other thing.”
2 Samuel 19:13And say to Amasa, Are you not my bone and my flesh? Thus God does to me, and thus He adds, if you are not head of the host before me instead of Joab [for] all the days.”
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 →