1 Samuel 20:7

If he shall say thus, Well, — + 20:7 Gr. peace to your servant. all is safe for your servant: but if he shall answer harshly to you, know that evil is determined by him.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

If he say thus, It is well; thy servant shall have peace: but if he be very wroth, then be sure that evil is determined by him.

In Context

6And if your father do in anyway + 20:6 Or, notice me as present or absent. enquire for me, then shall you say, David earnestly asked leave of me to run to Bethleem his city, for there is there, a + 20:6 Gr. sacrifice of days. Hebraism. yearly sacrifice for all the family.

8And you shall deal mercifully with your servant; for you have brought your servant into a covenant of the Lord with yourself: and if there is iniquity in your servant, kill me yourself; but why do you thus bring me to your father?

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Cross References

1 Samuel 20:9And Jonathan said, That be far from you: for if I surely know that evil is determined by my father to come upon you, although it should not be against your cities, I will tell you.

2 Samuel 17:4And the saying was right in the eyes of Abessalom, and in the eyes of all the elders of Israel.

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 20:2-9

David Consults Jonathan. ( b. c. 1058.) 1 And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? what is mine iniquity? and what is my sin before thy father, that he seeketh my life? 2 And he said unto him, God forbid; thou shalt not die: behold, my father will do nothing either great or small, but that he will shew it me: and why should my father hide this thing from me? it is not so. 3 And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in… Read the whole commentary →

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