1 Samuel 20:8

And 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?

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the LORD with thee: notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?

In Context

7If 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.

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.

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Cross References

Genesis 24:49If then you⌃ will deal mercifully and justly with my lord, tell me, and if not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand or to the left.

Joshua 2:14And the men said to her, Our life for yours even to death: and she said, When the Lord shall have delivered the city to you, you⌃ shall deal mercifully and truly with me.

Ruth 1:8And Noemin said to her daughter-in-law, Go now, return each to the house of her mother: the Lord deal mercifully with you, as you⌃ have dealt with the dead, and with me.

1 Samuel 18:3And Jonathan and David made a covenant because he loved him as his own soul.

1 Samuel 23:18So they both made a covenant before the Lord; and David lived in Caene, and Jonathan went to his home.

1 Chronicles 12:17And David went out to meet them, and said to them, If you⌃ are come peaceably to me, let my heart be at peace with you: but if you⌃ are come to betray me to my enemies unfaithfully, the God of your fathers look upon it, and reprove it.

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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