1 Samuel 20:13
If it pleases my father to do you harm, may Yahweh do to Jonathan and more also if I do not make it known to you and send you away, so that you may go in peace. May Yahweh be with you, as he has been with my father.
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14If I am still alive, will you not show me the covenant faithfulness of Yahweh, that I may not die?
Cross References
Ruth 1:17Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Yahweh punish me, and even more, if anything but death ever separates us.”
1 Samuel 10:7Now, when these signs come to you, do whatever your hand finds to do, for God is with you.
1 Samuel 14:47When Saul began to rule over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side. He fought against Moab, the Ammonites, Edom, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines. Wherever he turned, he inflicted punishment on them.
1 Samuel 18:12Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, but was no longer with Saul.
2 Samuel 3:35All the people came to make David eat while it was still day, but David swore, “May God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread or anything else before the sun goes down.”
2 Samuel 19:13Then say to Amasa, 'Are you not my flesh and my bone? God do so to me, and more also, if you are not captain of my army from now on in the place 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 →