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1 Samuel 20:8
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1 Samuel 20:8
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8 As for you, show kindness to your servant, for you have brought him into a covenant(A) with you before the Lord. If I am guilty, then kill(B) me yourself! Why hand me over to your father?”
1 Samuel 20:8
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1 Samuel 20:8
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8 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?
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1 Samuel 20:16
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1 Samuel 20:16
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16 So Jonathan(A) made a covenant(B) with the house of David, saying, “May the Lord call David’s enemies to account.(C)”
1 Samuel 20:16
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1 Samuel 20:16
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16 So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let the Lord even require it at the hand of David's enemies.
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1 Samuel 20:17
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1 Samuel 20:17
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17 And Jonathan had David reaffirm his oath(A) out of love for him, because he loved him as he loved himself.
1 Samuel 20:17
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1 Samuel 20:17
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17 And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
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1 Samuel 20:42
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1 Samuel 20:42
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42 Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace,(A) for we have sworn friendship(B) with each other in the name of the Lord,(C) saying, ‘The Lord is witness(D) between you and me, and between your descendants and my descendants forever.(E)’” Then David left, and Jonathan went back to the town.[a]
Footnotes
- 1 Samuel 20:42 In Hebrew texts this sentence (20:42b) is numbered 21:1.
1 Samuel 20:42
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1 Samuel 20:42
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42 And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the Lord, saying, The Lord be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever. And he arose and departed: and Jonathan went into the city.
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1 Samuel 22:8
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1 Samuel 22:8
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8 Is that why you have all conspired(A) against me? No one tells me when my son makes a covenant(B) with the son of Jesse.(C) None of you is concerned(D) about me or tells me that my son has incited my servant to lie in wait for me, as he does today.”
1 Samuel 22:8
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1 Samuel 22:8
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8 That all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
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1 Samuel 23:18
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1 Samuel 23:18
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18 The two of them made a covenant(A) before the Lord. Then Jonathan went home, but David remained at Horesh.
1 Samuel 23:18
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1 Samuel 23:18
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18 And they two made a covenant before the Lord: and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.
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1 Samuel 24:21
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1 Samuel 24:21
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21 Now swear(A) to me by the Lord that you will not kill off my descendants or wipe out my name from my father’s family.(B)”
1 Samuel 24:21
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1 Samuel 24:21
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21 Swear now therefore unto me by the Lord, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father's house.
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2 Samuel 21:7
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2 Samuel 21:7
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7 The king spared Mephibosheth(A) son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the oath(B) before the Lord between David and Jonathan son of Saul.
2 Samuel 21:7
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2 Samuel 21:7
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7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the Lord's oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
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