1 Samuel 20:32

World English Bible (2000)

Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, "Why should he be put to death? What has he done?"

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  • 1 Sam 19:5 : 5 for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?"
  • Matt 27:23 : 23 But the governor said, "Why? What evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, saying, "Let him be crucified!"
  • Luke 23:22 : 22 He said to them the third time, "Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him."
  • John 7:51 : 51 "Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?"
  • Gen 31:36 : 36 Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, "What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me?
  • 1 Sam 18:11 : 11 and Saul threw the spear; for he said, "I will pin David even to the wall!" David escaped from his presence twice.
  • 1 Sam 19:10-11 : 10 Saul sought to pin David even to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he stuck the spear into the wall. David fled, and escaped that night. 11 Saul sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, "If you don't save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed."
  • 1 Sam 20:7 : 7 If he says, 'It is well;' your servant shall have peace: but if he be angry, then know that evil is determined by him.
  • Prov 22:24 : 24 Don't befriend a hot-tempered man, and don't associate with one who harbors anger:
  • Prov 24:11-12 : 11 Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter! 12 If you say, "Behold, we didn't know this;" doesn't he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn't he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?
  • Prov 31:8-9 : 8 Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate. 9 Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy."
  • Eccl 7:9 : 9 Don't be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
  • Eccl 9:3 : 3 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
  • Jer 17:9 : 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

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  • 1 Sam 20:33-34
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    33 Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.

    34 So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and ate no food the second day of the month; for he was grieved for David, because his father had done him shame.

  • 1 Sam 20:1-4
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    1 David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, "What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?"

    2 He said to him, "Far from it; you shall not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it to me; and why should my father hide this thing from me? It is not so."

    3 David swore moreover, and said, "Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, 'Don't let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved:' but truly as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death."

    4 Then Jonathan said to David, "Whatever your soul desires, I will even do it for you."

  • 1 Sam 20:8-13
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    8 Therefore deal kindly with your servant; for you have brought your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you: but if there be in me iniquity, kill me yourself; for why should you bring me to your father?"

    9 Jonathan said, "Far be it from you; for if I should at all know that evil were determined by my father to come on you, then wouldn't I tell you that?"

    10 Then David said to Jonathan, "Who shall tell me if perchance your father answers you roughly?"

    11 Jonathan said to David, "Come, and let us go out into the field." They both went out into the field.

    12 Jonathan said to David, "Yahweh, the God of Israel, [be witness]: when I have sounded my father about this time tomorrow, [or] the third day, behold, if there be good toward David, shall I not then send to you, and disclose it to you?

    13 Yahweh do so to Jonathan, and more also, should it please my father to do you evil, if I don't disclose it to you, and send you away, that you may go in peace: and Yahweh be with you, as he has been with my father.

  • 1 Sam 19:1-7
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    1 Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David.

    2 Jonathan told David, saying, "Saul my father seeks to kill you. Now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, and live in a secret place, and hide yourself.

    3 I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will talk with my father about you; and if I see anything, I will tell you."

    4 Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, "Don't let the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you;

    5 for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?"

    6 Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan: and Saul swore, "As Yahweh lives, he shall not be put to death."

    7 Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things. Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as before.

  • 1 Sam 14:42-45
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    42 Saul said, "Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son." Jonathan was selected.

    43 Then Saul said to Jonathan, "Tell me what you have done!" Jonathan told him, and said, "I certainly did taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand; and behold, I must die."

    44 Saul said, "God do so and more also; for you shall surely die, Jonathan."

    45 The people said to Saul, "Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God this day!" So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn't die.

  • 1 Sam 20:27-28
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    27 It happened on the next day after the new moon, the second day, that David's place was empty. Saul said to Jonathan his son, "Why doesn't the son of Jesse come to eat, neither yesterday, nor today?"

    28 Jonathan answered Saul, "David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem.

  • 1 Sam 26:17-18
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    17 Saul knew David's voice, and said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" David said, "It is my voice, my lord, O king."

    18 He said, "Why does my lord pursue after his servant? For what have I done? Or what evil is in my hand?

  • 1 Sam 14:39-40
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    39 For, as Yahweh lives, who saves Israel, though it is in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die." But there was not a man among all the people who answered him.

    40 Then he said to all Israel, "You be on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side." The people said to Saul, "Do what seems good to you."

  • 1 Sam 20:30-31
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    30 Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, "You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don't I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother's nakedness?

    31 For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you shall not be established, nor your kingdom. Therefore now send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die!"

  • 2 Sam 1:4-5
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    4 David said to him, "How did it go? Please tell me." He answered, "The people have fled from the battle, and many of the people also have fallen and are dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also."

    5 David said to the young man who told him, "How do you know that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?"

  • 1 Sam 22:13
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    13 Saul said to him, "Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?"

  • 2 Sam 1:16-17
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    16 David said to him, "Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, 'I have slain Yahweh's anointed.'"

    17 David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son

  • 1 Sam 24:9
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    9 David said to Saul, "Why do you listen to men's words, saying, 'Behold, David seeks your hurt?'

  • 1 Sam 17:29
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    29 David said, "What have I now done? Is there not a cause?"

  • 1 Sam 18:1-2
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    1 It happened, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

    2 Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house.

  • 1 Sam 23:17
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    17 He said to him, "Don't be afraid; for the hand of Saul my father shall not find you; and you shall be king over Israel, and I shall be next to you; and that also Saul my father knows."

  • 1 Chr 20:7
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    7 When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's brother killed him.

  • 1 Sam 14:1
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    1 Now it fell on a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who bore his armor, "Come, and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on the other side." But he didn't tell his father.

  • 1 Sam 24:11
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    11 Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn't kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.

  • 1 Sam 20:42
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    42 Jonathan said to David, "Go in peace, because we have both sworn in the name of Yahweh, saying, 'Yahweh shall be between me and you, and between my seed and your seed, forever.'" He arose and departed; and Jonathan went into the city.

  • 1 Sam 18:18
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    18 David said to Saul, "Who am I, and what is my life, or my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?"

  • 2 Sam 21:21
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    21 When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David's brother, killed him.

  • 1 Sam 19:17
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    17 Saul said to Michal, "Why have you deceived me thus, and let my enemy go, so that he is escaped?" Michal answered Saul, "He said to me, 'Let me go! Why should I kill you?'"

  • 1 Sam 26:22
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    22 David answered, "Behold the spear, O king! Then let one of the young men come over and get it.

  • 1 Sam 20:37
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    37 When the boy was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the boy, and said, "Isn't the arrow beyond you?"