1 Samuel 19:4

Webster's Bible (1833)

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:

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  • Jer 18:20 : 20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.
  • Gen 42:22 : 22 Reuben answered them, saying, "Didn't I tell you, saying, 'Don't sin against the child,' and you wouldn't listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required."
  • Prov 17:13 : 13 Whoever rewards evil for good, Evil shall not depart from his house.
  • 1 Sam 20:32 : 32 Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, "Why should he be put to death? What has he done?"
  • 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."
  • Gen 9:6 : 6 Whoever sheds man's blood, by man will his blood be shed, for in the image of God made he man.
  • 1 Cor 8:12 : 12 Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
  • 1 John 3:15 : 15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.
  • 1 Sam 22:14 : 14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, Who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and is taken into your council, and is honorable in your house?
  • 2 Chr 6:22 : 22 If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house;
  • Ps 35:12 : 12 They reward me evil for good, To the bereaving of my soul.
  • Ps 109:4-5 : 4 In return for my love, they are my adversaries; But I am in prayer. 5 They have rewarded me evil for good, And hatred for my love.
  • 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?
  • 1 Sam 2:25 : 25 If one man sin against another, God shall judge him; but if a man sin against Yahweh, who shall entreat for him? Notwithstanding, they didn't listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh was minded to kill them.

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  • 1 Sam 19:5-7
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    5for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel: you saw it, and did rejoice; why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?

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

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

  • 1 Sam 20:32-34
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    32Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, "Why should he be put to death? What has he done?"

    33Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.

    34So 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 20:8-10
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    8Therefore 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?

    9Jonathan 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?

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

  • 1 Sam 19:1-3
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    1Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David.

    2Jonathan 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:

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

  • 1 Sam 20:12-13
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    12Jonathan 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?

    13Yahweh 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 20:1-4
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    1David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, "What have I done? What is my iniquity?" and "What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?"

    2He 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."

    3David 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.

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

  • 1 Sam 24:17
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    17He said to David, You are more righteous than I; for you have rendered to me good, whereas I have rendered to you evil.

  • 1 Sam 23:17-18
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    17He 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.

    18They two made a covenant before Yahweh: and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.

  • 1 Sam 24:9-11
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    9David said to Saul, Why listen you to men's words, saying, Behold, David seeks your hurt?

    10Behold, this day your eyes have seen how that Yahweh had delivered you today into my hand in the cave: and some bade me kill you; but [my eye] spared you; and I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord; for he is Yahweh's anointed.

    11Moreover, 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 you and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt after my life to take it.

  • 2 Sam 1:17
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    17David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son

  • 1 Sam 18:1-3
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    1It 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.

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

    3Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

  • 1 Sam 20:42
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    42Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, because we have sworn both of us 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 26:17-18
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    17Saul knew David's voice, and said, Is this your voice, my son David? David said, It is my voice, my lord, O king.

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

  • 2 Sam 19:27
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    27He has slandered your servant to my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in your eyes.

  • 1 Sam 29:6
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    6Then Achish called David, and said to him, As Yahweh lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the host is good in my sight; for I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day: nevertheless the lords don't favor you.

  • 1 Sam 14:45
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    45The 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 20:28
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    28Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem:

  • 2 Sam 9:1
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    1David said, Is there yet any who is left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?

  • 1 Sam 26:25
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    25Then Saul said to David, Blessed be you, my son David: you shall both do mightily, and shall surely prevail. So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place.

  • 1 Sam 26:21
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    21Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David; for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.

  • 1 Sam 14:1
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    1Now 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 yonder side. But he didn't tell his father.

  • 1 Sam 18:5
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    5David went out wherever Saul sent him, [and] behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and it was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants.

  • 1 Sam 18:24
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    24The servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spoke David.

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

    40Then said he to all Israel, Be you 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 20:15-16
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    15but also you shall not cut off your kindness from my house forever; no, not when Yahweh has cut off the enemies of David everyone from the surface of the earth.

    16So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, [saying], Yahweh will require it at the hand of David's enemies.

  • 1 Sam 26:9
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    9David said to Abishai, Don't destroy him; for who can put forth his hand against Yahweh's anointed, and be guiltless?

  • 2 Sam 21:7
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    7But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Yahweh's oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

  • 1 Sam 18:22
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    22Saul commanded his servants, [saying], Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you: now therefore be the king's son-in-law.

  • 2 Sam 9:7
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    7David said to him, "Don't be afraid of him; for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father's sake, and will restore you all the land of Saul your father; and you shall eat bread at my table continually."

  • 2 Sam 1:22
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    22From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, The bow of Jonathan didn't turn back, The sword of Saul didn't return empty.