1 Samuel 20:12

Webster's Bible (1833)

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?

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 22:22 : 22 The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows; and Israel he shall know: if it be in rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh (don't save us this day),
  • Job 31:4 : 4 Doesn't he see my ways, And number all my steps?
  • Ps 17:3 : 3 You have proved my heart; you have visited me in the night; You have tried me, and found nothing; I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.
  • Ps 139:1-4 : 1 > Yahweh, you have searched me, And you know me. 2 You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar. 3 You search out my path and my lying down, And are acquainted with all my ways. 4 For there is not a word on my tongue, But, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.
  • Prov 20:5 : 5 Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; But a man of understanding will draw it out.
  • Prov 25:2-3 : 2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, But the glory of kings is to search out a matter. 3 As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, So the hearts of kings are unsearchable.

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  • 1 Sam 20:13-14
    2 verses
    87%

    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.

    14You shall not only while yet I live show me the loving kindness of Yahweh, that I not die;

  • 1 Sam 20:8-11
    4 verses
    82%

    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?

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

  • 1 Sam 19:1-4
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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.

    4Jonathan 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:

  • 1 Sam 20:1-6
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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.

    5David said to Jonathan, Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field to the third day at evening.

    6If your father miss me at all, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city; for it is the yearly sacrifice there for all the family.

  • 1 Sam 20:32-35
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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.

    35It happened in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little boy with him.

  • 1 Sam 20:39-42
    4 verses
    78%

    39But the boy didn't know anything: only Jonathan and David knew the matter.

    40Jonathan gave his weapons to his boy, and said to him, Go, carry them to the city.

    41As soon as the boy was gone, David arose out of [a place] toward the South, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.

    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 20:27-29
    3 verses
    76%

    27It happened on the next day after the new moon, [which was] the second [day], that David's place was empty: and Saul said to Jonathan his son, Why doesn't the son of Jesse come to meat, neither yesterday, nor today?

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

    29and he said, Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he has commanded me [to be there]: and now, if I have found favor in your eyes, let me get away, I pray you, and see my brothers. Therefore he is not come to the king's table.

  • 1 Sam 20:16-19
    4 verses
    76%

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

    17Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had to him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

    18Then Jonathan said to him, Tomorrow is the new moon: and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty.

    19When you have stayed three days, you shall go down quickly, and come to the place where you did hide yourself when the business was in hand, and shall remain by the stone Ezel.

  • 1 Sam 19:6-7
    2 verses
    75%

    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 23:16-18
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    75%

    16Jonathan, Saul's son, arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.

    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 14:7-8
    2 verses
    75%

    7His armor bearer said to him, Do all that is in your heart: turn you, behold, I am with you according to your heart.

    8Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over to the men, and we will disclose ourselves to them.

  • 1 Sam 14:1
    74%

    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 24:10
    72%

    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.

  • 1 Sam 20:37
    72%

    37When 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?

  • 1 Sam 18:1
    72%

    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.

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

  • 1 Sam 14:39-40
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    71%

    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 14:12
    71%

    12The men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armor bearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will show you a thing. Jonathan said to his armor bearer, Come up after me; for Yahweh has delivered them into the hand of Israel.

  • 2 Sam 3:18
    71%

    18now then do it; for Yahweh has spoken of David, saying, By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.

  • 1 Sam 26:10
    71%

    10David said, As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.

  • 1 Sam 20:23
    71%

    23As touching the matter which you and I have spoken of, behold, Yahweh is between you and me forever.

  • 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.