1 Samuel 20:32 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Then Jonathan answered Saul his father, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore shall he be slain? what hath he done?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Jonathan answered Saul his father, Why should he be killed? What has he done?

American Standard Version (1901)

And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore should he be put to death? what hath he done?

Common English Bible

But Jonathan answered his father Saul, “Why should David be executed? What has he done?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Then Jonathan, answering his father Saul, said: "Why should he die? What has he done?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And Jonathan answering Saul his father said: Why shall he die? what hath he done?

1 Samuel 20:32 Cross References

Genesis 31:36

Then Jacob became angry, and upbraided Laban; Jacob said to Laban, “What is my offense? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?

Proverbs 22:24

Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man,

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Be not quick to anger, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that one fate comes to all; also the hearts of men are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately corrupt; who can understand it?

Matthew 27:23

And he said, “Why, what evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more, “Let him be crucified.”

Luke 23:22

A third time he said to them, “Why, what evil has he done? I have found in him no crime deserving death; I will therefore chastise him and release him.”

John 7:51

“Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?”

1 Samuel 18:11

and Saul cast the spear, for he thought, “I will pin David to the wall.” But David evaded him twice.

1 Samuel 19:4

And Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father, and said to him, “Let not the king sin against his servant David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his deeds have been of good service to you;

1 Samuel 19:5

for he took his life in his hand and he slew the Philistine, and the Lord wrought a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced; why then will you sin against innocent blood by killing David without cause?”

1 Samuel 20:1

Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my guilt? And what is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?”

1 Samuel 20:7

If he says, ‘Good!’ it will be well with your servant; but if he is angry, then know that evil is determined by him.

1 Samuel 22:14

Then Ahimelech answered the king, “And who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and captain over your bodyguard, and honored in your house?