1 Samuel 20:16 - The Scriptures 1998

And Yehonathan made a covenant with the house of Dawiḏ

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let the LORD even require it at the hand of David's enemies.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, And the Lord will require that this covenant be kept at the hands of David's enemies.

American Standard Version (1901)

So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, And Jehovah will require it at the hand of David’s enemies.

Common English Bible

if Jonathan’s name is also eliminated, then the LORD will seek retribution from David!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Therefore, Jonathan formed a covenant with the house of David. And the Lord required it from the hands of the enemies of David.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Jonathan therefore made a covenant with the house of David: and the Lord required it at the hands of David's enemies.

1 Samuel 20:16 Cross References

Genesis 15:18

On the same day יהוה  made a covenant with Aḇ

2 Samuel 21:8

And the sovereign took the two sons of Ritspah the daughter of Ayah, whom she bore to Sha’ul: Armoni and the other Mephiḇ

Jeremiah 40:9

And Geḏ

Deuteronomy 23:21

“When you make a vow to יהוה  your Elohim, do not delay to pay it, for יהוה  your Elohim is certainly requiring it of you, and it shall be sin in you.

Joshua 22:23

“If we have built ourselves an altar to turn from following יהוה, or if to offer burnt offerings or grain offerings on it, or if to make peace offerings on it, let יהוה  Himself require it.

1 Samuel 18:3

And Yehonathan and Dawiḏ

1 Samuel 20:42

And Yehonathan said to Dawiḏ

1 Samuel 22:8

“For all of you have conspired against me, and there is no one who reveals to me that my son has made a covenant with the son of Yishai. And there is not one of you who is grieved for me or reveals to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as it is this day.”

1 Samuel 23:18

And they made a covenant before יהוה. And Dawiḏ

1 Samuel 25:22

“Let Elohim do so, and more also, to the enemies of Dawiḏ

1 Samuel 25:26

“And now my master, as יהוה  lives and as your being lives, since יהוה  has withheld you from coming to bloodshed and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now then, let your enemies be as Naḇ

1 Samuel 31:2

And the Philistines followed hard after Sha’ul and his sons. And the Philistines smote Yehonathan, and Aḇ