1 Samuel 20:8 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁸ 3 May the Lord do so and so to Jonathan and add still more. But if my father shall continue in malice against thee, I will discover it to thy ear, and will send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace, and the Lord be with thee, as he hath been with my father.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the LORD with thee: notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Therefore deal kindly with your servant, for you have brought [me] into a covenant of the Lord with you. But if there is guilt in me, kill me yourself; for why should you bring me to your father?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Therefore deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of Jehovah with thee: but if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?

Common English Bible

⁸ So be loyal to your servant, because you’ve brought your servant into a sacred covenant with you. If I’m guilty, then kill me yourself; just don’t take me back to your father.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Therefore, show mercy to your servant. For you have brought me, your servant, into a covenant of the Lord with you. But if there is any iniquity in me, you may kill me, and you shall not lead me in to your father."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ Deal mercifully then with thy servant: for thou hast brought me thy servant into a covenant of the Lord with thee. But if there be any iniquity in me, do thou kill me, and bring me not in to thy father.

1 Samuel 20:8 Cross References

Genesis 24:49

9 Wherefore if you do according to mercy and truth with my master, tell me: but if it please you otherwise, tell me that also, that I may go to the right hand, or to the left.

Genesis 47:29

0 But I will sleep with my fathers, end thou shalt take me away out of this land, and bury me in the burying place of my ancestors. And Joseph answered him: I will do what thou hast commanded.

2 Samuel 14:32

O that they would make me judge over the land, that all that have business might come to me, that I might do them justice.

1 Chronicles 12:17

2 Moreover day by day there came some to David to help him till they became a great number, like the army of God.

Psalm 116:11

8 I will pay my vows to the Lord in the sight of all his people:

Proverbs 3:3

0 And thy barns shall be filled with abundance, and thy presses shall run over with wine.

Acts 25:11

9 But had certain questions of their own superstition against him, and of one Jesus deceased, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

Joshua 2:14

9 Whosoever shall go out of the door of thy house, his blood shall be upon his own head, and we shall be quit. But the blood of all that shall be with thee in the house, shall light upon our head, if any man touch them.

Joshua 22:22

7 But for a testimony between us and you, and our posterity and yours, that we may serve the Lord, and that we may have a right to offer both holocausts, and victims and sacrifices of peace offerings: and that your children to morrow may not say to our children: You have no part in the Lord.

Ruth 1:8

3 If you would wait till they were grown up, and come to man's estate, you would be old women before you marry. Do not so, my daughters, I beseech you: for I am grieved the more for your distress, and the hand of the Lord is gone out against me.

1 Samuel 18:1

Now when David returned, after be slew the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with timbrels of joy, and cornets.

1 Samuel 18:3

And Saul was exceeding angry, and this word was displeasing in his eyes, and he said: They have given David ten thousands, and to me they have given but a thousand; what can he have more but the kingdom?

1 Samuel 20:16

1 And I will send a boy, saying to him: Go and fetch me the arrows.

1 Samuel 20:9

4 And if I live, thou shalt shew me the kindness of the Lord: but if I die,

1 Samuel 23:18

3 Consider and see all his lurking holes, wherein he is bid, and return to me with the certainty of the thing, that I may go with you. And if be should even go down into the earth to hide himself, I will search him out in all the thousands of Juda.