1 Samuel 23:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ Now, O king, whenever you wish to come down, do so, and our part will be to surrender him into the king’s hand.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him into the king's hand.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ Now come down, O king, according to all your heart's desire to come down, and our part shall be to deliver him into the king's hands.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ Now therefore, O king, come down, according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him up into the king’s hand.

Common English Bible

²⁰ “So whenever you want to come down, Your Majesty, do it! Leave it to us to hand him over to the king.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Now therefore, if your soul has desired to descend, then descend. Then it will be for us to deliver him into the hands of the king."

1 Samuel 23:20 Cross References

1 Samuel 23:12

Then David said, “Will the men of Keilah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul?” The Lord said, “They will surrender you.”

Proverbs 29:26

Many seek the favor of a ruler, but it is from the Lord that one gets justice.

Proverbs 11:23

The desire of the righteous ends only in good, the expectation of the wicked in wrath.

Psalm 112:10

The wicked see it and are angry; they gnash their teeth and melt away; the desire of the wicked comes to nothing.

Psalm 54:3

For the insolent have risen against me; the ruthless seek my life; they do not set God before them. Selah

2 Samuel 3:21

Abner said to David, “Let me go and rally all Israel to my lord the king, in order that they may make a covenant with you and that you may reign over all that your heart desires.” So David dismissed Abner, and he went away in peace.

Deuteronomy 18:6

“If a Levite leaves any of your towns, from wherever he has been residing in Israel, and comes to the place that the Lord will choose (and he may come whenever he wishes),

1 Samuel 23:21

Saul said, “May you be blessed by the Lord for showing me compassion!

Proverbs 24:15

Do not lie in wait like an outlaw against the home of the righteous; do no violence to the place where the righteous live;