1 Samuel 20:8 - The Scriptures 1998

⁸ “And you shall show kindness to your servant, for you have brought your servant into a covenant of יהוה  with you. And if there is crookedness in me, put me to death yourself, for why should you bring me to your 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."

1 Samuel 20:8 Cross References

Genesis 24:49

“And now, if you are going to show kindness and truth to my master, let me know, and if not, let me know, so that I turn to the right or to the left.”

Genesis 47:29

And the time for Yisra’ĕ

2 Samuel 14:32

And Aḇ

1 Chronicles 12:17

And Dawiḏ

Psalm 116:11

I said in my haste, “All men are liars.”

Proverbs 3:3

Let not kindness and truth forsake you – Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart,

Acts 25:11

“For if indeed I do wrong, or have committed whatever deserving death, I do not refuse to die. But if there is none at all in these matters of which these men accuse me, no one is able to give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar.”

Joshua 2:14

And the men said to her, “Our lives for yours, if you do not expose this matter of ours, then it shall be, when יהוה  has given us the land, that we shall treat you in kindness and truth.”

Joshua 22:22

“Ě

Ruth 1:8

And Naʽ

1 Samuel 18:1

And it came to be, when he had ended speaking to Sha’ul, that the being of Yehonathan was knit to the being of Dawiḏ

1 Samuel 18:3

And Yehonathan and Dawiḏ

1 Samuel 20:16

And Yehonathan made a covenant with the house of Dawiḏ

1 Samuel 20:9

And Yehonathan said, “Far be it from you! For if I knew with certainty that my father has resolved that evil is to come upon you, then would I not make it known to you?”

1 Samuel 23:18

And they made a covenant before יהוה. And Dawiḏ