1 Samuel 20:16 - Tree of Life Version

¹⁶ So Jonathan cut a covenant with the house of David, “So may Adonai requite David’s enemies.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ 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

¹⁶ 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)

¹⁶ 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

¹⁶ if Jonathan’s name is also eliminated, then the LORD will seek retribution from David!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Therefore, Jonathan formed a covenant with the house of David. And the Lord required it from the hands of the enemies of David.

1 Samuel 20:16 Cross References

Genesis 15:18

On that day Adonai cut a covenant with Abram, saying, “I give this land to your seed, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River:

2 Samuel 21:8

But the king took the two sons of Rizpah daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul—Armoni and Mephibosheth; also the five sons of Michal daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite,

Jeremiah 40:9

Then Gedaliah son of Ahikam son of Shaphan swore to them and to their men, saying: “Do not be afraid to serve the Chaldeans. Stay in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well for you.

Deuteronomy 23:21

To a foreigner you may charge interest, but to your brother you are not to charge interest, so that Adonai your God may bless you in every undertaking of your hand on the land you are going in to possess.

Joshua 22:23

If we have built an altar to turn away from following Adonai, or if it was to offer burnt offering or grain offering on it, or to offer sacrifices of fellowship offerings on it, let Adonai Himself require it.

1 Samuel 18:3

Then Jonathan cut a covenant with David, because he loved him as himself.

1 Samuel 20:42

Then Jonathan said to David, “Go in the shalom that we both have sworn to each other in the Name of Adonai saying: ‘May Adonai be between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring, forever.’”

1 Samuel 22:8

Yet all of you have conspired against me, and there was nobody disclosing to me when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse! None of you is sorry for me or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me to lie in ambush—as is the case today?”

1 Samuel 23:18

Again they cut a covenant before Adonai. David remained at Choresh, but Jonathan went home.

1 Samuel 25:22

May God do so and even more to David’s enemies if by the morning I leave even one male of all who belong to him!”

1 Samuel 25:26

“So now my lord, as Adonai lives and as your soul lives, since Adonai has restrained you from shedding blood and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies and those who are seeking to harm my lord be as Nabal.

1 Samuel 31:2

The Philistines pressed hard after Saul and his sons, and the Philistines struck down Jonathan, Abinadab and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.