1 Samuel 20:21

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And I will send a lad, saying, Go, find the arrows. If I expressly say to the lad, Look, the arrows are on this side of you, take them–then you are to come, for it is safe for you and there is no danger, as the Lord lives.

Cross References

Jeremiah 12:16

And if these [neighbor nations] will diligently learn the ways of My people, to swear by My name, saying, As the Lord lives–even as they taught My people to swear by Baal–then will they be built up in the midst of My people.

Jeremiah 4:2

And if you swear, As the Lord lives, in truth, in judgment and justice, and in righteousness (uprightness in every area and relation), then the nations will bless themselves in Him and in Him will they glory.

Jeremiah 5:2

And though they say, As the Lord lives, surely they swear falsely.

Amos 8:14

Those who swear by Ashimah or the sin of Samaria and say, By the life of your god [the golden calf], O Dan! and [swear], By the life of the way of [idolatrous] Beersheba, they shall fall and rise no more.

1 Samuel 20:20

And I will shoot three arrows on the side of it, as though I shot at a mark.

1 Samuel 20:22

But if I say to the youth, Look, the arrows are beyond you–then go, for the Lord has sent you away.

1 Samuel 20:36

And he said to his lad, Run, find the arrows which I shoot. And as the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.