1 Samuel 20:2

Holman Christian Standard Bible

Jonathan said to him, “No, you won’t die. Listen, my father doesn’t do anything, great or small, without telling me. So why would he hide this matter from me? This can’t be true.”

Cross References

Genesis 44:7

They said to him, “Why does my lord say these things? Your servants could not possibly do such a thing.

Psalm 40:6

You do not delight in sacrifice and offering; You open my ears to listen. You do not ask for a whole burnt offering or a sin offering.

Proverbs 29:24

To be a thief’s partner is to hate oneself; he hears the curse but will not testify.

Isaiah 50:5

The Lord God has opened My ear, and I was not rebellious; I did not turn back.

Luke 20:16

He will come and destroy those farmers and give the vineyard to others.” But when they heard this they said, “No — never! ”

John 15:15

I do not call you slaves anymore, because a slave doesn’t know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard from My Father.

John 17:8

because the words that You gave Me, I have given them. They have received them and have known for certain that I came from You. They have believed that You sent Me.

Joshua 22:29

We would never rebel against the Lord or turn away from Him today by building an altar for burnt offering, grain offering, or sacrifice, other than the altar of the Lord our God, which is in front of His tabernacle.”

Joshua 24:16

The people replied, “We will certainly not abandon the Lord to worship other gods!

1 Samuel 14:45

But the people said to Saul, “Must Jonathan die, who accomplished such a great deliverance for Israel? No, as the Lord lives, not a hair of his head will fall to the ground, for he worked with God’s help today.” So the people redeemed Jonathan, and he did not die.

1 Samuel 20:1

David fled from Naioth in Ramah and came to Jonathan and asked, “What have I done? What did I do wrong? How have I sinned against your father so that he wants to take my life? ”

1 Samuel 20:12

“By the Lord, the God of Israel, I will sound out my father by this time tomorrow or the next day. If I find out that he is favorable toward you, will I not send for you and tell you?

1 Samuel 20:3

But David said, “Your father certainly knows that you have come to look favorably on me. He has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or else he will be grieved.’ ” David also swore, “As surely as the Lord lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”

1 Samuel 9:15

Now the day before Saul’s arrival, the Lord had informed Samuel,