1 Samuel 20:2

New American Bible - revised edition

Jonathan answered him: “Heaven forbid that you should die! My father does nothing, great or small, without telling me. Why, then, should my father conceal this from me? It cannot be true!”

Cross References

Genesis 44:7

they said to him: “Why does my lord say such things? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!

Psalm 40:6

You, yes you, O Lord, my God, have done many wondrous deeds! And in your plans for us there is none to equal you. Should I wish to declare or tell them, too many are they to recount.

Proverbs 29:24

Partners of a thief hate themselves; they hear the imprecation but do not testify.

Isaiah 50:5

The Lord God opened my ear; I did not refuse, did not turn away.

Luke 20:16

He will come and put those tenant farmers to death and turn over the vineyard to others.” When the people heard this, they exclaimed, “Let it not be so!”

John 15:15

I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father.

John 17:8

because the words you gave to me I have given to them, and they accepted them and truly understood that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me.

Joshua 22:29

Far be it from us to rebel against the Lord or to turn now from following the Lord by building an altar for burnt offering, grain offering, or sacrifice in addition to the altar of the Lord, our God, which stands before his tabernacle.”

Joshua 24:16

But the people answered, “Far be it from us to forsake the Lord to serve other gods.

1 Samuel 14:45

But the soldiers protested to Saul: “Is Jonathan to die, the man who won this great victory for Israel? This must not be! As the Lord lives, not a single hair of his head shall fall to the ground, for God was with him in what he did today!” Thus the soldiers rescued Jonathan and he did not die.

1 Samuel 20:1

David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and went to Jonathan. “What have I done?” he asked him. “What crime or what offense does your father hold against me that he seeks my life?”

1 Samuel 20:12

Jonathan said to David: “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, I will sound out my father about this time tomorrow. Whether he is well disposed toward David or not, I will inform you.

1 Samuel 20:3

But David replied: “Your father is well aware that I am favored with your friendship, so he has decided, ‘Jonathan must not know about this or he will be grieved.’ Nevertheless, as the Lord lives and as you live, there is only a step between me and death.”

1 Samuel 9:15

The day before Saul’s arrival, the Lord had revealed to Samuel: