1 Samuel 20:2

New American Standard Bible 2020

He said to him, “Far from it, you shall not die! Behold, my father does nothing either great or small without informing me. So why would my father hide this thing from me? It is not so!”

Cross References

Genesis 44:7

And they said to him, “Why does my lord say such words as these? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!

Psalm 40:6

¶You have not desired sacrifice and meal offering; You have opened my ears; You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.

Proverbs 29:24

One who is a partner with a thief hates his own life; He hears the oath but tells nothing.

Isaiah 50:5

The Lord God has opened My ear, And I was not disobedient, Nor did I turn back.

Luke 20:16

He will come and put these vine-growers to death, and will give the vineyard to others.” However, when they heard this, they said, “May it never happen!”

John 15:15

No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.

John 17:8

for the words which You gave Me I have given to them; and they received them and truly understood that I came forth from You, and they believed that You sent Me.

Joshua 22:29

Far be it from us that we should rebel against the Lord and turn away from following the Lord this day, by building an altar for burnt offering, for grain offering, or for sacrifice, besides the altar of the Lord our God which is before His tabernacle.”

Joshua 24:16

The people answered and said, “Far be it from us that we would abandon the Lord to serve other gods;

1 Samuel 14:45

But the people said to Saul, “Must Jonathan die, he who has brought about this great victory in Israel? Far from it! As the Lord lives, not even a hair of his head shall fall to the ground, because he has worked with God this day.” So the people rescued Jonathan and he did not die.

1 Samuel 20:1

Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and he came and said to Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my guilt? And what is my sin before your father, that he is seeking my life?”

1 Samuel 20:12

Then Jonathan said to David, “The Lord, the God of Israel, is my witness! When I have sounded out my father about this time tomorrow or the third day, behold, if he has a good feeling toward you, shall I not then send word to you and inform you?

1 Samuel 20:3

Yet David vowed again, saying, “Your father is well aware that I have found favor in your sight, and he has said, ‘Jonathan is not to know this, otherwise he will be worried.’ But indeed as the Lord lives and as your soul lives, there is just a step between me and death.”

1 Samuel 9:15

Now a day before Saul’s coming, the Lord had revealed this to Samuel, saying,