1 Samuel 20:8

New English Translation

You must be loyal to your servant, for you have made a covenant with your servant in the Lord’s name. If I am guilty, you yourself kill me! Why bother taking me to your father?”

Cross References

Genesis 24:49

Now, if you will show faithful love to my master, tell me. But if not, tell me as well, so that I may go on my way.”

Genesis 47:29

The time for Israel to die approached, so he called for his son Joseph and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh and show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,

2 Samuel 14:32

Absalom said to Joab, “Look, I sent a message to you saying, ‘Come here so that I can send you to the king with this message: “Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me if I were still there.”’ Let me now see the face of the king. If I am at fault, let him put me to death!”

1 Chronicles 12:17

David went out to meet them and said, “If you come to me in peace and want to help me, then I will make an alliance with you. But if you come to betray me to my enemies when I have not harmed you, may the God of our ancestors take notice and judge!”

Psalm 116:11

I rashly declared, “All men are liars.”

Proverbs 3:3

Do not let truth and mercy leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

Acts 25:11

If then I am in the wrong and have done anything that deserves death, I am not trying to escape dying, but if not one of their charges against me is true, no one can hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar!”

Joshua 2:14

The men said to her, “If you die, may we die too! If you do not report what we’ve been up to, then, when the Lord hands the land over to us, we will show unswerving allegiance to you.”

Joshua 22:22

“El, God, the Lord! El, God, the Lord! He knows the truth! Israel must also know! If we have rebelled or disobeyed the Lord, don’t spare us today!

Ruth 1:8

Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Listen to me! Each of you should return to your mother’s home!May the Lord show youthe same kind of devotion that you have shown to your deceased husbands and to me!

1 Samuel 18:1

When David had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan and David became bound together in close friendship. Jonathan loved David as much as he did his own life.

1 Samuel 18:3

Jonathan made a covenant with David, for he loved him as much as he did his own life.

1 Samuel 20:16

and called David’s enemies to account.” So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David.

1 Samuel 20:9

Jonathan said, “Far be it from you to suggest this! If I were at all aware that my father had decided to harm you, wouldn’t I tell you about it?”

1 Samuel 23:18

When the two of them had made a covenant before the Lord, David stayed on at Horesh, but Jonathan went to his house.