1 Samuel 20:2

New King James Version

So Jonathan said to him, “By no means! You shall not die! Indeed, my father will do nothing either great or small without first telling me. And why should 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 these words? Far be it from us that your servants should do such a thing.

Psalm 40:6

Sacrifice and offering You did not desire; My ears You have opened. Burnt offering and sin offering You did not require.

Proverbs 29:24

Whoever is a partner with a thief hates his own life; He swears to tell the truth, but reveals nothing.

Isaiah 50:5

The Lord God has opened My ear; And I was not rebellious, Nor did I turn away.

Luke 20:16

He will come and destroy those vinedressers and give the vineyard to others.” And when they heard it they said, “Certainly not!”

John 15:15

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

John 17:8

For I have given to them the words which You have given Me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came forth from You; and they have believed that You sent Me.

Joshua 22:29

Far be it from us that we should rebel against the Lord, and turn from following the Lord this day, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for grain offerings, or for sacrifices, besides the altar of the Lord our God which is before His tabernacle.”

Joshua 24:16

So the people answered and said: “Far be it from us that we should forsake the Lord to serve other gods;

1 Samuel 14:45

But the people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die, who has accomplished this great deliverance in Israel? Certainly not! As the Lord lives, not one hair of his head shall fall to the ground, for 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 went and said to Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my iniquity, and what is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?”

1 Samuel 20:12

Then Jonathan said to David: “The Lord God of Israel is witness! When I have sounded out my father sometime tomorrow, or the third day, and indeed there is good toward David, and I do not send to you and tell you,

1 Samuel 20:3

Then David took an oath again, and said, “Your father certainly knows that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved.’ But truly, as the Lord lives and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.”

1 Samuel 9:15

Now the Lord had told Samuel in his ear the day before Saul came, saying,