1 Samuel 20:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

He said to him, “Far from it! You shall not die. My father does nothing either great or small without disclosing it to me, and why should my father hide this from me? Never!”

Cross References

Genesis 44:7

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

Psalm 40:6

Sacrifice and offering you do not desire, but you have given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.

Proverbs 29:24

To be a partner of a thief is to hate one’s own life; one hears the victim’s curse but discloses nothing.

Isaiah 50:5

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

Luke 20:16

He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” When they heard this, they said, “Heaven forbid!”

John 15:15

I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing, but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father.

John 17:8

for the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they have received them and know in truth that I came 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 away this day from following the Lord by building an altar for burnt offering, grain offering, or sacrifice other than the altar of the Lord our God that stands before his tabernacle!’ ”

Joshua 24:16

Then the people answered, “Far be it from us that we should forsake the Lord to serve other gods,

1 Samuel 14:45

Then the people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die, who has accomplished this great victory in Israel? Far from it! As the Lord lives, not one hair of his head shall fall to the ground, for he has worked with God today.” So the people ransomed Jonathan, and he did not die.

1 Samuel 20:1

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

1 Samuel 20:12

Jonathan said to David, “By the Lord, the God of Israel! When I have sounded out my father, about this time tomorrow or on the third day, if he is well disposed toward David, shall I not then send and disclose it to you?

1 Samuel 20:3

But David also swore, “Your father knows well that you like me, and he thinks, ‘Do not let Jonathan know this, or he will be grieved.’ But truly, 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 came, the Lord had revealed to Samuel: