1 Samuel 20:21

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Then I will send the boy, saying, ‘Go, find the arrows.’ If I say to the boy, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; collect them,’ then you are to come, for, as the Lord lives, it is safe for you and there is no danger.

Cross References

Jeremiah 12:16

And then, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, “As the Lord lives,” as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they shall be built up in the midst of my people.

Jeremiah 4:2

and if you swear, “As the Lord lives!” in truth, in justice, and in uprightness, then nations shall be blessed by you, and by you they shall boast.

Jeremiah 5:2

Although they say, “As the Lord lives,” yet they swear falsely.

Amos 8:14

Those who swear by Ashimah of Samaria and say, “As your god lives, O Dan,” and, “As the way of Beer-sheba lives”— they shall fall and never rise again.

1 Samuel 20:20

I will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as though I shot at a mark.

1 Samuel 20:22

But if I say to the young man, ‘Look, the arrows are beyond you,’ then go, for the Lord has sent you away.

1 Samuel 20:36

He said to the boy, “Run and find the arrows that I shoot.” As the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.