1 Samuel 20:2

Plain English Version

Jonathan answered, “No way. That is not true. He will not kill you. My father has not told me that he wants to do that. He always tells me what he is thinking. That’s his way. He does not tell lies to me.”

Cross References

Genesis 44:7

But those men said to him, “Sir, we don’t know why you said those things. We didn’t steal your boss’s cup. We respect you and your boss, and we don’t want to do bad things to you. No way.”

Psalm 40:6

Some people kill animals to pay you for the bad things they did. And they give you animals and food as gifts. But that does not really make you happy. You don’t need people to burn animals for you. You don’t need people to give you gifts. You taught me all of this.

John 15:15

I’m not calling you my workers any more, but I’m calling you my friends. Workers don’t know what their boss is doing, but I told you everything that my father told me. So now you know what I am doing.

John 17:8

I told them the message that you told me, and they believed it. Now they know for sure that you sent me to the world.

1 Samuel 20:1

After that, David ran away from the community called Nayoth in the town called Ramah. He went to Jonathan’s place and asked him, “What have I done? What wrong thing did I do? Why does your father keep on looking for me, to kill me?”

1 Samuel 20:3

But David said, “Listen. Let God punish me if what I said is not true. Your father knows that you and I are close friends. We are also brothers-in-law. He might think like this, ‘I can’t tell my son. He might get upset.’ No, listen to me. God is listening, so I can’t tell lies. Today I might die.”

1 Samuel 9:15

You see, God talked to him the day before that, God said to him,