1 Samuel 20:16 - Easy To Read Version

¹⁶ If at that time Jonathan’s family must be separated from David, then let it happen. May the Lord punish David’s enemies.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let the LORD even require it at the hand of David's enemies.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, And the Lord will require that this covenant be kept at the hands of David's enemies.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, And Jehovah will require it at the hand of David’s enemies.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ if Jonathan’s name is also eliminated, then the LORD will seek retribution from David!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Therefore, Jonathan formed a covenant with the house of David. And the Lord required it from the hands of the enemies of David.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ Jonathan therefore made a covenant with the house of David: and the Lord required it at the hands of David's enemies.

1 Samuel 20:16 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 15:18

So on that day, the Lord made a promise and an agreement with Abram. The Lord said, “I will give this land to your descendants. I will give them the land between the River of Egypt [88] and the great river Euphrates.

2 Samuel 21:8

David gave them Armoni and Mephibosheth. [122] These were the sons of Saul and his wife Rizpah. Saul also had a daughter named Merab. She was married to a man named Adriel son of Barzillai from Meholah. So David took the five sons of Merab and Adriel.

Jeremiah 40:9

Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, made an oath to make those soldiers and their men feel more secure. This is what Gedaliah said: “You soldiers, don’t be afraid to serve the Babylonian people. Settle down in the land and serve the king of Babylon. If you do this, things will go well for you.

Deuteronomy 23:21

“When you make a promise to the Lord your God, don’t be slow to pay all that you promised. Why? Because the Lord your God will demand that you pay it. You will sin if you don’t pay the things you promised.

Joshua 22:23

If we broke God’s law, then we ask the Lord himself to punish us.

1 Samuel 18:3

Jonathan and David made a special agreement because he loved him as much as he loved himself.

1 Samuel 20:42

Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace. We used the Lord’s name and promised to be friends. We said that the Lord will be the witness between us and our descendants [178] forever.”

1 Samuel 22:8

You men are plotting against me! You made secret plans. Not one of you told me about my son Jonathan. Not one of you told me that he made an agreement with the son of Jesse! Not one of you cares about me! Not one of you told me that my son Jonathan encouraged David. Jonathan told my servant David to hide and attack me! And that is what David is doing now!”

1 Samuel 23:18

Jonathan and David both made an agreement before the Lord. Then Jonathan went home. And David stayed at Horesh.

1 Samuel 25:22

I hope God punishes me if I let even one man in Nabal’s family live till tomorrow morning.”

1 Samuel 25:26

The Lord has kept you from killing innocent people. Surely as the Lord lives and surely as you live, I hope your enemies and all the people who want to harm you become like Nabal.

1 Samuel 31:2

The Philistines fought hard against Saul and his sons. The Philistines killed Saul’s sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malki Shua.