1 Samuel 20:16 - New International Version (Anglicised)

¹⁶ So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, ‘May the Lord call David’s enemies to account.’

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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

On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, ‘To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates –

2 Samuel 21:8

But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons of Aiah’s daughter Rizpah, whom she had borne to Saul, together with the five sons of Saul’s daughter Merab, whom she had borne to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

Jeremiah 40:9

Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, took an oath to reassure them and their men. ‘Do not be afraid to serve the Babylonians,’ he said. ‘Settle down in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well with you.

Deuteronomy 23:21

If you make a vow to the Lord your God, do not be slow to pay it, for the Lord your God will certainly demand it of you and you will be guilty of sin.

Joshua 22:23

If we have built our own altar to turn away from the Lord and to offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, or to sacrifice fellowship offerings on it, may the Lord himself call us to account.

1 Samuel 18:3

And Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself.

1 Samuel 20:42

Jonathan said to David, ‘Go in peace, for we have sworn friendship with each other in the name of the Lord, saying, “The Lord is witness between you and me, and between your descendants and my descendants for ever.” ’ Then David left, and Jonathan went back to the town.

1 Samuel 22:8

Is that why you have all conspired against me? No-one tells me when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse. None of you is concerned about me or tells me that my son has incited my servant to lie in wait for me, as he does today.’

1 Samuel 23:18

The two of them made a covenant before the Lord. Then Jonathan went home, but David remained at Horesh.

1 Samuel 25:22

May God deal with David, be it ever so severely, if by morning I leave alive one male of all who belong to him!’

1 Samuel 25:26

And now, my lord, as surely as the Lord your God lives and as you live, since the Lord has kept you from bloodshed and from avenging yourself with your own hands, may your enemies and all who are intent on harming my lord be like Nabal.

1 Samuel 31:2

The Philistines were in hot pursuit of Saul and his sons, and they killed his sons Jonathan, Abinadab and Malki-Shua.