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1 Samuel 20:1-3
Lexham English Bible
1 Samuel 20:1-3
Lexham English Bible
Jonathan Supports David over Saul
20 Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah and came and said before Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my guilt and what is my sin before your father that he is trying to kill me?[a] 2 And he said to him, “Far from it! You will not die! Look, my father does not do[b] anything large or small unless he reveals it to me.[c] Why should my father hide this thing or anything from me?” 3 Then David took an oath[d] again and said, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he thought, ‘Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he worry.’ But as Yahweh lives[e] and as your soul lives,[f] surely there is merely a step between me and death!”
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- 1 Samuel 20:1 Literally “seeking my life”
- 1 Samuel 20:2 The Masoretic Hebrew text (Kethib) reads “he does to/for him”; the translation follows the reading tradition (Qere) which has “does not do”
- 1 Samuel 20:2 Literally “a large thing or a small thing and he does not reveal to my ear”
- 1 Samuel 20:3 Literally “swore”
- 1 Samuel 20:3 Literally “the life of Yahweh”
- 1 Samuel 20:3 Literally “the life of your soul”
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