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1 Samuel 20:10

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8 Therefore deal faithfully with your servant, for you have brought me into a covenant with you before the LORD. If there is iniquity in me, then kill me yourself; why should you bring me to your father?”

9 “Never!” Jonathan replied. “If I ever found out that my father had evil intentions against you, would I not tell you?”

Then David asked Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?”

11 “Come,” he replied, “let us go out to the field.” So the two of them went out into the field,

12 and Jonathan said, “By the LORD, the God of Israel, I will sound out my father by this time tomorrow or the next day. If he is favorable toward you, will I not send for you and tell you?

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
Then David asked Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?”
KJV
Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what if thy father answer thee roughly?
WEB
Then David said to Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you roughly?”
ASV
Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me if perchance thy father answer thee roughly?
DARBY
Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what if thy father answer thee roughly?
BLB
And David said to Jonathan, “Who will tell me? Or what [if] your father answers you roughly?”
ÅB
Da sa David til Jonatan: Hvem skal varsle meg om det eller si meg om din far svarer deg ublidt?
OTB
Da spurte David Jonatan: "Hvordan skal jeg vite om din far svarer deg hardt?"
B1930
Da sa David til Jonatan: Hvem skal varsle mig om det eller si mig om din far svarer dig ublidt?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 1 Samuel 20:30–34

    Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the disgrace of the mother who bore you?

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  • Proverbs 18:23

    The poor man pleads for mercy, but the rich man answers harshly.

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  • Genesis 42:30

    “The man who is lord of the land spoke harshly to us and accused us of spying on the country.

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  • 1 Kings 12:13

    And the king answered the people harshly. He rejected the advice of the elders

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  • 1 Samuel 25:17

    Now consider carefully what you must do, because disaster looms over our master and all his household. For he is such a scoundrel that nobody can speak to him!”

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  • 1 Samuel 25:14

    Meanwhile, one of Nabal’s young men informed Nabal’s wife Abigail, “Look, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, but he scolded them.

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  • 1 Samuel 25:10

    But Nabal asked them, “Who is David? Who is this son of Jesse? Many servants these days are breaking away from their masters.

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  • Genesis 42:7

    And when Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he treated them as strangers and spoke harshly to them. “Where have you come from?” he asked. “From the land of Canaan,” they replied. “We are here to buy food.”

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