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1 Samuel 19:2

1 Samuel 19:2 is verse 2 of 1 Samuel chapter 19, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

so he warned David, saying, “My father Saul intends to kill you. Be on your guard in the morning; find a secret place and hide there.

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King James Version

But Jonathan Saul’s son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself:

World English Bible

Jonathan told David, saying, “Saul my father seeks to kill you. Now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, live in a secret place, and hide yourself.

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1 Samuel 19:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Then Saul ordered his son Jonathan and all his servants to kill David. But Jonathan delighted greatly in David,

2 so he warned David, saying, “My father Saul intends to kill you. Be on your guard in the morning; find a secret place and hide there.

3 I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, so I can ask about you. And if I find out anything, I will tell you.”

4 Then Jonathan spoke well of David to his father Saul and said to him, “The king should not sin against his servant David; he has not sinned against you. In fact, his actions have been highly beneficial to you.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

1 Samuel 18:1

After David had finished speaking with Saul, the souls of Jonathan and David were knit together, and Jonathan loved him as himself.

1 Samuel 18:2

And from that day Saul kept David with him and did not let him return to his father’s house.

1 Samuel 18:3

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

Psalms 16:3

As for the saints in the land, they are the excellence in whom all my delight resides.

John 15:17

This is My command to you: Love one another.

John 15:18

If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.

John 15:19

If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.

1 John 3:12

Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did Cain slay him? Because his own deeds were evil, while those of his brother were righteous.

1 John 3:13

So do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you.

1 John 3:14

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.

1 Samuel 20:2

“Far from it!” Jonathan replied. “You will not die. Indeed, my father does nothing, great or small, without telling me. So why would he hide this matter from me? This cannot be true!”

Proverbs 17:17

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Acts 9:24

but Saul learned of their plot. Day and night they watched the city gates in order to kill him.

Acts 23:16

But when the son of Paul’s sister heard about the plot, he went into the barracks and told Paul.

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