Scripture · Old Testament

1 Samuel 20:16

1 Samuel 20:16 is verse 16 of 1 Samuel chapter 20, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, “May the LORD hold David’s enemies accountable.”

King James Version

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

World English Bible

So Jonathan made a covenant with David’s house, saying, “Yahweh will require it at the hand of David’s enemies.”

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1 Samuel 20:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible

14 And as long as I live, treat me with the LORD’s loving devotion, that I may not die,

15 and do not ever cut off your loving devotion from my household—not even when the LORD cuts off every one of David’s enemies from the face of the earth.”

16 So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, “May the LORD hold David’s enemies accountable.”

17 And Jonathan had David reaffirm his vow out of love for him, for Jonathan loved David as he loved himself.

18 Then Jonathan said to David, “Tomorrow is the New Moon, and you will be missed if your seat is empty.

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Hebrew words

וַיִּכְרֹ֥תand he made יְהוֹנָתָ֖ןJonathan עִםwith בֵּ֣ית[the] house of דָּוִ֑דDavid וּבִקֵּ֣שׁand he will require יְהוָ֔הYahweh מִיַּ֖דfrom [the] hand of אֹיְבֵ֥י[the] enemies of דָוִֽדDavid

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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 18:3
Then Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself.

Genesis 15:18
On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—

1 Samuel 25:22
May God punish David, and ever so severely, if I let one of Nabal’s men survive until morning.”

1 Samuel 31:2
The Philistines followed hard after Saul and his sons, and they killed Saul’s sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua.

2 Samuel 4:7
They had entered the house while Ish-bosheth was lying on his bed, and having stabbed and killed him, they beheaded him, took his head, and traveled all night by way of the Arabah.

2 Samuel 4:8
They brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron and said to the king, “Here is the head of Ish-bosheth son of Saul, your enemy who sought your life. Today the LORD has granted vengeance to my lord the king against Saul and his offspring.”

2 Samuel 21:8
But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons whom Rizpah daughter of Aiah had borne to Saul, as well as the five sons whom Merab daughter of Saul had borne to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

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