Passage Resources Hebrew/Greek Your Content
Previous Next
Add parallel Print Page Options

1 Samuel 20:12-14
New English Translation

12 Jonathan said to David, “The Lord God of Israel is my witness![a] I will feel out my father about this time the day after tomorrow. If he is favorably inclined toward David, will I not then send word to you and let you know?[b] 13 But if my father intends to do you harm, may the Lord do all this and more to Jonathan, if I don’t let you know[c] and send word to you, so you can go safely on your way.[d] May the Lord be with you, as he was with my father. 14 While I am still alive, extend to me the loyalty of the Lord, or else I will die.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 20:12 tc The Hebrew text has simply “the Lord God of Israel.” On the basis of the Syriac version, many reconstruct the text to read “[is] my witness,” which may have fallen out of the text by homoioarcton (an error which is entirely possible if עֵד (ʿed, “witness,”) immediately followed דָּוִד, “David,” in the original text).
  2. 1 Samuel 20:12 tn Heb “and uncover your ear.”
  3. 1 Samuel 20:13 tn Heb “uncover your ear.”
  4. 1 Samuel 20:13 tn Heb “in peace.”
Next
1 Samuel 19
1 Samuel 21
Next
dropdown
New English Translation (NET)

NET Bible® copyright ©1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com All rights reserved.