1 Samuel 20:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the LORD with thee: notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?

Deal kindly

Proverbs 3:3

Thou hast

1 Samuel 20:16

1 Samuel 18:3

1 Samuel 23:18

If there be

Why shouldest

1 Chronicles 12:17

Psalm 116:11

Bible References

Deal kindly

Now, therefore, if ye will deal mercifully and truly with my master, tell me - And if not, tell me also - that I may turn me to the righthand or to the left."

When the time drew nigh that Israel must die, he sent for his son Joseph and said unto him, "If I have found grace in thy sight, put thy hand under my thigh and deal mercifully and truly with me, that thou bury me not in Egypt:

And the men answered her, "Our lives for you to die, if you utter not this our business. And so when the LORD hath given us the land, we will deal mercifully and truly with thee."

Naomi said unto her two daughters-in-law, "Go, and return each of you unto your mother's house. The LORD deal as kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me."

Let mercy and faithfulness never go from thee: bind them about thy neck, and write them in the tables of thine heart.

Thou hast

And so Jonathan made a bond with the house of David, desiring that the LORD should seek, out of the hands of David's enemies, their wickedness.

And Jonathan and David bound themselves the one to the other, for Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

And they made a bond both of them together before the LORD. And David tarried still in the thicket, and Jonathan went to his house.

If there be

"The mighty God Jehovah, he knoweth, and Israel shall know if; it be to rebel or transgress against the LORD, then the LORD save us not this day.

And Absalom said to Joab, "Behold, I sent for thee desiring thee to come; because I would have sent thee to the king, for to say wherefore I am come from Geshur. It had been as good for me to have bidden there still. Now therefore let me come to the king's presence, or else if there be any trespass in me, kill me."

if I have rewarded evil unto him that dealt friendly with me, or hurt them that without any cause are mine enemies;

If I have hurt them, or committed anything worthy of death, I refuse not to die. If none of these things are, whereof they accuse me, no man ought to deliver me to them. I appeal unto Caesar."

Why shouldest

And David went out to them and answered and said to them, "If ye be come peaceably unto me, to help me, mine heart shall be together with you. But and if you come to beguile me and to be mine adversary, seeing there is no wickedness in mine hands, the God of our fathers look thereon and rebuke it."

I said in my haste, "All men are liars."