1 Samuel 22:8

For all of you have conspired against me so that no one informs me when my son [Jonathan] makes a covenant with the son of Jesse. None of you cares about me or informs me that my son has stirred up my servant against me to lie in ambush, as he does this day?”

1 Samuel 18:3

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

1 Samuel 23:21

Saul said, “May you be blessed by the Lord, because you have had compassion on me.

1 Samuel 20:2

Jonathan said to him, “Far from it! You shall not die. My father does nothing important or insignificant without telling me. So why would he hide this thing from me? It is not so!”

1 Samuel 20:8

Therefore show kindness to your servant, because you have brought your servant into a covenant of the Lord with you. But if there is iniquity (guilt) in me, kill me yourself; for why should you bring me to your father [to be killed]?”

1 Samuel 20:13-17

But if it pleases my father to do you harm, may the Lord do so to Jonathan, and more if I do not let you know about it and send you away, so that you may go in safety. And may the Lord be with you as He has been with my father.

1 Samuel 20:30-34

Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan and he said to him, “You son of a wayward, rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse [over me] to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?

1 Samuel 20:42

Jonathan told David, “Go in safety, inasmuch as we have sworn to each other in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘The Lord shall be between me and you, and between my descendants and yours forever.’” Then he stood and left, while Jonathan went into the city.

1 Samuel 23:16-18

And Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose and went [into the woods] to David at Horesh, and encouraged him in God.

Job 33:16


Then He opens the ears of men
And seals their instruction,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

That all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?

Bible References

That my son

1 Samuel 18:3
Then Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself.
1 Samuel 20:8
Therefore show kindness to your servant, because you have brought your servant into a covenant of the Lord with you. But if there is iniquity (guilt) in me, kill me yourself; for why should you bring me to your father [to be killed]?”
1 Samuel 23:16
And Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose and went [into the woods] to David at Horesh, and encouraged him in God.

General references

1 Samuel 23:21
Saul said, “May you be blessed by the Lord, because you have had compassion on me.
Proverbs 16:29

A violent and exceedingly covetous man entices his neighbor [to sin],
And leads him in a way that is not good.
Proverbs 17:4

An evildoer listens closely to wicked lips;
And a liar pays attention to a destructive and malicious tongue.