1 Samuel 20:31

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What does 1 Samuel 20:31 mean?

1 Samuel 20:31 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for 1 Samuel 20:31

• 1 Samuel 20:8

  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?

• 1 Samuel 19:6

  And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan: and Saul sware, As the Lord liveth, he shall not be slain.

• 1 Samuel 26:16

  This thing is not good that thou hast done. As the Lord liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master, the Lord’s anointed. And now see where the king’s spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his bolster.

• 1 Samuel 19:11-15

  Saul also sent messengers unto David’s house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David’s wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain. So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped. And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth. And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick. …

• 2 Samuel 19:28

  For all of my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?

• Psalms 79:11

  Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;

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Context

• 1 Samuel 20:30

  Then Saul’s anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the confusion of thy mother’s nakedness?

• 1 Samuel 20:31

  For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die.

• 1 Samuel 20:32

  And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore shall he be slain? what hath he done?

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