Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
1 Samuel 20:7
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If he says, ‘Good,’ then your servant is safe, but if he is enraged, you will know he has evil intentions.
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If he say thus, [It is] well; thy servant shall have peace: but if he be very wroth, [then] be sure that evil is determined by him.
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If he says, ‘It is well,’ your servant shall have peace; but if he is angry, then know that evil is determined by him.
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If he say thus, It is well; thy servant shall have peace: but if he be wroth, then know that evil is determined by him.
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1 Samuel 20
5 So David told him, “Look, tomorrow is the New Moon, and I am supposed to dine with the king. Instead, let me go and hide in the field until the third evening from now.
6 If your father misses me at all, tell him, ‘David urgently requested my permission to hurry to Bethlehem, his hometown, because there is an annual sacrifice for his whole clan.’
7 If he says, ‘Good,’ then your servant is safe, but if he is enraged, you will know he has evil intentions.
8 Therefore show kindness to your servant, for you have brought me into a covenant with you before the LORD. If there is iniquity in me, then kill me yourself; why should you bring me to your father?”
9 “Never!” Jonathan replied. “If I ever found out that my father had evil intentions against you, would I not tell you?”
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