1 Samuel 20

Treated in 3 passages across the library.

The verses these writers stop at

  • 20:3 But David answered him with an oath: "Your father knows very well that you think well of me, and he has said to himself, 'Jonathan must not know this, or it will grieve him.' But as surely as the LORD lives and as surely as you live, there is only a step between me and death." 1
  • 20:17 Jonathan had David swear again by his love for him, because he loved him as he loved himself. 1
  • 20:30 Saul's anger flared up against Jonathan, and he told him, "You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Do you think I do not know that you have sided with the son of Jesse? It is a disgrace to you and a disgrace to the mother who bore you. 1

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Where it is preached

  1. Communion with God · John Owen

    That the saints have communion with God cites 1 Sam. xx. 17

    …union between them. So it was with Jonathan and David; their souls clave to one another (1 Sam. xx. 17) in love. There was the union of love between them; and then they really communicated all…

  2. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.5 The Fifth Commandment cites 1 Sam 20: 30

    …terms. ‘Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman,’ said Saul to his son Jonathan. 1 Sam 20: 30. Some parents use imprecations and curses to their children, which provoke them to wrath.…

  3. Holiness · J. C. Ryle

    Christ’s Greatest Trophy cites 1 Sam. xx. 3

    …devils—all are close to us. “There is but a step,” says David, “between me and death.” (1 Sam. xx. 3.) There is but a step, we may say, between ourselves and either paradise or hell. We none…