◄ 1 Samuel 20:23 ►
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Good News Translation
As for the promise we have made to each other, the LORD will make sure that we will keep it forever."

New Revised Standard Version
As for the matter about which you and I have spoken, the LORD is witness between you and me forever.”

Contemporary English Version
But he will always watch us to make sure that we keep the promise we made to each other.

New American Bible
However, in the matter which you and I have discussed, the LORD shall be between you and me forever.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And concerning the word which I and thou have spoken, the Lord be between thee and me forever.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And concerning the word which I and thou have spoken, the Lord be between thee and me forever.

the matter

1 Samuel 20:14,15 And if I live, thou shalt shew me the kindness of the Lord: but if I die, . . .

the Lord

1 Samuel 20:42 And Jonathan said to David: Go in peace: and let all stand that we have sworn both of us in the name of the Lord, saying: The Lord be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever. [43] And David arose, and departed: and Jonathan went into the city.

Genesis 16:5 And Sarai said to Abram: Thou dost unjustly with me: I gave my handmaid into thy bosom, and she perceiving herself to be with child, despiseth me. The Lord judge between me and thee.

Genesis 31:50 If thou afflict my daughters, and if thou bring in other wives over them: none is witness of our speech but God, who is present and beholdeth.

Context
Jonathan and David Renew Their Covenant
…22If I shall say to the boy: Behold the arrows are on this side of thee, take them up: come thou to me, because there is peace to thee, and there is no evil, as the Lord liveth. But if I shall speak thus to the boy: Behold the arrows are beyond thee: go in peace, for the Lord hath sent thee away. 23And concerning the word which I and thou have spoken, the Lord be between thee and me forever.24So David was hid in the field, and the new moon came, and the king sat down to eat bread.…
Cross References
Genesis 31:49
The Lord behold and judge between us, when we shall be gone one from the other.

Genesis 31:53
The God of Abraham, and the God of Nachor, the God of their father, judge between us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac:

1 Samuel 20:14
And if I live, thou shalt shew me the kindness of the Lord: but if I die,

1 Samuel 20:15
Thou shalt not take away thy kindness from my house for ever, when the Lord shall have rooted out the enemies of David, every one of them from the earth, may he take away Jonathan from his house, and may the Lord require it at the hands of David's enemies.

1 Samuel 20:24
So David was hid in the field, and the new moon came, and the king sat down to eat bread.

1 Samuel 20:42
And Jonathan said to David: Go in peace: and let all stand that we have sworn both of us in the name of the Lord, saying: The Lord be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever. [43] And David arose, and departed: and Jonathan went into the city.

1 Samuel 20:22
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