1 Samuel 20:8

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Jika demikian, tunjukkanlah kesetiaanmu kepada hambamu ini, sebab engkau telah mengikat perjanjian di hadapan TUHAN dengan hambamu ini. Tetapi jika ada kesalahan padaku, engkau sendirilah membunuh aku. Mengapa engkau harus menyerahkan aku kepada ayahmu?"

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Jika demikian, tunjukkanlah kesetiaanmu kepada hambamu ini, sebab engkau telah mengikat perjanjian di hadapan TUHAN dengan hambamu ini. Tetapi jika ada kesalahan padaku, engkau sendirilah membunuh aku. Mengapa engkau harus menyerahkan aku kepada ayahmu?"

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka demikan hendaklah engkau berbuat kebajikan akan hambamu, karena engkau sudah berteguhan janji dengan hambamu ini di hadapan hadirat Tuhan, maka jikalau kiranya aku bersalah dalam sesuatu perkara, hendaklah engkau juga membunuh akan daku, tetapi mengapa pula engkau hendak menghantar akan daku kepada ayahmu?

Contextual Overview

¹ And Dauid fled from Naioth whiche is in Rama, and came, and said before Ionathan, What haue I done? wherin am I faultie? what is the sinne that I haue committed before thy father, that he seketh my lyfe? ² He sayde vnto him: God forbid, thou shalt not dye: Behold, my father wil do nothing either great or smal, but that he will shewe it me: And howe should my father hyde this thing from me? He will not do it. ³ And Dauid sware againe, and sayde: Thy father knoweth that I haue found grace in thyne eyes, & therfore he thinketh, Ionathan shall not knowe it, lest he be sory: And in very deede, euen as the Lorde lyueth, and as thy soule liueth, there is but a steppe betweene me and death. ⁴ Then sayde Ionathan vnto Dauid: Whatsoeuer thy soule desireth, that I will do vnto thee. ⁵ And Dauid sayd vnto Ionathan: Beholde, to morowe is the beginning of the moneth, and I should sit with the king at meate: But let me go, that I may hide my selfe in the fieldes vnto the thirde day at euen. ⁶ If thy father speake of me, then say: Dauid asked leaue of me, that he might go to Bethlehem to his owne citie, for there is holden a yerely feast for all the kinred. ⁷ And if he say it is well done, then thy seruaunt shal haue peace: But and if he be angry, then be sure that wickednesse is vtterly concluded of him. ⁸ And then thou shalt shewe mercy vnto thy seruaunt for thou hast ioyned thy seruaunt into a couenant of the Lord with thee: Notwithstandyng, if there be in me iniquitie, slay me thy selfe? for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

deal kindly: Genesis 24:49, Genesis 47:29, Joshua 2:14, Ruth 1:8, Proverbs 3:3

thou hast: 1 Samuel 20:16, 1 Samuel 18:3, 1 Samuel 23:18

if there be: Joshua 22:22, 2 Samuel 14:32, Psalms 7:4, Psalms 7:5, Acts 25:11

why shouldest: 1 Chronicles 12:17, Psalms 116:11

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore thou shall deal kindly with thy servant,.... By informing him how his father's mind stood affected to him, that he might conduct himself accordingly, either by appearing at court, or by providing for his safety by flight:

for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the Lord with thee; a covenant of friendship between Jonathan and David, of which Jonathan was the first mover, and so is said to bring or persuade him into it; called the covenant of the Lord, because made in his name and fear, and before him as a witness of it; and this David pleads as an argument with Jonathan, to deal kindly and faithfully by him in the present case:

notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself: or pass sentence upon him to be slain; which, if guilty, he might have power to do in his father's absence, and which David desires might be done, notwithstanding the covenant of friendship between them, should he appear to deserve it by any action of his, of which he was not conscious; this expresses the strong sense he had of his own integrity, and served to confirm Jonathan in his opinion of it;

for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father? deliver him up into his hands to be put to a cruel death by him, or give him the trouble of doing it, when he might as well dispatch him at once.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 20:8. If there be in me iniquity — If thou seest that I am plotting either against the state, or the life of thy father, then slay me thyself.