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1st Samuel Chapter 20 verse 16 Holy Bible

ASV 1stSamuel 20:16

So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, `saying', And Jehovah will require it at the hand of David's enemies.
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BBE 1stSamuel 20:16

And if it comes about that the name of Jonathan is cut off from the family of David, the Lord will make David responsible.
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DARBY 1stSamuel 20:16

And Jonathan made [a covenant] with the house of David, [saying,] Let Jehovah even require [it] at the hand of David's enemies!
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KJV 1stSamuel 20:16

So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let the LORD even require it at the hand of David's enemies.
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WBT 1stSamuel 20:16

So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let the LORD even require it at the hand of David's enemies.
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WEB 1stSamuel 20:16

So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, [saying], Yahweh will require it at the hand of David's enemies.
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YLT 1stSamuel 20:16

And Jonathan covenanteth with the house of David, and Jehovah hath sought `it' from the hand of the enemies of David;
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 16. - This verse also is very difficult, but it is probably to be taken as an insertion of the narrator: "So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David" - that is, so as to bind his descendants - "saying, Let Jehovah require it at the hand of David's enemies." These last words probably are a euphemism, and mean David himself. So Rashi explains the words. The courtesy of an Oriental forbade his saying, May Jehovah punish David for it, but he prays that God would requite it on some one. But if the Divine anger visits even David's enemies for it, how much more the guilty perjurer himself.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(16) So Jonathan made a covenant.--It is not necessary to supply (as in the English Version) "saying," but it is better to understand this verse as a remark interposed in the dialogue by the narrator, and to translate the Hebrew literally, "So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, and Jehovah required it at the hand of David's enemies."