1 Samuel 20:10 “Then David asked Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers yo…”

1 Samuel 20:10

Then David asked Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what if thy father answer thee roughly?

World English Bible

Then David said to Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you roughly?”

American Standard Version

Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me if perchance thy father answer thee roughly?

Geneva Bible 1599

Then said Dauid to Ionathan, Who shall tell me? how shall I knowe, if thy father answere thee cruelly?

Darby Translation

Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what if thy father answer thee roughly?

Young's Literal Translation

And David saith unto Jonathan, 'Who doth declare to me? or what [if] thy father doth answer thee sharply?'

Bible in Basic English

Then David said to Jonathan, Who will give me word if your father gives you a rough answer?

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Cross references

“answer thee”

1 Samuel 20:30–34 1 Samuel 25:10 1 Samuel 25:14 1 Samuel 25:17 Genesis 42:7 Genesis 42:30

1 Samuel 20:30–34 · BSB

Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of the mother who bore yo…

1 Samuel 25:10 · BSB

But Nabal asked them, “Who is David? Who is this son of Jesse? Many servants these days are breaking away from their masters.

1 Samuel 25:14 · BSB

Meanwhile, one of Nabal’s young men informed Nabal’s wife Abigail, “Look, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, but he screamed at them.

1 Samuel 25:17 · BSB

Now consider carefully what you must do, because disaster looms over our master and all his household. For he is such a scoundrel that nobody can speak to him!”

Genesis 42:7 · BSB

And when Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he treated them as strangers and spoke harshly to them. “Where have you come from?” he asked. “From the land of Canaan,” they replied. “We are here to buy food.”

Genesis 42:30 · BSB

“The man who is lord of the land spoke harshly to us and accused us of spying on the country.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

9“Never!” Jonathan replied. “If I ever found out that my father had evil intentions against you, would I not tell you?”

11“Come,” he replied, “let us go out to the field.” So the two of them went out into the field,

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