1 Samuel 20:7

20:7 If he should then say, ‘That’s fine,’ ¹  then your servant is safe. But if he becomes very angry, be assured that he has decided to harm me. ² 

1 Samuel 20:9

20:9 Jonathan said, “Far be it from you to suggest this! If I were at all aware that my father had decided to harm you, wouldn’t I tell you about it?”

1 Samuel 20:33

20:33 Then Saul threw his spear at Jonathan ³  in order to strike him down. So Jonathan was convinced ⁴  that his father had decided to kill David.

1 Samuel 20:2

20:2 Jonathan ⁵  said to him, “By no means are you going to die! My father does nothing ⁶  large or small without making me aware of it. ⁷  Why would my father hide this matter from me? It just won’t happen!”

1 Samuel 25:16

25:16 Both night and day they were a protective wall for us the entire time we were with them, while we were tending our flocks.

Esther 7:7

7:7 In rage the king arose from the banquet of wine and withdrew to the palace garden. Meanwhile, Haman stood to beg Queen Esther for his life, ⁸  for he realized that the king had now determined a catastrophic end for him. ⁹ 

[20:7]  ¹ tn Heb “good.”

[20:7]  ² tn Heb “know that the evil is completed from with him.”

[20:33]  ³ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Jonathan) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:33]  ⁴ tn Heb “knew.”

[20:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jonathan) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:2]  ⁶ tc The translation follows the Qere, many medieval Hebrew mss, and the ancient versions in reading “he will not do,” rather than the Kethib of the MT (“do to him”).

[20:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “without uncovering my ear.”

[7:7]  ⁸ sn There is great irony here in that the man who set out to destroy all the Jews now finds himself begging for his own life from a Jew.

[7:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “for he saw that calamity was determined for him from the king”; NAB “the king had decided on his doom”; NRSV “the king had determined to destroy him.”