Bible verse

1 Samuel 20:23

And as for the matter you and I have discussed, the LORD is a witness between you and me forever.”

1 Samuel 20:23 · BSB

1 Samuel 20:23 in context

The verses around it, from 1 Samuel 20.

19 When you have stayed three days, hurry down to the place you hid on the day this trouble began, and remain beside the stone Ezel.

20 I will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as if I were aiming at a target.

21 Then I will send a boy and say, ‘Go, find the arrows!’ Now, if I expressly say to him, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; bring them,’ then come, because as surely as the LORD lives, it is safe for you and there is no danger.

22 But if I say to the young man, ‘Look, the arrows are beyond you,’ then you must go, for the LORD has sent you away.

23 And as for the matter you and I have discussed, the LORD is a witness between you and me forever.”

24 So David hid in the field, and when the New Moon had come, the king sat down to eat.

25 He sat in his usual place by the wall, opposite Jonathan and beside Abner, but David’s place was empty.

26 Saul said nothing that day because he thought, “Something has happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean—surely he is unclean.”

27 But on the day after the New Moon, the second day, David’s place was still empty, and Saul asked his son Jonathan, “Why hasn’t the son of Jesse come to the meal either yesterday or today?”

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1 Samuel 20:23 in other translations

KJV

And [as touching] the matter which thou and I have spoken of, behold, the LORD [be] between thee and me for ever.

ASV

And as touching the matter which thou and I have spoken of, behold, Jehovah is between thee and me for ever.

ERV

And as touching the matter which thou and I have spoken of, behold, the LORD is between thee and me for ever.

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