1 Samuel 20:17 BSB — MannaFest

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11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיּ֤וֹסֶף	vai.Yo.sef	and he repeated	H3254 →
יְהֽוֹנָתָן֙	ye.ho.na.Tan	Jonathan	H3083 →
לְהַשְׁבִּ֣יעַ	le.hash.Bi.a'	to make swear an oath	H7650 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
דָּוִ֔ד	da.Vid	David	H1732 →
בְּאַהֲבָת֖וֹ	be.'a.ha.va.To	in love his	H160 →
אֹת֑וֹ	'o.To	<obj.> him	H853 →
כִּֽי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
אַהֲבַ֥ת	'a.ha.Vat	[the] love of	H160 →
נַפְשׁ֖וֹ	naf.Sho	own self his	H5315 →
אֲהֵבֽוֹ׃ ס	'a.he.Vo	he loved him	H157 →

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Proverbs 18:24
A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.
leads to
- Proverbs 17:17
  A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
- John 15:13–15
  Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
- Proverbs 27:9
  Oil and incense bring joy to the heart, and the sweetness of a friend is counsel to the soul.
- 2 Samuel 1:26
  I grieve for you, Jonathan, my brother. You were delightful to me; your love to me was extraordinary, surpassing the love of women.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Samuel 19:4–5
  Then Jonathan spoke well of David to his father Saul and said to him, “The king should not sin against his servant David; he has not sinned against you. In fact, his actions have…
Through
1 Samuel 18:1
After David had finished speaking with Saul, the souls of Jonathan and David were knit together, and Jonathan loved him as himself.
leads to
- Proverbs 18:24
  A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Samuel 18:3
  Then Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself.
- Colossians 2:2
  that they may be encouraged in heart, knit together in love, and filled with the full riches of complete understanding, so that they may know the mystery of God, namely Christ,

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Proverbs 17:17A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.Proverbs 18:24A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.1 Samuel 18:3Then Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself.1 Samuel 18:1After David had finished speaking with Saul, the souls of Jonathan and David were knit together, and Jonathan loved him as himself.2 Samuel 1:26I grieve for you, Jonathan, my brother. You were delightful to me; your love to me was extraordinary, surpassing the love of women.2 Samuel 21:7Now the king spared Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the oath before the LORD between David and Jonathan son of Saul.Deuteronomy 13:6If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (which neither you nor your fathers have known,Genesis 24:3and I will have you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am dwelling,Genesis 21:23Now, therefore, swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or descendants. Show to me and to the country in which you reside the same kindness that I have shown to you.”

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