1Sa 20:8 | ESV | STEP | Therefore deal kindly with your servant, for you have brought your servant into a covenant of the Lord with you. But if there is guilt in me, kill me yourself, for why should you bring me to your father?”

a ver. 16, 42; ch. 18:3; 23:18; [2 Sam. 21:7]

‏ 1 Samuel 20:8

8 Therefore deal kindly with your servant, ^afor you have brought your servant into a covenant of the Lord with you. ^bBut if there is guilt in me, kill me yourself, for why should you bring me to your father?”

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