1 Samuel 20:11 "Come," Jonathan said, "let's go out into the field." So they went there together.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
"Come," Jonathan said, "let's go out into the field." So they went there together.

English Standard Version
And Jonathan said to David, “Come, let us go out into the field.” So they both went out into the field.

New American Standard Bible
Jonathan said to David, "Come, and let us go out into the field." So both of them went out to the field.

King James Bible
And Jonathan said unto David, Come, and let us go out into the field. And they went out both of them into the field.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He answered David, "Come on, let's go out to the field." So both of them went out to the field.

International Standard Version
Then Jonathan told David, "Come, let's go into the field." So the two of them went into the field.

American Standard Version
And Jonathan said unto David, Come, and let us go out into the field. And they went out both of them into the field.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Jonathan said to David: Come and let us go out into the field. And when they were both of them gone out into the field,

Darby Bible Translation
And Jonathan said to David, Come and let us go out into the field. And they went out both of them into the field.

Young's Literal Translation
And Jonathan saith unto David, 'Come, and we go out into the field;' and they go out both of them into the field.

Cross References

1 Samuel 20:10
Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what if your father answer you roughly?

1 Samuel 20:12
And Jonathan said to David, O LORD God of Israel, when I have sounded my father about to morrow any time, or the third day, and, behold, if there be good toward David, and I then send not to you, and show it you;

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

20:11-23 Jonathan faithfully promises that he would let David know how he found his father affected towards him. It will be kindness to ourselves and to ours, to secure an interest in those whom God favours, and to make his friends ours. True friendship rests on a firm basis, and is able to silence ambition, self-love, and undue regard for others. But who can fully understand the love of Jesus, who gave himself as a sacrifice for rebellious, polluted sinners! how great then ought to be the force and effects of our love to him, to his cause, and his people!

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

1Sa 20:11-23. Their Covenant Renewed by Oath.

11. Jonathan said to David, Come, let us go into the field—The private dialogue, which is here detailed at full length, presents a most beautiful exhibition of these two amiable and noble-minded friends. Jonathan was led, in the circumstances, to be the chief speaker. The strength of his attachment, his pure disinterestedness, his warm piety, his invocation to God (consisting of a prayer and a solemn oath combined), the calm and full expression he gave of his conviction that his own family were, by the divine will, to be disinherited, and David elevated to the possession of the throne, the covenant entered into with David on behalf of his descendants, and the imprecation (1Sa 20:16) denounced on any of them who should violate his part of the conditions, the reiteration of this covenant on both sides (1Sa 20:17) to make it indissoluble—all this indicates such a power of mutual affection, such magnetic attractiveness in the character of David, such susceptibility and elevation of feeling in the heart of Jonathan, that this interview for dramatic interest and moral beauty stands unrivalled in the records of human friendship.