32"Why should he be put to death? What has he done?" Jonathan asked his father.


In Context

29 He said, 'Let me go, because our family is observing a sacrifice in the town and my brother has ordered me to be there. If I have found favor in your eyes, let me get away to see my brothers.' That is why he has not come to the king's table."

30 Saul's anger flared up at Jonathan and he said to him, "You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Don't I know that you have sided with the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of the mother who bore you?

31 As long as the son of Jesse lives on this earth, neither you nor your kingdom will be established. Now send and bring him to me, for he must die!"

32 "Why should he be put to death? What has he done?" Jonathan asked his father.

33 But Saul hurled his spear at him to kill him. Then Jonathan knew that his father intended to kill David.

34 Jonathan got up from the table in fierce anger; on that second day of the month he did not eat, because he was grieved at his father's shameful treatment of David.

1st Samuel 20:32 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:32And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore shall he be slain? what hath he done?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:32And Jonathan answering Saul his father, said: Why shall he die: what hath he done?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:32And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore should he be put to death? what hath he done?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:32And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, Why should he be put to death? what has he done?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:32And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore should he be put to death? what hath he done?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:32And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, Why shall he be slain? what hath he done?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:32Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, |Why should he be put to death? What has he done?|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:32And Jonathan answereth Saul his father, and saith unto him, 'Why is he put to death? what hath he done?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:32And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, Why shall he be slain? what has he done?