1 Samuel 24:20

Saul confesses he knows David will surely be king and the kingdom will be established in his hand. Even Saul admits God's purpose for David.

Cross-references · 8

• 1 Sam 23:17He said to him, “Don’t be afraid; for the hand of Saul my father won’t find you; and you will be king over Israel, and I will be next to you; and Saul my father knows that also.”
• 2 Sam 3:17–18Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, “In times past, you sought for David to be king over you.
• Matt 2:3–6When King Herod heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
• Matt 2:16Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.
• 1 Sam 13:14But now your kingdom will not continue. Yahweh has sought for himself a man after his own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept that which Yahweh commanded you.”
• Matt 2:13Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.”
• 1 Sam 20:30–31Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don’t I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?
• Job 15:25Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty;

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