1 Samuel 20:7
Good News Translation
If he says, 'All right,' I will be safe; but if he becomes angry, you will know that he is determined to harm me.

New Revised Standard Version
If he says, ‘Good!’ it will be well with your servant; but if he is angry, then know that evil has been determined by him.

Contemporary English Version
If your father says it's all right, then I'm safe. But if he gets angry, you'll know he wants to harm me.

New American Bible
If he says, ‘Very well,’ your servant is safe. But if he becomes quite angry, you can be sure he has planned some harm.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If he shall say: It is well: thy servant shall have peace: but if he be angry, know that his malice is come to its height.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If he shall say: It is well: thy servant shall have peace: but if he be angry, know that his malice is come to its height.

It is well

Deuteronomy 1:23 And because the saying pleased me, I sent of you twelve men, one of every tribe:

2 Samuel 17:4 And his saying pleased Absalom, and all the ancients of Israel.

evil

1 Samuel 20:9 And Jonathan said: Far be this from thee: for if I should certainly know that evil is determined by my father against thee, I could do no otherwise than tell thee.

1 Samuel 25:17 Wherefore consider, and think what thou hast to do: for evil is determined against thy husband, and against thy house, and he is a son of Belial, so that no man can speak to him.

Esther 7:7 But the king being angry rose up, and went from the place of the banquet into the garden set with trees. Aman also rose up to entreat Esther the queen for his life, for he understood that evil was prepared for him by the king.

Context
Jonathan Helps David
6If thy father look and inquire for me, thou shalt answer him: David asked me that he might run to Bethlehem, his own city: because there are solemn sacrifices there for all of his tribe. 7If he shall say: It is well: thy servant shall have peace: but if he be angry, know that his malice is come to its height.8Deal mercifully then with thy servant: for thou hast brought me, thy servant, into a covenant of the Lord with thee. But if there be any iniquity in me, do thou kill me, and bring me not in to thy father.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 20:33
And Saul caught up a spear to strike him. And Jonathan understood that it was determined by his father to kill David.

1 Samuel 25:17
Wherefore consider, and think what thou hast to do: for evil is determined against thy husband, and against thy house, and he is a son of Belial, so that no man can speak to him.

1 Samuel 20:6
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