than that I # 09_1SA_27_01 # And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: [there is] nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand. 
than that I # 01_GEN_29_19 # And Laban said, [It is] better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.