13 The Lord [a]do so and much more unto Jonathan: but if my father have mind to do thee evil, I will show thee also, and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace: and the Lord be with thee as he hath been with my father.

14 Likewise I require not whiles I live: for I doubt not but thou wilt show me the mercy of the Lord, [b]that I die not.

15 But I require that thou cut not off thy mercy from mine house forever: no, not when the Lord hath destroyed the enemies of David, every one from the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 20:13 The Lord punish me most grievously.
  2. 1 Samuel 20:14 I know that if thou werest now preferred to the Kingdom, thou wouldest not destroy me, but show thyself friendly to my posterity.

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