¹⁵ And David said to him, “Can you take me down to this troop?”

So he said, “Swear to me by God that you will neither kill me nor deliver me into the hands of my ^(A)master, and I will take you down to this troop.”

¹⁹ Therefore thus says the Lord God: “As I live, surely My oath which he despised, and My covenant which he broke, I will recompense on his own head.

¹⁶ ‘As I live,’ says the Lord God, ‘surely ^(A)in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke—with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.

^13 (A)And he took the king’s offspring, made a covenant with him, ^(B)and put him under oath. He also took away the mighty of the land,

⁶ Then Achish called David and said to him, “Surely, as the Lord lives, you have been upright, and ^(A)your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my sight. For to this day ^(B)I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me. Nevertheless the lords do not favor you.