^21 (A)Swear to me therefore by the Lord that you will not cut off my offspring after me, and ^(B)that you will not destroy my name out of my father's house.”

²³ Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my descendants or with my posterity, but ^(A)as I have dealt kindly with you, so you will deal with me and with the land where you have sojourned.”

⁶ let seven of his sons be given to us, so that we may hang them before the Lord at ^(A)Gibeah of Saul, ^(B)the chosen of the Lord.” And the king said, “I will give them.”

⁷ But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Saul's son Jonathan, because of ^(C)the oath of the Lord that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul. ⁸ The king took the two sons of ^(D)Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Merab^[a] the daughter of Saul, whom ^(E)she bore to ^(F)Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite;

¹⁴ If I am still alive, show me the steadfast love of the Lord, that I may not die; ^15 (A)and do not cut off^[a] your steadfast love from my house forever, when the Lord cuts off every one of the enemies of David from the face of the earth.” ¹⁶ And Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, ^(B)“May^[b] the Lord take vengeance on David's enemies.” ¹⁷ And Jonathan made David swear again by his love for him, ^(C)for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

¹⁶ For people swear by something greater than themselves, and in all their disputes ^(A)an oath is final for confirmation.

⁵³ The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So Jacob swore by the ^(A)Fear of his father Isaac,

⁴⁸ Laban said, ^(A)“This heap is a witness between you and me today.” Therefore he named it Galeed,