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.

¹⁹ Then all the rulers said to all the congregation, “We have sworn to them by the Lord God of Israel; now therefore, we may not touch them. ²⁰ This we will do to them: We will let them live, lest ^(A)wrath be upon us because of the oath which we swore to them.”

¹⁵ So Joshua ^(A)made peace with them, and made a covenant with them to let them live; and the rulers of the congregation swore to them.

¹² Now therefore, I beg you, ^(A)swear to me by the Lord, since I have shown you kindness, that you also will show kindness to ^(B)my father’s house, and ^(C)give me ^[a]a true token,

Miscellaneous Laws

^15 (A)“You shall not give back to his master the slave who has escaped from his master to you. ¹⁶ He may dwell with you in your midst, in the place which he chooses within one of your gates, where it ^[a]seems best to him; ^(B)you shall not oppress him.