²³ so now, ^(A)swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my offspring or with my posterity, but according to the lovingkindness that I have shown you, you shall show me and the land in which you have sojourned.”

¹⁴ And if I am still alive, will you not show me the lovingkindness of Yahweh, that I may not die? ^15 (A)You shall not cut off your lovingkindness from my house forever, not even when Yahweh cuts off every one of the enemies of David from the face of the earth.” ¹⁶ So Jonathan cut a covenant with the house of David, saying, “^(B)May Yahweh require it at the hands of David’s enemies.” ¹⁷ And Jonathan made David swear again because of his love for him, because ^(C)he loved him as he loved his own soul.

⁶ let seven men from his sons be given to us, and we will ^[a]hang them ^(A)before Yahweh in Gibeah of Saul, ^(B)the chosen of Yahweh.” And the king said, “I will give them.”

⁷ But the king spared ^(C)Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, ^(D)because of the oath of Yahweh which was between them, between David and Saul’s son Jonathan. ⁸ So the king took the two sons of ^(E)Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, Armoni and Mephibosheth whom she had borne to Saul, and the five sons of ^[b](F)Merab the daughter of Saul, whom she had borne to Adriel the son of Barzillai the ^(G)Meholathite.