1 Samuel 20:15-17

Contemporary English Version

^14-15^(A) Someday the Lord will wipe out all of your enemies. Then if I'm still alive, please be as kind to me as the Lord has been. But if I'm dead, be kind to my family.

¹⁶Jonathan and David made an agreement that even David's descendants would have to keep.^[a] Then Jonathan said, “I pray that the Lord will take revenge on your descendants if they break our promise.”^[b]

¹⁷Jonathan thought as much of David as he did of himself, so he asked David to promise once more that he would be a loyal friend.

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Footnotes

20.16 Jonathan … keep: Or, continuing Jonathan's statement to David, “You and your descendants must not kill off my descendants.”
20.16 I pray … promise: Or “I pray that the Lord take revenge on you if you break our promise!”