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1 Samuel 20:15-17
Contemporary English Version
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.
16 Jonathan 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]
17 Jonathan 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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1 Samuel 20:15-17
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1 Samuel 20:15-17
New International Version
15 and do not ever cut off your kindness from my family(A)—not even when the Lord has cut off every one of David’s enemies from the face of the earth.”
16 So Jonathan(B) made a covenant(C) with the house of David, saying, “May the Lord call David’s enemies to account.(D)” 17 And Jonathan had David reaffirm his oath(E) out of love for him, because he loved him as he loved himself.
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