14 Likewise I require not whiles I live: for I doubt not but thou wilt show me the mercy of the Lord, [a]that I die not.

15 But I require that thou cut not off thy mercy from mine house forever: no, not when the Lord hath destroyed the enemies of David, every one from the earth.

16 So Jonathan made a bond with the house of David, saying, Let the Lord require it at the hands of David’s enemies.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 20:14 I know that if thou werest now preferred to the Kingdom, thou wouldest not destroy me, but show thyself friendly to my posterity.

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