1 Samuel 24:21 Cross References - BBE

²¹ So give me your oath by the Lord, that you will not put an end to my seed after me or let my name be cut off from my father's family.

²³ Now, then, give me your oath, in the name of God, that you will not be false to me or to my sons after me, but that as I have been good to you, so you will be to me and to this land where you have been living.

⁴⁸ And Laban said, These stones are a witness between you and me today. For this reason its name was Galeed,

⁵³ May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, be our judge. Then Jacob took an oath by the Fear of his father Isaac.

¹⁴ And may you, while I am still living, O may you be kind to me, as the Lord is kind, and keep me from death! ¹⁵ And let not your mercy ever be cut off from my family, even when the Lord has sent destruction on all David's haters, cutting them off from the face of the earth. ¹⁶ And if it comes about that the name of Jonathan is cut off from the family of David, the Lord will make David responsible. ¹⁷ And Jonathan again took an oath to David, because of his love for him: for David was as dear to him as his very soul.

⁶ Let seven men of his family be given up to us and we will put an end to them by hanging them before the Lord in Gibeon, on the hill of the Lord. And the king said, I will give them. ⁷ But the king did not give up Mephibosheth, the son of Saul's son Jonathan, because of the Lord's oath made between David and Jonathan, the son of Saul. ⁸ But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons of Saul to whom Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, had given birth; and the five sons of Saul's daughter Merab, whose father was Adriel, the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:

¹⁶ For men at all times make their oaths by what is greater; and any argument is ended by the decision of the oath.