3 And Yah Nathan and David cut a covenant because he loves him as his own soul:
1 Samuel 18:3 Cross References - ECB
1 Samuel 20:8-17
8 And work mercy with your servant; for you brought your servant into a covenant of Yah Veh with you: and, if there be perversity in me, deathify me yourself. And why this - to bring me to your father?
9 And Yah Nathan says, Far be it from you: for in knowing, had I known that my father finishes off evil to come on you, had I not told you?
10 Then says David to Yah Nathan, Who tells me? Or what if your father answers you hardly?
11 And Yah Nathan says to David, Come and let us go into the field. - and they both go into the field.
12 And Yah Nathan says to David, O Elohim of Yisra El, when I probe my father about this time tomorrow - or the third; and behold, if there be good toward David and I send not to you to expose it in your ear;
13 may Yah Veh work and add thus to Yah Nathan: but if it well-pleases my father to vilify you, then I expose it in your ear and send you away to go in shalom: and Yah Veh be with you as he is with my father:
14 and not only, while I still live work me the mercy of Yah Veh that I not die:
15 neither cut off your mercy from my house eternally: nor when Yah Veh cuts off the enemies of David - every man from the face of the soil.
16 And Yah Nathan cuts with the house of David, and Yah Veh seeks it at the hand of the enemies of David:
17 and Yah Nathan has David add an oath, because he loves him: for he loves him as he loves his own soul.
1 Samuel 20:42
42 And Yah Nathan says to David, Go in shalom; inasmuch as we oathed, both of us, in the name of Yah Veh, saying, Yah Veh be between me and between you and between my seed and between your seed eternally. - and he rises and goes: and Yah Nathan goes into the city.
1 Samuel 23:18
18 And the two cut a covenant at the face of Yah Veh: and David settles in the forest and Yah Nathan goes to his house.
2 Samuel 9:1-3
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THE MERCY OF DAVID
And David says, Remain there yet any of the house of Shaul to work mercy for sake of Yah Nathan? 2 And there is a servant of the house of Shaul; his name is Siba: and they call him to David, and the sovereign says to him, Are you Siba? And he says, Your servant. 3 And the sovereign says, Is there finally a man of the house of Shaul to whom I work the mercy of Elohim? And Siba says to the sovereign, Yah Nathan has yet a son with smitten feet.
THE MERCY OF DAVID
And David says, Remain there yet any of the house of Shaul to work mercy for sake of Yah Nathan? 2 And there is a servant of the house of Shaul; his name is Siba: and they call him to David, and the sovereign says to him, Are you Siba? And he says, Your servant. 3 And the sovereign says, Is there finally a man of the house of Shaul to whom I work the mercy of Elohim? And Siba says to the sovereign, Yah Nathan has yet a son with smitten feet.
2 Samuel 21:7
7 And the sovereign spares Mephi Bosheth the son of Yah Nathan the son of Shaul because of the oath of Yah Veh between them - between David and between Yah Nathan the son of Shaul.