So Jonathan made a covenant with David’s house, saying, “The LORD will require it at the hand of David’s enemies.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Samuel 20:16 in context
1 Samuel 20:13–19
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The LORD do so to Jonathan and more also, should it please my father to do you evil, if I don’t disclose it to you and send you away, that you may go in peace. May the LORD be with you as he has been with my father.
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You shall not only show me the loving kindness of the LORD while I still live, that I not die;
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but you shall also not cut off your kindness from my house forever, no, not when the LORD has cut off every one of the enemies of David from the surface of the earth.”
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So Jonathan made a covenant with David’s house, saying, “The LORD will require it at the hand of David’s enemies.”
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Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had for him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
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Then Jonathan said to him, “Tomorrow is the new moon, and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty.
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When you have stayed three days, go down quickly and come to the place where you hid yourself when this started, and remain by the stone Ezel.
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