"So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let the LORD even require it at the hand of David's enemies."
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In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Melchishua, Saul's sons.
For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night.
But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:
So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
And if it comes about that the name of Jonathan is cut off from the family of David, the Lord will make David responsible.
And Jonathan made [a covenant] with the house of David, [saying,] Let Jehovah even require [it] at the hand of David's enemies!
So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let the LORD even require it at the hand of David's enemies.
So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let the LORD even require it at the hand of David's enemies.
So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, [saying], Yahweh will require it at the hand of David's enemies.
And Jonathan covenanteth with the house of David, and Jehovah hath sought `it' from the hand of the enemies of David;