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If he say thus, It is well; your servant shall have shalom: but if he be angry, then know that evil is determined by him.
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Therefore deal kindly with your servant; for you have brought your servant into a covenant of the LORD with you: but if there be in me iniquity, kill me yourself; for why should you bring me to your father?
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Yonatan said, Far be it from you; for if I should at all know that evil were determined by my father to come on you, then wouldn't I tell you that?
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Then said David to Yonatan, Who shall tell me if perchance your father answer you roughly?
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Yonatan said to David, Come, and let us go out into the field. They went out both of them into the field.
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Yonatan said to David, the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, [be witness]: when I have sounded my father about this time tomorrow, [or] the third day, behold, if there be good toward David, shall I not then send to you, and disclose it to you?
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The LORD do so to Yonatan, 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 shalom: and the LORD be with you, as he has been with my father.
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You shall not only while yet I live show me the lovingkindness of the LORD, that I not die;
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but also you shall not cut off your kindness from my house forever; no, not when the LORD has cut off the enemies of David everyone from the surface of the eretz.
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So Yonatan made a covenant with the house of David, [saying], the LORD will require it at the hand of David's enemies.
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Yonatan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had to him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.