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Therefore deal kindly with your servant; for you have brought your servant into a covenant of Yahweh 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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Jonathan 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 Jonathan, Who shall tell me if perchance your father answer you roughly?
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Jonathan 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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Jonathan said to David, Yahweh, the God of Israel, [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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Yahweh 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: and Yahweh 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 Yahweh, that I not die;
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but also you shall not cut off your kindness from my house forever; no, not when Yahweh has cut off the enemies of David everyone from the surface of the earth.
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So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, [saying], Yahweh 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 to 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.