12 And now, please, swear to me by Jehovah+ that, because I have exercised loving-kindness* toward YOU, YOU also will certainly exercise loving-kindness toward the household of my father,+ and YOU must give me a trustworthy sign.+

42 And Jonʹa·than went on to say to David: “Go in peace,+ since we have sworn,+ both of us, in the name of Jehovah, saying, ‘May Jehovah himself prove to be between me and you and between my offspring and your offspring to time indefinite.’”*+

Accordingly David* rose up and went his way, and Jonʹa·than himself came into the city.

2 And [if] you will certainly swear,+ ‘As Jehovah is alive in truth,+ in justice and in righteousness!’+ then in him* the nations will actually bless themselves, and in him they will boast about themselves.”+