8 And you must render loving-kindness* toward your servant,+ for it is into a covenant+ of Jehovah that you have brought your servant with you. But if there is error in me,+ put me to death yourself, since why should it be to your father that you should bring me?”

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.

18 Then the two of them concluded a covenant+ before Jehovah; and David kept dwelling in Hoʹresh, and Jonʹa·than himself went to his own home.

9 And David proceeded to say: “Is there yet anyone that is left over of the house of Saul, that I may exercise loving-kindness+ toward him for the sake of Jonʹa·than?”+

7 However, the king felt compassion upon Me·phibʹo·sheth+ the son of Jonʹa·than the son of Saul on account of the oath+ of Jehovah that was between them, between David and Jonʹa·than the son of Saul.