13 Jehovah your God you should fear,+ and him you should serve,*+ and by his name you should swear.+

6 Then Saul obeyed the voice of Jonʹa·than, and Saul swore: “As Jehovah is living,+ he will not be put to death.”

14 But Mi·caiʹah said: “As Jehovah is living,+ what Jehovah will say to me, that is what I shall speak.”+

14 To this E·liʹsha said: “As Jehovah of armies before whom I do stand* is living,+ if it were not that it is the face of Je·hoshʹa·phat the king of Judah for which I am having consideration,+ I would not look at you or see you.+

16 “And it must occur that if they will without fail learn the ways of my people in swearing by my name,+ ‘As Jehovah is alive!’ just as they taught my people to swear by Baʹal,+ they will also be built up in the midst of my people.+