1 Samuel 24:21 References

21 "So now aswear to me by the Lord that you will not cut off my descendants after me and that you will not destroy my name from my father's household."

a Genesis 21:23, 1 Samuel 20:14-17, 2 Samuel 21:6-8

Genesis 21

23 now therefore, aswear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my offspring or with my posterity, but according to the kindness that I have shown to you, you shall show to me and to the land in which you have sojourned."

1 Samuel 20

14 "If I am still alive, will you not show me the lovingkindness of the Lord, that I may not die?

15 "aYou shall not cut off your lovingkindness from my house forever, not even when the Lord cuts off every one of the enemies of David from the face of the earth."

16 So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, "aMay the Lord require it at the hands of David's enemies."

17 Jonathan made David vow again because of his love for him, because ahe loved him as he loved his own life.

2 Samuel 21

6 let seven men from his sons be given to us, and we will hang them abefore the Lord in Gibeah of Saul, bthe chosen of the Lord." And the king said, "I will give them."

7 But the king spared aMephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, bbecause of the oath of the Lord which was between them, between David and Saul's son Jonathan.

8 So the king took the two sons of aRizpah the daughter of Aiah, Armoni and Mephibosheth whom she had borne to Saul, and the five sons of bMerab the daughter of Saul, whom she had borne to Adriel the son of Barzillai the cMeholathite.