1 Samuel 20:16

WEB

¹⁶So Jonathan made a covenant with David’s house, saying, “The LORD will require it at the hand of David’s enemies.”

KJV

¹⁶So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let the LORD even require it at the hand of David’s enemies.

BSB

¹⁶So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, “May the LORD hold David’s enemies accountable.”

FBV

¹⁶Jonathan made a solemn agreement with the family of David, saying, “May the Lord impose retribution on David's enemies.”

Extra References

1 Samuel 25:22

²²God do so to the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave of all that belongs to him by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.”

1 Samuel 18:3

³Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

1 Samuel 31:2

²The Philistines overtook Saul and his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.

⁸But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Merab the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

2 Samuel 4:7-8

⁷Now when they came into the house as he lay on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him, killed him, beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night. ⁸They brought the head of Ishbosheth to David to Hebron, and said to the king, “Behold, the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life! The LORD has avenged my lord the king today of Saul and of his offspring.

Genesis 15:18

¹⁸In that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates: