2 Samuel 21:2

21:2 So the king summoned the Gibeonites and spoke with them. (Now the Gibeonites were not descendants of Israel; they were a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had made a promise to ¹  them, but Saul tried to kill them because of his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.)

2 Samuel 21:2

21:2 So the king summoned the Gibeonites and spoke with them. (Now the Gibeonites were not descendants of Israel; they were a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had made a promise to ²  them, but Saul tried to kill them because of his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.)

2 Samuel 16:3

16:3 The king asked, “Where is your master’s grandson?” ³  Ziba replied to the king, “He remains in Jerusalem, ⁴  for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will give back to me my grandfather’s ⁵  kingdom.’”

Ezekiel 17:13-16

17:13 He took one from the royal family, ⁶  made a treaty with him, and put him under oath. ⁷  He then took the leaders of the land 17:14 so it would be a lowly kingdom which could not rise on its own but must keep its treaty with him in order to stand. 17:15 But this one from Israel’s royal family ⁸  rebelled against the king of Babylon ⁹  by sending his emissaries to Egypt to obtain horses and a large army. Will he prosper? Will the one doing these things escape? Can he break the covenant and escape?

17:16 “‘As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, surely in the city ¹⁰  of the king who crowned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke – in the middle of Babylon he will die!

Romans 1:31

1:31 senseless, covenant-breakers, ¹¹  heartless, ruthless.

Romans 3:8

3:8 And why not say, “Let us do evil so that good may come of it”? – as some who slander us allege that we say. ¹²  (Their ¹³  condemnation is deserved!)

¹ tn Heb “swore an oath to.”

² tn Heb “swore an oath to.”

³ tn Heb “son.”

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⁵ tn Heb “my father’s.”

⁴ tn Or “descendants”; Heb “seed” (cf. v. 5).

⁵ tn Heb “caused him to enter into an oath.”

⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the member of the royal family, v. 13) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tn Heb “him”; the referent (the king of Babylon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tn Heb “place.”

⁷ tn Or “promise-breakers.”

⁸ tn Grk “(as we are slandered and some affirm that we say…).”

⁹ tn Grk “whose.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, this relative clause was rendered as a new sentence in the translation.