1 Samuel 14:28

14:28 Then someone from the army informed him, “Your father put the army under a strict oath ¹  saying, ‘Cursed be the man who eats food today!’ That is why the army is tired.”

1 Samuel 19:6

19:6 Saul accepted Jonathan’s advice ²  and took an oath, “As surely as the Lord lives, he will not be put to death.”

1 Samuel 20:17

20:17 Jonathan once again took an oath with David, because he loved him. In fact Jonathan loved him as much as he did his own life. ³ 

1 Samuel 28:10

28:10 But Saul swore an oath to her by the Lord, “As surely as the Lord lives, you will not incur guilt in this matter!”

1 Samuel 3:14

3:14 Therefore I swore an oath to the house of Eli, ‘The sin of the house of Eli can never be forgiven by sacrifice or by grain offering.’”

1 Samuel 24:21-22

24:21 So now swear to me in the Lord’s name ⁴  that you will not kill ⁵  my descendants after me or destroy my name from the house of my father.”

24:22 David promised Saul this on oath. ⁶  Then Saul went to his house, and David and his men went up to the stronghold.

1 Samuel 14:27

14:27 But Jonathan had not heard about the oath his father had made the army take. He extended the end of his staff that was in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb. When he ate it, ⁷  his eyes gleamed. ⁸ 

1 Samuel 20:3

20:3 Taking an oath, David again ⁹  said, “Your father is very much aware of the fact ¹⁰  that I have found favor with you, and he has thought, ¹¹  ‘Don’t let Jonathan know about this, or he will be upset.’ But as surely as the Lord lives and you live, there is about one step between me and death!”

1 Samuel 20:42

20:42 Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, for the two of us have sworn together in the name of the Lord saying, ‘The Lord will be between me and you and between my descendants and your descendants forever.’”

David Goes to Nob

(21:1)

¹² Then David ¹³  got up and left, while Jonathan went back to the city.

1 Samuel 30:15

30:15 David said to him, “Can you take us down to this raiding party?” He said, “Swear to me by God that you will not kill me or hand me over to my master, and I will take you down to this raiding party.”

[14:28]  ¹ tn Heb “your father surely put the army under an oath.” The infinitive absolute is used before the finite verb to emphasize the solemn nature of the oath.

[19:6]  ² tn Heb “and Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan.”

[20:17]  ³ tn Heb “for [with] the love of his [own] life he loved him.”

[24:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “by the Lord.”

[24:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “cut off.”

[24:22]  ⁵ tn Heb “and David swore an oath to Saul.”

[14:27]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he returned his hand to his mouth.”

[14:27]  ⁷ tc The translation follows the Qere and several medieval Hebrew mss in reading “gleamed,” rather than the Kethib, “saw.”

[20:3]  ⁷ tc The LXX and the Syriac Peshitta lack the word “again.”

[20:3]  ⁸ tn The infinitive absolute appears before the finite verb for emphasis.

[20:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “said,” that is, to himself. So also in v. 25.

[20:42]  ⁸ sn Beginning with 20:42b, the verse numbers through 21:15 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 20:42b ET = 21:1 HT, 21:1 ET = 21:2 HT, 21:2 ET = 21:3 HT, etc., through 21:15 ET = 21:16 HT. With 22:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

[20:42]  ⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.