A moment in scripture
1 Samuel 20:15
But also thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house for ever: no, not when the Lord hath cut off the enemies of David every one from the face of the earth.
The surrounding passage
- 1 Samuel 20:13
The Lord do so and much more to Jonathan: but if it please my father to do thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace: and the Lord be with thee, as he hath been with my father.
- 1 Samuel 20:14
And thou shalt not only while yet I live shew me the kindness of the Lord, that I die not:
- 1 Samuel 20:16
So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let the Lord even require it at the hand of David’s enemies.
- 1 Samuel 20:17
And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.