12. “By the Lord, the God of Israel, I will sound out my father by this time tomorrow or the next day. If I find out that he is favorable toward you, will I not send for you and tell you?
13. If my father intends to bring evil on you, may God punish Jonathan and do so severely if I do not tell you and send you away so you may go in peace. May the Lord be with you, just as He was with my father.
14. If I continue to live, treat me with the Lord’s faithful love, but if I die,
15. don’t ever withdraw your faithful love from my household — not even when the Lord cuts off every one of David’s enemies from the face of the earth.”
16. Then Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, “May the Lord hold David’s enemies accountable.”