Discovery Box1 Samuel 20:13-17 
Context20:13 But if my father intends to do you harm, may the Lord do all this and more to Jonathan, if I don’t let you know 1 and send word to you so you can go safely on your way. 2 May the Lord be with you, as he was with my father. 20:14 While I am still alive, extend to me the loyalty of the Lord, or else I will die! 20:15 Don’t ever cut off your loyalty to my family, not even when the Lord has cut off every one of David’s enemies from the face of the earth 20:16 and called David’s enemies to account.” So Jonathan made a covenant 3 with the house of David. 4 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. 5
1 tn Heb “uncover your ear.”
2 tn Heb “in peace.”
3 tn Heb “cut.” The object of the verb (“covenant”) must be supplied.
4 tn The word order is different in the Hebrew text, which reads “and Jonathan cut with the house of David, and the
5 tn Heb “for [with] the love of his [own] life he loved him.”
