1 Samuel 24:21 {22}
Good News Translation
But promise me in the LORD's name that you will spare my descendants, so that my name and my family's name will not be completely forgotten."

New Revised Standard Version
Swear to me therefore by the LORD that you will not cut off my descendants after me, and that you will not wipe out my name from my father’s house.”

Contemporary English Version
Promise me with the LORD as your witness, that you won't wipe out my descendants. Let them live to keep my family name alive.

New American Bible
swear to me by the LORD that you will not cut off my descendants and that you will not blot out my name from my father’s house.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Swear to me by the Lord, that thou wilt not destroy my seed after me, nor take away my name from the house of my father.

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Swear to me by the Lord, that thou wilt not destroy my seed after me, nor take away my name from the house of my father.

Swear

1 Samuel 20:14-17 And if I live, thou shalt shew me the kindness of the Lord: but if I die, . . .

Genesis 21:23 Swear therefore by God, that thou wilt not hurt me, nor my posterity, nor my stock: but according to the kindness that I have done to thee, thou shalt do to me, and to the land wherein thou hast lived a stranger.

Genesis 31:48,53 And Laban said: This heap shall be a witness between me and thee this day, and therefore the name thereof was called Galaad, that is, The witness heap. . . .

Hebrews 6:16 For men swear by one greater than themselves: and an oath for confirmation is the end of all their controversy.

that thou

2 Samuel 21:6-8 Let seven men of his children be delivered unto us, that we may crucify them to the Lord in Gabaa of Saul, once the chosen of the Lord. And the king said: I will give them. . . .

Context
David's Oath to Saul
20And now as I know that thou shalt surely be king, and have the kingdom of Israel in thy hand: 21Swear to me by the Lord, that thou wilt not destroy my seed after me, nor take away my name from the house of my father.22And David swore to Saul. So Saul went home: and David and his men went up into safer places.…
Cross References
Genesis 21:23
Swear therefore by God, that thou wilt not hurt me, nor my posterity, nor my stock: but according to the kindness that I have done to thee, thou shalt do to me, and to the land wherein thou hast lived a stranger.

1 Samuel 20:14
And if I live, thou shalt shew me the kindness of the Lord: but if I die,

2 Samuel 21:6
Let seven men of his children be delivered unto us, that we may crucify them to the Lord in Gabaa of Saul, once the chosen of the Lord. And the king said: I will give them.

1 Samuel 24:20
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