1 Samuel 24:21

Swear now therefore unto me by the LORD, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father's house.

Swear {H7650} now therefore unto me by the LORD {H3068}, that thou wilt not {H518} cut off {H3772} my seed {H2233} after {H310} me, and that thou wilt not destroy {H8045} my name {H8034} out of my father's {H1} house {H1004}.

So swear to me by ADONAI that you will not kill my descendants after I die or blot out my name from my father's family."

So now, swear to me by the LORD that you will not cut off my descendants or wipe out my name from my father’s house.”

Swear now therefore unto me by Jehovah, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father’s house.

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Cross-References

  • Genesis 21:23 (5 votes)

    Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: [but] according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.

  • 2 Samuel 21:6 (4 votes)

    Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, [whom] the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give [them].

  • 2 Samuel 21:8 (4 votes)

    But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:

  • 1 Samuel 20:14 (3 votes)

    And thou shalt not only while yet I live shew me the kindness of the LORD, that I die not:

  • 1 Samuel 20:17 (3 votes)

    And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

  • Genesis 31:48 (2 votes)

    And Laban said, This heap [is] a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;

  • Hebrews 6:16 (2 votes)

    For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation [is] to them an end of all strife.