¹⁵ And David said to him, Will you take me down to this band? And he said, If you give me your oath that you will not put me to death or give me up to my master, I will take you to them.

¹⁵ Do not give back to his master a servant who has gone in flight from his master and come to you:

¹⁶ Let him go on living among you in whatever place is most pleasing to him: do not be hard on him.

¹² So now, will you give me your oath by the Lord, that, because I have been kind to you, you will be kind to my father's house,

¹⁵ So Joshua made peace with them, and made an agreement with them that they were not to be put to death: and the chiefs of the people took an oath to them.

¹⁹ But all the chiefs said to the people, We have taken an oath to them by the Lord, the God of Israel, and so we may not put our hands on them.

²⁰ This is what we will do to them: we will not put them to death, for fear that wrath may come on us because of our oath to them.

⁶ Then Achish sent for David and said to him, By the living Lord, you are upright, and everything you have done with me in the army has been pleasing to me: I have seen no evil in you from the day when you came to me till now: but still, the lords are not pleased with you.

¹³ And he took one of the sons of the king and made an agreement with him; and he put him under an oath, and took away the great men of the land:

¹⁶ By my life, says the Lord, truly in the place of the king who made him king, whose oath he put on one side and let his agreement with him be broken, even in Babylon he will come to his death.

¹⁹ And so the Lord has said, By my life, truly, for my oath which he put on one side, and my agreement which has been broken, I will send punishment on his head.