Quotes About Covenant

“I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned away from following Me and has not carried out My instructions.” And Samuel was distressed and cried out to the LORD all that night.

When Samuel reached him, Saul said to him, “May the LORD bless you. I have carried out the LORDís instructions.”

and sent you on a mission, saying, ëGo and devote to destruction the sinful Amalekites. Fight against them until you have wiped them out.í

“But I did obey the LORD,” Saul replied. “I went on the mission that the LORD gave me. I brought back Agag king of Amalek and devoted the Amalekites to destruction.

As Samuel turned to go, Saul grabbed the hem of his robe, and it tore.

So Samuel went back with Saul, and Saul worshiped the LORD.

But Samuel declared: “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the LORD at Gilgal.

“In peace,” he replied. “I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Consecrate yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.” Then he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.

After David had finished speaking with Saul, the souls of Jonathan and David were knit together, and Jonathan loved him as himself.

Then Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself.

So when it was time to give Saulís daughter Merab to David, she was given in marriage to Adriel of Meholah.

Then Saul ordered his servants, “Speak to David privately and tell him, ëBehold, the king is pleased with you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore, become his son-in-law.í”

When the servants reported these terms to David, he was pleased to become the kingís son-in-law. Before the wedding day arrived,

Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan and swore an oath: “As surely as the LORD lives, David will not be put to death.”

Therefore deal faithfully with your servant, for you have brought me into a covenant with you before the LORD. If there is iniquity in me, then kill me yourself; why should you bring me to your father?”

And as long as I live, treat me with the LORDís loving devotion, that I may not die,

and do not ever cut off your loving devotion from my household—not even when the LORD cuts off every one of Davidís enemies from the face of the earth.”

So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, “May the LORD hold Davidís enemies accountable.”

And Jonathan had David reaffirm his vow out of love for him, for Jonathan loved David as he loved himself.

And as for the matter you and I have discussed, the LORD is a witness between you and me forever.”

So David hid in the field, and when the New Moon had come, the king sat down to eat.

And Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, for the two of us have sworn in the name of the LORD, saying, ëMay the LORD be a witness between you and me, and between your descendants and mine forever.í” Then David got up and departed, and Jonathan went back into the city.

David answered, “Women have indeed been kept from us, as is usual when I set out. And the equipment of the young men is holy, as it is even on common missions, and all the more at this time.”

Is that why all of you have conspired against me? Not one of you told me that my own son had made a covenant with the son of Jesse. Not one of you has shown concern for me or revealed to me that my son has stirred up my own servant to lie in wait against me, as is the case today.”