1 Samuel 20:15 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁵ and do not cut off your loyalty from my house for ever. When the Lord cuts off every one of the enemies of David from the face of the earth,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ but also thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house for ever: no, not when the LORD hath cut off the enemies of David every one from the face of the earth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ But also you shall not cut off your kindness from my house forever–no, not even when the Lord has cut off every enemy of David from the face of the earth.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ but also thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house for ever; no, not when Jehovah hath cut off the enemies of David every one from the face of the earth.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ don’t ever stop being loyal to my household. Once the LORD has eliminated all of David’s enemies from the earth,

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ you shall not take away your mercy from my house, even forever, when the Lord will have rooted out the enemies of David, each and every one of them, from the earth. May he take Jonathan from his house, and may the Lord require it from the hands of the enemies of David."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ Thou shalt not take away thy kindness from my house for ever, when the Lord shall have rooted out the enemies of David, every one of them from the earth. May he take away Jonathan from his house: and may the Lord require it at the hands of David's enemies.

1 Samuel 20:15 Cross References

Genesis 40:14

But remember me, when it is well with you, and do me the kindness, I pray you, to make mention of me to Pharaoh, and so get me out of this house.

2 Samuel 21:7

But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Saul's son Jonathan, because of the oath of the Lord which was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

1 Samuel 20:14

If I am still alive, show me the loyal love of the Lord, that I may not die;

1 Samuel 20:23

And as for the matter of which you and I have spoken, behold, the Lord is between you and me for ever.”

1 Samuel 20:42

Then Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘The Lord shall be between me and you, and between my descendants and your descendants, for ever.’ ” And he rose and departed; and Jonathan went into the city.

1 Samuel 24:21

Swear to me therefore by the Lord that you will not cut off my descendants after me, and that you will not destroy my name out of my father's house.”