2 Samuel 21:7

New American Bible - revised edition

The king, however, spared Meribbaal, son of Jonathan, son of Saul, because of the Lord’s oath that formed a bond between David and Saul’s son Jonathan.

Cross References

2 Samuel 16:4

The king therefore said to Ziba, “So! Everything Meribbaal had is yours.” Then Ziba said: “I pay you homage, my lord the king. May I find favor with you!” David and Shimei.

2 Samuel 19:25

Meribbaal, son of Saul, also went down to meet the king. He had not cared for his feet nor trimmed his mustache nor washed his clothes from the day the king left until he returned safely.

2 Samuel 4:4

(Jonathan, son of Saul, had a son with crippled feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel; his nurse took him and fled, but in their hasty flight, he fell and became lame. His name was Meribbaal.)

2 Samuel 9:1

David asked, “Is there any survivor of Saul’s house to whom I may show kindness for the sake of Jonathan?”

2 Samuel 9:10

You and your sons and servants must till the land for him. You shall bring in the produce, which shall be food for your lord’s household to eat. But Meribbaal, your lord’s son, shall always eat at my table.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

2 Samuel 9:6

When Meribbaal, son of Jonathan, son of Saul, came to David, he fell face down in homage. David said, “Meribbaal,” and he answered, “Your servant.”

2 Samuel 9:7

“Do not be afraid,” David said to him, “I will surely be kind to you for the sake of Jonathan your father. I will restore to you all the lands of Saul your grandfather, and you shall eat at my table always.”

Ecclesiastes 8:2

Observe the command of the king, in view of your oath to God.

1 Samuel 18:3

Jonathan and David made a covenant, because Jonathan loved him as his very self.

1 Samuel 20:12

Jonathan said to David: “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, I will sound out my father about this time tomorrow. Whether he is well disposed toward David or not, I will inform you.

1 Samuel 20:15

never cut off your kindness from my house. And when the Lord cuts off all the enemies of David from the face of the land,

1 Samuel 20:17

And in his love for David, Jonathan renewed his oath to him, because he loved him as he loved himself.

1 Samuel 20:42

At length Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, in keeping with what the two of us have sworn by the name of the Lord: ‘The Lord shall be between you and me, and between your offspring and mine forever.’”

1 Samuel 20:8

Do this kindness for your servant because of the Lord’s covenant into which you brought us: if I am guilty, kill me yourself! Why should you give me up to your father?”

1 Samuel 23:18

The two of them made a covenant before the Lord in Horesh, where David remained, while Jonathan returned to his home. Treachery of the Ziphites.

1 Samuel 24:22

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.”