The Israelites were weak with hunger that day, because Saul, with a solemn oath, had given the order: "A curse be on anyone who eats any food today before I take revenge on my enemies." So nobody had eaten anything all day.

Saul said to him, "May God strike me dead if you are not put to death!"

Saul was convinced by what Jonathan said and made a vow in the LORD's name that he would not kill David.

Don't you realize that as long as David is alive, you will never be king of this country? Now go and bring him here---he must die!"

The king said, "Ahimelech, you and all your relatives must die."

Then Saul made a sacred vow. "By the living LORD I promise that you will not be punished for doing this," he told her.

David became very angry at the rich man and said, "I swear by the living LORD that the man who did this ought to die!

It makes no difference. The same fate comes to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the bad, to those who are religious and those who are not, to those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. A good person is no better off than a sinner; one who takes an oath is no better off than one who does not.