And she said, Let now the king remember concerning his Lord God in that the avenger of blood is multiplied to destroy, and let them not take away my son. And he said, [As] the lord lives, not a hair of your son shall fall to the ground.

For as the Lord lives who has saved Israel, if [the] answer should be against my son Jonathan, he shall surely die. And there was no one that answered out of all the people.

And the king became exceedingly sorry; yet, because of his oaths and of those who reclined with him, he did not want to refuse her.