Then Achish summoned David and said to him, Surely, as Jehovah lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my eyes. For to this day I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me. Nevertheless you are not pleasing in the eyes of the rulers.

Now therefore, I beg you, swear to me by Jehovah, since I have shown you kindness, that you also will show kindness to my father's house, and give me a true token,

And Joshua made peace with them, and made a treaty with them to let them live; and the leaders of the congregation swore to them.

Then all the leaders said to all the congregation, We have sworn to them by Jehovah, the God of Israel; now therefore, we cannot touch them.

This we will do to them: We will let them live, that wrath not be upon us because of the oath which we have sworn to them.

And he has taken the king's seed, made a covenant with him, and put him under oath. He also has taken away the mighty of the land,

As I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke, there he shall die with him in the midst of Babylon.

Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah: As I live, surely My oath which he despised, and My covenant which he broke, I will recompense upon his own head.

You shall not deliver up to his master a slave who has escaped from his master to you.

He shall dwell with you in your midst, in the place which he chooses within one of your gates, where it is agreeable to him; you shall not oppress him.