2 Samuel 21:7

La Bible Ostervald

Or le roi épargna Méphibosheth, fils de Jonathan, fils de Saül, à cause du serment qu'avaient fait entre eux, devant l'Éternel, David et Jonathan, fils de Saül.

Parallel Translations

Darby's French Translation
Et le roi épargna Mephibosheth, fils de Jonathan, fils de Saül, à cause du serment de l'Éternel, qui était entre eux, entre David et Jonathan, fils de Saül.

Louis Segond (1910)
Le roi épargna Mephiboscheth, fils de Jonathan, fils de Saül, à cause du serment qu'avaient fait entre eux, devant l'Eternel, David et Jonathan, fils de Saül.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Or le Roi épargna Méphiboseth fils de Jonathan, fils de Saül, à cause du serment que David et Jonathan fils de Saül avaient fait entr'eux [au nom] de l'Eternel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Mephibosheth: 2 Samuel 4:4, 2 Samuel 9:10, 2 Samuel 16:4, 2 Samuel 19:25

because: 1 Samuel 18:3, 1 Samuel 20:8, 1 Samuel 20:15, 1 Samuel 20:17, 1 Samuel 20:42, 1 Samuel 23:18

Reciprocal: Leviticus 5:4 - to do evil Joshua 2:17 - General Joshua 6:22 - as ye sware unto her Joshua 9:18 - had sworn Proverbs 18:24 - that hath Proverbs 27:10 - own

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul,.... As they did not name particular persons, only required seven sons, it was at the option of the king what sons to deliver to them, and therefore kept back Mephibosheth, who is thus described, to distinguish him from a son of Saul's of the same name, after mentioned:

because of the Lord's oath that [was] between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul; not merely or only out of affection to Mephibosheth, but because of the oath, that he might not be guilty of the same crime Saul was in slaying the Gibeonites.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Lord’s oath - The calamity brought upon Israel by Saul’s breach of the oath to the Gibeonites would make David doubly careful in the matter of his own oath to Jonathan.