For the sake of your promise and according to your purpose you have done this great thing in order to reveal it to your servant.

So now, O Lord God, make this promise you have made about your servant and his family a permanent reality. Do as you promised,

Now, O sovereign Lord, you are the true God! May your words prove to be true! You have made this good promise to your servant!

because when I was living at Geshur in Aram, your servant made this solemn promise: "If the LORD ever brings me back to Jerusalem, then I will serve the LORD.'"

Then the king addressed Shimei, "You won't die!" affirming his promise with an oath.

So the king summoned the Gibeonites and spoke with them. (Now the Gibeonites were not descendants of Israel; they were a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had made a promise to them, but Saul tried to kill them because of his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.)

So the king answered, "I will give them." The king exempted Mephibosheth, the son of Saul's son Jonathan, because of the promise to the LORD that existed between David and Saul's son Jonathan.

This God, his way [is] blameless; the promise of Yahweh [is] flawless. He [is] a shield to all who take refuge in him.