and the Horites in their mountainous country of Seir, as far as El-paran, which is on the border of the wilderness.

Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in years; she was past [the age of] childbearing.

The Lord graciously remembered and visited Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for her as He had promised.

Then the Amorites who lived in that hill country came out against you and chased you as bees do, and struck you down in Seir as far as Hormah.

‘Indeed, I lift up My hand to heaven,
And say (swear an oath), as I live forever,

from Mount Halak, that rises toward Seir [in the south], even as far as Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon at the foot of Mount Hermon [in the north]. He captured all their kings and struck them and put them to death.

Saul listened to Jonathan and swore [an oath], “As the Lord lives, he shall not be put to death.”

I behaved as if grieving for my friend or my brother;
I bowed down in mourning, as one who sorrows for his mother.

And if you swear [your oaths], ‘As the Lord lives,’
In truth, in justice, and in righteousness,
Then the nations will bless themselves in Him,
And in Him they will glory.”

Only [be sure to] lead your lives in a manner [that will be] worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I do come and see you or remain absent, I will hear about you that you are standing firm in one spirit [and one purpose], with one mind striving side by side [as if in combat] for the faith of the gospel.