Ruth 3:13   (Read all of Ruth 3)

Stay here for the night, and in the morning if he wants to do his duty as your guardian-redeemer, good; let him redeem you. But if he is not willing, as surely as the Lord lives I will do it. Lie here until morning."

1 Samuel 1:22   (Read all of 1 Samuel 1)

Hannah did not go. She said to her husband, "After the boy is weaned, I will take him and present him before the Lord, and he will live there always."

1 Samuel 1:26   (Read all of 1 Samuel 1)

and she said to him, "Pardon me, my lord. As surely as you live, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the Lord.

1 Samuel 10:12   (Read all of 1 Samuel 10)

A man who lived there answered, "And who is their father?" So it became a saying: "Is Saul also among the prophets?"

1 Samuel 10:24   (Read all of 1 Samuel 10)

Samuel said to all the people, "Do you see the man the Lord has chosen? There is no one like him among all the people." Then the people shouted, "Long live the king!"

1 Samuel 12:11   (Read all of 1 Samuel 12)

Then the Lord sent Jerub-Baal, Barak, Jephthah and Samuel, and he delivered you from the hands of your enemies all around you, so that you lived in safety.

1 Samuel 14:39   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

As surely as the Lord who rescues Israel lives, even if the guilt lies with my son Jonathan, he must die." But not one of them said a word.

1 Samuel 14:45   (Read all of 1 Samuel 14)

But the men said to Saul, "Should Jonathan die-he who has brought about this great deliverance in Israel? Never! As surely as the Lord lives, not a hair of his head will fall to the ground, for he did this today with God's help." So the men rescued Jonathan, and he was not put to death.

1 Samuel 17:55   (Read all of 1 Samuel 17)

As Saul watched David going out to meet the Philistine, he said to Abner, commander of the army, "Abner, whose son is that young man?" Abner replied, "As surely as you live, Your Majesty, I don't know."

1 Samuel 19:6   (Read all of 1 Samuel 19)

Saul listened to Jonathan and took this oath: "As surely as the Lord lives, David will not be put to death."

1 Samuel 20:3   (Read all of 1 Samuel 20)

But David took an oath and said, "Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said to himself, 'Jonathan must not know this or he will be grieved.' Yet as surely as the Lord lives and as you live, there is only a step between me and death."

1 Samuel 20:14   (Read all of 1 Samuel 20)

But show me unfailing kindness like the Lord's kindness as long as I live, so that I may not be killed,

1 Samuel 20:21   (Read all of 1 Samuel 20)

Then I will send a boy and say, 'Go, find the arrows.' If I say to him, 'Look, the arrows are on this side of you; bring them here,' then come, because, as surely as the Lord lives, you are safe; there is no danger.

1 Samuel 20:31   (Read all of 1 Samuel 20)

As long as the son of Jesse lives on this earth, neither you nor your kingdom will be established. Now send someone to bring him to me, for he must die!"

1 Samuel 23:5   (Read all of 1 Samuel 23)

So David and his men went to Keilah, fought the Philistines and carried off their livestock. He inflicted heavy losses on the Philistines and saved the people of Keilah.

1 Samuel 23:29   (Read all of 1 Samuel 23)

And David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of En Gedi.

1 Samuel 25:26   (Read all of 1 Samuel 25)

And now, my lord, as surely as the Lord your God lives and as you live, since the Lord has kept you from bloodshed and from avenging yourself with your own hands, may your enemies and all who are intent on harming my lord be like Nabal.

1 Samuel 25:28   (Read all of 1 Samuel 25)

"Please forgive your servant's presumption. The Lord your God will certainly make a lasting dynasty for my lord, because you fight the Lord's battles, and no wrongdoing will be found in you as long as you live.

1 Samuel 25:29   (Read all of 1 Samuel 25)

Even though someone is pursuing you to take your life, the life of my lord will be bound securely in the bundle of the living by the Lord your God, but the lives of your enemies he will hurl away as from the pocket of a sling.

1 Samuel 25:34   (Read all of 1 Samuel 25)

Otherwise, as surely as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, who has kept me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, not one male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by daybreak."

1 Samuel 26:10   (Read all of 1 Samuel 26)

As surely as the Lord lives," he said, "the Lord himself will strike him, or his time will come and he will die, or he will go into battle and perish.

1 Samuel 26:16   (Read all of 1 Samuel 26)

What you have done is not good. As surely as the Lord lives, you and your men must die, because you did not guard your master, the Lord's anointed. Look around you. Where are the king's spear and water jug that were near his head?"

1 Samuel 27:5   (Read all of 1 Samuel 27)

Then David said to Achish, "If I have found favor in your eyes, let a place be assigned to me in one of the country towns, that I may live there. Why should your servant live in the royal city with you?"

1 Samuel 27:7   (Read all of 1 Samuel 27)

David lived in Philistine territory a year and four months.