1 Samuel 20:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And thou shalt show me the kindness of the Lord That kindness to which thou hast engaged thyself, in the covenant sworn between thee and me in God's presence. The words in the Hebrew run plainly thus: And wilt thou not, if I be then alive, (namely, when God had advanced David to the throne as he had done Saul,) wilt thou not show me the loving-kindness of the Lord? He made no doubt, but rather strongly affirmed his belief of it. That I die not That thou do not kill me or mine, as princes of another line used to kill the nearest relations of the former line, from whom the kingdom was translated to them.