2 Samuel 4:9
And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity, And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
David spoke this oath when he repudiated the murders of Abner and Ish-bosheth. By it he asserted that those killings had been done without his wish and without his connivance. In the same utterance he declared that the Lord had redeemed his life from every adversity.