LORD” (translated “faithful love of the LORD” in NLT) in 1 Samuel 20:14. It is not clear whether the linkage of khesed with a designation of deity in these two places is intended to express the idea that God is the witness and guarantor of the pledge between David and Jonathan,9 or that the kindness in view is intended to be understood in a superlative sense (NIDOTTE 2.212).10 Either understanding is possible. But the “kindness” in view is clearly a “kindness” that is undergirded by the commitment