 A covenant ends only with the death of one of the covenanters. Marriage ends, in most people's experience, with divorce. Well, not most people. About half the people in this country ends in divorce. That means it was not a covenant. It was something that could end when the relationship ended. A covenant cannot. And that's why we're so strict about marriage, because God wants to enter into covenant with us, and he wants us to enter into covenants with each other.