1 Samuel 20:1-6 ▼

1 And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and he came and said to Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? And what is my sin before the face of your father, that he is seeking my life?”

2 And Jonathan said to him, “Far be it! You shall not die! Behold, my father will not do a thing great or a thing small without first telling me. And why should my father hide from me this thing? This is not so.”

3 And David took an oath again and said, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved.’ But truly as YHWH lives, and as your soul lives, but a step is between me and between death.”

4 And Jonathan said to David, “What your soul says, I will do for you.”

5 And David said to Jonathan, “Indeed, the New Moon is tomorrow, and I shall surely sit with the king to eat. Let me go, that I may hide in the field until the third evening.

6 If your father misses me at all, then say, ‘David urgently requested from me to run to Bethlehem his city, for a yearly sacrifice is there for all of the clan.’