1 Samuel 20:30-42 ▼

30 And the anger of Saul was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your shame, and to the shame of the nakedness of your mother?

31 For all the days that the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you and your kingdom shall not be established. And now send and bring him to me, for he is a son of death.”

32 And Jonathan answered Saul his father and said to him, “Why should he be killed? What has he done?”

33 And Saul cast a spear at him to kill him, and Jonathan knew that it was determined by his father to kill David.

34 And Jonathan arose from the table in the heat of anger, and he ate no food on the second day of the new moon, for he was grieved for David because his father had treated him shamefully.

35 And it came to pass in the morning that Jonathan went out into the field for the appointment with David, and a small boy was with him.

36 And he said to his boy, “Run, find now the arrows that I shoot.” The boy ran, and he shot an arrow beyond him.

37 And the boy had come to the place where the arrow was that Jonathan had shot, and Jonathan cried out after the boy and said, “Is not the arrow from you and beyond?”

38 And Jonathan cried out after the boy, “Hurry, hurry; do not delay.” And the boy of Jonathan gathered up the arrows and came back to his master.

39 And the boy did not know anything; only Jonathan and David knew of the matter.

40 And Jonathan gave his weapons to the boy who was to him, and he said to him, “Go, bring them to the city.”

41 The boy had gone, and David arose from the side at the south, and he fell on his nostrils to the ground, and he bowed down three times. And they kissed one another, and they wept one with another. But David did so more.

42 And Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, since the two of us have sworn in the name of YHWH, saying, ‘May YHWH be between me and between you and between my seed and between your seed, even to forever.’” And he arose and departed, and Jonathan went into the city.