1 Samuel 20:36-42 ▼

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.