1 Samuel 20 And David flees from Naioth in Ramah, and comes, and said before Jonathan, `What have I done? what is mine iniquity? and what my sin before your father, that he is seeking my life?.

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And David flees from Naioth in Ramah, and comes, and said before Jonathan, `What have I done? what [is] mine iniquity? and what my sin before your father, that he is seeking my life?. ² And he said to him, `Far be it! you do not die; lo, my father does not do anything great or small and does not uncover mine ear; and wherefore does my father hide from me this thing? this [thing] is not.. ³ And David swears again, and said, `Your father has certainly known that I have found grace in your eyes, and he said, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved; and yet, Yahweh lives, and your soul lives, but--as a step between me and death.. ⁴ And Jonathan said to David, `What does your soul say? --and I do it for you.. ⁵ And David said unto Jonathan, `Lo, the new moon [is] to-morrow; and I do certainly sit with the king to eat; and you have sent me away, and I have been hidden in a field till the third evening;" ⁶ if your father at all look after me, and you have said, David asked earnestly of me to run to Beth-Lehem his city, for a sacrifice of the days [is] there for all the family. ⁷ If thus he say:Good; peace [is] for your servant; and if it be very displeasing to him--know that the evil has been determined by him; ⁸ and you have done kindness, to your servant, for into a covenant of Yahweh you have brought your servant with you; --and if there is in me iniquity, put you me to death; and unto your father, why is this--you do bring me in?. ⁹ And Jonathan said, `Far be it from you! for I certainly do not know that the evil has been determined by my father to come upon you, and I do not declare it to you.. ¹⁰ And David said unto Jonathan, `Who does declare to me? or what [if] your father does answer you sharply?. ¹¹ And Jonathan said unto David, `Come, and we go out into the field;' and they go out both of them into the field. ¹² And Jonathan said unto David, `Yahweh, Elohim of Israel--when I search my father, about [this] time to-morrow [or] the third [day], and lo, good [is] towards David, and I do not then send unto you, and have uncovered your ear-. ¹³ thus does Yahweh do to Jonathan, and thus does He add; when the evil concerning you is good to my father, then I have uncovered your ear, and sent you away, and you have gone in peace, and Yahweh is with you, as he was with my father;" ¹⁴ and not only while I am alive do you do with me the kindness of Yahweh, and I die not, ¹⁵ but you do not cut off your kindness from my house unto the eon, nor in Yahweh's cutting off the enemies of David, each one from off the face of the ground.. ¹⁶ And Jonathan covenants with the house of David, and Yahweh has sought [it] from the hand of the enemies of David;" ¹⁷ and Jonathan adds to cause David to swear, because he loves him, for with the love of his own soul he has loved him. ¹⁸ And Jonathan said to him, `To-morrow [is] new moon, and you have been looked after, for your seat is looked after;" ¹⁹ and on the third day you do certainly come down, and have come in unto the place where you wast hidden in the day of the work, and have remained near the stone Ezel. ²⁰ `And I shoot three of the arrows at the side, sending out for myself at a mark;" ²¹ and lo, I send the youth:Go, find the arrows. If I at all say to the youth, Lo, the arrows [are] on this side of you--take them, --then come you, for peace [is] for you, and there is nothing; Yahweh lives. ²² And if thus I say to the young man, Lo, the arrows [are] beyond you, --go, for Yahweh has sent you away;" ²³ as to the thing which we have spoken, I and you, lo, Yahweh [is] between me and you--unto the eon.. ²⁴ And David is hidden in the field, and it is the new moon, and the king sits down by the food to eat, ²⁵ and the king sits on his seat, as time by time, on a seat by the wall, and Jonathan rises, and Abner sits at the side of Saul, and David's place is looked after. ²⁶ And Saul has not spoken anything on that day, for he said, `It [is] an accident; he is not clean--surely not clean.. ²⁷ And it comes to pass on the second morrow of the new moon, that David's place is looked after, and Saul said unto Jonathan his son, `Wherefore has the son of Jesse not come in, either yesterday or to-day, unto the food?. ²⁸ And Jonathan answers Saul, `David has been earnestly asked of me unto Beth-Lehem, ²⁹ and he said, Send me away, I pray you, for a family sacrifice we have in the city, and my brother himself has given command to me, and now, if I have found grace in your eyes, let me go away, I pray you, and see my brethren; therefore he has not come unto the table of the king.. ³⁰ And the anger of Saul burns against Jonathan, and he said to him, `Son of a perverse rebellious woman! have I not known that you are fixing on 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 ground you are not established, you and your kingdom; and now, send and bring him unto me, for he [is] a son of death.. ³² And Jonathan answers Saul his father, and said unto him, `Why is he put to death? what has he done?. ³³ And Saul casts the javelin at him to smite him, and Jonathan knows that it has been determined by his father to put David to death. ³⁴ And Jonathan rises from the table in the heat of anger, and has not eaten food on the second day of the new moon, for he has been grieved for David, for his father put him to shame. ³⁵ And it comes to pass in the morning, that Jonathan goes out into the field for the appointment with David, and a little youth [is] with him. ³⁶ And he said to his youth, `Run, find, I pray you, the arrows which I am shooting;' the youth is running, and he has shot the arrow, causing [it] to pass over him. ³⁷ And the youth comes unto the place of the arrow which Jonathan has shot, and Jonathan calls after the youth, and said, `Is not the arrow beyond you?. ³⁸ and Jonathan calls after the youth, `Speed, haste, stand not;' and Jonathan's youth gathers the arrows, and comes unto his lord. ³⁹ And the youth has not known anything, only Jonathan and David knew the word. ⁴⁰ And Jonathan gives his weapons unto the youth whom he has, and said to him, `Go, carry into the city.. ⁴¹ The youth has gone, and David has risen from Ezel, at the south, and falls on his face to the earth, and bows himself three times, and they kiss one another, and they weep one with another, till David exerted himself;" ⁴² and Jonathan said to David, `Go in peace, in that we have sworn--we two--in the name of Yahweh, saying, Yahweh is between me and you, and between my seed and your seed--unto the eon;' and he rises and goes; and Jonathan has gone in to the city.