1 Samuel 20:3

Rotherham(i) 3 But David sware yet further, and said––Thy father, doth know, that I have found favour in thine eyes, therefore saith he,––Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he grieve; but, indeed, by the life of Yahweh, and by the life of thine own soul, surely there is but as it were a step betwixt me and death!