ECB(i)
24 So David hides himself in the field: and the new moon comes, and the sovereign settles down to eat bread.
25 And the sovereign settles on his seat - as time by time on a seat by the wall: and Yah Nathan rises and Abi Ner settles by the side of Shaul and they inspect the place of David.
26 And Shaul words naught that day: for he says, A happening happened to him, he is not pure; surely not pure.
27 And so be it, on the morrow, the second of the month, they inspect the place of David: and Shaul says to Yah Nathan his son, Why comes not the son of Yishay to bread either yesterday or today?
28 And Yah Nathan answers Shaul, In asking, David asked of me to go to Beth Lechem:
29 and he says, Send me away, I beseech you; for our family has a sacrifice in the city; and my brother misvahs me: and now, if I find charism in your eyes, let me escape, I beseech you, and see my brothers. - so he comes not to the table of the sovereign.
30 Then Shaul kindles his wrath against Yah Nathan and he says to him, You son of the perverted rebellious, know I not that you chose the son of Yishay to your own shame and to the shame of the nakedness of your mother?
31 For all the days the son of Yishay lives on the soil, neither you establish nor your sovereigndom: and now, send and take him to me; for he is a son of death.
32 And Yah Nathan answers Shaul his father and says to him, Why deathify him? What works he?
33 And Shaul casts a spear at him to smite him: whereby Yah Nathan knows that his father has fully finished to deathify David.
34 And Yah Nathan rises from the table in fuming wrath and eats no bread the second day of the month: for he contorts for David, because his father shames him.
35 And so be it, in the morning, Yah Nathan goes out into the field at the season with David and a little lad with him:
36 and he says to his lad, Run, find the arrows I shoot. The lad runs, and he shoots an arrow to pass over him:
37 and the lad comes to the place of the arrow Yah Nathan shot; and Yah Nathan calls out after the lad and says, Is not the arrow beyond you?
38 And Yah Nathan calls out after the lad, Quickly! Hasten! Stay not! And the lad of Yah Nathan gathers up the arrows and comes to his adoni:
39 and the lad knows naught: only, Yah Nathan and David know the word.
40 And Yah Nathan gives his instrument to his lad; and says to him, Go, carry them to the city.
41 And as soon as the lad goes, David rises from beside the south and falls on his nostrils to the earth and prostrates himself three times: and they kiss man to friend and weep man to friend, until David greatens.
42 And Yah Nathan says to David, Go in shalom; inasmuch as we oathed, both of us, in the name of Yah Veh, saying, Yah Veh be between me and between you and between my seed and between your seed eternally. - and he rises and goes: and Yah Nathan goes into the city.