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1 Samuel 20:6 (NIV)

If your father misses me at all, tell him, ‘David earnestly asked my permission to hurry to Bethlehem, his hometown, because an annual sacrifice is being made there for his whole clan.’

1 Samuel 20:7 (NIV)

If he says, ‘Very well,’ then your servant is safe. But if he loses his temper, you can be sure that he is determined to harm me.

1 Samuel 20:8 (NIV)

As for you, show kindness to your servant, for you have brought him into a covenant with you before the Lord . If I am guilty, then kill me yourself! Why hand me over to your father?”

1 Samuel 20:9 (NIV)

“Never!” Jonathan said. “If I had the least inkling that my father was determined to harm you, wouldn’t I tell you?”

1 Samuel 20:10 (NIV)

David asked, “Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?”

1 Samuel 20:11 (NIV)

“Come,” Jonathan said, “let’s go out into the field.” So they went there together.

Then Jonathan said to David, “I swear by the Lord , the God of Israel, that I will surely sound out my father by this time the day after tomorrow! If he is favorably disposed toward you, will I not send you word and let you know?

1 Samuel 20:13 (NIV)

But if my father intends to harm you, may the Lord deal with Jonathan, be it ever so severely, if I do not let you know and send you away in peace. May the Lord be with you as he has been with my father.

1 Samuel 20:14 (NIV)

But show me unfailing kindness like the Lord ’s kindness as long as I live, so that I may not be killed,

1 Samuel 20:15 (NIV)

and do not ever cut off your kindness from my family—not even when the Lord has cut off every one of David’s enemies from the face of the earth.”

1 Samuel 20:16 (NIV)

So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, “May the Lord call David’s enemies to account.”

1 Samuel 20:17 (NIV)

And Jonathan had David reaffirm his oath out of love for him, because he loved him as he loved himself.

1 Samuel 20:18 (NIV)

Then Jonathan said to David, “Tomorrow is the New Moon feast. You will be missed, because your seat will be empty.

1 Samuel 20:19 (NIV)

The day after tomorrow, toward evening, go to the place where you hid when this trouble began, and wait by the stone Ezel.

1 Samuel 20:20 (NIV)

I will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as though I were shooting at a target.

1 Samuel 20:21 (NIV)

Then I will send a boy and say, ‘Go, find the arrows.’ If I say to him, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; bring them here,’ then come, because, as surely as the Lord lives, you are safe; there is no danger.

1 Samuel 20:22 (NIV)

But if I say to the boy, ‘Look, the arrows are beyond you,’ then you must go, because the Lord has sent you away.

1 Samuel 20:23 (NIV)

And about the matter you and I discussed—remember, the Lord is witness between you and me forever.”

1 Samuel 20:24 (NIV)

So David hid in the field, and when the New Moon feast came, the king sat down to eat.

1 Samuel 20:25 (NIV)

He sat in his customary place by the wall, opposite Jonathan, and Abner sat next to Saul, but David’s place was empty.

1 Samuel 20:26 (NIV)

Saul said nothing that day, for he thought, “Something must have happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean—surely he is unclean.”

1 Samuel 20:27 (NIV)

But the next day, the second day of the month, David’s place was empty again. Then Saul said to his son Jonathan, “Why hasn’t the son of Jesse come to the meal, either yesterday or today?”

1 Samuel 20:28 (NIV)

Jonathan answered, “David earnestly asked me for permission to go to Bethlehem.

1 Samuel 20:29 (NIV)

He said, ‘Let me go, because our family is observing a sacrifice in the town and my brother has ordered me to be there. If I have found favor in your eyes, let me get away to see my brothers.’ That is why he has not come to the king’s table.”

1 Samuel 20:30 (NIV)

Saul’s anger flared up at Jonathan and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Don’t I know that you have sided with the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of the mother who bore you?