brought your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you: but if there be in me iniquity, kill me yourself; for why should you bring me to your father?" 020:009 Jonathan said, "Far be it from you; for if I should at all know that evil were determined by my father to come on you, then wouldn't I tell you that?" 020:010 Then said David to Jonathan, "Who shall tell me if perchance your father answer you roughly?" 020:011 Jonathan said to David, "Come, and let us go out into the field." They both went out into the field. 020:012 Jonathan said to David, "Yahweh, the God of Israel, [be witness]: when I have sounded my father about this time tomorrow, [or] the third day, behold, if there be good toward David, shall I not then send to you, and disclose it to you? 020:013 Yahweh do so to Jonathan, and more also, should it please my father to do you evil, if I don't disclose it to you, and send you away, that you may go in peace: and Yahweh be with you, as he has been with my father. 020:014 You shall not only while yet I live show me the loving kindness of Yahweh, that I not die; 020:015 but also you shall not cut off your kindness from my house forever; no, not when Yahweh has cut off the enemies of David everyone from the surface of the earth." 020:016 So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, [saying], Yahweh will require it at the hand of David's enemies. 020:017 Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had to him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul. 020:018 Then Jonathan said to him, Tomorrow is the new moon: and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty. 020:019 When you have stayed three days, you shall go down quickly, and come to the place where you did hide yourself when the business was in hand, and shall remain by the stone Ezel. 020:020 I will shoot three arrows on the side of it, as though I shot at a mark. 020:021 Behold, I will send the boy, [saying], Go, find the arrows. If I tell the boy, Behold, the arrows are on this side of you; take them, and come; for there is peace to you and no hurt, as Yahweh lives. 020:022 But if I say thus to the boy, Behold, the arrows are beyond you; go your way; for Yahweh has sent you away. 020:023 As touching the matter which you and I have spoken of, behold, Yahweh is between you and me forever. 020:024 So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat food. 020:025 The king sat on his seat, as at other times, even on the seat by the wall; and Jonathan stood up, and Abner sat by Saul's side: but David's place was empty. 020:026 Nevertheless Saul didn't say anything that day: for he thought, Something has happened to him. He is not clean. Surely he is not clean.