1 Samuel 20:8-17
Read 1 Samuel 20 in full →8“Therefore show lovingkindness to your servant, for ayou have brought your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you. But bif there is iniquity in me, put me to death yourself; for why then should you bring me to your father?” 9And Jonathan said, “Far be it from you! For if I should indeed come to know that evil has been decided by my father to come upon you, then would I not tell you about it?” 10Then David said to Jonathan, “Who will tell me 1if your father answers you harshly?” 11And Jonathan said to David, “Come, and let us go out into the field.” So both of them went out to the field.
12Then Jonathan said to David, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, be witness! When I have examined my father about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if there is good feeling toward David, shall I not then send to you and reveal it in your ear? 13“If it please my father to do you harm, amay Yahweh do so to Jonathan and more also, if I do not reveal it in your ear and send you away, that you may go in peace. And bmay Yahweh be with you as He has been with my father. 14“And if I am still alive, will you not show me the lovingkindness of Yahweh, that I may not die? 15“aYou shall not cut off your lovingkindness from my house forever, not even when Yahweh cuts off every one of the enemies of David from the face of the earth.” 16So Jonathan cut a covenant with the house of David, saying, “aMay Yahweh require it at the hands of David’s enemies.” 17And Jonathan made David swear again because of his love for him, because ahe loved him as he loved his own soul.