1. DAVID FLED from Naioth in Ramah and came and said to Jonathan, What have I done? Of what am I guilty? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?
2. Jonathan said, God forbid! You shall not die. My father does nothing great or small but what he tells me. And why should [he] hide this thing from me? It is not so.
3. But David replied, Your father certainly knows that I have found favor in your eyes, and he thinks, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved. But truly as the Lord lives and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.
4. Then Jonathan said to David, Whatever you desire, I will do for you.
5. David said to Jonathan, Tomorrow is the New Moon [festival], and I should not fail to sit at the table with the king; but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field till the third day at evening.
6. If your father misses me at all, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem, his city, for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.
7. If he says, All right, then it will be well with your servant; but if he is angry, then be sure that evil is determined by him.
8. Therefore deal kindly with your servant, for you have brought [me] into a covenant of the Lord with you. But if there is guilt in me, kill me yourself; for why should you bring me to your father?
9. And Jonathan said, Far be it from you! If I knew that evil was determined for you by my father, would I not tell you?
10. Then said David to Jonathan, Who will tell me if your father answers you roughly?
11. Jonathan said, Come, let us go into the field. So they went into the field.