Common English Bible

1 Samuel 20:32-37 Common English Bible (CEB)

32. But Jonathan answered his father Saul, "Why should David be executed? What has he done?"

33. At that, Saul threw his spear at Jonathan to strike him, and Jonathan realized that his father intended to kill David.

34. Jonathan got up from the table in a rage. He didn’t eat anything on the second day of the new moon because he was worried about David and because his father had humiliated him.

35. In the morning, Jonathan went out to the field for the meeting with David, and a young servant boy went with him.

36. He said to the boy, "Go quickly and retrieve the arrow that I shoot." So the boy ran off, and he shot an arrow beyond him.

37. When the boy got to the spot where Jonathan shot the arrow, Jonathan yelled to him, "Isn’t the arrow past you?"