19. On the third day you must go down quickly and go to the place where you hid yourself on the day all this started and remain beside the stone Ezel.
20. I will shoot three arrows to the side as if I were shooting at a target.
21. Then I will send word to my servant, ‘Go, find the arrows!’ If I clearly say to the boy, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; bring it,’ then come, for it means peace for you. And there is no problem, as Yahweh lives.
22. But if I say this to the young man, ‘Look, the arrows are beyond you,’ go, for Yahweh has sent you away.
23. And as for the matter about which you and I spoke, look, Yahweh is between you and me forever.”
24. So David hid himself in the field. When the new moon came, the king was seated at the feast.
25. The king sat at his seat as before, the seat by the wall, and Jonathan got up, and Abner sat beside Saul, but David’s place was empty.