1 Samuel 20:21-23

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²¹ Then I will send the boy, saying, “Go, find the arrows.” If I say to the boy, “Look, the arrows are on this side of you, collect them”, then you are to come, for, as the Lord lives, it is safe for you and there is no danger. ²² But if I say to the young man, “Look, the arrows are beyond you”, then go; for the Lord has sent you away. ²³ As for the matter about which you and I have spoken, the Lord is witness^[a] between you and me for ever.’