1 Samuel 20:8-10

Lexham English Bible

⁸ So you must show loyal love to your servant, for you have brought your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you. But if there is guilt in me, then kill me yourself! But why should you bring me to your father?” ⁹ Then Jonathan said, “Far be it from you! For if I know for certain that my father decided evil should come upon you,^[a] would I not have told it to you?” ¹⁰ Then David said to Jonathan, “Who will tell me if what your father answers you is harsh?”