1 Samuel 20:8-10

New International Version - UK

⁸ As for you, show kindness to your servant, for you have brought him into a covenant with you before the Lord. If I am guilty, then kill me yourself! Why hand me over to your father?’

⁹ ‘Never!’ Jonathan said. ‘If I had the least inkling that my father was determined to harm you, wouldn’t I tell you?’

¹⁰ David asked, ‘Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?’