1 Samuel 20:3-5

International Standard Version

³ David again took an oath: “Your father certainly knows that I’ve found favor with you, and so he told himself,^[a] ‘Jonathan must not know this so he won’t be upset.’ But as certainly as the Lord is alive and living, and as certainly as I’m alive and living, too, there is only a step between me and death.”

⁴ Jonathan told David, “Whatever you say, I’ll do.”

⁵ David told Jonathan, “Look, the New Moon is tomorrow, and I’m expected to sit down with the king to eat. Let me go so I can hide in the field until the evening of the day after tomorrow.^[b]