1 Samuel 20:1-3

American Standard Version

20 And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? what is mine iniquity? and what is my sin before thy father, that he seeketh my life? ² And he said unto him, Far from it; thou shalt not die: behold, my father doeth nothing either great or small, but that he ^[a]discloseth it unto me; and why should my father hide this thing from me? it is not so. ³ And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father knoweth well that I have found favor in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as Jehovah liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.