1 Samuel 20:1-3

Lexham English Bible

Jonathan Supports David over Saul

20 Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah and came and said before Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my guilt and what is my sin before your father that he is trying to kill me?^{[a] 2} And he said to him, “Far from it! You will not die! Look, my father does not do^[b] anything large or small unless he reveals it to me.^[c] Why should my father hide this thing or anything from me?” ³ Then David took an oath^[d] again and said, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he thought, ‘Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he worry.’ But as Yahweh lives^[e] and as your soul lives,^[f] surely there is merely a step between me and death!”