1 Samuel 20:1-3

Legacy Standard Bible

David and Jonathan’s Covenant

20 Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah and came and ^(A)said before Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? And what is my sin before your father, that he is seeking my life?” ² And he said to him, “Far from it, you shall not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small without revealing it in my ear. So why should my father hide this thing from me? It is not so!” ³ Yet David ^(B)swore again, ^[a]saying, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your sight, and he has said, ‘Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved.’ But truly ^(C)as Yahweh lives and as your soul lives, there is ^[b]hardly a step between me and death.”