30. At that, Saul got angry at Jonathan. "You son of a stubborn, rebellious woman!" he said. "Do you think I don’t know how you’ve allied yourself with Jesse’s son? Shame on you and on the mother who birthed you!
31. As long as Jesse’s son lives on this earth, neither you nor your dynasty will be secure. Now have him brought to me because he’s a dead man!"
32. But Jonathan answered his father Saul, "Why should David be executed? What has he done?"
33. At that, Saul threw his spear at Jonathan to strike him, and Jonathan realized that his father intended to kill David.
34. Jonathan got up from the table in a rage. He didn’t eat anything on the second day of the new moon because he was worried about David and because his father had humiliated him.
35. In the morning, Jonathan went out to the field for the meeting with David, and a young servant boy went with him.
36. He said to the boy, "Go quickly and retrieve the arrow that I shoot." So the boy ran off, and he shot an arrow beyond him.
37. When the boy got to the spot where Jonathan shot the arrow, Jonathan yelled to him, "Isn’t the arrow past you?"
38. Jonathan yelled again to the boy, "Quick! Hurry up! Don’t just stand there!" So Jonathan’s servant boy gathered up the arrow and came back to his master.
39. The boy had no idea what had happened; only Jonathan and David knew.