6. If your father misses me at all, say, ‘David urgently requested my permission to quickly go to his town Bethlehem for an annual sacrifice there involving the whole clan.’
7. If he says, ‘Good,’ then your servant is safe, but if he becomes angry, you will know he has evil intentions.
8. Deal faithfully with your servant, for you have brought me into a covenant with you before the Lord. If I have done anything wrong, then kill me yourself; why take me to your father? ”
9. “No! ” Jonathan responded. “If I ever find out my father has evil intentions against you, wouldn’t I tell you about it? ”
10. So David asked Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly? ”
11. He answered David, “Come on, let’s go out to the field.” So both of them went out to the field.
12. “By the Lord, the God of Israel, I will sound out my father by this time tomorrow or the next day. If I find out that he is favorable toward you, will I not send for you and tell you?
13. If my father intends to bring evil on you, may God punish Jonathan and do so severely if I do not tell you and send you away so you may go in peace. May the Lord be with you, just as He was with my father.
14. If I continue to live, treat me with the Lord’s faithful love, but if I die,