26. But Saul said nothing on that day, for he thought, “Something happened to him. He is not ceremonially clean; surely he is not clean.”
27. And then on the next day, the second day of the new moon, that David’s place was empty. So Saul asked Jonathan his son, “Why did the son of Jesse not come either yesterday or today to the feast?”
28. Jonathan answered Saul, “David earnestly asked permission from me to go up to Bethlehem.
29. He said, ‘Send me away, please, for our clan sacrifice is in the city, and my brother commanded me to be present. So then, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me slip away and see my brothers.’ Therefore he has not come to the table of the king.”
30. Then Saul became angry at Jonathan and said to him, “You son of a perverse, rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your shame and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?
31. For as long as the son of Jesse is alive on the earth, you and your kingdom will not be established! So then, send and bring him to me, for he will surely die!”
32. But Jonathan answered his father Saul and said to him, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”
33. Then Saul hurled his spear at him to kill him. So Jonathan knew that his father had decided to kill David.
34. Jonathan got up from the table enraged, and did not eat on the second day of the new moon because he was upset about David, because his father had disgraced him.
35. And then in the morning Jonathan went out to the field for the appointment with David, and a young boy was with him.