9. Then Jonathan said, “Far be it from you! For if I know for certain that my father decided evil should come upon you, would I not have told it to you?”
10. Then David said to Jonathan, “Who will tell me if what your father answers you is harsh?”
11. And Jonathan said to David, “Come, let us go out to the field.” So the two of them went out to the field.
12. Then Jonathan said to David, “Yahweh the God of Israel is my witness that I will question my father by this time the day after tomorrow. And look, if he is well disposed toward you, will I not send word to you and disclose it to you?
13. So may Yahweh punish Jonathan and more if my father decides to do you harm and if I fail to disclose it to you and send word to you that you can go safely. And may Yahweh be with you, as he has been with my father.
14. And not while I am still alive, will you not show the loyal love of Yahweh with me, that I may not die?
15. And do not cut off your loyal love from my family forever, not even when Yahweh exterminates each of the enemies of David from the face of the earth.”
16. So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, “May Yahweh call the enemies of David to account.”
17. And Jonathan again made David swear an oath, because he loved him; for with the love of his soul he loved him.
18. Then Jonathan said to him, “Tomorrow is the new moon, and you will be missed, for your seat will stay empty.
19. On the third day you must go down quickly and go to the place where you hid yourself on the day all this started and remain beside the stone Ezel.