8. Therefore deal kindly with your servant, for you have brought your servant into a covenant of the Lord with you. But if there is any guilt in me, kill me yourself. For why should you bring me to your father?”
9. Then Jonathan said, “Far be it from you. For if I indeed knew that my father had determined evil against you, would I not tell it you?”
10. David said to Jonathan, “Who will tell me? Or what if your father answers you roughly?”
11. So Jonathan said to David, “Come, let us go out into the field.” And the two of them went out to the field.
12. Then Jonathan said to David, “The Lord God of Israel is witness. When I have sounded out my father about this time tomorrow, or by the third day, and if he is favorable toward David, then will I not send and reveal it to you?
13. May the Lord do so to Jonathan and much more. If it pleases my father to do you evil, then I will reveal it you and send you away that you may go in peace. And may the Lord be with you as He has been with my father.
14. And if I live, not only will you show me the kindness of the Lord, that I shall not die,
15. but you will not cut off your faithfulness from my house forever, even when the Lord has cut off each one of the enemies of David from the face of the earth.”
16. So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David saying, “May the Lord require it at the hand of the enemies of David.”
17. Jonathan made David swear again, because he loved him. For he loved him as he loved his own soul.