19. The day after tomorrow, towards evening, go to the place where you hid when this trouble began, and wait by the stone Ezel.
20. I will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as though I were shooting at a target.
21. Then I will send a boy and say, “Go, find the arrows.” If I say to him, “Look, the arrows are on this side of you; bring them here,” then come, because, as surely as the Lord lives, you are safe; there is no danger.
22. But if I say to the boy, “Look, the arrows are beyond you,” then you must go, because the Lord has sent you away.
23. And about the matter you and I discussed – remember, the Lord is witness between you and me for ever.’
24. So David hid in the field, and when the New Moon feast came, the king sat down to eat.