11. And Yehonathan said to Dawiḏ, “Come, and let us go out into the field.” And they both went out into the field.
12. And Yehonathan said to Dawiḏ, “יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl be witness! When I search out my father sometime tomorrow, or the third day, and see if there is good toward Dawiḏ, and I do not send to you or disclose it to you,
13. so let יהוה do so and much more to Yehonathan. And if it pleases my father to do you evil, then I shall disclose it to you and send you away, and you shall go in peace. And יהוה be with you as He has been with my father.
14. “But show me the kindness of יהוה, not only while I still live, so that I do not die,
15. and do not cut off your kindness from my house forever, no, not when יהוה has cut off every one of the enemies of Dawiḏ from the face of the earth.”
16. And Yehonathan made a covenant with the house of Dawiḏ, saying, “יהוה shall require it at the hand of the enemies of Dawiḏ.”
17. And Yehonathan again made Dawiḏ swear, because he loved him, for he loved him as he loved his own being.
18. So Yehonathan said to him, “Tomorrow is the New Moon, and you shall be missed, because your seat shall be empty.
19. “And on the third day, go down quickly and you shall come to the place where you hid on the day of the deed, and shall remain by the stone Ětsel.
20. “And let me shoot three arrows to the side of it as though shooting at a target,
21. and see, I shall send the youth, saying, ‘Go, find the arrows.’ If I expressly say to the youth, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you, get them and come,’ then, as יהוה lives, there is safety for you and no concern.
22. “But if I say thus to the youth, ‘Look, the arrows are beyond you,’ go your way, for יהוה has sent you away.
23. “And as for the word which you and I have spoken of, see, יהוה is between you and me forever.”
24. And Dawiḏ hid in the field. And when the New Moon came, the sovereign sat down by the food to eat.
25. And the sovereign sat on his seat, as at other times, on a seat by the wall, with Yehonathan standing, and Aḇnĕr sitting by Sha’ul’s side, but the place of Dawiḏ was empty.
26. But Sha’ul spoke not a word that day, for he thought, “It is an accident; he is not clean, for he has not been cleansed.”