¹⁵And do not cut off your loyal love from my family^s forever, not even when Yahweh exterminates^t each of the enemies of David from the face of the earth.” ¹⁶So Jonathan made a covenant^u with the house of David, saying, “May Yahweh call the enemies of David to account.”^v ¹⁷And Jonathan again made David swear an oath, because he loved him; for with the love of his soul he loved him.

¹⁸Then Jonathan said to him, “Tomorrow is the new moon, and you will be missed, for your seat will stay empty. ¹⁹On the third day you must go down quickly and go to the place where you hid yourself on the day all this started^w and remain beside the stone Ezel. ²⁰I will shoot three arrows to the side as if I were shooting at a target. ²¹Then^x I will send word to my servant, ‘Go, find the arrows!’ If I clearly say to the boy, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you;^y bring^z it,’ then^a come, for it means peace for you. And there is no problem, as Yahweh lives.^b ²²But if I say this to the young man, ‘Look, the arrows are beyond you,’^c go, for Yahweh has sent you away. ²³And as for the matter about which you and I spoke, look, Yahweh is between you and me forever.”

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Footnotes

sLiterally “my house”
tLiterally “cuts off”
uLiterally “cut a covenant”
vLiterally “seek from the hand of the enemies of David”
wLiterally “on the day of the deed”
xLiterally “And look”
yLiterally “from you and here”
zLiterally “take”
aHebrew “and”
bLiterally “the life of Yahweh”
cLiterally “from you and beyond”