1 Samuel 20:15–23

¹⁵and do not ever cut off your kindness from my family^c—not even when the Lord has cut off every one of David’s enemies from the face of the earth.”

¹⁶So Jonathan^d made a covenant^e with the house of David, saying, “May the Lord call David’s enemies to account.^f” ¹⁷And Jonathan had David reaffirm his oath^g out of love for him, because he loved him as he loved himself.

¹⁸Then Jonathan said to David, “Tomorrow is the New Moon feast. You will be missed, because your seat will be empty.^{h 19}The day after tomorrow, toward evening, go to the place where you hidⁱ when this trouble began, and wait by the stone Ezel. ²⁰I will shoot three arrows^j to the side of it, as though I were shooting at a target. ²¹Then 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. ²²But if I say to the boy, ‘Look, the arrows are beyond^k you,’ then you must go, because the Lord has sent you away. ²³And about the matter you and I discussed—remember, the Lord is witness^l between you and me forever.”