1 Samuel 20:15–23

¹⁵but ^myou shall not ²cut off your kindness from my ³house forever, no, not when the Lord has cut off every one of the enemies of David from the face of the earth.” ¹⁶So Jonathan made a covenant with the ⁴house of David, saying, ⁿ“Let the Lord require it at the hand of David’s enemies.”

¹⁷Now Jonathan again caused David to vow, because he loved him; ^ofor he loved him as he loved his own soul. ¹⁸Then Jonathan said to David, ^p“Tomorrow is the New Moon; and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty. ¹⁹And when you have stayed three days, go down quickly and come to ^qthe place where you hid on the day of the deed; and remain by the stone Ezel. ²⁰Then I will shoot three arrows to the side, as though I shot at a target; ²¹and there I will send a lad, saying, ‘Go, find the arrows.’ If I expressly say to the lad, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; get them and come’—then, ^ras the Lord lives, there is safety for you and no harm. ²²But if I say thus to the young man, ‘Look, the arrows are beyond you’—go your way, for the Lord has sent you away. ²³And as for ^sthe matter which you and I have spoken of, indeed the Lord be between you and me forever.”