Willing to entertain the possibility, Jonathan agrees to do what David thinks is best in the situation. David therefore comes up with a plan that, like Jonathan’s plan in chapter 19, once again involves David hiding in a field while Jonathan goes to investigate the truth of his father’s intentions. This time, instead of Jonathan directly confronting his father on his treatment of David as he did before (19:3), a plan is made for Jonathan to judge his father’s reaction to David’s absence from the