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Then David said to Jonathan, "Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?"
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Jonathan replied to David, "Come, let us go out into the field." So they both went out into the field.
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Jonathan said to David, "By the Lord, the God of Israel! When I have sounded out my father, about this time tomorrow, or on the third day, if he is well disposed toward David, shall I not then send and disclose it to you?
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But if my father intends to do you harm, the Lord do so to Jonathan, and more also, if I do not disclose it to you, and send you away, so that you may go in safety. May the Lord be with you, as he has been with my father.
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If I am still alive, show me the faithful love of the Lord; but if I die,
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never cut off your faithful love from my house, even if the Lord were to cut off every one of the enemies of David from the face of the earth."
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Thus Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, "May the Lord seek out the enemies of David."
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Jonathan made David swear again by his love for him; for he loved him as he loved his own life.
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Jonathan said to him, "Tomorrow is the new moon; you will be missed, because your place will be empty.
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On the day after tomorrow, you shall go a long way down; go to the place where you hid yourself earlier, and remain beside the stone there.
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I will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as though I shot at a mark.